4 Flog Slab

Chapter 4 FLOG SLAB "Did you hear that?" Pep said excitedly. "He spoke!" "I didn't hear anything," Coke said. "What did he say?" "It sounded like frog slab," Pep said, "or something like that." "Flog slab," repeated the alien. "He said it again!" Pep shouted. "It's not frog slab," said her brother. There was an L sound in there. Like, flog slllllab." The twins tried to figure out what flog slab could possibly mean. "Maybe flog slab is his name," Pep guessed. "Flog Slab. It's kinda cute, actually." "That's a pretty weird name," Coke said. "Well, what do you expect an alien from another planet to be named?" asked his sister.

第四章弗洛格·SLAB“你听到了吗？”佩普兴奋地说。 “他说话!”“我什么都没听到，”科克说。 “他说什么？”“听起来像青蛙肉，”佩普说，“或者类似的东西。” “鞭刑板。”外星人重复道。 “他又说了一遍！”Pep喊道。 “这不是蛙板，”她哥哥说。 这里有个L音。 就像鞭子一样。”这对双胞胎试图弄清楚flog slab可能是什么意思。 “也许他的名字叫鞭子板，”佩普猜想。 “鞭打板。其实还挺可爱的。” “这是一个相当奇怪的名字，”科克说。 “那么，你希望一个来自另一个星球的外星人取什么名字呢？”他的妹妹问。

"Bob?" "We haven't established with certainty that he's from another planet," Coke told her. "He could be in disguise. This could all be a hoax. Maybe we're in the middle of some reality TV show. They just want to freak us out to get a reaction." "So as I was saying," Pep said to the alien. "My name is Pep. Pepsi McDonald, to be specific. We're twins. We're thirteen years old. We live in California. We're on a cross-country trip." Coke looked around to see if there might be a camera crew hiding behind him. As he did, two more aliens came out of the shadows and positioned themselves on either side of the first alien. One was slightly bigger than the first one, and one was slightly smaller. Other than that, they looked similar. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Pep shrieked. "There are three of them!" She leaped into her brother's arms and hid

“鲍勃?”“我们还不能确定他来自另一个星球，”科克告诉她。 “他可能是伪装的。这可能是个骗局。 也许我们正在看电视真人秀。 他们只是想吓唬我们，让我们做出反应。” “就像我说的，”佩普对外星人说。 “我叫佩普。具体来说，是百事麦当劳。 我们是双胞胎。我们十三岁了。 我们住在加利福尼亚。我们正在进行一次越野旅行。” 科克环顾四周，看看是否有摄制组藏在他身后。 当他这样做的时候，又有两个外星人从阴影中走出来，站在第一个外星人的两侧。 一个比第一个略大，一个略小。 除此之外，他们看起来很相似。 “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !”Pep尖叫起来。 “他们有三个人！”她跳到哥哥怀里躲了起来

her face so she wouldn't have to look at them. "Flog slab," said all three aliens. They stared at the twins with piercing red eyes. "I don't like this!" Pep moaned, tears running down her cheeks. "They've got us outnumbered now. I want to get out of here." "Flog slab," said the first alien. "Flog slab," said the second alien. "Flog slab," said the third alien. "Maybe they're a family," Coke said, trying to look on the bright side. "And maybe the family is going to kill us!" Pep shouted. "Maybe they're going to do bizarre medical experiments on us first, and then kill us." "You watch too many science fiction movies," Coke said. "Maybe they're friendly." "Let us go!" Pep shouted at the aliens. "Let us out of this place!" "We mean no harm," Coke said, holding his hands up and making a V sign with his fingers. "Let us live in peace."

她的脸，这样她就不用看他们了。 “鞭子板。”三个外星人异口同声地说。 他们用锐利的红眼睛盯着那对双胞胎。 “我不喜欢这样！”佩普呻吟着，眼泪顺着她的脸颊流下来。 “他们现在在数量上超过了我们。 我想离开这里。” “鞭刑板。”第一个外星人说。 “鞭刑板。”第二个外星人说。 “鞭刑板。”第三个外星人说。 “也许他们是一家人，”可口可乐说，试图看到光明的一面。 “也许家里人会杀了我们！”Pep喊道。 “也许他们会先在我们身上做奇怪的医学实验，然后杀了我们。” “你看了太多科幻电影，”科克说。 “也许他们很友好。”“我们走吧!”佩普对着外星人大喊大叫。 “让我们离开这个地方！”“我们没有恶意，”科克说，举起双手，用手指做了一个V形手势。 “让我们和平相处。”

"Flog slab flog slab flog slab," chanted the aliens. The aliens droned on and on. Coke closed his eyes and put his hands over his ears in a desperate attempt to block out the sound. "Stop saying that!" he hollered. "They're driving me crazy! It's some form of mind control! Make it stop!" "Flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab." The aliens appeared to be excited now, as if they had made some connection with the two Earth children behind the bars. Their chanting picked up a little speed. There was urgency in it. It continued droning on in the background as Coke and Pep tried to figure out what they should do. "Flog slab probably doesn't mean anything," Coke guessed. "Maybe it's just a random noise they make. Like cows moo, cats meow, ducks quack, and these guys flog slab."

