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Chapter 23 Kyle flipped over his lemon-scented Super- Dooper Bonus card and read what was written on the other side. YOU WILL FIND THE ULTIMATE VERSION OF THIS BOARD GAME ON THE SECOND-FLOOR BALCONY CIRCLING THE ROTUNDA. "Huh?" said Akimi. "What's that mean?" "I don't know. Let's roll out the paper and see." Akimi and Sierra helped Kyle anchor the edges of the scroll on the tiled floor. "Okay," said Kyle. "It looks like the early sketch for a board game. See the circle in the

凯尔翻了翻他的柠檬味超级猪粪奖励卡，读了看背面写的字。 你会在二楼环绕圆形大厅的阳台上找到这个棋盘游戏的终极版本。 “嗯?”明美说。“这是什么意思?”“我不知道。 我们把纸铺开看看。” Akimi和Sierra帮Kyle把卷轴的边缘固定在瓷砖地板上。 “好吧，”凯尔说。“这看起来像是一款桌面游戏的早期草图。 看到圆在

center of the other circle? That's probably where you place the spinner. You move your pieces around the ten rooms.…" He stopped. "Wait a second." "What?" said Akimi. "Do you recognize the game?" asked Sierra. "Yep," said Kyle. "I played it this week with my brother Curtis. It's Mr. Lemoncello's Bewilderingly Baffling Bibliomania. It takes place in a make-believe library." "What about finding the 'ultimate version' up on the second-floor balcony?" asked Sierra. Kyle grinned. "You'll see." Coming up from the basement, Kyle saw Andrew Peckleman in the middle of the Rotunda Reading Room, opening a long metal box sitting on top of the center desk. The holographic image of Mrs. Tobin was there, smiling patiently, as Peckleman pulled some kind of magazine out of the box. Miguel was also near

另一个圆的中心? 那可能就是你放旋转器的地方。 你在十个房间里移动棋子。他停了下来。 “等一下。”“什么?”明美说。 “你认识这个游戏吗?”塞拉问。 “是的，”凯尔说。“这周我和哥哥柯蒂斯一起打了。 这是莱蒙切罗先生的《令人困惑的书迷》。 故事发生在一个虚构的图书馆里。” “在二楼的阳台上找到‘终极版’怎么样?”塞拉问。 凯尔咧嘴一笑。“你会看到的。” 凯尔从地下室走上来，看见安德鲁·佩克曼正站在圆形阅览室的中央，打开中间桌子上的一个长长的金属盒子。 托宾夫人的全息图像就在那里，耐心地微笑着，佩克曼从盒子里拿出一本杂志。 米格尔也在附近

the librarian's desk, apparently waiting his turn for a consultation. "That's the box we saw the robot pluck off the shelf," whispered Akimi. Kyle nodded. He motioned for the others to follow him and slipped around the circumference of the rotunda. Akimi and Sierra slunk after him. In the shadows on the far side of the room, they saw Haley Daley heading for the staircase they'd just come up: steps that would take her back to the basement. Kyle wondered if she'd found something else to crawl through. If so, he hoped it was bigger than a mailbox. "Is this the real magazine?" he heard Peckleman shout at the hologram. "Yes, ANDREW. This concludes your Librarian Consultation. Next? How may I help you, MIGUEL?" "Not so fast," snapped Andrew. "I'm not done." "Um, your consultation just concluded," said Miguel. "Says who?" "The librarian."

图书管理员的桌子，显然在等着轮到他咨询。 “那是我们看到机器人从架子上取下的盒子，”明美低声说。 凯尔点点头。他示意其他人跟着他，然后绕着圆形大厅溜了一圈。 阿基米和塞拉跟在他后面。 在房间另一边的阴影里，他们看到海莉·戴利正朝着他们刚刚上楼的楼梯走去:那是把她带回到地下室的台阶。 凯尔想知道她是否找到了别的东西可以爬过去。 如果是这样，他希望它比一个邮筒大。 “这是真的杂志吗?”他听到佩克曼对着全息图喊道。 “是的,安德鲁。您的图书馆员咨询到此结束。 下一个?我能帮你什么忙吗，米格尔?”“别着急。”安德鲁厉声说。 “我还没说完呢。”“嗯，你的咨询刚刚结束，”米格尔说。 “谁说的?”“图书管理员”。

"MIGUEL?" said the hologram of Mrs. Tobin. "What is your question?" "Sorry, bro. I told you." "She's just like Mrs. Yunghans at school," snapped Peckleman. "All the librarians like you better than me!" "Yo. Ease up." "You'll see, Mrs. Tobin! You'll all see. I'm gonna beat Miguel Fernandez, big-time! And when I win, I'm gonna tell Mr. Lemoncello to fire you!" "She's a hologram," said Miguel with a laugh. "You can't fire somebody who doesn't actually exist." "Then I'll tell Lemoncello to pull her plug." Peckleman grabbed his magazine and stormed out of the rotunda into the lobby. "I guess Andrew's planning on doing something with the front door," Kyle whispered to Akimi. "Well, that's totally dumb. They already told us the way out isn't the way we came in." "Maybe Andrew doesn't think Dr. Zinchenko was telling us the truth," suggested Sierra.

“米格尔?”托宾夫人的全息影像说。 “你的问题是什么?”“对不起,兄弟。 我告诉过你。”“她就像学校里的杨汉太太，”佩克曼厉声说。 “所有的图书管理员都比我更喜欢你!”“哟。 放松。”“你等着瞧吧，托宾太太!”你们都会看到的。 我要打败米格尔·费尔南德斯，绝对的!等我赢了，我会让莱蒙切罗先生炒了你!”“她是全息影像，”米格尔笑着说。 “你不能解雇一个根本不存在的人。” “那我就告诉莱蒙塞洛让她退出。” 佩克曼抓起杂志，冲出圆形大厅，冲进大厅。 “我猜安德鲁正打算对前门做点什么。”凯尔低声对阿基米说。 “嗯，这太蠢了。 他们已经告诉我们，出去的路不是我们进来的路。” “也许安德鲁不认为布朗博士。 津琴科说的是实话。”塞拉建议道。

"Come on," said Kyle, leading his team toward the closest staircase up to the second floor. Glancing over his shoulder, he watched Miguel place a slip of paper on the table in front of the semi-translucent librarian. "This item has been temporarily removed from the Stacks, MIGUEL," said Mrs. Tobin. "You will find it in a display case next to the original Winkle and Grimble scale model. Let me give you that location." There was a grinding sound, like when movie tickets shoot up through the slot at the box office. Miguel snatched the small square of paper that popped up from the librarian's desk and spun around. He froze the instant he saw Kyle, Akimi, and Sierra sneaking around the room behind him.

“来吧，”凯尔说着，带领他的队伍走向最近的二楼楼梯。 他回头看了一眼，看到米格尔把一张纸条放在半透明的图书管理员面前的桌子上。 “米盖尔，这件东西暂时从斯塔克斯书店撤走了，”托宾太太说。 “你会在一个陈列柜里找到它，旁边是原始的温克尔和格里布尔比例模型。 让我告诉你那个位置。” 有一种磨碎的声音，就像电影票从售票处的缝隙里弹起一样。 米格尔抓起从图书管理员的桌子上跳出来的那张小方纸，转过身来。 当他看到凯尔、阿基米和西拉在他身后鬼鬼祟祟地在房间里转来转去时，他一下子僵住了。