Chapter 6

chapter six We all deflate. Nothing? I look at Quint—expecting him to light up with a solution. But even he isn't capable of cobbling together a makeshift monster- fortress-destroying bomb. It's not like we can just scavenge a bunch of plutonium from an abandoned Home Depot. Not where we are anyway. Nevada, maybe... We stand there, contemplating solutions to this conundrum, when June says— "We'll figure it out! We always do!" And she's right. When have we ever let a little thing like lack of fusion stop us? It's just a bump in the road, a snag in the plan, a— "Blowing up a monster fortress sounds impossible," Dirk says. "But doing the impossible is sorta our area of expertise now." And with that, we begin the trek back to the Mallusk... Soon, the fortress is well behind us—but the Mallusk is still about a mile ahead. The sun's starting to go down. A lot of purply reds and reddy purples and stuff.

第六章我们都会泄气。 没有什么?我看着昆特，期待他能想出解决办法。 但即使是他也没有能力拼凑出一个临时的怪物堡垒摧毁炸弹。 我们又不可能从废弃的家得宝里捡到一堆钚。 反正不是我们现在所在的地方。内华达,也许…… 我们站在那里，思考解决这个难题的方法，这时琼说：“我们会想出办法的！”我们总是这样！”她是对的。 我们什么时候因为缺乏核聚变这样的小事就阻止过我们？ 这只是道路上的一个颠簸，计划中的一个障碍，“炸毁一个怪物堡垒听起来不可能，”德克说。 “但现在，做不可能的事是我们的专长。” 就这样，我们开始长途跋涉回到马卢斯克… 很快，堡垒就在我们后面了——但马洛斯克号仍在前方一英里左右。 太阳开始下山了。 很多紫红色和紫红色之类的。

I catch June looking at it with a secretive smile. I give her a nudge. "What are you grinning about?" I'm thinking how if we can pull this off, we're giant. Step closer to fixing this world. We blow up that fortress. We destroy the tower schematics and we can win. You get that right. "We're still gonna have to fight Thrull," Dirk points out. "Even if he fails to bring rezzoch here, he's still got a giant skeleton army." And that's true. But what's one more massive fight against an other-dimensional terror? We've thwarted

我发现琼带着神秘的微笑看着它。 我推了她一下。“你在笑什么？”我在想如果我们能成功，我们就是巨人。 离修复这个世界更近一步。 我们炸了那座堡垒。我们毁了塔的结构图就能赢。 你说对了。德克指出：“我们仍然需要与Thrull战斗。” “即使他没能把雷佐克带到这里，他仍然有一支庞大的骷髅军。” 这是真的。但与另一个维度的恐怖分子进行更大规模的战斗是什么？ 我们挫败了

him before. We took down Blarg. And the King Wretch. There's been SO much thwarting! "The world will be far from perfect," Quint points out. "We can't unzombify the zombies." "Or get back the ones eaten by the Tree of Entry," I add. "Or devoured by Dozers or any of the other monsters." "It's not a magic fix, but it's something," June says. It doesn't matter what we throw at her, she won't let it rain on her parade. "But if—no, WHEN—we do, it will be some sort of real world again! We'll figure out where our parents are—and we'll get them back. Heck, we'll get other people back." "Not sure I consider that a plus," Dirk mumbles. We're all smiling when we crest a ridge and finally reach our new home base: the still-healing Mallusk, sheltered beneath a half-crumbled highway overpass, munching on a landfill. Stretching out in front of her is our makeshift camp. We hurry down the hill, June and I excitedly pointing out everything that's been set up over the past few weeks—

他之前。我们拿下了布拉格。 还有可怜虫国王。有太多的挫折了！“世界远非完美，”昆特指出。 “我们不能让僵尸复活。” “或者把那些被入口之树吃掉的拿回来，”我补充说。 “或者被推土机或者其他怪物吃掉。” “这不是一个神奇的解决方案，但它是一些东西，”June说。 不管我们怎么骂她，她都不会扫兴的。 “但是如果——不，当我们这样做的时候，那将是某种真实的世界！”我们会找到我们的父母在哪里，然后把他们找回来。 见鬼，我们会让其他人回来的。” “我不确定我认为这是一个加分项，”德克喃喃地说。 当我们登上山脊，最终到达我们的新基地时，我们都面带微笑：仍在愈合中的马卢斯克岛，掩蔽在半碎的高速公路立交桥下，啃着垃圾填埋场。 在她面前展开的是我们的临时营地。 我们匆匆下山，琼和我兴奋地指着过去几周布置好的一切

Medical tents, dinner, tent tent for storing sparetents. Many sized porta potties for many sized monsters. Memorial Howler assault, atrium of special memories and relaxation. Smud's Monster Warrior Training ring. Dirk spots Smud. The goofy brute—formerly Ghazt's henchmonster—is busy training the citizens of Mallusk City in combat, getting them ready for the fight to come when we reach the Tower. "Hard to get used to bad guy monsters turned good-ish guy monsters," Dirk says. I nod—it's true. But it happens a lot during the monster-zombie apocalypse, and it's confusing. Especially because, in the beginning, the opposite happened. Thrull, the WORST villain of them all, pretended to be our friend. Then he betrayed us. And killed my friend Bardle...

