Chapter 2

CHAPTER 2 "Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale. As the skipper docked next to a beat-up old fishing boat, Nellie tumbled out onto the soggy planks. She was dressed in a black jeans vest, shorts, striped knee socks, laceless red Converse, and a Mr. Bill T-shirt. Her spiky two-toned hair lay flat, making her head look from a distance like a wet skunk. As she ran to Dan and Amy, Saladin slinked along behind her. "Oh, my God, you guys!" Nellie cried out. "You're okay! I am so happy to see you!" "Saladin!" Dan cried out, running toward the Mau.

第二章摇滚明星不要跳船在急刹车，船长喊了一句和艾米所知道的英语毫无关系的话。 “急着成为摇滚明星！”内利答道，一只脚搁在船舷上。 当船长停靠在一艘破旧的旧渔船旁时，内莉跌倒在湿漉漉的木板上。 她穿着黑色牛仔裤背心、短裤、条纹及膝袜、红色无蕾丝匡威鞋和比尔先生t恤。 她两种颜色的尖头发平躺着，从远处看，她的头就像一只湿臭鼬。 当她跑向丹和艾米时，萨拉丁悄悄跟在她后面。 “哦，天哪，你们这些家伙！”内莉叫道。 “你没事!我很高兴见到你！”“萨拉丁!”丹喊道，朝茅河跑去。

"Saladin? What am I, chopped liver?" Nellie scooped both Dan and Saladin into a big hug as she walked. "Okay, listen up, dudes. We have to book. Yesterday, when I find you guys are, like, AWOL? I, like, freak. Yelling at everybody— where are they, why did you let them leave—the hotel people are, like, whaaaa? Anyway, I pack up all your stuff, figuring I may never see the place again, and down in the lobby I find my man Arif. I'm, like, help me, and he takes all our stuff to this launch—and then we're halfway across the sea when Arif gets this radio message, and he's all excited, but I don't know what he's saying until he's, like, 'POLICE!' in English. And we see these cop cars and somebody's getting a big old boat, so we're, like, sayonara, only in Indonesian, and we tool out into this boat-traffic jam to try to lose them, and I'm hearing these radio reports that are half English—there's been a fire and somebody's dead, yada yada, and I'm totally wigging out— Why did you do that? Why did you and your sister leave me in the hotel without even a note?" "Sorry," Dan began. "But you were sleeping—" He glanced quickly at Amy. All their lives they

“萨拉丁?我是什么，碎肝吗？”内莉一边走一边把丹和萨拉丁紧紧地搂在怀里。 “好了，听着，伙计们。我们必须预订。 昨天，当我发现你们擅离职守的时候？ 我，就像，怪物。对每个人大喊大叫——他们在哪里，你为什么让他们离开——酒店的人就像，什么？ 总之，我收拾了你所有的东西，想着我可能再也见不到这个地方了，在大厅里我找到了我的人阿里夫。 我说，帮帮我，然后他把我们所有的东西都搬到这个发射架上——然后我们在海上的中途，阿里夫收到了这个无线电信息，他非常兴奋，但我不知道他在说什么，直到他说，“警察！用英语说。 我们看到这些警车，有人开了一艘大旧船，所以我们说，再见，只有印尼语，我们在船上交通堵塞的情况下试图失去他们，我听到这些广播报道是一半英语的-发生了火灾，有人死了，等等等等，我完全吓坏了-你为什么这样做？ 你和你妹妹为什么连个条子都不给我留就把我留在旅馆里了呢？”“对不起，”丹开始说。 “可你当时在睡觉——”他飞快地瞥了艾米一眼。 他们的一生

had been able to communicate so much with just a look, and Amy silently gave him everything she could: …and also, Nellie, we saw that you were receiving coded e-mails from someone… …and back in Russia you also got a voicemail that said "Call in for a status report"… …plus, you just happen to be able to fly a plane… …and we hate to be paranoid, but one thing we learned on this clue hunt is "Trust no one." "Dang! Do they do this in front of you, too, Al?" Nellie said, throwing Dan and Amy each a huge backpack. "Mind-melding?" Alistair looked flummoxed. "Do they… pardon?" Nellie handed Saladin's cat carrier to Arif. She took Alistair's and Arif's arms and headed for the woods. "Don't mind us, kiddos. We're just going to hide in the trees. You can send us mental tweets from jail. Just include an explanation about why you betrayed your loyal babysitter." "Wait, we're coming!" Dan said, donning his

艾米默默地告诉了他她能说的一切：……还有，内莉，我们看到你收到了某人发来的加密电子邮件... ...，在俄罗斯你也收到了一条语音邮件，上面写着“打电话来做状态报告”... ...另外，你恰好会开飞机... ...我们讨厌偏执，但我们在寻找线索的过程中学到的一件事是“不要相信任何人”。 “见鬼!他们也在你面前这么做吗，阿尔？”内莉说着，扔给丹和艾米每人一个大背包。 并不“很快实现人脑吗?”阿利斯泰尔看起来很困惑。 “他们……你说什么？”内莉把萨拉丁的猫笼递给阿里夫。 她拉着阿利斯泰尔和阿里夫的胳膊朝树林走去。 “别介意我们，孩子们。我们就躲在树林里。 你可以在监狱里给我们发精神推特。 只要解释一下你为什么背叛了你忠诚的保姆。” “等等，我们来了！”丹说着，戴上了他的

backpack as he ran after her. "And you're an au pair!" As they neared the woods, Amy glimpsed the smoldering remains of the house. She turned away, not wanting to see. Not wanting to think about Irina. Irina's visit to the island would not be round-trip. The thought made Amy stop in her tracks. "Why don't we use Irina's fishing boat?" she called out. "The police won't recognize it." "Far too small," Alistair said. "And I was the one who arrived on that boat, not Irina." "Then how—" Dan said. "Uncle Alistair, is there another dock on this island?" "Well, now that you mention it…" Alistair stopped, catching his breath. "Many years ago I found the remnants of a small sailing vessel in a tiny cove to the north. Why do you ask?" "We may find our escape vessel there!" Amy blurted out. "If Irina didn't dock here, she may have pulled into that cove!" "Brilliant, dear girl!" Alistair said.

