Chapter 11

Chapter 11 Two Is Company. Three Is a Crowd. But with Odds Like These? The More the Merrier! Ash had never seen Minecraft so crowded. And it had never been so loud, either. "Woo-hoo!" cried Ned as he punched a tree into free- floating blocks of wood. "This is so cool!" Shelly shouted. She ran her hands over a sheep. "It feels so real." "A-W-E-S-O-M-E!" Tony the cheerleader spelled out. "Po, is that you?" asked Raul, one of Po's basket-ball teammates. "Why do you look like a cat?" "Maybe the question is why don't you look like a cat?" asked Po, who was wearing a cat suit. Raul seemed to think this was very deep. "Huh," he said, nodding slowly. "But what's wrong with the sky?" asked Ricky, another teammate of Po's. "And why aren't the biomes

第十一章两人作伴 三个是一群人。但在这样的情况下？ 人越多越好！阿什从未见过《我的世界》如此拥挤。 也从来没有这么大声过。 奈德一边把一棵树打得粉碎，一边大叫：“哇！” “这太酷了！”雪莉大声喊道。 她用手抚摸一只羊。 “感觉很真实。”“A-W-E-S-O-M-E !”拉拉队队长托尼大声说。 “阿宝，是你吗？”阿宝的篮球队友劳尔问。 “你为什么看起来像只猫？”“也许问题是你为什么看起来不像只猫？”穿着猫装的阿宝问道。 劳尔似乎认为这很深奥。 “嗯，”他说，慢慢地点了点头。 “但是天空有什么问题吗？”阿宝的另一个队友里基问。 “为什么生物群系不是

connected? It all seems…disconnected." Ricky tapped the headless Evoker King, but nothing happened. "Inquiring minds want to know," said Ned. "Why is there a phantom out during the daytime?" "Phantom?" echoed Harper. "Where?" But the answer was soon obvious. The flying undead mob swept down from the sky, cutting a path through the players. Shelly was nearly knocked off her feet. Raul took a swing with a brand-new wooden sword, but the phantom had already flown beyond his reach. "It's circling back around," said Ned. "Raul, Raul, you can do it," cheered Tony. "Come on now, there's nothing to it!" added Po. The phantom flew low again, aiming for Raul, who readied his sword. "Wait, be careful," Ash warned. "We don't know if—"

连接?一切似乎都……脱节了。” 里奇敲了敲无头的易回王，但什么也没发生。 “好事者都想知道。”奈德说。 “为什么白天会有幽灵出来？”“幽灵？” “在哪里?”但答案很快就显而易见了。 飞行的亡灵暴徒从空中横扫而下，在玩家中间划出一条路。 雪莉差点被撞倒。 劳尔用一把崭新的木剑挥了一挥，但幻影已经飞到他够不着的地方了。 “它又绕回来了。”尼德说。 “劳尔，劳尔，你能行的，”托尼欢呼道。 “来吧，没什么大不了的！”阿宝补充道。 幻影再次低飞，瞄准了准备好剑的劳尔。 “等等，小心点。”阿什警告道。 “我们不知道是否——”

Before Ash could finish her sentence, the phantom began to flash red. It reminded Ash of how a creeper flashed…right before exploding. "Raul, get clear!" she cried. Raul barely jumped out of the way in time. The phantom exploded, taking a big chunk of the plains biome with it. Now there was a gaping hole at the base of their mismatched watchtower. Ash hurried over to plug it up and to check on Raul.

