Chapter 22

chapter twenty-two June erupts. "WHADDYA MEAN WE CAN'T USE IT?? We're not gonna blow you up. We didn't know you were here!" Quint nods. "Our intel said this place was empty of non-bad guys." Dirk looks toward the Goon Platoon. "You can just come with us when we leave. I bet you're good in a fight, on account of all that... uh..." Dirk pauses, eyeing their many bizarre appendages and attachments. "All your stuff." "We cannot come with you," the beetle-lady says. I get the sense she's the leader of this weird trio. "We must remain here." I glance down at Rover, tempted to whisper something in his ear like, "Hey, buddy, your new friends are kinda jerks." But I resist. "Hold up," Dirk says, and I hear him drop his voice a notch deeper, getting gravelly. "Let's try and keep this sociable. Like friends. And friends got names." With a few head nods, Dirk introduces us. Nothing fancy, no rad backstories, just the facts. Then he stares at the Goon Platoon, waiting.

第二十二章六月爆发了。 “你说我们不能用它是什么意思？” 我们不会炸掉你的。 我们不知道你在这儿！”五胞胎点点头。 “我们的情报说这里没有坏人” 德克望向打手排。 “我们走的时候你可以跟我们一起走。 我打赌你打架很厉害，因为那些…… 嗯…”德克停顿了一下，打量着它们许多奇怪的附属物和附件。 “都是你的东西。”“我们不能和你一起去，”甲虫夫人说。 我感觉她是这个奇怪三人组的头儿。 “我们必须留在这里。”我低头看了看罗孚，想在他耳边低语几句：“嘿，伙计，你的新朋友有点混蛋。” 但我拒绝了。“等等，”德克说，我听到他的声音低沉了一点，变得沙哑起来。 “让我们试着保持社交。 喜欢的朋友。朋友也有名字。” 德克点点头，向我们作了介绍。 没有华丽的背景故事，只有事实。 然后他盯着“打手排”，等待着。

Rover looks up at the beetle-lady, happily panting. She finally says, "The sounds of our native tongue will fry your insides twice over. For simplicity, you may call us... peaches. Um, Dave, man, the name's Karen and her Johnson, but my friends call me Ka and her Johnson. So what do we call you? Not CannonHead Johnson Before we can ask why they'd need to remain here, and—more importantly—why we can't use the

罗孚抬头看着甲虫女士，高兴地喘着气。 她最后说：“我们母语的声音会把你的内脏炸两次。 简单起见，你可以叫我们… 桃子。戴夫，我叫凯伦，她叫约翰逊，但我朋友叫我卡，她叫约翰逊。 那我们怎么称呼你？在我们问他们为什么要留在这里之前，更重要的是，为什么我们不能用

Fortress Breaker, a stomach-churning YOWL rings out. "ALARM!" Peaches barks. In a flash, the Goon Platoon goes into lockdown mode. Cannonhead gets behind us, shoving us along. Ahead of us, a door spirals open with a schlurp. We hurry into a huge, weird, wet cavern as the door revolves, sealing us in. Peaches scrapes a long claw-finger over a fleshy nodule on the side of what now appears to be an other-dimensional freight elevator. We begin to move down the shaft, and I hold on a little tighter to Rover. Suddenly, the lift stops, and the darkness is cut by a sliver of red light as the wall opens up behind us, revealing something I did not expect to see... "Is that..." June starts, then pauses, like she's not sure she can believe what she's seeing. "A fast-food joint from the monster realm?" And that's not even the weirdest part. There are monsters. Creatures. Critters. Everywhere. I recognize a few from Quint's bestiary, back in the day. But this room is like a monster menagerie...

