Chapter 6

CHAPTER 6 Dzzzzz Amy's phone was vibrating. She glanced around the van. In the passenger seat, Eisenhower Holt was arguing with his wife, Mary-Todd, who was driving. In the next row, eleven-year-olds Madison and Reagan Holt were having a contest to see who could fling boogers into the hair of their older brother, Hamilton. Their pit bull, Arnold, barked greedily, snatching the small projectiles in mid flight with his massive jaws. "Stop it, he'll kill me!" Ham cried. "That's the point," Madison replied, clapping her hands. "Sherwood is the forest, dear," Mary-Todd was insisting to her husband. "The detective was

艾米的电话在震动。 她环视了一下货车。 在副驾驶座位上，艾森豪威尔·霍尔特正在和他的妻子玛丽·托德争吵。 在隔壁一排，11岁的麦迪逊和里根·霍尔特正在比赛，看谁能把鼻屎扔进他们哥哥汉密尔顿的头发里。 他们的比特犬阿诺德贪婪地吠着，用它巨大的下颚在飞行中的小弹丸中抢夺。 “住手，他会杀了我的！”火腿哭了。 “这就是重点，”麦迪逊拍着手回答。 “舍伍德就是森林，亲爱的，”玛丽·托德坚持对丈夫说。 侦探说。

Sherlock." "We'll look it up!" Eisenhower declared. "May I remind you, Mary-Todd, at West Point my IQ was measured at nearly a perfect one hundred. Well, okay, eighty-nine— but I hadn't even practiced!" "One hundred is considered normal, sugar maple," Mary-Todd replied. "Normal is the enemy of creativity," Eisenhower crowed. "A Holt is never normal— as evidenced by our ingenious capture of the Cahills!" Dzzzzz… Amy moved her hand into her left pants pocket and pulled out her phone, making sure to keep it out of sight. On the right, she was jammed up against Alistair, who was seething with rage. He in turn was jammed up against Dan— who seemed oblivious, reading a handful of tourist pamphlets the Holts had left on the van floor. Quickly she glanced at the call screen: GOMEZ, NELLIE She stifled a scream and stared sharply at Alistair and Dan, flashing the screen at them at

《神探夏洛克》。”“我们去查一下！”艾森豪威尔宣布。 “请允许我提醒你，玛丽-托德，在西点军校时，我的智商几乎达到了满分100分。 好吧，八十九——可我连练习都没练过！”玛丽-托德回答说：“100磅是正常的，糖枫糖。” “正常是创造力的敌人，”艾森豪威尔得意地说。 “霍尔特家从来都不正常——我们巧妙地捕捉到了卡希尔家就是明证！”艾米把手伸进裤子左边的口袋，掏出手机，确保手机不在别人的视线范围内。 在右边，她和阿利斯泰尔挤在一起，后者正怒不可遏。 他又挤在丹的旁边——丹似乎没有注意到，正在阅读霍尔特夫妇留在货车地板上的几本旅游小册子。 她迅速扫了一眼呼叫屏幕：戈麦斯，内莉。她强忍住一声尖叫，严厉地盯着阿利斯泰尔和丹，用屏幕向他们闪烁

waist level. Nellie was alive! "YESSSS— WOO-HOO!" Dan blurted. "The Cahill boy agrees with me!" Eisenhower said with a grin, turning around toward the back of the van. "Smart boy. You're going places. Like, with us— as a captive! Har-har!" The entire Holt family cracked up, except for Arnold, who seemed confused by the sudden absence of flying minitreats. "Too bad you weren't smart enough to detect us following you every step of the way," Eisenhower continued, "with our patented Holt hackment technology. First we hacked into the tracking device on your cat— until we found that your cat was your uncle!" Madison and Reagan looked at him in total bewilderment. "Then we tailed him to the airport, where I ordered that we attempt the greatest technicological feat of all," Eisenhower went on, "breaking into the airline ticketing mainframe!" "But then I reminded him that all he needed to do was follow your limo," Mary-Todd spoke up.

腰部水平。内莉还活着！“太——啊!”丹脱口而出。 “卡希尔家的男孩同意我的看法！”艾森豪威尔笑着说，转身朝货车的后面走去。 “聪明的男孩。你会大有作为的。 就像，和我们一起——像俘虏一样！Har-har !”霍尔特全家都笑了，除了阿诺德，他似乎对突然没有小飞人感到困惑。 “可惜你不够聪明，没有发现我们用我们的霍尔特专利黑客技术跟踪你的每一步，”艾森豪威尔继续说。 首先，我们黑进了你猫身上的追踪装置——直到我们发现你的猫是你的叔叔！”麦迪逊和里根一脸迷惑地看着他。 “然后我们跟踪他到了机场，在那里我命令我们尝试最伟大的技术壮举，”艾森豪威尔继续说道，“闯入航空公司的售票主机！”“但后来我提醒他，他只要跟着你的豪华轿车就行了。”玛丽-托德大声说。

