71 The Joys of Spring

Chapter 71 The Joys of Spring A few minutes later, they reached the bottom of the spray-painted skateboard ramp and landed on the crowded concrete expanse at the bottom of the Spire, which was now dotted with blooming flowers and blossoming shrubbery. "THERE THEY ARE!" Mr and Mrs Markmaker rushed over to greet the group, their feet still covered with plaster. As they skipped through the daffodils, snowdrops and tulips, they somehow looked twenty years younger. They were, quite literally, full of the joys of spring. "CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?" shouted Mr M. "Look at the

第71章 春日乐趣 几分钟后，他们滑到喷漆滑板坡道底部，落到尖塔下拥挤的水泥空地上，这里如今点缀着盛开的鲜花和开花的灌木。 “就是他们！” 马克梅克夫妇脚上还沾着石膏，连忙冲过来迎接这群人。 他们蹦跳着走过黄水仙、雪滴花和郁金香，整个人看起来足足年轻了二十岁。 毫不夸张地说，他们浑身上下都充满了春日的喜悦。 “你敢相信吗？”马克先生大喊，“快看这

lake! Look at the Spire! Look at the city! Everything is back to how it was when I was a boy! This has all turned out better than we could ever have hoped!" "I've never been so happy!" chirruped Mrs M. "Even before 67 trapped us all in the lake, we thought it would take years to restore Chroma to its former glory. But now look at it! It's more beautiful than it's ever been!" "Did you see what just happened?" asked Mr M, excitedly. "It was just like the stories my parents used to tell me about Conté and his ribbons of colour. I don't know who was responsible for that explosion of colour, but, if I were a betting man, I'd put a lot of money on it being you, Peanut. Actually, it was L—" Peanut began to say. It was all of us, interrupted Leo. "A true team effort. And what a team you make!" beamed Mrs M. "The best there's ever been!" The Resistance leader turned around to call to the throng of operatives, who were celebrating on the flower-strewn concrete. "Everyone—come over here! Look who I found!" "72!" yelled a delighted Little-Bit as the robot, whose eyes were currently displaying as bright pink hearts, approached. "You look fab!" Doodle, meanwhile, had jumped up onto Jonathan Higginbottom's tail and run along the entire length of his

湖！ 快看尖塔！ 快看整座城市！ 一切都变回我小时候的模样了！ 结果比我们所有人曾经奢望的还要好！” “我从来没有这么开心过！”马克太太快活地说，“早在67把我们全都困进湖里之前，我们就觉得要花上好几年才能让克罗玛恢复往日的荣光。 可现在你看看它！ 它比以往任何时候都要美丽！” “你刚才看到发生什么了吗？”马克先生兴奋地问道。 “这就跟我父母过去给我讲的，孔泰和他的色彩丝带的故事一模一样。 我不知道那场色彩爆炸是谁的功劳，但要是让我打赌，我敢押一大笔钱，就是你干的，花生。 “其实是李——”花生刚开口说道。 是我们所有人一起做到的，利奥打断了话头。 “这才是真正的团队合作。 你们这支队伍太了不起了！”马克太太笑开了花，“这是有史以来最棒的队伍！” 反抗军领袖转过身，对在铺满鲜花的水泥地上庆祝的一众队员喊话。 “大伙儿——都到这儿来！ 看看我找到谁了！” “72！”小不点开心地大喊，眼睛亮着粉色爱心的机器人正朝这边走来。 “你看起来太帅啦！” 与此同时，嘟嘟跳到乔纳森·希金博顿的尾巴上，一路跑过了他整条

body before covering the alligator's long snout with a thick layer of doggy slobber. "ROCKWELL!" shouted Josephine as she dashed over to greet her young apprentice. "Josephine!" he replied, eagerly. "Tell me, tell me, tell me! How did you do it? How did you stop the Giant X and get everybody out of the lake before it filled with plaster?" "It was actually quite simple," she replied. "I just used the same technology that 67 did to gain control of the RAZER army in the first place. I overrode their protocol, forced the exocetia out of their little holes and back across the lake with their steel cables, which allowed everyone to get out. Then I ordered the RAZERs piloting the Giant X to turn their taps off and land safely in the North Draw. Oh, and I also reversed the paralysis of the RAZERs you incapacitated with my device. With a little bit of clever programming, I've even managed to turn them all to our side. Even 67. "I KNEW IT!" shouted Rockwell, turning to Peanut. "Didn't I say that's what she would have done? Didn't I say that, Peanut?"

