28 Caged

28 Caged It didn't take long for the crowd to start panicking. The natural reaction was to push back against the slowly advancing RAZERs, but it soon became obvious how fruitless that endeavour was. The huge robots just kept moving relentlessly forward. The first citizens to fall into the Rainbow Lake were those who had been standing on the drawbridges to Peanut's right and left. There were a few single fallers at first, each splash like a mini explosion, but after a few seconds, the lake began to resemble a puddle in a thunderstorm. Before long, citizens were pouring in. "LB, grab my hand!" shouted Peanut as they neared the edge. "Stay close!"

28 被困 没过多久，人群就开始慌乱起来。 大家本能地往后挤，想要躲开慢慢逼近的雷泽机器人，但很快就发现这么做根本没用。 这些巨大的机器人一刻不停地往前推进。 最先掉进彩虹湖的，是站在花生左右两侧吊桥上的人们。 一开始只有几个人先后落水，每一次溅起的水花都像小小的爆炸，可没过几秒，湖面就变得像雷雨天里的水坑，到处水花四溅。 没过多久，人们就像潮水一样纷纷掉进湖里。 “小不点，抓住我的手！”快到边缘的时候，花生大喊道。 “跟紧我！”

They went over together, plunging feet-first into the water. Peanut surfaced first and immediately looked around for her sister. A second later, Little-Bit bobbed up. Peanut swam over and grabbed her. "Are you OK?" asked Peanut. "Yes," said Little-Bit. "I've got my red tag, you know. For swimming one width of the pool. And I'm really good at treading water too." "PEANUT! LB!" Leo shouted to his sisters while frantically paddling towards them. Behind him swam Mum and bringing up the rear was Dad, who was swimming on his back and pulling along a frantic-looking Nerys in the crook of his arm. "Th-th-the robots!" stammered the Welsh woman when she saw the girls. "Th-they pushed everyone in! I can't even swim!" "Dad! What's happening?" shouted Peanut. "I have no idea," he replied. "But it's not good!" The banks and bridges were empty of citizens now. Even those who had been on the platform, including Mr and Mrs Markmaker, Doodle, Jonathan Higginbottom and a large number of superheroes, were now in the water. Only the RAZERs remained up on the banks of the Rainbow Lake, still hovering shoulder-to-shoulder and displaying those bright red eyes.

他们一起掉了下去，脚先扎进了水里。 花生先浮出水面，立刻转头找她的妹妹。 没过一秒，小不点也浮了上来。 花生游过去抓住了她。 “你没事吧？”花生问。 “我没事，”小不点说。 “你知道的，我已经拿到游泳红徽章了。 就是游完泳池一整个宽度的那种。 而且我踩水踩得特别好哦。” “花生！小不点！” 里奥一边喊姐姐妹妹，一边拼命朝她们游过来。 妈妈跟在里奥身后，爸爸断后，他仰着泳，胳膊弯里拽着慌慌张张的内里斯。 “机、机、机器人！”这位威尔士女士看到姐妹俩，结结巴巴地说。 “他、他们把所有人都推下来了！ 我根本不会游泳啊！” “爸爸！ 出什么事了？”花生喊道。 “我也不知道，”爸爸回答。 “但情况肯定不妙！” 现在湖岸和桥上一个人都没有了。 就连原本在平台上的人，比如马克梅克夫妇、杜德尔、乔纳森·希金博顿还有一大群超级英雄，现在也都掉进水里了。 只有雷泽机器人还留在彩虹湖岸边，它们依旧肩并肩停在那儿，亮着一双鲜红的眼睛。

All of a sudden, a large number of hatches in the top of the lake's wall flipped open. They ran along its entire length, from drawbridge to drawbridge. Almost instantly, hundreds of small, spiky metallic objects, that looked a lot like fish, flew out of the hatches. Each one towed a length of thick, steel cable. "Exocetia!" shouted Peanut. And their eyes are red too!" The brassy-coloured mechanical devices flew like arrows, horizontally and at great speed, across the lake towards the wall opposite where some more little hatches had also opened. With incredible precision, the metal fish darted straight into these hatches, disappearing deep inside. The cables they'd been towing now stretched across the entire width of the Rainbow Lake, running perfectly parallel with each other, creating a cage on top of it.

突然之间，湖墙顶部的好多舱门一下子全都弹开了。 从这头吊桥到那头吊桥，整面湖墙上的舱门都打开了。 几乎就在同时，几百个带尖刺、长得像鱼的小金属块从舱门里飞了出来。 每一个都拖着一截粗粗的钢缆。 “飞鱼机甲！”花生大喊道。 而且它们的眼睛也是红的！ 这些黄铜色的机械装置像箭一样，飞快地横着飞过湖面，朝对面湖墙飞去，对面也刚打开了不少小舱门。 这些金属鱼准得惊人，一头扎进舱门，消失在了深处。 它们拖着的钢缆横跨了整个彩虹湖，彼此整整齐齐平行排列，在湖面上围出了一个大笼子。

"Uh-oh!" shouted Dad. "We're trapped! Unless we swim under the bridges and get out that way..." "That won't work, Gary," said Woodhouse, who had just appeared, carving an elegant backstroke through the multicoloured water. "I was just over there and folk were saying that a huge barrier came shooting out of the lake floor. It went right up to the underside of the drawbridge, apparently. I imagine the same thing happened on the other side too. We're totally boxed in!" At that moment, the water in the lake started to drain away. It was like somebody had pulled the plug out of a bath. Less than a minute later, everybody was standing on the lake's bed among the few technicolour puddles that remained. "I'll be honest," said Leo, looking down at his wet clothes, "a pool party was not what I had in mind for my birthday this year."

“哦糟了！”爸爸大喊。 “我们被困住了！ 除非我们从桥底下游出去……” “这行不通，加里，”刚游过来的伍德豪斯说着，正优雅地仰泳穿过五彩湖水。 “我刚从那边过来，大家说湖底突然弹出一道巨大的屏障。 据说正好顶到了吊桥的桥底。 我估计另一边也发生了同样的事。 我们被彻底围起来了！” 就在这时，湖里的水开始往外流走了。 就像有人拔掉了浴缸的塞子一样。 还不到一分钟，所有人都站在了湖底，周围只剩下几摊彩色的水洼。 “说实话，”里奥低头看着湿乎乎的衣服说，“我今年过生日可没想要办泳池派对呀。”