033 可怕的计划

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" What do you mean?" Zann asked Gliss." What did you find out while you were a prisoner?"

“你这话是什么意思？”赞恩问格丽丝。“你被囚禁时发现了什么？”

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" Is it something about Morb?" Darb asked

“是关于莫布的事吗？”达布问。

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Gliss' lower lip trembled." Yes," she said." And it's horrible!"

格丽丝的下唇颤抖着。“是的，”她说，“而且太可怕了！”

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" Tell us," Perda urged

“告诉我们吧，”佩达催促道。

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" A few of the other Reds understood the trolls' language," Gliss said

“其他几个红人懂巨魔的语言，”格丽丝说。

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" They listened when our guards talked to one another

“他们听到看守我们的人彼此交谈。

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The trolls kept grumbling about having to keep us at the zoo instead of zapping us back to Morb's fortress."

巨魔们不停抱怨，说要把我们留在动物园，而不是直接传送回莫布的堡垒。”

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" We were wondering about that too," Darb said

“我们也觉得奇怪，”达布说。

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Zann nodded." We guessed it might be because Morb used up all his power kidnapping the king and queen."

赞恩点点头。“我们猜，可能是因为莫布在绑架国王和王后时耗尽了所有力量。”

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" That's not why," Gliss said." Kidnapping the king and queen gave Morb even more power

“不是那个原因，”格丽丝说。“绑架国王和王后反而让莫布增加了更多力量。”

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He left the trolls alone because he's busy building a horrible machine to steal all of the magical energy in Magica!"

他之所以没去管那些巨魔，是因为他正忙着建造一台可怕的机器，用来偷走魔力卡所有的魔法能量！”

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Perda gasped." What? That's impossible!"

佩达倒吸一口气。“什么？那不可能！”

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" That's what I thought at first," Gliss said

“一开始我也是这么想的，”格丽丝说。

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" I figured the trolls must be confused. Everyone knows they're pretty dumb

“我以为那些巨魔一定是搞错了。大家都知道它们相当蠢。

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But then I talked to a woman named Saffa."

但后来我跟一个叫萨法的女人谈了谈。”

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" She's one of Boz's Magic Master friends," Zann said." What did she say?"

“她是博兹的魔法大师朋友之一，”赞恩说。“她说什么了？”

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" Saffa knows about an ancient text from the Old Times," Gliss replied

“萨法知道一件来自旧时代的古老文献，”格丽丝回答。

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" It contains plans for building a machine that could do what the trolls said —

“它里面有建造一台机器的方案，那机器能做到巨魔们所说的事——”

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suck the power out of Reds, regular people, dragons, message moths, mood trees, whatever

吸走红人、普通人、龙、信蛾、情绪树等等的能量。

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Anything or anyone with any magic at all."

任何有魔法的东西或人。”

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Zann gulped." So if Morb succeeded in building this machine, he would control all the magic in Magica?"

赞恩咽了口唾沫。“这么说，如果莫布成功造出这台机器，他就能控制魔力卡所有的魔法了？”

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Gliss nodded." Saffa said the Old Times ended because of that machine

格丽丝点点头。“萨法说，旧时代就是因为那台机器结束的。

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An extremely powerful and evil magician invented it, and when people realized what the machine could do, they were shocked

一个法力极强且邪恶的魔法师发明了它，当人们意识到这台机器能做什么时，都震惊了。

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People decided no one person should have that much power, and that Magica needed laws to protect the weak from the strong."

大家决定，不能让任何一个人拥有那么大的力量，魔力卡需要法律来保护弱者免受强者侵害。”

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" That was when the first Red Council was formed," Darb put in

“那就是第一届红色议会成立的时候，”达布插话道。

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" The first thing the members did was enact the Days of Discipline

“成员们做的第一件事，就是颁布了戒律时期。

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I've read a lot about that — but I've never heard of the magic-sucking machine."

我读过很多关于这个的内容——但从没听说过这台吸魔机器。”

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" How could Morb get his hands on those plans?" Zann wondered

“莫布是怎么弄到这些图纸的呢？”赞恩感到疑惑。

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" Teplo says all the ancient texts are locked away at the university."

“泰普罗说所有的古代文献都锁在大学里。”

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" Saffa suspects there's another copy of the text hidden deep within the Cave of the Unknown," Gliss said

“萨法怀疑，在未知洞穴深处，还藏着另一份文献副本，”格丽丝说。

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" How would Morb have found it?" Perda asked

“莫布是怎么找到它的？”珀达问道。

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" Even the most powerful Magic Masters don't dare go too deep in there."

“即使最强大的魔力大师都不敢深入那里。”

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Gliss shrugged." Who knows? But if he did..."

格丽丝耸了耸肩。“谁知道呢？但如果他真的找到了……”

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Her voice trailed off

她的声音渐渐低了下去。

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For a moment the kids all stared at one another in silence

一时间，孩子们都沉默地盯着彼此。

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Zann was the first to speak." We have to warn somebody

赞恩第一个开口说话。“我们得提醒别人。

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If this is true, Morb needs to be stopped before it's too late."

如果这是真的，就必须阻止莫布，否则就太迟了。”

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" Let's go to the palace," Perda said

“我们去宫殿吧，”珀达说。

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" Yog will be able to get word to Venna from there."

