19 A Free Tour

Chapter 19 A FREE TOUR "Keep your mouths shut, or we'll slice your necks like Wonder Bread." The whispered voice sounded familiar, but Coke and Pep weren't about to turn around to find out who was doing the talking. The twins were pulled backward through a doorway, and then it slammed shut. That door led to another tunnel, this one not open to the public. Still holding knives to the twins' throats, the two men dragged Coke and Pep down a long corridor and through another set of iron doors. It was pitch-dark in there and perfectly quiet, except the echo of the door slam seemed to go on forever. Pep didn't dare speak. She could hear the sound of her own breathing, and her own heartbeat. "We got 'em, boss," one of the men grunted.

“闭上你的嘴，否则我们会像切神奇面包一样切掉你的脖子。” 那低声的声音听起来很熟悉，但可口可乐和佩普并不打算转过身去看看是谁在说话。 这对双胞胎被向后拉出了一扇门，然后门砰地关上了。 那扇门通向另一条隧道，这条隧道不对外开放。 两个人仍然用刀抵着双胞胎的喉咙，拖着可乐和佩普穿过一条长长的走廊，穿过另一扇铁门。 屋子里一片漆黑，非常安静，只是砰砰地关上门的声音似乎永远都不会停止。 佩普不敢说话。她能听到自己的呼吸声和心跳。 “我们抓到他们了，老大。”其中一个咕哝着。

"Good," said a voice ten feet away. "Now let 'em go. If they try to run, they'll smash their heads into the wall." "Who are you?" Coke demanded after the knife was removed from his neck. "Are you Dr. Warsaw?" "Nope," the man said simply. He lit a cigarette with a match, and it illuminated his face just enough to make it partly visible. "John Pain!" Pep shouted. "I told ya you'd see me again." Yes, it was John Pain, the long-winded cowboy they had encountered at the Rattlesnake Museum in Albuquerque. He clicked on a flashlight and pointed it at his own face from below. It created an eerie, shadowy image. "Let us go, Pain!" shouted Pep. "I already let ya go," said John Pain. "Then let us out of here!" she demanded. "Oh, I can't do that, little lady," Pain said. "I need to finish up the job I started."

“很好。”十英尺外一个声音说。 “现在让他们走吧。如果他们试图逃跑，他们会把头撞到墙上。” “你是谁？”把刀从他脖子上拿下来后，科克问道。 “您是华沙医生吗？”“不，”那人简单地说。 他用一根火柴点燃了一支香烟，它照亮了他的脸，只让他的脸部分露出来。 “约翰痛苦!”Pep喊道。“我告诉过你，你会再见到我的。” 是的，他就是约翰·潘，他们在阿尔伯克基的响尾蛇博物馆遇到的那个啰嗦的牛仔。 他打开手电筒，从下面照着自己的脸。 它创造了一个可怕的，模糊的图像。 佩普喊道：“让我们走，佩恩！” “我已经放你走了，”约翰·潘说。 “那就让我们离开这里吧！”她要求道。 “哦，我不能那样做，小姑娘，”佩恩说。 “我需要完成我开始的工作。”

"What job was that?" Pep asked. "Killin' you," John Pain said matter-of-factly. "That was purty clever, the way you took care of that rattlesnake. You really rattled 'im." The two men who had grabbed Coke and Pep started to giggle like schoolboys. "Knock it off, you cackling morons!" shouted John Pain, shining his flashlight at them. The two men were dressed like Hoover Dam security guards, except for one thing—they were both wearing bowler-style hats. "The bowler dudes!" Coke yelled. "Not again!" "At your service!" said the snickering, mustachioed bowler dude. "Long time no see!" Yes, once again the twins were being hassled by the pair of moronic, sadistic brothers who had already buried them in a sand pit, attacked them with bowling balls, and assisted in several other attempts on their lives over the past five weeks. "How did you get past security?" Coke asked

“那是什么工作？”Pep问道。 “杀了你。”约翰·潘一本正经地说。 “你照顾那条响尾蛇的方式真聪明。 你真的把他吓坏了。”那两个拿着可乐和佩普的人开始像小学生一样咯咯地笑起来。 “别吵了，你们这些咯咯叫的白痴！”约翰·潘喊道，用手电筒照着他们。 这两个人穿得像胡佛大坝的保安，除了一件事——他们都戴着圆顶礼帽。 “那些打保龄球的家伙！”可口可乐喊道。 “不了!”“听候您的差遣！”那个蓄着小胡子，窃笑着说。 “好久不见！”是的，这对双胞胎又一次被这对愚蠢的、虐待狂的兄弟骚扰了，他们已经把他们埋在一个沙坑里，用保龄球袭击他们，并在过去的五个星期里协助了几次对他们的生命的企图。 “你是怎么通过安检的？”可口可乐问

