12 NO SOLIDS ALLOWED

CHAPTER 12 NO SOLIDS ALLOWED I'm Kaz. Who are you?" "Howard," the other ghost replied. He looked older than Mom and Pops, but not as old as Grandmom and Grandpop. "I want to show you how much light comes through those squares in the ceiling," Wendy told the tour group. "Does anyone mind if I turn out the lights? No one here is afraid of ghosts?" "WOOOOOOO!" several college students said from the back of the group. Howard rolled his eyes. Wendy went around a corner and flipped a switch. The light went out, but the tunnel was still

第十二章固体禁入我是卡兹。 你是谁？”“霍华德，”另一个鬼魂回答。 他看起来比爸爸妈妈老，但没有爷爷奶奶老。 “我想让你们看看有多少光穿过天花板上的方块，”温迪对旅行团说。 “有人介意我把灯关了吗？” 这里没有人怕鬼吗？”“呜——呜——呜！”几个大学生在队伍后面说。 霍华德翻了个白眼。温迪拐过一个拐角，按了一下开关。 灯熄灭了，但隧道里依然寂静

as light as it was before Wendy flipped the switch. "Huh. Look at that." The solid people looked around in amazement. Wendy turned the light back on, then launched into another story about old Seattle. How many stories does she have, anyway? Kaz wondered.

和温迪拨动开关之前一样轻。 “嗯。你看。”结实的人们惊奇地环顾四周。 温迪又把灯打开，然后开始讲另一个关于老西雅图的故事。 她到底有多少故事？ Kaz很好奇。

"Where'd you come from, Kaz?" Howard asked. "I don't think I've seen you down here before." "I came with her." Kaz pointed to Claire, who nodded slightly at Howard. "You came with a solid girl," Howard said. "Can she see us?" "Yes," Kaz replied. Howard peered at Claire with suspicion. "Is she a ghost hunter?" "More like a ghost helper," Kaz said. "Her name's Claire. She's my friend." Kaz gave Howard a brief history of his relationship with Claire. Then, as the tour group moved to a new part of the tunnel, he told him how Little John had gotten lost when they followed a sad ghost boy through the floor in the library parking garage. "You haven't, by any chance, seen my brother, have you?" Kaz asked. "Or the other ghost?" "Not in the last day or two. I haven't seen any ghost kids who were on their own since last week.

“你从哪儿来，卡兹？”霍华德问道。 “我想我以前没在这儿见过你。” “我和她一起来的。”卡兹指着克莱尔，克莱尔朝霍华德微微点了点头。 霍华德说：“你带着一个可靠的女孩来的。” “她能看见我们吗？”“是的，”卡兹回答。 霍华德怀疑地盯着克莱尔。 “她是捉鬼人吗？”“更像是一个鬼帮手。”卡兹说。 “她叫克莱尔。她是我的朋友。” 卡兹向霍华德简要介绍了他和克莱尔的关系。 然后，当旅行团移动到隧道的新部分时，他告诉他，当他们跟着一个悲伤的鬼男孩穿过图书馆停车场的地板时，小约翰是如何迷路的。 “你有没有见过我哥哥，是吗？”Kaz问道。 “那另一个鬼呢？”“最近一两天没有。 从上周开始，我就没见过一个单独的鬼孩子了。

Well, except for you," Howard said, his chains rattling as he drifted beside Kaz. But Kaz wasn't really on his own. He had Claire. Kaz took a closer look at the chains in Howard's hands. "Hey, why do you have those chains?" he asked. Howard grinned. "I like to mess with the tour groups that come down here. Watch this." He waited for most of the group to walk past them. Maddie stayed with the group, but Claire hung back by the ghosts. "What?" Kaz asked Howard. "What are you going to do?" Howard swam up behind some college students at the back of the line. "Look... behind... you...," he wailed softly. When two of them turned to look, Howard glowed. He made the chains glow, too, as he rattled them.

嗯，除了你。”霍华德说，他的铁链在卡兹身边漂来漂去，格格作响。 但卡兹并不是孤身一人。 他有克莱尔。卡兹仔细看了看霍华德手上的铁链。 “嘿，你为什么带着这些链子？”他问。 霍华德咧嘴一笑。“我喜欢和来这里的旅行团捣乱。 看这个。”他等着大多数人从他们身边走过。 麦蒂和大家呆在一起，克莱尔却躲在鬼魂后面。 “什么?”卡兹问霍华德。“你打算怎么办？”霍华德游到队伍后面的几个大学生后面。 “看…后面……你……他轻声哀号道。 两人回头看时，霍华德满脸通红。 他摇晃着铁链，铁链也闪闪发光。

"AAAHHHHHHH!" one of the students shrieked. Claire covered her mouth. Howard quickly stopped glowing before Maddie and a bunch of other people turned around. "Did you see that? What was that? I don't know!" The college students talked over one another. "I warned you about the ghosts," Wendy said from the front of the group. "Let's keep moving, please." Maddie let the rest of the group walk past her while she waited for Claire to catch up. "Have you ever done that in the Seattle Public Library?" Kaz asked Howard as they followed Claire. He remembered the light-haired boy who said he'd seen a ghost with chains. "Sometimes," Howard admitted. "You mean you can get to the library from here?" Kaz said. "Through the tunnels?"

“啊——啊——啊！”一个学生尖叫道。 克莱尔捂着嘴。在麦蒂和其他一群人转过身来之前，霍华德很快停止了发光。 “你看到了吗？”那是什么？ 我不知道！”大学生们互相攀谈。 “我警告过你们要小心鬼。”温迪站在大家前面说。 “我们继续走吧，拜托。” 玛蒂让其他人从她身边走过，她等着克莱尔赶上来。 “你在西雅图公共图书馆这样做过吗？”他们跟着克莱尔时，卡兹问霍华德。 他想起了那个浅色头发的男孩，他说他看到了一个戴着锁链的鬼魂。 “有时候，”霍华德承认。 “你是说你可以从这里去图书馆？”Kaz说。 “穿过隧道？”

"Of course," Howard said. He seemed surprised that Kaz didn't know that. "What's happening?" Maddie asked Claire. Claire put her finger to her lips. "How? The librarian told us there aren't any tunnels under the library," Kaz said to Howard. Howard laughed. "The librarian is wrong," he said. "There are all kinds of tunnels under the city. The solid people know about some of those tunnels, but not all of them. There are a lot of tunnels that only the underground ghosts know about." So maybe Little John and that other ghost are somewhere in this underground tunnel system, Kaz thought. "Can you show Claire and me how to get to the library?" he asked. Maybe they'd find Little John along the way. Howard turned and looked behind him. "Well... I don't want to miss the next tour group," he said. "But I'll tell you how to get there. First, go back to that last room. Find the door that

“当然，”霍华德说。他似乎很惊讶卡兹竟然不知道这一点。 “发生了什么?”玛蒂问克莱尔。 克莱尔把手指放在嘴唇上。 “如何?“图书管理员告诉我们图书馆下面没有隧道，”卡兹对霍华德说。 霍华德笑了。“图书管理员错了，”他说。 “城市地下有各种各样的隧道。 实体人知道一些地道，但不是全部。 有很多隧道只有地下的鬼魂才知道。” 所以小约翰和另一个鬼魂可能在这个地下隧道系统的某个地方，卡兹想。 “你能告诉克莱尔和我怎么去图书馆吗？”他问。 也许他们会在路上找到小约翰。 霍华德转过身，回头看了看。 “嗯……我不想错过下一个旅行团，”他说。 “但我会告诉你怎么去那里。 首先，回到最后一个房间。 找到那扇门