身体，接着在鳄鱼长长的吻上糊了满满一层狗狗的口水。 “罗克韦尔！”约瑟芬大喊着冲过去迎接她年轻的徒弟。 “约瑟芬！” 他急切地应道。 “快告诉我，快告诉我，快告诉我！ 你是怎么办到的？ 你是怎么拦住巨人X，在湖里灌满石膏之前把所有人都救出来的？” “其实非常简单，”她回答道。 “我只是用了67当初控制RAZER军团时用的同款技术。 我改写了他们的程序协议，把飞鱼雷逼出它们的小洞，带着钢缆退回湖对岸，这样所有人都能撤出来了。 接着我命令驾驶巨人X的RAZER关掉阀门，安全降落在北洼。 哦对了，我还解除了你用我的装置弄瘫痪的那些RAZER的麻痹状态。 靠着一点巧妙的编程，我甚至把他们全都争取到我们这边来了。 连67也不例外。 “我就知道！”罗克韦尔大喊，转向花生。 “我是不是说过她肯定会这么做？ 我是不是说过，花生？”

"You did," Peanut laughed. "Well, I had a lot of help from these guys, too," said Josephine, nodding to her right. The superheroes stood in a long, curved line, like the cast of an extremely bizarre pantomime about to take their final bow. They had somehow managed to arrange themselves so that they were beautifully backlit with their hair caught perfectly on the breeze. Every single one of them had adopted a dynamic hands-on-hips stance, which allowed their cloaks to billow out heroically behind them. Table Guy stepped forward and spoke to Peanut. "Citizen! We stand here today humbled by your magnificent and selfless contribution to Chroma's long and courageous struggle against tyranny! To the ongoing battle of good versus evil, freedom versus oppression, light versus shade!" He stared into the middle distance. "This may be your victory, but it belongs to each and every one of us! Throughout history, our trials, tribulations and struggles have been met by an unbending resolve, which has The superhero was stopped, mid-speech, by Woodhouse who had zipped along the floor and climbed up his cloak. "Och, you're a lovely fella," said the rat, laughing, "But you don't half talk a lot!" Then he planted a big, wet, rodenty kiss on Table Guy.

“你确实说过，”花生笑了。 “其实，我也得到了这帮伙计不少帮助，”约瑟芬说着，朝自己的右边点点头。 超级英雄们排成一道长长的弧线，就像一出离奇童话剧的演员准备出来谢幕。 不知怎么，他们刚好站得恰到好处，背后的光线把他们衬得格外好看，头发也正好被风吹得飘起来。 每一个人都摆好了充满活力的叉腰姿势，斗篷都在身后威风地蓬展开来。 桌哥走上前对花生开口说道。 “公民！ 今天我们站在这里，深深感念你为克罗玛反抗暴政的漫长英勇斗争做出的卓越无私贡献！ 也为了这场正义对抗邪恶、自由对抗压迫、光明对抗黑暗的永恒之战！” 他望向远处的半空。 “这或许是你的胜利，但它属于我们每一个人！ 古往今来，我们经历的所有考验、苦难和奋斗，都靠着百折不挠的决心——这位超级英雄话说到一半就被伍德豪斯打断了，这只老鼠嗖地窜过地板，爬上了他的斗篷。 “哦呀，你真是个好人，”老鼠笑着说，“可你也太能说了！” 接着他在桌哥脸上留下了一个湿乎乎的大大老鼠吻。