24 Chapter 24

Chapter 24 "Hey," said Miguel, hiding the tiny square of paper behind his back. "Yo." "Yo," said Kyle. "Whazzup?" "Nothin'. Just, you know, workin' the puzzle." "Yeah. Us too." "Okay. Later." "Later." Both boys thumped their fists on their chests like baseball players do. Miguel turned and ran for a staircase winding up to the second floor.

“嘿，”米格尔说，把那张小方块纸藏在背后。 “哟。”“哟，”凯尔说。“Whazzup ?””一文不值。 只是，你知道，解开这个谜。” “是的。我们也。”“好吧。后来。” “以后”。两个男孩都像棒球运动员一样捶打着自己的胸膛。 米格尔转身跑向通往二楼的楼梯。

"Come on, you guys," said Kyle as he took off running for a different set of steps. When Kyle, Akimi, and Sierra made it up to the balcony, they watched Miguel run up to the third floor. As soon as he disappeared into a room up there, Kyle unrolled the game sketch. "Look at the drawing, then look down at the floor," said Kyle. "They're the same!" said Sierra. "Exactly. A circular room with a round desk at the center of that circle." "Awesome," said Akimi. "And there are ten doors ringed around the balcony up here on the second floor, just like on the game board." Kyle tapped the rendering of the spinner in the right-hand corner of the game plans. "See how the spinner is divided into ten different-colored sections numbered zero to nine?" "It looks like the Wonder Dome," said Akimi, "when it's not doing its kaleidoscope thing or running a video that makes you think the building is hang gliding across Alaska, which totally made me airsick."

“来吧，伙计们。”凯尔一边说一边跑向另一组不同的台阶。 当凯尔、阿基米和塞拉走到阳台上时，他们看着米格尔跑上了三楼。 凯尔一走进楼上的一个房间，就打开了游戏草图。 “看看画，然后看看地板，”凯尔说。 “他们是一样的!”塞拉说。 “没错。一个圆形的房间，圆圈的中心有一张圆桌子。” “太棒了，”明美说。“二楼的阳台周围有十扇门，就像在游戏板上一样。” 凯尔点击了游戏计划右下角旋转器的渲染图。 “看到纺纱机被分成十个不同颜色的部分了吗?从0到9。”“它看起来像神奇穹顶，”Akimi说，“当它不做万花筒的事情或播放视频时，让你觉得这座建筑正在悬挂滑翔穿越阿拉斯加，这让我完全晕机了。”

"Well, in the game, you have to go into all ten Dewey decimal book rooms and answer a trivia question about a book. If you answer correctly, you slip a book into your bookshelf and move on to another part of the library. When you have ten books, one from each room, it's basically a race to see who can exit the library first." "Okay," said Akimi, sounding pumped. "This is good. This is major." "Except one thing's missing," said Kyle. "What?" asked Sierra. "Mr. Lemoncello always works a clever backdoor shortcut into his games. For instance, in Family Frenzy …" "You can use the coal chute to slide into the millionaire's mansion at the end," said Akimi. "Exactly. And in that castle game, Charles snuck out through the sewers. Anyway, when my brother Curtis beat me at Bibliomania …" "You lost?" Akimi acted surprised. "It happens. Occasionally. But only because Curtis used this shortcut." Kyle tapped a black square on the game diagram. "It took him straight

“嗯，在这个游戏中，你必须进入所有十个杜威十进制图书室，回答一个关于一本书的琐事问题。 如果你回答正确，你就把一本书塞进书架，然后去图书馆的另一个地方。 当你有十本书时，每个房间一本，这基本上是一场比赛，看谁能先离开图书馆。” “好吧，”明美说，听起来很激动。 “这很好。这是重大问题。” “除了少了一样东西，”凯尔说。 “什么?”西拉问。“先生。 莱蒙切罗总是在他的比赛中巧妙地使用后门捷径。 例如，在《Family Frenzy》中……”明美说:“你可以使用煤滑道滑进最后的百万富翁豪宅。 “没错。在城堡游戏中，查理从下水道溜了出去。 不管怎么说，当我哥哥柯蒂斯在藏书馆打败我的时候……”“你输了?”明美显得很惊讶。 “这发生。偶尔。 但那只是因为柯蒂斯走了这条捷径。” 凯尔在游戏图表上点击了一个黑色方块。 这句话让他直愣愣

out to the street. He beat me by one spin of the spinner." "I don't see any black squares in the floor of our rotunda," said Akimi. "Maybe," said Sierra, "for this new game, Mr. Lemoncello put the secret square someplace besides the main room." Kyle nodded. "And maybe to win this new game we need to play the old one." "You're a genius!" said Akimi. "No. My brother Curtis is the genius. I just like to play games. So, do libraries even have board games?" "Sure," said Sierra. "I think. I mean, the library in my dad's town has them." "Which department?" asked Akimi, pulling out her floor plan. "Young adult." Akimi tapped her map. "Third floor. Stairs over there." "Let's go!" said Kyle. But before they could take off, they heard Mr. Lemoncello's voice echoing in the rotunda.

