8 LOST GHOST

CHAPTER 8 LOST GHOST The crying was coming from above them. Kaz and Little John followed the sound up, up, up. They passed headfirst through a metal ceiling and into the bottom shelf of the dumbwaiter compartment. That was where they found a tiny ghost boy sobbing in the corner. "Aha!" Little John cried. "Found you!" The ghost boy jumped when he heard Little John's voice. He quickly darted through the back of the dumbwaiter and disappeared through the wall. "Little John!" Kaz exclaimed. "You scared him!"

第八章失踪的鬼魂哭声从他们头顶传来。 卡兹和小约翰跟着声音向上，向上，向上。 他们头朝前穿过一个金属天花板，进入了升降机隔间的底层架子。 就在那里，他们发现一个小鬼男孩在角落里哭泣。 “啊哈!”小约翰哭了。“找到你!”鬼男孩听到小约翰的声音吓了一跳。 他飞快地从电梯后面冲了过去，穿过墙消失了。 “小约翰!”Kaz喊道。 “你吓着他了！”

"I didn't mean to," Little John said. "Let's go catch him!" They passed through the side of the dumbwaiter and looked around. "Where'd he go?" Kaz asked as he and Little John exp-a-a-a-a-a-nded. They swam to the railing and scanned the living room below. "There!" Little John pointed. The ghost boy hovered near a purple chair. "He's fast!" Kaz said. They swam down to the living room. The other ghost glanced up with alarm, then dived headfirst through the carpet. Kaz and Little John followed him through the second-floor book- sorting area... through the first-floor world- languages area... all the way down to a dark parking garage. When the other ghost swam through the garage floor, Kaz and Little John followed him there, too. But the garage floor was different from the other floors. It was made of thick, heavy concrete

“我不是故意的，”小约翰说。 “我们去抓他吧！”他们穿过升降机的一侧，环顾四周。 “他去哪儿了？”卡兹问，他和小约翰结束了。 他们游到栏杆边，仔细查看下面的客厅。 “有!”小约翰指了指。 鬼男孩在一把紫色椅子附近徘徊。 “他快!”Kaz说。他们游到楼下的客厅。 另一个鬼魂惊恐地抬头瞥了一眼，然后一头扎进地毯。 卡兹和小约翰跟着他穿过二楼的图书分拣区…… 通过一楼的世界语言区… 一直到一个黑暗的停车场。 当另一个鬼魂游过车库地板时，卡兹和小约翰也跟着他游了过去。 但车库的地板和其他楼层不一样。 它是由又厚又重的混凝土建成的

that was hard to swim through. Kaz couldn't see. He couldn't hear. And he didn't feel like he was getting anywhere. He was starting to feel skizzy. Really skizzy. He tried to turn around, but he had no idea where he was or how far around he'd turned. He flapped his arms and kicked his legs. He opened his mouth to scream, but nothing came out. If he didn't get out of here soon, he was going to spew! Finally, Kaz popped back out in the parking garage. He breathed a sigh of relief. But now he was alone in the parking garage.

很难游过去。 卡兹看不见。他听不见。 他觉得自己没有任何进展。 他开始感到头晕目眩。 真的skizzy。他试图转过身来，但他不知道自己在哪里，也不知道自己转了多远。 他拍着胳膊，踢着腿。 他张开嘴想叫，但什么也说不出来。 如果他不赶快离开这里，他就要吐了！最后，卡兹突然从停车场出来。 他松了一口气。 但现在他独自一人在停车场。

Where was Little John? Where was that other ghost? Did they get through all that concrete? Were they in some underground room? I better go back into that concrete and look for them, Kaz thought to himself. He saw a car coming. It was going pretty slow, but still Kaz didn't want it to drive through him. He shot up to the ceiling and waited for the car to pass below him. Once it did, he floated back down to the floor. "Here goes nothing," he muttered. He took a deep breath, then dived headfirst back through the concrete. He pumped his arms and kicked his legs, but it was just like before. The concrete was too heavy to swim through. Too thick. He couldn't do it. He had to turn back. He swam and swam and swam until he was back in the parking garage. Now what? he wondered, his heart racing.

