Chapter 28

chapter twenty-eight "Double distraction, still happenin'!" Cannonhead Johnson barks as the Goon Platoon, along with the entire creature-brigade, charges into the theater! And in a flash, they're scooping us up for a getaway. What took you so long? Dave couldn't find his keys. They were on my key chain the whole time. "Think it's time to go, Rover," I say, hopping up onto his back. Everything is quaking, breaking, toppling—and then being yanked toward the sky. Theater benches

第二十八章“双重分心，还在发生！”当打手排和整个生物大队一起冲进剧院时，炮手约翰逊叫了起来！转眼间，他们就把我们捞起来逃跑了。 你怎么花了这么长时间？戴夫找不到钥匙了。 它们一直在我的钥匙链上。 “罗孚，我想该走了。”我说着，跳上了他的背。 一切都在颤抖、破碎、倒塌——然后被猛拽向天空。 剧院长椅

are torn loose. Operating equipment flashes as it spins and sails skyward. "That way!" Quint shouts as an entire wall is torn in two like it's nothing but a cardboard diorama. But the Mega-Sentinel blocks the way... One of its long legs is still ensnared, preventing it —for the moment—from being sucked into the portal. Its body glows with rage, like little supernovas of anger are exploding inside it. Light flashes over us, its cannons bobbing and jerking as the Mega-Sentinel struggles to resist the pull of the portal. The triple-cannon bulges like it's about to cough up something—and I'm guessing that whatever it hocks up is gonna be served with a side of smoldering death. But still, we speed toward it. I wince, about to shut my eyes. "Whatsa matter?" Cannonhead Johnson asks. "You guys couldn't handle that thing? Well..."

都被扯散了。当它旋转并向天空航行时，操作设备闪烁。 “这样!”昆特喊道，整面墙被撕成两半，就像一个纸板立体模型。 但是超级哨兵挡住了去路… 它的一条长腿仍然被困住，暂时防止它被吸进传送门。 它的身体因愤怒而发光，就像愤怒的小超新星在它体内爆炸。 灯光在我们头顶闪烁，巨型哨兵奋力抵抗传送门的拉力，大炮上下晃动。 三门加农炮鼓了起来，好像要咳出什么东西似的——我猜不管它咳出什么东西，都要和闷烧的死亡一起上菜。 但是，我们仍然朝着它快速前进。 我畏缩了一下，想闭上眼睛。 “Whatsa事?”大炮头约翰逊问道。 “你们搞不定那玩意儿？” 好了……”

BOOM! thanks for leaving me. Your Leftovers.

繁荣!谢谢你离开我。 你的剩饭剩菜。

Ooze-soaked chunks splatter the floor as we speed beneath the smoking Mega-Sentinel, toward the Operating Theater's gaping exit. "Just so you don't misunderstand—I don't like leftovers when it's food," Cannonhead says. "Just when it's stuff that needs exploding." As we speed through the exit, I throw one final glance back at Ghazt. His body lies still. What did you do to me, Ghazt? "HEADS UP!" Dirk shouts. "Everything's comin' apart at the seams!" Dirk's voice snaps me back to our speeding escape. Ahead of us, the fortress is opening up, wide, as entire chunks of other-dimensional drywall are pulled up into the portal. We race through the rapidly disintegrating fortress. Some walls close around us, others open. The path beneath our feet is crumbling—but Rover's paws somehow manage to find solid ground. Even if that ground doesn't stay solid for long. The only thing keeping us all from being plucked upward is our steady, speedy movement forward. "Oh yay, back in that weirdo hall of statues," I say as we burst into the chamber we passed through during our Mind Cart ride. The creature-brigade leaps from horrible statue to horrible statue, crossing the ghastly room.

当我们从冒着烟的“超级哨兵”下快速驶往手术室大开的出口时，渗出的大块东西溅到了地板上。 “这样你就不会误解了——我不喜欢剩饭剩菜当食物，”坎农黑德说。 “就在需要爆炸的时候。” 当我们快速穿过出口时，我最后瞥了加斯特一眼。 他的身体静静地躺着。你对我做了什么，加斯特？ “小心!”德克喊道。“一切都要分崩离析了！”德克的声音把我拉回了我们超速逃跑的情景。 在我们前方，堡垒打开了，宽，整块的其他维度的石膏板被拉进了入口。 我们快速穿过迅速瓦解的堡垒。 有些墙在我们周围关闭，有些则打开。 我们脚下的路摇摇欲坠，但罗孚的爪子不知怎么地找到了坚实的地面。 即使这片土地不会长久稳固。 唯一能让我们不被往上拉的是我们稳定、快速的前进。 “哦，太好了，回到那个古怪的雕像大厅里。”我们冲进了乘坐心灵马车时经过的房间，我说。 生物大队从一个可怕的雕像跳到另一个可怕的雕像，穿过可怕的房间。

I see the same statue I noticed before—the one that reminded me of myself—with the awful tendril arms reaching up. With an ear-shattering CRACK, the statue's arms snap off—shooting up and smashing into the fleshy ceiling. Then the entire ceiling explodes, suctioned up by the portal's centripetal pull. I look away... We burst out into some new, awful chamber, and gravity flips—we're suddenly flung sky-high. I crane my neck down so that I can look up and see the prison tower we descended. It has broken in two— leaving one long section of it wedged between two jutting, unmoving crags of fortress. The creatures slam into it, feetfirst, and we're suddenly speeding across it—upside down. The Directarium flashes in front of my face as it ricochets off the prison. See ya later, evil directory. We already got what we need out of you. I think...

我看到了我之前注意到的那座雕像——那座让我想起了我自己的雕像——那可怕的卷须般的手臂向上伸出。 随着一声震耳欲聋的爆裂声，雕像的手臂突然断了下来，向上冲进了肉质的天花板。 然后整个天花板爆炸，被传送门的向心拉力吸起来。 我把目光移开……我们冲进了一个新的可怕的房间，重力翻转——我们突然被抛到天上去了。 我垂下脖子，以便抬头能看到我们下到的监狱塔。 它已经断成两半，留下一长段楔在两座突出的、不动的堡垒峭壁之间。 生物们脚朝前猛扑过去，而我们突然间就朝前冲了过去。 指挥台从监狱里弹跳而出，在我面前一闪而过。 再见，邪恶的目录。 我们已经从你那里得到了我们想要的。 我认为……

the map is changing moment to moment. All exits appear to be hundreds of feet off the ground. We need to find a way out now. Last, if only we hadn't lost the human hamster ball quick. Does anyone have eyes on a laundry cart At that very moment—

地图每时每刻都在变化。 所有出口似乎都离地面几百英尺。 我们现在得想办法出去。 最后，要是我们没那么快把仓鼠球丢了就好了。 有人看到洗衣车了吗就在那个时候