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你好。
Hello.
我叫Rayon，欢迎收听《安睡故事》。
My name is Rayon, and welcome to Sleep Tight Stories.
每周我们都会分享一些听众的问候和生日祝福，感谢他们支持这个节目。
Each week, we share a few shout outs and birthday wishes for listeners who help support the show.
这是我们表达感谢的小方式，也总能让我们感到开心。
It's a small way we say thank you, and it always makes us smile.
祝Marley和Summer新学期快乐。
Happy new school year to Marley and Summer.
太棒了。
Woo hoo.
幼儿园和二年级。
Kindergarten and grade two.
我们为你们感到骄傲，也对新的一年充满期待。
We are so proud of you and excited for the year ahead.
继续发光吧，你们这些善良、有趣、又有点傻乎乎的小家伙们。
Continue to shine, you kind, funny, silly little humans.
爱你们的爸爸妈妈。
Love mom and dad.
丹妮尔和格伦里奇，生日快乐。
Happy birthday, Danielle and Glenridge.
爱你们的妈妈、爸爸、麦迪、杰克、索尔、洛基和特里克茜。
Love mom, dad, Maddie, Jake, Thor, Loki, and Trixie.
我们爱你们。
We love you.
祝华盛顿州斯波坎的克拉拉迟到的十岁生日快乐。
Happy belated tenth birthday to Clara from Spokane, Washington.
真不敢相信你已经十岁了。
We can't believe you're already 10.
我们为你成长的样子感到骄傲，也很开心看着你在体操、足球和学习上不断进步。
We are so amazed at who you are becoming and are having so much fun watching you to continue to improve with gymnastics, soccer, and school.
我们爱你。
We love you.
爱你的妈妈、爸爸、兰登和艾拉。
Love mom, dad, Landon, and Ella.
兰登，迟来的九岁生日快乐。
Happy belated ninth birthday to Landon.
妈妈、爸爸和科尔非常爱你，也为你感到骄傲。
Mom, dad, and Cole love you very much and are very proud of you.
麦克斯韦、库帕和博迪也爱你。
Maxwell, Koopa, and Body love you too.
莱尔·麦肯齐，迟来的生日快乐。
Happy belated birthday to Lele Mackenzie.
我们希望你在庆祝自己这个了不起的女孩时度过了美好的一天。
We hope you had a wonderful day celebrating the amazing girl you are.
我们简直不敢相信你已经开始了初中生活。
We can't believe you've started your middle school journey.
我们为你感到骄傲，相信你每一步都会做得很好。
We're so proud of you and know you'll crush it every step of the way.
祝你十一岁生日快乐，一切顺利。
Wishing you an incredible eleventh year.
爱你的妈妈、爸爸、卡娅和库皮。
Love, mom, dad, Kaya, and Koopi.
祝娜塔莉生日快乐，她9月15日满八岁，妈妈、爸爸、布里奇特、芬恩和默尔送上祝福。
Happy belated birthday to Natalie, who turned eight on September 15, with love from mom, dad, Bridget, Finn, and Merle.
能有你这样聪明、有创意又可爱的女儿，我们真是太幸运了。
We are so lucky to have such a bright, creative, and fun daughter like you.
我们爱你，爱到银河尽头再回来。
We love you to the end of the galaxy and back.
图图，不管我一天多累，你的拥抱和笑容总能让我心情变好。
Tutu, no matter how hard my day has been, your hug and smile always make everything better.
你给我的生活带来了太多快乐。
You bring so much joy into my life.
你勇敢、聪明又善良，有你在身边我很幸运。
You're brave, smart, and kind, and I'm lucky to have you.
我对你的爱无法用言语表达。
I love you more than words can say.
生日快乐，图图。
Happy Birthday, Tutu.
爱你的阿姨，你的第二个妈妈。
Love, Auntie, your secondary mom.
卢卡斯，你两位数啦。
Double digits, Lucas.
你十岁了。
You're 10.
生日快乐，生日快乐。
Happy, happy birthday.
我们希望你这个周末和朋友庆祝得非常开心。
We hope you had the most fun celebrating with your friends this weekend.
我们都很爱你，妈妈、爸爸和山姆。
We adore you, mom, dad, and Sam.
现在钻进被窝，好好享受今晚的故事吧。
Now snuggle in and enjoy tonight's story.
当然，还要睡个好觉。
And, of course, sleep tight.
