雙語讀電影《瘋狂動物城》第18章 我覺得你挺適合做警察的

Chapter 18

It didn’t take long for Judy and Nick to find Assistant Mayor Bellwether in city hall. She was struggling to hold a stack of files while keeping up with Mayor Lionheart.

“Sir?” said Bellwether. “If we could just review these very important—”

As Bellwether continued to struggle and dodge out of the way inside the busy lobby, she almost stepped on a little mouse.

“Oh, I’m sorry...sir!”

“I heard you, Bellwether,” said Lionheart impatiently. “Just take care of it, okay?” He set a folder on top of her huge stack. “And clear my afternoon. I’m going out.”

“But, sir, you have a meeting with Herds and Grazing...Sir—”

Lionheart continued through the door, letting it slam right in Bellwether’s face. All the files she was carrying were knocked to the floor.

“Oh, mutton chops,” she said, trying to collect the scattered pieces of paper.

“Assistant Mayor Bellwether,” said Judy, approaching her. “We need your help.”

Bellwether led them to her tiny, cramped office. Judy and Nick looked around, surprised. Bellwether’s office was actually a janitor’s closet!

“We just need to get into the traffic camera database,” Judy said as Bellwether typed on the keyboard of her computer.

Nick barely touched the wool puff on top of Bellwether’s head and whispered, “Sooo fluffy!” He was mesmerized. “Sheep never let me this close—so fluffy—like cotton candy—”

“You can’t touch that! Stop it!” scolded Judy, swatting his hand away as she tried to keep Bellwether from seeing Nick.

“Where to?” Bellwether asked as she pulled up traffic cameras for the whole city. She looked up at Judy, catching the rabbit in mid-swat.

“Rainforest District. Vine and Tujunga.”

Nick and Judy shared a smiled. This time, Judy had pronounced Tujunga correctly.

“This is so exciting, actually. Well, you know, I never get to do anything this important,” said Bellwether.

“You’re the assistant mayor of Zootopia,” said Judy.

“Oh, I’m more of a glorified secretary,” said Bellwether. “I think Mayor Lionheart just wanted the sheep vote...But he did get me that nice mug.” She proudly pointed to a mug that read WORLD’S GREATEST ASSISTANT MAYOR.

“Smellwether!” shouted Mayor Lionheart through the intercom.

Bellwether cringed as she got up. “Oh, that’s a fun little name he uses. I called him Lionfart once. He didn’t care for that.” She pressed the button on the intercom. “Yes, sir?”

“I thought you were going to cancel my afternoon!” Lionheart yelled.

“Oh, dear...I better go. Let me know what you find. It was really nice for me to—”

“While we’re young, Smellwether!” the mayor’s voice boomed again as she opened the door and hurried out.

“Well, I’m gonna need a lint brush,” said Nick.

“Oh shush,” said Judy. “Okay. Traffic cameras. Tujunga, Tujunga...we’re in.”

Nick and Judy watched the footage onscreen. They saw Manchas acting wild, and then...a black van pulled up, skidding to a stop.

“Who are these guys?” Judy asked.

“Timber wolves. Look at these dum-dums.”

They watched as wolves got out of the van and trapped Manchas with a net! Judy gasped, but Nick just shook his head.

“Bet you a nickel one of them’s gonna howl,” Nick said.

One of the wolves howled.

“There it is. What is with wolves and howling?” he asked.

“Howlers. Night howlers,” said Judy. “That’s what Manchas was afraid of—wolves! The wolves are the night howlers. If they took Manchas—”

“I bet they took Otterton, too,” said Nick.

“All we’ve gotta do is find out where they went,” said Judy, examining the footage. As the wolves drove off, they disappeared through a tunnel and didn’t come out the other side. “Wait. Where’d they go?”

Nick squinted at the picture. “You know, if I wanted to avoid surveillance because I was doing something illegal—which I never have—I’d use the maintenance tunnel 6B, which would put them out...” Nick clicked over to another camera’s footage, then another, and another...and then the wolves emerged in the van! “Right there.”

“Look at you,” Judy said, impressed. “Junior Detective. You know, I think you’d actually make a pretty good cop.”

“How dare you,” Nick said in mock horror, trying not to smile.

Judy clicked through some more surveillance videos, tracking the wolves through alleys and back roads. “They’re heading out of town,” she said. “Where does that road go?”

“It’s one of two places: it’s either that very, very scary old building...or a Beaver Renaissance Faire.”

第 18 章

朱迪和尼克沒費(fèi)多大勁就在市政廳找到了羊副市長。她一邊跟著獅市長，一邊艱難地抱住一沓厚厚的文件。

羊副市長說：“市長先生，我們能不能先看看這幾份重要的——”

羊副市長艱難地抱著文件，在忙碌的人群中躲閃，差點(diǎn)踩到一只小老鼠。

“對不起……先生!”