他追着她跑。 “你是一个互惠生！”当他们接近树林时，艾米瞥见了房子的残余。 她转过身去，不想看。 不想去想艾琳娜。 伊琳娜对该岛的访问不会是往返的。 这个想法使艾米停了下来。 “我们为什么不用伊琳娜的渔船呢？”她喊道。 “警察不会认出来的。” “太小了，”阿利斯泰尔说。 “是我登上了那艘船，而不是伊琳娜。” “那怎么——”丹说。“阿利斯泰尔叔叔，这个岛上还有别的码头吗？”“好吧，既然你提到了……”阿利斯泰尔停了下来，喘了口气。 “许多年前，我在北边的一个小海湾里发现了一艘小帆船的残骸。 你为什么这么问？”“我们可以在那里找到逃生船！”艾米脱口而出。 “如果伊琳娜没有停靠在这里，她可能会开进那个海湾！”“太棒了，亲爱的姑娘！”阿利斯泰尔说。

"I was the one who thought of it," Dan grumbled. Pulling free of Nellie, Alistair pointed his cane confidently toward a distant tree. "Do you see that yellow mark high on the tree? It's a trail blaze. If we follow the trees marked in yellow, we will reach the cove. But the marks are quite faded, so we must proceed carefully. I shall bushwhack." He removed his jacket, placing it over his left arm, then held the arm out to Nellie. "Would you give me some support, dear girl?" Nellie held on firmly to Alistair's jacket-draped arm. Alistair was walking fast, whacking at vines and branches with his cane. Arif followed behind, muttering. Before long, the contents of one of Alistair's jacket pockets began to spill. "You're dropping things!" Dan scooped up a comb, mints, a handkerchief, and a small blue felt pouch. The pouch had Russian writing on it. "Whoa… is this Irina's?" Dan reached in and lifted out a vial of bluish liquid. Alistair turned, mopping his brow with his

“是我想出来的。”丹抱怨道。 阿利斯泰尔挣脱了内莉，自信地用手杖指着远处的一棵树。 “你看见高高的树上那个黄色的标记了吗？” 这是一场大火。如果我们沿着黄色标记的树走，就能到达海湾。 但痕迹已经很淡了，所以我们必须小心处理。 我要去丛林。”他脱下外套，套在左臂上，然后把胳膊伸给内莉。 “你能给我一些支持吗，亲爱的姑娘？”内莉紧紧抓住阿利斯泰尔披着夹克的胳膊。 阿利斯泰尔走得很快，用手杖敲打着藤蔓和树枝。 阿里夫喃喃自语地跟在后面。 没过多久，阿利斯泰尔的一个夹克口袋里的东西开始溢出来。 “你把东西掉地上了！”丹舀起一把梳子、薄荷糖、一块手帕和一个蓝色小毛毡袋。 邮袋上写着俄文。 “哇……这是伊琳娜的吗？”丹把手伸进去，拿出一小瓶淡蓝色的液体。 阿利斯泰尔转过身来，用手擦了擦额头

sleeve. "Er, well, I saw something on the ground last night. Outside the house. I wasn't sure what it was, so…" Irina's poisons, Amy thought. Alistair took the pouch and walked away, tucking it into his pocket. He was so calm. So logical. But… she died. These were her things. This is stealing. Amy looked at Dan, but he was already running ahead, following the trail marks. "Dan?" Nellie yelled. "Yo, Indiana Jones, sound off so we know you're alive!" They stopped. A few seconds of tense silence were followed by a shriek. "AAAAAAGGHHHH! SNAKES! GET OFF ME!" Amy raced ahead. Her ankle caught on a rain-slickened vine and she tumbled over a bush and down a steep, sandy decline. She landed in mud at the bottom, stopped by Dan's filthy Converse sneakers. He loomed above

袖子。“嗯，我昨晚在地上看到了一些东西。 在房子外面。我不确定那是什么，所以……”艾琳娜的毒药，艾米想。 阿利斯泰尔接过袋子，把它塞进口袋，走开了。 他很平静。所以逻辑。 但是……她死了。这些都是她的东西。 这是偷窃。艾米看了看丹，但他已经在前面跑了，沿着痕迹跑。 “丹?”内莉喊道。“哟，印第安纳·琼斯，大声说出来，让我们知道你还活着！”他们停止了。 几秒钟紧张的沉默之后是一声尖叫。 “AAAAAAGGHHHH !蛇!放开我！”艾米跑在前面。 她的脚踝被一根被雨水淋湿的藤蔓绊了一下，她从灌木丛中滚下了一个陡峭的沙质斜坡。 她落在淤泥底部，被丹肮脏的匡威运动鞋拦住了。 他隐约出现在上面