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Chapter 41 "You need to look up at the Wonder Dome," said Sierra. "Huh?" said Kyle. Sierra and her whole team were standing together outside the door to Community Meeting Room B. She hadn't been this happy or excited in a long time. "Um, Sierra?" said Akimi. "Why exactly are you suggesting we all give ourselves a crick in the neck by staring at the ceiling?"

“你需要抬头看看神奇巨蛋。”西拉说。 “嗯?”凯尔说。塞拉和她的整个团队一起站在社区会议室B的门外。 她已经很久没有这么开心和兴奋了。 “嗯，塞拉?”阿基米说。“你到底为什么要建议我们都盯着天花板看，这样会让自己脖子抽筋呢?”

"Okay. This is a game some of us play online called What's the Connection? I put up a list of authors and you have to figure out how they're linked by the titles of their books." "Whoa," said Akimi, sort of sarcastically. "Sounds like fun." "It is. But believe me, it's not easy." "What'd you figure out?" asked Miguel. "Well, like Curtis said, Thomas Wolfe wrote Look Homeward, Angel and Lewis Carroll wrote Through the Looking-Glass. That got me thinking. And running computer searches. Stephen Sondheim wrote a book called Look, I Made a Hat. Maya Angelou wrote Even the Stars Look Lonesome, and Pseudonymous Bosch wrote This Isn't What It Looks Like." "They all have 'look' in the title," said Kyle. "What about the other five authors?" asked Akimi. "Did they write 'look' books, too?" "No, they're up there for a different word." "Huh?" "Booker T. Washington wrote Up from Slavery and Shel Silverstein wrote Falling Up." "And Dr. Seuss?" said Kyle.

“好吧。这是我们一些人在网上玩的一个游戏，叫做“有什么联系?” 我列出了一个作者列表，你必须弄清楚他们是如何通过书名联系起来的。” “哇，”明美有点讽刺地说。 “听起来很有趣。”“这是。 但相信我，这并不容易。” “你发现了什么?”米格尔问。 “嗯，就像柯蒂斯说的，托马斯·沃尔夫写了《望家》，《天使》和刘易斯·卡罗尔写了《爱丽丝镜中奇遇记》。 这让我开始思考。并运行计算机搜索。 斯蒂芬·桑德海姆写了一本书，叫《看，我做了一顶帽子》。 玛雅·安杰洛写了《即使是星星看起来也很孤独》，假名博斯写了《这不是它看起来的样子》。 凯尔说:“它们的标题里都有‘look’这个词。 “那其他五位作者呢?”明美问。 “他们也写‘看’的书吗?”“不，他们在那里是为了一个不同的词。” “嗯?”“布克·t·华盛顿写了《从奴隶制中崛起》，谢尔·西尔弗斯坦写了《崛起》。” “那苏斯博士呢?”凯尔说。

"Great Day for Up. George Orwell did Coming Up for Air, and Todd Strasser has a book called If I Grow Up." "So the ten statues give us two words," said Miguel. "Yep. 'Look' and 'up.' So I did. I looked up. At the Wonder Dome. There! Did you see it? That string of numbers that just drifted across the two hundreds screen under the Star of David?" "220.5203," said Miguel. Akimi knuckle-punched Kyle in the arm. "This is just like that bonus code thingie you showed me on the school bus!" "Of course," said Kyle. "This is a Lemoncello game. He always hides secret codes in screwy places. Way to go, Sierra!" "Thanks," said Sierra, realizing how much more fun it was to play this kind of game with real friends instead of virtual ones on the Internet. "But we already found that same two hundreds number playing Bibliomania," said Miguel. "True," said Kyle. "Check out the sections for numbers the cards wouldn't give us."

“美好的一天。乔治·奥威尔写过《飞起来呼吸新鲜空气》，托德·斯特拉瑟写过《如果我长大了》。” “所以这十个雕像给了我们两个词，”米格尔说。 “是的。‘Look’和‘up’。于是我照做了。 我抬起头来。在神奇巨蛋。 在那里!你看到了吗?就是刚才在大卫星下的两百屏幕上飘过的那串数字?”“220.5203，”米格尔说。 阿基米用指关节拳打了凯尔的手臂。 “这就像你在校车上给我看的那个奖励码一样!”“当然，”凯尔说。 “这是一款柠檬大提琴游戏。 他总是把密码藏在奇怪的地方。 干得好，塞拉!”“谢谢，”塞拉说，她意识到和真正的朋友一起玩这种游戏比在网上和虚拟朋友玩游戏有趣多了。 “但我们已经在玩《Bibliomania》时发现了同样的200号号码，”米格尔说。 “没错，”凯尔说。“看看卡片上没有给我们的数字。”

Everybody craned their necks and focused on the graphics swimming across the ten panels overhead. "Here comes another one!" said Sierra. "In the six hundreds. Right underneath the floating stethoscope." "Got it!" said Kyle. "624.193." "Whoo-hoo!" said Akimi. "Sierra, you're my new hero," said Kyle. "You saved the day." Sierra blushed. "Thanks." "The spinner," said Akimi. "Huh?" said Miguel. "That was another clue. The Bibliomania game was pointing us to the ceiling, too. Because in Dewey decimal mode, the Wonder Dome looks like a giant 3-D version of the board game's spinner." "Awesome, Sierra," said Miguel. "Absolutely awesome."

每个人都伸长了脖子，把注意力集中在头顶10块面板上的图形上。 “又来了一只!”塞拉说。 ”“六百镑。就在浮动听诊器的下面。” “明白了!”凯尔说。“624.193”。 “嗬嗬!”明美说。“塞拉，你是我的新英雄，”凯尔说。 “你拯救了世界。”塞拉脸红了。 “谢谢。”“纺纱机，”明美说。 “嗯?”米格尔说。这是另一个线索。 Bibliomania游戏也把我们指向天花板。 因为在杜威十进制模式下，神奇巨蛋看起来就像一个巨大的3d版棋盘游戏的转盘。” “太棒了，塞拉，”米格尔说。 “绝对棒。”

Sierra and her teammates stared up at the ceiling for over an hour. At 12:30, they finally lay down on the floor so they wouldn't cramp their neck muscles. Because every fifteen minutes, the animated ceiling looped through call numbers for every Dewey decimal room in the library. Except one. And then the sequence repeated itself. "How come there's no three hundreds number?" said Miguel. "Probably because that's the one book we really, really, really need," said Kyle. "That Lemoncello," said Akimi. "What a comedian."

塞拉和她的队友盯着天花板看了一个多小时。 12:30，他们终于躺在地板上，以免颈部肌肉抽筋。 因为每隔15分钟，动画天花板就会循环显示图书馆中每个杜威十进制房间的呼叫号码。 ,只有一个除外。然后，这个序列又重复了一遍。 “怎么没有三百这个数字?”米格尔说。 凯尔说:“可能是因为这本书是我们真的、真的、真的需要的。” “那个柠檬酒，”明美说。 “真是个喜剧演员。”