020 无望的搜寻

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Magica's royal palace stood in a grand cobblestone square in the exact center of the city, its graceful spires reaching toward the sky

马吉卡的皇家宫殿矗立在城市正中心一座宏伟的鹅卵石广场上，优美的尖塔直指天空。

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Normally the square was very crowded. Today, though, only a few people scurried across it, looking this way and that. And none of them were Reds

平常广场上总是人头攒动。但今天只有寥寥几人匆匆跑过，东张西望。而且他们中没有一个是红族人。

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Zann and his friends stopped at the edge of the square

赞和他的朋友们在广场边缘停下了脚步。

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Perda, Gliss, and Darb stared at the palace in awe

佩达、格丽丝和达布敬畏地凝视着宫殿。

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Zann wasn't surprised. There definitely wasn't anything like this in Swamp Bottom!

赞并不惊讶。在沼泽底可绝对没有这样的东西！

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Just then Darb gasped." What?" Zann asked

就在这时，达布倒吸了一口凉气。“怎么了？”赞问道。

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" Trolls!" Darb whispered, pointing

“巨魔！”达布指着那边，小声说道。

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Several of the ugly, hulking creatures were lumbering across the square!

好几个丑陋笨重的怪物正笨拙地穿过广场！

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The kids all ducked behind some shrubs." Now what?" Gliss asked

孩子们全都躲到了一丛灌木后面。“现在怎么办？”格丽丝问。

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" We can't just walk up to the palace with those trolls there, even with our disguises. They might recognize us."

“有那些巨魔在，我们不能径直走向宫殿，即便有伪装也不行。他们可能会认出我们。”

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" We need a plan," Perda said

“我们需要一个计划，”佩尔达说。

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" Yeah," Zann said slowly." And I think I have an idea."

“对，”赞恩慢慢地说，“而且我想我有个主意。”

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" What?" Darb asked

“什么？”达布问。

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" When I was a little kid, I met a Void named Gert who was an animal caretaker at my parents' lab

“小时候，我遇到过一个叫格特的虚空人，他是我父母实验室的动物管理员。”

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He told me once that there's a secret way to sneak in or out of the palace," Zann said

他曾经告诉我，有一条秘密通道可以偷偷进出宫殿，”赞恩说。

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" It's an underground tunnel that goes all the way from the palace to a big public park

“那是一条地下隧道，从宫殿一直通到一个大公园。

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Gert said the tunnel was built during the Old Times, when dark magic was everywhere

格特说，那条隧道建于旧时代，那时到处都有黑暗魔法。

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The king and queen needed a way to escape in case an enemy struck them with a Dousing spell to keep them from using their magic."

国王和王后需要一条逃生路线，以防敌人用压制咒袭击他们，害他们无法使用魔法。”

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" Really?" Gliss sounded hopeful." Do you know which park Gert was talking about?"

“真的吗？”格丽丝听起来满怀希望。“你知道格特说的是哪个公园吗？”

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Zann nodded." I used to pass it on the way to a friend's house

赞恩点点头。“我过去去朋友家时会经过那里。

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We could be there in fifteen minutes."

“我们十五分钟就能到那里。”

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He led the way through the city

他带着大家穿过城市。

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Like the palace square, all the streets were deserted

和宫殿广场一样，所有街道都空无一人。

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" Where is everyone?" Gliss asked

“大家都去哪儿了？”格丽丝问道。

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" They're probably hiding from those trolls," Perda said

“他们大概是在躲那些巨魔吧。”佩尔达说。

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Soon they reached the park. It was even bigger than Zann remembered, taking up four city blocks

他们很快就到了公园。公园比赞恩记得的还要大，占了四个街区。

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Dozens of tall stone statues dotted the grounds

几十座高大的石像散布在园中。

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" Wow." Gliss glanced around." How are we ever going to find a secret tunnel entrance here?"

“哇。”格丽丝环顾四周。“我们怎么可能在这里找到秘密隧道入口呢？”

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" Did Gert give you any hints about where to search, Zann?" Perda asked

“格特有没有给你任何关于去哪里找的提示，赞恩？”佩尔达问道。

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" Not that I can remember," Zann said

“我不记得有。”赞恩说。

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" Let's just split up and start looking around."

“我们分头找找看吧。”

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His friends wandered off and started peering under and around the statues

伙伴们四散开来，开始仔细查看雕像的底部和四周。

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Zann kicked at the park's paving stones, testing to see if any seemed loose

赞恩用脚踢了踢公园的铺路石，试试有没有松动的。

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Zing followed Zann around for a while, but then the dragon spotted a buzz worm and started playing with it

小锌跟着赞恩转了一会儿，但随后这条小龙发现了一只嗡嗡虫，便玩了起来。

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The worm buzzed angrily as Zing tossed it into the air

小锌把虫子抛向空中，虫子发出愤怒的嗡嗡声。

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" Settle down," Zann told the dragon." You could help us search, you know."