小约翰在哪里？另一个鬼魂在哪里？ 他们穿过混凝土墙了吗？ 他们是不是在某个地下房间里？ 我最好回到那块水泥地去找他们，卡兹心想。 他看见一辆汽车开了过来。车开得很慢，但卡兹还是不想被车撞到。 他飞快地爬上天花板，等着汽车从下面经过。 一旦它完成了，他又浮回到地板上。 “这里什么也没有。”他喃喃地说。 他深吸了一口气，然后一头扎进混凝土里。 他挥舞着手臂，踢着腿，但一切都和以前一样。 混凝土太重了，游不过去。 太厚。他做不到。 他不得不往回走。他游啊游啊游，直到他回到了停车场。 现在怎么办呢?他心里纳闷，心跳加速。

Surely, Little John would come back. Kaz just had to wait for him. A bell dinged, and Kaz whirled around. It was the elevator. A solid lady stepped out. She stopped at a booth and gave a man some money. He stamped a card and handed it to her. Then she walked over to a silver car, got in, and drove away. Kaz floated around the parking garage, careful to avoid the ramp that led to the Outside. He didn't want to blow away from the library. He watched people drive into the garage. And he watched people drive out. He saw a guy get out of a dirty green truck near the back wall. Hey, that guy looks familiar, Kaz thought. He watched the guy walk toward him. It was Bill, the guy from the fish market! The one who scared tourists by making that weird fish pop up. What's he doing here? Kaz wondered. He wished he could follow Bill up into the library, but

小约翰肯定会回来的。 卡兹只能等他了。 铃声响起，卡兹转过身来。 是电梯。一位身材魁梧的女士走了出来。 她在一个摊位前停下来，给了一个男人一些钱。 他在一张卡片上盖了章，递给她。 然后她走到一辆银色轿车前，上了车，开走了。 和子在停车场周围飘来飘去，小心地避开通往外面的斜坡。 他不想被风吹离图书馆。 他看着人们开车进车库。 他看着人们开车离开。 他看见一个人从后墙附近的一辆脏兮兮的绿色卡车里出来。 嘿，那家伙看起来很眼熟，卡兹想。 他看着那个人朝他走来。 是比尔，鱼市的那个家伙！就是那个让奇怪的鱼蹦出来吓到游客的人。 他在这里做什么？Kaz很好奇。 他真希望能跟着比尔进图书馆，可是

he needed to wait for Little John. Where was Little John? Was he ever coming back? How long had Kaz been waiting, anyway? What if Claire and Maddie were ready to leave the library? Claire didn't know where Kaz was. What if they left without him and Little John? Kaz wondered if Little John could hear him. "Little John?" he called. Then he yelled: "LITTLE JOHN!!!" Nothing. Kaz waited a little longer. Finally, he decided to go find Claire. He swam up through the ceiling and came out between the first-floor elevators and the security guard's desk. Kaz stared. Bill from the fish market was chatting with the security guard! They seemed awfully friendly, smiling and laughing with each other.

他需要等小约翰。 小约翰在哪里？他还会回来吗？ 卡兹等了多久了？ 如果克莱尔和麦迪准备离开图书馆呢？ 克莱尔不知道卡兹在哪里。 如果他们丢下他和小约翰走了怎么办？ 卡兹不知道小约翰能不能听见。 “小约翰？”他叫道。然后他喊道：“小约翰！！”什么都没有。 卡兹又等了一会儿。 最后，他决定去找克莱尔。 他从天花板游了上来，从一层电梯和保安办公桌之间出来。 Kaz盯着。鱼市场的比尔正在和保安聊天！他们看起来非常友好，彼此微笑着，大笑着。