21 Thanks for Nothing

Chapter 21 THANKS FOR NOTHING "How would you like to die?" asked a voice in the dark. Pep went to scream, but a hand came up to cover her mouth before she got a sound out. Coke struggled to his feet, only to be grabbed from behind by powerful arms. "Shhhhhhhh!" a voice said. "It's us." The twins turned around to see who had grabbed them. "Bones!" "Mya!" The pair were dressed in tan uniforms with name tags that said ARCHAEOLOGIST, WACO MAMMOTH SITE. "What are you doing here?" the twins asked simultaneously.

“你想怎么死？”黑暗中有个声音问。 佩普想要尖叫，但在她发出声音之前，一只手捂住了她的嘴。 可口可乐挣扎着站起来，却被有力的手臂从背后抓住。 “嘘——”一个声音说。 “这是我们。”双胞胎转过身来，看看是谁抓住了他们。 “骨头!”“米娅!”这对夫妇穿着棕褐色的制服，名牌上写着考古学家，韦科猛犸遗址。 “你在这里做什么？”双胞胎同时问道。

"We needed to speak with you," Mya told them. "We have reason to believe that your lives are in danger once again," said Bones. "Gee, ya think?" Coke said sarcastically. "Yesterday somebody dropped a dead cow on my head. And then I was attacked with motorcycles and bowling balls." "Who's after us now?" Pep asked. "I'm sorry to say it's Dr. Warsaw again," Bones replied. "That's impossible," Coke said. "We saw him in Hot Springs. He was a wreck. He tried to kill us in the vapor cabinets, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. He had some kind of a mental breakdown right in front of us." "It's not Dr. Warsaw himself that we're worried about," Mya said. "We think he may have created a clone." "What?!?" Coke said. "How is that possible? I thought human cloning was years away." "It was years away," Bones told him. "But

“我们需要和你们谈谈，”米娅告诉他们。 “我们有理由相信你们的生命再次处于危险之中，”Bones说。 “咦，你觉得呢？”可口可乐讽刺地说。 “昨天有人把一头死牛砸在我头上。 然后我就被摩托车和保龄球袭击了。” “现在是谁在追我们？”Pep问道。 “我很遗憾地告诉你，这是医生。 又是华沙。”骨头回答。 “那是不可能的，”可口可乐说。 “我们在温泉见过他。 他的身体垮了。他想在蒸汽柜里杀了我们，但他没勇气这么做。 他就在我们面前精神崩溃了。” “我们担心的不是华沙博士本人，”米亚说。 “我们认为他可能创造了一个克隆人。” “什么? ! ?”可口可乐表示。“这怎么可能？” 我还以为克隆人类是好几年以后的事呢。” “那是好几年以后的事了，”骨头告诉他。 “但

that was years ago when they said it was years away. Now those years have passed. It's now. And it's possible." "You mean to say that now there are two Dr. Warsaws?" asked Pep. "We don't have proof," Mya said, "only our suspicions. We've heard rumors." Coke kicked at the dirt, nearly breaking his foot on a mammoth tusk. "Well, this is just great," he said disgustedly. "That doubles the chances that he's going to get us." Pep could see her brother's emotions were getting the best of him. That wasn't a good thing. He would be useless in an emergency if he couldn't control himself. "We've been getting these secret messages," Pep said, trying to change the subject. "Hub City Texas Ranger a piece of the Blarney Stone. Do you know who is sending them?" "No," Mya said. "But I'll look into it." "Are you two good for anything?" Coke spat.

那是几年前的事了，他们说那是几年以后的事。 现在那些年已经过去了。 现在的。这是可能的。” “你的意思是说现在有两个医生。 华沙？”佩普问。“我们没有证据，”米亚说，“只有我们的怀疑。 我们听到了一些传言。”可口可乐踢着泥土，差点被一根猛犸象的象牙踩断了脚。 “嗯，这真是太好了，”他厌恶地说。 “这样他抓到我们的机会就增加了一倍。” 佩普看得出弟弟的情绪已经控制了他。 这不是一件好事。如果他在紧急情况下控制不住自己，那他就没用了。 “我们一直在收到这些秘密信息，”佩普说，试图改变话题。 “枢纽城德州骑警”一块巧言之石。 你知道是谁派他们来的吗？”“不，”米亚说。 “但我会调查的。”“你们俩能干点什么吗？”可口可乐口角。

"All you ever do is sneak around with your funny disguises and pop up out of nowhere to scare the crap out of us. Then you bring us bad news. You never help us." Bones took a step back. He wasn't used to being talked to that way. "Coke, stop," Pep said. "Need I remind you that we were the ones who saved your lives when you had to jump off the cliff in California?" Bones said calmly. "And we spent our annual budget to get you a Frisbee grenade, which you threw into a swimming pool." "My sister used it to knock the gun out of Evil Elvis's hand!" Coke said. "It ricocheted into the swimming pool!" Coke was furious. It looked as though he was going to throw a punch at Bones, but Mya stepped between them. "Let's not argue, guys," she said. "We're sincerely trying to help you. Here, I brought you a little present."

“你所做的一切就是带着你滑稽的伪装鬼鬼祟祟地跑来跑去，然后不知从哪里冒出来，把我们吓得屁滚尿流。 然后你给我们带来坏消息。 你从来不帮我们。”骨头向后退了一步。 他不习惯别人那样跟他说话。 “可乐，停下，”佩普说。“需要我提醒你，当你在加州跳下悬崖时，是我们救了你的命吗？”骨头平静地说。 “我们花了年度预算给你买了一个飞盘手榴弹，你却把它扔进了游泳池。” “我妹妹用它打掉了邪恶猫王手中的枪！”可口可乐表示。 “它弹到游泳池里去了！”可口可乐非常愤怒。 看起来他好像要向骨头打一拳，但米娅走到他们中间。 “大家别吵了，”她说。 “我们真诚地想帮助你。 给，我给你带来了一件小礼物。”

She took something out of her pocket and handed it to Coke. It was a refrigerator magnet in the shape of Texas. He looked at it carefully. "Is it a camera?" he asked. "Where's the lens?" "It's not a camera," Mya said. "You put it on your refrigerator." "And it explodes?" Coke asked hopefully. "Why would I want to blow up a refrigerator?" "It doesn't explode," Mya told him. "Then how will it save my life?" Coke asked. "It won't save your life," Mya explained. "It will make your refrigerator look nice." Coke shook his head and gave the magnet to Pep so she could add it to her collection. "Just leave us alone, okay?" he said to Mya and Bones. "We don't need your help anymore."

她从口袋里掏出一样东西递给了科克。 那是一块德州形状的冰箱磁铁。 他仔细地看了看。 “是照相机吗？”他问。 “镜头在哪里？”“这不是照相机，”米亚说。 “你把它贴在冰箱上。” “它会爆炸吗？”可口可乐满怀希望地问。 “我为什么要炸掉冰箱？”“它不会爆炸，”米娅告诉他。 “那它怎么能救我的命呢？”可口可乐问道。 “它救不了你的命，”米亚解释说。 “它会让你的冰箱看起来很漂亮。” 可口可乐摇摇头，把磁铁给了佩普，这样佩普就可以把它收藏起来了。 “别来烦我们，好吗？”他对米娅和骨头说。 “我们不再需要你的帮助了。”