55 Chapter 55

Chapter 55 "Open it!" Akimi said to Kyle. "We only have like forty minutes to figure out how Loblolly and the Dandy Bandits crawled into the bank back in 1968!" Kyle flipped through True Crime Ohio to the place where Charles had slipped in his bookmark. "Well?" said Miguel. " 'Chapter Eleven. The Dandy Bandits Burrow into a Bank Vault.' " "Even though thou should not steal," said Akimi.

第五十五章“打开它!”明美对凯尔说。 “我们只有大约40分钟的时间来弄清楚1968年，lobloly和Dandy Bandits是如何爬进银行的!”凯尔翻着《俄亥俄州真实犯罪》，翻到查尔斯把书签塞进去的地方。 “怎么样?”米格尔说。“第十一章。 纨绔强盗挖洞进入银行金库。“即使你不应该偷，”明美说。

"And I'll bet they crawled in, right?" said Haley. " 'The clever thieves,' " Kyle read from the book, " 'took up residence in an abandoned dress factory next door to the Gold Leaf Bank and spent weeks tunneling from its basement into the bank vault.' " "Which," said Miguel, "according to those old blueprints I found, was down where the booksorting machine is now." "That explains the first clue," said Kyle. "The book title was Get to Know Your Local Library. Dr. Zinchenko meant we needed to get to know this library. This also explains why she wanted us to read those Sherlock Holmes stories." " 'The Adventure of the Red-Headed League,' " said Sierra. "The story about robbers tunneling into a bank from the building next door." Kyle nodded. "Dr. Zinchenko told me she had just reread it. I'll bet that's where she got the idea for this whole game." "Hey, Charles should've stuck with crawling through sewers like he did in that video game,"

“我敢打赌他们是爬进来的，对吧?”哈利说。 “‘聪明的小偷，’”凯尔从书中读到，“‘住在金叶银行隔壁的一家废弃服装厂里，花了几个星期从地下室挖隧道进入银行金库。米格尔说:“根据我找到的那些旧蓝图，它就在现在放图书分拣机的地方。” “这就解释了第一条线索，”凯尔说。 书名是《了解你当地的图书馆》。 津琴科博士的意思是我们需要了解这个图书馆。 这也解释了为什么她想让我们读福尔摩斯的故事。” “《红发联盟历险记》，”塞拉说。 “关于强盗从隔壁大楼挖地道进入银行的故事。” 凯尔点点头。津琴科医生告诉我，她刚刚重读了这本书。 我敢打赌，这就是她创造这款游戏的灵感来源。” “嘿，查尔斯应该坚持像他在那个电子游戏里那样爬过下水道，”

joked Miguel. "He might've found the Dandy Bandits' tunnel before we did." "Come on, you guys," said Haley. "We need to be back in the basement." "I'm coming with you," said Mr. Lemoncello. "I just have to see how this story ends!" Clutching the True Crime book against his chest, Kyle led the way down to the Stacks. "Why are you bringing that book?" asked Akimi. "We'll put it on that conveyor belt thing," Kyle explained. "Whatever basket the scanner sends it to, I'm guessing that's where we'll find our 'black square.' " "Our shortcut out of the library!" "Exactly." As the team trooped down the steps to the basement, Mr. Lemoncello turned to Kyle and said, "So, Mr. Keeley, did you have fun this weekend?" "Yeah." "Good. Congratulations, Miss Hughes, it seems you have already won." Akimi sort of blushed.

米盖尔开玩笑说。“他可能比我们先发现了丹迪土匪的地道。” “来吧，伙计们。”哈利说。 “我们得回地下室去。” “我和你一起去，”莱蒙切罗先生说。 “我只是想看看这个故事的结局!”凯尔把《真实犯罪》这本书紧紧地贴在胸前，领着路走到书库。 “你为什么带着那本书?”明美问。 “我们会把它放在传送带上，”凯尔解释说。 “无论扫描仪把它送到哪个篮子里，我猜我们都会在那里找到‘黑色方块’。“我们从图书馆出来的捷径!”“没错。” 当团队走下台阶走向地下室时，莱蒙塞罗先生转向凯尔，问道:“基利先生，你这个周末过得开心吗?”“是的。” “很好。恭喜你，休斯小姐，看来你已经赢了。” 明美有点脸红。

"What do you mean?" asked Kyle. "In her essay, your extremely good friend wrote, and I quote: 'I want to see the new library so I can tell my friend Kyle Keeley how cool it is.' " "You wrote your essay about me?" "Maybe," mumbled Akimi. "Wow," said Kyle. "No one's ever done that before." "Well, no one's ever going to do it again if you blow our chance at winning this thing. So can we please stop yakking and find our way out of here?" "Works for me." "Warning," said the calm voice in the ceiling speakers. "This game will terminate in THIRTY minutes." Everybody moved a little faster. Fortunately, when the group reached the basement, the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves didn't start sliding into another maze formation.

