16 Ghost Busters

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Ghost Busters Distilled Water (noun). Steam that has been trapped from boiling water and then condensed back into water. This water is super pure because it doesn't have stuff like calcium and iron in it. Basically, all the minerals are heavier than water so they stay in the pot of boiling water. NEXT TO THE STEAMER WAS a giant bottle of distilled water. Distilled water is frequently used in science labs. "I bet that's why Ms. Daly had a bottle on her desk. Remember? We need to use it to turn water into steam." With my fingers, I traced along the body of the steamer to see if anything easily popped open. With a snap, the top came off. "Oh, there's already water in here," I said, feeling excited. Grabbing the plug, Birdie jammed it into the outlet. A blue light turned on. "Hurry up, hurry up!" I cried. "We only have about thirteen minutes."

第十六章捉鬼敢死队蒸馏水（名词）。 从沸水中截留的蒸汽，然后又缩回为水。 这种水非常纯净，因为它不含钙和铁等物质。 基本上，所有的矿物质都比水重，所以它们会留在沸水锅里。 蒸汽机旁边放着一大瓶蒸馏水。 科学实验室经常使用蒸馏水。 我敢打赌，这就是戴利在桌子上放一瓶酒的原因。 还记得吗?我们需要用它把水变成蒸汽。” 我用手指摸了摸锅盖，看看有没有什么东西容易打开。 啪的一声，盖子掉了下来。 “哦，这里已经有水了。”我兴奋地说。 小鸟抓住插头，把它塞进插座。 一盏蓝色的灯亮了。“快点，快点！”我哭了。 “我们只有大约13分钟的时间。”

"Did you find anything?" asked Jeremy, peeking through the doorway. "We've made a discovery," said Birdie. "This thing should only take a minute or two to heat up. We need it." "It's a steamer," I explained. The steamer began sputtering and coughing. "Oh no. Is it broken?" asked Jeremy. "It does that right before it's ready," said Birdie. Steam puffed out, curling upward. "It's like a ghost," I shrieked. "Oh. Wow. This is the ghost. A ghost is in the WC!" "Great," said Jeremy. "We already did the Ghost demo." He waved his flashlight so a disk of yellow light bobbed up and down. "Wait," I said to Jeremy. "Do that again." "Do what again?" he asked. "Wave the flashlight over the mirror. I thought I saw something." He stepped farther into the WC. And there on the mirror was a secret message. It said 2 pockets. "Wow. That's cool," Jeremy said. Birdie and I looked at each other in pure astonishment. "The steam revealed the letters!" I cried. "Someone must have written the message with their

“你找到什么了吗？”杰里米从门口往外偷看，问道。 “我们有了一个发现，”小鸟说。 “这东西只需要一两分钟就能热起来。 我们需要它。”“这是一艘轮船，”我解释说。 汽船开始噼啪作响，发出咳嗽声。 “哦,不。它坏了吗？”杰里米问。 “它在准备好之前就这样做了，”小鸟说。 蒸汽冒了出来，袅袅上升。 “它像个鬼，”我尖叫道。 “哦。哇。这就是鬼。 厕所里有个鬼！”“太好了，”杰里米说。 “我们已经完成了《Ghost》的演示。” 他挥动着手电，一团黄色的光忽上忽下。 “等等，”我对杰里米说。“再来一次。” “又做什么？”他问。 “在镜子前挥动手电筒。 我想我看到了什么。” 他更深入厕所。 镜子上有一条秘密信息。 上面写着两个口袋。“哇。太酷了，”杰里米说。 伯蒂和我面面相觑，完全惊呆了。 “蒸汽把信暴露了！”我哭了。 “一定是有人用他们的

