Chapter 18

Chapter Eighteen Ruination Alorezak. When we reach the Town Square, it's chaos. The battle unfolds in the streets, on the rooftops, on the ground, and in the air. The Winged Wretches attack while the King Wretch circles high above, watching his minions. If this was, like, Star Trek, the King Wretch would be like the mother ship and these Winged

第十八章毁灭阿洛雷扎克 当我们到达城市广场时，那里一片混乱。 战斗在街道上、屋顶上、地面上和空中展开。 有翼的可怜虫发起攻击，而可怜虫王在空中盘旋，看着他的仆从。 如果这是像《星际迷航》那样的电影，那可怜虫王就像是母船和这些有翼的人

Wretches would be his sentinels of badness. Bardle greets us with sword in hand. "Jack!" he growls. "I smell evil on these beasts." I nod. "The King Wretch is a servant of .e...c.. These are his soldiers." ".e...c..." Bardle snarls. "Then we must—" Before he can finish his sentence, a flash of movement cuts through the darkness. And then Bardle is gone! Plucked from the ground by a Winged Wretch! "Bardle!" Quint cries out. The Winged Wretch circles, its talons snap open, and Bardle is dropped onto the Town Green. The ground shakes. I watch the Ridionculous Radical Triumph Trophy topple from its place atop the statue and crash to the grass beside him. The trophy. The games. I wonder... And as I wonder, another Winged Wretch scoops up the monster Gwif and hurls her into Joe's Pizza. The building nearly crumbles. I've seen this before, in the vision. This is how it begins. And I know how it ends, too. With everyone

可怜虫将是他的邪恶哨兵。 巴德尔手里拿着剑迎接我们。 “杰克！”他咆哮道。“我在这些野兽身上闻到了邪恶的味道。” 我点头。“可怜虫国王是他的仆人…… 这些都是他的士兵。”“c即……” Bardle堵塞。“那么我们必须——”他话还没说完，黑暗中突然闪过一道闪光。 然后巴德尔就不见了！被长着翅膀的混蛋从地上拔了出来！“Bardle !”昆特喊道。 长着翅膀的可怜虫盘旋着，它的爪子啪地一声张开，巴德尔被扔到了镇绿地上。 大地震动了。我看着可笑的激进凯旋奖杯从雕像顶上掉下来，摔在他旁边的草地上。 奖杯。的游戏。我想知道…… 就在我好奇的时候，另一个长着翅膀的坏蛋抓起了怪物Gwif，把她扔进了Joe's Pizza。 那座建筑几乎要倒塌了。 我以前在异象里见过。 故事是这样开始的。我也知道结局。 和每个人

inside Joe's Pizza: destroyed. Everything we've built replaced by devastation. I cannot let it come true. What if there was another way? Not the first vision, where I do what .e...c. tells me and I'm rewarded with kingly respect and a kick-butt throne. But not the second vision, either, where I disobey and my punishment destroys everyone I care about. What if I could come up with my own vision for the future, something the King Wretch never showed me? Maybe the solution is in the trophy and what it represents. Monsters and humans, being awesome, side by side....

乔披萨店内部：被毁。 我们建造的一切都被毁灭所取代。 我不能让它成真。 如果有别的办法呢？ 不是第一个幻象，我做什么… 告诉我，我得到了国王的尊敬和王座。 但也不是第二个异象，我不服从，我的惩罚摧毁了我关心的每一个人。 如果我能构想出我自己对未来的设想，那将会怎样？ 也许解决办法就在奖杯和它所代表的东西中。 怪物和人类，很棒，并肩....

Everyone Fight like these are The MONSTERS VERSUS HUMANS. ALMIGHTY ULTRA-IMPORTANT TOURNAMENT GAMES Play to win together Amid the chaos and combat, I catch the eyes of a few monsters. Are they really about to take orders from a nasally voiced little kid with a Little League bat? Skaelka raises her ax high and roars. "You heard the boy! Do as he says! We shall decapitate this big beast!" Bardle is rising, using his sword to stand. "Jack and his friends stopped .e...c. once before!" he shouts. "Together, we will do it again!" I take a deep breath, look to the sky, and holler, "TOURNAMENT GAME: DODGEBALL!"

