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疯狂动物城 ZOOTOPIA

著　　者　美国迪士尼公司

译　　者　信　艳　付远山

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This is Zootopia, and anyone can be anything.

这里是动物城，所以一切皆有可能。

Judy Hopps

Judy Hopps is a thoughtful, idealistic, and true-blue bunny. She believes that in Zootopia, anyone can be anything and her big dream is to become a ZPD officer. However, when she moves to the big city, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force isn’t easy. Determined to prove herself, Judy jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist named Nick to solve the mystery.

朱迪·霍普斯

朱迪·霍普斯是一只心思缜密、具有理想主义色彩、忠诚坚定的兔子。她认为动物城的动物无所不能，而她最大的理想则是在动物城警察局当一名警官。然而，在搬到这座大城市之后，她发现做警察局有史以来第一位兔子警官并非易事。为了证明自己的实力，朱迪欣然接受了一个破案的机会，即便那意味着要与油嘴滑舌、诡计多端的狐尼克一起来破解这个谜团。

Nick Wilde

Nick Wilde is a small-time, con-artist fox. He’s charming and clever and always quick with a joke. He’s an unrepentant realist and believes you are what you are, no matter how hard you try to overcome your label. To him, all sloths are slow, all weasels are weaselly, and all bunnies are dumb. But when an idealistic rabbit cop named Judy Hopps outsmarts him, he finds himself actually helping her solve a mystery.

尼克·王尔德

尼克·王尔德是一只爱小打小闹、能说会道的狐狸。他长相迷人，头脑敏锐，很会讲笑话。他是个顽固的现实主义者，认为不管人们如何努力都无法摆脱自身的标签而成为他人。在他看来，树懒都很迟缓，鼬鼠都很狡猾，兔子都很木讷。但是，当一只名叫朱迪·霍普斯、带有理想主义色彩的兔子警官比他还机灵时，他在不知不觉中帮助她解决了这个谜团。

Flash

Flash is the fastest sloth working at the DMV—of course, that’s not saying much. As a sloth, Flash tends to do everything—like talking—at his own particular pace. He’s as helpful as he can be, and when his pal needs a rush job, Flash springs into action.

闪电

闪电是动物车辆管理局里动作最迅速的树懒——当然，这并不能说明问题。作为一只树懒，闪电尽心尽力——像说话一样——按照自己的节奏办事。他非常乐于助人，当他的朋友需要处理一件紧急任务时，闪电踊跃承担了这项工作。

Yax

Yax is the most enlightened, down-to-earth mammal in Zootopia, thanks in part to his gig at the Mystic Spring Oasis. No matter if he’s hanging in Tundratown or Sahara Square—Yax is the definition of chill.

犀利哥

犀利哥因为在神秘泉绿洲表现突出，而被公认为动物城里最开明、最踏实的动物。不管是在冰川镇还是撒哈拉广场，他都是“沉稳”的代名词。

目录

Chapter 1

第 1 章

Chapter 2

第 2 章

Chapter 3

第 3 章

Chapter 4

第 4 章

Chapter 5

第 5 章

Chapter 6

第 6 章

Chapter 7

第 7 章

Chapter 8

第 8 章

Chapter 9

第 9 章

Chapter 10

第 10 章

Chapter 11

第 11 章

Chapter 12

第 12 章

Chapter 13

第 13 章

Chapter 14

第 14 章

Chapter 15

第 15 章

Chapter 16

第 16 章

Chapter 17

第 17 章

Chapter 18

第 18 章

Chapter 19

第 19 章

Chapter 20

第 20 章

Chapter 21

第 21 章

Chapter 22

第 22 章

Chapter 23

第 23 章

Chapter 24

第 24 章

Chapter 25

第 25 章

Chapter 26

第 26 章

Chapter 27

第 27 章

Chapter 28

第 28 章

返回总目录

Chapter 1

The wild sounds of ancient predators echoed through a large barn in Bunnyburrow. A young bunny named Judy Hopps appeared on a makeshift stage, trying to find her way through a papier-mâché and cardboard jungle.

Judy’s voice rang out loud and clear. “Fear. Treachery. Bloodlust! Thousands of years ago, these were the forces that ruled our world. A world where prey were scared of predators. And predators had an uncontrollable desire to maim and maul and—”

Suddenly, a jaguar leapt on her from the shadows! “Blood, blood, blood!” Judy screamed as she crumpled under the attack. “And death.”

After a long and drawn-out moment of terrible silence, Judy sat up, faced the confused audience, and smiled as she continued her monologue. A banner reading CARROT DAYS TALENT SHOW hung over the stunned crowd.

“Back then, the world was divided in two: vicious predator or meek prey.” Two cardboard boxes dropped down from the ceiling. The first, labeled vicious predator in crayon, landed on top of the jaguar, and the second, labeled meek prey, landed on Judy. The boxes settled on their shoulders so their heads, arms, and legs stuck out. “But over time, we evolved and moved beyond our primitive, savage ways.”

A young sheep wearing a white robe and a cardboard rainbow on his head did an improvisational dance across the stage. Judy and the jaguar burst out of their boxes, now wearing white robes, too. “Now predator and prey live in harmony.”

Judy and the jaguar, revealed as another friendly youngster, shook hands as the sheep sprinkled glitter on them. “And every young mammal has multitudinous opportunities,” Judy said.

“Yeah. I don’t have to cower in a herd anymore,” said the sheep. Then he ripped off his robe, revealing a homemade astronaut costume. “Instead, I can be an astronaut.”

“I don’t have to grow up to be a lonely hunter,” said the jaguar, showing a business suit under his robe.

“Today I can hunt for tax exemptions. I’m gonna be an actuary!”

“And no longer do I have to blindly serve the almighty carrot,” said Judy. “I can make the world a better place—saving lives, defending the defenseless! I am going to be...” Judy ripped off her robe and stood in a blue uniform. “A police officer!”

In the audience, a nasty fox kid named Gideon Grey snickered to his two friends. “Bunny cop. That is the most stupidest thing I ever heard,” he said.

Back onstage, it was almost as if Judy had heard his remark. “It may seem impossible...to small minds,” she said, pointing at him. “I’m looking at you, Gideon Grey.” Judy snapped her fingers and a backdrop showing a bright city skyline unrolled behind her. “But just two hundred and eleven miles away stands the great city of...ZOOTOPIA! Where our ancestors first joined together in peace, and declared that ANYONE CAN BE ANYTHING! Thank you and good night!”

Judy proudly bowed, as if she had just given the performance of her life. Dutiful applause came from the audience, including her parents, Bonnie and Stu Hopps.

Moments later, Judy, still wearing her police costume, excitedly exited the barn with her parents. Outside, the Carrot Days Festival was in full swing as everyone enjoyed booths, games, and rides.

“Judy, ever wonder how your mom and me got to be so darn happy?” Stu asked.

“Nope,” Judy answered.

“Well, I’ll tell ya how,” Stu continued, as if he hadn’t heard Judy. “We gave up on our dreams and we settled, right, Bon?”

“Oh yes,” Bonnie agreed. “That’s right, Stu. We settled hard.”

“See, that’s the beauty of complacency, Jude. If you don’t try anything new, you’ll never fail,” Stu said.

“I like trying, actually,” Judy said.

Bonnie looked at their daughter. “What your father means, hon...it’s gonna be difficult—impossible, even—for you to become a police officer.”

“There’s never been a bunny cop,” Stu said.

“I guess I’ll have to be the first one!” said Judy as she parkoured against a fence. “Because I’m gonna make the world a better place.”

“Or...heck, you wanna talk about making the world a better place—no better way to do it than becoming a carrot farmer,” said Stu.

“Yes! Your dad and me and your two hundred seventy-five brothers and sisters—we’re changing the world one carrot at a time,” said Bonnie.

“Amen to that. Carrot farming is a noble profession,” Stu agreed.

But Judy stopped paying attention to her parents when she spotted Gideon Grey following some little kids. She was instantly alert, and she went after him.

“You get it, honey?” Bonnie asked Judy. “I mean, it’s great to have dreams.”

“Yeah, just as long as you don’t believe in them too much,” Stu continued as he looked around for his daughter. “Jude? Where the heck did she go?”

第 1 章

在一个叫兔窝镇的地方，古老的食肉动物那野性的吼声在一间宽敞的谷仓里回荡着。一只叫朱迪·霍普斯的年轻兔子出现在一个临时搭建的舞台上，正想方设法寻找一条道路，要穿过由混凝纸浆和硬纸板做的丛林。

朱迪那响亮而清晰的声音突然响起：“恐惧。背叛。血腥屠杀！几千年之前，这些暴力行为统治着我们这个世界——一个猎物害怕食肉动物的世界，而食肉动物有着不可控制的欲望去残害、殴打和——”

突然，一头美洲豹从阴影处向她扑了过来！“谋杀，谋杀，谋杀！”朱迪受到攻击瘫倒在地后大叫道，“和屠杀。”

可怕的沉默持续了很长一段时间，然后朱迪坐起来，面对着困惑不解的观众，微笑着继续她的独白。在目瞪口呆的观众上方，悬挂着一条写着“胡萝卜节达人秀”的横幅。

“当时，整个世界被一分为二：凶残的食肉动物和温顺的猎物。”两个纸板箱从天花板上落了下来。一个用蜡笔写着“凶残的食肉动物”的纸板箱降落在美洲豹的上方，而另一个写着“温顺的猎物”的纸板箱则落在了朱迪的头顶。这两个箱子最终停留在他们的肩头，所以他们的头、胳膊和腿都伸了出来。“但是久而久之，我们进化了，摆脱了之前原始、野蛮的方式。”

一只年轻的小绵羊，身穿白袍子，头戴用纸板做成的彩虹，在舞台上即兴跳了一段舞蹈。朱迪和美洲豹突然从箱子里冲出来，此刻他们也都穿着白袍子。“现在，食肉动物和猎物和睦相处了。”

朱迪和这头作为另一位友好青年出现的美洲豹握手言欢，这时小绵羊向他们挥洒着闪光纸屑。“每个年轻的动物都有各种各样的机会。”朱迪说道。

“对。我再也不用战战兢兢地躲在羊群里了。”小绵羊说道。说完，他撕破身上的袍子，露出了自制的宇航服：“相反，我可以做宇航员。”

“我长大也不用当一名孤独的猎兽了。”美洲豹说完，展示出了袍子里面的西装。

“如今我可以寻求税收减免。我要当精算师！”

“我再也不用盲目地服务于万能的胡萝卜。”朱迪说道，“我要让世界变得更美好——拯救生命，保护弱者！我要当……”她一把扯掉袍子，身着蓝色制服站在那里，继续说道：“一名警官！”

人群中，一只不那么友善的小狐狸吉丁·格雷对着他的两位朋友暗自窃笑。“兔子警察。这是我听过的最傻的事情。”他说道。

舞台上，朱迪好像听到了他的评价。“这也许不太可能……对于思想狭隘的人来说，”朱迪说完，指着他，“我看着你呢，吉丁·格雷。”朱迪打了个响指，舞台背景上，一幅璀璨的城市景象展现在她身后。“位于211英里之外的地方，有一座美好的城市……动物城！我们的祖先就是在那里第一次和睦地团结在一起，并且宣布我们无所不能！感谢聆听，祝大家晚安！”

朱迪自豪地鞠了一躬，就像是刚刚完成了生命中最精彩的演出。人群报以礼节性的鼓掌，包括她的父母——邦妮和斯图·霍普斯。

片刻之后，依然一身警察装扮的朱迪跟随父母兴奋地出了谷仓。外面，大家享受美食，畅玩游戏，乘坐游乐设施，胡萝卜节庆典进行得如火如荼。

“朱迪，有没有想过你妈妈和我怎么过得这么快乐？”斯图问道。

“没有。”朱迪回答道。

“那我告诉你，”斯图继续说道，就像没有听到朱迪的回答一样，“我们放弃了梦想，然后安定下来了，对吗，邦？”

“哦，对，”邦妮赞同地说道，“没错，斯图。我们好不容易安定了下来。”

“明白了吧，这就是见好就收的好处，朱迪。不尝试新事物，就永远不会失败。”斯图说道。

“实际上，我想试试。”朱迪说道。

邦妮看了看他们的女儿：“你父亲的意思是，亲爱……对你而言，要当一名警官，那会很难——甚至是不可能的。”

“从来就没有兔子当警察。”斯图说道。

“我想我会是第一个！”朱迪说着，疾步翻过篱笆，“因为我要使世界更美好。”

“哦……见鬼，你想谈谈使世界变得更美好——最好的方式就是当一名种胡萝卜的菜农。”斯图说道。

“对！你爸爸和我，还有你那275个兄弟姐妹——我们通过每次一根胡萝卜的方式改变世界。”邦妮说道。

“同意。种植胡萝卜是个高尚的职业。”斯图赞同地说道。

但是当朱迪发现吉丁·格雷正在尾随着几个小动物而行时，她就不再留心父母说什么了。她立刻警觉起来，从后面追赶过去。

“明白了吗，亲爱的？”邦妮问朱迪道，“我是说，有梦想，很棒。”

“对，只要别把它太当回事儿，”斯图边四下寻找他的女儿边继续说着，“朱迪？她到底去哪儿了？”

Chapter 2

Judy got closer and saw Gideon Grey doing what the fox did best—bullying some kids.

“Give me your tickets right now, or I’m gonna kick your meek little sheep butt,” said Gideon, before giving the kid a shove. Then he took the sheep’s tickets and smacked her with them. “Baa-baa,” he mocked. “What’re ya gonna do, cry?”

“Ow!” yelped the sheep. “Cut it out, Gideon!”

“Hey!” said Judy firmly. “You heard her. Cut it out.”

Gideon looked at Judy and laughed. “Nice costume, loser,” he snarled. “What crazy world are you living in where you think a bunny could be a cop?”

“Kindly return my friend’s tickets,” Judy said calmly.

Gideon snarled and stuffed the tickets into his pocket. “Come get ’em. But watch out, ’cause I’m a fox. And like you said in your dumb little stage play, we predators used to eat prey. And that killer instinct is still in our Dunnahh.”

“I’m pretty sure it’s pronounced D-N-A,” whispered one of Gideon’s wolf pals.

“Don’t tell me what I know, Travis,” Gideon said, irritated.

“You don’t scare me, Gideon,” said Judy.

Gideon shoved Judy so hard that she fell to the ground with a thud. Judy’s eyes began to water.

“You scared now?” Gideon said cruelly. The other prey animals cowered behind a tree, leaving Judy to face the bullies alone.

“Look at her nose twitch,” said Travis mockingly. “She is scared!”

“Cry, little baby bunny. Cry, cry—” Gideon taunted.

Bam! Before Gideon could say another word, Judy kicked him in the face with her hind legs, knocking him down. But he sprang right back up, and he was mad. “Oh, you don’t know when to quit, do you?” Gideon said, unsheathing his claws like a fist of knives.

He slapped Judy in the face, his sharp claws digging into her skin, making her bleed. Then he knocked her down and held her face in the dirt. “I want you to remember this moment,” Gideon said coldly, “anytime you think you’ll ever be anything more than just a stupid, carrot-farming dumb bunny.”

Gideon and his pals walked away, laughing, leaving Judy in the dirt. She got up, wiped the blood off her cheek, and glared at their backs.

“Aw jeez, that looks bad,” said Gareth, a sheep.

“Are you okay, Judy?” asked Sharla, the sheep the bullies had taken the tickets from.

Judy took a breath and pulled something out of her front pocket, smiling wide.

“Here you go!” she said, returning the tickets that Gideon had stolen.

“Wicked! You got our tickets!” said Sharla.

“You’re awesome, Judy!” exclaimed Gareth.

“That Gideon Grey doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Sharla added.

Judy slapped her police hat back on top of her head, and there was a look of determination in her eye. “Well, he was right about one thing: I don’t know when to quit.”

第 2 章

朱迪逐渐靠近，看到吉丁·格雷做的正是狐狸最拿手的事情——欺负小孩子。

“赶紧把你们的票给我，否则我踢烂你们这群懦弱的小绵羊的屁股。”吉丁说完，猛推了一个小羊一下。紧接着，他拿走了这只小绵羊的票，还用票扇了她一下。“咩咩，”他奚落道，“你该怎么办呢，哭吗？”

“哎哟！”小绵羊尖声嚷道，“住手，吉丁！”

“嘿！”朱迪坚定地说道，“你听到她的话了。住手。”

吉丁看了看朱迪，然后笑了。“衣服不错，蹩脚货，”他吼道，“你活在什么疯狂的世界，竟然认为兔子能当警察？”

“请把票还给我的朋友。”朱迪平静地说道。

吉丁龇牙咧嘴地咆哮一声，把票塞进了口袋。“有本事来拿。不过小心点儿，我可是狐狸。就像你在那出愚蠢的小舞台剧里说的那样，我们食肉动物过去是捕食猎物的。我们的基因里依然存有捕杀的本性。”

“我很确定，它的发音是D-N-A。“吉丁的朋友一头狼低声说道。

“用不着你来告诉我，特拉维斯。”吉丁恼怒地说道。

“你吓唬不了我，吉丁。”朱迪说道。

吉丁使劲推了朱迪一把，她重重地摔在了地上。朱迪的眼眶泛起了泪花。

“现在怕了吗？”吉丁残酷地说道。其他小动物缩在一棵树后面，只留下朱迪独自面对这帮坏蛋。

“看她的鼻子，在抽动，”特拉维斯嘲讽地说道，“她真的害怕了！”

“哭吧，小兔子宝宝。哭吧，哭——”吉丁讥讽道。

嘭！吉丁一句话还没说完，朱迪就抬起后腿，一脚踹在了他脸上，把他踢倒在地。但是他立即挺身跳起来，大为光火：“哦，你不知道什么时候该认输，是吗？”吉丁说着，露出了他那双像利刃一样的爪子。

他一巴掌拍在朱迪的脸上，锋利的爪子剜进朱迪的肉里，使她血流不止。紧接着他将朱迪击倒，把她的脸按在地上。“我要让你记住这一刻，”吉丁冷酷地说道，“什么时候你想起来，都会记住，你不过是一只又蠢又傻的、种胡萝卜的笨兔子。”

吉丁和他的同伙一路狂笑着走远了，留下朱迪倒在地上。她起身擦掉脸颊上的血迹，对他们的背影怒目而视。

“哎呀，情况看上去不太好。”小绵羊加雷思说道。

“你还好吗，朱迪？”被那帮坏蛋抢走票的小绵羊沙勒问道。

朱迪吸了一口气，眉开眼笑地从前襟口袋里掏出一样东西。

“给你。”她一边将吉丁抢走的票还回去一边说道。

“太棒了！你拿回了我们的票！”沙勒说道。

“你真了不起，朱迪！”加雷思惊呼道。

“那个吉丁·格雷都不知道他在说什么。”碧羊丝补充道。

朱迪将她的警帽重新扣回头上，眼神中透出一股坚毅：“嗯，有一件事他说对了——我不知道什么时候该认输。”

Chapter 3

Fifteen years later, Judy Hopps worked her tail off in the Zootopia Police Academy. She was small compared to the rest of the cadets—who were mostly elephants, rhinos, and bison—but she was strong-willed.