“鞭笞，鞭笞，鞭笞，鞭笞，鞭笞，鞭笞，鞭笞，鞭笞。” 外星人的嗡嗡声不绝于耳。 科克闭上眼睛，用手捂住耳朵，拼命想把声音挡在外面。 “别再说了！”他喊道。 “他们快把我逼疯了！”这是某种形式的精神控制！让它停下来！”“板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板，板条板。” 外星人现在显得很兴奋，好像他们与铁栏后面的两个地球孩子有了某种联系。 他们的吟唱速度加快了一点。 这里面有一种紧迫感。在可口可乐和佩普绞尽脑汁思考该怎么做的时候，这首歌仍在后台嗡嗡作响。 “Flog slab可能没有任何意义，”Coke猜测道。 “也许这只是它们随机发出的声音。 就像牛叫，猫叫，鸭子嘎嘎叫，这些家伙鞭打石板。”

"Flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab flog slab." The chanting was getting louder and more insistent. Each of the three aliens was saying "flog slab" in a slightly different tone, creating a haunting, harmonic effect that served to calm the twins' nerves and put them into an almost hypnotic state. It had been a long day, and now it was getting late. Coke and Pep were exhausted from their experience, and the droning sound of "flog slab" was like a mantra. A spell. After a short period of time, both of them lay their heads on the floor, closed their eyes, and fell into a deep slumber. As soon as the twins were asleep, the three aliens stopped chanting and scurried around on their little feet. One of them opened the bars that had separated them from Coke and Pep. The others wheeled in two long, metal tables. Seemingly with no effort, they lifted Coke and Pep onto the tables and rolled them into the

“鞭打板鞭打板鞭打板鞭打板鞭打板鞭打板鞭打板鞭打板鞭打板。” 呼喊的声音越来越大，越来越强烈。 三个外星人每个人都用略微不同的语气说着“flog slab”，营造出一种令人难以忘怀的和谐效果，使双胞胎的神经平静下来，几乎进入了催眠状态。 这是漫长的一天，现在已经很晚了。 可口可乐（Coke）和佩普（Pep）已经从他们的经历中精疲力竭，“鞭笞板”（flog slab）的嗡嗡声就像一句咒语。 一段时间。过了一会儿，两个人都把头靠在地板上，闭上眼睛，沉沉地睡着了。 双胞胎一睡着，三个外星人就停止了吟唱，踮着小脚四处乱窜。 其中一人打开了将他们与可口可乐和佩普隔开的酒吧。 其他人把两张长长的金属桌子推了进来。 他们似乎毫不费力地把可乐和Pep搬到桌子上，然后把它们滚进了洗衣机

next room. It was an amazing place—there was a wall made from hundreds of video screens of every size, from postage stamp to big-screen TV. There were no knobs, dials, or switches anywhere, like you would expect in a high-tech hospital or airplane cockpit. Every screen was controlled by touching it, which the aliens did with amazing dexterity and speed. In the middle of the room was a large, white machine that resembled the devices hospitals use to shoot magnetic resonance images of patients. It was, in fact, very much like an MRI machine, but much, much more powerful. While the twins slept, the tables they lay on were wheeled into this machine. One of the aliens touched a screen on the wall, and a purplish band of light shone on Coke, then Pep. The light, accompanied by an otherworldly humming sound, traveled up and down their bodies like a scanner or photocopy machine. Then it stopped and repeated the procedure a

下一个房间。这是一个令人惊奇的地方——有一面由数百个各种尺寸的电视屏幕组成的墙，从邮票到大屏幕电视。 任何地方都没有旋钮、刻度盘或开关，就像你在高科技医院或飞机驾驶舱所期望的那样。 每个屏幕都是通过触摸来控制的，外星人以惊人的灵巧和速度做到了这一点。 房间中央有一台巨大的白色机器，类似于医院用来给病人拍摄磁共振图像的设备。 事实上，它很像一台核磁共振成像仪，但要强大得多。 当双胞胎睡觉时，他们躺着的桌子被推到这台机器里。 其中一个外星人碰了碰墙上的屏幕，一道紫色的光带照在可乐身上，然后是佩普。 这种光伴随着一种超凡脱俗的嗡嗡声，像扫描仪或复印机一样在他们的身体上下移动。 然后它停下来，重复这个过程