Chapter 1

THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH. JUNE'S WILD FLIGHT

地球上最后的孩子。六月的狂飞

chapter one That's me. Not the giant Ogre. Beneath the giant Ogre. The girl in the driver's seat of the oversized bumper car. The legendarily heroic girl about to get eaten. My name is June Del Toro, and I had a good life, while it lasted.

那就是我。不是巨大的食人魔。 在巨大的食人魔下面。坐在超大碰碰车驾驶座上的女孩。 传说中即将被吃掉的英雄女孩。 我叫琼·德尔·托罗，我过得很好。

For a while, my claim to fame was that I was the first sixth grader to be editor-in-chief of my middle school newspaper: The Parker Gazette. Of course, that was before the Monster Apocalypse.... These days, there's no more school, no more newspaper, no more lots of stuff. Now my claim to fame is that I'm the bravest girl on the block. (To be clear, it's no great achievement: I'm the only girl on the block.) Proof of bravery, you ask? I regularly exchange blows with evil beasts, lock horns with zombie hordes, and make mincemeat out of evil monsters. And here's the topper—I live in a tree house with three middle school boys. Yes. It gets gross. But it's generally pretty rad, because they're also my best friends in the whole world: Jack Sullivan, Quint Baker, and Dirk Savage.

有一段时间，我出名的原因是我是第一个担任中学报纸《帕克公报》（the Parker Gazette）总编辑的六年级学生。 当然，那是在怪物天启....之前 这些天，没有学校，没有报纸，没有更多的东西。 现在我的名声是我是这个街区最勇敢的女孩。 （需要说明的是，这并不是什么了不起的成就：我是这个街区唯一的女孩。）你问这是勇敢的证明吗？ 我经常和邪恶的野兽互殴，和僵尸群对角，把邪恶的怪物打成肉泥。 这是最重要的——我和三个中学生住在一个树屋里。 是。它变得恶心。但总的来说，这很酷，因为他们也是我在这个世界上最好的朋友：杰克·沙利文、昆特·贝克和德克·萨维奇。

And we have a crew of good-guy monster buddies who live at the local pizza joint next door. We spend most of our time competing in high-stakes lip sync battles, cruising around in our post-apocalyptic pickup truck, and having Nutella-sandwich-eating contests. Also, battling evil forces from another dimension that are trying to take over our world. And yep—in case you were wondering —that happens a lot. Like I said, it's been a pretty good life. I've seen, done, and eaten more weird things than, like, ninety-two kids my age. But it's not perfect. I miss my parents—although that's mostly okay, because I know they're alive and out there, somewhere. And I miss getting to break big news stories at school, like ORCHESTRA RECITAL CANCELLED—PARENTS, STUDENTS, TEACHERS ALL EQUALLY ECSTATIC. The other not-so-perfect bit? An extreme-evil, power-mad monster named Thrull is assembling an army of

我们还有一群善良的怪物朋友他们就住在隔壁的披萨店。 我们大部分时间都在进行高风险的假唱大战，开着我们的后世界末日皮卡四处兜风，还有吃巧克力酱三明治的比赛。 同时，还要与试图接管我们世界的另一个维度的邪恶势力作斗争。 是的——如果你想知道的话——这种情况经常发生。 就像我说的，这是很美好的生活。 我见过，做过，吃过的奇怪的东西比我这个年纪的92个孩子都多。 但这并不完美。我想念我的父母——尽管这没什么，因为我知道他们还活着，就在某个地方。 我怀念在学校里报道重大新闻，比如乐团独奏会取消——家长、学生、老师都一样欣喜若狂。 其他不那么完美的部分呢？ 一个名叫Thrull的极端邪恶，疯狂的怪物正在集结一支军队

skeleton soldiers to build something called the Tower. It's part of his plan to summon the ultimate, endgame evil: .e...c. the Ancient, Destructor of Worlds. Sooo... yeah. That part is lousy. But not as lousy as being EATEN BY A GIANT BEAST. WHICH IS WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN! So y'know what—with the milliseconds remaining before I'm swallowed whole, let me— EXPLAIN HOW I GOT HERE!

来建造一个叫塔的东西 这是他召唤终极邪恶的计划的一部分。 远古世界的毁灭者。 呃呃……是的。这部分很糟糕。 但还不如被巨兽吃掉那么糟糕。 这就是即将发生的事！所以你知道吗——在我被整个吞下之前的几毫秒里，让我——解释一下我是怎么到这里的！

I stood alone at the center of the old Sunshine Roller Rink, tense and alert, ready for action. Suddenly— VA-ROOOM! The roar of revving engines filled the air—a dozen DoomKarts: souped-up bumper cars, built to fit monsters. (Like our BoomKarts— but bigger.)

我独自站在旧阳光溜冰场的中央，紧张而警觉，准备行动。 突然——VA-ROOOM !空气中充满了引擎的轰鸣声——十几辆末日卡丁车：加强型碰碰车，专为怪物打造。 （就像我们的BoomKarts，但更大。）