祝阿伦八岁生日快乐，来自妈妈、爸爸、阿利斯泰尔和埃弗拉伊姆。
Happy eighth birthday to Arun from mommy, daddy, Alistair, and Efraim.
我们一直很喜欢看着你长成现在这个样子，也很期待看到这一年你会有什么新的精彩。
We have loved watching you grow into the kid that you are now, and we look forward to seeing what this year has in store for you.
我们非常爱你。
We love you so much.
祝澳大利亚弗兰克斯顿的桑尼七岁生日快乐。
Happy seventh birthday to Sunny in Frankston, Australia.
我们为你感到骄傲，我的上铺小伙伴。
We're proud of you, our top bunk buddy.
我们迫不及待想陪你一起迎接接下来一年的冒险和新体验。
Can't wait to be part of the next year of adventures and new experiences for you.
现在，拿起你的Squishy和Jessie娃娃，窝好躺下吧。
Now grab your Squishy and your Jessie doll and snuggle down.
爱你的妈妈、爸爸、金毛和tchotch。
Love from mom, dad, golds, and tchotch.
还有，祝来自加州丹维尔的Lina生日快乐。
And happy birthday to Lina from Danville, California.
祝你今天过得精彩，新的一年一切顺利。
Wishing you an amazing day and a wonderful year ahead.
你的努力、专注和积极态度让你成为一个了不起的运动员和很棒的人。
Your hard work, dedication, and positive attitude make you an incredible athlete and person.
当你开始新学校的生活时，去创造回忆，继续成长吧。
As you begin at a new school, make memories and keep growing.
我们爱你。
We love you.
爱你们的妈妈、爸爸和瑞秋。
Love mom, dad, and Rachel.
祝你们大家生日快乐。
Happy birthday to you all.
现在，我们开始讲故事吧。
Now on to our story.
布鲁不喜欢对任何事情都一无所知。
Blue does not like not knowing everything about everything.
当他得知有一个校际公告时，他有点惊讶。
And when he finds out about an interschool bulletin, he is a little surprised.
星期四，他在做数学思维题时，收到了一条来自陌生用户的消息。
On Thursday, he gets a message from an unknown user as he is working on MathMinds.
当他打开消息时，他认出了其中的一些内容，这让他很惊讶。
When he opens the message, he recognizes something in it that surprises him.
他简短地回复了，结果引来了更多的消息。
He replies briefly, and it leads to more messages.
转学生第三卷第二十二部分。原来学校之间有一份印在纸上的校际通讯，Blue完全不知道这件事，这让他很惊讶，因为他觉得自己几乎什么都知道。
The Transfer Student Volume three Part 22 Apparently, there was an inter school bulletin printed on actual paper and sent between schools, which Blue had no idea about, which was surprising to him since he felt he knew just about everything about everything.
但可能是因为它是纸质的，所以他不知道。
But the fact it was on paper was likely the reason why.
他是在星期二发现的，这下星期二取代星期一，成了他一周中最不喜欢的一天。
He found out about it on Tuesday, which would now replace Monday as his least favorite day of the week.
之前星期一取代了他另一个最不喜欢的日子，因为有一天他发现自己穿了两只不一样的袜子。
Monday had replaced his other least favorite day of the week when he realized he had to wear mismatched socks one day.
他是在晚饭时发现的，那顿饭是红豆咖喱，Red很喜欢。
He found out about it at dinner, a bean and curry affair that Red liked.
Red不像Blue那样热爱披萨和薯条，不过薯条要是努力点，也能用豆子做出来。
She didn't share Blue's passion for pizza and fries, which could be made with beans if you tried hard enough.
咖喱也一样。
Curry too.
Blue觉得咖喱披萨特别好吃。
Curry pizza was especially good, Blue thought.
红提到学校通讯录发给了教育局下的其他小学，里面介绍了侦探社，还附了一张蓝站在背景里、发型不太好看的照片。
Red mentioned something about the school newsletter going out to other elementary schools in the board featuring the solving mysteries club, apparently included a photo with Blue standing in the background with less than optimal hair.
他都不知道自己被拍了照。
He hadn't known he had his photo taken.
红觉得这很好笑。
Red thought it was funny.
蓝可不觉得好笑，但到了周三他差不多就忘了这事。
Blue did not think it was funny, But he'd more or less forgotten about it by Wednesday.
