Chapter 13

CHAPTER 13 "That's pretty wild, you guys being fans, yo," Jonah said to Li Wu Chen. The abbot regarded him disapprovingly. "So long we have waited and the branch sends us a foolish boy." "Branch?" Jonah repeated. He dropped his voice to a murmur. "You mean— Janus?" "We are not fans of your obnoxious noise. Yes, we are Janus— the one true line of the Cahill family in Asia. We welcome you as the son of Cora Wizard." Li Wu Chen's gaze moved to Jonah's father. "And of course, her non-Janus husband." It was as if a curtain had been swept aside. No wonder the branch leadership in Venice had sent Jonah here! As Janus representatives, the Shaolin monks might be able to help with a Clue in this

“太疯狂了，你们都是粉丝，”乔纳对李武辰说。 修道院院长不以为然地看着他。 “我们等了这么久，树枝给我们送来了一个傻孩子。” “分支?”约拿重复。他把声音压低成低语声。 “你是说——雅努斯？”“我们不喜欢你那讨厌的噪音。 是的，我们是Janus——卡希尔家族在亚洲唯一真正的血脉。 我们欢迎你成为科拉巫师的儿子。” 李武辰的目光转向了约拿的父亲。 “当然，还有她的非双面神丈夫。” 就好像一扇窗帘被掀到了一边。 难怪威尼斯支部的领导派约拿到这里来！作为雅努斯的代表，少林和尚也许能在这方面提供一些线索

part of the world. "She's got a real sense of humor, my wife," Broderick mumbled, a little resentfully. His thumbs twitched as if his hands felt empty with no BlackBerry in them. "She could have told us the natives were Janus friendlies." "Chill, Pops," soothed his son. "She got us where we needed to be, no harm done." Classic Cora Wizard. She ran the branch like one of her performance-art pieces— equipping the actors with limited information and then stepping back to watch the sparks fly. It was very Janus, although he'd never expected her to do it with her own son. The abbot ushered them into a small antechamber furnished with a rough-hewn round table. The door closed with a sucking sound, and they realized they were in a secure room. "First things first," Li Wu Chen announced. "Who is the boy, and why is he with you?" "His name is Dan Cahill," Jonah's father replied. "Cahill." The abbot sat forward. "Janus?" Jonah shrugged. "Nobody knows. He's Grace

世界的一部分。“她真有幽默感，我的妻子，”布罗德里克咕哝道，有点怨恨。 他的拇指抽搐了一下，好像他的手空了，没有黑莓手机。 “她本可以告诉我们，土著人是雅努斯的友军。” “冷静，爸爸，”儿子安慰他说。 “她把我们带到我们需要去的地方，没有造成任何伤害。” 经典的科拉巫师。她像表演艺术作品一样管理着这个分支机构——给演员们提供有限的信息，然后退后一步，看着火花飞舞。 这很有雅努斯的味道，尽管他从没想过她会对自己的儿子这么做。 修道院长把他们领进一间小前厅，里面摆着一张粗糙的圆桌。 门砰的一声关上了，他们意识到自己进了一个安全的房间。 “重要的事情先做，”李武辰宣布。 “那孩子是谁？他为什么和你在一起？”约拿的父亲回答说：“他名叫丹·卡荷尔。” “卡希尔。”方丈向前坐着。 “两面神?”约拿耸耸肩。“没人知道。 他的恩典

Cahill's grandson." Li Wu Chen was impressed. "Ah, Grace Cahill. Good bloodlines. Dangerous woman. Few have come as close as she to solving the thirty-nine mysteries that cannot be solved." "Easy on the lovefest," said Jonah firmly. "Grace did her thing, but my mom's got her smoked. I think that's why Cora hooked us up. Venice is one ingredient shy of duplicating the Janus formula." The abbot leaped to his feet, shouting something in excited Mandarin. "Please excuse my exuberance," he added sheepishly, reseating himself. "Too long have we Janus in Asia lived in the shadow of those Tomas louts with their large muscles and small minds." "Word," agreed Jonah, thinking of the Holts. "Consider the resources of the Shaolin order completely at your disposal. What is the missing ingredient?" "I'm on it," Jonah assured him. "Mom's convinced it's here in China, but we don't know what it is or where to find it. That's why we're hanging on to the Cahill kid."

卡希尔的孙子。”李武晨印象深刻。 “啊，格蕾丝·卡希尔。良好的血统。 危险的女人。很少有人能像她一样接近于解开这三十九个无法解开的谜团。” “别太爱我，”约拿坚定地说。 "格蕾丝做了她的事，但我妈把她给抽了。 我想这就是柯拉撮合我们的原因。 威尼斯是一个不愿复制雅努斯配方的成分。” 方丈跳了起来，用激动的普通话喊了几句。 “请原谅我的热情，”他不好意思地补充说，重新坐了下来。 “长久以来，我们亚洲的Janus生活在那些肌肉发达、头脑狭隘的Tomas笨蛋的阴影下。” “没错，”约拿附和着，想起了霍尔特一家。 “少林教团的资源完全由你支配。 缺失的要素是什么？”约拿向他保证说：“我去办。” “妈妈确信它就在中国，但我们不知道它是什么，也不知道在哪里能找到它。 这就是为什么我们要抓着卡希尔的孩子不放。”

Li Wu Chen frowned. "Surely this small boy has no knowledge beyond the grasp of the Janus branch." "Don't sell the kid short," Jonah insisted. "He looks dumb, but he and his sis have pulled off a lot of miracles. Maybe it's the Grace connection, who knows?" "Wise to cover all possibilities," the abbot admitted grudgingly. "Perhaps representing the Janus and appearing on the cover of Tiger Beat are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Manipulated cleverly, Grace's descendant could prove to be a valuable asset." "Uh— thanks." Was that supposed to be a compliment? "Your mother has good reason to search for the missing ingredient in China," Li Wu Chen told him. "Replicating the Janus serum has been the goal of the Qing emperors dating back hundreds of years. It was this obsession— not their admirable devotion to the arts— that caused them to neglect their people." "But did they get the job done?" Jonah probed.

