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Chapter 40 "Really?" Kyle was astonished. "You've got nothing?" "Well," said Curtis, "the only connection I can see is Thomas Wolfe wrote Look Homeward, Angel and Lewis Carroll wrote Through the Looking-Glass. Both titles have the word 'look' in them. But the two books are otherwise completely different. The two authors as well." Kyle and his whole team stood in stunned silence. Until Sierra started jumping up and down.

第四十章“真的吗?”凯尔惊呆了。 “你什么都没有?”“嗯，”柯蒂斯说，“我能找到的唯一联系是托马斯·沃尔夫写的《望家》，《天使》和刘易斯·卡罗尔写的《爱丽丝镜中奇遇记》。 这两个标题中都有“look”这个词。 但这两本书在其他方面完全不同。 还有两位作者。”凯尔和他的整个团队站在那里，鸦雀无声。 直到塞拉开始上蹿下跳。

"Of course!" she shouted. "Your time is up," announced Dr. Zinchenko. "Um, okay," Kyle said to the computer screen. "Thanks, Curtis. That was, uh, really helpful." "It was!" said Sierra, daintily clapping her hands together like a very polite seal. The computer screen faded to black. "What's up?" asked Miguel. "I think I know how to crack the statue code." "There's a code?" said Akimi. "Who knew?" "It'll take time," said Sierra. "And I need a computer." "Oh-kay," said Kyle, who was sort of shocked to see Sierra so completely jazzed. "We'll be in our meeting room, putting together a list of new Dewey decimal numbers from the Bibliomania cards so we're ready to hit the ground running when the doors reopen at ten tomorrow morning." While Sierra settled in at a desktop computer pad, the rest of the team returned to the Bibliomania board game.

“当然!”她喊道。“你的时间到了。” Zinchenko。“嗯，好吧，”凯尔对着电脑屏幕说。 “谢谢,柯蒂斯。这真的很有帮助。” “是啊!”西拉说，像一只彬彬有礼的海豹一样，优雅地拍着手。 电脑屏幕变黑了。 “怎么了?”米格尔问。 “我想我知道如何破解雕像密码了。” “有密码吗?”明美说。 “谁知道?”“这需要时间，”塞拉说。 “我还需要一台电脑。”“哦——好吧，”凯尔说，看到塞拉如此兴奋，他有点震惊。 “我们会在我们的会议室里，从Bibliomania卡片上整理一份新的杜威十进制数字清单，这样我们就可以在明天早上10点开门的时候开始工作了。” 当Sierra在台式电脑前安顿下来时，团队的其他成员回到了Bibliomania桌游中。

"We should just start flipping over cards and putting together a list of call numbers," Kyle suggested. "Sounds like a plan," said Akimi. She plucked a purple card out of the pile. Lose a Turn was all that was printed on the other side. "Try a different color," urged Miguel. Akimi flipped up a blue card. Take an Extra Turn was printed on it. So Akimi flipped over all the other blue cards while Miguel flipped over all the purples. The purple cards all said Lose a Turn. The blue ones all said Take an Extra Turn. Kyle had been checking out the red and maroon piles. "The reds all say 'Pick a Yellow Card,' " he reported. "The maroons say 'Grab a Green.' " "The grays do the same thing," said Miguel. "Only they say 'Pick a Pink.' The tan cards say 'Go Grab an Orange.' " "So that leaves the colors we've already played." Kyle flipped over a yellow card. " 'In the square root of 48,629.20271209' "

“我们应该开始翻牌，把电话号码列在一起，”凯尔建议道。 “听起来像个计划，”明美说。 她从一堆卡片中抽出一张紫色的卡片。 “失去一次回合”是印在另一面的全部内容。 “试试别的颜色，”米格尔催促道。 明美翻出一张蓝色卡片。 上面印着“额外回合”。 所以明美翻了所有其他的蓝色卡片而米格尔翻了所有的紫色卡片。 紫色卡片上都写着失去一次机会。 蓝色的都写着多转弯。 凯尔一直在检查红色和栗色的堆。 “红牌上都写着‘拿张黄牌’，”他说。 “栗色的人说‘抓一个绿色的。’”“灰色的也一样，”米格尔说。 “只有他们说‘选一种粉色’。”棕褐色的卡片上写着“去买个橘子”。’”“那就剩下我们已经玩过的颜色了。” 凯尔翻出一张黄牌。 “在48,629.20271209的平方根下……”

