Chapter 1

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CHAPTER 1 The sound of rushing water filled Amy Cahill's ears. If she kept her eyes closed, she could imagine she was standing under a beautiful tropical waterfall. Unfortunately, she was hiding in an airport bathroom. Inside a stall, she tucked up her legs and balanced her backpack on her knees. Toilets flushed, faucets ran, and suitcases on wheels trailed feet in a big hurry. The airport in Sydney, Australia, was a busy place. Busy was good. Busy was cover. If you wanted to ditch surveillance, a bathroom could offer you a perfect opportunity. If you didn't mind crouching on a toilet for fifteen minutes. Ditch surveillance. Only weeks ago, that would have meant not letting her little brother, Dan, read her diary. Now it was all too real. Too real for a fourteen-year-old.

第一章水流的声音充满了艾米·卡希尔的耳朵。 如果她闭上眼睛，她可以想象自己正站在一个美丽的热带瀑布下。 不幸的是，她躲在机场洗手间里。 在一个摊位里，她收起双腿，把背包放在膝盖上。 厕所冲水，水龙头冲水，带轮子的手提箱拖着脚步匆匆而过。 澳大利亚悉尼的机场是个繁忙的地方。 忙碌是件好事。忙碌是一种掩饰。 如果你想摆脱监控，浴室可以给你一个绝佳的机会。 如果你不介意在马桶上蹲十五分钟的话。 沟监测。就在几周前，这还意味着不能让她的弟弟丹看她的日记。 现在一切都太真实了。对一个14岁的孩子来说太真实了。

Amy peeked over the stall. A tour group of teenagers had entered the bathroom a few moments ago, and now they chattered in French as they washed their hands and primped at the mirror. The guide cried, "Allons-y!" Still talking and laughing, they began to wheel their suitcases toward the exit. It was a perfect opportunity. Amy slipped out of the stall. Smiling at a pretty French girl, she melted into the group. Women streamed in and out of the doors, and the tour group got entangled with an Australian woman with four daughters. Amy slid into the middle of the crowd as they exited. She kept the tour group between her and the gate opposite. As soon as they headed off toward baggage claim, she ducked into a coffee bar. She scanned the corridor, searching out anyone familiar… or a suspicious stranger. Everything looked normal. The only problem was that normal wasn't necessarily good. Because the new normal meant anyone at all could be a threat.

埃米从摊位上偷看了一眼。 几分钟前，一群十几岁的年轻人走进浴室，现在他们一边洗手，一边对着镜子梳妆，一边用法语闲聊着。 向导叫道：“啊呀！”他们一边说着，一边笑着，开始把行李箱推向出口。 这是一个绝佳的机会。 艾米溜出了隔间。 她对一个漂亮的法国女孩微笑着，融入了人群。 女人们在门口进进出出，旅行团与一名带着四个女儿的澳大利亚妇女纠缠在一起。 他们离开时，艾米悄悄溜到人群中间。 她把旅行团挡在她和对面大门之间。 他们刚去领取行李，她就躲进了一家咖啡吧。 她扫视着走廊，寻找熟悉的人……或者可疑的陌生人。 一切看起来都很正常。唯一的问题是，正常并不一定是好的。 因为新常态意味着任何人都可能成为威胁。

How about that Japanese family in super-cool footwear? The backpacking American boy and girl in matching SMELL U T-shirts? The middle-aged woman munching a muffin, the mother with a stroller, the man stopping to dial his cell phone. Any one of them could be after her and her brother, Dan. Any one of them could be Cahills. Amy had never dreamed that her own last name would send such a chill down her spine. Ever since her grandmother's will had been read, she'd been chased from one continent to another… by her own relatives. Her grandmother Grace Cahill had laid down a challenge to every branch of the Cahill family—either join the race for the 39 Clues and become the most powerful person in the world… or walk away with a million dollars. Amy and Dan had chosen the chase. Not that a million dollars wouldn't be pretty sweet. But they knew their grandmother wanted them to win. They had no idea what they were getting into. Sometimes Amy wondered what the scariest thing about being involved with the hunt for the

