24 The Infinity Room

Chapter 24 The Infinity Room The twins stood frozen for a moment. Finally, after all they had heard about this man, they were face-to-face with the genius behind The Genius Files. "Are you really Dr. Warsaw?" Pep asked hesitantly. "Would you like to see my driver's license, Pepsi?" he said, a smile curving the ends of his lips up. "It's him," Bones said. "Believe me, it's him." "I almost thought you were, like, a fictional character or something," Coke said. "Aren't we all, Coke?" Dr. Warsaw replied. "Ultimately, who's to say what's real or imaginary?"

第二十四章无限大的房间孪生兄弟僵立了一会儿。 在了解了这个人的一切之后，他们终于与《天才档案》背后的天才面对面了。 “你真的是华沙医生吗？”佩普犹豫地问。 “你想看看我的驾照吗，百事可乐？”他说，嘴角微微上扬。 “是他，”骨头说。“相信我，就是他。” “我几乎以为你是一个虚构的人物，”科克说。 “我们不都是吗，可乐？”博士。 华沙答道。“最终，谁能说什么是真实的，什么是想象的？”

"Thank God you're here, Dr. Warsaw!" Pep said excitedly. "These crazy people have been trying to kill us!" Bones and Mya groaned. Dr. Warsaw let out a small chuckle. "Yes. I'm so glad you two accepted my, uh, invitations to come here today," he said. "So you're the one who's been sending us all those ciphers?" Pep asked. "Guilty as charged," Dr. Warsaw admitted. "I needed to test your mental ability. To see if you were worthy. To see if you were as smart as I thought you were. Congratulations. You passed. If you hadn't, you wouldn't be here, obviously." "He's insane!" Bones called out from behind. "He's going to kill you. He's going to kill us all!" "We believed in you!" Mya yelled. "We believed in The Genius Files!" "I know you did," Dr. Warsaw said sadly. "So did I." "Why did you bring us here?" Coke demanded.

“感谢上帝，你来了。 华沙!”佩普兴奋地说。 “这些疯子一直想杀我们！”骨头和米娅呻吟着。 华沙医生轻轻地笑了一声。 “是的。我很高兴你们俩今天接受了我的邀请来到这里，”他说。 “所以你就是一直给我们发那些密码的人？”Pep问道。 “罪名成立，”华沙承认。 “我需要测试你的心智能力。 看看你是否配得上。 看看你是否像我想的那么聪明。 祝贺你。你通过了。 很显然，如果你没有，你就不会在这里了。” “他疯了!”骨头从后面喊道。 “他会杀了你的。他要把我们都杀了！”“我们相信你！”米娅喊道。 “我们相信《天才档案》！”“我知道你说过。” 华沙伤心地说。“我也是。” “你为什么带我们来这里？”可口可乐要求。

"Be patient, Coke," Dr. Warsaw said. "What's the rush? You've waited this long. What do you think of The House on the Rock? Pretty amazing place, eh? The unusual is commonplace here." "We kind of... rushed through," Coke said. Dr. Warsaw ignored the remark. He spread his arms wide. "Alex Jordan is my hero, my role model," he told them. "This citadel of sandstone had endured millions of years of rain, wind, and glaciers when Jordan found it sixty years ago. He knew he couldn't improve upon nature, so he put a cherry on top. He took this slab of rock and turned it into a retreat where he could build his dream. And he did it almost single-handedly, carrying the stone and mortar up to the top in wicker baskets strapped to his back." "What does that have to do with us?" Pep shouted. But Dr. Warsaw ignored her. "Alex Jordan was a buildaholic. A genius. A crazy genius, maybe. But a genius nevertheless.

“耐心点，可口可乐，”华沙说。 “急什么？”你等了这么久。 你觉得岩石上的房子怎么样？ 很神奇的地方，是吧？不寻常的事在这里司空见惯。” “我们有点……匆忙通过，”可口可乐说。 华沙医生没有理会这句话。 他张开双臂。“亚历克斯·乔丹是我的英雄，我的榜样，”他告诉他们。 当约旦在60年前发现这座砂岩城堡时，它已经经受了数百万年的风雨和冰川的侵蚀。 他知道他无法改变自然，所以他添油加料。 他把这块岩石变成了一个隐居之地，在那里他可以实现自己的梦想。 他几乎是单枪匹马把石头和砂浆装在柳条篮子里背到山顶。” “这和我们有什么关系？”Pep喊道。 但是华沙医生没有理睬她。 “亚历克斯·乔丹是个建筑狂。 一个天才。也许是个疯狂的天才。 但他是个天才。