“约格可以从那里向维纳报信。”

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" Wait!" Gliss broke in." Let's just wait for Fala to get back

“等等！”格丽丝插话道。“我们还是先等法拉回来吧。

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She's not a Red — it's safer for her to go."

她不是红魔法师——她去更安全。”

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" But if Morb really is working on this magic-sucking machine, there's no time to waste!" Perda said

“可如果莫布真的在制造这台吸魔机器，那就没时间浪费了！”珀达说。

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Zann knew that Perda was right. But he still felt guilty about convincing Gliss to zap out of the palace earlier

赞恩知道珀达说得对。但他还是很内疚，因为刚才自己说服了格丽丝从宫殿里闪离。

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He didn't want to talk her into something else that could be dangerous

他不想再劝她参与别的危险行动了。

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" Why don't you stay here while the rest of us go?" he suggested

“你留在这儿，我们其他人去，怎么样？”他建议道。

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" You can tell Fala where we went."

“你可以告诉法拉我们去哪儿了。”

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" No!" Gliss said." If you're all going, I'm going too."

“不！”格丽丝说，“你们都要去的话，那我也去。”

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" Okay," Zann agreed. Obviously Gliss didn't want to be alone

“好吧。”赞恩同意了。显然格丽丝不想一个人待着。

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It didn't take long for Zann and his friends to reach the palace

赞恩和朋友们没花多长时间就抵达了宫殿。

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A stout man with a bristly brown beard was standing guard at the main entrance

一个粗壮、留着硬邦邦棕色胡须的男人正守着大门。

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" No visitors," he said without even looking at the kids." Official business only today."

“不见客，”他看都没看孩子们一眼便说道，“今日只办公事。”

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" We are here on official business," Perda said

“我们来就是为了公事。”珀达说。

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" We need to talk to Yog. Or Rixa."

“我们要见约格，或者里克萨。”

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The guard glanced at her, looking skeptical." What's your business?"

守卫瞥了她一眼，一脸怀疑。“所为何事？”

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" Please, just tell Yog or Rixa that we're here," Zann said

“拜托，只要告诉约格或里克萨我们来了就行。”赞恩说。

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The guard's jaw dropped as he noticed Zann's hair color

守卫注意到赞恩的发色，惊得下巴都快掉了。

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" Reds!" he exclaimed." What did you say your names were again?"

“红发！”他惊呼，“你们刚才说叫什么名字来着？”

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Zann and his friends waited impatiently while the guard sent a message moth

赞恩和朋友们焦急地等着守卫放出一只信蛾。

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Soon the moth returned with a new message

很快，信蛾带回了一条新消息。

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The guard read it." Rixa says to let you in

守卫读道：“里克萨说让你们进去。

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You'll find her in the throne room with Slib."

她正和斯利布在王座厅，去那儿找她。”

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Zann wondered if that meant Slib had taken over the government

赞恩心想，这是不是意味着斯利布已经接管了政府。

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" Thanks," he said. He and his friends hurried inside before the guard could change his mind about letting them in

“谢谢。”他说。他和朋友们赶紧跑了进去，免得守卫反悔。

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Then they stopped." Do you remember how to get to the throne room?" Gliss asked

然后他们停了下来。“你还记得怎么去王座厅吗？”格丽丝问。

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" How could I? We crawled in through a tunnel and zapped out."

“怎么可能记得？我们是从隧道爬进来，又瞬间传送出去的。”

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Perda glanced up and down the hallway." Wait, is that it?"

珀达来回扫视走廊。“等等，是那儿吗？”

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The kids could see a large, arched doorway farther down the hall, and they hurried to it

孩子们看到走廊远处有个很大的拱形门，便急忙跑了过去。

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Zann peered in and saw a large crowd of adults

赞恩探头望去，看见一大群成年人。

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" Do you see Rixa or Yog?" Gliss whispered

“你看见里克萨或约格了吗？”格丽丝小声问。

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Zann couldn't see Yog anywhere. But he spotted Rixa arguing with Slib

赞恩哪儿都没看到约格，但他发现里克萨正在和斯利布争论。

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Before he could point her out, a burst of magical energy filled the room

没等他指出来，一股魔法能量突然充斥了整个房间。

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Morb appeared in front of the thrones — along with half a dozen trolls and a cloud of tiny, buzzing dragons

莫布出现在王座前，身旁还跟着六个巨怪和一群嗡嗡作响的小飞龙。

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Thinking fast, Zann pulled his friends out of sight

赞恩反应很快，一把将朋友们拉到看不见的地方。

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His heart pounded with fear. Had Morb tracked them here somehow?

他吓得心怦怦直跳。莫布难道是追踪他们来到这里的？

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Morb didn't even glance in their direction though

但莫布甚至没朝他们的方向瞥一眼。

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He stared at the stunned adults with a smile

他面带微笑，注视着目瞪口呆的大人们。

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" Hello again," he said." I liked it here so much that I decided to return."

“又见面了，”他说，“我太喜欢这里了，所以决定回来。”

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He stepped over to the king's throne and sat down

他迈步走向国王的宝座，坐了下来。

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" And this time I think I'll stay."

“而且这次，我想我会留下来。”