Chapter 1

THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH

地球上最后的孩子

chapter one That's me. Not the giant monster. Beneath the giant monster. The kid on his back, with the splintered bat. The handsome kid, about to get eaten. Forty-two days ago, I was regular Jack Sullivan: thirteen years old, living an uneventful life in the uninteresting town of Wakefield. I was totally not a hero, totally not a tough guy, totally not fighting giant monsters. But look at me now. Battling a gargantuan beast on the roof of the local CVS. Life is crazy like that.

那就是我。不是那个巨大的怪物。 在巨大的怪物下面。 那孩子仰面躺着，球棒碎了。 帅小伙，快被吃掉了。 42天前，我还是个普通的杰克·沙利文：13岁，在平淡无奇的韦克菲尔德镇过着平淡无奇的生活。 我完全不是一个英雄，完全不是一个硬汉，完全不是一个对抗巨型怪物的人。 但看看现在的我。在当地CVS超市的屋顶上与一只巨兽搏斗。 生活就是这样疯狂。

Right now, the whole world is crazy like that. Check the shattered windows. Check the wild vines crawling up the side of the building. All of these things are not normal.

现在，整个世界都像那样疯狂。 检查一下破碎的窗户。 检查一下爬满建筑物侧面的野生藤蔓。 所有这些都是不正常的。

And me? I haven't been normal, well, ever. I've always been different. See, I'm an orphan— I bounced all over the country, different homes, different families, before landing in this little town of Wakefield in December. But all that moving, it makes you tough: it makes you cool, it makes you confident, it makes you good with the girls—it makes you JACK SULLIVAN.

和我吗?我从来都不是正常人。 我总是与众不同。 你看，我是个孤儿——我在全国各地辗转，辗转于不同的家庭，不同的家庭，直到去年12月来到韦克菲尔德这个小镇。 但所有这些感动，让你坚强，让你酷，让你自信，让你和女孩相处得很好——让你成为杰克·沙利文。

Yikes. Almost got a monster fist to the skull there. I'm at CVS because I need an eyeglass repair kit —those little tool sets that dads buy for when their glasses break. I know, that's a lame thing to need. But I have a walkie and that walkie is busted and to fix that walkie, I need a really really really tiny screwdriver and the only place to get a really really really tiny screwdriver is in an eyeglass repair kit.

呵。差点被怪物一拳打到头。 我来CVS是因为我需要一套眼镜修理工具——爸爸们在眼镜坏了的时候买的那种小工具。 我知道，你需要的东西太差劲了。 但是我有一个对讲机，但是对讲机坏了，要修理对讲机，我需要一个非常非常小的螺丝刀，而唯一能买到非常非常小的螺丝刀的地方就是眼镜修理包里。