12 WELCOME TO LAVA-LOUT ISLAND

12. WELCOME TO LAVA- LOUT ISLAND The Exterminator Eggs were so numerous that they found themselves picking their way through them. The Eggs had been laid hundreds of years earlier, so they were embedded very deeply into the soil, and grass, moss, heather, and bracken had grown over them over the years. Now, however, all the vegetation had been burned down, so it had exposed them like gigantic fat white maggots. A furious, frenzied, scratching noise was coming from within them. It wasn't clear at first what this noise was, but as the Vikings climbed higher they began to come across Eggs that did not have the white, greasy opaqueness of bacon fat like their brother-Eggs further down. These Eggs had skin that was wearing thin, and fine lines were appearing all over the surface, like cracks on china that was about to break. They were

12. 欢迎来到LAVA- LOUT岛。灭虫卵是如此之多，以至于他们发现自己在其中挑选了一条路。 这些蛋是几百年前下的，所以它们深深地埋在土壤里，多年来，它们上面长出了草、苔藓、石南和蕨类植物。 然而现在，所有的植被都被烧毁了，所以他们就像巨大的白色蛆虫一样暴露在外面。 一种狂暴的、疯狂的、刮擦的声音从他们心里发出来。 起初，他们并不清楚这是什么声音，但随着维京人爬得越来越高，他们开始发现鸡蛋，这些鸡蛋不像他们在下面的兄弟蛋那样，有白色的、油腻的、不透明的培根脂肪。 这些鸡蛋的表皮已经磨损得很薄，表面上布满了细纹，就像瓷器上即将破裂的裂缝。 他们是

clearly close to hatching, and on some the shell was so fine that it had become see-through, and the Exterminator fledgling was clearly visible within, all twisted and snarled in an angry knot. These fledglings had grown so large over the centuries, and were so cramped in their Egg prisons, that their limbs were contorted into the most grotesque positions, and it was the ends of their talons that were making that feverish scratching noise, as they tore at the hard shell exterior that was keeping them trapped. Once you have looked into the eyes of an Exterminator, it is impossible to forget them. The look in an Exterminator's eyes, of pure, concentrated, white hot FURY, the irises vibrating with pinpoint anger, is a look that haunts a person through their waking hours and in their nightmares forever after. The Vikings had to climb over these horrible, slimy see-through Eggs, and as they did so the eyes of the Exterminators fixed upward on them in a frenzy of impotent rage, and the scratching became even more screechily furious. "Oh... yuck... this is vile..." groaned Fishlegs, giving a shriek of horror as he slipped and fell with his face pressed up against one of the Eggs, with only that hard exterior separating him from the manic eye and madly scraping sword-talon of the

显然快孵出来了，有的蛋壳非常细，已经透明了，里面清晰可见那只灭虫的雏鸟，全都扭成一个愤怒的结，咆哮着。 几个世纪以来，这些雏鸟长得那么大，被困在卵笼里，四肢扭曲成最奇怪的姿势，爪子的末端发出狂热的抓挠声，撕扯着把它们困在里面的坚硬外壳。 一旦你看到灭虫者的眼睛，你就不可能忘记他们。 灭虫者的眼睛里充满了纯粹、集中、炽热的愤怒，虹膜因极度愤怒而颤动，这种眼神会让人在醒着的时候和之后的噩梦中永远萦绕在心头。 维京人必须爬过这些可怕的、黏糊糊的透明蛋，当他们爬过这些蛋的时候，灭绝者的眼睛在一种无能为力的狂怒中向上盯着他们，抓挠声变得更加尖锐和愤怒。 “哦…恶心……这太可恶了……” 鱼腿呻吟着，发出一声恐怖的尖叫，他滑倒在地，脸紧贴在其中一只蛋上，只有那坚硬的外表把他与那只狂躁的眼睛和疯狂地刮来刮去的剑爪隔开