“安静点，”赞恩对小龙说，“你可知道，你可以帮我们一起找的。”

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Zing ignored him, batting the buzz worm under a huge statue of a warrior mounted on a dragon

小锌没理他，把嗡嗡虫拍到了一座巨大的雕像下面，那雕像刻着一位骑在龙背上的勇士。

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Zann sighed. Normally he enjoyed watching Zing play. But today wasn't normal. Not even close

赞恩叹了口气。平时他很喜欢看小锌玩耍。但今天不同寻常，差得太远了。

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" See anything?" he called to his friends, who were still checking out the other statues

“看到什么了吗？”他朝还在查看其他雕像的伙伴们喊道。

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Perda had even climbed on top of one

珀达甚至爬到了一座雕像顶上。

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" Nothing out of the ordinary that I can see," she said

“我没看出什么异常，”她说。

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" We've been searching for half an hour and we're no closer to finding the tunnel entrance," Gliss said

“我们找了半个小时，还是没找到隧道入口，”格利斯说。

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" Maybe we should go back to the palace. The trolls might have left by now."

“也许我们该回宫殿去。巨魔现在可能已经走了。”

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Just then Zing let out a squawk of surprise

就在这时，小锌发出一声惊叫。

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" Quit fooling around, Zing!" Zann called

“别闹了，小锌！”赞恩喊道。

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He bent down and peered under the dragon statue

他弯下腰，朝龙雕像底下张望。

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" We don't have time for..." His voice trailed off." Zing?"

“我们没时间……”他的声音渐渐消失了。“小锌？”

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" What's wrong?" Darb asked

“怎么了？”达布问道。

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" He ran under this statue," Zann said." But now I don't see him."

“他跑到了这座雕像下面，”赞恩说，“但现在我看不见他了。”

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Then he gasped as Zing's head suddenly popped out from the belly of the stone dragon!

然后他倒吸一口气，小锌的头突然从石龙的肚子里探了出来！

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By now Gliss had come over to examine the statue too

这时格丽丝也过来查看雕像。

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She blinked in surprise when she saw Zing

看到小锌时，她惊讶地眨了眨眼。

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" I just checked this one — there was no hole or anything, I swear!

“我刚检查过这个——绝对没有洞什么的，我发誓！

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I even felt under it as far as I could reach!"

我甚至把手伸到下面能摸到的最远地方了！”

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Zann dropped to his hands and knees and crawled under the stone dragon

赞恩趴下身子，手脚并用地爬进石龙底下。

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" The hole must be hidden with some kind of a Camouflaging spell," he said

“洞口肯定是用某种伪装咒语藏起来了。”他说。

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Zing had disappeared again. Zann pressed his hands against the spot where he'd just seen his dragon

小锌又消失了。赞恩用手按向他刚才看见小龙的地方。

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At first all he felt was smooth, solid stone

起初，他摸到的只是光滑坚硬的石头。

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But when he pressed a little harder, the stone dissolved and his hand disappeared into nothingness!

但当他稍微用力按压时，石头消散了，他的手消失在一片虚空中！

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" This is it!" he called, amazed." We found the secret tunnel!"

“就是这儿！”他惊奇地喊道，“我们找到秘密隧道了！”

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He twisted and shoved himself through the invisible hole

他扭动身子，把自己推过了那个无形的洞口。

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Now that he was inside, he could see that the entire statue was hollow!

进到里面，他才发现整座雕像都是中空的！

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Zann glanced toward the back end of the statue just in time to see a spurt of flame coming from that direction

赞恩朝雕像尾部瞥了一眼，正好看到一股火焰从那边喷出来。

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He crawled toward the flame and saw a narrow tunnel angled steeply downward

他朝火焰爬去，看到一条狭窄的隧道，急剧向下倾斜。

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It was pitch-black except for the glow thrown off by Zing's fiery breath

隧道里漆黑一片，只有小锌喷出的火焰带来一丝光亮。

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Darb and the girls had climbed into the statue too

达布和女孩儿们也爬进了雕像。

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" Wait up, Zing!" Darb called." You'll have to be our light."

“等等，小锌！”达布喊道，“你得给我们当光源。”

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" Let's stay close together, okay?" Gliss sounded scared

“我们靠紧些，好吗？”格丽丝听起来很害怕。

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" I don't want to get lost down here in the dark."

“我可不想在这下面摸黑迷路。”

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Zann inched his way down the tunnel

赞恩一点点地顺着隧道往下挪。

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" Whoa!" he cried as he started sliding fast. It was steeper than he'd thought!

“哇！”他一下子滑得飞快，不禁叫了起来。这比他想的还要陡！

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He landed on Zing's tail, and the dragon let out an offended squawk

他一屁股坐在小锌的尾巴上，小龙委屈地呱了一声。

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" Sorry," Zann said." You should've moved out of the way."

“抱歉，”赞恩说，“你该让开的。”

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He scooted aside as the others slid down

他往旁边挪了挪，其他人也跟着滑了下来。

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" That was a long way down!" Perda exclaimed

“这么高滑下来！”佩达惊呼道。

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" How will we get back up there without magic?"

“没有魔法，我们怎么爬回去？”

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" If we make it to the palace, we won't have to worry about that," Zann pointed out." Come on, let's go."

“如果我们能到达宫殿，就不用担心这个了。”赞恩指出，“来吧，我们走。”