到街上去。他以纺纱机转一圈的优势赢了我。” “我在我们圆形大厅的地板上没有看到任何黑色方块，”明美说。 “也许，”塞拉说，“为了这个新游戏，莱蒙塞罗先生把秘密广场放在了主房间以外的某个地方。” 凯尔点点头。“也许为了赢得这场新游戏，我们需要玩旧游戏。” “你真是个天才!”明美说。 “没有。我哥哥柯蒂斯是天才。 我只是喜欢玩游戏。 那么，图书馆有桌游吗?”“当然，”西拉说。 “我认为。我的意思是，我爸爸所在城镇的图书馆里就有。” “哪个部门?”明美问，拿出她的平面图。 “年轻人”。明美敲了敲她的地图。 “三楼。楼梯在那边。” “我们走吧!”凯尔说。但他们还没来得及起飞，就听到莱蒙切罗的声音在圆形大厅里回响。

"Are you ready for your Extreme Challenge, Bridgette?" Kyle and his teammates peered over the ledge of the balcony. Bridgette Wadge was alone in front of the librarian's desk, staring up at the ceiling. "Yes, sir," she said. "Are you sure?" Mr. Lemoncello's voice boomed out of hidden speakers. "You still have twenty-two hours to find the exit." "I want to go for it now, sir. Get a jump on everybody else." "Very well. Dr. Zinchenko? Reset the statues." The ten holographic statues in their recessed nooks flickered off, leaving black and empty spaces. "This Extreme Challenge is based on the classic Game of Authors card game," said Mr. Lemoncello. "Here are the authors in your deck." Magically, new holographic statues appeared as Mr. Lemoncello rattled off the authors' names. "Charles Dickens, Raymond Chandler, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Patricia Highsmith, Mario Puzo, Frederick Forsyth, John Le Carré, Dashiell Hammett, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky."

"你准备好参加极限挑战了吗，布里奇特"凯尔和他的队友从阳台的边缘往外看。 布里奇特·韦奇独自一人站在图书管理员的桌子前，盯着天花板。 “是的，先生，”她说。“你确定吗?”莱蒙切罗先生的声音从隐藏的扬声器里传出来。 “你还有22小时找到出口。” “我现在就想去，先生。 抢在别人前面。” “很好。Zinchenko博士吗? 重置雕像。”十座全息雕像在凹进去的角落里闪烁着，留下一片漆黑和空白。 “这个极限挑战是基于经典的作家游戏(Game of Authors)纸牌游戏，”莱蒙切罗说。 “这是你甲板上的作者。” 神奇的是，当莱蒙切罗先生背出作者的名字时，新的全息雕像出现了。 “查尔斯·狄更斯、雷蒙德·钱德勒、埃德加·爱伦·坡、阿加莎·克里斯蒂、帕特里夏·海史密斯、马里奥·普佐、弗雷德里克·福赛斯、约翰·勒·卡罗、达希尔·哈米特和费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基。”

"He wrote Crime and Punishment," said Bridgette excitedly. "Indeed he did." "In fact," said Bridgette, "all those authors wrote crime novels." "Correct again. However, that's the easy part. Dr. Z? How do we make this authors game ridiculously difficult enough to qualify as an Extreme Challenge?" "Simple," the librarian's voice echoed under the dome. "You will have two minutes, Bridgette, to name four books written by each of our authors." Kyle gulped. "That's impossible," he whispered. "Not really," said Sierra. She was about to start rattling off titles when Mr. Lemoncello said, "Go!" The sound of a ticking clock reverberated around the room. "Um, okay," said Bridgette down on the main floor. "Agatha Christie. Murder on the Orient Express, Ten Little Indians, Death on the Nile, The Mousetrap." Somewhere, a bell dinged, and the British lady in the sensible shoes disappeared.

“他写了《罪与罚》，”布里奇特兴奋地说。 “的确是这样。”“事实上，”布里奇特说，“所有这些作家都写犯罪小说。” “正确。然而，这是容易的部分。 Z博士吗?我们该如何让这款作者的游戏难度达到极限挑战级别?”“很简单，”图书管理员的声音在穹顶下回响。 “布里奇特，你有两分钟的时间，说出我们两位作者各自写的四本书。” 凯尔一饮而尽。“那是不可能的，”他低声说。 “不完全是，”西拉说。 她刚要开始背起头衔，莱蒙切罗先生说:“开始!”时钟滴答作响的声音回荡在房间里。 “嗯，好吧，”在一楼的布里奇特说。 ”阿加莎·克里斯蒂。《东方快车谋杀案》《十个小印第安人》《尼罗河惨案》《捕鼠器》 不知什么地方，门铃响了，那位穿着得体的鞋子的英国女士消失了。