15 Hiccup Sets Off to Find the Jewel

15. HICCUP SETS OFF TO FIND THE JEWEL Everyone was looking at Hiccup expectantly. OK, now this really was a tricky situation. He looked down at the map, hoping it would help, but he had looked at that map so many times in the last six months, and it had never been helpful. The red herring Grimbeard had painted on the top somehow looked like it was laughing at him. His visor fell down with a clang that sounded horribly like a death knell. He edged The Hopeful Puffin 2 out very slightly on to the endless red sands. Hundreds of Warriors on their sand-yachts followed. An outsider watching this would have seen it as ridiculous. Hiccup on his sand-yacht, The Hopeful Puffin 2, making its erratic way forward, followed by all these soldiers of the Wilderwest on their sand- yachts, all with their arrows pointing at Hiccup. 'Find it!' shrieked the witch. 'Now!' Hiccup moved the yacht forward a little. And stopped. Two hundred yachts followed a little.

15. 嗝嗝出发去找珠宝，每个人都期待地看着嗝嗝。 这真是一个棘手的问题。 他低头看了看地图，希望能有所帮助，但在过去的六个月里，他已经看了那张地图太多次了，从来没有任何帮助。 绿胡子在上面画的红鲱鱼不知怎么看起来像是在嘲笑他。 他的面罩哗啦一声掉了下来，听起来像丧钟一样可怕。 他把《满怀希望的海雀2》稍稍挤到一望无际的红色沙滩上。 数百名勇士在他们的沙滩游艇上紧随其后。 外人看到这一幕会觉得很可笑。 小嗝嗝在他的沙滩游艇“希望海雀2号”上，摇摇晃晃地向前走着，后面跟着这些荒野西部的士兵，他们坐在沙滩游艇上，所有的人都用箭指着小嗝嗝。 “找到它!女巫尖叫道。 “现在!”小嗝嗝把游艇往前挪了一点。 和停止。200艘游艇紧随其后。

And stopped. 'You're going to have to give me a little room,' Hiccup called out. 'To give my Jewel-finding-senses some space to develop.' 'Give the nasty toad a little room!' yelled the witch. 'But not too much room! Just a tiny bit of room! A little bit more! No, not that much!' As if things weren't complicated enough, the basket on Hiccup's yacht was very, very heavy. So heavy that it might have been filled with rocks and amber already.

和停止。“你得给我一点空间，”小嗝嗝喊道。 “给我寻找珠宝的感官一些发展的空间。“给这讨厌的癞蛤蟆一点空间！”女巫喊道。 “但空间不要太大！”只有一点点空间！再来一点点！不，没那么多！”似乎事情还不够复杂，小嗝嗝的游艇上的篮子非常非常重。 太重了，里面可能已经装满了石头和琥珀。

And Hiccup suspected he knew why. Those innocent blue eyes… When Hiccup was a tiny bit ahead so no one would hear, he pulled up his visor (not without difficulty, the beastly thing still had a tendency to jam), and whispered softly out of the corner of his mouth, 'What are you doing in there, Camicazi? I told you to escape! And how did you know this was my sand- yacht?' 'You wrote The Hopeful Puffin 2 on the back of it,' explained the basket, adding hastily, 'and I don't know what you're talking about. I've never heard of this Cami-whatsit.' 'Camicazi, I know perfectly well it's you in there,' hissed Hiccup. 'Why didn't you escape with the rest of your escape team?' 'I've trained the team well,' Camicazi whispered back. 'They can take the Eggingarde kid to the Wanderers without me. If you think I'm going to Half-Turn My Back on you again, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, you've got another think coming. From now on, I'm never letting you out of my sight. What's going on? It was very shrieky out there.' 'It's a long story,' said Hiccup. 'I have to find the

小嗝嗝怀疑他知道原因。 那对天真的蓝眼睛……当小嗝嗝走到前面一点，没人会听见的时候，他拉起了面罩（不是没有困难，这个可恶的东西仍然有卡住的可能），从他的嘴角轻声说：“你在里面干什么，卡米卡齐？” 我叫你逃跑！你怎么知道这是我的沙滩游艇？“你在背面写了‘满怀希望的海雀’，”篮子解释道，又急忙补充道，“我不知道你在说什么。” 我从来没听说过这个卡米什么的。“卡米卡齐，我很清楚里面是你。”嗝嗝嘶嘶地说。 “你为什么不和你的其他逃跑队员一起逃跑呢？”“我把球队训练得很好，”卡米卡齐小声回答。 “他们可以一个人把埃金加德的孩子带到流浪者队去。 如果你以为我会再转过身来不理你，嗝嗝，可怕的黑线鳕三号，你就大错特错了。 从现在开始，我不会让你离开我的视线。 这是怎么呢？外面非常刺耳。“说来话长，”小嗝嗝说。 “我必须找到。

Jewel in three hours, or the witch will kill everybody.' 'But I'm not sure the Jewel is out here,' said Camicazi, in the basket. 'Try telling the witch that,' said Hiccup. 'So, do we attack?' said the basket after a while. 'I've got two drawn swords in here and a dagger between my teeth.' 'That may not be enough,' admitted Hiccup, looking at the hundreds of following sand-yachts, the thicket of swords, the rocket-launchers, the Warriors with their killer eyes all trained on him, the Northbows stretched to breaking-point. 'What's the plan, then?' asked Camicazi. Hiccup sighed. The truth was, at that particular moment he was all out of Plans. The enormous wilderness of the sands-withno-Jewel-in-them stretching in front of him, and the army of heavily armed people bristling with the worst in weaponry that the human mind could dream up, all edging threateningly up behind him, were slightly sapping his creativity. He had that feeling of dread, again, sitting in his stomach like cold porridge. 'I'm not sure,' muttered Hiccup. 'Knowing that