周四放学后，他坐在厨房的桌子旁。
On Thursday after school, he was at the kitchen table.
他更喜欢这里而不是自己房间的书桌，虽然他没仔细想过为什么。
He preferred it to the desk in his room, though he hadn't thought hard about why.
他量过自己书桌的椅子和厨房桌子的椅子，看看高度差是不是一个因素。
He had measured both his desk chair and the kitchen table chairs to see if the difference in height might be a factor.
或者可能是因为这样更容易拿到台子上的零食罐。
Or it might have been quicker access to the treat jars on the counter.
他正在做一套MathMinds的题目，那种他做起来差不多就像其他孩子看电视一样的事情，只不过更有用，这时一条通知弹了出来。
He was working through a MathMinds problem set the kind of thing he did for approximately the same reason other kids watch television, except more useful, when a notification ping came in.
一个他不认识的用户发来了一条新消息。
A new message from a user he didn't recognize.
北方走廊17号。
Northern Corridor 17.
消息里包含一道数学题，乍一看挺普通的。
The message contained a math problem that looked pretty ordinary at first.
这种题在MathMinds上经常被分享。
These kinds of problems got shared on MathMinds all the time.
难度跟他水平差不多，没什么特别的。
It was around his level, nothing really different about it.
但就在他准备关掉消息的时候，他注意到了那个符号。
But just as he was about to click out of the message, he noticed the notation.
括号的样式，闭合的位置在指数前面而不是后面，这种特定的写法。
The bracket style, the specific way the closure sat before the exponent rather than after.
那种写法他以前见过一次，是在一个中转站食堂的纸餐垫上。
He'd seen that once before, on a paper placemat in a transit base cafeteria.
那是一个女孩的笔迹，他认识她的时间，大概也就够他决定要不要吃鸡块和薯条那么长。
In the handwriting of a girl, he'd known for approximately the length of time it took to decide whether it was wise to eat chicken nuggets and fries.
从那以后他就没再吃过鸡块，但他觉得薯条配什么都好吃，尤其是早餐。
He hadn't had nuggets since, but had decided fries were a good addition to anything, especially breakfast.
布鲁深吸了一口气，这招是有人教他的，很可能是他父亲。
Blue took a breath, which was a technique someone had told him about likely his father.
做事情之前先深呼吸。
Take a breath before doing something.
布鲁以前经常把自己搞得头晕，因为他总是等不了太久，而且要做很多决定。
Blue used to make himself dizzy because he couldn't wait very long and he had a lot of decisions to make.
他回了一条消息。
He typed a reply.
他没有去解那道题，也没说什么无聊的话，比如“你好，数学爱好者”。
He didn't solve the problem or say something boring like, Hello, fellow math lover.
他打了一组括号，那是很久以前在基地食堂里发出的第一个信号。
He typed a single bracket arrangement, the first signal from the base cafeteria a long time ago.
他发了出去，然后去拿了些零食，一块燕麦饼干和一些干番石榴，然后等着。
He sent it, went to get a couple of snacks, an oatmeal cookie and some dried guava, and waited.
北方走廊17号花了三十一秒才回复。
It took thirty one seconds for Northern Corridor 17 to post a reply.
第二个信号：是她的。
The second signal: hers.
就是她当初在食堂里回过来的那个，后来那个管理员过来把一切都搞砸了。
The one she'd sent back across the cafeteria before that handler came through and ruined everything.
Blue合上了笔记本电脑。
Blue closed his laptop.
Red出现在厨房门口，大概是来找饼干的，而且很可能把所有饼干都吃掉。
Red appeared in the kitchen doorway, likely looking for a cookie, likely to eat all the cookies.
你看起来怪怪的。
You look weird.
发生什么事了？
What happened?
布鲁斯打开笔记本电脑，一言不发地转过来给她看。
Blue opened his laptop and turned it around without saying anything.
瑞德看了看屏幕。
Red read the screen.
“是那个吗？”布鲁斯说。
Is that Yep, Blue said.
接下来的两天，按照布鲁斯的说法，是他自浣熊事件以来最有趣的两天。
The next two days were, by Blue's assessment, the most interesting two days he'd had since the raccoon situation.
他和北走廊17号通过MathMinds交换信息，起初都很谨慎，两人都在确认对方是不是自己以为的那个人。
He and Northern Corridor seventeen exchanged messages through MathMinds, careful at first, both of them working out whether this was actually who they thought it was.