“你什么意思?”凯尔问。 “在她的文章中，你的好朋友写道，我引用一下:‘我想看看新图书馆，这样我就可以告诉我的朋友凯尔·基利它有多酷。’”“你写的是关于我的文章?”“也许吧。”明美咕哝着。 “哇，”凯尔说。“以前从来没有人这样做过。” “好吧，如果你毁了我们赢得比赛的机会，就没人会再这么做了。 所以我们能不能别吵了，赶紧想办法离开这里?”“对我有用。” “警告。”天花板上的扩音器里传来平静的声音。 “游戏将在30分钟后结束。” 每个人都走得快了一点。 幸运的是，当这群人到达地下室时，从地板到天花板的书架并没有开始滑入另一个迷宫。

"The automatic book sorter is straight up this path, near the far wall," said Kyle. They made it to the conveyor belt. "From what I remember from the old blueprints," said Miguel, "the vault was right here, in the same spot as this machine." "Okay, you guys," said Kyle. "Whatever robobasket this book ends up in is probably sitting right on top of the entrance to the tunnel." "Here goes everything." Kyle placed True Crime Ohio into the array of crisscrossing beams. Nothing happened. "What's going on?" cried Miguel. "Why isn't it working?" "Maybe this book isn't heavy enough." Kyle pushed down on the cover of the book a bit. Still nothing. They stared, dumbfounded, at the book sitting on the immobile belt. "It wouldn't stop moving yesterday," muttered Haley. "That's it!" cried Akimi. She hurried to the wall and flipped the emergency shutoff switch back to the "on" position.

“自动图书分拣机就在这条小路上，靠近远处的墙，”凯尔说。 他们到达了传送带。 “根据我对旧蓝图的记忆，”米格尔说，“金库就在这里，和这台机器在同一个位置。” “好了，伙计们，”凯尔说。 “不管这本书最后装在什么机器篮子里，它很可能就在隧道入口的上方。” “一切都完了。”凯尔把《俄亥俄真实犯罪》放到了纵横交错的光束中。 什么也没有发生。“发生什么事了?”米格尔叫道。 “为什么不工作?”“也许这本书不够重。” 凯尔把书的封面往下压了一下。 还是什么都没有。他们目瞪口呆地盯着坐在不动的皮带上的那本书。 “它昨天还在动呢。”哈利喃喃地说。 “就是这样!”明美叫道。她急忙跑到墙边，把紧急关闭开关扳回“开”的位置。

Several red laser scanners sprang to life under the book drop slot. The belt started moving. Slowly. The single book worked its way down the line like a candy bar on a wrapping machine. When it reached the third robo-basket from the end, a set of rollers popped up and shunted the book off to the side into the waiting wire basket. The conveyor belt stopped rolling. The robocart rolled away. Nothing else happened. "That's it?" "Warning," said the calm voice. "This game will terminate in TWENTY minutes." "It didn't work," said Haley. "We're toast," added Akimi. "Wait," said Kyle, pointing to a square tile on the floor where the robo-basket had been. It was glowing, like one of the touch-screen computers in the desks upstairs. "It says 'Howdy. Dü you like fun games? Get Reddy.' " "Excellent!" Akimi giggled. Then she and Kyle cracked up, remembering the box tops from their

几台红色的激光扫描仪在放书槽下面启动了。 传送带开始移动。缓慢。 那本书就像包装机里的一根糖果棒一样顺线而下。 当它到达从末端的第三个机器篮子时，一组滚轮突然出现，将书转移到旁边等待的金属篮子中。 传送带停止转动了。 机器人车开走了。别的什么也没发生。 “就这样?”“警告。”那个平静的声音说。 “游戏将在二十分钟后结束。” “没用。”哈利说。 “我们完了，”Akimi补充道。 “等等，”凯尔指着地板上放机器人篮子的一块方形瓷砖说。 它在发光，就像楼上桌子上的一台触摸屏电脑。 “上面写着‘你好。Dü你喜欢有趣的游戏吗? Reddy。“太好了!”Akimi咯咯笑了。 然后她和凯尔大笑起来，想起了他们的