Chapter 1

The last kids on Earth and the Forbidden Fortress by Max Browman. Read for you by Robbie Damon.

马克斯·布朗曼的《地球上最后的孩子》和《紫禁城》。 罗比·达蒙为你朗读。

chapter one Okay, I spy with my little eye. Is it the fortress? We agreed. Can't do the fortress again.

好吧，我用我的小眼睛窥探。 是堡垒吗？我们同意了。 不能再做堡垒了。

Is it a rock? Nope, is it a boulder? Yeah, a boulderis just a big rock.

它是一块石头吗？不是，是巨石吗？ 对，大卵石就是一块大石头。

I shrug. I can't help the scenery. I can't help that our games of I Spy are getting repetitive. We've been sitting in the same spot, looking at the same thing, for a long time. And not a long time like hours. Nope. June and I have been perched on this billboard—staring out at that fortress—for weeks. We're doing a surveillance stakeout thing. We're basically spies. Spies who do their spying from really far away. And spying from far away is good, because the whole vibe of the fortress messes with my head. Like staring at an optical illusion that you can't quite figure out. We've been at it so long that we've pretty much turned this billboard into our home away from home (away from home). It's darn near cozy now. We've got ball-game butt pillows, a solar-powered hot cocoa machine, and enough reading material to last us until the next end of the world. On the plus side—it's given June and me some quality one-on-one time. We've got about two hundred inside jokes, and we're pretty much super chums who never, ever argue...

我耸耸肩。我忍不住要看风景。 我无法避免我们的《I Spy》游戏变得越来越重复。 很长一段时间以来，我们一直坐在同一个地方，看着同样的东西。 而且时间不像几个小时那么长。 不。我和琼已经在这个广告牌上呆了好几个星期，盯着外面的堡垒。 我们在进行监视监视。 我们基本上是间谍。在很远的地方进行间谍活动的间谍。 从远处监视很好，因为整个堡垒的氛围让我心烦意乱。 就像盯着一个你无法弄清楚的视觉错觉。 我们干了这么久，几乎把这个广告牌变成了我们的家外之家。 现在简直太舒服了。我们有球类运动用的屁股枕，太阳能热可可机，还有足够我们读到下一个世界末日的读物。 从好的方面来说，这给了我和琼一些一对一的时间。 我们有大约200个内部笑话，我们是非常好的朋友，从来没有争论过……

for the last time. Jar jar is not for sensitive. He's-hey, you're just messing with me again. Aren't you Meaner, meaner? It's been a very long and very weird few weeks. How weird? Oh, let me count the ways... and the locations. Right here: June and me, perched on the billboard's walkway. June's hunkered down in a knit cap and an army jacket— it's a cool look, and I'm bummed she thought of it first. All I've got is a plain baseball cap and my camera. And down below: an elevated train track. That track leads to the thing in the distance: the fortress that looks like the sorta joint Skeletor would rent out for a Sweet 16 bash. It's spooky strange. Has

最后说一次。敏感的人不要碰罐子。 他，你又在耍我了。 你是不是更卑鄙，更卑鄙？ 这几周很长很奇怪。 多么奇怪吗?哦，让我数一数…… 还有地点。就在这里：琼和我，坐在广告牌的走道上。 琼头戴针织帽，身穿军服——这是一个很酷的造型，我很庆幸她先想到了这一点。 我只有一顶普通的棒球帽和我的相机。 下面是高架铁轨。 这条轨道通向远处的东西：一座堡垒，看起来就像骷髅会租出去举办16岁生日派对的那种地方。 真是奇怪得吓人。有

it been built here? Constructed by some mad monster architect? We don't know. We just know it's not normal. Also not normal: the Cosmic Hand. The sucker- covered other-dimensional monster-tentacle glove that is forever wrapped around my wrist and fingers. The Cosmic Hand used to do one thing and one thing only: allow me to wield the Louisville Slicer and use the Slicer's other-dimensional energy to control zombies. But then I did something huge. I controlled a zombie without the Slicer—with only the Cosmic Hand. Since then, the Cosmic Hand has been, like... evolving.

它是在这里建造的？由某个疯狂的怪物建筑师建造的？ 我们不知道。我们只知道这不正常。 同样不正常的还有：宇宙之手。 吸盘覆盖的另一个维度的怪物触手手套永远缠绕在我的手腕和手指上。 宇宙之手过去只做一件事：允许我挥舞路易斯维尔切片机，并使用切片机的其他维度能量来控制僵尸。 但后来我做了一件大事。 我用宇宙之手控制了一只僵尸，而不用切片机。 从那以后，宇宙之手就像…… 进化。