布鲁斯发布了一个问题，把编码编进了符号里。
Blue posted a problem with the encoding woven into the notation.
她回复了一个，确认她读懂了。
She replied with one that confirmed she'd read it correctly.
他又发了一个。
He posted another.
这次她回复得更快了。
She replied faster this time.
到了周六早上，他们已经基本摸清了情况。
By Saturday morning, they'd established the basics.
北方走廊十七号——蓝管她叫艾达，但其实他们还没正式交换过名字。
Northern Corridor seventeen Blue called her Ada, but they hadn't actually exchanged names yet.
她可能完全用了别的名字，这也挺正常的。
She might have called herself something else entirely, which is quite reasonable.
她住在萨默赛德，大概四十分钟车程，在格林菲尔德小学上学。
She lived in Summerside, about forty minutes away, and went to Greenfield Elementary.
她在地球上的时间跟蓝和红差不多长。
She'd been on Earth for roughly the same amount of time as Blue and Red.
她是通过另一个中转组来的，有不同的对接人，但到达的时间大致相同。
She arrived through a different transit group and had a different handler, but arrived during the same general timeframe.
她认出了Blue八个月前发的一道题里的记号，但直到上周他用了一个他们食堂交流时特有的括号闭合方式，她才完全确定。
She recognized Blue's notation in a problem he posted eight months ago, but hadn't been completely sure until last week, when he used a specific bracket closure that was unique to their cafeteria exchange.
她是在储物柜附近的公告栏上偶然看到校际公告，提到解谜俱乐部，然后在照片背景里发现了Blue。
She'd seen the interschool bulletin about the Solving Mysteries Club by chance on a bulletin board near her locker and spotted Blue in the background of the photo.
她没提他的头发。
She didn't mention his hair.
Blue打算找拍那张照片的人算账。
Blue was going to have words with whoever took that photo.
Red一直在旁边偷看，Blue没邀请他，但也没阻止，因为Red偶尔还有点用。
Red had been reading over his shoulder for most of this, which Blue had not invited but also hadn't stopped because Red was occasionally useful.
Red说，告诉她你很高兴她找到了你。
Tell her you're glad she found you, Red said.
Blue看了看自己打的内容。
Blue looked at what he'd typed so far.
身份确认。
Confirmed identity.
能联系上就好。
Good to establish contact.
这不一样，Red 在他身后看着说。
That's not the same thing, Red said, reading over his shoulder.
传达的信息是一样的。
It conveys the same information.
真的不一样。
It really doesn't.
Blue 又加了一句：也很高兴。
Blue added, Also glad.
Red 发出一个声音，表示这虽然还不完全对，但已经好多了。
Red made a sound that suggested this was not quite right either, but was an improvement.
Ada 的回复在十一秒后就来了。
Ada's reply came back in eleven seconds.
我也是，我们学校有个问题我一直没解决。
Likewise, have a problem at my school I haven't been able to solve.
我觉得你也许能帮上忙，你和你那位大姐姐。
I think you might be able to help, you and your big sister.
蓝和红互相看了一眼，这种情况不常见，除非他们快要吵架了。
Blue and Red looked at each other, which didn't happen often unless they were about to have an argument.
她知道我的事？
She knows about me?
红说道。
Red said.
校际公告，蓝说上面有照片。
Interschool bulletin, Blue said there was a photo.
你知道的，就是你参与的那个破案社团那帮人。
You know, that whole solving mysteries club gang you're involved with.
现在你出名了。
Now you're famous.
我们可能会被AID找上门，因为你不够低调。
We'll probably get a visit from the AID because you're not being low key.
低调？
Low key?
这是地球上的说法。
It's an Earth term.
红坐了下来。
Red sat down.
让我看看问题是什么。
Show me the problem.
本来有公交车，但蓝不能独自坐长途公交，而红对公交车有种莫名的反感，尤其是黄色的那种。
There was a bus, but Blue wasn't allowed to go on long bus rides alone, and Red had some kind of irrational dislike for buses, especially the yellow kind.
所以经过一番劝说，他们的妈妈同意周六下午开车送他们去萨默赛德。
So after much convincing, their mother agreed to drive them to Summerside on Saturday afternoon.
劝说过程中，蓝需要把情况解释得既准确又不让人担心。
The convincing required Blue to explain the situation in a way that was technically accurate without being alarming.