Because of her size, the physical training was the toughest part. Cadets had to get through obstacles in simulators that mimicked all of the twelve unique ecosystems that made up the city of Zootopia. From freezing Tundratown to sweltering Sahara Square, each ecosystem presented its own set of challenges—whether it was trying to scale an ice wall or survive in a scorching sandstorm.

Judy fell down more than anyone. In her mind she could hear the voices of her parents, her drill instructor, and Gideon Grey all doubting that there could ever be a bunny cop. And it was those voices that made Judy work harder than anyone else. Through persistence and perseverance, she managed to keep up and surprise everyone.

In the final weeks of training, Judy used her bunny skills, like her strong legs and her great hearing, to help prove her worth. She sailed through the physical obstacles and at times even passed the other cadets. Once, she knocked down a male rhino ten times her size during a final sparring session!

On graduation day, Judy took her place among the other graduates during the ceremony, including the rhino who sported a fat lip and a black eye. The mayor, a lion named Leodore Lionheart, stepped up to the podium.

“As mayor of Zootopia, I am proud to announce that my Mammal Inclusion Initiative has produced its first police academy graduate. The valedictorian of her class...ZPD’s very first rabbit police officer, Judy Hopps. Assistant Mayor Bellwether, her badge?” the mayor said to a small sheep standing nearby.

“Oh! Yes. Right,” said Bellwether.

“Judy, it is my great privilege to officially assign you to the heart of Zootopia: Precinct One, City Center,” Lionheart said.

Judy walked across the stage to the sound of deafening applause—the loudest coming from her parents, even as Stu sobbed.

Mayor Lionheart handed Judy her diploma while Bellwether stepped forward and pinned her ZPD badge onto her uniform. “Congratulations, Officer Hopps.”

“I won’t let you down. This has been my dream since I was a kid,” said Judy.

“It’s a real proud day for us little guys,” Bellwether whispered.

“Bellwether, make room, will you?” said Lionheart, smiling broadly. “All right, Officer Hopps. Let’s see those teeth!”

A photographer posed Judy with Mayor Lionheart and Bellwether. But Lionheart edged Bellwether out of the photo.

Days later, Judy’s parents, along with several siblings, accompanied her to the train station.

“We’re real proud of you, Judy,” said Bonnie.

“Yeah. Scared, too,” said Stu. “Really, it’s a proud-scared combo. I mean, Zootopia. It’s so far away and such a big city.”

“Guys, I’ve been working for this my whole life,” Judy told her parents, trying to hide how thrilled she really was.

“We know,” said Bonnie. “And we’re just a little excited for you, but terrified.”

“‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,’” said Judy.

“And also bears,” said Stu. “We have bears to fear, too. To say nothing of lions, wolves...”

“Wolves?” Bonnie asked, perplexed.

“...weasels...,” Stu continued.

“You play cribbage with a weasel,” said Bonnie.

“And he cheats like there’s no tomorrow. Pretty much all predators do—and Zootopia’s full of ’em. And foxes are the worst.”

“Actually, your father does have a point there,” added Bonnie. “It’s in their biology. Remember what happened with Gideon Grey?”

“When I was nine,” said Judy. “Gideon Grey was a jerk who happened to be a fox. I know plenty of bunnies who are jerks.”

“Sure. We all do. Absolutely,” said Stu. “But just in case, we made you a little care package to take with you.” He held out a bag.

“And I put some snacks in there,” said Bonnie.

Judy looked inside and saw a bunch of pink spray canisters. “This is fox repellent,” explained Stu, picking one up.

“Yeah, that’s safe to have,” said Bonnie.

“This is fox deterrent...,” Stu said, pointing at something that looked like an air horn.

“The deterrent and the repellent. That’s all she needs,” Bonnie said, trying to stop Stu from going overboard.

“Check this out!” Stu said as he pulled out a fox Taser and turned it on, causing it to sizzle.

“Oh, for goodness’ sake! She has no need for a fox Taser, Stu.”

“Come on. When is there not a need for a fox Taser?” asked Stu.

“Okay, I will take this to make you stop talking,” said Judy. She grabbed the pink can of fox repellent as the train approached.

“Terrific! Everyone wins!” Stu exclaimed.

“Arriving! Zootopia express!” called the conductor.

“Okay. Gotta go. Bye!” said Judy, heading for the train.

Stu and Bonnie held back tears as they watched their daughter walk off. Suddenly, Judy turned back and ran to her parents. She wrapped her arms around them both. “I love you guys,” she said, hugging them.

“Love you, too!” said Bonnie.

After one more hug, Judy jumped onto the train.

“Cripes, here come the waterworks,” said Stu as his tears started to flow. “Ahhahoho jeesh...”

“Oh, Stu, pull it together,” whispered Bonnie.

The big crowd of bunnies watched Judy go, and as the train pulled away, they ran next to it, waving and shouting their goodbyes.

“Bye, everybody! Bye!” Judy called.

When their faces faded into the distance, Judy climbed to the observation deck and took a deep breath. She pulled out her phone and clicked on some music, feeling like her life was about to begin.

第 3 章

十五年之后，朱迪·霍普斯在动物城警察学院竭尽全力地学习。与其他学员相比——大部分是大象、犀牛和野牛——她的个头较小，但是她意志坚强。

由于个头的缘故，体能训练对她来说是最艰难的部分。学员们需要穿越仿真障碍，这些仿真障碍都是模仿构成动物城的十二种独特生态系统而建。从天寒地冻的冰川镇，到闷热难耐的撒哈拉广场，每种生态系统都展现了其独有的一系列挑战——不管是试图攀爬冰墙还是在灼人的沙尘暴中求生。

朱迪倒下去的次数比其他人都多。在她的心中，她能听到很多人的声音，她父母的、操练教官的和吉丁·格雷的，所有人都对兔子当警察表示怀疑。而就是这些声音使朱迪比其他任何人都要努力。经过坚持不懈的奋斗，她成功地坚持了下来，令所有人都大吃一惊。

在训练的最后几个星期里，朱迪运用了兔子的本领——比如她强健的腿力和敏锐的听力——来证明自己的价值。她顺利地通过了物理障碍，有时候甚至还超越了其他学员。有一次，她在拳击赛决胜局还击倒了一头个头是她的十倍的雄性犀牛。

毕业典礼那天，朱迪坐在了其他毕业生中间，包括那头嘴唇发肿、眼睛乌青的犀牛。狮子市长利奥多·莱昂哈特踏上了颁奖台。

“作为动物城的市长，我很荣幸地宣布‘动物选拔计划’产生了第一届警察学院毕业生。致告别辞的毕业生代表是……动物城警察局史上第一位兔子警官——朱迪·霍普斯。羊副市长，她的徽章呢？”市长对站在身旁的一只小个头绵羊说道。

“哦！对，在这里。”羊副市长说道。

“朱迪，我很荣幸地正式派你去动物城的中心：中心城1号辖区。”狮市长说道。

伴随着震耳欲聋的鼓掌声，朱迪穿过颁奖台走了过来——最响亮的掌声来自她的父母，斯图甚至都激动得抽泣起来。

羊副市长走向前，将动物城警察局徽章别在朱迪的制服上，狮市长则把证书递给了朱迪。“恭喜，霍普斯警官。”

“我不会让您失望的。这是我从小的梦想。”朱迪说道。

“这真是我们小个头动物值得骄傲的日子。”羊副市长轻声说道。

“羊副市长，腾个地儿，好吗？”狮市长笑容可掬地说道，“好了，霍普斯警官，让我们面带笑容！”

一位摄影师摆好了朱迪与狮市长和羊副市长的姿势。但是狮市长将羊副市长挤出了镜头。

几天后，朱迪的父母和几位兄弟姐妹陪伴她来到了火车站。

“我们真为你感到骄傲，朱迪。”邦妮说道。

“的确。也很担心，”斯图说道，“实际上，是既骄傲又担惊受怕。我是说，动物城离家太远，而且城市太大。”

“各位，我这辈子都在为此奋斗，”朱迪一边对她的父母说着，一边尽力掩饰她是多么喜不自胜。

“我们唯一需要害怕的就是害怕本身。”朱迪说道。

“还有熊，”斯图说道，“我们还害怕熊，更不用说狮子、狼……”

“狼？”邦妮困惑不解地问道。

“……鼬鼠……”斯图继续说道。

“你常和鼬鼠打克里比奇纸牌。”邦妮说道。

“他骗起人来脸不红心不跳。所有的食肉动物都这样——动物城里到处都是这些家伙，而狐狸是最卑鄙的。”

“事实上，你爸爸在这一点上说得很有道理，”邦妮补充道，“这是他们的天性。还记得吉丁·格雷的事吗？”

“我九岁那年，”朱迪说道，“吉丁·格林还是个头脑简单的家伙，可他偏偏是一只狐狸。我认识很多头脑简单的兔子。”

“当然，我们都是。的确如此。”斯图说道，“不过以防万一，我们为你准备了一个随身爱心小包裹。”他拿出了一个袋子。

“我还放了一些点心进去。”邦妮说道。

朱迪朝袋子里看了看，发现一堆粉色的喷雾罐。“这是防狐液，”斯图拿起一个，解释道。

“对，带上这个有备无患。”邦妮说道。

“这是驱狐剂……“斯图指着某个看着像是扬声器一样的东西说道。

“防狐液和驱狐剂。她需要的都有了。”邦妮说着，试图阻止斯图太过极端。

“看看这个，”斯图一边说，一边掏出防狐狸泰瑟电击枪，并打开了开关，它发出嘶嘶的响声。

“哦，看在上帝的分上！她不需要防狐狸泰瑟枪，斯图。”

“得了吧。什么时候不需要防狐狸泰瑟枪？”斯图问道。

“好吧，我会带上这个，省得你们争吵。”朱迪说道。看到火车驶近了，她便抓起了那罐粉色的防狐液。

“太棒了！大家都满意了！”斯图高兴地叫道。

“进站了！动物城特快列车！”检票员喊道。

“好了，要走了，再见！”朱迪说着朝列车走去。

斯图和邦妮强忍住眼泪看着他们的女儿渐行渐远。突然，朱迪转过身奔向她的父母。她抱住他们。“我爱你们。”她拥抱着他们说道。

“我们也爱你！”邦妮说道。

再次拥抱之后，朱迪跳上了列车。

“天哪，眼泪出来了。”斯图说着，眼泪涌了出来。“啊啊啊，嘤嘤嘤……”

“哦，斯图，振作一点。”邦妮柔声说道。

一大群兔子目送朱迪离开，火车开动时，他们都随火车奔跑，边挥手边呼喊着再见。

“再见，各位！再见！”朱迪喊道。

当他们的面容消失在远方时，朱迪爬上观景台，深吸了一口气。她掏出手机，播放了几首音乐，感觉属于她的生活马上就要开始了。

Chapter 4

As the train came around a bend, Judy gazed out the window at the incredible sight in the distance: Zootopia. She pressed her face against the glass and watched each borough of the city pass by.

Judy exited the train at Central Station, which served downtown Zootopia, and made her way outside into the city’s central plaza. It was incredible! She took out her earbuds and let the chaotic city sounds wash over her as she looked around, awestruck. Animals of all shapes and sizes rushed by, hurrying this way and that. It was a far cry from Bunnyburrow!

She looked down at her phone and checked her maps app to figure out which way to go.

When she found her apartment building, the landlady, Dharma, an armadillo, led her to a little apartment.

“Welcome to the Grand Pangolin Arms,” said

Dharma, stepping aside to let Judy in. “Complimentary delousing once a month. Don’t lose your key.”

Kudu and Oryx, Judy’s neighbors, passed in the hallway. Judy greeted them warmly. “Oh, hi, I’m Judy. Your new neighbor.”

“Yeah, well, we’re loud,” said Kudu.

“Don’t expect us to apologize for it,” added Oryx.

The two hurried off, slamming the door of their apartment behind them. Dharma had left as well, leaving Judy alone in her apartment for the first time. She looked around.

“Greasy walls...rickety bed...,” said Judy.

Then loud voices came from the other side of the wall: “Shut up!” “You shut up!” “No! You shut up!”

“Crazy neighbors.” Judy flopped onto the bed with a big smile. “I love it!”

第 4 章

火车过弯道时，朱迪凝望着窗外，看着远处不可思议的景色：动物城。她把脸贴在玻璃上，看着一个个城区一闪而过。

朱迪在位于动物城市区的中央车站下了火车，出了站便朝城市中央广场走去。太难以置信了！她四下观望着，惊叹不已；与此同时她拿掉耳塞，让城市的喧嚣声涌进她的耳朵里。各种身形、各种块头的动物疾步闪过，匆忙奔向各处。这里与兔窝镇有天壤之别！

她低头查看手机，通过地图程序确定了该朝哪个方向走。

当她找到公寓大楼时，女房东犰狳达纳默领着她进了一间小公寓房。

“欢迎光临穿山甲公寓。”她说道。

达纳默站在一侧让朱迪进房间：“每个月免费灭虫一次。别把钥匙弄丢了。”

朱迪的邻居库度和欧力士从走道里路过。朱迪热情地和他们打招呼：“嗨，你们好，我是朱迪，你们的新邻居。”

“哦，好的，我们很吵的哦。”库度说道。

“别指望我们为此道歉。”欧力士补充道。

这两位匆忙离开，砰的一声甩手关上了公寓门。达纳默也离开了，留下朱迪第一次独自待在房间里。她四下环顾着。

“满墙油污……快要散架的床……”朱迪说道。

就在这时，隔壁传来吵闹的声音。“闭嘴！”“你闭嘴！”“不！你闭嘴！”

“疯狂的邻居。”朱迪扑通一声躺在床上，满脸笑容地说道，“我喜欢！”

Chapter 5

Beep. Beep. Beep. At the sound of her morning alarm, Judy sprang out of bed. She washed, brushed, and rinsed. Then she put on her vest, pinned on her badge, and strapped on her belt. She was ready to protect the city! She glanced at the pink can of fox repellent sitting on the bedside table and walked out, leaving it behind. But after a moment, she reached back in the room and grabbed it—just in case.

She left her apartment and headed toward the Zootopia Police Department for her first day on the job!

Judy’s eyes widened as she entered the chaotic and loud ZPD. Big burly cops pushed criminals through the lobby as people rushed around in every direction. She dodged a few husky animals before finally finding her way to the front desk. There, a pudgy, friendly-looking cheetah sat chatting with some other cops.

Judy smiled at him as she approached, but he couldn’t see her because she was shorter than the desk.

“Excuse me!” Judy called up to the desk. “Down here. Down. Here. Hi.”

The cheetah leaned over the desk and saw Judy standing there in her uniform.

“O-M goodness!” he said. “They really did hire a bunny. What! I gotta tell you; you are even cuter than I thought you’d be.”

Judy winced. “Oh, uh, I’m sure you didn’t know, but for us rabbits...the word ‘cute’ is a—it’s a little—”

“Oh! I am so sorry. Me, Benjamin Clawhauser, the guy everyone thinks is just a flabby, donut-loving cop, stereotyping you...,” he said apologetically.

“It’s okay. Oh, um, actually you’ve—actually—” Judy stammered as she tried to figure out how to say it. “There’s a—in your neck—the fold...there’s—”

Clawhauser removed a small donut from under a roll of neck fat. “There you went, you little dickens!” said Clawhauser to the donut. Then he joyfully crammed it into his mouth.

“I should get to roll call, so...which way do I...?” Judy asked. “Oh!” Clawhauser said with his mouth full of donut. “Bullpen’s over there to the left.”

“Great, thank you!” Judy said, and hurried off.

“Aw...that poor little bunny’s gonna get eaten alive,” he said, watching her go.

Inside the bullpen, rhinos, buffalo, hippos, and elephants prepared for work. They towered over Judy, but she didn’t mind. She excitedly climbed up into a massive, elephant-sized chair and gazed around the room.

“Hey. Officer Hopps,” Judy extended her paw to a gigantic rhino whose name tag read MCHORN. “You ready to make the world a better place?” she asked sincerely.

McHorn snorted and reluctantly gave her a fist bump, nearly knocking her off her chair.

“TEN-HUT!” shouted one of the officers as Police Chief Bogo, a gruff Cape buffalo, entered the room. Everyone instantly fell in line and started stomping on the floor.

“All right, all right. Everybody sit,” said Bogo. “I’ve got three items on the docket. First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.” He nodded toward an elephant officer. “Francine, happy birthday.”

The shy elephant blushed as the cops clapped, snorted, and hooted. “Number two: there are some new recruits with us I should introduce. But I’m not going to, because I don’t care.”

Bogo moved toward a map. “Finally, we have fourteen missing mammal cases,” he said, gesturing to the pushpin-covered map. “FOURTEEN CASES. Now, that’s more than we’ve ever had, and City Hall is right up my tail to solve them. This is priority one. Assignments!”

Bogo began barking out assignments as one of the officers handed out case files. “Officers Grizzoli, Fangmeyer, Delgato: your teams take missing mammals from the Rainforest District. Officers McHorn, Rhinowitz, Wolfard: your teams take Sahara Square. Officers Higgins, Snarlov, Trunkaby: Tundratown. And finally, our first bunny, Officer Hopps.”

Judy sat up, she’d been waiting anxiously for her assignment. Bogo grabbed the last case file from Higgins and held it dramatically in the air as he looked at Judy.

“Parking duty. Dismissed!”

“Parking duty?” asked Judy quietly. She hurried after Bogo. “Uh, Chief? Chief Bogo?”

Bogo looked around and saw no one until he looked down to see Judy at his ankles.

“Sir, you said there are fourteen missing mammal cases.”

“So?”

“So I can handle one. You probably forgot, but I was top of my class at the academy.”

“Didn’t forget. Just don’t care.”

“Sir, I’m not just some token bunny.”

“Well, then writing a hundred tickets a day should be easy,” said Bogo, walking out and slamming the door behind him.

“A hundred tickets,” said Judy, stomping her foot. She turned toward the closed door and shouted, “I’m gonna write two hundred tickets! Before noon!”