He was a lot like us, really, don't you think, Coke?" Dr. Warsaw took a drag on his cigarette. "Yeah, he must have been a real genius," Coke replied. He moved his eyes up, down, left, and right without moving his head. There had to be a way out. This guy was crazier than Alex Jordan. Alex Jordan never tried to kill anyone. There was no telling what Dr. Warsaw had in mind for them. "Let them go!" Bones shouted. "They're just kids! It's not their fault that your grand plan to save the world failed!" "It did fail, didn't it?" mumbled Dr. Warsaw. "It failed miserably. Now I have to start all over again. Sometimes you can't fix things. You have to replace them." Coke tried desperately to think of a plan. With the help of Bones and Mya, the twins could overpower Dr. Warsaw, no problem. But tied up with rope, Bones and Mya were helpless. Without them, it was still two against one. Coke

他很像我们，真的，你不觉得吗，可乐？”博士。 华沙吸了一口烟。 “是的，他一定是个真正的天才，”可口可乐回答说。 他的眼睛上下左右移动，但头却不动。 肯定有出路的。 这家伙比亚历克斯·乔丹还疯狂。 亚历克斯·乔丹从没想过要杀人。 谁也不知道Dr。 华沙对他们的想法。 “放开他们！”骨头喊道。 “他们还只是孩子！”你拯救世界的宏伟计划失败了，这不是他们的错！”“它确实失败了，不是吗？” 华沙。“它失败得很惨。 现在我得从头再来。 有时候你无法解决问题。 你必须替换它们。” 可口可乐拼命地想一个计划。 在Bones和Mya的帮助下，这对双胞胎打败了Dr。 华沙，没问题。但被绳子捆着的骨头和米娅束手无策。 没有他们，仍然是二对一。 可口可乐

calculated the odds that Dr. Warsaw had some kind of a weapon in his pocket. The madman kept sticking his hand in there. "The Infinity Room is the fourteenth—and final—room of The House on the Rock," Dr. Warsaw informed them. "Right now we're hanging in midair over the valley, like the beak of a giant bird. Just steel and glass. There are no hidden pillars, no suspension cables holding us up. The Infinity Room relies entirely on its own internal structure for support. Quite remarkable, don't you think?" "Quite," Coke replied, nervously fingering the deck of cards in his pocket. I can take this guy all by myself if I have to,

计算出了Dr。 华沙的口袋里有某种武器。 那个疯子一直把手伸进去。 “无限屋是岩石上的房子的第十四间，也是最后一间。” 华沙通知了他们。“现在我们悬在山谷的半空中，就像一只大鸟的喙。 只有钢铁和玻璃。没有隐藏的柱子，没有悬索支撑我们。 无限空间完全依赖于它自己的内部结构来支撑。 很了不起，你不觉得吗？”“是的，”科克回答道，一边紧张地摆弄着口袋里的那副牌。 如果有必要，我可以一个人搞定这家伙，

Coke thought. He's frail. He would probably go down with one punch. While Dr. Warsaw's attention was on her brother, Pep slowly slipped her backpack off one shoulder. Maybe she could throw it at him, she figured, and distract him for a few seconds while Coke did the Ace Fist stuff. "Look over here," Dr. Warsaw said, beckoning the twins to follow him deeper into The Infinity Room. "Beautiful view, isn't it? On a clear day, you can see thirty miles or more." "Don't do it!" Mya warned. "Don't do anything he tells you!" The twins took a few tentative steps forward but stopped short of the glass box. Dr. Warsaw leaned over and removed the top of the box, placing the sheet of glass against the wall behind it. That left a large hole in the bottom of The Infinity Room. Large enough for somebody to fall through. "That's one hundred and fifty feet straight down," Dr. Warsaw continued. "A long way to

可口可乐的想法。他的虚弱。他可能一拳就倒了。 当华沙医生的注意力集中在她弟弟身上时，佩普慢慢地把她的背包从肩上卸下来。 她想，也许她可以把它扔向他，让他分心几秒钟，让科克玩王牌拳拳。 “看这里，”华沙博士说，示意双胞胎跟着他走进无限屋的深处。 “景色很美，不是吗？” 在晴朗的日子里，你可以看到三十英里甚至更远。” “别这么做！”米娅警告说。 “不要照他说的去做！”这对双胞胎试探性地向前走了几步，但在玻璃盒子前停了下来。 华沙医生俯下身，取下盒子的盖子，把那张玻璃片贴在盒子后面的墙上。 这在无限屋的底部留下了一个大洞。 大到足以让人掉下去。 “那是直往下一百五十英尺。” 华沙继续说。“还有很长的路要走