他们的妈妈越来越能敏锐地察觉到他们有没有完全说实话。
Their mother had been developing an uncanny ability to know when they were not being entirely truthful.
而且，除非早餐吃薯条，不然Blue是不会撒谎的。
And well, unless it involved fries for breakfast, Blue would not lie anyway.
所以他告诉她，他通过一个数学论坛重新联系上了交通基地的一个人。
So he told her he'd reconnected with someone from the transit base through a math forum.
这是真的，虽然严格来说是不被允许的。
Which was true, though technically not allowed.
他告诉她那个人在萨默赛德的格林菲尔德小学上学，这也是真的，但他不应该知道这些。
He told her the person went to Greenfield Elementary in Somerside, which was also true, but not something he should know.
他没有提到编码、餐垫或者食堂信号，因为有些信息最好慢慢透露。
He did not mention the encoding, the placemat, or the cafeteria signals, because some information was better introduced gradually.
他们的妈妈看着他的样子，就像她看地球食谱一样，很难形容，但不知怎么的，你就跟着做了。
Their mother had looked at him in much the same way she looked at an Earth recipe book, which was hard to describe, but for some reason you went with it.
他们约在萨默赛德公共图书馆见面，那是个适合初次见面的公共场所，也是AID或者任何特工都会觉得毫不起眼的地方。
They were meeting at the Summerside Public Library, a good public place for a first meeting and the kind of place the AID, or any agents really, would find completely unremarkable.
不是所有孩子都在图书馆见面吗？
Don't all kids meet at the library?
布鲁觉得肯定是这样，而雷德不太确定。
Blue figured they must, while Red wasn't so sure.
这当然是布鲁的主意，因为他总是有好点子。
It was Blue's idea, of course, because he had all the good ideas.
艾达立刻同意了，这让布鲁觉得她也是这么想的：英雄所见略同。
Ada had agreed immediately, which told Blue she'd been thinking along the same lines: Brilliant minds think alike.
他们到的时候，她已经在那儿等着了。
She was already there waiting when they arrived.
她坐在靠窗的桌子旁，面前摊着一本笔记本，包放在旁边的椅子上，包带上有个不起眼的区域栖息地标记。
She was sitting at a table near the window with a notebook open in front of her, her bag on the chair beside her, with the nondescript regional habitat marker on the strap.
北走廊，跟往常一样。
Northern corridor, same as always.
她可能根本没注意到那个标记。
She probably didn't even realize it was there.
他们进门时，她抬起了头。
She looked up when they came through the door.
从周四晚上开始，Blue就一直在想这一刻会是什么样子。
Blue had been thinking about what this moment would be like since Thursday evening.
他也没想出什么特别有创意或值得说的话。
He hadn't come up with anything particularly creative or remarkable to say.
他说，嘿。
He said, hey.
Ada说，嘿。
Ada said, hey.
Red站在Blue身后一点，说，嗨。
Red, standing slightly behind Blue, said, hi.
我是Red。
I'm Red.
Blue什么都没跟我提过你。
Blue has told me nothing about you.
Ada看了看Blue。
Ada looked at Blue.
你说过她会说类似的话。
You said she'd say something like that.
红看着蓝。
Red looked at Blue.
你跟她提起我了？
You told her about me?
蓝说，我如实描述了情况。
I described the situation accurately, Blue said.
红张了张嘴，又闭上了，什么也没说，这很不寻常。
Red opened her mouth and then closed it without saying anything, which was unusual.
艾达把包从椅子上拿开，好让他们坐下。
Ada moved her bag off the chair so they could sit down.
她桌上的笔记本翻开的那页上画着一个图表。
Her notebook on the table had a diagram on the open page.
不是数学题，而是别的东西。
Not a math problem, but something different.
那是一张学校走廊的平面图，画得整整齐齐，边角上还有非常小的字标注着尺寸。
A floor plan of what appeared to be a school hallway, neat and precise, with measurements noted in the margins in very small handwriting.
红看了看那张图。
Red looked at the diagram.
你画了地图吗？
Did you make a map?
这不是地图，艾达说。
It's not a map, Ada said.
这是一个系统。
It's a system.
红和蓝又对视了一眼，这都快成习惯了。
Red and Blue looked at each other again, which was becoming a habit.
亚历克萨肯定会特别喜欢她的红念头。
Alexa would absolutely love her red thought.