"What the …" said Akimi. "Hang on," said Miguel. "There's a calculator app in this desktop computer." Kyle read the rest of the card: "… 'find half of 4-40-30.' " "Well, that's 2-20-15, again," said Sierra. "And the square root of forty-eight thousand whatever is 220.5203," said Miguel. "The King James Bible we already found." Akimi flipped through the rest of the yellow cards. "Same with these. They all send us into the Religion section to find that Bible verse." "Ditto with the greens," reported Miguel. "All clues leading to Bird Songs, Warbles, and Whistles." "And the pinks all lead back to 027.4," said Kyle. "I guess they really wanted to make sure we found Get to Know Your Local Library." "Which leaves the wild cards," said Akimi. She examined the orange deck. "Find a rhyme for 'cart and paperbacks,' 'smart and zodiacs,' 'tart and potato sacks.' " "The Art and Artifacts Room," said Miguel with a sigh.

“这是什么……?”明美说。 “等一下，”米格尔说。“这台台式电脑里有一个计算器应用程序。” 凯尔读着卡片的其余部分:“……找到4-40-30的一半。”’”“嗯，又是2-20-15，”塞拉说。 “四万八千的平方根等于220.5203，”米格尔说。 “我们已经找到了钦定版圣经。” 阿基米把剩下的黄牌翻了一遍。 “这些也一样。他们都把我们送到宗教版块去找那节圣经经文。” “绿色蔬菜也一样，”米格尔说。 "所有线索都指向鸟的歌声，鸣叫和哨声" “粉红色的都指向027.4，”凯尔说。 “我猜他们真的想确保我们找到《了解当地图书馆》。” “这就剩下了未知数，”Akimi说。 她检查了橙色的甲板。 “为‘手推车和平装书’、‘smart和zodiacs’、‘挞袋和土豆袋’找个押韵。“艺术与文物室，”米格尔叹了口气说。

"Where," Akimi continued, "we need to find a rhyme for 'Randy,' 'Sandy,' or 'Brandi.' " "The Willy Wonka candy," said Miguel. "So," said Kyle, "I'm guessing the Bibliomania game was only supposed to help us find the four clues we've already found." "But we need to know more numbers," said Miguel. "Because a library should be a knowplace for know-bodies." When Miguel made his pun, Kyle and Akimi both groaned. But then Kyle thought of something: "This is why Mr. Lemoncello called our time-out a bonus. He knew we'd need a ton of time to find a new source of numbers." Just then Sierra burst into the meeting room. "You guys! I found a whole bunch of new numbers!" "What?" said Kyle, Akimi, and Miguel. "Where?" "Up on the ceiling!"

“在那里，”阿基米继续说，“我们需要为‘兰迪’、‘桑迪’或‘布兰迪’找到一个押韵。“威利旺卡糖果，”米格尔说。 “这么说，”凯尔说，“我猜《藏书狂》这个游戏只应该帮助我们找到我们已经找到的四条线索。” “但我们需要知道更多的数字，”米格尔说。 “因为图书馆应该是有学问的人的地方。” 当米格尔说出他的双关语时，凯尔和阿基米都呻吟了一声。 但随后凯尔想到了一件事:“这就是莱蒙切罗先生把我们的暂停时间称为奖金的原因。 他知道我们需要大量的时间来寻找新的数字来源。” 就在这时，塞拉冲进了会议室。 “你们!我发现了一大堆新数字!”“什么?”凯尔、阿基米和米格尔说。 “在哪里?”“在天花板上!”