Creature within. Once he had made sure that the carnivores really were trapped inside the Eggs, Toothless couldn't resist the opportunity of teasing them, of course. He flapped right up and landed on the Eggs, sticking his tongue out and making faces at the imprisoned beasts, which drove them into extremities of temper, and they tried to throw themselves at him, but the most they could achieve, of course, was to make their Egg rock slightly in its bed of burned-out carbon. Toothless thought that this was a very good joke, and carried on doing it, despite Hiccup telling him repeatedly NOT to infuriate the Creatures any more than they had to. Dragons have a cruel streak, and I'm afraid that Toothless even made up a song about the Exterminators, which he sang as he cheekily swooped over the Eggs making farting noises, and setting them rolling down the hill with his nose. "Can't c-c-catch me O w-w-weedy little Extermi-babies Frogs without legs Tadpoles in your cradles I can see you crying in your Eggs But you c-c-cant... catch... ME!" Everywhere they walked there were these grim

生物内。当他确定这些食肉动物真的被困在蛋里时，无牙当然忍不住要戏弄它们。 他飞了起来，落在鸟蛋上，伸出舌头，对着那些被囚禁的动物做鬼脸，这使它们大发雷霆。它们想扑向他，但它们所能做到的，当然只是让鸟蛋在烧焦的碳床上微微摇晃。 无牙觉得这个玩笑开得很好，就继续开下去，尽管小嗝嗝一再告诉他，除非不得已，不要再激怒动物们了。 龙是有残忍的一面的，恐怕无牙甚至还编了一首关于灭绝者的歌，一边唱着，一边厚脸皮地从蛋上飞过，发出放屁的声音，用鼻子把蛋推下了山。 “抓不到——抓不到我啊——抓不到——抓不到啊——抓不到——抓不到啊——抓不到——抓不到啊——抓不到啊…… 赶上……我!”他们所到之处都是这些可怕的

entrances to the Fire-Gold Mines, out of which great clouds of steam mixed with gold dust were billowing. Hiccup swallowed hard, peering down the sinister dark holes, cruel bright streams of magma snaking through the bottom of them, and imagining the poor Windwalker forced to crawl down there, struggling like a fly without wings. The Lava-Lout Village gave an even grimmer vision of what the life of Humungous must have been like, kept for fifteen years as a slave by these greedy savages. There were CAGES everywhere, manacles, chains, whips, weapons of all description. Huts with barred windows, beds of stone or iron. No wonder poor Humungous didn't want to step on this cursed island again. Hiccup, Fishlegs, and Camicazi walked on, Fishlegs lagging slightly behind, puffing away like anything, but still stubbornly dragging his Running- Away Suitcase. Every now and then they came across these unusual man-made Statues, of the kind that Humungously Hotshot had been describing, raised up high on a prominent rock so that they were clearly visible to all the Eggs round about. They were Statues of a Face, three times as large as any man, and the Face did look just a little bit like

火金矿的入口，混合着金粉的巨大蒸汽云正从那里滚滚而出。 小嗝嗝使劲吞咽着，凝视着险恶的黑洞，残酷明亮的岩浆流蜿蜒穿过黑洞的底部，想象着可怜的风行者被迫爬下去，像一只没有翅膀的苍蝇一样挣扎着。 在熔岩村，胡蒙格斯被这些贪婪的野蛮人囚禁了15年，他的生活更加悲惨。 到处都是笼子，手铐，锁链，鞭子，各种各样的武器。 有铁窗的小屋，石头或铁床。 难怪可怜的Humungous不想再踏上这个被诅咒的岛屿。 小嗝嗝、鱼腿和卡米卡齐继续往前走，鱼腿跟在后面，气喘吁吁地走着，但仍然固执地拖着他那只逃跑的手提箱。 他们不时地看到这些不寻常的人造雕像，就是巨Hotshot刚才描述的那种，高高竖立在一块突出的岩石上，周围的蛋都能清楚地看到。 它们是一张脸的雕像，是人的三倍大，而且这张脸看起来确实有点像