短暂的停顿，这时候你可能会问别人旅途怎么样，或者要不要从咖啡柜台带点什么。
There was a brief pause where on earth you might ask someone how their journey was or whether they wanted something from the cafe counter.
也许可以聊聊天气。
Maybe talk about the weather.
但他们谁都没这么做，蓝对此很感激，因为他一直觉得那样太没效率了。
None of them did that, which Blue was thankful for, as he always found it far too inefficient.
艾达把笔记本转了过来。
Ada turned the notebook around.
她说：“那么，问题就是。”
So, the problem, she said.
艾达带着一种已经研究了一段时间的熟练演示，给他们讲解了一遍，她很可能确实研究过。
Ada walked them through it with the practice presentation of someone who had been working on it for a while, which she probably had.
格林菲尔德小学的主走廊里有一个失物招领箱，就在办公室旁边，这在地球的学校里似乎是标配，但艾达刚来的时候觉得这个概念有点让人摸不着头脑。
Greenfield Elementary had a lost and found bin in the main hallway, just past the office, which was apparently standard for Earth's schools, though Ada had found the concept slightly baffling when she first arrived.
在火星上，如果东西不是你的，你就把它留在原地，然后上报。
On Mars, if something wasn't yours, you left it where it was and reported it.
而在这里，所有东西都放进一个箱子里，大部分就一直待在那儿，直到某个孩子的妈妈问起丢失的外套。
Here, everything went in a bin and mostly stayed there until someone's mother asked about a missing jacket.
袜子不知道为什么从来没人认领，这让Blue觉得很奇怪，因为那样的话你就得穿不配对的袜子了。
Socks, for some reason, were never picked up, which Blue found perplexing because it then required you to wear mismatched socks.
三个星期以来，那个箱子里总有特定的东西消失。
For three weeks, specific items had been disappearing from the bin.
都是特定的东西，总是小物件，总能装进口袋或小包里，而且总是在周二和周四下午三点十五到三点四十五之间。
Specific ones, always small, always things that could fit into a pocket or a small bag, and always on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 03:15 and 03:45.
Ada已经排除了几种可能性，她利落地列了出来。
Ada had already ruled out several possibilities which she listed efficiently.
学生拿回自己的东西。
Students taking their own things back.
她查过了。
She'd checked.
那些东西不属于那些天里出现在楼里的任何人。
The items didn't belong to anyone who'd been in the building on those days.
清洁工清理掉了。
The janitor cleaning it out.
她直接问过他，他给她看了学校的规章制度。
She'd asked him directly, and he'd shown her the school policy.
东西是被放错地方而不是被拿走。
Items being misplaced rather than taken.
她有两个目击者，他们看到那个桶里有些特定的东西，后来就不见了。
She had two witnesses who'd seen specific things in that bin that later weren't there.
什么样的东西？
What kind of items?
Red问道。
Red asked.
Ada翻了翻她的笔记本，发圈、笔帽、小橡皮、一颗弹珠、两个瓶盖、几根橡皮筋。
Ada checked her notebook, hair ties, pen caps, small erasers, a marble, two bottle caps, some elastic bands.
Red和Blue对视了一眼。
Red and Blue looked at each other.
Blue小心翼翼地说，你们学校附近有没有浣熊？
Are there, Blue said carefully, any raccoons near your school?
艾达看着他。
Ada looked at him.
浣熊？
Raccoons?
这真的很相关，相信我，布鲁说。
It's quite relevant, believe me, Blue said.
没有浣熊，艾达说，语气像是在决定要不要追问，最后觉得还是先等等吧。
There are no raccoons, Ada said, in the tone of someone deciding whether to ask a follow-up question and concluding it could wait.
雷德已经在想了：小物件。
Red was already thinking: Small objects.
周二和周四。
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
下午三点十五到三点四十五之间。
Between 03:15 and 03:45.
那个时间谁在楼里？
Who's in the building at that time?
课后项目要到四点才开始，艾达说。
After school programs don't start until four, Ada said.
清洁工和办公室职员待到三点半，还有一位老师那些天会留得晚，是伯格伦夫人。
Janitor, office staff until 03:30, one teacher who stays late on those days, Mrs.
她批改试卷。
Bergeron, she marks papers.
她停顿了一下。
She paused.