Madison chimed in: "Once we were at the other airport? And we saw you get into the jet? We just asked this really hot flight guy, Fabio? Where you were going?" She grinned. "And he told us." "Rawf," said Arnold. "Thusly," Eisenhower said, "we were able to commandeer our own flight to Japan, where we beat you to the airport and waited until you arrived, following your every move until our ultimate coup— keyloggering your very laptop to filch all your information! And now that I have you three, I can realize my life's goal. Not just reaching the thirty-nine clues first. But placing the Holt name where it belongs— at the very crest of the Tomas family… crest. No longer will history look upon the Holts as dolts. No longer will we be the black sheep, the stain on the family underpants, the smelly footnote to the Tomas legend. And you will help us achieve our destiny by leading us to the very thing your research revealed— the next clue, which is in the tunnels of Tokyo!" "You figured that out all by yourself?" Amy asked, barely containing the relief she felt at

麦迪逊插话道：“我们到了另一个机场之后？ 我们看到你上了飞机？ 我们刚问了个帅哥，法比奥？ 你要去哪儿？”她咧嘴一笑。 “他告诉了我们。”“哇，”阿诺德说。 “这样，”艾森豪威尔说，“我们就能霸占我们自己飞往日本的航班，在那里我们比你先到机场，一直等到你到达，跟踪你的一举一动，直到我们的终极妙招——记录你的笔记本电脑，窃取你的所有信息！”现在有了你们三个，我就能实现我的人生目标了。 不仅仅是先找到39条线索。 但是把霍尔特的名字放在它应该在的地方——托马斯家族的顶峰……顶峰。 历史将不再把霍尔特人看作傻瓜。 我们不再是害群之马，不再是家族内裤上的污点，不再是托马斯传奇的臭脚注。 你将帮助我们实现我们的使命，带领我们找到你的研究揭示的东西——下一个线索，就在东京的隧道里！”“你自己想出来的？”艾米问道，几乎无法抑制她感到的宽慰

knowing her au pair was okay. "About fifty-three percent of it," said Eisenhower. "More like forty-seven," Mary-Todd said. "I knew that sounded wrong," Eisenhower said. "Uh, Dad? I was the one who did all that tech stuff," Reagan whined. "Dad what?" Eisenhower commanded. "Dad, sir," Reagan said. "Your argument is as inane as your conversation," Alistair spoke up, his voice a barely controlled rasp. "You got nothing from hacking the system. You stole my map, you windbag." "Uncle Alistair?" Amy said. She had never seen him like this. "Is someone meowing back there?" Eisenhower said. "Do I hear an E-kat?" "Rawf?" said Arnold, suddenly drooling. Alistair laughed defiantly. "What makes you miscreants think you can actually read that map correctly? It's written in Japanese." "Ha! No grass grows over the head of a Holt!"

知道她的互惠生没问题。 “大约百分之五十三，”艾森豪威尔说。 “更像是四十七岁，”玛丽-托德说。 “我知道这听起来不对，”艾森豪威尔说。 “嗯,爸爸?我才是做那些技术工作的人，”里根抱怨道。 “爸爸什么?”艾森豪威尔指挥。 “爸爸，先生，”里根说。“你的论点和你的谈话一样愚蠢，”阿利斯泰尔大声说，他的声音几乎无法控制。 “你从入侵系统中一无所获。 你偷了我的地图，你这个大嘴巴。” “叔叔Alistair ?”艾米说。 她从未见过他这样。 “有人在后面叫吗？”艾森豪威尔说。 “我听到了E-kat的声音吗？”“哇？”阿诺德说，突然流口水了。 阿利斯泰尔挑衅地笑了。 “你们这些坏蛋凭什么认为自己能正确地读懂那张地图？” 是用日文写的。” “哈!霍尔特的头上长不出草来！”

Eisenhower thundered. "I overheard you through the library door, talking about an ancient underground crypt. So we will start at… the underground crypt district. Harch!" The van lurched to the left. Dan looked up from a map of the Tokyo subway system. His face was all lit up, the way it was whenever he'd broken a code or discovered a cheat in World of Warcraft. "Crypt? I think we're better off checking out the subway system." The van lurched to the right. "I have to pee," Madison announced. The van skidded to a stop on the shoulder of the road. "Will someone make a decision?" Mary-Todd said. As the Holts ramped up their various arguments, Alistair whispered to Dan, "Subway system, my boy? Do tell." "First, I memorized your map," Dan began with a bit too much enthusiasm. "Ssshhh!" Amy hissed. "The secret tunnels and the subway," Dan

艾森豪威尔打雷。“我在图书馆门口听到你们在谈论一个古老的地下墓穴。 所以我们将从地下墓穴区开始。 位!”那辆客货两用车摇摇晃晃地向左拐去。 丹从东京地铁系统的地图上抬起头来。 他的脸上洋溢着喜悦，就像他在《魔兽世界》中破解密码或发现作弊一样。 “地下室?我觉得我们最好去看看地铁系统。” 货车向右倾斜。 “我要尿尿，”麦迪逊宣布。 货车在路肩上打滑停了下来。 “会有人做出决定吗？”玛丽托德说。 霍尔特夫妇的争论愈演愈烈，阿利斯泰尔悄悄对丹说：“地铁系统，孩子？ 一定要告诉。”“首先，我记住了你的地图。”丹有点过于热情地说。 “嘘!”艾米发出嘘嘘的声音。“秘密隧道和地铁”丹