╗ ╚ 【書名】：A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure 韓·索羅與丘巴卡的冒險 【作者】：Rucka Greg / Noto Phil 【類型】：電影改編小說 【簡介】： 《Journey to Star Wars》／《星球大戰：原力覺醒》之旅—— The Wookiee frowned and growled his response. 伍基人皺起眉頭，發出低吼作為回應。 “I’m sure I don’t have the first idea,” C-3PO answered. “He says that you need to join him at once, because the princess won’t take no for an answer and he feels it would be more persuasive coming from you.” 「我完全不知道該怎麼辦，」C-3PO 回答道。「他說你必須立刻與他會合，因為公主不會接受拒絕的答覆。他認為，由你出面說話會更有說服力。」 The Wookiee grinned, mostly because he knew there was nobody to see it. Those two had been at each other from the moment they’d met. This explained things. They were supposed to have lifted off more than an hour earlier to make their way back to Tatooine. Between the reward money for rescuing the princess from the Death Star and the fee they’d been promised for the Alderaan run besides, they had more than enough money to square things with Jabba. Enough, even, to get back into his good graces and have him call off the bounty hunters he had already set on their trail. But that would work only if they brought the money to Jabba; if the bounty hunters brought them in first, it would be a different situation entirely. 伍基人露出了笑容，主要是因為他知道沒有人會看到他的笑容。那兩個人從一見面開始就互相看不順眼。這就解釋了一切了。他們本應在一個多小時前就起程返回塔圖因。除了從死星上救出公主所獲得的獎金，以及執行阿爾德蘭任務所應得的報酬之外，他們手頭上的錢足以讓賈巴滿意。甚至有足夠的錢讓賈巴取消已經派去追捕他們的賞金獵人。不過，這些都得在他們把錢交給賈巴之後才有可能實現；如果賞金獵人先把他們抓起來，那情況就完全不同了。 Jabba didn’t deal kindly with those who owed him money. He’d take their freedom and maybe their lives, and he’d definitely take the Falcon. None of those outcomes appealed to the Wookiee. He knew for a fact that they appealed to Solo even less. 賈巴對那些欠他錢的人從不寬容。他會奪走他們的自由，甚至可能奪走他們的性命，當然也一定會把「千年隼號」奪走。這些結果完全不符合伍基人的心意。而他知道，這些結果更不可能讓索羅滿意。 The Wookiee barked a response to C-3PO, slapped the comm button again, and swung up from his seat, ducking out of habit as he stepped out of the cockpit and knocked the pair of novelty chance dice that he’d hung there as a joke some years ago. There was only one thing that would make Han Solo delay their departure, and that was a pretty girl. 那個伍基人對 C-3PO 叫了幾聲作為回應，又按了一下通訊按鈕，然後從座位上站起來。出於習慣，他在走出駕駛艙時低下了頭，結果撞到了幾年前他為了開玩笑而掛在那兒的兩個小骰子。只有一件事能讓韓·索羅延遲出發，那就是美麗的女孩。 He had to admit, he was curious to find out just what the pretty girl wanted. 他不得不承認，他很好奇，想知道那個漂亮女孩到底想要什麼。 “I’m not part of this!” Han Solo said. “I’m not a part of your rebellion, I’m not a freedom fighter, and I don’t work for you, Your Highness!” 「我與此事無關！」韓·索羅說。「我不是你們叛亂的一部分，我不是什麼自由鬥士，更不是為了你而工作的人，殿下！」 Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan took two quick steps forward, her face tilting up to glare at the smuggler. If Solo’s nearly half a meter of height over her impressed her at all, it didn’t show. She raised an index finger, directing it at the smuggler as if contemplating poking him in the eye. 