还有那些兄弟姐妹，就是有哥哥姐姐或弟弟妹妹参加课后合唱团的学生，他们会在走廊里等着。
And the siblings, students who have brothers or sisters in the after school choir, they wait in the hallway.
那些兄弟姐妹多大了？
How old are the siblings?
布鲁问道。
Blue asked.
艾达查了一下她的笔记。
Ada checked her notes.
大多是年龄大一点的，只有一个例外。
Mostly older, except one.
一个女孩，大概六岁？
A girl, maybe six?
她哥哥在合唱团里。
Her brother is in the choir.
她每周二和周四都会在办公室外面的长椅上等。
She waits on the bench outside the office every Tuesday and Thursday.
Blue靠回椅背。
Blue sat back.
有没有人注意过她等待的时候在做什么？
Has anyone looked at what she does while she's waiting?
Ada沉默了一会儿。
Ada was quiet for a moment.
没有，她说。
No, she said.
那我之前还真没想过一个六岁的小孩。
Then I hadn't considered a six year old.
六岁的小孩容易被低估，Blue带着几分感慨说道。
Six year olds are underestimated, Blue said with some feeling.
你在想什么？
What are you thinking?
Red问他。
Red asked him.
我在想，Blue说，一个连续三个星期，每周二和周四都坐在同一条走廊里，旁边就是一箱有趣的小物件，四十五分钟没事干的人，很可能是在搭什么东西，Ada接话道。
I'm thinking, Blue said, that someone who sits in the same hallway every Tuesday and Thursday for three weeks next to a bin full of small interesting objects with nothing to do for forty five minutes is probably building something, Ada finished.
Blue看着她。
Blue looked at her.
周一，Ada说。
Monday, Ada said.
学校周末不开门。
Schools are closed on the weekend.
她停顿了一下，好像还是有点搞不明白。
A brief pause like she was still slightly baffled by this.
我会早点去，盯着那条走廊。
I'll go early and watch the hallway.
不知道为什么，地球上的学校周末都不开门，蓝一直觉得这很奇怪。
For some reason, schools on Earth weren't open over the weekend, which Blue always thought was strange.
周末除了学习，你们还能干什么呢？
What else do you do on the weekend other than study?
红说：“这件事你们大概不需要我们帮忙。”
You probably don't need us for that, Red said.
艾达同意道：“对。”
No, Ada agreed.
她合上了笔记本。
She closed her notebook.
但不管怎样，我还是想告诉你们一声。
But I wanted you to know anyway.
离妈妈按喇叭还有十八分钟。
They had eighteen minutes left before their mother's car horn.
红去看了图书馆的悬疑区，或者可能是科学区，但绝对不是文学区，她说那是为了研究，可能只是因为那是图书馆，红忍不住。
Red went to look at the library's mystery section, or maybe the science section, but definitely not the literature section, which she said was for research purposes, and was probably only just because it was a library, and Red couldn't help it.
这留下蓝和艾达单独在桌旁，蓝怀疑红是故意的。
This left Blue and Ada at the table alone, which Blue suspected Red had done on purpose.
艾达又打开了她的笔记本，这次翻到更后面的一页。
Ada opened her notebook again, this time further to the back and to a different page.
那页看起来被反复修改过，有些线条被擦掉又重画了好几次。
It looked worked over, with lines that had been erased and redrawn multiple times.
不同颜色的笔芯。
Different colors of lead.
有些线条看起来像是照着家里的东西画的。
Some other lines looked like they were drawn from something from home.
她把笔记本转过来给蓝看。
She turned it around so Blue could see.
方块之间用线连起来。
Blocks connected by lines.
是他看不懂的记号。
Notation he didn't recognize.
又紧凑又精确。
Compressed and precise.
这种画法，通常是一个人想某件很具体的事情想很久的时候才会画出来的。
The kind of thing someone drew when they were thinking about something very specific and had been thinking about it for a long time.
他像平时一样专注地看着，但看得很快。
He looked at it with the same level of concentration he always did, but he did so quickly.
这是什么？
What is this?
他问道。
He asked.
阿达说，这是我在火星上开始弄的东西。
Something I started on Mars, Ada said.
自从我们到了这儿，我就一直在弄这个打发时间。
I've been working on it to pass the time since we arrived.
Blue翻了翻后面的几页。
Blue looked at the following pages.
你解决不了的问题是什么？
What's the problem you can't solve?