阿什话还没说完，那个幻影就开始闪着红光。 这让阿什想起了爬行植物在爆炸前的闪光。 “劳尔，让开！”她喊道。 劳尔几乎没有及时闪开。 幽灵爆炸了，带走了一大片平原生物群落。 现在，他们那不相称的瞭望塔的底部出现了一个大洞。 阿什赶紧过去把插头插上，看看劳尔的情况。

"I'm okay," he said. "But why did that thing explode? And why was it out in the daylight to begin with?" "That's what I meant when I said this version of the game is breaking down," said Morgan. "The code has gotten all wrong. We're never sure what's going to happen next." "Which means we need to make the slime engines immediately," said Ash. "Before things get worse." "Slime engines? What are those?" asked Shelly. "It's what we're here to build," answered Morgan. "Ash, Po, Jodi, Harper, and I all have the design memorized. But we need materials: redstone, wood planks, and slime. A lot of slime! Can you all help with that?" "It's going to mean doing our best to hold this place together a little bit longer," said Harper. "We'll need bridges or staircases to connect the biomes. We'll need to plug holes in the ground and fight off mobs that might be extra dangerous and unpredictable."

“我没事，”他说。“那东西为什么会爆炸呢？” 为什么它会在白天出来呢？”Morgan表示：“这就是我说这个版本的游戏正在崩溃的意思。 “代码完全错了。 我们永远不知道接下来会发生什么。” “这意味着我们需要立即制造黏液发动机，”阿什说。 “在事情变得更糟之前。” “黏液引擎?那些是什么？”雪莉问。 “这就是我们在这里建造的东西。”摩根回答。 “阿什、阿宝、乔迪、哈珀和我都记住了这个设计。 但我们需要材料：红石、木板和黏液。 很多黏液！你们能帮忙吗？”哈珀说：“这意味着我们要尽最大努力让这个地方再团结一段时间。” “我们需要桥梁或楼梯来连接这些生物群落。 我们需要堵住地面上的洞，击退那些可能特别危险和不可预测的暴徒。”

Po eyed the nearby sheep with suspicion. "Don't try anything funny," he warned them. "They would never!" Jodi insisted. "Tony, as a cheerleader, you're good at being heard from a distance," said Ash. "Can you climb the watchtower? If you see a vex, let us know immediately." "Aye aye, captain," said Tony. "Wildling Scouts, you're on slime ball duty." "Where will we find slime balls?" asked a scout. "There's a swamp nearby," Morgan explained. "Make yourselves some weapons and go hunting for slimes." Jodi added, "Or if you're not interested in combat, find some pandas! If you're lucky, a sneezing baby panda will leave a slime ball behind." "We've got this," said Shelly. "Go team!" said Tony.

阿宝怀疑地打量着附近的羊。 他警告他们说：“别想耍花招。” “他们永远不会！”乔迪•坚持道。 “托尼，作为一名啦啦队长，你很擅长让别人从远处听到你的声音，”阿什说。 “你能爬上瞭望塔吗？” 如果你看到麻烦，马上告诉我们。” “是啊，船长，”托尼说。 “荒野侦察兵，你们负责黏液球。” “我们到哪里去找黏液球？”侦察员问。 “附近有一片沼泽，”摩根解释说。 “给你们自己做些武器，去找黏菌。” 乔迪补充道：“如果你对战斗不感兴趣，那就去找熊猫吧！幸运的话，一只打喷嚏的熊猫宝宝会留下一个黏糊糊的球。” “我们会的，”雪莉说。 “加油！”托尼说。

As Ash watched them, she saw the kids take naturally to teamwork. Ned mined, providing the material Shelly needed to build a piston from scratch. The drama kids crafted an entire bridge, linking the plains biome to a swamp in a matter of minutes, and Wildling Scouts rushed across on their hunt for slimes. "This could work," Morgan said beside Ash. "I just hope we're ready before the vex appears," said Ash. "We need to be ready to seize our chance." Morgan agreed. "Yeah," he said. "Because it might be the last chance we get."

当阿什观察他们时，她发现孩子们很自然地融入了团队合作。 内德挖矿，为雪莉提供了从头开始制造活塞所需的材料。 戏剧孩子们在几分钟内建造了一座完整的桥梁，将平原生物群落与沼泽连接起来，而野生侦察兵则冲过去寻找黏液。 “这行得通。”摩根在阿什身边说。 “我只希望我们能在恶灵出现之前做好准备。”阿什说。 “我们需要准备好抓住机会。” 摩根同意了。“是的，”他说。 “因为这可能是我们最后的机会了。”