Chapter 8

Chapter 8 It's Totally Vexing, but Let's Go Over a Few Things for Those Who Haven't Been Paying Attention. We're Looking at You, Po. After school, they gathered once again in Minecraft. Jodi was on high alert for anything strange. "Let's not waste building materials this time, if we can avoid it," she suggested. Before Doc had invented the VR goggles, Jodi had played Creative Mode. She still missed flying sometimes. Flying would have come in handy when they were hunting the strange Minecraft butterflies! "I want to try something," she said. "A sort of art project." "I'm not sure now's the time," said Theo. "It'll only take a minute," Jodi said. "Do you still have one of the Evoker King's legs? Give it here!" Her time in Survival Mode had taught Jodi a lot about combat and resource management. But what she would always love most about Minecraft was that it

第八章这完全令人烦恼，但让我们为那些没有注意到的人回顾一些事情。 我们看着你呢，阿宝。放学后，他们再次聚集在《我的世界》中。 乔迪对任何奇怪的事情都保持高度警惕。 “如果可以避免的话，这次我们就不要浪费建筑材料了，”她建议道。 在博士发明VR眼镜之前，乔迪玩过创造模式。 有时她还是会想念飞行。 当他们猎杀奇怪的《我的世界》蝴蝶时，飞行会派上用场！“我想尝试一些东西，”她说。 “一种艺术项目。”“我不确定现在是不是时候，”西奥说。 “只要一分钟，”乔迪说。 “你还留着一条唤醒王的腿吗？” 给我！”Jodi在生存模式中的经历教会了她很多关于战斗和资源管理的知识。 但她最喜欢《我的世界》的是

allowed her to make art. The others had set down their Evoker King pieces. Jodi began putting the pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle. She started with the legs. "I see what she's doing," said Harper. "Do you think this will work, Theo?" Theo shrugged. "It's worth a try," he said. "But without the final piece, there's still a hole in the code."

允许她创作艺术。其他人都放下了他们的唤醒王。 乔迪开始像拼拼图一样把碎片拼在一起。 她从腿开始。 “我知道她在干什么，”哈珀说。 “你觉得这能行吗，西奥？”西奥耸耸肩。 “值得一试，”他说。 “但如果没有最后一块，代码中仍有一个漏洞。”

"Explain that to me," said Ash. "I've never fully understood the connection between the Evoker King and the Fault." "Oh, good! I thought it was just me," said Po. "Sometimes I zone out a little bit. Especially when Theo and Harper talk about coding and math."

“给我解释一下。”阿什说。 “我从来没有完全理解过唤醒王和断层之间的联系。” “哦,好!我以为只有我一个人。”阿宝说。 “有时候我有点走神。 尤其是当西奥和哈珀谈论编程和数学的时候。”

As Theo watched Jodi connect the Evoker King's torso, he said, "The Evoker King was never supposed to be a part of the game. He was an invasive artificial intelligence who accessed the game through Doc's high- tech virtual reality equipment." "Like an invasive species," Harper suggested. "In the real world, sometimes animals that don't belong in a particular ecosystem find their way into that ecosystem. Because they have different ways of surviving than the normal species in that environment, everything can get thrown out of balance." "…so science stuff?" Po said. "Right," said Theo. "But in this case, the game and the invader found a new balance. The Evoker King, who is made up of programming code, and this game of Minecraft, which is also made up of programming code, grew intertwined. When the Evoker King transformed, he left a hole right in the heart of the game's code. And the hole has been expanding. It's like a sweater slowly unstitching because somebody pulled on a thread."

当西奥看着乔迪连接Evoker King的躯干时，他说：“Evoker King本不应该成为游戏的一部分。 他是一个侵入性的人工智能，通过博士的高科技虚拟现实设备进入游戏。” “就像一个入侵物种，”哈珀建议道。 “在现实世界中，有时不属于特定生态系统的动物会找到进入该生态系统的方法。 因为它们在那种环境下的生存方式与正常物种不同，一切都可能失去平衡。” “……那么科学的东西呢？”阿宝说。 “对，”西奥说。“但在这种情况下，游戏和入侵者找到了新的平衡。 由编程代码组成的Evoker King和同样由编程代码组成的《我的世界》（Minecraft）这款游戏交织在一起。 当Evoker King变形时，他在游戏代码的中心留下了一个洞。 这个空洞一直在扩大。 这就像一件毛衣因为有人拉了一根线而慢慢拆开。”

"But a sweater can be knit back together…," Ash said. "Exactly," said Theo. "And we hope the code will fix itself once the Evoker King is put back together and the hole gets plugged." Jodi had finished assembling the various Evoker King fragments. There was a torso, two arms, and two legs. But they were still missing one crucial piece.

“但是一件毛衣可以重新织起来……”阿什说。 “没错，”西奥说。“我们希望，一旦Evoker King被重新组装起来，漏洞被堵住，代码就会自动修复。” 乔迪已经组装好了各种各样的Evoker King碎片。 有一个躯干，两条胳膊和两条腿。 但他们仍然缺少一个关键的部分。

"He looks like a Christmas tree without a star on top," said Ash. "Or a headless scarecrow," said Morgan. "Ooh! That gives me an idea," said Po. He approached the headless form and plopped a carved pumpkin on top. They all waited expectantly. "I guess that didn't do anything," said Harper. "Sure it did," said Po. "It made me feel better."

“他看起来就像一棵顶上没有星星的圣诞树，”阿什说。 “或者是一个无头稻草人。”摩根说。 “哦!这给了我一个主意，”阿宝说。 他走近那个无头雕像，扑哧一声把一个雕刻好的南瓜放在上面。 他们都满怀期待地等着。 “我想那也没什么用。”哈珀说。 “当然了，”阿宝说。“这让我感觉好多了。”