Chapter 1

The last kids on earth and the Monster Dimension by Max Brower. Read by Robbie Damon.

马克斯·布劳尔的《地球上最后的孩子》和《怪物次元》。 作者：罗比·达蒙

chapter one Next up, the tower. Full speed ahead. Stop for nothing. "You don't have to keep saying that, Jack," Dirk groans. "We've been doing 'full speed ahead, stopping for nothing' for weeks." "Yeah, who you talking to, duder?" June says, giving me a little elbow jab. I shrug. "I'm doing, like, a pirate-captain bit. Why, ya don't like the bit?" "Not even a bit," June says, smirking. "And what would we possibly stop for?"

第一章下一个，塔。 全速前进。不要停下来。 “你不用一直这么说，杰克。”德克呻吟道。 “几个星期以来，我们一直在‘全速前进，不停车’。” “是啊，老兄，你在跟谁说话？”琼说着，轻轻戳了戳我的胳膊肘。 我耸耸肩。“我在演海盗船长的角色。 怎么，你不喜欢这个位置？”“一点也没有，”琼笑着说。 “我们为什么要停下来呢？”

"I dunno," I say. "Like if someone needed a bathroom break." "We're riding on top of a mall containing forty-two bathrooms," Quint points out, very reasonably. "I don't foresee bathroom breaks being necessary." "Exactly," June says. "We don't need to stop for anything! There is literally nothing in the entire world that would cause us to—" We're hurled into our makeshift captain's wheel as the Mallusk screeches to a halt. Imagine a dog sprinting full speed, then suddenly, and with great surprise, reaching the end of its leash. Except in our case, the "dog" is a thirty-nine-ton monster carrying the world's largest shopping mall on its back. It takes us a moment to gather our senses. "What happened?" June groans, rubbing at her head. "Squirrel in the road?" I suggest.

“我不知道，”我说。“比如有人需要上厕所。” 昆特非常合理地指出：“我们正骑在一个有42间浴室的购物中心上面。” “我不认为有必要上厕所。” “没错，”琼说。“我们不需要停下来做任何事情！”世界上没有什么能让我们——”我们被扔进了临时的船长轮里，马洛斯克号嘎然而止。 想象一下，一只狗全速奔跑，然后突然，非常惊讶地到达了皮带的末端。 除了在我们的例子中，“狗”是一个三十九吨重的怪物，背上驮着世界上最大的购物中心。 我们花了一点时间来恢复理智。 “发生什么事了?”琼呻吟着，揉着她的头。 “路上有松鼠？”我建议。

We slowly get to our feet. A tremendous thicket of trees lies ahead of us. Through them, in the far-off distance, we see the reason for the Mallusk's abrupt halt. An incomprehensibly massive army blocks our path forward. An army of skeleton soldiers and evil monsters, called by their master, Thrull. Summoned to the same place we're going: the Tower. THRULL'S ARMY! Sorry, hold up, pause. We need to play a little game of catch-up. I gotta fill you in on the big important stuff. First off, the Tower. It's bad news. Once it's complete, it will bring rezzoch the Ancient, Destructor

我们慢慢地站起来。 我们前面有一片茂密的树林。 通过它们，在遥远的地方，我们看到了马洛斯克号突然停下来的原因。 一支庞大得不可思议的军队挡住了我们前进的道路。 一支由骷髅士兵和邪恶怪物组成的军队，由他们的主人Thrull召唤。 被召唤到我们要去的地方，伦敦塔。 THRULL的军队!抱歉，稍等，稍等。 我们得玩个追追的小游戏。 我得告诉你一些重要的事。 首先是伦敦塔。这是个坏消息。 一旦完成，它会带来古毁灭者雷佐赫

of Worlds, into our dimension. And rezzoch will do the thing he does so well it's actually part of his name: DESTRUCT THE WORLD. Which basically means devour every living thing on our planet. He's got a big appetite, apparently. The Tower is Thrull's big project. It was nearly complete, but then he hit a snag. Thrull was missing a crucial piece of information—information that could be gleaned only from the Tower Schematics. And the schematics weren't, like, scribbled on a scrap of paper. They were inside the brain of the monster Ghazt. So, Thrull snatched Ghazt and brought him to a sentient fortress. Ruling over the fortress was the mad doctor Wracksaw, aided by his loyal Dire Nurses: Debra and Eye-Bulb.

进入我们的次元。 雷佐克会做他擅长的事情，这实际上是他名字的一部分：毁灭世界。 也就是说吞噬地球上的所有生物。 很明显，他胃口很大。 塔是Thrull的大项目。 就快完成了，但他遇到了一个障碍。 Thrull遗漏了一条关键的信息——这条信息只能从塔图中收集到。 图纸也不是草草写在一张小纸片上的。 他们在怪物Ghazt的大脑里。 于是，瑟鲁抓住了加斯特，把他带到一个有感情的堡垒。 疯狂的医生Wracksaw在他忠诚的可怕护士Debra和Eye-Bulb的帮助下统治着堡垒。

Dire nurses are the worst. Thrull ordered Wracksaw to open up Ghazt's brain and retrieve the schematics. My friends and I saw our chance! We'd sneak into the fortress and blow the whole thing up, Death Star– style. Then Thrull would never be able to complete the Tower, and rezzoch would never be able to come here. Genius! Inside the fortress, we made some new friends: the Goon Platoon, a trio of monsters who had undergone cruel experiments and modifications at the hands (tentacles?) of Wracksaw.

可怕的护士是最糟糕的。 瑟鲁命令莱克锯打开加斯特的大脑，取出结构图。 我和我的朋友们看到了机会！我们偷偷溜进堡垒，像死星一样把它炸了。 那么Thrull就永远无法完成塔，rezzoch也永远无法来到这里。 天才!在堡垒中，我们结交了一些新朋友：Goon Platoon，这是一个由三个怪物组成的团队，他们经历了Wracksaw的残酷实验和修改。