李武辰皱起眉头。“这个小男孩除了雅努斯的分支之外，肯定没有别的知识。” “别小看那孩子，”乔纳坚持说。 “他看起来很笨，但他和他的妹妹创造了很多奇迹。 也许是格蕾丝的关系，谁知道呢？”“明智的做法是考虑到所有的可能性，”方丈不情愿地承认。 “也许代表Janus和出现在Tiger Beat的封面上并不是相互排斥的。 如果操纵得当，格蕾丝的后代会成为一笔宝贵的财富。” “嗯,谢谢。”这算是恭维吗？ “你妈妈有充分的理由去中国寻找缺失的食材，”李武辰告诉他。 “复制两面神血清是清朝皇帝几百年前的目标。 正是这种痴迷——而不是他们对艺术令人钦佩的奉献——导致他们忽视了自己的人民。” “但他们完成任务了吗？”约拿。

"Did any of those emperors score the formula?" "We believe the answer is yes." Broderick spoke up. "Believe? Don't you know?" The abbot supplied the answer to Jonah, not his father. "As passed down through the decades, the story is thus: Puyi, the last emperor, hired a tutor named Reginald Fleming Johnston, a Janus scientist from the British Isles. Together, they completed the serum in a secret laboratory in the Forbidden City." Jonah could tell from his father's scowl that Pops didn't appreciate being ignored. But this was more important than Broderick's bruised ego. "So, what happened to it?" he asked urgently. "It was most unfortunate. The year was 1924. Puyi sensed that he would soon be exiled. Naturally, the safety of the serum was his paramount concern. Johnston knew a fellow British Cahill with a unique skill that enabled him to hide the formula where it would be preserved indefinitely. It is said that not another man alive at the time could have performed the task." "But where did he hide it?" Broderick

“这些皇帝中有谁得到过这个公式吗？”“我们相信答案是肯定的。” 布罗德里克大声说。“相信? 你不知道吗？”修道院院长把答案告诉了约拿，而不是他父亲。 几十年来流传下来的故事是这样的：末代皇帝溥仪聘请了一位名叫庄士敦（Reginald Fleming Johnston）的导师，庄士敦是一位来自不列颠群岛的Janus科学家。 他们一起在紫禁城的一个秘密实验室完成了血清的制作。” 乔纳从父亲的怒容中看出老爷子不喜欢被忽视。 但这比布罗德里克受伤的自尊心更重要。 “那么，它后来怎么样了？”他急切地问道。 “真是太不幸了。那一年是1924年。 溥仪意识到他很快就要被流放了。 自然，血清的安全性是他最关心的问题。 约翰斯顿认识一位名叫卡希尔的英国人，他有一种独特的技能，可以把配方藏起来，无限期地保存起来。 据说当时没有任何一个活着的人能完成这项任务。” “可他把它藏在哪儿了？”布罗德里克

demanded, almost shouting. Li Wu Chen shook his head. "There the legend ends." "Tell me about this big player they hired to stash the merchandise," Jonah persisted. "Who was he?" "This too is not known. After leaving the Forbidden City, Puyi became inactive. Some say he journeyed to the Great Wall prior to his death, but this has never been confirmed. Completing the Janus formula was his one great achievement. Not even his brief reign on the Throne of Heaven could compare. The rest of the life of Henry Puyi— as a figurehead, a prisoner, a simple library clerk— this was no fate for a Janus." The abbot's eyes flashed to Jonah's father before settling back on the star. "For an ordinary person, perhaps even for an emperor. But not for a descendant of Jane Cahill." With a whoosh, the door to the chamber swept open and in rushed another monk in a state of high anxiety. He held Broderick's BlackBerry between his thumb and forefinger, as if expecting

几乎是大喊大叫。 李武辰摇了摇头。 “传说到此结束。”“跟我说说他们雇来藏货的那个大人物吧，”乔纳坚持说。 “他是谁？”这也是未知的。 离开紫禁城后，溥仪变得不活跃了。 有人说他在死前去过长城，但这从未得到证实。 完成雅努斯公式是他的一大成就。 甚至连他短暂的天国之位也无法与之相比。 亨利·溥仪的余生——当过有名无实的领袖，当过囚犯，当过简单的图书馆职员——这不是一个雅努斯的命运。” 修道院长的眼睛闪过乔纳的父亲，然后又回到了那颗星星上。 “对一个普通人来说，甚至对一个皇帝来说。 但对简·卡希尔的后代来说却不是。” 呼的一声，房间的门被打开了，另一个极度焦虑的和尚冲了进来。 他把布罗德里克的黑莓手机夹在大拇指和食指之间，好像在期待