038 改变计划

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Acting on instinct, Zann rubbed his hands together

凭直觉，赞恩搓了搓双手。

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" Decelerate!"

“减速！”

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Zann immediately felt himself slow down. Soon he was drifting down no faster than a leaf

赞恩立刻感觉自己慢了下来。很快，他向下飘落的速度不比一片树叶快。

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" It's a good thing we just got tested on deceleration in Safety Spells class," he thought as he landed gently on the palace roof

“幸好我们在安全咒语课上刚刚考过减速魔法，”他轻轻落在宫殿屋顶上时心想。

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" Zann!" someone shouted from far overhead

“赞恩！”头顶高处有人喊道。

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Zann's friends were still trying to evade the wild dragons

赞恩的朋友们仍在试图躲避那些野龙。

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Fala was attempting to steer her dragon closer to him, but the thunder chargers kept blocking her

法拉正试图把她的龙骑近他，但那些电击雷龙一直挡住她。

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" Go!" Zann shouted, using a Sound-Shifting spell to carry his words to her

“走！”赞恩一边喊道，一边施展变声咒把话传给她。

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" It's too risky. I'll meet you back in the woods!"

“太危险了。我们在树林里会合！”

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" Are you sure?" Fala sent her words back to Zann the same way

“你确定吗？”法拉用同样的方法把话语传回给赞恩。

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Zann nodded and gave her a thumbs-up

赞恩点点头，朝她竖了个大拇指。

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Fala and Darb steered the cloud gliders back toward the forest

法拉和达布驾着云之滑翔机，掉头朝森林飞去。

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The wild dragons chased them for a while and then stopped, disappearing into the clouds

野龙追了他们一会儿就停住了，消失在云层里。

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Knowing that his friends were safe, Zann looked around for a way into the palace

知道朋友们安全了，赞恩开始环顾四周，寻找进入宫殿的路线。

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He was standing on the apex of a steep roof

他正站在一个陡峭屋顶的尖顶上。

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Looking down he could see the top of a small dormer jutting out

向下望去，他能看到一扇小老虎窗的顶部凸了出来。

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" Maybe there's a window on that dormer," he thought

“那扇老虎窗上说不定有个窗户，”他想。

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Zann was nervous about using any more magic than he needed to — especially with Morb so close

赞恩很紧张，不敢多用一点不必要的魔法——尤其是莫布近在咫尺的时候。

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Keeping himself as flat as he could, he inched his way down slowly

他尽可能把身体放平，一点点地慢慢往下蹭。

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When Zann was about halfway down, he lost his grip

下到大概一半的时候，赞恩手一滑，没抓稳。

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" Oh no!" he cried, sliding fast. Zann could see the edge of the roof quickly getting closer

“哦，不！”他大叫着，飞快地滑着。赞恩眼看着屋顶边缘越来越近。

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He slid past the dormer and then he was in midair

他滑过天窗，然后整个人悬在了半空中。

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Zann cried out," Decelerate — "

赞恩大喊道：“减速——”

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Bam!

砰！

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" Ouch!" Zann looked at the small balcony he'd just landed on

“哎哟！”赞恩看着自己刚刚摔落的小阳台。

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Then he saw the door. With a sigh of relief, he got up and headed into the palace

随后，他看到了一扇门。他松了一口气，起身朝宫殿里走去。

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Morb and Slib walked down the cracked steps of the ancient staircase

莫布和斯利布沿着古老楼梯破裂的台阶往下走。

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" This is what you call a dungeon?" said Morb, wrinkling his nose at the awful smell

“这就是你说的地牢？”莫布闻到难闻的气味，皱起了鼻子。

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Slib bowed." Forgive me, Your Highness. It hasn't been used since the Old Times."

斯利布鞠了一躬。“请见谅，殿下。它从旧时代起就没再使用过。”

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The place was a mess. The stone walls were cracked and crumbling, many of the iron bars were either missing or badly rusted

这地方一片狼藉。石墙开裂剥落，许多铁栏杆要么不见了，要么锈蚀得厉害，

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and everything was coated in a thick layer of dust

所有东西都蒙上了一层厚厚的灰尘。

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" A few Voids have already arrived in response to your invitation," Slib went on in that servile tone that Morb already found annoying

“已经有几个虚空者应您的邀请来了，”斯利布用那种莫布早就觉得烦的谄媚语气继续说道。

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" Perhaps we could put them to work cleaning and repairing this place."

“也许我们可以让他们干活，打扫并修缮这个地方。”

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Morb shot him a sharp look." Is that all you think Voids are good for?" he demanded." Cleaning up others' messes?"

莫布狠狠地瞪了他一眼。“你以为虚空者就这点用处？”他质问道。“就只会收拾别人的烂摊子？”

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Slib looked confused." I only meant — "

斯利布一脸困惑。“我只是想说——”

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Morb didn't let him finish." How many Reds have turned themselves in so far?"

莫布没让他说完。“到目前为止，有多少红魔法师自首了？”

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Slib's expression changed to nervousness." Uh..."

斯利布的表情变得紧张起来。“呃……”

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" How many?"

“有多少？”

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" None, Your Majesty," Slib said." But that's typical of Reds, isn't it?