第 5 章

滴滴！滴滴！滴滴！听到晨起的闹铃，朱迪跳下了床。她洗脸，刷牙，漱口。然后她穿上马甲，别上徽章，束上腰带。她已经做好保护这座城市的准备！她瞄了一眼床头柜上放着的那罐粉色防狐液，然后走出门，把它留在了那里。但是片刻之后，她又折回房间，一把抓起了那瓶防狐液——只是以防万一。

她离开了公寓，去动物城警察局报到！

走进嘈杂而宽敞的动物城警察局时，朱迪双眼瞪得浑圆。高大魁梧的警察推着罪犯穿过大厅，大家忙得团团转。她左右躲闪着避开几个健壮的动物，终于推开人群挤到了前台。在那里，一只友善的、胖嘟嘟的猎豹正坐着与其他几位警察聊天。

朱迪面带着微笑朝他走过去，但是他看不到朱迪，因为朱迪还没有桌子高。

“打扰一下！”朱迪朝桌子上方喊道，“下面这里。下面。这里。你好。”

那只猎豹从桌子上探过身子，才看到朱迪穿着制服站在那里。

“哦，天哪！”他说道，“他们真的招了个兔子。什么！我跟你说，你比我想象中还要可爱。”

朱迪皱了皱眉头。“哦，嗯，我敢肯定你不知道，对我们兔子而言……‘可爱’这个词的意思是——它有点——”

“哦！真是对不起。我，本杰明·克劳豪瑟，大伙儿都说我是个肌肉松弛、爱吃甜甜圈的警察，认为你就是……”他抱歉地说道。

“没什么。哦，呃，实际上你已经——实际上——”朱迪结结巴巴地说着，努力想着该怎么描述出来。“有个——你脖子上——褶子……有个——”

克劳豪瑟从脖子上的一圈赘肉下取出一个小小的甜甜圈。“又来这一套，你这个小淘气！”克劳豪瑟对那个甜甜圈说道。接着，他欢快地将它塞进了嘴里。

“我该去点名了，所以……我该去哪里……？”朱迪问道。“哦！”嘴巴里塞满甜甜圈的克劳豪瑟说道，“办公室在那边，往左走。”

“好极了，谢谢！”朱迪说完，便匆忙走开了。

“哦……那个可怜的小兔子会被活吞的。”他一边看着朱迪离开一边说道。

办公室里，犀牛、水牛、河马和大象准备工作了。他们都比朱迪高出很多，但是朱迪毫不介意。她兴奋地爬上一把像大象那么大的敦实座椅，惊奇地左顾右盼。

“嗨，我是霍普斯警官。”朱迪向一头巨大的犀牛伸出了爪子，他的铭牌上写着“麦大角”字样。“您愿意让这个世界更美好吗？”她诚挚地问道。

麦大角哼了一声，很不情愿地和她碰了碰拳头，差一点把她从椅子上撞翻。

“立——正！”随着博格局长——一头脾气暴躁的非洲水牛走进房间，一位警官喊道。大家立即站成一队，在地板上跺了一下脚。

“好，好。大家坐下，”牛局长说道，“我有三件事情要宣布。第一，我们要感谢房间里的大象。”他朝大象警官点了点头，继续说道：“法兰欣，生日快乐。”

警官们有的拍手，有的哼着鼻子，还有的发出嘘声，这头害羞的大象脸颊绯红。“第二，我们来了一些新成员，我应该做个介绍，但是我不打算介绍，因为我不在乎。”

牛局长移步到一幅地图前。“最后，我们有14起动物失踪案件，”他指着图钉下的地图说道，“14起。现在的这个数字超过了以往任何时候，而市政厅也一直追着我要破案。这是头号要案。开始下达任务！”

在一名警官分发案件卷宗时，牛局长开始大声喊着下达任务。“格里佐里, 法格梅尔, 迪卡图警官：你们负责救回热带雨林区的失踪动物。麦大角、瑞诺温兹, 沃法德警官：你们负责撒哈拉广场。希金斯, 斯纳罗伍, 牛局长警官：你们负责冰川镇。最后，我们的第一位兔子霍普斯警官。”

朱迪坐直身子，她一直在焦急地等待着自己的任务。牛局长看了看朱迪，一把从希金斯手中夺过最后一份卷宗，夸张地把它举到半空中。

“停车场值班。解散！”

“停车场值班？”朱迪悄声问道。她急忙去追赶牛局长。“呃，局长？牛局长？”

牛局长环顾四周，谁也没看到，直到他低下头，才看到在他脚踝边的朱迪。

“局长，你刚才说有14起动物失踪案件。”

“那又怎样？”

“那么我可以处理一起。你可能不记得了，我之前是警察学院的尖子生。”

“没忘。只不过不在乎罢了。”

“局长，我可不是做摆设的兔子。”

“哦，那一天开一百张罚单应该很轻松。”牛局长说着，走了出去，还随手关上了门。

“一百张罚单。”朱迪一边说，一边抬起了一只脚重重地跺了一下。她转身面对关闭的门大喊道：“我要开两百张罚单！而且是在中午之前！”

Chapter 6

Sporting her traffic-enforcement hat and a bright-orange vest, Judy climbed into her parking cart, buckled up, and put on her shades. She pressed the gas pedal down and took off...very slowly.

Judy’s ears twisted and turned as she used her excellent hearing skills to listen for expired parking meters. Each time one dinged, she dashed over and wrote a ticket. She ticketed dozens of cars of every size—moose cars, mouse cars, and everything in between.

“Boom! Two hundred tickets before noon,” she said proudly.

She turned to see her traffic cart parked at an expired meter. “Two hundred and one,” she said with a self-satisfied smile as she wrote herself a ticket.

Then the sound of a car horn and an angry sheep yelling out his window interrupted her moment. “Watch where you’re going, fox!” the sheep yelled.

Judy saw a red fox across the street and eyed him suspiciously. Then she shook her head and scolded herself for being suspicious without a real reason. But when she saw him look around before slinking into Jumbeaux’s Café, she crossed the road and peeked in through the window. He was nowhere to be seen.

Now completely suspicious, Judy unsnapped the pink can of fox repellent from her holster and headed inside.

The café was an elephant ice cream parlor. Elephants used their trunks to scoop ice cream into bowls and decorate sundaes with nuts, whipped cream, and cherries. Judy spotted the fox at the front of the line. Jerry Jumbeaux, Jr., the elephant working behind the counter, yelled at the fox. “Listen, I don’t know what you’re doing skulking around during daylight hours, but I don’t want any trouble here. So hit the road!”

“I’m not looking for any trouble either, sir, I simply want to buy a Jumbo-pop,” said the fox innocently, reaching behind him, “for my little boy. You want the red or the blue, pal?”

When Judy noticed the little toddler clinging to the fox’s leg, she felt awful for jumping to conclusions. “I’m such a...,” Judy muttered to herself as she turned to leave.

“Listen, buddy. There aren’t any fox ice cream joints in your part of town?”

“There are. It’s just, my boy—” The fox tousled the boy’s fur. “This goofy little stinker—he loves all things elephant. Wants to be one when he grows up. Who the heck am I to crush the little guy’s dreams?”

The boy pulled up the hood of his elephant costume and made a cute little toot-toot sound with his toy elephant trunk. Judy smiled. Realizing she still had it out, she quickly tucked her fox repellent back into its holster.

“Look, you probably can’t read, fox, but the sign says”—Jerry pointed to the sign as he read it slowly— “WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE. So beat it.”

“You’re holding up the line,” said an annoyed elephant, waiting behind them.

The little toddler looked as if he was about to cry. Judy marched up to the counter and flashed her badge at Jerry.

“Hello? Excuse me?” said Judy.

“You’re gonna have to wait your turn like everyone else, meter maid,” said Jerry.

“Actually...I’m an officer. Just had a quick question. Are your customers aware that they’re getting snot and mucous with their cookies and cream?”

“What are you talking about?” asked Jerry, annoyed.

“Well, I don’t want to cause you any trouble, but I believe scooping ice cream with an ungloved trunk is a class-three health-code violation. Which is kind of a big deal. Of course, I could let you off with a warning if you were to glove those trunks and—I don’t know—finish selling this nice dad and his son a...what was it?” Judy smiled at the fox.

“A Jumbo-pop,” said the fox.

“A Jumbo-pop,” said Judy firmly.

Jerry stared for a moment, then said, “Fifteen dollars.”

The fox turned to Judy. “Thank you so much. Thank you.” He dug through his pockets before stopping in disbelief. “Are you kidding me? I don’t have my wallet. I’m sorry, pal, worst birthday ever.” The fox leaned down to give the toddler a kiss, then turned to Judy. “Thanks anyway.”

Judy slapped some cash on the counter. “Keep the change,” she said.

Once Jerry gave them the Jumbo-pop, Judy held the door as the fox and his little boy exited Jumbeaux’s.

“Officer, I can’t thank you enough,” said the fox. “So kind, really. Can I pay you back?”

“Oh no, my treat. It just—you know, it burns me up to see folks with such backward attitudes toward foxes,” Judy said. “Well, I just wanna say, you’re a great dad and just a...a real articulate fellow.”

“Ah, well, that is high praise. It’s rare that I find someone so non-patronizing...Officer...”

“Hopps. Mr...,” Judy said, not catching the sarcasm that was evident in the fox’s tone.

“Wilde. Nick Wilde.”

Judy bent down toward the little fox. “And you, little guy, you want to be an elephant when you grow up...you be an elephant—because this is Zootopia, and anyone can be anything.” She placed a ZPD badge sticker on the boy’s chest.

“All right, here you go—” Nick said, handing him the huge Jumbo-pop. “Two paws. Yeah. Aw, look at that smile, that’s a happy birthday smile! Give her a little bye-bye toot-toot.”

The adorable little fox tooted his trunk.

“Toot-toot!” said Judy happily. Then she walked off with a spring in her step. It felt great to help somebody in need!

第 6 章

朱迪戴着醒目的交通执法帽，穿着亮橙色的马甲，爬上了她的巡逻车，系上安全带，戴上了墨镜。她一脚踩在油门上，车子开动了……异常缓慢。

朱迪的耳朵扭来扭去，她在利用敏锐的听觉本领来留神听着停车计时器超时的声音。只要计时器一响，她就冲过去开罚单。她贴了大大小小几十辆汽车——麋鹿车，老鼠车，还有任何大小介于两者之间的车子。

“生意兴隆！中午之前开了两百张罚单。”她骄傲地说道。

她扭头看了一眼她那辆停在一个超时的计时器旁边的巡逻车。“两百零一。”她一边说，一边沾沾自喜地给自己的车子也开了张罚单。

就在这时，汽车的喇叭声和愤怒的绵羊透过车窗的叫喊声打断了她的美好时光。“看好你的路，狐狸！”那只绵羊大叫道。

朱迪看到一只红色的狐狸穿过大街，就满腹狐疑地盯着他。紧接着，她又摇了摇头，责怪自己不该凭空猜疑。但是当她看到他东张西望后悄悄溜进了江伯克斯咖啡店时，她便穿过马路透过玻璃朝里面偷看了一眼。他不见了。

朱迪现在觉得非常可疑，就从手枪皮套里取出那瓶粉色的防狐液，拧开瓶盖，走了进去。

这家咖啡店是一家大象冰激凌店。大象们用他们的长鼻子将冰激凌舀进碗里，再用坚果、鲜奶油和樱桃来装饰圣代。朱迪在队伍前面发现了那只狐狸。收银员大象小杰瑞·江伯克斯冲着那只狐狸尖声吼道：“听着，我不知道你大白天鬼鬼祟祟地做什么，但是我不想这里有什么麻烦。所以滚吧！”

“我也不想惹麻烦，先生；我只是想买根超级冰棍，”那只狐狸伸出手指向身后，一脸无辜地说道，“给我的小儿子。你想要红色的还是蓝色的，伙计？”

当朱迪看到那个紧紧抓住狐狸的腿蹒跚学步的小家伙时，她为自己妄下结论而感到难过。“我真是……”朱迪转身离开时喃喃自语道。

“听着，伙计，你们那块地方就没有狐狸冰激凌店吗？”

“有。只不过，我的孩子——”那只狐狸弄乱了小家伙的毛。“这个笨笨的小东西——他喜欢一切和大象有关的东西。长大后还想做大象。我怎么忍心粉碎这个小家伙的梦想呢？”

那个小家伙向上拉起他身上那件大象衣服的帽子，用他那个玩具象鼻子吹出了可爱的、微弱的嘟嘟声。朱迪笑了。意识到手里依然拿着防狐液，她赶紧把它塞回了手枪皮套里。

“瞧，可能你不识字，狐狸，这个标志写的是——”杰瑞指着那个标志，慢慢地读了起来——“我们有权拒绝向任何人提供服务。所以走开。”

“你妨碍到后面的人了。”一头排在他们后面的恼怒的大象 说道。

那个小家伙看上去就要哭出来了。朱迪大步流星走到柜台前，冲着杰瑞亮出了自己的徽章。

“您好，打扰了。”朱迪说道。

“你要跟其他人一样排队，女交警。”杰瑞说道。

“实际上……我是一名警官。就问一个小问题。你们的顾客有没有意识到他们吃的曲奇和奶油上沾有鼻涕和黏液？”

“你说什么？”杰瑞恼怒地问道。

“呃，我并不想给您添麻烦，不过我认为用不戴鼻套的象鼻子舀冰激凌违反了三级卫生标准。这可是大事。当然，我也可以给您个警告放您一马，只要您给这些象鼻子戴上鼻套，然后——我不知道——卖给这位和蔼的父亲和他儿子一根……什么？”朱迪冲着那只狐狸微微一笑。

“一根超级冰棍。”那只狐狸说道。

“一根超级冰棍。”朱迪坚定地说道。

杰里盯着他们看了一会儿，然后说道：“15美元。”

那只狐狸转向朱迪说道：“真是谢谢您了。谢谢您。”他在口袋里摸索着，然后失望地停了下来。“开什么玩笑？我没带钱包。真对不起，伙计，史上最糟糕的生日。”那只狐狸弯下身子亲了那个小家伙一下，然后转身对朱迪说：“不管怎样，都要谢谢您。”

朱迪啪的一声把一些现金放到了柜台上。“零钱不用找了。”她说道。

杰瑞刚把超级冰棍给他们，朱迪就为他们扶着门，那只狐狸和他的小孩随即出了江伯克斯的店。

“警官，真不知道该怎么谢谢您，”那只狐狸说道，“您真是大好人。我要还您钱吗？”

“哦，不用，我请客。只不过——要知道，看到有人用这么差的态度对待狐狸，真让我恼火，”朱迪说道，“嗯，我想说，你们是了不起的爸爸和……口齿清楚的小家伙。”

“啊，嗯，这可是很高的评价。我发现很少有人能这么不摆架子……警官……”

“我是霍普斯。您是……”朱迪说道，她并没有捕捉到狐狸语气中那明显的嘲讽意味。

“王尔德。尼克·王尔德。”

朱迪弯腰对着那只小狐狸说道：“还有你，小家伙，你长大了想当大象……你会长成大象——因为这里是动物城，所以我们都无所不能。”说完，她把一枚动物城警察局徽章贴纸贴在了小家伙的胸前。

“好了，拿着吧——”尼克说着，将那根超级冰棍递给了他，“用两只爪子。就这样。哦，看看这个笑容，这是快乐过生日的笑容！跟她轻轻地嘟嘟两声道别。”

那只讨人喜爱的小狐狸吹响了他的象鼻子。

“嘟嘟！”朱迪开心地说道。然后，她一蹦一跳地走开了。帮助遇到了困难的人，感觉棒极了！

Chapter 7

A little while later, Judy was writing parking tickets in Sahara Square when she noticed Nick and his kid a few blocks away. “Oh! Hey, little toot-toot!” she called, waving, but they didn’t see her.

She started toward them but stopped suddenly when she realized what they were doing. They were melting the giant Jumbo-pop she had bought for them in the hot sun. Then they were channeling the juice into little jugs. Judy furrowed her brow as she watched Nick and his kid packing the full jugs into the back of a van. Her eyes nearly fell out of her head when she saw Nick’s little son get into the driver’s seat! Then they drove off. Judy was shocked and confused.

She hopped in her cart and followed them to the coldest section of Zootopia—Tundratown. Nick’s son was using his little paws to make molds in the snow, which Nick then put sticks in. Then the two poured the juice from the melted Jumbo-pop into the molds to create dozens of smaller pops! Judy looked on, scandalized. She couldn’t believe it!

Judy followed them again, this time to Savanna Central, where they set up a stand and sold “pawpsicles” at marked-up prices to lemmings.

“Pawpsicles! Get your pawpsicles!” barked Nick.

One lemming bought an icy treat, and then the rest of them followed. In an instant, the frozen desserts were completely sold out! Once the lemmings finished their pawpsicles, they threw the sticks into a recycling bin. When the lemmings were gone, a small door opened in the bin and the little fox—who, Judy realized, was not an adorable toddler but a fully grown Fennec fox named Finnick—stepped out with a bundle of used pawpsicle sticks. Judy was having trouble believing her eyes.

She continued to follow Nick and Finnick to Little Rodentia, where Nick plopped down the bundle of used sticks in front of a mouse construction worker and shouted, “Lumber delivery!”

“What’s with the color?” asked the construction worker.

“The color? It’s red wood,” answered Nick, shrugging off the question as he accepted his payment.

The construction workers hauled the sticks away, and Judy watched in awe as Nick handed Finnick his share of the cash.

“Thirty-nine...forty. There you go. Way to work that diaper, big guy. What, no kiss bye-bye for Daddy?” Nick asked jokingly.

“You kiss me tomorrow, I’ll bite your face off,” said Finnick in a deep voice. “Ciao.” Finnick hopped into his van and drove off, blaring loud rap music.

Judy appeared in front of Nick, her face burning with anger. “I stood up for you. And you lied to me! You liar!” she yelled.

“It’s called a hustle, sweetheart,” said Nick coolly. “And I’m not the liar, he is.” Nick pointed behind Judy. She turned but saw no one standing there. When she whipped back around, Nick was gone! Then she spotted his tail disappearing behind a corner.

“Hey,” she said, hurrying to catch up as Nick strolled along. “All right, slick Nick, you’re under arrest.”

“Really, for what?”

“Gee, I don’t know. How about selling food without a permit, transporting undeclared commerce across borough lines, false advertising—”

“Permit.” Nick smiled as he showed Judy the document. “Receipt of declared commerce.” He showed her a receipt. “And I did not falsely advertise anything. Take care.”

“You told that mouse the pawpsicle sticks were redwood,” Judy said.

“That’s right,” said Nick smugly. “Red. Wood. With a space in the middle. Wood that is red. You can’t touch me, Carrots. I’ve been doing this since I was born.”

“You’re gonna want to refrain from calling me Carrots.”

“My bad,” said Nick. “I just naturally assumed you came from some little carrot-choked Podunk, no?”

“Ah, no,” Judy replied, as if to say “obviously not.” “Podunk is in Deerbrooke County. I grew up in Bunnyburrow.”

“Okay. Tell me if this story sounds familiar.” Nick’s tone changed as he began to talk quickly and boldly. “Naïve little hick with good grades and big ideas decides, ‘Hey, look at me, I’m gonna move to Zootopia, where predators and prey live in harmony and sing “Kumbaya”!’ Only to find—whoopsie, we don’t all get along. And that dream of being a big-city cop? Double whoopsie! She’s a meter maid. And whoopsie number threesie, no one cares about her or her dreams. Soon enough those dreams die and our bunny sinks into emotional and literal squalor, living in a box under a bridge. Until, finally, she has no choice but to go back home with that cute fuzzy wuzzy tail between her legs to become—You’re from Bunnyburrow? So let’s say a carrot farmer? Sound about right?”

Judy stood speechless. She couldn’t believe Nick had figured out her fears so quickly. A passing rhino almost pushed her down, knocking her out of her thoughts.

“Be careful now,” warned Nick. “Or it won’t just be your dreams getting crushed.”

“Hey, hey!” she said, trying to pull herself together. “No one tells me what I can or can’t be! Especially not some jerk who never had the guts to try and be anything more than a pawpsicle hustler.”

