Chapter 3

Chapter Three It's like the King Wretch looks through my eyeballs, beyond, and straight into my brain—like he's gazing deep into my soul. My vision clouds. Everything begins to go black. My body is loose. Wobbly. It's strange, but—I think I'm falling asleep. On my feet. Everything is becoming very— SCREECH! Squealing tires snap me out of my strange waking slumber. I manage to turn and see—

就好像那个坏蛋透过我的眼球，越过我的视线，直直地望进我的大脑——他在凝视我的灵魂深处。 我的视线模糊了。一切都开始变黑。 我的身体松了。不稳定。很奇怪，但我想我要睡着了。 站起来。一切都变得非常——尖叫！刺耳的轮胎声把我从奇怪的醒着的睡眠中惊醒。 我设法转过身去看——

Step away from the dork. The King Wretch glances at my friends and our BoomKart weaponry, then his head swings back to me. There's something in his chilling eyes and dripping fangs that resembles a sly smile. I see—I know—this monster has zero fear of me or my buds. But he leaves anyway. The King Wretch gives me a final look—a once-over—and then shoots into the sky with a burst of beating wings. His tail snaps the pavement as he rockets away, winging, curving, and slicing into the distance.

离码头远点。混蛋王看了看我的朋友和我们的布姆卡特武器，然后他的头转向了我。 在他冰冷的眼睛和滴水的尖牙里，有一种狡猾的微笑。 我知道，我知道，这个怪物一点也不怕我和我的朋友。 但他还是离开了。可怜的国王最后看了我一眼——看了一眼，然后猛地拍打着翅膀飞向天空。 它的尾巴啪的一声拍在人行道上，飞起来，弯曲着，划向远方。

The soda bubbles in my brain are fading away and my head is feeling halfway normal again. I drop to my buddy. "Rover, you okay?" Rover shakes his head like he's knocking the cobwebs loose, then gets to his feet. He looks okay, although there's an anger on his face that I've never seen—like he wouldn't mind seeing that King Wretch again. Like he wouldn't mind a bit of revenge. Suddenly, June gasps. She's frantically ripping open Rover's saddlebag. "The radio!" she exclaims. "It's busted up!" June's face has gone pale and she looks like she's about to vomit, but Quint and Dirk save the moment. "I promise to repair it, June," Quint says. "Like the geek said," Dirk adds, "we'll fix it. No question." June nods and breathes a shaky sigh of relief. "Okay...." I stare into the distance. I watch the King Wretch fading, getting small, and finally disappearing behind the crumbling Wakefield skyline.

我脑子里的苏打泡沫正在消失，我的脑袋又恢复了一半的正常。 我去找我的朋友。“罗孚，你没事吧？”罗孚摇了摇头，就像在敲开蜘蛛网一样，然后站了起来。 他看起来还好，虽然他脸上有一种我从未见过的愤怒——好像他不介意再见到那个混蛋国王。 好像他不介意复仇似的。 突然，琼倒吸了一口气。她疯狂地撕开罗孚的马鞍袋。 “收音机！”她叫道。 “它坏了！”琼的脸变得苍白，她看起来像是要呕吐，但昆特和德克挽救了这一刻。 “我保证会修好它，琼，”昆特说。 “就像那个极客说的，”德克补充道，“我们会解决的。 没有问题。”琼点点头，颤抖地松了一口气。 “好吧……”我凝视着远方。 我看着可怜的国王逐渐消失，变得越来越小，最后消失在摇摇欲坠的韦克菲尔德地平线后面。

With any luck, that's the last we'll be seeing of that beast. Dudes. I think that's enough adventuring and enough. almost dying for one day. Let's get back to the town square, huh? So things are different now. A lot different. And not just different since before the Monster Apocalypse. I mean different since the last time you saw us. In the past month, things have changed A TON.

幸运的话，这将是我们最后一次见到那头野兽。 帅哥。我觉得这已经够冒险了。 有一天我差点死了。我们回到镇广场去吧？ 所以现在情况不同了。 非常不同。而且不仅仅是怪物启示录之前的不同。 我是说和上次你见我们时不一样了。 在过去的一个月里，情况发生了很大的变化。

Here's a quick recap for those, like myself, with crummy memories. Six months ago, there was a Monster Apocalypse. Doors opened above the Earth, and suddenly monsters and beings from a different dimension were propelled into our world— along with the horrible zombie plague. It looked a bit like this... A bunch of these monsters took up residence at our local slice shop, Joe's Pizza. And they weren't evil—they were terrifying-at-first-but-totallyfriendly- in-the-end monsters.

这里为那些像我一样记性很差的人简要回顾一下。 六个月前，有个怪物启示录。 地球上空的门打开了，突然间，来自不同维度的怪物和生物被推进到我们的世界——伴随着可怕的僵尸瘟疫。 它看起来有点像这样…… 一群这样的怪物住在我们当地的披萨店，乔披萨店。 而且它们并不邪恶——它们一开始很可怕，但到最后却是非常友好的怪物。

However, one of the monsters was actually pure evil. His name was Thrull, and he worshipped the diabolical ultra-villain .e...c. the Ancient, Destructor of Worlds. Thrull was trying to bring .e...c. to Earth so that .e...c. could devour and destroy our planet. Me, my human buddies, and the Joe's Pizza monster crew teamed up to defeat Thrull and .e...c.. But .e...c. may try to return. See, he's

然而，其中一个怪物实际上是纯粹的邪恶。 他的名字叫Thrull，他崇拜邪恶的超级恶棍。 远古世界的毁灭者。 斯拉尔想把…… c.……可能吞噬并摧毁我们的星球。 我，我的人类伙伴们，还有Joe's Pizza的怪物团队联手打败了Thrull和…… 但生产…c。可能会尝试回来。 看,他