“一个也没有，陛下，”斯利布说。“但这不就是红魔法师的典型作风吗？

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Always thinking they're too good to follow the rules."

总觉得自己高人一等，不愿遵守规矩。”

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Morb gnashed his teeth. He was so furious that he almost struck Slib down with a Blast spell

莫布咬紧牙关，他气得差点对斯利布施放冲击咒。

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" Never mind," Morb muttered." Soon it won't matter."

“算了，”莫布低声说道，“很快就无关紧要了。”

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" Pardon me, Your Majesty?" said Slib

“您说什么，陛下？”斯利布说。

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Morb glanced at him." Stand back," he ordered

莫布瞥了他一眼。“退后，”他命令道。

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Touching his fingertips together, Morb pointed at the dungeon

莫布将指尖相对，指向地牢。

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The walls quickly rebuilt themselves out of the rubble

墙壁迅速从碎石中自行重建起来。

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Strong iron bars grew out of the hard stone floor and formed new cell doors

坚硬的铁栏杆从坚硬的石头地板上长出，形成了新的牢门。

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Slib gasped." Your Majesty!" he exclaimed." Such power!"

斯利布倒吸一口气。“陛下！”他惊呼道，“多么强大的力量！”

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Morb ignored him. Closing his eyes, he summoned up the energy for a much more difficult task

莫布没理他。他闭上眼睛，为一项艰难得多的任务聚集能量。

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" Come to me," he murmured. Zap!

“到我这儿来，”他低声念道。嗖！

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In a flash all the Red prisoners from the fortress appeared in the cells

转瞬之间，堡垒里所有的红人囚犯都出现在了牢房中。

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Morb hardly heard Slib's exclamations this time, or the cries of the surprised prisoners either

这一次，莫布几乎没有听到斯利布的惊呼，也没听到囚犯们惊讶的叫喊。

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He'd used up much of his energy last night, and this task had drained him again

他昨晚消耗了太多能量，而这项任务又让他精疲力竭。

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He would need another magic infusion soon

他很快就得再次注入魔力。

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" Slib," he ordered hoarsely, holding onto a pillar for support," tell the trolls to bring more leeches immediately."

“斯利布，”他靠在柱子上，声音嘶哑地命令道，“叫巨魔们立刻多拿些水蛭来。”

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Slib gulped." Your Highness," he said," there aren't many leeches left

斯利布咽了口唾沫。“殿下，”他说，“水蛭剩得不多了。”

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You used most of them last night."

您昨晚用掉了大部分。”

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" Just bring them to me," commanded Morb

“只管给我拿来，”莫布命令道。

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In order to restore himself the night before, Morb had been forced to use almost all of his leeches on the non-Reds in the palace

前一夜为了恢复体力，莫布被迫几乎耗尽了他所有的水蛭，用在了宫殿里非红人身份的人身上。

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As soon as the old woman arrived with his sea sponge, he would have to send her out for more leeches

等老妇人一把他的海绵拿来，他就得派她出去找更多的水蛭。

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" Are you okay, little buddy?" Darb asked, peeling Zing loose from the cloud glider's back

“你还好吗，小家伙？”达布问道，一边把辛从云飞兽背上扯下来。

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The fire whistler had been hanging on for dear life the whole way back to the forest

回森林的一路上，这只会喷火的小家伙都在拼命地紧紧抓着。

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" Never mind him," Perda said." What about Zann?"

“别管他了，”珀达说。“赞恩怎么办？”

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Fala slid down from her dragon." He told us to go," she said

法拉从她的龙身上滑了下来。“他让我们走的，”她说。

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" We never would have gotten past those thunder chargers anyway

“反正我们肯定也躲不过那些雷电战兽。”

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Zann can take care of himself — he'll get out of the palace."

赞恩能照顾好自己——他会逃出宫殿的。”

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Perda glanced around." How will he find us?

珀达环顾四周。“他要怎么找到我们呢？”

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We must be miles from where we started

我们离出发的地方肯定有好几英里远了。

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Maybe we should fly back to the original spot."

也许我们该飞回原来的地方。”

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But one look at the exhausted cloud gliders told Perda that that wasn't practical right now

但珀达看了一眼疲惫不堪的云飞兽，就知道这主意眼下不切实际。

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" We should at least send him a message moth."

“我们至少该给他派一只信蛾。”

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" Good idea." Fala snapped her fingers to summon a moth

“好主意。”法拉打了个响指，召唤来一只飞蛾。

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After scribbling a message, she released it

草草写下一则消息后，她放飞了它。

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It was midday by now, and it was getting hot

此时已是正午，天气越来越热。

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Perda wandered toward a shadier spot with the others trailing behind her

珀达朝一处更阴凉的地方走去，其他人跟在她身后。

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Suddenly Perda felt magical energy surround her as she was lifted into the air

突然，珀达感到魔法能量包围了她，接着她整个人被升到了空中。

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" Hey!" she shouted. She struggled against the magic, but it was useless

“嘿！”她大叫起来。她奋力抵抗这股魔法，却无济于事。

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She could see that her friends were being lifted as well

她能看到她的朋友们也被升了起来。

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" Do not try to resist," a voice commanded from somewhere in the forest." You're surrounded."

“别试图反抗，”森林某处传来一个命令的声音。“你们被包围了。”