Chapter 37

37 A half hour later, the library was empty except for Team Kyle, Mr. Lemoncello, Dr. Zinchenko, and the engineers locked behind the red door in the library's control room. Kyle and his friends wanted to be there for Mr. Lemoncello in what looked like his hour of despair. "I'm sure whoever checked out Flora and Ulysses is enjoying it immensely," said Sierra Russell. "I know I did." "Thank you, Sierra," said Mr. Lemoncello, who was breaking his own library rules, spooning

半小时后，图书馆空无一人，只有凯尔小组、莱蒙切罗先生、莱蒙切罗博士。 津琴科和工程师们锁在图书馆控制室的红门后面。 凯尔和他的朋友们想在莱蒙塞罗先生绝望的时刻陪在他身边。 塞拉·拉塞尔说：“我敢肯定，看过《弗洛拉和尤利西斯》的人都非常喜欢。” “我知道我说过。”“谢谢你，塞拉，”莱蒙切罗说，他打破了自己的图书馆规则，用勺子抱着

a half gallon of ice cream straight out of its carton while he sat slumped in one of the comfortable reading chairs at the base of the fiction wall. He wore a bib to stop the ice cream from dribbling on his clothes. "You're really only supposed to eat food in the Book Nook Café, sir," said Miguel. Mr. Lemoncello ignored Miguel and shoveled up another gob of birthday-cake ice cream. Meanwhile, Dr. Zinchenko had commandeered a hover ladder and sailed up to the spot where the missing book should've been shelved. "The book was here last week," said Dr. Zinchenko, examining the gap between Kate DiCamillo titles. "I know it was. I made certain of it, right before we locked down the library to the public. Since then, the only ones allowed near the books have been our thirty-two young Olympians…." "Fascinating," said Mr. Lemoncello, not sounding fascinated at all. He shoveled more

半加仑的冰淇淋直接从纸盒里拿了出来，而他瘫坐在小说墙脚边的一张舒适的阅读椅上。 他戴上围兜，以防冰淇淋滴在衣服上。 “先生，你实际上只应该在书角咖啡馆里吃东西，”米格尔说。 莱蒙塞罗先生不理睬米格尔，又大嚼了一大口生日蛋糕冰淇淋。 与此同时，津琴科征用了一架悬停梯子，航行到丢失的书应该放在架子上的地方。 “这本书上星期还在这儿，”史密斯博士说。 津琴科，研究凯特·迪卡米洛头衔之间的差距。 “我知道。这是我确定的，就在我们关闭图书馆对公众开放之前。 从那时起，只有我们的32名年轻的奥运选手才被允许接近书籍....” “太棒了，”莱蒙切罗说，听上去一点也不着迷。 他又铲了一些

confetti-sprinkled ice cream into his mouth. Dr. Zinchenko started her slow descent. "I must talk to security about this." "Don't bother, Dr. Zinchenko," said Mr. Lemoncello. "This is a library. Books check in but they don't check out. No, wait. That's a Roach Motel. I forget what happens at a library. Maybe Mrs. Chiltington is correct. Maybe we should find some more mature adults to run this place. We really had three dozen copies of that same title and now they're all gone?" "Yes, sir." Mr. Lemoncello heaved a heavy sigh. "This is horrible," shrieked the holographic librarian Mrs. Gause, as once again she flickered to frazzled life behind the circulation desk. "This is what happened last time! First, books started disappearing. History books. One title in particular. All ten copies. Nobody cared. The whole town turned its back on its library. Very important people convinced the mayor to cut our funding. Before long, you couldn't even find a bookmark or an empty jar of library paste. Then

撒着五彩纸屑的冰淇淋塞进了他的嘴里。 津琴科医生开始缓慢下降。 “我必须和保安谈谈这件事。” “别麻烦了，津琴科博士，”莱蒙切罗说。 “这是一个图书馆。书可以入住，但不能退房。 不,等等。那是蟑螂旅馆。 我忘了图书馆是怎么回事了。 也许奇廷顿夫人是对的。 也许我们应该找些更成熟的人来管理这个地方。 我们真的有三十几本同样的书，现在它们都不见了？”“是的,先生。” 莱蒙切罗先生重重地叹了口气。 “这太可怕了，”全息图书管理员高斯夫人尖叫道，她又一次闪过借阅台后面的疲惫生活。 “这就是上次发生的事！”首先，书籍开始消失。 历史书籍。尤其是一个标题。 全部十份。没有人关心。 整个城镇都对图书馆不屑一顾。 一些重要人物说服市长削减了我们的资金。 不久之后，你甚至找不到书签或图书馆的空罐子。 然后

BOOM! Here come the bulldozers and the wrecking ball! So long, library; hello, parking lot. Oh, the horror. The horror." "Thank you, Mrs. Gause," said Mr. Lemoncello, gobbling down his ice cream even faster. "Good to hear from you again. Control room?" Mr. Lemoncello flicked his wrist. The hologram vanished. Kyle approached his hero. "Do you need anything, Mr. Lemoncello? Anything at all." Mr. Lemoncello looked up from his tub of ice cream. The twinkle was gone from his coal-black eyes. "Just what I've been looking for all along, Kyle. My true champions." "Don't worry, sir. We won't let you down. We'll win both of the last two medals. I promise." Mr. Lemoncello looked at Kyle, shook his head, and sighed again.

繁荣!推土机和破碎机来了！再见，图书馆；你好，这里是停车场。 哦，太恐怖了。恐怖。” “谢谢你，高斯夫人，”莱蒙切罗说着，更快地吞下了冰激凌。 “很高兴再次收到你的来信。 控制房间吗?”莱蒙切罗晃了晃手腕。 全息图消失了。凯尔走近他的英雄。 “你需要什么吗，莱蒙塞洛先生？” 什么都可以。”莱蒙塞罗先生从他的冰淇淋桶里抬起头来。 他乌黑的眼睛里的光芒消失了。 “这正是我一直在寻找的东西，凯尔。 我真正的冠军。”“别担心，先生。 我们不会让你失望的。我们将赢得最后两枚奖牌。 我保证。”莱蒙塞罗先生看着凯尔，摇了摇头，又叹了口气。