每个人都像这样的战斗是怪物对人类。 在混乱和战斗中，我抓住了几个怪物的眼睛。 他们真的要听命于一个拿着棒球棒，说话带鼻音的小孩吗？ 斯卡卡高高举起斧头，咆哮着。 “你听到那孩子的话了！”照他说的做！我们要斩了这头大野兽的头！”巴德尔站起来，用他的剑站立着。 杰克和他的朋友们停了下来。 以前有一次！”“我们一起再来一次！”我深吸一口气，望向天空，喊道：“比赛游戏：躲避球！”

At once, everything that isn't tied down is thrown up. Splintered park benches hurled at the winged beasts. Lamp posts fly like javelins! I watch a trash barrel explode against the side of a Winged Wretch. The monsters howl in pain. "TOURNAMENT GAME: KICKBALL!" I bark. The park's water fountain is drop-kicked into the face of a diving Winged Wretch. It explodes in a blast of stone and piping. I whirl around as I hear a voice call out, "I prefer chopping!" It's Skaelka—she's leaping from the roof of Simard's Roast Beef and chopping at a Winged Wretch. She lands atop the beast, grips the monster's hide, and brings her ax crashing down in a heavy chop. The Winged Wretch howls, corkscrews through the air, then plummets into the street in an eruption of pavement. Skaelka hops off, grinning. "Not decapitated!" she barks. "But a start!" "TOURNAMENT GAME: HUMAN TOSSING!" one monster yells.

所有没有被绑住的东西都被抛了出去。 劈开的公园长椅砸向这些带翅膀的野兽。 灯柱像标枪一样飞！我看着一个垃圾桶撞在一个长翅膀的可怜虫边上爆炸。 怪物痛苦地嚎叫。 “比赛项目：踢球！”我叫。 公园的喷泉被一只潜水的有翼的可怜虫踢到了脸上。 它在石头和管道的爆炸中爆炸了。 我转过身来，听到一个声音喊道：“我更喜欢劈！”是斯卡卡，她正从西玛德烤牛肉店的屋顶上跳下来，砍着一只长翅膀的坏蛋。 她落在野兽身上，抓住怪物的皮，把她的斧头重重地砍了下来。 长着翅膀的可怜虫嚎叫着，在空中盘旋，然后在人行道上突然爆发，一头栽进了街道。 Skaelka笑着跳了下来。 “没砍头！”她吼道。 “可是一开始！”“比赛游戏：人类投掷！”一个怪物喊道。

Wait up. Hold on. Did that monster just say, "Human tossing"? Huh? No. NO! "I meant the other games!" I cry out. "Not human tossing! No tossing of humans!" But it's too late. Biggun has scooped up Quint. My buddy is a bony little human missile about to be fired into the sky. I cry out, "DON'T!" and manage to throw myself onto Biggun's arm just as he hurls Quint. Quint flips through the air and flops onto the Town Green. "Sorry, Biggun!" I squeak out. "Quint's not made for tossing! He's delicate!" As I hurry to Quint, I spot a metallic glimmer: the Ridonculous Radical Triumph Trophy. The shiny glint of the razor-sharp tip gives me an idea... "Dirk!" I shout. "The trophy! Muscles, please!" In an instant, Dirk is there, lifting it. Skaelka appears, helping to hoist the trophy high. "To the tree house!" I shout. "If we can knock the King Wretch out of commission, then his army of Winged Wretches will leave us alone! Maybe? Hopefully? I mean—that's how video game boss fights work!"

等待了。等一等。那个怪物刚刚说“人类扔东西”吗？ 嗯?否。不!“我是说其他比赛！”我喊道。 “不是人扔东西！”不准扔人！”但是已经太迟了。 Biggun把Quint挖出来了。 我的兄弟是一个瘦骨嶙峋的人体导弹，即将被发射到天空中。 我喊道：“不要！”并设法扑到大枪的手臂上，就在他把昆特扔出去的时候。 昆特在空中翻了个跟斗，落到了城镇绿地上。 “对不起,Biggun !”我尖叫着说。 “昆特不是用来扔东西的！”他脆弱的!”当我匆匆赶往昆特时，我看到了金属的微光：滑稽激进的胜利奖杯。 剃刀尖的闪光给了我一个想法。 “德克!”我喊。“奖杯!肌肉,拜托!”一瞬间，德克就在那里，举起了它。 斯卡卡出现了，帮着把奖杯高高举起。 “去树屋！”我喊。 “如果我们能把那个可怜的国王打倒，那么他那群长着翅膀的可怜的军队就会放过我们！”也许? 希望吗?我的意思是，这就是电子游戏的boss战斗原理！”