Chapter 9

chapter nine After our little birthday celebration, I tell Quint all about the monster Blarg, and Quint FREAKS. I tell Quint to stop being a nuclear-over-reactor, but secretly, I'm glad Quint knows about the Blarg threat. Quint puts his current top-secret project on hold, the one we went to Home Depot to get supplies for, until we finish truly arming the tree house. He has Dirk knock down the back wall to the Robinsons' garage, so we can get inside without opening it up to the street side of the house. And inside the garage, Quint sets up a full-blown invention workshop...

在我们小小的生日庆祝会之后，我告诉昆特所有关于怪物布莱格和昆特怪胎的事。 我告诉昆特不要再做核过度反应堆了，但私底下，我很高兴昆特知道了布莱尔的威胁。 昆特暂停了他目前的绝密项目，就是我们去家得宝买补给的那个，直到我们真正武装好树屋。 他让德克把罗宾逊家车库的后墙推倒了，这样我们就可以进去了，而不用把车库开到房子的街边。 在车库里，昆特建立了一个成熟的发明车间……

So while Quint spends his time in the garage, working on blueprints for a newly fortified tree house, Dirk and I keep busy and time flies... I take more photos. Great photos.

所以，当昆特花时间在车库里，为一个新加固的树屋设计蓝图时，德克和我一直很忙，时间过得飞快…… 我拍了更多的照片。伟大的照片。

Some afternoons, Dirk and I just go out and look for trouble. We should explore the ruins of the Best Buy today. I wonder if that weirdo cashier is a zombie now? He already was a zombie.

有时下午，德克和我就出去找麻烦。 我们今天应该去看看百思买的废墟。 我想知道那个奇怪的收银员现在是不是僵尸了？ 他已经是僵尸了。

We could watch DVDs on the side of the garage Pro, we need a catapult! A giant catapult Every few days, Quint hands Dirk and me a list of things we need to help arm and defend the tree house. It's easy—the town is a smorgasbord! All for the taking! Fireworks, video games, trampolines— everything. Dirk spray-paints a giant, almost life-size version of Blarg on the side of the neighbor's house. Quint says I need to be prepared, so the next time I see Blarg, it's the last time—and not the last time I see him because he plucks my eyeballs out or something, but the last time I see him 'cause I slay him.

我们可以在车库旁边看dvd，我们需要一个弹射器！每隔几天，昆特就会给我和德克一张清单，上面列着我们需要用来武装和保卫树屋的东西。 这很容易——这个城市就像自助餐一样！一切皆可接受！烟花、电子游戏、蹦床——什么都有。 德克在邻居房子的一侧喷漆了一个巨大的、几乎真人大小的Blarg。 昆特说我要做好准备，所以下次见到布拉格，就是最后一次了不是最后一次见到他，因为他挖出了我的眼球什么的，而是最后一次见到他，因为我杀了他。

Remember I said how I look at things like video games? Well, if life is a video game now, it sure feels like Blarg is the final boss. And everyone knows you NEVER battle the final boss without being prepared. I sit and stare at that big painting on the side of the house. And I look at that forehead. The scar. What did Arnold say, in that movie with the alien? If it bleeds, we can kill it. So while I spend my time practicing whacking away at spray-paint Blarg, Dirk finishes digging the moat—which is really just a swimming pool that goes all the way around the tree house. We had to wait for a hard rain to fill the pool. It's pretty muddy, but still—it's our own moat pool! Whenever Quint takes a break from his plotting and planning, we play swimming pool games. Like diving-board catch.

还记得我说过我对电子游戏的看法吗？ 好吧，如果现在的生活是一场电子游戏，那么Blarg就是最终的boss。 每个人都知道你永远不会在没有准备的情况下与最终boss战斗。 我坐在那里，凝视着房子侧面的那幅巨画。 我看着他的额头。 的疤痕。阿诺德在那部外星人电影里说了什么？ 如果它流血了，我们就能杀了它。 所以，当我花时间练习如何处理喷漆Blarg时，德克完成了护城河的挖掘工作——护城河实际上只是一个游泳池，一直环绕着树屋。 我们不得不等一场大雨把水池灌满。 很泥泞，但这是我们自己的护城河池！每当昆特在他的阴谋和计划中休息时，我们就一起玩泳池游戏。 比如跳板接球。

Quint and I are terrible at diving-board catch. I haven't caught a single ball yet. Something goes wrong every time: either I jump too high or he throws it in the wrong direction. And still, every morning and every evening, I hop into Big Mama and go for my ride—cruising down the street, hollering "June Del Toro! Are you out there? June Del Toro! Are you out there?!" Still nothing. But I'm not giving up hope. So anyway, yeah, this is it—this is life now. And on a random night, when the weather is right, Quint and Dirk and I do something different. We stop. We stop adventuring and we stop researching and we stop battling monsters and we just chill out. We make root beer cocktails and we roast

昆特和我都不擅长接跳板。 我一个球也没接住。 每次都会出问题：要么是我跳得太高，要么是他把球扔错了方向。 然而，每天早上和晚上，我还是会跳进“大妈妈”，在街上兜风，一边喊着“June Del Toro!”你在吗？ 琼·德尔·托罗！你在外面吗？！”还是什么都没有。 但我不会放弃希望。 总之，没错，这就是现在的生活。 在某个天气适宜的夜晚，昆特、德克和我做了一些不同的事情。 我们停止。我们停止冒险，停止研究，停止与怪物战斗，我们只是冷静下来。 我们做沙士鸡尾酒，我们烤