珍宝三小时后回来，否则女巫会杀了所有人。“可我不敢肯定珍宝是不是在外面，”卡米卡齐在篮子里说。 “你去告诉女巫吧，”小嗝嗝说。 “那么，我们要进攻吗？”过了一会儿篮子说。 “我这儿有两把抽出来的剑，嘴里叼着一把匕首。“这可能还不够，”西卡普承认道，一边看着后面跟着的数百艘沙艇、密密的刀剑、火箭发射器，还有那些用杀气逼人的眼睛盯着他的勇士们。 “那么，计划是什么？”卡米卡齐问道。 打嗝叹了口气。事实是，在那个特殊的时刻，他完全没有计划。 一望无际的荒野，没有宝石的沙漠，在他面前伸展开来，全副武装的军队，手持人类所能想到的最糟糕的武器，在他身后步步逼近，威胁着他的创造力。 他又有了那种恐惧的感觉，像冷粥一样坐在他的胃里。 “我不确定，”小嗝嗝喃喃地说。 “知道

dreadful trickster of a Grimbeard there is probably no Jewel for at least six miles in any direction. It's probably at the other end of the beastly Archipelago.' 'So you admit it!' said Camicazi delightedly. 'Steady… don't let the tricksy little rat out of your sight,' whispered the witch Excellinor from behind Hiccup and the sand-yacht. 'Keep your arrows steady now. 'Have you found it yet, you disgusting little shrimp?' And then something truly extraordinary happened. You have to see it through the witch's eyes, and the eyes of the hundreds and hundreds of slaves and Warriors of the Wilderwest gathered there on the sands. To them, it must have seemed like some sort of miracle. Some kind of supernatural magic. There they were in their thousands, bristling with armour and with all their swords pointing at Hiccup, the guards with their sand-yachts with super-huge sails that could easily outrun Hiccup's battered old sand-yacht (particularly because he was weighed down by Camicazi, but of course, they didn't know that).

这是一个可怕的大骗子，至少在方圆六英里内，恐怕都找不到珍宝。 它可能在这个可怕的群岛的另一端。“这么说你承认了！”卡米卡齐高兴地说。 “稳住……别让这只狡猾的小老鼠离开你的视线。”女巫总督在小嗝嗝和沙滩游艇后面小声说。 “现在把箭放稳。 “你找到了吗，你这个恶心的小虾？”然后，一些真正非凡的事情发生了。 你必须通过女巫的眼睛，以及聚集在沙滩上的成百上千的奴隶和狂野西部战士的眼睛来看待它。 对他们来说，这一定像是某种奇迹。 某种超自然的魔法。 他们成千上万地站在那里，身披盔甲，拿着所有的剑指着小嗝嗝，守卫们驾着超大帆的沙游艇，可以轻易地跑过小嗝嗝那艘破旧的沙游艇（特别是因为他被卡米卡齐压得很重，当然，他们不知道这一点）。

There was no way that Hiccup could possibly slip through their fingers… Absolutely no possible way. But then one second he was in front of them, oaring his sand-yacht on its raggedy, slightly erratic progress, wobbling heavily to the left. And the next, there was a rush of wind above their heads, a sort of blurring of the air as if a sudden very specific mist had come down… And then there was a short, sharp cry and the next moment it was as if Hiccup, sand-yacht, basket and all, were swallowed up in one gulping swoop by the very air above them… It was unbelievable. One minute he was there, the next he was gone. The crowd with their weapons and their axes and their swords looked at the spot where he was last seen with goggling eyes and jaws agape, and huge gasps of wondering, disbelieving, gob-smacked amazement. 'He's gone,' said Gumboil slowly. 'He's completely vanished…' 'NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!' shrieked the witch. 'No! No! No! No! No!' as Gumboil hastily oared the witch's sand-yacht to the absolute spot where last he was. 'It's not possible! It's just not possible!'

小嗝嗝不可能从他们的指缝间溜走……绝对不可能。 但就在一秒钟前，他还在他们前面，划着他那艘破破烂烂、有点飘忽不定的沙游艇，严重地向左摇晃着。 接着，他们头顶上刮起一阵大风，空气变得模糊起来，仿佛突然降下了一层特殊的薄雾……接着是一声短促而尖锐的叫声，下一秒钟，嗝嗝、沙游艇、篮子和所有的东西，仿佛一下子就被头顶上的空气吞没了……真是难以置信。 前一分钟他还在，下一分钟就不见了。 人们拿着武器、斧头和剑，瞪大眼睛，张大嘴巴，惊讶地、难以置信地、目瞪口呆地看着他最后一次出现的地方。 “他走了。”Gumboil慢慢地说。 “他完全消失了……”“不……！！！！！！！！！！！女巫尖叫道。 “不!不!不!不!不!Gumboil赶紧把女巫的沙游艇划到他上次待过的地方。 “这不可能！”这根本不可能！”