獅市長不耐煩地說：“我聽到了，羊副市長。小心一點(diǎn)，好嗎?”他把一個文件夾放在她抱著的那一大摞文件上說：“今天下午的安排全部取消，我要外出。”

“但是市長先生，您下午得跟獸類動物和食草類動物開會……市長先生——”

獅市長徑直走出了門，將門摔在羊副市長的臉上，她抱著的文件散落了一地。

“哦，成羊排了。”她說著，準(zhǔn)備把散落的文件拾起來。

朱迪走近她，說：“羊副市長，我們需要您的幫助。”

羊副市長領(lǐng)著他們進(jìn)了自己狹小擁擠的辦公室。朱迪和尼克環(huán)顧四周，驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)她的辦公室竟然是門衛(wèi)的壁櫥!

“我們只是想要進(jìn)入交通錄像監(jiān)控數(shù)據(jù)庫。”朱迪邊說，羊副市長邊敲著自己的電腦鍵盤。

尼克碰了碰羊副市長頭頂?shù)难蛎÷曊f道：“真松軟啊!”他深深地陶醉了。“綿羊從不讓我靠近，嗯——真軟，像棉花糖一樣——”

“你不要碰她!住手!”朱迪邊罵，邊把他的手拍到一邊，讓羊副市長不要看到尼克的舉動。

羊副市長打開整座城市的監(jiān)控錄像，問道：“看哪里的?”她抬起頭看向朱迪，正看到她在打尼克的手。

“雨林區(qū)，攀緣路與圖洪加路交界處。”

尼克和朱迪相視一笑，這回朱迪把圖洪加給念對了。

羊副市長說：“好興奮啊!你們知道嗎?我從沒參與過這么重要的事情。”

朱迪說：“你可是動物城的副市長啊!”

“哦，我更像是榮譽(yù)秘書。我覺得獅市長只是想讓綿羊投票……但是他確實(shí)給了我那個漂亮的獎杯。”她說著驕傲地指向一個杯子，上面寫著：“世界最佳副市長獎”。

這時，辦公室的對講機(jī)突然傳來市長的聲音：“斯梅爾韋瑟!”

羊副市長畏畏縮縮地站了起來。“其實(shí)這是他叫我的小名，我也叫過他萊昂法特。他沒在意。”她按了一下對講機(jī)上的通話按鈕說：“在的，市長先生!”

獅市長叫喊道：“我還以為你要去為我辦取消下午行程的事呢。”

“哦，親愛的……我得走了。你們有什么發(fā)現(xiàn)一定要告訴我。我真的很高興能——”

“斯梅爾韋瑟，快一點(diǎn)去!”市長低沉的聲音再次傳來，她奪門而出。

尼克說：“嗯，我需要一只紗布刷。”

“噓——好的，監(jiān)控錄像。圖洪加，圖洪加，就是這里了。”朱迪說道。

尼克和朱迪盯著屏幕上的影像。他們看到麥岔正在發(fā)狂，然后……一輛黑色小貨車開了過來，緩緩?fù)Ａ讼聛怼?/p>

朱迪問道：“這些人是誰?”

“伐木狼。你看這些達(dá)姆彈。”

他們看到那些狼下了車，用一張網(wǎng)把麥岔抓了起來!朱迪倒吸一口涼氣，而尼克只是搖搖頭。

“他們中有一個馬上會嚎叫，我跟你賭五分錢的怎么樣?”尼克說。

果然一只狼嚎叫起來。

他問：“看吧，狼和嚎叫代表著什么?”

朱迪說：“嚎叫者，夜嚎者。這些狼才是麥岔害怕的，他們是夜嚎者，如果他們抓走了麥岔——”

尼克說：“我打賭，奧獺頓也是被他們抓走的。”

“我們現(xiàn)在要做的就是找到他們?nèi)チ四摹?rdquo;朱迪一邊說著，一邊查看錄像。狼把車開走之后進(jìn)了一條隧道，但并沒有從隧道另一頭出來。“等等，他們?nèi)ツ牧?”

尼克瞇起眼睛看著畫面說：“如果我在做違法的事，又想不被人發(fā)現(xiàn)，當(dāng)然我沒有做過啦，我會開到正在維修的6B隧道去，那條隧道會讓他們安全出來。”尼克切換著監(jiān)控錄像，換了一個又一個……最終，那些狼出現(xiàn)在了車?yán)?“就是這兒!”

朱迪驚訝地說：“不錯呀你!真是個小偵探!我覺得你挺適合做警察的。”

尼克忍著沒笑，裝作害怕的樣子說：“你怎么敢這么說。”

朱迪又切換了幾個監(jiān)控錄像，追蹤著狼一路走過山谷和小路。“他們往城外去了，”她說道，“這條路通向哪里?”

“只有兩個可能，要么是那個非常非?？膳碌睦戏孔?hellip;…要么就是比弗康復(fù)中心。”