那个穿超酷鞋子的日本家庭怎么样？ 那个穿着SMELL U t恤的背包美国男孩和女孩？ 嚼着松饼的中年妇女，推着婴儿车的母亲，停下来拨手机的男人。 他们中的任何一个都可能盯上她和她哥哥丹。 他们中的任何一个都可能是卡荷尔。 艾米做梦也没想到自己的姓氏会让她脊背发凉。 自从她祖母的遗嘱被宣读后，她就被自己的亲戚从一个大陆追逐到另一个大陆。 她的祖母格蕾丝·卡希尔向卡希尔家族的每一个分支提出了挑战——要么加入39条线索的竞赛，成为世界上最有权势的人……要么带着一百万美元离开。 艾米和丹选择了追逐。 倒不是说一百万美元不是个好主意。 但是他们知道他们的祖母希望他们赢。 他们根本不知道自己面临的是什么。 有时艾米想知道参与寻找

Clues was. Maybe it wasn't being buried alive or almost creamed by a train or locked in a mummy's tomb. All those things had actually happened to her… and she'd survived. Maybe it was this— having to be suspicious of every single person on the planet. Amy and Dan had learned the hard way that any one of them could be an informer. Would the rest of her life be like this? Looking over her shoulder all the time? Don't wig out on me now, Dan would say. He was three years younger, but sometimes she needed him for a reality check. Amy hurried on. They were supposed to meet at ground transportation. As soon as their plane from Moscow had touched down, Amy, Dan, and their au pair, Nellie Gomez, split up. Instead of rushing for a taxi, they would wander the airport and give any possible pursuers the slip. They had come to Sydney on a hunch. Back in Russia, they'd discovered that their parents had traveled under false names on Australian passports. As Amy walked down the busy corridor, she thought of the photo of her parents the Lucian Nataliya had sent them. She and Dan

的线索。也许它不是被活埋或被火车碾成奶油状或被锁在木乃伊的坟墓里。 所有这些事情都真的发生在她身上，而她却活了下来。 也许是因为这个——不得不怀疑这个星球上的每一个人。 艾米和丹经历了惨痛的教训才知道，他们中的任何一个人都可能是告密者。 她的余生会是这样吗？ 总是小心翼翼地看着她吗？ 现在别对我发火，丹会说。 他比她小三岁，但有时她需要他来检验一下现实。 埃米匆匆赶路。他们本该在地面交通处见面。 从莫斯科来的飞机一着陆，艾米、丹和他们的保姆内莉·戈麦斯就分开了。 他们不会急着叫出租车，而是在机场闲逛，甩掉任何可能的追求者。 他们是凭预感来悉尼的。 回到俄罗斯后，他们发现他们的父母用澳大利亚护照上的假名旅行。 当艾米走在繁忙的走廊上时，她想起了她父母的照片——卢西安·娜塔莉亚寄给他们的。 她和丹

traded it back and forth because they both wanted to sneak looks at it. Since their parents had died in a fire at their family home, all the photographs of them had been destroyed. All except one, and Dan had lost that back in Paris. Ever since she'd seen that photo, little pieces of memory kept drifting back to her. Suddenly, she remembered silly things, like how they'd had "breakfast for dinner" on Thursday nights, or how her mother had always carried different colored markers in her purse so they could draw on place mats if they went somewhere to eat. How one day they'd made jewels out of aluminum foil… and wore their crowns to the grocery store. She'd almost forgotten what a goofball her mother had been. Her parents had been in this airport more than eight years ago. They'd walked these corridors. Mom, Dad… what were you doing here? She and Dan could be off on a tangent. This trip might not lead to a Clue. They had no evidence that it would. But they had both known the moment they saw those passports where they were headed next. They didn't even have to

来回交换，因为他们都想偷看一眼。 由于他们的父母在家中的一场火灾中丧生，他们所有的照片都被烧毁了。 除了一个，丹在巴黎把它弄丢了。 自从她看到那张照片，记忆的碎片就不断地涌回她的脑海。 突然，她想起了一些愚蠢的事情，比如他们如何在周四晚上吃“早餐当晚餐”，或者她母亲总是在钱包里带着不同颜色的马克笔，这样他们去别的地方吃饭时就可以在餐垫上画画。 有一天，他们用铝箔制作珠宝，戴着王冠去杂货店。 她几乎忘了她母亲是一个多么愚蠢的人。 她的父母8年多前就来过这个机场。 他们走过这些走廊。 妈妈，爸爸，你们在这里做什么？ 她和丹可能有点离题了。 这次旅行可能找不到线索。 他们没有证据表明会这样。 但当他们看到这些护照的那一刻，他们就知道自己下一步要去哪里。 他们甚至不需要这么做