John Pain. "We are security," he replied. "Good one, boss," giggled the clean-shaven bowler dude. "Shut up, you idiot!" "You want us to kill 'em now?" asked the mustachioed bowler dude. "That ain't gonna be necessary, boys," Pain drawled. "Their daddy was too cheap to pay for the full tour, but we're gonna give it to 'em for free. They'll get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the insides of the dam." "We don't want your dam tour!" Pep shouted. "Let us go!" Both twins thought about making a run for it. But it was so dark in the tunnel, they were sure to injure themselves if they ran into something. "There are four trillion gallons of water in Lake Mead," John Pain informed them. "That's a lot of water pressure." "We don't care!" Pep barked. "Leave us

约翰痛苦。“我们是保安，”他回答。 “干得好，老板，”那个刮得干干净净的保龄球手咯咯地笑着。 “闭嘴，你这个白痴！”“你想让我们现在就杀了他们？”那个大胡子保龄球手问。 “没必要，孩子们，”佩恩慢吞吞地说。 “他们的爸爸太小气了，付不起完整的巡演费用，但我们要免费给他们。 他们将独家了解大坝内部的幕后情况。” “我们不要你的大坝之旅！”Pep喊道。 “我们走吧!”这对双胞胎都想逃跑。 但是隧道里太黑了，如果他们撞到什么东西，肯定会受伤的。 “米德湖有四万亿加仑的水，”约翰·潘告诉他们。 “这是很大的水压。” “我们才不管呢！”Pep吠叫。 “离开我们

alone!" "Oh, you will care," Pain said. "'Cause right now we're inside one of the four intake tower pipes of Hoover Dam. It's thirty feet in diameter. At regular intervals, they open a gate and ninety thousand gallons of water comes shootin' through this pipe. That's ninety thousand gallons of water each second. It would fill an Olympic-size swimming pool in less than seven seconds." "Help!" Pep screamed. "Somebody help us!" "They can't hear you through the concrete," Coke said sadly. There was no fight left in him. He was a beaten man. "You kids ever been on a waterslide?" asked John Pain. "This is gonna be a lot like that. Except at the end, you don't land on your fanny in a nice little pool. You land in the spinning turbine of a hydroelectric generator. Ha-ha-ha!" "Ha-ha, good one, boss," said the clean- shaven bowler dude. "Quiet!" barked John Pain. "You're ruining

一个人!”“哦，你会在乎的，”佩恩说。 “因为现在我们在胡佛大坝四个进水塔管道中的一个。 它的直径是30英尺。 每隔一段时间，他们就打开一扇门，九万加仑的水就从这条管子里喷涌而出。 也就是每秒九万加仑的水。 它可以在不到7秒的时间内填满一个奥运会规模的游泳池。” “救命!”Pep尖叫。“谁来帮帮我们！”“他们隔着混凝土听不到你说话，”科克悲伤地说。 他已经没有斗志了。 他是个饱经风霜的人。“孩子们，你们玩过滑水道吗？”约翰·潘问道。 “这将是非常相似的。 除了最后，你不会屁股着地掉进漂亮的小池子里。 你降落在水力发电机旋转的涡轮上。 哈哈哈!”“哈哈，干得好，老板，”那个刮得干干净净的保龄球手说。 “安静！”约翰·潘吼道。 “你毁了

my flow." "Sorry, boss." "It's an engineering marvel, ain't it?" asked John Pain, pointing the flashlight beam left and right. "The water rushin' through here generates enough 'lectricity to power millions of homes and businesses. And think of it. When your bodies get sliced up by those giant turbine blades, you'll become part of the history. Thanks to you, America will be green. You'll become an alternative source of energy." The bowler dudes couldn't stop themselves from giggling.

我的流。”“对不起,老板。”“这是一个工程上的奇迹，不是吗？”约翰·潘问道，用手电筒的光束向左和向右指向。 “从这里流过的水产生的电力足以为数百万家庭和企业供电。 想想看。当你的身体被那些巨大的涡轮叶片切开时，你将成为历史的一部分。 多亏了你们，美国才会绿色。 你会成为另一种能源。” 那些玩保龄球的家伙们忍不住笑了起来。