24 The Boy Hunt

24. THE BOY HUNT Camicazi was right. Hiccup needed all the hope and courage that he could get. Being pursued by the entire dragon army was the most terrifying thing that had happened to him in his whole life– and Hiccup had had some terrifying experiences. Screaming through the sky, crouched flat on

24. Camicazi是对的。 小嗝嗝需要他所能得到的所有希望和勇气。 被整个龙军队追捕是他一生中发生过的最可怕的事情——小嗝嗝也有过一些可怕的经历。 尖叫着穿过天空，蹲在地上

the Windwalker's back, his arms around the dragon's neck, he felt his end was coming. He couldn't get his feet in the stirrups so he was clinging on with arms so cold they were practically statues. Behind him the stupefyingly scary sound of thousands and thousands of dragons, in pursuit. The Red-Rage sound in itself had to be fought, for it numbed the brain into defeat and despair.

站在风行者的背上，双手搂住巨龙的脖子，他感到自己的末日即将来临。 他的脚无法踩在马镫上，所以他的手臂冰冷得像雕像一样紧紧地抓着马镫。 在他身后，是成千上万条龙追赶的声音，这声音可怕得吓人。 必须与“红怒”的声音本身作斗争，因为它使大脑麻木，使其陷入失败和绝望。

"Hunt the Human from the Sky Burn him UP and let him Die Hunt the human, hunt the human," 'Don't listen,' sobbed Hiccup. 'Don't listen, Windwalker, don't listen…' He made the mistake of glancing over his shoulder once and the sight was so terrifying it made his stomach turn to water. Thousands and thousands of dragons, murder in their eyes, the flames so close they were nearly touching him, a flying pack of ravenous and angry wolves, they'd tear him to pieces when they caught him. The Red-Rage was getting closer, Hiccup could hear it, louder, louder, always louder. "Give up..." the Red-Rage was telling him, and Hiccup tried to close his brain but the noise seeped in anyway. "You're lost already, Death is sweet, embrace it..."

“把那个人从天上抓下来烧死他，让他死。把那个人抓起来，把那个人抓起来。”“别听，”小嗝嗝抽泣着说。 “别听，风行者，别听……”他犯了个错误，回头瞥了一眼，那景象太可怕了，他的胃都要进水了。 成千上万条恶龙，眼中满是杀戮，火焰近得几乎要碰到他，是一群飞来飞去的贪婪而愤怒的狼，一旦抓住他，就会把他撕成碎片。 红怒号越来越近了，小嗝嗝听得见，越来越响，越来越响，总是越来越响。 “放弃吧……”红怒怪对他说，小嗝嗝试图闭上自己的大脑，但噪音还是渗入了他的大脑。 “你已经迷失了，死亡是甜蜜的，拥抱它吧……”

The triumphant voice of the Dragon Furious. "We've got him! We've got him!!" The extraordinary, crazy, rock formations of the Gorge turned it into a gigantic slalom course. One second's lack of concentration and they would crash straight into a pillar of stone and knock themselves out of this world and into the next. On top of this, the Gorge itself was shaped, as its name suggests, like a lightning bolt, and the cliffs twisted and turned around corners in a wildly contorted fashion. Wooah, this needed advanced flying skills of the most extreme kind, super-extreme-advanced in fact, and if Gobber could have seen Hiccup picking his way through that Gorge like threading a needle at supersonic speed he would have been a very proud six-and-a-half-foot lunatic, very proud indeed. 'Toothless feel s-s-sick, slow down!' The little dragon popped his head out of Hiccup's shirt, screamed at the sight of an upcoming wall of stone that Hiccup steered the Windwalker wildly away from

