72 THE MOUNTAIN RUMBLE

CHAPTER 72 THE MOUNTAIN RUMBLE RECO 2 stood at the mouth of the cave. "ROZZUM unit 7134, are you in here?" The only response was his own flat voice echoing back. But he sensed movement somewhere down the tunnel. So he switched on his headlights, raised his rifle, and marched inside. The RECO marched past animal bones and rock piles and wide cracks in the walls. His blocky head swiveled from side to side, scanning for any sign of Roz. But she was nowhere to be found. So he turned and marched back toward daylight. And then a deafening roar filled the cave. From the shadows flew a giant body. Mother Bear charged into the robot and smashed him against a wall. Then Nettle and Thorn jumped in, and together the family went to work. They rammed his legs. They slashed his chest. They muscled him to the ground. On his way down, RECO 2 squeezed the trigger.

第七十二章山的隆隆声侦察兵2站在洞口。 “ROZZUM 7134单元，你在这里吗？”唯一的回应是他自己平淡的声音。 但他感觉到隧道下面有动静。 于是他打开车头灯，举起步枪，大步走了进去。 侦察队走过动物的骨头、成堆的岩石和宽阔的墙壁裂缝。 他那粗大的脑袋左右转动着，寻找着罗兹的踪迹。 但她无处可寻。 于是，他转身向白昼走去。 接着，一声震耳欲聋的吼声充满了洞穴。 从阴影中飞出一个巨大的躯体。 熊妈妈冲进机器人，把他撞到墙上。 然后荨麻和荆棘跳了进去，全家人一起干活。 他们撞了他的腿。他们划开了他的胸膛。 他们把他推倒在地。 在他下来的路上，侦察组2扣下了扳机。

There was a flash of blazing light and the walls began to crumble. Nettle grabbed her brother by the scruff and pulled him outside as an avalanche of rock thundered behind them. Mother Bear howled. The rifle exploded. Stones clanged against RECO 2. The avalanche slowed and settled as a cloud of dust billowed out from the cave. "Mother?" Nettle peered into the darkness. "I'm here," said a weak voice. The young bears dashed inside and found their mother half-buried. They pulled heavy stones from her body and dusted her off. "I have broken bones," she rasped, "but they will heal. Where is the robot?" RECO 2's headlights switched back on. Stones tumbled as the robot staggered to his feet. His body was scratched and scraped. His head was badly dented. His left arm was completely useless, so—thwip—it was tossed aside. Then the one-armed robot limped out of the cave and continued the hunt for Roz. "Don't worry about me," Mother Bear growled to Nettle and Thorn. "Kill the robot."

一道耀眼的光一闪而过，墙壁开始坍塌。 荨麻抓住弟弟的颈毛，把他拉到外面，身后的岩石像雪崩一样轰鸣。 熊妈妈嚎叫着。步枪爆炸了。 石头撞击着侦察部队2号。 随着一团灰尘从洞穴中滚滚而出，雪崩的速度放慢了下来。 “母亲?”荨麻凝视着黑暗。 “我在这儿。”一个微弱的声音说。 小熊冲了进去，发现妈妈被埋了一半。 他们从她身上取出沉重的石头，掸去她身上的灰尘。 “我的骨头断了，”她粗声说，“但会好的。 机器人在哪里？”RECO 2的前灯又打开了。 机器人摇摇晃晃地站了起来，石头掉了下来。 他的身体被刮伤了。 他的头严重凹陷。 他的左臂已经完全失去了作用，所以他把它扔到了一边。 然后，这个独臂机器人一瘸一拐地走出洞穴，继续寻找罗兹。 “别为我担心，”熊妈妈对荨麻和荆棘咆哮道。 “杀死机器人。”

With his heavy limp and his grinding gears, RECO 2 was easy to track. The young bears caught up with him as he was entering a grove of pines. But they didn't attack, not yet. There was a better place to finish him off up ahead. So they hung back and followed him across the mountainside. The distant rumble of the waterfall grew louder with each passing minute, and then a slash of white appeared through the trees. Soon, the robot was standing beside the roiling, frothing river, just above the falls. He was too badly damaged to leap over the falls or to wade through the rapids or to climb down the cliffs. But he had to continue his hunt for the target. So he started limping upriver in search of a safer crossing. There was a rustling, and the young bears exploded out from the trees. They threw their heavy shoulders against the robot's body, and he stumbled sideways onto the riverbank. Nettle reared up and wrestled the robot, twisting and shaking him with all of her strength. RECO 2 felt his feet slipping on the rocks, he felt his body tipping over, and then he plunged into the white water. And he brought Nettle with him. The current immediately swept Nettle toward the