Ada把笔记本拿回去，看了一会儿，然后合上了。
Ada took the notebook back, looked at it for a moment, and closed it.
她说，也许下次给你看吧。
Perhaps I'll show you next time, she said.
她们妈妈的车喇叭从停车场传来。
Their mother's horn sounded from the car park.
一声短促而礼貌的哔哔声。
A short, polite beep.
她总是很准时，而且很可能回家路上还得去那种特别吵的杂货店停一下。
She was always punctual and likely needed to stop at one of those terribly noisy grocery stores on the way home.
布鲁会留在车里。
Blue would stay in the car.
他受不了那些音乐和闪烁的灯光。
He couldn't stand the music and flashing lights.
红从书堆里出来时，手里没拿书，这说明她一直躲在书架后面偷听。
Red reappeared from the book collection without one, which meant she'd been listening from behind a shelf the whole time.
布鲁觉得这事现在不值得争论，先留着，以后当把柄用。
Blue figured it was something to not argue about now save it for ammunition later.
他们在图书馆门口和艾达道别。
They said goodbye to Ada at the library door.
艾达只是轻轻抬了一下手，就像那种觉得挥手太夸张、但又不想显得太冷淡的人会做的那样。
Ada raised one hand briefly, the way someone did when a wave felt like too much, but nothing felt like too little.
布鲁尴尬地挥了挥手回应。
Blue awkwardly waved back.
他们的妈妈正在图书馆的停车场等着。
Their mother was waiting in the library car park.
这车一点声音都没有，这是蓝唯一喜欢它的地方。
The car made no sound, which is the only thing Blue liked about the car.
这车太危险了，靠别人的技术和那一堆塑料和钢铁来保护你，感觉不靠谱。
It just seemed too dangerous, relying on the skill of others and their mass of plastic and steel to protect you from them.
她直到上了高速才问情况怎么样，蓝觉得她挺有耐心的。
She didn't ask how it went until they were on the highway, which Blue thought was pretty patient of her.
“很好，”她眼睛盯着路说。
Good, she said, eyes on the road.
“很好，”蓝说。
Good, Blue said.
“她很有条理，”红补充道。
She's very organized, Red offered.
“她做了个系统，”蓝说。
She made a system, Blue said.
她们的母亲点了点头，好像这解释了一切，对他们家来说，可能确实如此。
Their mother nodded like this explained everything, which for their family, it probably did.
他们开了一会儿车，经过一些颠簸的街道，还路过了一家大冰淇淋店，这让Blue觉得挺遗憾的。
They drove for a while through some bumpy streets, passing, and for Blue regrettably, a large ice cream shop.
然后他们回到了主干道上，两边是平坦的田野，边缘开始泛黄，就像这里一贯的样子。
And then they were back on the main road, flat fields on either side growing brown at the edges the way they did here.
Red望着窗外。
Red looked out the window.
她本来可以自己解开那个谜团的。
She could have solved that mystery herself.
我知道，Blue说。
I know, Blue said.
她不需要我们。
She didn't need us.
又猜对了。
Correct again.
那她为什么联系你？
So why did she contact you?
Blue沉默了一会儿。
Blue was quiet for a moment.
窗外，一座农场掠过，接着是一个加油站，然后好一阵子什么都没有。
Outside, a farm went past, then a gas station, then nothing for a while.
他说：“那本笔记本。”
The notebook, he said.
Red想着她在图书馆书架后面看到的那些页，她相当确定Blue知道这件事。
Red thought about the pages she'd seen from behind the library shelf, which she was fairly certain Blue knew about.
那些方块和线条，她不认识的记号，还有Blue看到时脸上的表情。
The blocks and lines, the notation she didn't recognize, the look on Blue's face when he'd seen it.
Red说：“她从火星起就在研究什么东西。”
She's been working on something since Mars, Red said.
而且她一个人完成不了。
And she can't finish it alone.
Blue没有回答，这本身就是一种回答。
Blue didn't answer, which was its own kind of answer.
红看着他。
Red looked at him.
她会是个麻烦，对吧？
She's going to be a problem, isn't she?
蓝望着窗外掠过的田野。
Blue looked out his window at the passing fields.
可能吧，他说。
Probably, he said.
他听起来并不为此感到不高兴。
He didn't sound unhappy about it.
这部分就到这里结束了。
And that is the end of this part.
晚安。
Good night.
睡个好觉。
Sleep Tight.
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