怒龙得意的声音。 “我们抓住他了！”我们抓住他了！！”峡谷奇特而疯狂的岩层将其变成了一个巨大的激流回旋场地。 一秒钟的注意力不集中，他们就会直接撞上石柱，把自己从这个世界撞到另一个世界。 峡谷本身的形状就像它的名字所暗示的那样，就像一道闪电，悬崖以一种疯狂扭曲的方式扭曲着拐弯。 哇，这需要最先进的飞行技术，实际上是超级先进的飞行技术，如果戈伯能看到小嗝嗝像穿针一样以超音速穿过峡谷，他一定会成为一个非常自豪的六英尺半的疯子，确实非常自豪。 “没牙的感觉不舒服，慢点！”小飞龙从嗝嗝的衬衫里探出脑袋，看到一堵即将到来的石头墙，就尖叫起来，嗝嗝拼命地把风行者赶开了

it right at the last minute, and dived down the shirt beside the Wodensfang again, putting his wings over his eyes for good measure. OK, they weren't going to be able to out-run the pursuing dragons this way… So he'd have to go UP instead. 'Up, Windwalker, up…' The boy and the dragon shot up out of the Gorge like a firework, the swarm of dragons even closer now. Hiccup urged the Windwalker higher and higher. If we get high enough, a lot of them won't be able to follow, thought Hiccup. You see, Hiccup's short life spent studying dragons meant that he knew so much about them. Most dragons much prefer operating in what they call 'shallow air'. The air close to the land, just out of reach of the tree-tops, is their environment and their playground. Very few dragons are 'deep air' dragons, they don't like the higher air above the clouds, with its sudden winds, and lighter atmosphere. They don't like that at all. 'Toothless's ears are p-p-popping!' wailed Toothless's muffled voice from deep in Hiccup's shirt,

就在最后一刻，他又俯冲到沃登方旁边的衬衫下，用翅膀遮住眼睛。 好吧，这样他们是跑不过追击的龙的……所以他只好往上走了。 “起来，风行者，起来……”男孩和巨龙像烟花一样冲出峡谷，成群的巨龙更近了。 嗝嗝把风行者逼得越来越高。 “如果我们飞得足够高，他们中的很多人就跟不上了，”小嗝嗝想。 你看，Hiccup研究龙的时间很短，这意味着他对它们了解很多。 大多数龙更喜欢在它们所谓的“浅空气”中活动。 靠近陆地的空气，刚好够不到树梢，是它们的环境和游乐场。 很少有龙是“深空”龙，它们不喜欢云层上方的高空气，有突然的风和较轻的大气。 他们一点也不喜欢那样。 “无牙的耳朵在噗噗地响！”从嗝嗝的衬衫深处传来无牙低沉的哀号声，

'and he's s-s-squashed!' 'Higher, Windwalker, higher,' Hiccup whispered to the Windwalker. He couldn't really breathe now. He tried not to think about what might happen if he passed out, because he wasn't tied on… Just a little higher… The Windwalker's wings swam ever upwards. UP, UP, UP… Hiccup's ears were popping too… but as he looked down, the dragons following them were fading in their pursuit. The Windwalker's wings were taking them further than they could follow. The beautiful black dragon sailed on and on through the clouds, higher and higher, further and further. The air was cold now… They were so high, leaving all of Hiccup's problems behind… Hiccup was extremely tired… He laid his face down on the Windwalker's back, and he slept. He woke up in a cave he did not recognize. What could he do now? Even his helmet was lost.

“他被压扁了！”“再高点，风行者，再高点。”嗝嗝对风行者耳语道。 他现在简直不能呼吸了。 他尽量不去想如果自己昏倒了会发生什么，因为他没有被绑在……只是稍微高一点…… 上，上，上……嗝嗝的耳朵也在砰砰作响……但当他往下看时，跟着他们的龙在追赶中渐渐消失了。 风行者的翅膀带着他们飞得更远，他们追不动了。 美丽的黑龙在云层中航行，越飞越高，越飞越远。 现在空气很冷……他们飞得很高，把Hiccup的所有问题都抛在脑后……Hiccup累极了……他把脸伏在风行者的背上，睡着了。 他在一个他不认识的山洞里醒来。 他现在该怎么办呢？连他的头盔也不见了。