“All right, look, everyone comes to Zootopia thinking they can be anything they want. Well, you can’t. You can only be what you are.” He pointed to himself. “Sly fox.” Then he pointed to her. “Dumb bunny.”

“I am not a dumb bunny.”

“Right. And that’s not wet cement.”

Judy looked down to see that she was ankle-deep in gooey wet cement. She sighed in dismay.

“You’ll never be a real cop,” Nick said obnoxiously. “You’re a cute meter maid, though. Maybe a supervisor one day. Hang in there.”

Frustrated, Judy watched as Nick walked off. Then she set about pulling her paws out of the cement.

第 7 章

不久之后，朱迪正在撒哈拉广场开违规停车罚单，这时她发现尼克和他的孩子就在几个街区之外的地方。“哦！嗨，小嘟嘟！”她边喊边挥手，但是他们没有看见她。

朱迪朝他们走去，但是当她意识到他们在做什么时，她突然收住了脚步。他们正在炎热的太阳下融化她给他们买的那根巨大的超级冰棍。然后他们又将融化的冰棍水装进一个个小罐子里。朱迪看到尼克和他的孩子将装满冰棍水的罐子搬到一辆面包车的后车厢里，不禁皱起了眉头。当她看到尼克的小孩坐在驾驶员的座椅上时，她惊得双目圆瞪！紧接着，他们把车开走了。朱迪既觉得震惊不已，又感到困惑不解。

她赶紧跳上巡逻车，尾随他们来到了动物城最寒冷的地带——冰川镇。尼克的儿子正把小小的手掌印在雪地上做模型，尼克再把冰棒棍放进这些手掌模型中。然后这两人将融化超级冰棍得到的汁水倒进模型中，从而制作出了几十个小一点的冰棍！朱迪在一旁观看着，异常震惊。她觉得难以置信！

朱迪再次跟踪他们，这次他们来到了热带草原中部区。他们在那里搭了个货摊，把梅花掌冰棍高价卖给旅鼠。

“梅花掌冰棍！来买梅花掌冰棍！”尼克大声叫卖道。

一只旅鼠买了一份冰爽的冰棍，然后其他旅鼠纷纷仿效。一瞬间，这种冷饮就销售一空！旅鼠们吃完梅花掌冰棍，就将冰棒棍扔进了垃圾回收箱里。旅鼠们刚一离开，垃圾箱上的一个小门就打开了，一只小狐狸——朱迪意识到，他根本就不是一个可爱的小家伙，而是一只叫小飞的成年大耳狐——攥着一把用过的冰棒棍走了出来。朱迪觉得太难以置信了。

她继续跟踪尼克和小飞来到了小型啮齿动物镇，尼克扑通一声将那捆用过的冰棒棍放在一只做建筑工人的老鼠面前，然后高声喊道：“木材交货！”

“这颜色是怎么回事？”那位建筑工人问道。

“颜色？这可是红木。”尼克一边收钱，一边不屑一顾地回答了这个问题。

那位建筑工人将那些木棍拖走了，尼克把小飞的那份钱给了他，而朱迪则看得目瞪口呆。

“39……40。这是你的。拿去买尿布吧，大家伙。怎么，不和老爸来个吻别吗？”尼克戏谑地问道。

“明天你要是再亲我，我就咬掉你的脑袋。”小飞用一种低沉的声音说道。“再会。”小飞跳上他的面包车，放着吵闹的说唱音乐，一溜烟地把车开走了。

朱迪出现在尼克面前，脸上怒火冲天。“我之前还维护你，而你却对我撒谎！你这个骗子！”她尖声叫道。

“这就叫买卖，亲爱的，”尼克冷冷地说道，“再说我也不是骗子，他才是。”说完，尼克指了指朱迪背后。她转过去却发现没人站在那里。当她急忙再转回身时，尼克已溜之大吉！就在这时，她发现尼克的尾巴逐渐消失在街角。

“嗨，”她说着，匆忙追上去，而尼克正闲庭信步，“好吧，老滑头尼克，你被逮捕了。”

“真的吗？什么理由？”

“呃，我不知道。你觉得这些理由怎么样：未经许可贩卖食品，跨区运输未申报的商品，虚假广告——”

“许可证。”尼克面带笑容地将文件展示给朱迪看。“贸易申报收据，”说着，他又把一张收据拿给她看了看，“而我也没有为任何商品做虚假广告。说话当心点。”

“你跟老鼠说梅花掌冰棒棍是红木。”朱迪说道。

“对啊，”尼克自鸣得意地说道，“红色，木头。中间有个停顿。红颜色的木头。你斗不过我的，胡萝卜。我从生出来就干这种事。”

“你不可以叫我胡萝卜。”

“很抱歉，”尼克说道，“我只是想当然地认为你来自某个胡萝卜堆成山的波登克小镇，不是吗？”

“哦，不是，”朱迪回答道，似乎想说“显然不是”，“波登克在迪尔布鲁克县。我是在兔窝镇长大的。”

“好吧。听听这个故事是不是很熟悉。”尼克的语速加快，言辞激烈，语气也变了。“天真的乡下小姑娘，学习成绩优秀，胸怀远大抱负，下定决心说，‘嘿，看看我，我要搬去动物城了；在那里，食肉动物与猎物和睦相处，共唱圣歌！’结果却发现——糟糕，不是所有人都相处得那么融洽。那个想去大城市当警察的梦想怎么样了呢？又糟了！她只是个处理违章停车的女交警。更糟糕的是，谁也不在乎她和她的梦想。很快，那些美梦就会破灭，而我们的小兔子就会沦落到道德败坏、生活悲惨的境地，只能住在大桥底下的纸箱里。直到最终，她走投无路，只得拖着那条毛茸茸的、可爱的尾巴，灰溜溜地卷铺盖回家，去当——你来自兔窝镇？那么比如说去当种胡萝卜的菜农？听上去合情合理吧？”

朱迪哑口无言地站在一旁。尼克这么快就弄清楚了她的恐惧，她觉得匪夷所思。一头犀牛从旁边经过，差一点把她推倒，将她从思绪中拉了回来。

“现在可要当心点，”尼克警告她，“否则到时候破碎的可就不只是你的梦想。”

“喂，喂！”她说着，试图振作起来，“谁也决定不了我的人生。特别是那些从来没有勇气做出尝试，只会贩卖梅花掌冰棍的小人物。”

“好吧，瞧瞧，每个人来到动物城，都认为自己能心想事成。不过，你不行。你只能做你自己。”他指了指自己，说道：“狡猾的狐狸。”然后又指向她，说道：“愚蠢的兔子。”

“我不是愚蠢的兔子。”

“好吧。那也不是没有干的水泥。”

朱迪低下头，只见自己的脚踝已经深陷在黏糊糊的、还未干的水泥中。她失落地叹了口气。

“你永远也做不了一名真正的警察，”尼克粗暴无礼地说道，“不过，你是个可爱的女交警。也许有一天能当个主管。坚持到底就好。”

朱迪灰心丧气地看着尼克渐渐走远。接着，她开始试着把爪子从水泥里拔出来。

Chapter 8

Shhhk! Shhhk! Judy dragged her cement-covered paws across the welcome mat outside her apartment before going in. A sad song filled the air when she turned on the radio. She switched stations. It was another sad song. And that was how her day was going. After listening to a few depressing songs, she dragged her feet over to the kitchen and popped in a Carrots for One microwave dinner.

Beep! Beep! Once it was done, she peeled open the cover, revealing a single shriveled carrot. With her ears drooping, Judy sat down at her small table and ate her dinner alone.

Brrring! Brrring! Judy’s cell phone rang. It was her parents calling for a video chat. She shook her head, sighed, and forced a smile before answering. “Oh, hey! It’s my parents...,” she said, trying to sound upbeat.

“There she is!” said Bonnie. “Hi, sweetheart!”

Stu’s face popped onto the screen. “Hey there, Jude the Dude! How was your first day on the force?”

“It was real great,” said Judy, knowing this was a complete lie.

“Yeah? Everything you ever hoped?” asked Bonnie.

“Absolutely, and more! Everyone’s so nice. And I feel like I’m really making a difference—”

“Wait a second,” said Stu, popping his head onto the screen again. “Holy cripes, Bonnie! Look at that!”

Bonnie peered into the screen trying to see what Stu was so excited about. “Oh my sweet heaven! Judy, are you a meter maid?”

Judy had forgotten she was still wearing her vest and that her hat was on the chair. She tried to backpedal. “What? Oh, this? No. It’s just a temporary—”

“It’s the safest job on the force!” exclaimed Bonnie happily.

“She’s not a real cop! Our prayers have been answered!” said Stu, overjoyed.

“Glorious day!”

“Meter maid! Meter maid! Meter maid!” chanted Stu.

“Dad. Dad!” said Judy, feeling uncomfortable and just wanting to end the conversation. “You know what? This has been great, guys, but it’s been a long day—”

“That’s right. You get some rest!” said Bonnie.

“Absolutely. Those meters aren’t gonna maid themselves,” added Stu.

They said goodnight and Judy hung up, feeling even sadder than she had before. As she took off her vest, she turned on more sad music. Through the wall, Oryx yelled: “Hey, bunny! Turn down that depressing music!”

“Leave the meter maid alone!” yelled Kudu. “Didn’t you hear her conversation? She feels like a failure!”

Judy turned down the music as Oryx and Kudu continued to yell and bicker.

“Tomorrow’s another day,” she said quietly to herself.

“Yeah, but it might be worse!” yelled Oryx.

Exhausted, Judy settled in for the night, wondering what tomorrow would bring.

第 8 章

哧!哧!朱迪拖着沾满水泥的爪子，经过公寓外面的门垫，进了房间。她打开收音机，一首悲伤的歌曲在房间里弥漫开来。她换了一下频道，还是一首悲伤的歌曲。她的一天就是这么度过的。在听了几首沉闷的歌曲之后，她拖着沉重的脚步走进厨房，快速地用微波加热了一份一人份胡萝卜晚餐。

哔！哔！晚餐刚一热好，她就剥掉外皮，露出里面一根干瘪的胡萝卜。朱迪耷拉着两只耳朵，坐在那张小小的餐桌前，独自吃着晚餐。

叮铃！叮铃！朱迪的手机响了。是她父母打来的视频电话。她摇摇头，长叹一口气，勉强挤出个笑容，才接听电话。“哦，嘿！原来是我的爸爸妈妈……”朱迪说着，试图听上去很欢快。

“她来了！”邦妮说道，“你好，亲爱的！”

斯图的脸突然出现在屏幕上：“你好，祖德小姑娘！第一天做警察感觉如何？”

“真的很棒。”朱迪说着，心里明白这绝对是假话。

“是吗？一切都如你所愿？”邦妮问道。

“绝对是，甚至超乎想象！大家都很友善，我感觉我真的不同于——”

“等等，”斯图说着，突然又把脑袋凑到了屏幕前，“老天哪，邦妮！快看那是什么！”

邦妮眯起眼睛盯着屏幕，试图弄清楚斯图为之兴奋的原因：“哦，我的天！朱迪，你是处理违章停车的女交警？”

朱迪完全忘记了自己身上还穿着马甲，执法帽还放在椅子上。她试图收回之前说的话。“什么？哦，这个？不，这只不过是临时——”

“这是警察局里最安全的工作！”邦妮欢快地惊呼道。

“她不是真正的警察！我们的祈祷应验了！”斯图欣喜若狂地说道。

“美好的一天！”

“处理违规停车的女交警！女交警！女交警！”斯图有节奏地欢呼道。

“爸爸。爸爸！”朱迪说道，她感觉很不自在，此刻只想结束这场对话，“要知道，这工作是很好，各位，不过这真是漫长的一天——”

“没错，你需要休息！”邦妮说道。

“一点也不错。那些计时器可不会照顾自己。”斯图补充道。

互道晚安后，朱迪挂上了电话，她感觉比之前更悲伤。她脱掉身上的马甲，打开收音机听了更多悲伤的音乐。奥赖克斯的尖叫声穿墙而入：“嘿，兔子！快关掉那让人难过的音乐！”

“别去打扰那位女交警！”库度尖声叫道，“你没听到她的对话吗？她感觉很失败！”

在欧力士和库度大叫、争吵之时，朱迪调低了音乐的音量。

“明天又是新的一天。”她轻声对自己说道。

“对，不过可能更糟！”欧力士尖叫道。

朱迪疲惫不堪地安顿了这个晚上，不知道明天还会有什么事。

Chapter 9

The next day, Judy was back to ticketing cars parked at expired meters. She plunked a ticket down, and a moose yelled at her: “I was thirty seconds over!”

As another meter dinged, Judy scribbled the ticket and placed it on a tiny windshield.

“You’re a real hero, lady!” yelled an angry mouse.

Ding! Judy wrote out a third ticket, which a hippo picked up. Her small child looked at Judy and said, “My mommy says she wishes you were dead.”

An angry driver shouted, “Uncool, rabbit. My tax dollars pay your salary.”

Later, Judy got into her cart and turned the key. But the engine wouldn’t start. She banged her head against the steering wheel, making the horn honk.

“I am a real cop,” she muttered weakly. “I am a real cop. I am a real cop...”

“Hey hey!” called a frantic pig, running toward her.

The pig pounded on her cart window. “You! Bunny!”

“Sir, if you have a grievance, you may contest your citation in—” she responded mechanically.

“What’re you talking about?” shouted the pig. “My shop! It just got robbed! Look, he’s getting away! Well! Are you a cop or not?”

“Oh, yes,” said Judy, snapping out of it. “Don’t worry, sir. I got this!”

She spotted a weasel running down the street, carrying a bag of stolen goods and jumped out of her cart.

“Stop!” she yelled, chasing the thief. “Stop in the name of the law!”

“Catch me if you can, cottontail!” shouted the weasel.

McHorn screeched up in his patrol car. “This is Officer McHorn. We’ve got a 10-31,” the rhinoceros said into his radio.

Judy slid right across McHorn’s hood as she ripped off her vest and hat and shouted, “I got dibs! Officer Hopps. I am in pursuit!”

She chased the weasel through Savanna Central, dodging giant elephants along the way.

Then the weasel ducked into the tiny community of Little Rodentia. The large cops, who had joined in the chase, couldn’t fit through the gate, but Judy was small enough to follow the weasel in.

“You!” she yelled forcefully. “Freeze!”

“Hey, meter maid! Wait for the real cops!” called McHorn.

Little Rodentia was packed with tiny rodents, and Judy and the weasel looked like giants pounding down its small streets.

A mouse school bus swerved to avoid the weasel and flew skyward. Judy caught it in mid-air, preventing a disaster. The mice inside cheered as she gently placed the bus on the ground. Judy watched the weasel jump off the top of a mouse building, tipping it over. She struggled to protect each and every building the weasel knocked into. Then he leapt on top of a moving mouse train!

“Bon voyage, flatfoot!” said the weasel with a chuckle, riding the train away.

But Judy wasn’t about to give up. She ran even faster, until she was able to push him off the train. Rodents screamed and ran as Judy and the weasel came barreling through their midst.

“Hey!” she yelled. “Stop right there!”

“Have a donut, copper!” the weasel said with a laugh as he yanked a huge donut sign from the front of a shop. He flung it at Judy, but it missed and bounced toward some shrews coming out of Mousy’s department store.

“Ohmygawd, did you see those leopard-print jeggings?” said a fashionable shrew to her friends. She turned to see the donut bouncing toward her and screamed in terror. “Aaaaaaaaaaagh!”

A second before it crushed the shrew, Judy moved in front of the donut and caught it in her arms. Then she turned to the shrew and said, “I love your hair.”

“Awww...thank you,” said the shrew gratefully.

Out of the corner of her eye, Judy noticed that the weasel was about to get away. She threw the giant donut over his head and around his body, trapping him inside. The weasel was stuck!

It wasn’t long before the weasel, still inside the donut, rolled through the front door of the ZPD lobby and hit Clawhauser’s desk.

“I popped the weasel!” Judy exclaimed.

Chief Bogo yelled from the other room: “HOPPS!”

Like a kid in the principal’s office, Judy sat on a giant chair in front of Chief Bogo as he reviewed the report in front of him.

“Abandoning your post, inciting a scurry, reckless endangerment of rodents...but to be fair, you did stop a master criminal from stealing two dozen...um, let’s see...moldy onions.” Bogo looked straight at the bag on his desk that Judy had confiscated from the crook she had stopped—Duke Weaselton.

“Hate to disagree with you, sir, but those aren’t onions,” Judy replied. “Those are a crocus varietal called Midnicampum holicithias. They’re a class C botanical, sir. I grew up in a family where plant husbandry was kind of a thing.”

“Shut your tiny mouth, now,” said Bogo.

“Sir, I got the bad guy. That’s my job.”

“Your job is putting tickets on parked cars.”

Bogo’s intercom clicked as Clawhauser’s voice came through. “Chief, uh, Mrs. Otterton’s here to see you again.”

“Not now,” answered Bogo.

“Okay, I just didn’t know if you wanted to take it this time—” said Clawhauser.

“Not now!”

Judy said, “Sir, I don’t want to be a meter maid. I want to be a—”

“Do you think the mayor asked what I wanted before he assigned you to me?” Bogo interrupted her.

“But, sir—”

“Life isn’t some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and your insipid dreams magically come true. So let it go.”

Just then a female otter, Mrs. Otterton, barged in with Clawhauser trailing behind, wheezing.

“Chief Bogo, please, just five minutes of your time,” pleaded Mrs. Otterton.

“I’m sorry, sir, I tried to stop her; she is super slippery. I gotta go sit down,” said Clawhauser, panting.

“Ma’am, as I’ve told you, we are doing everything we can,” said Bogo.

“My husband has been missing for ten days,” said Mrs. Otterton. “His name is Emmitt Otterton.” She held up a family photo.

“Yes, I know,” said Bogo.

“He’s a florist,” she added. “We have two beautiful children. He would never just disappear.”

“Ma’am, our detectives are very busy.”

“Please. There’s got to be somebody to find my Emmitt.”

Bogo tried to calm Mrs. Otterton down, but nothing worked. She kept going on about her concern over Mr. Otterton’s disappearance.

“I will find him,” said Judy.

Bogo looked at Judy as if he was about to explode. He watched as Mrs. Otterton hugged Judy tightly.

“Bless you, bless you, little bunny!” she said, relieved. “You find my Emmitt and bring him home to me and my babies, please.”

Bogo grunted and ushered Mrs. Otterton back outside. “Mrs. Otterton? Please wait out here.”

Bogo closed the door and turned to Judy, furious. “You’re fired.”

“What? Why?” she asked.

“Insubordination. Now, I’m going to open this door, and you are going to tell that otter you’re a former meter maid with delusions of grandeur who will not be taking the case.”

Bogo opened the door and there was Assistant Mayor Bellwether, hugging Mrs. Otterton.

“I just heard Officer Hopps is taking the case!” said Bellwether happily. Bellwether pulled out her phone and began texting. “The Mammal Inclusion Initiative is really paying off! Mayor Lionheart is just going to be so jazzed!”

“Let’s not tell the mayor just yet—” said Bogo.

“And I sent it, and it’s done, so I did do that,” interrupted Bellwether. “Well, I’d say the case is in good hands!” Bellwether smiled at Judy. “We little guys really need to stick together! Right?”

