Chapter 10

Chapter Ten I sit up, startled, not feeling right. I feel movement. Like I'm on a waterbed, I think. Of course I've never been on a waterbed because waterbeds are for cool dudes. "Dirk?" I groan, groggy. "Is that you moving around? I'm trying to sleep." Dirk's only response is a nasty, phlegmy snore- snort.

第十章我坐起来，吓了一跳，感觉不对劲。 我感觉到了运动。就像我在水床上一样。 当然，我从来没有在水床上睡过，因为水床是给很酷的人睡的。 “德克?”我呻吟着，昏昏沉沉。“是你在走动吗？” 我想睡觉。”德克的唯一反应是一声痰浊的、令人讨厌的鼾声。

And then I smell something like gym socks slathered with buffalo wing sauce. "Dirk!" I bark, sitting up. "Did you let one rip in your sleep?" I'm about to give him major grief—or maybe compliment him on the stunningly powerful odor he emitted—when I realize it's a different smell. Not like anything I've smelled before. It's not evil. But it is monstrous... My stomach rolls and my wheelbarrow bed shifts and squeaks. I'm suddenly feeling not so great about our situation. I crawl out of my sleeping bag and start down the scrap mountain. But then— SNAP! My foot punches through a splintered piece of wood. I pull my sneaker back, but it's sort of stuck, like I stepped on a pile of Elmer's glue or something. Finally freeing it, I push the scrap aside and peer through the hole. Something is glowing: a yellow- orange color.

然后我闻到一股运动袜上涂满了水牛翅酱的味道。 “德克!”我叫着，坐起来。 “你是不是在睡觉的时候让它撕裂了？”当我意识到这是一种不同的气味时，我正准备给他一个巨大的悲伤——或者赞美他散发出的令人震惊的强烈气味。 跟我以前闻过的都不一样。 这并不邪恶。但这是可怕的…… 我的肚子翻滚着，我的手推车床摇晃着，吱吱作响。 我突然觉得我们的情况不太好。 我从睡袋里爬出来，开始沿着废料山往下走。 但是——啪！我的脚踩穿了一块碎木头。 我把我的运动鞋拉回来，但它有点粘住了，就像我踩到了一堆埃尔默胶之类的东西。 终于把它解开了，我把碎片推到一边，从洞里往外看。 有东西在发光：一种橙黄色。

I press my eye closer, and then— TENTACLE BURST. I topple back. Then I'm suddenly sliding down a scrap avalanche! I tumble into Quint, saying, "Wake up, wake up, wake up." "Huh?" Quint says. "WAKE. UP," I say, wanting to shout but trying to whisper. "This isn't just a pile of junk we're on."

我把眼睛压得更紧，然后——触手破裂了。 我倒了回去。然后我突然滑下了一个碎片雪崩！我撞到昆特，喊着“醒醒，醒醒，醒醒” “嗯?”五度音说。”之后。我说，想大声喊叫，但又想耳语。 “我们所处的不只是一堆垃圾。”

"What's happening?" June asks, all dazed. "I was having the best dream. I had a phone again and I was texting... Emoji heaven..." Dirk's already up. He's realizing what I'm realizing. He stuffs the scraps he gathered for Bardle into his sleeping bag. June grabs her new flagpole spear. I'm about to shout, "NO!" but it's too late. She's pushing the spear down into the junk, using it to get to her feet. I hear a SPURT as the sharp tip hits whatever is beneath us and— GRAWWRRRRR!

“发生了什么?”琼问道，一脸茫然。 “我做了一个最美好的梦。 我又有了手机，我在发短信…… Emoji天堂……”德克已经起来了。 他意识到了我意识到的。 他把为巴德尔收集的残片塞进睡袋。 琼拿起她的新旗杆矛。 我正要喊：“不！”但是已经太迟了。 她把矛推到舢板上，用它来爬到她的脚上。 我听到一声喷射，尖尖的尖头击中了我们下面的东西，然后——呜——呜——呜！

Guys. This isn't just a scrap heap. it's something else. Something we didn't invite to our Sleepover. "Like an annoying little sister?" Quint asks. I swear, this kid—it takes him longer than anyone to get his head together when he wakes up. The junk rocks, everything beneath our feet sliding and quaking and shifting. "No, Quint, not like an annoying little sister! Like..."

人。这不仅仅是一个废料堆。 是别的东西。我们没有邀请他来过夜。 “像个讨厌的小妹妹？”五度音问道。 我发誓，这孩子醒来后比任何人都要花更长的时间才能清醒过来。 垃圾岩石，我们脚下的一切都在滑动，震动和移动。 “不，昆特，不像一个讨厌的小妹妹！”像……”

A MONSTER. The scrap mountain EXPLODES from the inside out, and we're flung to the hard dirt ground. We scramble across the lot, diving for cover behind a heaping pile of tires. "What is that thing?" June says, gasping. "It's big," Dirk says. "That's what it is." I pull the Louisville Slicer from its sheath. Staying low, I wriggle on my belly toward Quint. Together, we peek around the tire mound—and we gasp in horror... "It's like the Kraken," Quint whispers. "The Kraken is a water monster," I say. "Come on—how many times did we watch Pirates of the Caribbean together?" "Perhaps it's an aboveground Kraken," Quint suggests.

一个怪物。废山从内到外爆炸，我们被扔到坚硬的泥土地上。 我们匆忙穿过停车场，躲在一堆轮胎后面。 “那是什么东西？”琼喘着气说。 “它很大，”德克说。“就是这样。” 我把路易斯维尔切片机从鞘里拔了出来。 我保持着低低的姿态，匍匐着向昆特走去。 我们一起朝轮胎堆周围瞥了一眼——我们惊恐地倒吸了一口气…… “就像海怪，”昆特低声说。 “海怪是一种水怪，”我说。 “得了吧，我们一起看了多少次《加勒比海盗》？”“也许它是地上的海怪，”昆特说。