bare hands, and then the steam condensed around the oils left from their fingers! Just like the phone said. A ghost in the WC! We found another clue." "That's great," said Jeremy. "We've got to find two pockets!" The three of us raced back into the lab. "We've got to find pockets," Birdie repeated. Everyone checked their lab coat pockets. But nobody found anything. We even checked our jeans pockets. I spun around the lab, "Does anyone see any pockets?" "I think I might," said Memito. He pulled out a little green spiral pad from the bookshelf. "A pocket notebook." Jeremy high-fived him. "You rock." Memito flipped through the pages. He shrugged. "I dunno. Just a bunch of equations that make no sense." "Those numbers could be the key to cracking the code." I waved at the lock on the front door. "And getting us out of here." Elijah flipped through some more pages. "Hey, there's a message." He held it up and in big block letters it said, YOU'LL NEVER FIND THE IMAGE OF THE VIRUS. "That's not a happy thought," said Birdie, glancing longingly at the very locked front door.

赤手空拳，然后蒸汽凝结在他们手指留下的油周围！就像电话里说的。 厕所里有鬼！我们又发现了一条线索。” “太好了，”杰里米说。 “我们得找到两个口袋！”我们三个跑回实验室。 “我们必须找到口袋，”小鸟重复道。 每个人都检查了自己的实验服口袋。 但是没有人找到任何东西。 我们甚至检查了牛仔裤的口袋。 我在实验室里转了转，“有人看到口袋了吗？”“我想我会的，”美托说。 他从书架上拿出一个绿色的小螺旋垫。 “一个袖珍笔记本。”杰里米和他击掌。 “你摇滚。”梅托翻着书页。 他耸了耸肩。“我不知道。只是一堆没有意义的方程。” “这些数字可能是破解密码的关键。” 我朝前门的锁挥了挥手。 “让我们离开这里。” 以利亚又翻了几页。 “嘿，有个消息。”他把它举起来，上面用大字写着：你永远找不到病毒的图像。 “这不是一个愉快的想法，”小鸟说，渴望地瞥了一眼锁得很紧的前门。

"Wait. What if that message wasn't for us?" said Phoenix. "What if it was for the bad guy, Dragas? Rosalind Franklin left clues for us so we could hand the image of the virus over to Blanche before Dragas gets here. But she couldn't make the clues obvious. Otherwise—" she shook her head. "The virus could get into the wrong hands." "Wait. Hold up," said Memito. "On the very last page, there's one word over and over." He jabbed his finger onto the paper. "Tube." I snapped my fingers. "Like test tubes, I bet." Then I groaned. "But I've checked every test tube in the lab." "Yeah," said Elijah, staring at the cardboard tube he had kept for a drumstick. The one he had spotted by the telephone. "Guess what, I think I just found something!" He opened the cardboard tube by pulling off the plastic cap, then pulled out a rolled-up something white. "I didn't see it before because it's so thin." He flattened the image, which looked like a photograph, and Jeremy shone the flashlight on it so we could see even better in the dim room. There was a gray image of what looked like a pile of some weird sticks. "The image of the virus!" I shouted, high-fiving Elijah. "You're a genius."

”等。如果那条信息不是给我们的呢？”菲尼克斯说。 “如果是为了坏人德拉加斯呢？” 罗莎琳德·富兰克林给我们留下了线索这样我们就能在德拉加斯来之前把病毒的图像交给布兰奇。 但她无法让线索变得明显。 否则——”她摇了摇头。 “病毒可能会落入坏人之手。” ”等。等等，”梅托说。 “在最后一页，有一个词一遍又一遍地出现。” 他把手指戳在纸上。 “管”。我打了个响指。 “就像试管一样，我敢打赌。”然后我呻吟起来。 “但我检查了实验室里的每一根试管。” “是啊，”以利亚说，盯着他用来做鸡腿的纸板管。 他在电话旁发现的那个。 “你猜怎么着，我想我刚刚发现了一些东西！”他拉开塑料盖，打开了纸板管，然后拿出一个卷起的白色东西。 “我以前没见过它，因为它太薄了。” 他把像照片一样的图像压平，杰里米用手电筒照了照，这样我们在昏暗的房间里就能看得更清楚了。 有一个灰色的图像，看起来像是一堆奇怪的树枝。 “病毒的图像！”我喊道，与以利亚击掌。 “你真是个天才。”