“Like glue!” Judy responded.

“Good one,” Bellwether said. “Just call me if you ever need anything. You’ve always got a friend at city hall, Judy. All right, bye bye!”

“Thank you, ma’am,” Judy said.

Bogo forced a smile and closed the door. He turned to Judy, even angrier than before. “I will give you forty-eight hours,” he said.

“YES!” cried Judy.

“That’s two days to find Emmitt Otterton.”

“Okay.”

“But you strike out, you resign.”

Judy couldn’t believe what he was suggesting. “Oh, uh...,” She thought for a moment and then nodded. “Okay...deal,” she said.

“Splendid. Clawhauser will give you the complete case file,” Bogo said.

Excited, Judy rushed out to the front desk to retrieve the case file. “Here you go!” sang Clawhauser, handing her the file. “One missing otter!”

Judy opened the folder and her jaw dropped. Inside was a single piece of paper. “That’s it?” she said in disbelief.

“Yikes! That is the smallest case file I’ve ever seen! Leads: none. Witnesses: none. And you’re not in the computer system yet, so resources: none.” Clawhauser chuckled. “I hope you didn’t stake your career on cracking this one,” he said, smiling.

Judy didn’t smile back. Clawhauser took a bite of his donut and crumbs landed on the picture inside the file.

“Last known sighting...,” she said, looking at the photo under Clawhauser’s donut crumbs. The picture was from a traffic camera and showed Mr. Otterton on the street. Judy blew the crumbs off and noticed something about the picture. She squinted. Still unable to see, she looked around. “Let me borrow that.” She grabbed Clawhauser’s empty soda bottle. She looked through it, using the glass at the bottom to magnify the image. Now she could see Mr. Otterton holding a frozen treat. She examined it and said thoughtfully, “Pawpsicle.”

“The murder weapon!” Clawhauser said, nodding.

“Get your pawpsicle...,” Judy said, thinking back to the incident with Nick.

“Yeah, because...What does that mean?” asked Clawhauser.

“It means I...have a lead.” She headed out, leaving Clawhauser sitting at his desk, confused.

第 9 章

第二天，朱迪又去给超时停泊的车子开罚单。她刚撕下一张罚单，一头麋鹿就冲着她大喊大叫：“我只超时30秒！”

随着又一只计时器叮的一声响起，朱迪匆忙开好罚单，把它放在一块小小的挡风玻璃上。

“你可真了不起，女士！”一只气愤的老鼠大嚷道。

叮！朱迪开出了第三张罚单，一头河马拿了起来。她幼小的孩子盯着朱迪看了看，紧接着说道：“我妈咪说她希望你死掉。”

一位愤怒的司机喊道：“真不厚道，兔子。你的工资都是从我的税里出的。”

稍后，朱迪坐进巡逻车，转动车钥匙。但是发动机却启动不了。她用头砰砰地撞击方向盘，使得喇叭鸣叫不停。

“我是名副其实的警察，”她无力地咕哝道，“我是名副其实的警察，我是名副其实的警察……”

“喂喂！”一头气急败坏的猪大声喊着向她跑过来。

那头猪砰砰地敲打着她的车窗玻璃。“你！兔子！”

“先生，如果您有什么不满，可以对罚单提出异议——”她机械地回答道。

“你在说什么？”那头猪大叫道，“我的商店！刚刚被盗了！看，他想逃跑！喂！你到底是不是警察？”

“哦，是的，”朱迪说着，打起了精神，“别担心，先生。我来处理！”

她发现一只鼬鼠正拖着一袋偷来的东西沿街逃跑，便马上从车上跳了下来。

“站住！”她一边大叫着，一边追逐着那名小偷，“以法律的名义，站住！”

“有本事来抓我呀，棉尾兔！”那只鼬鼠大喊道。

麦大角开着他的巡逻车嘎吱一声过来了。“我是麦大角警官。发生了代号为10-31的案件。”那头犀牛对着无线电说道。

朱迪一把扯掉马甲，脱下帽子，一下子从麦大角的车子引擎盖上翻跃了过去，大声喊道：“我捷足先登了！是霍普斯警官。我在追捕！”

她一路追逐鼬鼠，穿过热带草原中部区，沿途还躲过了巨大的象群。

就在这时，那只鼬鼠一弯腰躲进了一个极小的社区——小型啮齿动物镇。身形高大的警察加入了追捕的队伍中，却无法从门口穿过，但是朱迪小小的身体正好可以尾随鼬鼠进去。

“你！”她坚定地喊道，“不许动！”

“喂，处理违章停车的女交警！等真正的警察过来吧！”麦大角叫嚷道。

小型啮齿动物镇里挤满了丁点儿大的老鼠，而朱迪和鼬鼠看上去像是巨人，正沿着狭小的街道咚咚地前行。

一辆老鼠校车为了躲避鼬鼠，突然急转弯，飞向了空中。朱迪从半空中接住这辆校车，避免了一场灾难。她将校车轻轻地放到路面上时，车里的老鼠欢呼起来。朱迪看到鼬鼠从一座老鼠大楼的顶端跃了过去，撞得大楼摇摇欲坠。她竭尽全力去保护每一座鼬鼠触撞过的大楼。紧接着，鼬鼠跳上了一列正在行驶的老鼠火车的车顶。

“一路平安，平足警官！”那只鼬鼠乘火车离去时窃笑着说道。

但是朱迪并没有放弃。她越跑越快，直至赶上火车，把那只鼬鼠拖了下来。朱迪和鼬鼠从一群老鼠中间飞奔而过，把他们吓得惊叫着四下逃窜。

“喂！”她大叫道，“马上站住！”

“吃个甜甜圈吧，警官！”那只鼬鼠猛地拉了一下一家商店门面上巨大的甜甜圈标志，大笑着说道。他将甜甜圈标志朝朱迪扔去，但是没有砸中，甜甜圈弹跳着朝着正从穆西服装店出来的一群鼩鼱滚去。

“哦，天哪，你们看到那些豹纹紧身裤了吗？”一位时尚的鼩鼱对她的朋友们说道。她转过头发现弹跳着朝她滚过来的甜甜圈，吓得尖声惊叫：“啊——”

眼看甜甜圈就要碾压到那只鼩鼱，朱迪抬腿移到甜甜圈前方，一把将它抱起。这时，她扭头对鼩鼱说道：“我喜欢你的发型。”

“哦……谢谢你。”鼩鼱感激地说道。

朱迪用眼角的余光注意到鼬鼠想要逃跑。她将那个巨大的甜甜圈抛向鼬鼠头顶，套住了他的身体，把他困在里面。鼬鼠被卡住了！

很快，还卡在甜甜圈里的鼬鼠就从动物城警察局大厅的大门口滚了进去，撞在了克劳豪瑟的办公桌上。

“我抓住了鼬鼠！”朱迪高兴地叫道。

牛局长从另一个房间里大声吼道：“霍普斯！”

就在牛局长审核面前的报告时，朱迪就像校长办公室里的犯错的小孩，坐在局长对面的巨大座椅里。

“擅离职守，鲁莽行动，危害鼠类……不过，说句公道话，你确实阻止了一名要犯偷盗两打……呃，让我看看……发霉的洋葱。”牛局长直直地望着办公桌上的袋子，那是朱迪从她刚刚拦截的小偷威斯顿公爵那里没收的。

“很抱歉我不能苟同，长官，只是那并不是洋葱。”朱迪回答道，“那是藏红花的一种。它们属于C级植物性药物，长官。我是在以种庄稼为业的家庭长大的。”

“现在闭上你的小嘴。”牛局长说道。

“长官，我抓到了坏人。那是我的职责。”

“你的职责是给停放着的汽车贴罚单。”

牛局长的对讲机咔嗒一声响了，这时克劳豪瑟的声音传了进来：“局长，呃，奥獭顿女士又来了，现在想见您。”

“现在不行。”牛局长回答道。

“好的。我只是不知道这次您是否同意——”克劳豪瑟说道。

“现在不行！”

朱迪说道：“长官，我不想做处理违规停车的女交警。我想当一名——”

“你以为市长把你指派给我时，问过我的意见吗？”牛局长打断了她的话。

“可是，长官——”

“生活不是什么卡通舞台剧，只要唱首小曲儿，你那无聊的梦想就能奇迹般地实现。所以还是放弃吧。”

就在这时，一位雌性水獭名叫奥獭顿的女士闯了进来，身后跟着气喘吁吁的克劳豪瑟。

“牛局长，求您了，就占用您五分钟时间。”奥獭顿女士恳求道。

“对不起，长官，我本想拦住她的；她太滑了，抓不住。我要坐下了。”克劳豪瑟上气不接下地说道。

“女士，我已经告诉过你了，我们正全力以赴。”牛局长说道。

“我丈夫已经失踪十天了，”奥獭顿女士说道，“他的名字是艾米·奥獭顿。”说完，她拿出了一张全家福。

“是的，我知道。”牛局长说道。

“他是一位花匠，”她补充说道，“我们有两个漂亮的孩子。他不会就这么失踪的。”

“女士，我们的侦探非常忙。”

“求您了。总得有人去找艾米。”

牛局长试图让奥獭顿女士平静下来，但都不起作用。她纠缠不休，为奥獭顿先生的失踪而担忧。

“我能找到他。”朱迪说道。

牛局长望着朱迪，好像要大发雷霆。奥獭顿女士紧紧地搂住朱迪，他在一旁观望着。

“谢谢您，谢谢您，小兔子！”她如释重负地说道，“拜托您找到艾米，把他带回家，带回到我和孩子们身边。”

牛局长哼了一声，把奥獭顿女士带到了门外。“奥獭顿女士？请在外面稍等一下。”

牛局长关上门，转身面对朱迪，怒不可遏：“你被开除了。”

“什么？为什么？”她问道。

“不服管理。现在，我去打开这扇门，你要告诉那只水獭你妄自尊大，以前只是处理违章停车的女交警，不能接手这起案件。”

牛局长打开了门，羊副市长却在那里，正与奥獭顿女士拥抱。

“我刚刚听说霍普斯警官接手了这起案件！”羊副市长开心地说道。她掏出手机，开始编辑短信。“动物选拔计划的确很成功！狮市长现在可能会非常激动！”

“我们还是先不要告诉市长——”牛局长说道。

“可是我发过去了，信息发好了，这么说来我的确那么做了，”羊副市长插了一句，“那么，这起案件已交给可靠的人去处理了！”羊副市长笑眯眯地看着朱迪，说道：“我们小个子动物需要团结在一起！是吗？”

“就像胶水一样！”朱迪回应道。

“说得好，”羊副市长说道，“有什么需要，尽管给我打电话。你在市政厅永远都有一位朋友，朱迪。好了，再见！”

“谢谢您，女士。”朱迪说道。

牛局长强作笑颜，关上了门。他转身面向朱迪，比先前更气愤了：“我给你48个小时。”

“是！”朱迪大声说道。

“两天内要找到艾米·奥獭顿。”

“好的。”

“要是失败了，你就辞职。”

朱迪对他的提议感到不可思议。“哦，呃……”她思忖了一会儿，然后点了点头。“好的……一言为定。”她说道。

“好极了。克劳豪瑟会把全部案宗都给你。”牛局长说道。

朱迪兴奋地冲到前台去取这份案宗。“给你！”克劳豪瑟把案宗递给了她，满心欢喜地说道，“一只失踪的水獭！”

朱迪打开文件夹，顿时惊得张大了嘴巴。文件夹里只有一张纸。“就这些吗？”她难以置信地问道。

“呀！这是我见过的信息最少的案宗！线索：无。目击证人：无。而且你现在还没加入计算机系统，所以资料：无。”克劳豪瑟咯咯地笑了起来。“我希望你没有把前途押在破获这起案件上。”他笑容满面地说道。

朱迪一点儿也笑不出来。克劳豪瑟咬了一口甜甜圈，碎屑落在了卷宗里的照片上。

“最后一次看见……”她说着，看了看克劳豪瑟的甜甜圈碎屑下的那张照片。照片是道路交通探头拍下的，上面显示奥獭顿先生站在大街上。朱迪吹掉那些碎屑，发现了照片上的蛛丝马迹。她眯起了眼睛，依然看不清楚，就四周张望了一下。“借我用用那个。”她一把夺过克劳豪瑟的空苏打水瓶子。朱迪透过瓶口望过去，利用瓶底的玻璃片来放大图像。这下她看到了奥獭顿先生手里拿着一份冷饮。她仔细研究了一番，若有所思地说道：“梅花掌冰棍。”

“杀人凶器！”克劳豪瑟点着头说道。

“来买梅花掌冰棍……”朱迪说着，回想起了尼克那件事。

“哦，因为……那是什么意思？”克劳豪瑟问道。

“那意味着我……有线索了。”说完，她出发了，留下克劳豪瑟坐在桌前，丈二和尚摸不着头脑。

Chapter 10

Judy drove around in her traffic cart until she found Nick pushing a baby stroller down the street. She smiled when she saw him. “Hi! Hello? It’s me again!”

“Hey, it’s Officer Toot-Toot,” said Nick with a smirk.

“Ha-ha-ho!” Judy gave a fake laugh, humoring him. “No, actually, it’s Officer Hopps, and I’m here to ask you some questions about a case.”

“What happened, meter maid?” asked Nick. “Did someone steal a traffic cone? It wasn’t me.”

Nick walked on, pushing the stroller around the corner. Judy pulled in front of him.

“Carrots, you’re gonna wake the baby. I’ve got to get to work,” said Nick.

“This is important, sir. I think your ten dollars’ worth of pawpsicles can wait.”

Nick faced her and raised his eyebrows. “I make two hundred bucks a day, Fluff. Three hundred sixty-five days a year, since I was twelve. And time is money, so hop along.”

“Please, just look at the picture,” said Judy, holding up the picture of Mr. Otterton. “You sold Mr. Otterton that pawpsicle, right? Do you know him?”

“Lady, I know everybody. I also know that somewhere there’s a toy store missing its stuffed animals, so why don’t you get back to your box?”

Judy’s ears drooped. “Fine,” she said. “Then we’ll have to do this the hard way.” She slapped a parking boot onto the wheel of the stroller, locking it in place.

“Did you just boot my stroller?”

“Nicholas Wilde, you are under arrest,” Judy said.

Nick smiled, amused. “For what?

“Felony tax evasion,” she replied.

Nick’s smile quickly dropped.

“Yeah...,” continued Judy. “Two hundred dollars a day...three hundred sixty-five days a year...since you were twelve. That’s two decades, so times twenty...which is one million, four hundred sixty thousand—I think, I mean I am just a dumb bunny—but we are good at multiplying. Anyway, according to your tax forms”—Judy presented some tax forms to Nick—“you reported, let me see here, zero. Unfortunately, lying on a federal form is a punishable offense. Five years jail time.”

“Well, it’s my word against yours,” said Nick.

Judy held up a carrot-shaped pen and clicked a button. Suddenly, a recording of Nick’s voice played from a speaker inside the pen: “I make two hundred bucks a day, Fluff. Three hundred sixty-five days a year, since I was twelve.”

“Actually, it’s your word against yours,” Judy said. “And if you want this pen, you’re going to cooperate with my investigation or the only place you’ll be selling pawpsicles is the prison cafeteria.” She grinned. “It’s called a hustle, sweetheart.”

From the baby stroller, Finnick laughed hysterically. “She hustled you. She hustled you good. You’re a cop now, Nick; you’re gonna need one of these!” Finnick slapped his ZPD badge sticker on Nick. “Have fun working with the fuzz!” Finnick jumped out of his stroller and walked away.

Nick took the photo of Mr. Otterton and looked at it.

“Start talking,” said Judy.

“I don’t know where he is. I only saw where he went.”

Judy smiled broadly at him and patted the passenger seat of her cart. “Great, let’s go.”

“It’s not exactly a place for a cute little bunny,” said Nick.

“Don’t call me cute,” Judy said. “Get in the car.”

“Okay. You’re the boss.” Nick climbed in, and they headed off.

第 10 章

朱迪驾驶着她的巡逻车到处转悠，终于发现尼克正沿街推着一辆折叠式婴儿车。她看到尼克，笑容满面：“嗨！你好。又见到你了！”

“你好，嘟嘟警官。”尼克一脸坏笑说道。

“哈哈哈！”朱迪装作很开心来迎合他，说道，“不对，实际上，我是霍普斯警官，我过来是想就一起案件来问你几个问题。”

“出什么事了，女交警？”尼克问道，“有人偷了锥形交通路标吗？不是我。”

尼克继续向前走，把婴儿折叠车推到了拐弯处。朱迪则一把把婴儿车拉到了他面前。

“‘胡萝卜’，你会吵醒小宝宝的。我还得工作呢。”尼克说道。

“这很重要，先生。我觉得你那价值10美元的梅花掌冰棍不着急。”

尼克看着她，扬起了眉毛：“我一天挣200美元，‘绒毛团’。自打我12岁起，一年365天忙不停。时间就是金钱，所以赶紧走吧。”

“拜托，只要看一眼这张照片就行。”朱迪说着，把奥獭顿先生的那张照片举了起来，“你卖过梅花掌冰棍给奥獭顿先生，对吧？你认识他吗？”

“女士，我谁都认识。我还知道某个玩具店丢了毛绒玩具，所以你怎么不回到盒子里去呢？”

朱迪的耳朵耷拉了下来。“很好，”她说道，“这样的话，我们就要来点硬的了。”她啪的一声压下婴儿车轮子上的夹锁，把它锁在了原地。

“你刚刚锁了我的婴儿车？”

“尼古拉斯·王尔德，你被捕了。”朱迪说道。

尼克微微一笑，被逗乐了：“凭什么？”

“重罪偷税漏税。”她回答道。

尼克的笑容很快消失了。

“对啊……”朱迪继续说道，“一天200美元……一年365天……从你12岁开始。那就是20年，所以乘以20……那就是1,460,000美元——我觉得，我的意思是我只不过是只愚蠢的兔子——不过我们很擅长乘法。不管怎样，根据你的纳税申报表——”朱迪向尼克出示了一些纳税申报表——“你申报的，让我看看这里，是0。太不走运了，在联邦纳税表上造假可是要受惩罚的罪行。坐牢五年。”

“哦，你说了不算，我说了才算。”尼克说道。

朱迪拿出一支胡萝卜形状的钢笔，啪嗒按了一下按钮。突然之间，尼克的声音从这支笔里的扩音器中传出来：“我一天挣200美元，‘绒毛团’。自打我12岁起，一年365天忙不停。”

“实际上，你自己的话让你说话不再算数了。”朱迪说道，“如果你想要这支笔，就要配合我做调查，否则你就只能去监狱里的咖啡厅卖梅花掌冰棍了。”她咧嘴一笑，继续说道：“这就叫买卖，亲爱的。”

小飞在婴儿车里狂笑不止：“她跟你做了个买卖。她比你还会做买卖。你现在是警察了，尼克；你需要一个这个！”小飞啪的一声把他的动物城警察局徽章贴纸粘在了尼克身上：“与警察合作愉快！”说完，小飞从婴儿折叠车里跳出来，步行离开了。

尼克接过奥獭顿先生的照片，仔细看了看。

“开始说吧。”朱迪说道。

“我不知道他在哪里。我只看到他朝哪个方向去了。”

朱迪看着他笑逐颜开，拍了拍巡逻车上的乘客座位，说道：“很好，我们走。”

“那可真不是可爱的小兔子去的地方。”尼克说道。

“别用‘可爱’形容我，”朱迪说道，“上车。”

“好吧，听你的。”尼克爬上了车之后，他们就离开了。

Chapter 11

Nick led Judy to a place called the Mystic Spring Oasis. The scent of incense wafted through the air inside the gates, and a yak named Yax sat in meditation. Flies buzzed around his unshowered body. “Oooooooohmmmmm,” he chanted. The tone of the buzzing flies seemed to match the tone of his voice. “Oooooooohmmmmm.”

