63 THE CHAOS

CHAPTER 63 THE CHAOS The crew stared in disbelief at the chaos outside. Animals had taken over the sea and the sky. Whales were sending wave after mountainous wave crashing against the station. And, mysteriously, the water was glowing pale blue. George pulled Akiko aside and said, "I think I was wrong about Roz. With your permission, I'll go ask if she can call off the animals." Before Akiko could reply, a warning flashed across her computer. Something was wrong with the engines. The crew had no idea that the engines were under attack by a vast swarm of zooplanktons. More of those tiny creatures kept joining the fight, and now a glowing sludge was thickening and hardening around the propellers. The engines strained and struggled. There was a terrible gnashing noise, and then each of the propellers ground to a halt. Without engines to stabilize it, the station started bobbing in the waves. Everyone aboard went flying. BOSUNs toppled over. Brightbill and Glimmer

第六十三章混乱船员们难以置信地盯着外面的混乱。 动物们占领了海洋和天空。 鲸鱼发出一波又一波的巨浪冲击着车站。 而且，不可思议的是，水发出淡蓝色的光。 乔治把明子拉到一边说：“我想我看错了罗兹。 如果你允许的话，我去问问她能不能把动物们叫走。” 明子还没来得及回答，电脑上就闪过一条警告。 引擎出了问题。 船员们不知道引擎受到了一大群浮游动物的攻击。 越来越多这样的小生物加入战斗，现在螺旋桨周围一团炽热的污泥变得越来越浓，越来越硬。 发动机紧张地运转着。 传来一声可怕的咬牙切齿的声音，然后每个螺旋桨都停了下来。 由于没有发动机的稳定，空间站开始在海浪中摇摆。 船上的每个人都飞起来了。 bosun倒下了。亮比尔和微光

fluttered away as Roz stumbled against a wall. Crew members fell out of their chairs and slid across the floor, grasping at anything that was bolted down. The station settled, until it was gently swaying with the movement of the ocean. Then the humans burst into a panic. "What is happening?" yelled the electrician. "I didn't sign up for this!" yelled the mechanic. "How are we gonna survive?" yelled the engineer. "Stop yelling!" yelled the station manager. Akiko took a deep breath and said, "I've seen enough. We need to abandon the Juggernaut." "What about Roz?" said George. "We don't have time for her," said Akiko. "We have to get our crew off the station." The assistant manager snapped into action and shouted instructions to the crew. "Let's put on our cold- weather gear! Then we'll calmly take the stairs down to the launchpad and we'll board the airship together!" The crew members pulled on their heavy boots and thick coats and warm hats and gloves, and they headed for the stairwell. But they stopped when they glanced out the window. You see, the Juggernaut was slowly sinking, and as more waves rolled in, they started washing over the platforms and surging between buildings and pouring back into the sea. One wave slammed a BOSUN against a stack of steel beams.

当罗兹被一堵墙绊倒时，翅膀飞走了。 机组人员从椅子上摔了下来，在地板上滑来滑去，抓住任何用螺栓固定的东西。 空间站稳定了下来，直到它随着海洋的运动轻轻地摇晃。 然后人类陷入了恐慌。 “发生了什么事？”电工喊道。 “我可不想这样！”机修工喊道。 “我们要怎么活下去？”工程师喊道。 “别喊了！”电台经理喊道。 明子深吸了一口气，说：“我已经看够了。 我们需要放弃神像。” “那罗兹呢？”乔治说。 “我们没有时间照顾她，”明子说。 “我们必须让我们的船员离开空间站。” 副经理立即行动起来，大声向机组人员发出指示。 “我们穿上御寒装备吧！”然后我们平静地走楼梯到发射台，一起登上飞艇！”机组人员穿上厚重的靴子和厚外套，戴上保暖的帽子和手套，向楼梯井走去。 但当他们向窗外望去时，他们停了下来。 你看，巨神号正在慢慢下沉，随着更多的海浪涌来，它们开始冲刷平台，在建筑物之间汹涌澎湃，然后又涌回大海。 一个波浪把BOSUN撞到了一堆钢梁上。

Another wave smashed through doors and flooded into rooms and hallways. In the freezing temperatures, sheets of ice quickly formed, and BOSUN 5 tumbled down a slippery flight of stairs. And then a wave went rolling toward the launchpad. BOSUN 2 saw it coming. He tried to secure the airship, but he wasn't fast enough. The huge wave swept over, and when it had passed, the airship and the robot were gone. Water continued pouring through the gash in the station, flooding the lower compartments. There were pops of electricity. Fires crawled up the interior, setting off a series of explosions. Smoke billowed from air vents. Flames shot out from windows. The Juggernaut was ablaze and adrift.

另一波巨浪冲入大门，冲进房间和走廊。 在极冷的温度下，冰层迅速形成，BOSUN 5从滑滑的楼梯上滚了下来。 接着，一股巨浪向发射台滚滚而来。 BOSUN 2看到了它的到来。他试图稳住飞艇，但速度不够快。 巨浪一扫而过，当它过去时，飞艇和机器人都不见了。 水继续从车站的裂缝中涌入，淹没了较低的车厢。 有一阵阵的电声。 大火在内部蔓延，引发了一系列爆炸。 烟从通风口滚滚冒出来。 火焰从窗户里喷了出来。 神像号燃烧着，漂浮着。