由于他的沉重的跛行和磨齿轮，RECO 2很容易跟踪。 当他进入一片松树林时，小熊追上了他。 但是他们没有进攻，还没有。 前面有个更好的地方可以干掉他。 于是他们退后，跟着他翻过了山腰。 随着时间的流逝，远处瀑布的隆隆声越来越大，然后树林里出现了一道白色的斜线。 很快，机器人就站在了瀑布上方、翻滚着泡沫的河边。 他的伤势太严重，无法跳过瀑布，也无法趟过激流，也无法爬下悬崖。 但他必须继续寻找目标。 于是他开始一瘸一拐地逆流而上，寻找更安全的渡口。 一阵沙沙声，小熊们从树林里窜了出来。 他们用沉重的肩膀顶着机器人的身体，他踉跄着倒在了河岸上。 荨麻站起来和机器人扭打，用尽全身的力气把他扭来扭去。 RECO 2感到他的脚在岩石上打滑，他感到他的身体翻倒了，然后他跳进了白色的水中。 他把荨麻也带来了。 水流立刻把荨麻冲向了岸边

falls. She rolled through the rapids, crashed into one rock and then desperately clambered onto another. RECO 2 stood straight up, and the river rushed around him. He took a step, slipped, and disappeared beneath the water. But then he was up again. Thorn ran to help his sister, but she was pointing upriver and roaring, "Use the logs!" When the younger bear turned around, he saw what she meant. A jumble of broken logs were wedged between the rocks of the rapids, and a moment later Thorn was on top of them. With water sloshing over his back, he forced a paw between the logs and pried the top one loose. It splashed into the river and wound its way down through the rapids only to roll harmlessly past the robot. Then it dropped out of sight. The bear tried again. He popped another log into the river, and this one spun just in time to ram its full weight into the robot's chest. RECO 2 went sailing backward and sank beneath the surface. When he reappeared, the river was full of heavy wooden torpedoes. One log pounded the robot's shoulder. Another slammed his face. More logs knocked him closer and closer to the falls. The current became too much for the injured robot, and it carried him away.

瀑布。她在急流中翻滚，撞在一块岩石上，然后拼命地爬上另一块岩石。 RECO 2笔直地站着，河水在他周围奔流。 他跨了一步，滑倒了，消失在水里。 但他又站起来了。索恩跑去帮助他的妹妹，但她指着上游吼道：“用木头！”当年轻的熊转过身来，他明白了她的意思。 乱糟糟的碎木头插在急流的岩石之间，不一会儿，索恩就到了上面。 水在他的背上溅起，他把一只爪子伸到圆木之间，撬开了最上面的那根。 它溅到河里，在急流中蜿蜒而下，只是从机器人身边无害地滚过。 然后它就消失了。 熊又试了一次。他把另一根圆木扔进河里，这根圆木及时地旋转起来，把整个重量都塞进了机器人的胸膛。 RECO 2向后航行，沉入水面之下。 当他再次出现时，河里满是沉重的木制鱼雷。 一根原木砸在了机器人的肩膀上。 另一个打了他的脸。更多的圆木把他撞得离瀑布越来越近。 电流对受伤的机器人来说太大了，它把他带走了。

He grasped for anything solid he could cling to. But the rocks were too slippery. So he settled for a fistful of fur. Nettle had been hanging on to one rock this whole time. But now that the robot was pulling her, she started losing her grip. She couldn't hang on much longer. Finally, she cried out, "I'm sorry, Thorn!" and she let go. Nettle and RECO 2 surged toward the rumbling falls. The bear felt the robot release his grip. She watched him glide over the edge. Then she closed her eyes and waited for the end to come. But it was not Nettle's time. Reader, what happened next is hard to believe. You see, the river didn't fall away beneath Nettle; it tightened around her! Hundreds of fish surrounded the bear! They pressed their faces into her fur. They thrashed their tails against the current. And they slowly pushed her away from the edge. Farther and farther they went, gradually moving upriver, until Nettle's brother pulled her from the water. The bears collapsed onto the riverbank. And when they looked down, they saw hundreds of fish looking back up. "Thank you!" roared Nettle. "I'll never eat

他抓住任何能抓住的东西。 但是岩石太滑了。 所以他将就着要一把皮毛。 荨麻一直抓着一块石头不放。 但现在机器人在拉她，她开始失去控制。 她坚持不了多久了。 最后，她大声喊道：“对不起，索恩！”然后她放开了。 荨麻和RECO 2冲向轰隆隆的瀑布。 熊感觉到机器人松开了他的手。 她看着他滑下悬崖。 然后她闭上眼睛，等待着结局的到来。 但这不是荨麻的时间。 读者们，接下来发生的事情令人难以置信。 你看，这条河并没有在荨麻身下消失；它紧紧地裹住了她！数百条鱼围住了熊！他们把脸紧贴在她的皮毛上。 它们拍打着尾巴逆流而上。 他们慢慢地把她从悬崖边推开。 他们越走越远，逐渐向上游移动，直到荨麻的哥哥把她从水里拉出来。 熊倒在了河岸上。 当他们往下看时，他们看到数以百计的鱼在抬头看。 “谢谢你！”荨麻吼道。 “我永远不吃东西

fish again!" The fish smiled and sank into the rapids. "I thought you were dead," said Thorn, breathing hard.

鱼了!”鱼笑了笑，掉进了急流里。 “我还以为你死了呢。”索恩喘着粗气说。