医疗帐篷，晚餐帐篷，帐篷存放父母帐篷的帐篷。 许多大小的移动厕所为许多大小的怪物。 纪念咆哮袭击，中庭的特殊记忆和放松。 斯慕德的怪物战士训练戒指。 德克发现了斯穆德。这个愚蠢的野兽——以前是加斯特的爪牙怪物——正忙着训练马勒斯克城的市民们战斗，让他们为我们到达高塔时即将到来的战斗做好准备。 德克说：“很难习惯坏人变成好人。 我点点头——这是真的。但这种情况在怪物僵尸启示录中经常发生，令人困惑。 尤其是因为，一开始，情况正好相反。 Thrull，他们中最坏的恶棍，假装是我们的朋友。 然后他背叛了我们。杀了我的朋友巴德尔……

"QUINT!" a friendly voice exclaims. I turn to see Quint reuniting with our favorite conjurer, Yursl. I hurry to join the conversation. Gotta keep up with all the goings-on. They're discussing that Drakkor thing again. You did what? No, an intentional teleportation. I sent the drag or to the needle Buzz Factory far enough to keep it away, but strategically located to keep it there makes sense. Good choice. Exactly what I would've done. Yursl eyes me questioningly, but I just keep on nodding like I know all about the Drakkor. But so far, I only know enough to know that I feel like I missed out on something epic. Yursl's face scrunches up—can't tell if she's happy, infuriated, or possibly just experiencing mild indigestion. Finally, her face settles on something like... grandmotherly pride.

“昆特！”一个友好的声音喊道。 我转身看到昆特和我们最喜欢的魔术师尤尔斯尔重聚。 我赶紧加入谈话。 我得跟得上所有发生的事。 他们又在讨论德拉科的事了。 你做了什么？不，是故意传送。 我把拖拽器送到了巴斯针工厂，距离足够远，但把它放在那里的战略位置是有道理的。 不错的选择。我也会这么做的。 尤尔苏疑惑地看着我，但我只是不停地点头，好像我知道德拉科的一切。 但到目前为止，我只知道我觉得我错过了一些史诗般的东西。 你的脸皱了起来——不知道她是高兴，生气，还是只是轻微的消化不良。 最后，她的脸变成了…… 慈祥的骄傲。

"I gave you the conjuring guidebook because it was essential that you learned conjuring on your own," Yursl says. "And it seems you have, toots!" "Indeed!" Quint says, lifting his cannon, showing it off. "I've got a mean Kinetic Volley now." I agree. "And he can turn Splotchers into trading cards!" Quint elbows me sharply. "Ixnay on the ardscay." Yursl frowns. "I can't think of a conjuration that should cause—" "No, no, that was just a, uh... Jack's blood sugar level was low, and he was seeing stuff—" Quint says quickly, trying to shuffle us away. I hear Yursl murmur, "What an odd pair," as we hurry off.— Back at Hey, Sport—our former campaign headquarters and general living, sleeping, and hanging-out spot—we have big plans for a movie marathon. My Zombie Squad greets us with trays of popcorn and candy. A single box of Raisinets—Dirk's favorite —is set off to the side so it won't contaminate the other candy with its lousiness. But as soon as we spot our makeshift beds, the plan changes.

“我给你这本变魔术指南是因为你必须自己学会变魔术，”尤尔斯说。 “看来你是这样做的，图茨！”“的确!”昆特说，举起他的大炮，炫耀一下。 “我现在有了一个很棒的Kinetic Volley。” 我同意。“他还能把散点牌变成交易卡！”昆特使劲用肘撞我。 “我在院子里。”Yursl皱眉。 “不，不，那只是一个……嗯……” 杰克的血糖水平很低，他看到了一些东西——”昆特赶紧说，试图把我们推开。 当我们匆匆离去时，我听到尤尔斯小声说：“好奇怪的一对。”回到Hey， sport——我们以前的竞选总部和一般的生活、睡觉和闲逛的地方——我们有一个电影马拉松的大计划。 我的僵尸小队用一盘盘爆米花和糖果迎接我们。 一盒葡萄干糖——德克最喜欢的——被放在一边，这样它就不会污染其他糖果。 但一旦我们找到临时床铺，计划就改变了。