Judy approached Yax. “Hello! My name is—”

“Oh, you know, I’m gonna hit the pause button right there. We are all good on Bunny Scout Cookies,” said Yax, who talked slowly, almost as if he wasn’t quite there.

“I am Officer Hopps, ZPD. I am looking for a missing mammal, Emmitt Otterton”—she showed him the picture—“who may have frequented this establishment.”

Yax looked at the photo and his eyes widened, as if he was about to say something important.

“AH-CHOO!” he sneezed, and flies scattered everywhere before returning to their place, hovering around him. “Yep, Ol’ Emmitt. Haven’t seen him in a couple weeks. But hey, you should talk to his yoga instructor. I’d be happy to take you back.” Yax nodded toward a different area of the club.

“Thank you so much,” said Judy. “That would be a big—” Yax came around from behind the counter, and Judy was unable to complete her sentence when she saw what he was—or wasn’t—wearing. “You are naked!”

“Huh? Oh, for sure, we’re a Naturalist Club,” said Yax nonchalantly.

“Yeah, in Zootopia anyone can be anything...,” said Nick, grinning, “and these guys, they be naked.”

“Nanga’s on the other side of the pleasure pool,” offered Yax. “Right this way, folks.”

Judy’s jaw dropped as she wondered what a pleasure pool was. When they got there, naked animals were sunning themselves, playing, and lounging around. Judy’s eyes nearly popped out of her head at the sight. Nick leaned over to her. “Does this make you uncomfortable? Because there is no shame in calling it quits. We could end our deal right now.”

“Yes, there is,” she said. She was determined more than ever to stay on the case.

“Boy, that’s the spirit,” joked Nick.

Out in the courtyard, Judy tried to act normal. Her eyes darted around, looking for a neutral place to land.

“Yeah, some mammals say the naturalist life is weird,” said Yax. “But you know what I say is weird? Clothes on animals! Here we go. As you can see, Nanga’s an elephant, so she’ll totally remember everything.”

Nanga looked curiously at the newcomers.

“Hey, Nanga, these dudes have some questions about Emmitt the otter,” said Yax.

“Who?” Nanga asked.

“Emmitt Otterton,” Yax prompted. “Been coming to your yoga class for like six years.”

“I have no memory of this beaver,” Nanga stated.

“Yeah, he’s an otter, actually,” Judy corrected, looking over at Nick in dismay.

“He was here a couple Wednesdays ago. ’Member?” Yax prompted Nanga.

But the elephant just shook her head. “Nope.”

“Yeah,” Yax continued. “He was wearing a green cable-knit sweater-vest and a new pair of corduroy slacks. Oh, and a paisley tie, sweet Windsor knot, real tight. Remember that, Nanga?”

Judy couldn’t believe her luck. Yax was a gold mine! She scrambled to write everything down.

“No,” Nanga said again.

“Uh, ah, you didn’t happen to catch the license plate number did you?” Judy asked.

“Oh, for sure,” Yax nodded. “It was 29THD03.”

Judy’s pen moved quickly. “—03. Wow. This is a lot of great info. Thank you.”

Yax smiled. “Told ya Nanga had a mind like a steel trap. I wish I had a memory like an elephant.”

Outside the club, in Sahara Square, Nick smiled smugly. “Well, I had a ball. You are welcome for the clue. And seeing as how any moron can run a plate, I’ll take that pen and bid you adieu.”

Judy held out the pen, but as Nick went to reach for it, she realized something. She pulled it back before he could swipe it. “The plate...I can’t run the plate...I’m not in the system yet.” She put the pen back in her pocket and smiled at Nick.

“Gimme the pen, please,” said Nick.

“What was it you said? ‘Any moron can run a plate’? Gosh...if only there were a moron around who was up to the task...,” she said.

“Rabbit, I did what you asked; you can’t keep me on the hook forever,” said Nick.

“No, not forever. I have”—Judy paused as she checked her phone—“thirty-six hours left to solve this case. Can you run the plate or not?”

Nick stared at Judy, and then slowly grinned. “I just remembered, I have a pal at the DMV.”

第 11 章

尼克领着朱迪来到一个叫“神秘泉绿洲”的地方。大门里面，焚香的味道飘荡在空中，一头名叫犀利哥的牦牛坐在那里冥想。苍蝇嘤嘤嘤地绕着他那没洗澡的身体飞来飞去。“哦哦哦哦哦呒，”他反复诵唱着。苍蝇的嘤嘤声似乎应和了他诵唱的音调。“哦哦哦哦哦呒。”

朱迪走到犀利哥近旁，说道：“你好！我是——”

“哦，要知道，我会停下我手头的工作。我们对待兔子警花一直都很好。”犀利哥说道。他说话非常慢，就好像他压根儿不在跟前。

“我是动物城警察局的霍普斯警官，我在寻找一只失踪的动物，艾米·奥獭顿”——她把那张照片拿给他看——“他有可能经常出入这种地方。”

犀利哥看着那张照片，惊得瞪圆了双眼，似乎打算说出一些重要线索。

“阿——嚏！”他打了个喷嚏，盘旋在他身边的苍蝇还没来得及再叮回去，就四处逃散了。“是的，艾米。有一两个星期没见着他了。不过你倒是可以问问他的瑜伽教练。我很乐意带你过去。”说着，犀利哥用脑袋朝俱乐部的另一片区域示意了一下。

“非常感谢，”朱迪说道，“那真是太——”犀利哥从吧台后面过来，可是朱迪还没来得及把话说完，就发现他穿的是——或者说没穿——什么。“你没穿衣服！”

“哈！哦，确实如此；我们是一家自然主义者俱乐部。”犀利哥若无其事地说道。

“的确，在动物城，大家可以随心所欲……”尼克咧嘴一笑说道，“这些家伙，他们就不要穿衣服。”

“南格在康乐池的另一边，”犀利哥提议道，“这边走，朋友们。”

正当朱迪还在疑惑康乐池是什么时，她惊得张大了嘴巴。他们到达那里时，没穿衣服的动物们有的在晒太阳，有的在玩耍，还有的在闲逛。看到这种景象，朱迪震惊得眼珠子都要掉出来了。尼克探身过来，问道：“这里是不是让你觉得不舒服？现在放弃也不算丢人，我们可以就此结束我们的交易。”

“不，很丢人。”她说道。她要继续调查此案件的决心比以往任何时候都强烈。

“好家伙，精神可嘉。”尼克开玩笑道。

在户外的庭院里，朱迪尽量表现得自然一些。她目光睃了一眼，想要落在一个不让她那么尴尬的地方。

“哦，有些动物说自然主义者的生活怪异，”犀利哥说道，“不过你知道在我看来什么才怪异吗？动物穿衣服！我们到了。正如你们所看到的，南格是一头大象，所以她能记住所有的事情。”

南格一脸好奇地看着陌生的访客。

“你好，南格，这些家伙要问几个有关水獭艾米的问题。”犀利哥说道。

“谁？”南格问道。

“艾米·奥獭顿，”犀利哥提醒道，“一直在上你的瑜伽课，都六年了。”

“我不记得这只海狸。”南格说。

“嗨，实际上，他是水獭。”朱迪纠正道，失落地看向尼克。

“两个星期之前的星期三他来过这里，想起来了吗？”犀利哥追问道。

但是这头大象只是摇摇头，说了声：“没有。”

“来了，”犀利哥继续说道，“他当时穿了一件绿色的绞花针织马甲和一条新买的灯芯绒休闲裤。哦，还戴了一条佩斯利印花领带，很漂亮的温莎结，打得很紧。想起来了吗，南格？”

朱迪怎么也想不到自己运气这么好。犀利哥简直就是聚宝盆！她匆忙记下了所有信息。

“没有，”南格继续说道。

“呃，啊，你有没有碰巧记下车牌号码？”朱迪问道。

“哦，当然，”犀利哥点点头，说道，“车牌号是29THD03。”

朱迪下笔飞快。“——03。哇，很多有用的线索。谢谢你。”

犀利哥微微一笑，说道：“跟你说了，南格有着极其敏锐的头脑。我真希望我的记忆力能像大象那样。”

出了俱乐部来到撒哈拉广场，尼克自鸣得意地微微笑道：“好了，我真开心。你查到线索了，不用谢我。既然再笨的人也能查到车牌，我就要取回那支笔，跟你道别了。”

朱迪掏出那支笔递了出去，但是在尼克伸手去拿时，她意识到一些问题。还没等他碰到笔，她又收了回来。“那个车牌……我没法查车牌……我还没进入那个系统。”她把那支笔放回到口袋里，面带笑容地看着尼克。

“拜托把笔给我。”尼克说道。

“你之前说什么？‘再笨的人也能查到车牌’？老天……要是身边有个笨人正好适合做这个事情……”她说道。

“兔子，你让我做的事情我做了；你不能永远拖着我。”尼克说道。

“不，不是永远。我还有”——朱迪确认了一下手机，顿了顿继续说道——“36个小时来侦破这起案件。你会不会查车牌？”

尼克凝视着朱迪，然后慢慢咧嘴一笑，说道：“我刚刚想起来了，我有个朋友在动物车辆管理局上班。”

Chapter 12

Inside the Department of Mammal Vehicles, there was a huge line of animals waiting to be helped.

“They’re all sloths!” Judy exclaimed, noticing the employees. Nick smiled. “You said this was going to be quick!”

“What? Are you saying that because he’s a sloth, he can’t be fast?” Nick said innocently. “I thought in Zootopia anyone could be anything.”

Nick led Judy over to his friend, Flash, who was sitting behind the counter at one of the windows. “Flash, Flash, hundred-yard dash!” said Nick. “Buddy, it’s nice to see ya.”

Flash looked at Nick for a long beat. “Nice to...see you...too,” he said slowly.

“Flash, I’d love you to meet my friend. Darling, I seem to have forgotten your name.”

“Officer Judy Hopps,” said Judy, showing her badge. “ZPD. How are you?”

Flash looked at her and didn’t respond for a good ten seconds. “I am...doing...just—”

Judy couldn’t take it. “Fine?” she offered, trying to move the conversation along.

“...as well...as...I can...be. What—” Flash continued.

“Hang in there,” said Nick, loving every second.

“...can I...do...”

“Well, I was hoping you could run a plate—”

“...for you...”

“Well, I was hoping you could—”

“...today?” Flash asked, finally completing his sentence.

“Well, I was hoping you could run a plate for us. We’re in a really big hurry,” answered Judy.

Flash waited a moment before beginning his response. “Sure. What’s the...plate—”

“Two nine—” Judy began.

“...number?” asked Flash.

Judy took a deep breath. “29THD03.”

Flash took another moment before repeating it. “Two...nine...”

“THD03,” said Judy.

“T,” said Flash.

It took quite a while for Flash to enter the first part of the license plate number into the system. Just as he was about to punch in the last digit, Nick interrupted him. “Hey, Flash, you wanna hear a joke?”

“No!” Judy yelled.

“What do you call a three-humped camel?”

“I don’t...know. What do...you call...a—”

“Three-humped camel,” said Judy quickly, trying to get the joke out of the way.

“...three-humped...camel?” said Flash.

“Pregnant,” answered Nick.

Flash showed no reaction at first, but then he slowly raised his head as a smile crept across his face. “Ha...ha...ha...ha...”

Judy’s impatience grew. “Ha, ha, yes, very funny, very funny. Can we please just focus on the—”

Flash turned toward the sloth next to him. “Hey, Priscilla...”

“Yes...Flash?” answered Priscilla, just as slowly.

“What...do...you call...a—”

“A three-humped camel? Pregnant!” shouted Judy, thoroughly frustrated.

“Three...humped...” Judy was losing her mind. “Aaaaaaaaaagh!”

Hours after they’d entered, a dot-matrix printer slowly spat out the address for the license plate number.

“Here you...,” said Flash, handing it to Judy.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah...thank you!” she said.

“...go.”

“29THD03,” said Judy, frantically reading the printout. “It’s registered to...Tundratown Limo-Service? A limo took Otterton, and the limo’s in Tundratown— It’s in Tundratown!”

“Way to hustle, buddy,” Nick said to Flash. “I love you. I owe you.”

“Hurry, we gotta beat the rush hour and—” Judy said as she hurried through the door to get outside. “IT’S NIGHT!” She looked at the sky in awe. It was completely dark.

They had been in there for hours! Judy was running out of time.

第 12 章

动物车辆管理局里面，动物们排起了长龙等待帮助。

“他们都是树懒！”朱迪注意到这些员工，惊呼道。尼克暗自微笑。“你说过查起来会很快！”

“什么？你是说因为他是树懒，所以办事快不了？”尼克一脸无辜地说道，“我还以为在动物城里，大家都无所不能呢。”

尼克领着朱迪去见了他的朋友闪电，他正坐在靠窗的一张柜台后。“闪电，闪电，100码短跑！”尼克说道，“伙计，真高兴见到你。”

闪电盯着尼克看了好长一段时间后缓缓地说道：“见到你……我也……很高兴。”

“闪电，我想给你介绍一下我的朋友。亲爱的，我好像忘了你的名字。”

“朱迪·霍普斯警官，”朱迪说着，展示了一下她的徽章，“动物城警察局的。你好啊。”

闪电看着她，有足足十秒毫无反应。“我……过得……还——”

朱迪觉得难以忍受。“不错？”她给了个提示，试图推进这个对话。

“……不……错。有什么——”闪电继续说道。

“别泄气。”尼克说着，享受着每一秒。

“……我能……做的……”

“呃，我希望你能查个车牌——”

“……为你……”

“呃，我希望你能——”

“……今天？”闪电问道，终于说完了这句话。

“呃，我希望你能为我们查个车牌。我们真的很着急。”朱迪回答道。

闪电等了一会儿才开始回答：“当然。什么……车牌——”

“29——”朱迪开始讲道。

“……号码？”闪电问道。

朱迪深吸了一口气。“29THD03。”

闪电又过了一会儿才重复道：“2……9……”

“THD03。”朱迪说道。

“T，”闪电说道。

又过了好一会儿，闪电才把车牌号码的第一部分输进系统。眼看他就要输完最后一个数字，尼克打断了他。“嗨，闪电，你想听个笑话吗？”

“不！”朱迪大叫道。

“你叫一头有三个驼峰的骆驼什么？”

“我不……知道。你……叫……一头——”

“有三个驼峰的骆驼，”朱迪快速说道，想赶紧讲完结束这个笑话。

“……三个驼峰的……骆驼……什么？”闪电说道。

“孕妇。”尼克回答道。

刚开始，闪电毫无反应，但是紧接着他缓缓地抬起头，脸上出现了灿烂的笑容。“哈……哈……哈……哈……”

朱迪越来越不耐烦。“哈，哈，是的，非常好笑，非常好笑。拜托你就不能专心——”

闪电扭头对旁边的另一只树懒说：“嗨，普里西亚……”

“什么事……闪电？”普里西亚问道，说话同样那么缓慢。

“你……叫……一头——”

“一头有三个驼峰的骆驼什么？孕妇！”朱迪大叫着，感觉特别沮丧。

“有三个……驼峰的……”朱迪逐渐不能自制。“啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！”

在他们进门几个小时之后，一台点阵式打印机缓慢地吐出了那张车牌号码的登记地址。

“给……”闪电说着，把地址递给了朱迪。

“好的，好的，好的……谢谢你！”她说道。

“……你。”

“29THD03，”朱迪说着，火急火燎地看着那张打印纸，“注册地址是……冰川镇礼宾车租赁公司？一辆礼宾车带走了奥獭顿，而且这辆车子在冰川镇——它在冰川镇！”

“太棒了, 伙计，”尼克对闪电说道，“我爱你。我欠你一份人情。”

“快点，我们得避开下班高峰——”朱迪一边说，一边急匆匆地穿过大门来到户外。“到晚上了！”她惊奇地看了看天色。天已经完全黑了下来。

他们在里面待了好几个小时！朱迪所剩的时间不多了。

Chapter 13

Judy and Nick drove to frigid Tundratown, where everything was covered in snow and ice. When they found Tundratown Limo-Service, it was locked up tight.

“Closed,” Judy said, gesturing to the lock on the gate. “Great.”

“And I will bet you don’t have a warrant to get in. Hmm? Darn it. It’s a bummer,” said Nick.

“You wasted the day on purpose,” said Judy.

“Madam, I have a fake badge. I would never impede your pretend investigation.”

“It is not a pretend investigation!” Judy said, showing Nick the picture of Otterton. “Look! See! See him? This otter is missing!”

“Well, then they should have gotten a real cop to find him.”

She wasn’t going to let Nick get to her. “What is your problem?” she asked. “Does seeing me fail somehow make you feel better about your own sad, miserable life?”

Nick appeared to consider her question before answering. “It does. One hundred percent. Now...since you’re sans warrant, I guess we’re done?”

Judy sighed, defeated. “Fine,” she said. “We are done. Here’s your pen.” She threw the pen over the fence, into the lot.

“Hey,” said Nick, staring at her, puzzled. “First off, you throw like a bunny, and second, you are a very sore loser.” Nick started to climb over the fence. “See you later, Officer Fluff. So sad this is over. Wish I could’ve helped more—”

Nick jumped down to the other side of the fence and reached for the pen, but Judy was already there, beating him to it.

“The thing is,” Judy said, “you don’t need a warrant if you have probable cause. And I’m pretty sure I saw a shifty lowlife climbing the fence, so you’re helping plenty. Come on,” she said, heading off as she whistled a merry tune.

Nick watched her, annoyed, but his face also showed a morsel of respect for her trick.

In the parking lot, Nick wiped snow off the back of a bumper to show the plate.

“29THD03,” read Judy. “This is it.”

The limousine was actually a “refrigousine.” It had a heavy refrigerator door and was cold inside. Judy pulled out an evidence bag with tweezers as she and Nick snooped around the chilly limo.

“Polar bear fur,” she said, holding up a piece of fur trapped in her tweezers.

“OH MY GOD!” said Nick.

“What? What!” exclaimed Judy, whirling to see the source of Nick’s excitement. He had opened the glove compartment.

“The Velvety Pipes of Jerry Vole!” said Nick, showing her CDs. “But on CD? Who still uses CDs?”

Judy rolled her eyes and went back to collecting real clues. Nick lowered the back partition, and his eyebrows shot up. “Carrots, if your otter was here...he had a very bad day.”