Birdie gazed at the image with a look of wonder. "Who knew that viruses could look like... art." Then Elijah flipped the image over. "Look, there's a code on the back, just like the note!" "Read it aloud!" shouted Phoenix. "And I'll write it on the whiteboard." "32-73-5-57-19-3-52," called out Elijah, and then rolled the image back into the tube. "I'll put it here for safekeeping." He stuffed the tube back in the right pocket of his lab coat. "We did it!" I shouted. "Not quite," said Jeremy. "We still need to get out of here. And the clue in the WC said two pockets. We need to find another pocket." Memito held up the stopwatch. "The clock is ticking. We now only have ten minutes!" "We've got to get going," I admitted. But Birdie didn't move from her spot. Instead, she stared dreamily at the periodic table on the wall. "You know, I think it'd be cool to have one of those in my room. But to make some art project out of it." "Okaaaaay," said Jeremy. "I think we're getting way off track here." For once, I knew exactly how Jeremy felt. Right now was not the time to think about room decorations.

伯迪带着惊奇的神情凝视着这张照片。 “谁知道病毒可以长得像…… 艺术。”以利亚就把神像翻转过来。 “看，背面有密码，就像那张纸条一样！”“大声念出来！”菲尼克斯喊道。 “我会把它写在白板上。” “32-73-5-57-19-3-52，”以利亚喊道，然后把图像滚回管子里。 “我把它放在这里保管。” 他把试管塞回实验服的右口袋里。 “我们成功了！”我叫道。“不完全是，”杰里米说。 “我们仍然需要离开这里。 厕所里的线索说有两个口袋。 我们需要再找一个口袋。” 梅托举起秒表。 “时间不等人。我们现在只有十分钟了！”“我们得走了。”我承认。 但是小鸟没有离开她的位置。 相反，她如梦似幻地盯着墙上的元素周期表。 “你知道，我认为在我的房间里有一个这样的东西会很酷。 而是要把它变成一个艺术项目。” “好吧，”杰里米说。“我认为我们已经偏离了轨道。” 这一次，我完全了解杰里米的感受。 现在不是考虑房间装饰的时候。

"There are numbers there," Birdie said. "And some of them are just like the numbers in the secret message on that paper." I snapped my fingers so hard I thought I could light a fire. "Birdie, that's amazing! That could be it. Each element on the periodic table has a number. For example, oxygen or O is the eighth element. That's why there's a number eight over it." Phoenix wiped the whiteboard clean and winced. "Okay, let's try this out." "Does your hand still hurt?" Birdie asked. She shook her head. "I'm fine." I glanced up at the periodic table. "The number thirty-two is germanium. That's Ge," I said in a rush. Phoenix wrote that down. "And seventy-three is Ta, which stands for tantalum." "Got it," said Phoenix. "The fifth element is boron. B," said Jeremy. "Fifty-seven is lanthanum or La," I said. "And nineteen is potassium, K. Number three is lithium, which is Li. And finally, fifty-two is tellurium, which is Te." We all stood there scanning the letters to see if we could made sense of them.

“那里有数字，”伯迪说。 “其中一些就像那张纸上的秘密信息中的数字。” 我使劲地打响了我的手指，我以为我能点燃一堆火。 “小鸟，太神奇了！”可能就是这样。 元素周期表上的每个元素都有一个数字。 例如，氧(O)是第八个元素。 这就是为什么上面有个数字8。” 凤凰把白板擦干净，皱了皱眉头。 “好吧，让我们试试这个。” “你的手还疼吗？”小鸟问。 她摇了摇头。“我很好”。 我抬头看了一眼元素周期表。 “32是锗。 那是葛。”我匆忙地说。 菲尼克斯记下来了。“七十三是钽，代表钽。” “明白了。”菲尼克斯说。“第五元素是硼。 B，”杰里米说。“57是镧或镧，”我说。 “19是钾，K。 3号是锂，也就是Li。 最后，52是碲，也就是Te。” 我们都站在那里浏览着那些字母，看能不能看懂。