what Hiccup remembered Alvin the Treacherous looking like. But there was no sign of Alvin the Treacherous himself. It had all been surprisingly easy so far. They were now only four or five hundred meters from the top of the Volcano, and they had reached it without bumping into anything nasty at all. All they had to do now was get to the summit, throw the Fire-Stone over the edge, and then run back down to the Harbor... They were nearly there... They were nearly there... Only fifty meters to go, when Something put its black foot over the lip of the Volcano above them. A black foot with five claws sprouting out of it, each claw as broad and sharp and gleaming as a SWORD. Out of the top of the Volcano, like a gigantic slimy slug, slithered the revoltingly muscly figure of a huge EXTERMINATOR, three times as big as a lion. Green saliva frothed from its fangs. Great clouds of steam snorted out of its flaring furious nostrils. Its face was contorted in a ghastly grimace of anger, eyes popping with a fury that burned like acid. Its tail and its horns appeared to be on fire. It reared up on its hind legs, slicing through the air with its ten

小嗝嗝记忆中的叛徒阿尔文是什么样子 但是没有叛徒阿尔文本人的踪迹。 到目前为止，一切都出奇地轻松。 他们现在离火山顶只有四五百米了，而且他们还没有碰到什么可怕的东西。 他们现在要做的就是爬到山顶，把火石扔下去，然后跑回港湾…… 他们就快到了……他们就快到了…… 只剩下50米的时候，有什么东西把它的黑脚放在了他们头顶上的火山口上。 一只黑色的脚上长着五个爪子，每个爪子都像剑一样宽而锋利，闪闪发光。 从火山顶上，像一只巨大的黏糊糊的鼻涕虫一样，滑出了一个令人作呕的、肌肉发达的庞然大物，是一头狮子的三倍大。 绿色的唾液从它的尖牙里冒出来。 大团大团的蒸汽从它怒放的鼻孔里喷出来。 它的脸扭曲成一副可怕的愤怒鬼脸，眼睛瞪得大大的，怒火像酸一样燃烧着。 它的尾巴和角好像着了火。 它用后腿直立起来，用爪子在空中划来划去

terrible sword-claws, and through the transparent wall of its fireproof chest you could see its two great black hearts pumping its boiling-hot black blood, sending it shooting through its body at twenty times the speed and pressure of the blood of any other living creature. It opened its terrible mouth to ROAR, and it was a noise that sent shivers screeching down the Vikings' spines and set their hearts racing as quick as a panic- stricken rabbit's. It seemed impossible that a Creature this wild could be controlled by a human being, but in the Exterminator's mouth was the choking copper-red slab of a metal bit, and on its back, in between its great ebony wings, rode the tall, sinister figure of a Man. The Man had one arm that ended in a copper- red hook, and this hook was heaving on the metal reins as he fought to gain control of the enraged, rearing Creature. With the other arm he lashed at the Exterminator's sides with a great black whip until the dragon brought down its great front legs, and bowed down in snarling, pacing, barely controlled submission. Fishlegs, Camicazi, and Hiccup took a few steps backward, Camicazi holding on very tightly to the Fire-Stone. The Man in Black pushed up the visor on

可怕的剑爪，透过它防火胸腔的透明墙壁，你可以看到它的两颗巨大的黑色心脏在泵着滚烫的黑色血液，使血液以比任何其他生物都快二十倍的速度和压力穿过它的身体。 它张开可怕的大嘴咆哮，这种声音使维京人的脊背直打哆嗦，使他们的心跳得像受惊的兔子一样快。 这么凶猛的动物似乎不可能被人类控制，但灭虫者嘴里叼着一块令人窒息的铜红色金属嚼子，在它乌黑的大翅膀之间，背上骑着一个高大而邪恶的人。 那人的一只手臂末端系着一个铜红色的钩子，当他奋力想要控制这只愤怒的、直立的动物时，钩子在金属缰绳上起伏。 他用另一只手，用一根又粗又黑的鞭子抽打灭魔人的身体两侧，直到恶龙放下它那粗大的前腿，咆哮着，踱来踱去，几乎无法控制自己，跪倒在地。 鱼腿、卡米卡齐和小嗝嗝后退了几步，卡米卡齐紧紧抓住火石。 黑衣人把遮阳板推上