Nick and Judy stared at the backseat. It had been shredded! Violent-looking claw marks were scraped across it.

“You ever seen anything like this?” asked Judy.

Nick shook his head, actually concerned. “No.”

Judy spotted a wallet on the floor and picked it up. She opened it to find Mr. Otterton’s driver’s license and business cards for his floral shop. “This is him! Emmitt Otterton. He was definitely here. What do you think happened?”

Nick shook his head, stumped. Then his eyes drifted to the cocktail glasses at the bar inside the limo. They were etched with the letter B.

“Wait a minute,” said Nick suspiciously. “Polar bear fur...Rat Pack music...fancy cups...” He turned to Judy. “I know whose car this is. We gotta go.”

“Why? Whose car is it?” she asked.

Nick rushed around the limo, nervously trying to put everything back the way they found it. “The most dangerous crime boss in Tundratown. They call him Mr. Big, and he does not like me, so we’ve gotta go!”

“I’m not leaving,” said Judy. “This is a crime scene.”

“Well, it’s gonna be an even bigger crime scene if Mr. Big finds me, so we are leaving right now!”

Nick made a break for the limo door, but when he opened it, two big polar bears looked down at him.

“Raymond! And is that Kevin?” said Nick, trying to sound excited. “Long time no see! And speaking of no see, how about you forget you saw me? For old times’ sake?”

Without saying a word, the polar bears yanked Nick and Judy out of the limo. They shoved them into a car and sandwiched Nick and Judy between them.

“What did you do to make Mr. Big so mad at you?” Judy asked Nick.

“I, uh, may or may not have sold him a very expensive wool rug...that was made from the fur of a...skunk’s butt,” Nick said quietly.

“Sweet cheese and crackers,” said Judy.

A short time later, the car pulled through a guarded security gate into a giant residential compound that was the home of Mr. Big.

第 13 章

朱迪和尼克驱车来到了天寒地冻的冰川镇，这里的一切都被冰雪覆盖了。当他们找到冰川镇礼宾车租赁公司时，那里已是大门紧锁。

“关门了，”朱迪说着，指了指大门上的锁，“真是太好了。”

“我敢肯定你没有进去的搜查证。嗯？见鬼。真扫兴。”尼克说道。

“你白天是在故意浪费时间。”朱迪说道。

“女士，我戴的是假徽章。我不会妨碍你做模拟调查。”

“这不是模拟调查！”朱迪说着，把奥獭顿的照片展示给尼克，“看！看到了吧！看到他了吗？这只水獭失踪了！”

“哦，那么他们应该派一名真正的警察来寻找他。”

她不会让影响到她。“你怎么回事？”她问道，“难道看着我失败，你就觉得你那不幸的、悲惨的生活好过了，是吗？”

尼克似乎思考了一下她的问题才回答道：“的确是。绝对如此。现在……既然你没有搜查证，我觉得我和你之间的事情了结了？”

朱迪叹了口气，一脸的失落沮丧。“好吧，”她说道，“了结了。这是你的笔。”她把那支笔扔到篱笆的另一边，落在了地上。

“嘿，”尼克瞪着她，困惑不解地说道，“首先，你扔起东西来像个兔子；其次，你真是输不起。”尼克开始翻越篱笆。“再见了，绒毛兔警官。这样结束，真悲哀。真希望我能多帮——”

尼克跳到篱笆的另一边，伸手去捡那支笔；但是朱迪已经在那儿，抢先拿到了。

“问题是，”朱迪说道，“如果你有充分的理由，你是不需要搜查证的。我非常确信，我刚才看到了一个贼眉鼠眼的坏蛋翻过了篱笆，所以你帮了大忙。来吧，”她说完，吹着欢乐的口哨走开了。

尼克有点恼怒地注视着她，但是想到她的这个坏招，他的脸上又闪过一丝敬意。

在停车场，尼克擦掉保险杠上的积雪，露出底下的车牌。

“29THD03,”朱迪读了出来，“就是这辆车。”

这辆礼宾车实际上是一辆“豪华冷藏车”。它有一扇重重的冷藏室门，里面冷冰冰的。朱迪取出一个收集证据的袋子和一把镊子，和尼克在这辆凉飕飕的豪车里四下搜寻着。

“北极熊的毛，”她用镊子夹住一块皮毛举起来说道。

“老天哪！”尼克说道。

“怎么了？怎么回事！”朱迪惊呼道，急忙转身去看尼克兴奋的原因。他打开了储物箱。

“《杰瑞·沃尔的天鹅绒风笛》！”尼克说着，拿起CD给她看，“不过是CD版的？这年头谁还用CD？”

朱迪翻了个白眼，又去收集真正的线索。尼克蹲下身子，扬起了眉毛：“‘胡萝卜’，如果你的水獭来过这里……那他那天一定很惨。”

尼克和朱迪注视着后座椅。后座椅已经被撕碎了！上面留下了爪子用力抓过的痕迹。

“你见过这种情况吗？”朱迪问道。

尼克摇了摇头，有点不安：“没有。”

朱迪在地板上找到一个钱包，就把它捡了起来。她打开钱包，发现了奥獭顿先生的驾照和他花店的名片。“就是他！艾米·奥獭顿。他肯定来过这里。你觉得出了什么事？”

尼克摇了摇头，怔住了。这时，他的目光飘移不定，落在了这辆豪车吧台上的鸡尾酒酒杯上。这些酒杯上都刻着字母B。

“等一下，”尼克怀疑地说道，“北极熊毛皮……‘鼠帮’音乐……高级酒杯……”他转身面向朱迪：“我知道这是谁的车。我们得走了。”

“为什么？这是谁的车？”她问道。

尼克急忙在车里转了一圈，提心吊胆地将一切物品恢复原样。“冰川镇最危险的黑帮头目。人们都叫他大先生，而且他并不喜欢我，所以我们得走了！”

“我不走，”朱迪说道，“这是犯罪现场。”

“如果大先生找到我，这里会是更重大的犯罪现场，所以我们要赶紧走！”

尼克冲向车门准备逃走，但是当他打开车门时，两头庞大的北极熊正低头看着他。

“雷蒙德！这是凯文吗？”尼克说着，想要装作很开心，“好久不见！说到不见，你们就当没看见我怎么样？看在往日的情分上？”

北极熊一声不响地将尼克和朱迪猛地从车里拉出来。他们把尼克和朱迪推进了一辆小汽车，将他俩夹在中间。

“你对大先生做了什么让他对你这么恼火？”朱迪问尼克。

“我，呃，有可能是卖给了他一块非常昂贵的羊毛地毯……而它实际上是用臭鼬屁股上的毛……做的。”尼克悄声说道。

“真糟糕，你中彩了。”朱迪说道。

片刻之后，这辆小汽车通过一扇有门卫把守的安全门，到了一片开阔的住宅区，那是大先生的家。

Chapter 14

Judy and Nick were led inside the house and into a lavishly decorated office. A large polar bear entered the room.

“Is that Mr. Big?” Judy whispered to Nick.

“No,” he answered.

An even bigger polar bear lumbered in behind. “What about him? Is that him?” Judy asked. “No,” said Nick, frustrated. An even bigger polar bear showed up, following the others. “Okay, that’s gotta be him,” Judy said.

“Stop talking, stop talking, stop talking—”

The largest polar bear held a teeny tiny chair in his giant paw. Sitting on the chair was a little Arctic shrew.

“Mr. Big, sir, this is a simple misunder—” Nick started.

Judy stared at the tiny shrew in wide-eyed surprise. He was Mr. Big?

Mr. Big held out his tiny finger, and Nick kissed the ring wrapped around it.

“This is a simple misunderstanding,” said Nick.

Mr. Big motioned for Nick to be quiet. “You come here unannounced...on the day my daughter is to be married?” Mr. Big’s raspy voice had an authoritative tone to it, but it also sounded like his body: very tiny.

“Well, actually, we were brought here against our will, so...Point is, I did not know it was your car, and I certainly did not know about your daughter’s wedding,” Nick said, chuckling nervously.

“I trusted you, Nicky. I welcomed you into my home. We broke bread together. Gram-mama made you her cannoli.” Mr. Big frowned and scratched his chin as he looked at Nick with cold eyes. “And how did you repay my generosity? With a rug...made from the butt of a skunk. A skunk-butt rug. You disrespected me. You disrespected my gram-mama, who I buried in that skunk-butt rug. I told you never to show your face here again, but here you are, snooping around with this...” Mr. Big gestured to Judy. “What are you, a performer? What’s with the costume?”

Judy tried to answer. “Sir, I am a co—”

“Mime!” Nick shouted, cutting her off. “She is a mime. This mime cannot speak. You can’t speak if you’re a mime.”

“No,” said Judy. “I am a cop.”

Mr. Big shifted in his tiny chair, agitated.

“And I’m on the Emmitt Otterton case. My evidence puts him in your car, so intimidate me all you want; I’m going to find out what you did to that otter if it’s the last thing I do.”

Mr. Big considered Judy and grunted. “Then I have only one request: say hello to Gram-mama. Ice ’em!” he shouted to the polar bears.

“Whoa! I didn’t see nothing! I’m not saying nothing!” Nick said, trying to squirm his way out of death by ice.

“And you never will,” said Mr. Big coolly.

The polar bears picked Judy and Nick up, ready to throw them down into a freezing pit of ice and water the bears had opened in front of Mr. Big’s desk.

“Please!” Nick begged. “No, no, no! If you’re mad at me about the rug, I’ve got more rugs!”

The polar bears held Nick and Judy over the pit. Then Mr. Big’s daughter, Fru Fru, who was as tiny as her father, entered, wearing a wedding gown.

“Oh, Daddy, it’s time for our dance,” she said. She noticed Judy and Nick and sighed, clearly annoyed.

“What did we say? No icing anyone at my wedding.”

“I have to, baby,” said Mr. Big. “Daddy has to.” Then he turned to Nick and Judy and calmly said, “Ice ’em.”

Nick and Judy screamed.

“Wait. WAIT!” Fru Fru shouted. “I know her. She’s the bunny who saved my life yesterday. From that giant donut.”

It was the stylish shrew from Little Rodentia.

“This bunny?” asked Mr. Big.

“Yes!” She turned to Judy. “Hi,” she said sweetly.

“Hi,” said Judy. “I love your dress.”

“Aw, thank you,” said Fru Fru.

Mr. Big motioned to the polar bears. “Put ’em down.” Then he turned to Judy. “You have done me a great service. I will help you find the otter. I will take your kindness...and pay it forward.”

Nick stood there, dumbfounded...and extremely happy not to be in a pit of ice.

第 14 章

朱迪和尼克被领进了一间装修奢华的办公室里。一头身材魁梧的北极熊走了进来。

“那是大先生吗？”朱迪悄悄问尼克。

“不是。”尼克回答道。

这时，一头身材更加魁梧的北极熊慢吞吞走了进来。朱迪问：“这个呢？是他吗？”尼克沮丧地说道：“也不是。”不一会儿，一头比前两头身材还要魁梧的北极熊跟着出现了。朱迪说：“这回总该是了吧！”

“别说话了，别说了，别说了——”

那头最魁梧的北极熊用他的大爪子护着一个小小的座椅，座椅上坐着一只小北极鼩鼱。

尼克说道：“大先生，这只是个误——”

站在一旁的朱迪瞪着大眼睛看着那只北极鼩鼱，他就是大先生？

大先生打断他，伸出他的小指，尼克见势立刻凑上前去吻了吻他手指上的戒指。

尼克接着说：“这只是个小误会而已。”

大先生示意尼克不要说话。他说：“你们不请自来，而且还是在我女儿大婚的日子？”他的声音刺耳而权威，音量却和他的体形一样。

“呃，其实不是我们自己想来的……问题是，我不知道那是您的车，更不知道您女儿今天结婚。”尼克讪讪地笑道。

大先生说：“小尼克，我相信过你。我把你请进家门，我们共进晚餐，我奶奶给你做了奶油煎饼卷。”大先生冷眼盯着尼克，眉头紧锁，挠着下巴：“可是你拿什么报答了我的慷慨？用一条毯子……一条臭鼬屁股毛做的毯子！一条臭鼬屁股毛做的毯子！你侮辱了我！我拿这条毯子给我奶奶下葬时，你也侮辱了我奶奶！我警告过你不要再让我看到你，但是你竟然又鬼鬼祟祟地来了，和这个……”大先生转向朱迪，对她说：“你又是谁？小丑吗？你穿的是什么啊？”

朱迪答道：“先生，我是警——”

“哑剧演员！”尼克忽然大喊着打断她：“她是个哑剧演员，不会说话，哑剧演员不会说话的。”

朱迪反驳道：“才不是，我是警察！”

大先生在他的小椅子上紧张地移动了一下身子。

朱迪接着说：“我在调查艾米·奥獭顿的案子。我的线索都指向了你的车子，你就尽管吓我吧，我会尽全力查清你到底对水獭先生做了什么！”

大先生打量了朱迪一番，嘟哝了一句：“那我只想让你做一件事：去向我奶奶问声好吧！”接着他向北极熊喊道：“把他们冻起来！”

“啊，我什么都没看见！我什么都没说！”尼克边说边扭动着身子，想要躲开致命的冰块。

大先生冷冷地答道：“你永远都没机会了。”

北极熊打开大先生桌前一个装满冰和水的深坑，把朱迪和尼克举了起来，准备扔进去。

尼克央求道：“求你了！不要啊，不，不！如果你对那条毯子耿耿于怀，我还有很多别的毯子可以送你！”

北极熊把朱迪和尼克吊在冰坑上。这时，大先生的女儿露露走了进来，她身着一袭婚纱，身材和他爸爸一样娇小。

“哦，爸爸，舞会时间到了哦。”接着她看了朱迪和尼克一眼，叹了口气，明显不高兴了。

“我们之前说什么来着，我结婚这天不许冻人的！”

大先生说：“我也不想的，但爸爸不得不这么做。”说着，他转向尼克和朱迪，平静地说：“把他们冻起来！”

尼克和朱迪尖叫起来。

“等等！快住手！”露露叫道，“我认识她，就是她这只兔子昨天从大甜甜圈下救了我。”

她就是来自小型啮齿动物镇的那只时尚的鼩鼱。

大先生问：“这只兔子？”

“是的！”她转向朱迪，温柔地说：“你好呀！”

朱迪回答：“你好！你的婚纱真漂亮！”

露露说：“啊，谢谢！”

大先生示意北极熊：“放他们下来吧。”接着他对朱迪说：“你帮了我一个大忙啊，我会帮你找到那只水獭的。我是个知恩……图报的人！”

尼克愣愣地站在一边，暗自庆幸没被扔进冰坑里。

Chapter 15

Arctic animals danced as Fru Fru and her groom fed each other cake. Nick and Judy looked like giants as they sat at the head table, next to Mr. Big.

“Otterton is my florist,” said Mr. Big. “He’s like a part of the family. He had something important he wanted to discuss. That’s why I sent that car to pick him up. But he never arrived.”

“Because he was attacked,” said Judy.

“No...he attacked,” Mr. Big explained. “He went crazy. Ripped up the car, scared my driver half to death, and disappeared into the night.”

“He’s a sweet little otter,” said Judy.

“My child, we may be evolved...but deep down, we are still animals.”

Nick and Judy exchanged a worried look.

“You want to find Otterton, talk to the driver of the car. His name is Manchas, lives in the Rainforest District. Only he can tell you more.”

Judy and Nick left the wedding and headed straight for the lush, humid Rainforest District in search of their next clue.

As the steam trees pumped a steady stream of mist into the rainforest air, Judy and Nick climbed higher and higher. They followed a winding road to a home high up in the canopy. Once the steamy fog cleared, they could see Manchas’s moss-covered apartment.

“Mr. Manchas?” Judy called, after ringing the doorbell. “Judy Hopps, ZPD. I’d like to ask you some questions about Emmitt Otterton.” She knocked on the door as Nick snooped through Manchas’s mailbox.

“He’s a kitty,” said Nick, holding up an issue of Cat Fancy magazine. “Hey, buddy, I got a can of tuna out here. Open the door, we’ll talk it out—”

“Not every cat likes tuna,” said Judy.

“Oh, right, got it,” said Nick. He turned back to the door. “Buddy, I got a ball of yarn out here—”

Judy playfully punched Nick. “Sir, my partner’s an idiot. You’re not in trouble. We just want to know what happened to Emmitt Otterton.”

Finally, the door slowly creaked open, just a crack. “You should be asking...what happened to me,” said a voice from inside.

The chain lock prevented the door from opening all the way. Through the space, they could see that Manchas was a big jaguar and he had been badly beaten, with bruises, scratches, and a black eye.

“Whoa. A teensy otter...did that?” asked Nick.

“What...happened?” Judy asked.

Manchas described the scene, sounding haunted. Like he was reliving it. “He was an animal, down on all fours. He was a savage. There was no warning, just kept yelling about the ‘night howlers, the night howlers,’ over and over.”

Nick and Judy shared a look. “Oh. Wow. That’s crazy, because that is actually why we came to talk to you...about the night howlers. Right?” said Judy, pumping for more information.

“Yes,” said Nick, picking up on Judy’s cue. “Absolutely. Whole ride over here we’re sitting there going, night howler this, night howler that. Tell him.”

“Yup. So you just open the door and tell us what you know, and we will tell you what we know,” Judy persuaded. “Okay?”

Manchas considered a moment and then shut the door.

As he unlocked each of the locks from inside, Nick glanced at Judy, impressed. “You’re not as dumb as you look,” he said.

With a smile, she punched him on the arm. Hard.

They heard Manchas make a strange grunting noise.

“Mr. Manchas?” said Judy. “Are you okay?”

A loud thud sounded. Then the door creaked and opened just an inch. Judy slowly pushed it and saw Manchas hunched over in the middle of the room.

“Buddy?” Nick asked.

With a low growl, Manchas turned to them. His eyes were huge. He was SAVAGE! He raced at Nick and Judy like a primal predator.

“Run. RUN!” Judy screamed.