堡垒破坏者，一声令人反胃的嚎叫响起。 “报警!”桃子吠叫。瞬间，打手排进入锁定模式。 炮头在我们身后，推着我们前进。 在我们前面，一扇门嗖地一声打开了。 我们匆忙进入一个巨大、怪异、潮湿的洞穴，门在旋转，把我们封闭在里面。 桃子用长长的爪状手指在一个肉质结节上擦来擦去，这个肿块现在看起来像是另一个维度的货运电梯。 我们开始沿着竖井向下移动，我把罗孚抓得更紧了。 突然，电梯停了下来，一道红光划破了黑暗，我们身后的墙打开了，露出了一些我没想到会看到的东西…… “那是……”琼开始了，然后停顿了一下，好像她不确定自己是否能相信自己所看到的。 “怪物王国的快餐店？”这还不是最奇怪的部分。 那里有怪物。生物。 生物。无处不在。我在昆特的兽类小说里见过一些。 但这个房间就像一个怪物动物园…

"What is all this?" Quint asks. "The Grub Bonanza," Cannonhead Johnson says. "Best honkin' food in any dimension. Decent milk shakes, too." "Think he meant these creatures," Dirk says. "Survivors," Peaches says. "Like us." "It's the cutest thing I've ever seen," June says. Then Rover looks up at June with big, wide eyes. "Except you, cutie pants, duh," she quickly adds. It appears we're safe, for the moment. So I drop to one knee and give Rover another big hug. "I missed you, buddy," I say. "I missed you more than I knew I could miss anything."

“这是怎么回事？”五度音问道。 “这是一个大金矿，”加农黑德·约翰逊说。 “在任何维度上都是最好吃的。 奶昔也不错。”“我想他指的是这些生物，”德克说。 “幸存者，”皮什说。 “像我们这样的。”“这是我见过的最可爱的东西，”琼说。 然后罗孚用大大的眼睛看着琼。 “除了你，可爱的裤子，”她很快补充道。 目前看来我们是安全的。 于是我单膝跪地，又给了罗孚一个大大的拥抱。 “我想你了，伙计，”我说。 “我对你的思念超过了我对任何事情的思念。”

I never had much to begin with. But then I moved to Wakefield and met Quint, and finally I understood what it meant to have a best friend. Then, after the world ended, I found Rover. And that was the start of this weird family of ours. My chest hitches. I run an arm across my eyes, and the sleeve comes away wet. "What happened after you and Skaelka got separated?" I finally manage to ask. Rover stiffens, at attention, then lets out a string of barks in quick succession. It's a very Lassie moment., What's that boy after skulker got carried away. You followed her. The guards came back and they got you

我一开始就没有多少钱。 但后来我搬到了韦克菲尔德，遇到了昆特，我终于明白了拥有一个最好的朋友意味着什么。 然后，在世界末日之后，我找到了罗孚。 这就是我们这个奇怪家庭的开始。 我的胸口一阵打颤。我用手捂住眼睛，袖子湿了。 “你和斯卡卡分开后发生了什么”我终于开口问了。 罗孚挺直了身子，立正，然后连续快速地发出一连串的吠叫。 这是一个非常少女的时刻。在skulker失去理智后那个男孩是什么？ 你跟踪了她。守卫回来抓了你

and carried you here. And he met these guys. "OK..." I say. "Think I got most of that. And you've been here ever since?" Rover woofs. "Hey, buddy," Dirk says, as Drooler waddles toward Rover. "Somebody wants to say hello." Rover licks Drooler toe to head, flipping the little guy up into the air. When Drooler lands, he meeps and licks Rover back. June kneels down. "Hey, Rover," she says quietly. "Have you seen a young Winged Wretch around with —with no wings?"

把你抱到这里。他遇到了这些人。 “好吧……”我说。“我想我得到了大部分。 从那以后你就一直在这儿？”罗孚纬线。 “嘿，伙计，”德克说，这时流口水摇摇摆摆地走向火星车。 “有人想跟你打个招呼。” 罗孚从头到脚地舔着流口水，把小家伙抛向空中。 当流口水着陆时，它会咯咯地笑，并回舔流口水。 琼跪了下来。“嘿，罗孚，”她平静地说。 “你见过一个长着翅膀的小坏蛋吗？他——他没有翅膀。”