Chapter 16

Chapter Sixteen I'm frozen for a moment. Then I'm unstuck, running up to the tree house ice ball cannon launcher. I need to fight back. I need to stop her! But it's too late. Evie and Meathook are gone, disappeared into the snow. Back downstairs. Moving quick. My hands slam the table. My voice jumps and spikes and it doesn't even sound like me. "Bardle, how do we fix Dirk? Just tell me." Bardle's face is blank. He doesn't know. I can see it. "There's nothing I can do. There's too little time."

我僵住了一会儿。 然后我挣脱了束缚，跑向树屋的冰球大炮发射器。 我需要反击。我要阻止她！但是已经太迟了。 伊薇和米索克不见了，消失在雪地里。 回到楼下。快速移动。 我的手猛拍着桌子。我的声音起伏不定，听起来根本不像我。 “巴德尔，我们怎样才能治好德克？” 告诉我吧。”巴德尔一脸茫然。 他不知道。我能看到。 “我什么也做不了。 时间太少了。”

I'm sorry, Bartle, but that answer won't work. Our friend is going to be a zombie. Also, he's going to be used in an ancient ritual to open a portal and bring cosmic evil to Earth. But mostly the zombie thing. We need to stop Dirk from turning Zombie! Bardle brushes past me to the chalkboard I tookfrom the elementary school months earlier. Ourmap of Wakefield is taped there. Bardle points a long, thin finger at the map. June leans forward. "The Christmas tree farm?" she asks. "Huh? I don't even know what that is," I say.

我很抱歉，巴特尔，但这个答案行不通。 我们的朋友要变成僵尸了。 而且，他将在一个古老的仪式中被用来打开一个传送门，把宇宙邪恶带到地球上。 但主要是僵尸的事。 我们得阻止德克变成僵尸！巴德尔从我身边走过，走到我几个月前从小学拿的黑板前。 我们的维克菲尔德地图就在那里。 巴德尔用细长的手指指着地图。 琼向前倾身。“圣诞树农场？”她问。 “嗯?我甚至不知道那是什么，”我说。

"It's where people could go and chop down their own Christmas trees. Before the Monster Apocalypse," Quint says. "Before you could simply grab whatever tree you liked, as we did." "There's a creature there who perhaps could help," Bardle says. "A monster named Warg." "Warg..." I repeat. I'm thinking back to our ice fishing failure. "Wait, Skaelka mentioned a Warg! Oh, man, we don't have to, like, slay this creature, do we? Like, because Warg's green monster blood cures zombieness or something?" For a second, I think Bardle is going to laugh. But this isn't any sort of moment for laughing. "Slay her?" Bardle asks. "Oh, no, you will not slay her—I promise you that. You could not if you tried." "Skaelka said Warg was 'One not in the community,'" June comments. "'One that does not matter.'" "Did you guys kick her out?" I ask Bardle. Bardle scoffs. "She exiled herself. She has no interest in contributing to our community. For that

“人们可以去那里砍自己的圣诞树。 在怪物启示录之前，”昆特说。 “在那之前，你可以像我们一样随便抓一棵树。” “那里有一种生物也许能帮上忙，”巴德尔说。 “一个叫瓦格的怪物。”“Warg……” 我再说一遍。我回想起我们在冰上钓鱼失败的事。 “等等，斯卡卡提到了狼人！”天啊，我们没必要杀了这个怪物，对吧？ 比如，因为瓦格的绿色怪物血能治愈僵尸什么的？”有那么一会儿，我觉得巴德尔会笑的。 但现在可不是笑的时候。 “杀她呢?”Bardle问道。“哦，不，你不会杀她的——我向你保证。 即使你努力，也做不到。” “Skaelka说Warg是‘一个不属于社区的人’，”June评论道。 “一个无关紧要的人。“你们把她赶出去了吗？”我问巴德尔。 Bardle嘲笑道。“她把自己流放了。 她没有兴趣为我们的社区做贡献。 为,

reason, I do not think she will help you. But—she is your only chance." I nod. We're desperate. And when you're desperate, your only chance is the chance you take. —The monsters watch us leave town. Their heads are rolled back, skyward. That's like the monster version of sad head-hanging. I learned that when I mistakenly knocked over our milkshake tower. Bardle stops us at the edge of town. "You should know..." Bardle says, "based on the size of Dirk's bite, he has three Earth hours. After that, he will no longer be Dirk. He will no longer be your friend. He will no longer be human...." Quint reaches down and sets a timer on his Back to the Future watch. It beeps. Three hours to save our friend's life...

因此，我认为她不会帮助你。 但是——她是你唯一的希望。” 我点头。我们绝望。当你绝望的时候，你唯一的机会就是抓住这个机会。 -怪物看着我们离开小镇。 他们的头向后仰，朝天空。 这就像是怪物版的悲伤的吊头。 这是我不小心打翻奶昔塔时学到的。 巴德尔在城镇边缘拦住了我们。 “你应该知道……”巴德尔说：“根据德克咬的大小，他有三个地球小时。 在那之后，他就不再是德克了。 他不再是你的朋友了。 他将不再是人类....” 昆特俯下身，在他的“回到未来”手表上设置了一个计时器。 它会哔哔作响。三个小时来救我们朋友的命…

Then we'll just have to be quick. The Christmas tree farm is beyond the train tracks. A thin layer of frost covers every inch of ground. We stomp in, following a winding path through the woods. Up ahead, beyond the fir trees, I can make out a big red barn. Its doors are just barely open. We approach a metal fence covered in ice. I grab hold and shake it. Ice cracks. Normally, Dirk would just rip through this. But we don't have that help now. Instead, we climb over it. Land hard. Feet crunching on icy grass Quint looks at me. "We need Warg's help. Don't forget. Just help. Nothing else, Jack!"

那我们得快点了。 圣诞树农场在火车轨道那边。 每一寸土地上都覆盖着一层薄薄的霜。 我们沿着一条蜿蜒的小路穿过树林，大步走进去。 在前面的冷杉树那边，我能看到一个红色的大谷仓。 它的门刚刚打开。 我们走近一个被冰覆盖的金属栅栏。 我抓住它，摇晃它。冰裂纹。 通常情况下，德克会直接把这个撕掉。 但我们现在没有这样的帮助。 相反，我们爬过去。 土地困难。脚踩在冰冷的草地上嘎吱作响。昆特看着我。 “我们需要小王的帮助。不要忘记。 只是帮助。没有别的了，杰克！”

I frown. "Why do I feel like that comment was intended for me?" "Because I was staring at you when I said it and the last word in the comment was Jack." "What he means," June says, "is that we don't need to get into a whole big monster battle, here. Just find out how to save Dirk—and get out. Don't go instigating!" I roll my eyes. "I don't instigate. When have I ever instigated a big monster battle?" June cocks her head. "Jack..."

我皱眉。“为什么我觉得那句话是针对我的？”“因为我说话的时候正盯着你看，评论的最后一个词是杰克。” “他的意思是，”琼说，“在这里，我们不需要陷入一场巨大的怪物大战。 想办法救德克，然后出去。 别去教唆！”我翻了个白眼。 “我不会煽动。我什么时候鼓动过一场大怪物大战？”琼昂起了头。 “杰克……”