阿爾德蘭的萊亞·奧加納公主快步向前走了兩步，抬起頭怒視著那名走私者。如果索羅高出她近半米的身高讓她有所印象的話，她也沒有表現出來。她抬起食指，指向那名走私者，似乎想戳他的眼睛。 “If you worked for me,” she said, “I’d have fired you already.” 「如果你為我工作，」她說，「我早就解僱你了。」 “If I worked for you, lady, I’d have quit.” Solo crossed his arms, certain he had, for the moment, claimed the last word. 「如果我為您工作，殿下，我早就辭職了。」索羅雙手交叉在胸前，他確信，至少在目前這個時刻，自己已經說出了最後一句話。 The princess remained motionless for a moment, using a glare that had once, he imagined, reduced her opponents in the now-dissolved Imperial Senate to tears. One of the rebel soldiers busy dismantling the control room edged past, her arms full of equipment, carefully avoiding eye contact. During the battle, the room had been cluttered with displays tracking the Death Star’s relentless approach to the Yavin moon, monitors broadcasting the pilot chatter as fighter after fighter had been lost, downed by anti-starship fire or the precision work of their TIE opponents. The base, as Solo understood it, had been set up in a temple to the gods of the long-forgotten and long-dead people of Yavin 4. The rebels had found it and made it the heart of their operations. Now it would again be what it was, a legacy to those lost and forgotten. 公主一動不動地站了片刻，用那種銳利的目光瞪著前方。他想像著，想必這種目光曾讓已經解散的帝國參議院中的對手們落淚不已。其中一名正在拆除控制室的叛軍士兵從她身邊經過，他手裡拿著各種設備，小心翼翼地避免與她眼神接觸。在戰鬥期間，控制室裡到處都是用來監控死星不斷逼近雅文衛星的儀器，以及用來傳輸駕駛員們對話的監視器。一架又一架戰鬥機被擊落，不是被星艦炮火摧毀，就是被 TIE 戰鬥機擊中。據索羅所知，這個基地原本是建在雅文 4 號上那些早已被遺忘的民族的神廟裡的。叛軍發現了它，並將其作為自己行動的基地。現在，它將再次恢復原本的樣子，成為那些已經消失、被遺忘的人們的遺跡。 A battered service droid whined its way past carrying one of the monitors, and Leia took that as an excuse to break their staring contest, turning away in barely disguised disgust. She was angry and not afraid to show it, and Solo had to admit he took a certain pleasure in winding her up. Her buttons were so easy to press. She was, undoubtedly, one of the most beautiful women he had ever met, and coming from Han Solo that actually meant something, because he’d seen a lot of the galaxy and his share of beautiful women. That she was smart, brave—perhaps, given her position in the Rebellion, suicidally so—and gave as good as she got only made her more attractive to him. She was also as stubborn as a gundark, and he appreciated that, too. In fact, he kinda liked her, especially with all they had recently been through together with the kid and the old man. 一個破舊不堪的服務機器人拖著其中一臺顯示器絞盡腦汁地往前挪動。莉亞趁機打斷了這種互相凝視的狀況，轉過身去，臉上明顯流露出厭惡的表情。她很生氣，但毫不害怕表現出來。索羅不得不承認，他其實很享受惹她生氣的感覺。她的脾氣實在是太容易惹了。毫無疑問，她是他所見過的最美麗的女人之一。而對韓·索羅來說，這絕非誇張之詞——他走遍了整個銀河系，見過許多美麗的女人。她聰明、勇敢，或許，鑒於她在反抗軍中的身份，這種勇敢近乎魯莽。她總是全力以赴地回應每一件事，這反而讓她在他眼中更吸引人。她還固執得像頭倔驢，而他也很喜歡這一點。事實上，他挺喜歡她的，尤其是經歷了最近與那個孩子和老人的種種之後。 But there was absolutely no way he was going to tell her that, especially when she was trying to guilt him into maybe dying for a cause he had no part in and wanted no part of. 但他絕對不會把這件事告訴她，尤其是當她試圖用內疚感來迫使他，去為一個他既與之無關、也不願參與的事業而犧牲性命時。 出版年：2015年 |