第 15 章

露露和她的新郎互喂蛋糕的时候，极地动物们在跳舞。尼克和朱迪坐在上座，挨着大先生，体形显得特别高大。

大先生说：“奥獭顿是我的花匠，我把他当家人看待。他那天说有重要的事情要和我商量，所以我就派车去接他，但他一直没有到。”

朱迪说：“那是因为他遭到攻击了。”

“不对，是他攻击别人了。”大先生解释道。“他晚上发狂了，掀翻了车子，把司机吓得半死，然后就逃走了。”

朱迪说：“他只是只善良的小水獭而已。”

大先生说：“孩子，虽然我们已经进化了……但归根到底我们还是动物啊。”

尼克和朱迪对视了一下，忧心忡忡。

“你要是想找到奥獭顿，去问问那天的司机吧。他叫麦岔，住在雨林区，那天的情形他最清楚。”

朱迪和尼克离开了婚礼现场，直奔繁茂湿润的雨林区，寻找下一个线索。

喷汽树向雨林上空喷出一道雾气，朱迪和尼克顺着雾气向上越爬越高。他们沿着蜿蜒的小路爬到了树冠高处的一间房子。云雾消散，他们发现那就是麦岔长满青苔的房子。

朱迪按了声门铃，喊道：“麦岔先生在吗？我是动物城警察局的朱迪·霍普斯。我想问问您几个关于艾米·奥獭顿的问题。”朱迪敲门的同时，一旁的尼克正往麦岔的邮箱里窥探。

“他是只小猫。”尼克取出一本名叫《猫科动物幻想》的杂志对朱迪说。“嘿，老兄，我这儿有一罐金枪鱼罐头。开开门，我们好好聊一聊——”

朱迪说道：“不是每只猫都喜欢金枪鱼。”

尼克说：“哦，对的，我知道了。”他继而背对着门喊道：“老兄，这儿还有一团毛线呢——”

朱迪被逗乐了，打了尼克一拳：“先生，我搭档是个白痴。您没有陷入麻烦之中，我们就是想问问艾米·奥獭顿的情况而已。”

最终，门缓缓打开了，只开了一条缝，里面传出一个声音：“你应该问问……我的情况。”

门上上了链条锁，因此门不能完全打开。但从门缝中依然能看见麦岔是一头体形庞大的美洲虎，他看上去伤得很厉害，身上青一块紫一块，还被打成了熊猫眼。

尼克惊讶地问道：“哇！是那只小水獭……干的？”

朱迪也跟着问：“到底……发生了什么事情？”

麦岔描述起当晚的情形，他依然忧心忡忡，仿佛一切历历在目：“他是只动物没错，四只脚走路的。但他是只怪兽，没有征兆，只听他不停地喊：‘夜嚎者, 夜嚎者’。”

尼克和朱迪相视一眼。“哦，哇，真是太吓人了。这也是我们到这儿找你的原因——‘夜嚎者’，对吧？”朱迪说着，想要多问出点线索。

“对的！”尼克接着朱迪的话茬说道，“没错。我们来这里的一路上都在听说夜嚎者这个，夜嚎者那个的事情。跟他说说吧！”

朱迪劝道：“对啊，你开开门，把你知道的告诉我们，我们也会把我们知道的告诉你，可以吗？”

麦岔思忖了一会儿，关上了门。

不一会儿，锁从里面被一个个打开了，尼克颇有深意地看了朱迪一眼，说：“其实你也没有那么笨嘛！”

朱迪笑着又给了尼克一拳，这一拳可不轻。

他们听见麦岔开始发出奇怪的咕噜声。

朱迪说：“麦岔先生，您没事吧？”

砰的一声，门嘎吱作响，裂开了一个小口子。朱迪小心翼翼地推了推，看见麦岔伏在屋子中央。

尼克问道：“老兄？”

麦岔转向他们俩，喉咙里发出低吼声，眼睛变得巨大。他发狂了！他一下子冲向尼克和朱迪，就像一个残暴的捕食者。

朱迪叫道：“快跑！快跑！”

Chapter 16

Nick and Judy ran for their lives as Manchas chased them.

“What is wrong with him?” shouted Nick.

“I don’t know!”

They ran across a slippery suspension bridge with Manchas close behind. Nick stopped. “We’re not gonna make it!”

“Jump!” Judy yelled.

They leapt off the bridge and landed on a low branch. Then they ducked into a hollow log, trying to hide, but Manchas continued to stalk them. Judy frantically picked up her police radio. “Officer Hopps to dispatch! Clawhauser, can you hear me?”

Inside the police station, Clawhauser was casually chatting with a coworker as he showed him a video on his phone.

“Have you seen Gazelle’s new video—are you familiar with Gazelle?” Clawhauser asked the coworker, not seeing the red light blinking on his phone. “Greatest singer of our lifetime—angel with horns. Yeah, you gotta check it out. So good. Do you see who’s beside her right now?” He pointed to the screen, where he was dancing on a stage with Gazelle.

“Wow. You are one hot dancer,” Gazelle’s voice started, finishing with a robotic-type voice, “Benjamin Clawhauser.”

“It’s me!” Clawhauser exclaimed. “Did you think it was real? It looks so real! It’s not—it’s just a new app.” He chuckled. Then he finally noticed his phone and clicked the speaker button. “Hold on—”

“Clawhauser!” Judy’s voice rang out. Manchas, trying to get inside the log, took a swipe at her. “We have a 10-91! Jaguar gone savage! Vine and Tu-junga!”

“It’s Tu-HUN-ga!” shouted Nick.

Manchas took another swipe at Judy, this time ripping her radio out of her hands. Nick and Judy scrambled out of the log and continued to run.

“Sending back up! Hopps? HOPPS?!” said Clawhauser, hearing the racket on the other end.

Nick and Judy spotted a gondola station. “There!” Judy yelled. “Head to the skytrams!”

They ran toward the gondolas. Judy darted out of Manchas’s way but slipped and got separated from Nick.

“Get in! Carrots? Carrots!” Nick called, trying to hold on to the gondola. But it pulled away.

“Go!” shouted Judy, struggling to regain her footing on the wet, slippery surface of the bridge.

Nick backed up and Manchas moved toward him, as if stalking his prey. “Buddy, one predator to another, if I offended you with the tuna thing, I meant no disrespe—”

Nick screamed as Manchas charged at him full speed. A split second before he reached Nick—clank! Manchas was yanked back by a handcuff on his back paw. Judy had cuffed him to a metal post! Nick couldn’t believe it—Judy had saved his life.

“I can tell you’re tense, so I’m just gonna give you a little personal space,” Nick said to Manchas.

Manchas struggled angrily, knocking Nick and Judy over the edge of the walkway. Judy grabbed on to a vine with one arm and struggled to hold Nick with her other. As the two dangled over the canopy, Nick looked at the bottomless abyss below. Judy’s mind raced as she tried to figure out what to do next.

“Rabbit, whatever you do, do not let go!” shouted Nick.

“I’m gonna let go!” said Judy.

“No...you what? You must have misunderstood me. I said don’t—”

“One, two,” Judy said, counting off as she started them swinging.

“RABBIT!”

She let go and swung them over to a net made of vines. It supported their weight for a moment. But then—snap! The vines broke and they plummeted toward the ground! Luckily, a cluster of vines had gotten tangled around their legs and stopped them right before they hit the rainforest floor.

Sirens rang out as a convoy of police cars screeched to a halt. Out of one stepped Chief Bogo. Judy smiled. The cavalry had arrived!

“Well, this should be good,” said Bogo as he stared at Judy and Nick, who hung upside down, suspended from vines, in front of him.

第 16 章

麦岔在后面追，尼克和朱迪在前面拼了命地跑。

尼克喊道：“他怎么了啊？”

朱迪说：“我不知道呀！”

他们跑过一座滑溜溜的悬索桥，麦岔在后面紧追不舍。尼克停了下来：“我们跑不了了！”

朱迪大喊道：“跳下去！”

他们跳下桥，落在一根低树杈上，弯腰躲进一个中空的大树里，但麦岔依然在追寻他们的踪迹。朱迪慌慌张张地打开她的警用无线电喊道：“霍普斯警官请求支援！克劳豪瑟，你能听到吗？”

而在无线电另一头的警局里，克劳豪瑟正把手机上的视频拿给一位同事看，在和他闲聊。

“夏奇羊的新视频你看了没？你认识夏奇羊吗？”克劳豪瑟问这位同事，并没注意到手机上闪烁的红灯。“她是我这辈子知道的最棒的歌手——长角的天使！来，你看看，多漂亮！你看到她旁边是谁了吗？”他指着屏幕，屏幕上他正和夏奇羊同台共舞。

“哇，你跳得真不错呢！”夏奇羊的声音传了出来，结尾的声音却略显机械，“本杰明·克劳豪瑟。”

克劳豪瑟大叫道：“是我啊！你觉得这是不是跟真的一样？看上去和真的一样呢！不是的，这就是个新程序罢了！”他咯咯地笑出声来。最后他终于注意到手机上的闪烁着的灯，便按了一下通话键，说道：“等等——”

朱迪的声音传了出来：“克劳豪瑟！”麦岔想钻进树洞，挥了一爪，险些抓到朱迪。“我们遇到了代号为10-91的案件！美洲虎发狂了！在攀缘路与图君加路交界处！”

尼克喊道：“是图——洪——加路！”

麦岔又向朱迪挥了一爪，这回把她的无线电给打落在地。尼克和朱迪连滚带爬地出了树洞，继续逃跑。

克劳豪瑟听到那头的嘈杂声，说道：“正在派支援过去！霍普斯？霍普斯？”

尼克和朱迪发现一个缆车车站，朱迪喊：“往那边去！去坐空中缆车！”

于是他们往缆车方向跑去，朱迪想要甩开麦岔，不想却被绊了一跤，也因此与尼克分开了。

“快上来！胡萝卜？胡萝卜！”尼克叫喊着，想要抓住缆车，但缆车却开动了。

“快走！”朱迪叫着，挣扎着想要重新站在湿滑的桥上。

尼克站了起来，麦岔朝他追去，就像追捕他的猎物一样。“老兄，别这样，一个捕食者对付另一个捕食者，是不是刚刚金枪鱼的事情冒犯你了，我不是有意的——”

麦岔快速扑向尼克，尼克吓得惊声大叫。眼见着他就要抓住尼克了，忽然咔嚓一声，一副手铐铐住了他的后爪，麦岔被猛地向后一拉。原来是朱迪把他牢牢地铐在了一根铁杆上。尼克简直不敢相信——朱迪竟然救了他的命。

尼克对麦岔说：“看得出来你很紧张，所以我给你点私人空间吧！”

麦岔愤怒地挣扎着，一下将尼克和朱迪撞出了山上的步道。朱迪一手抓住一根藤蔓，一手用力搂住尼克。他俩在森林上空晃荡起来，尼克忍不住看了一眼下面深不见底的山谷。朱迪的脑子飞快地转动着，她在想下一步应该怎么办。

尼克叫道：“兔子，不管怎样，你可千万别撒手！”

朱迪说：“我就要撒手啦！”

“不要……你要干吗？你一定理解错了我的意思，我说不要——”

“一，二。”朱迪一边晃动着藤蔓，一边倒数着。

“兔子！”

她松开了手，他俩荡出去落在一个藤蔓结成的网上。不一会儿，藤蔓撑不住他们的重量，啪的一声断了，他俩便应声跌向地面。好在一丛藤蔓缠绕在他们腿上，在他们就要撞到雨林的地面上时，将他们拽住了。

警笛声突起，一队警车呼啸而来。警笛声戛然而止，博格警长从其中一辆车上下来。朱迪舒然一笑，救兵终于到了！

朱迪和尼克倒挂在藤蔓上，警长站在他们面前看着他俩说道：“嗯，这感觉真不错！”

Chapter 17

Judy confidently led the cops up to the canopy. “I thought this was just a missing mammal case, but it’s way bigger. Mr. Otterton did not just disappear. I believe he and this jaguar...they went savage, sir.”

Bogo scoffed. “Savage? This isn’t the Stone Age, Hopps. Animals don’t go savage.”

“I thought so, too, until I saw this.” Judy turned the corner where she had handcuffed Manchas—but he was gone! Even the handcuffs had vanished.

“He was right here,” she said, confused.

“The ‘savage’ jaguar,” said Bogo, scoffing once again.

“Sir, I know what I saw. He almost killed us,” said Judy.

“Or maybe an aggressive predator looks savage to you rabbits,” Bogo said. He called out to the other officers, “Let’s go.”

“Wait—sir, I’m not the only one who saw him!”

Judy called to Nick, but before he could explain, Bogo said, “You think I’m going to believe a fox?”

“Well, he was a key witness, and I enlisted his services,” Judy said.

Bogo shook his head, annoyed. “Two days to find the otter...or you quit...that was the deal. Badge,” he said, waiting for her to hand her badge over.

Nick watched Judy stare at Bogo’s outstretched hand. “Sir, we...”

“Badge,” said Bogo firmly.

Judy slowly reached for it as Nick spoke up. “Uh, no,” he said.

Bogo glared at Nick. “What did you say, fox?”

“Sorry, what I said was ‘no.’ She will not be giving you that badge,” said Nick. “Look, you gave her a clown vest and a three-wheel joke-mobile and two days to solve a case you guys haven’t cracked in two weeks? Yeah, no wonder she needed to get help from a fox. None of you guys were gonna help her, were you?”

Judy stared at Nick. She couldn’t believe he was sticking up for her. Bogo stood silently.

“Here’s the thing, Chief. You gave her forty-eight hours, so technically we still have ten left to find our Mr. Otterton...and that’s exactly what we are gonna do. So if you’ll excuse us...we have a very big lead to follow and a case to crack. Good day.”

Nick turned to Judy. “Officer Hopps?” He guided her to a passing gondola, leaving Bogo and the rest of the officers stunned.

“Thank you,” she said as the two sat in the gondola while it soared over the Rainforest District.

“Never let them see that they get to you,” said Nick.

Surprised, Judy turned to Nick. “So things get to you?”

“No...I mean, not anymore,” said Nick. “But I was small and emotionally unbalanced like you once.”

“Har-har,” said Judy.

“No, it’s true. I think I was eight, maybe nine, and all I wanted to do was join the Junior Ranger Scouts.”

Nick decided to tell Judy a story about when he was a kid. “So my mom scraped together enough money to buy me a brand-new uniform.” Nick explained how badly he wanted to fit in—even though he was the only predator in the troop. “I was gonna be part of a pack,” he said.

Nick described the scene. He was taking the oath with the scouts when the other kids suddenly tackled him, yelling, “Get him! Get that pred! Muzzle him!”

They strapped a muzzle onto his snout and continued to mock him. “If you thought we’d ever trust a fox without a muzzle, you’re even dumber than you look,” one of them had taunted.

When they finally let him go, he ran away, limping, with his uniform torn to pieces.

“I learned two things that day,” said Nick, lost in the terrible memory. “One, I was never going to let anyone see that they got to me.”

“And two?” Judy prodded.

“If the world’s only gonna see a fox as shifty and untrustworthy, there’s no point trying to be anything else.”

“Nick,” said Judy gently. “You are so much more than that.” She touched his arm as the gondola pierced through the clouds. They gazed down at the busy city buzzing below.

“Boy, look at that traffic down there,” said Nick, changing the subject. “How about we go to Chuck in Traffic Central,” Nick continued, pretending to be a cheesy radio announcer. “Chuck, how are things looking on those Jam Cams?”

“Nick, I’m glad you told me,” said Judy.

“Wait! The Jam Cams!” said Nick urgently.

“Seriously, it’s okay,” said Judy.

“N-no, shh-shush! There are traffic cameras everywhere. All over the canopy. Whatever happened to that jaguar—”

“The traffic cameras would have caught it!” said Judy, excitedly, suddenly realizing what Nick meant.

“Bingo!” said Nick.

Judy chucked him on the arm, impressed. “Pretty sneaky, Slick.”

“However. If you didn’t have access to the system before, I doubt Chief Buffalo Butt is gonna give it to you now.”

“No. But I’ve got a friend at city hall who might!” Judy smiled, feeling hopeful again.

第 17 章

朱迪自信地领着警察们到树冠处的高地。“我原先以为这就是个简单的动物失踪案件，但后来发现实际比这严重多了。奥獭顿先生不仅仅是失踪，我相信他和这只美洲虎一样……都发狂了，长官。”

牛局长揶揄道：“发狂？现在不是石器时代好吗，动物是不会发狂的。”

“我之前也是这么觉得的，直到我看到了他。”朱迪转向她将麦岔铐起来的那个角落——但他居然不见了！就连手铐也消失了！

朱迪疑惑不解地说道：“他刚刚就在这儿的！”

牛局长接着揶揄道：“就是那只‘发狂’的美洲虎？”

朱迪答道：“长官，我确定我看到了，我们差点死在他手上！”

牛局长说：“在你们兔子看来，也许稍微凶一点的捕食者都像发狂一样吧。”然后他对着其他警察说：“我们走吧！”

“等等，长官！不止我一个人看到了他！”

朱迪叫来尼克，可还没等他开口，牛局长便说道：“你觉得我会去相信一只狐狸吗？”

朱迪说：“他是重要的目击证人，是我找他帮忙的。”

牛局长摇了摇头，生气地说：“我们之前说好的，两天之内找到水獭……不然你就辞职。警徽。”牛局长等着她交出警徽。

朱迪盯着博格伸出的手，尼克看着朱迪说：“长官，我们……”

牛局长坚定地说：“警徽。”

朱迪慢慢地抬手去取警徽，这时尼克开了口：“不要！”

牛局长怒视着尼克道：“狐狸，你说什么？”

尼克说：“不好意思，我刚刚说‘不要’。她不会把警徽交出来的。你想想，你给了她一件巨丑无比的马甲和一辆可笑的三轮车，就让她用两天时间去办一件你们这些人两个星期都办不好的案子，对吧？是的，难怪她要向一只狐狸求援。你们这么多人没一个人帮过她，是吧？”

朱迪望着尼克，她没想到尼克会站出来为她说话。牛局长站在那儿，沉默着。

“长官，情况是这样的。你给了她48个小时，所以确切地说，我们还有10个小时的时间来寻找奥獭顿先生……而这也是我们将要去做的事情。所以，很抱歉……我们还有重大线索等着我们去追踪，还有一桩大案等着我们去破解呢。再见!”

尼克转过头对朱迪说：“走吧，霍普斯警官？”他领着朱迪上了一辆缆车，只剩下目瞪口呆的牛局长和一众警察。

“谢谢你！”当他俩坐在缆车从雨林区上空划过时，朱迪说道。

尼克说：“千万不要让他们看出他们能影响到你！”

朱迪惊讶地看着尼克：“这么说，有事情影响到你了？”

尼克说：“没有……我是说，我现在不会了。但是我也年轻过，也曾像你一样感性过。”

“哈哈。”朱迪大笑起来。

“不，是真的。那时我才八九岁，满脑子想的都是参加兰杰童子军。”

尼克决定告诉朱迪他小时候的一个故事：“于是我妈砸锅卖铁凑了钱给我买了一套新制服。”尼克诉说当时他有多想融入组织，虽然他是部队里唯一的食肉动物。“我那时正要进到一个队里。”

尼克描述起当时的情景：他正在与其他童子军一起宣誓，突然其他孩子将他擒住，大喊：“抓住他！别放过那个捕猎者！给他戴上口套！”

他们给他戴上了口套，继续嘲弄他，其中一个讥讽道：“如果你觉得我们会信任一只没戴口套的狐狸，那你真是蠢到家了。”

最后他们还是放他走了，他一瘸一拐地逃跑了，新买的制服也被撕成了碎片。

沉浸在痛苦回忆中的尼克说道：“那天我明白了两件事情。第一，我不会再让任何人看出他们能影响到我。”

朱迪提醒道：“那第二件呢？”

“如果这个世界认定狐狸就是狡猾的、靠不住的，那我们试图变成别的样子也毫无意义。”

朱迪温柔地说：“尼克，你比那强多了。”她碰了碰他的胳膊，这时缆车穿过了云层。他们看着底下忙碌地运转着的城市。

“嘿，你看那边的交通。”尼克换了个话题说道，“我们去查克交通中心怎么样？”他模仿着电台主播的语气，虽然装得并不像：“查克，贾姆·卡姆那边的交通情况怎么样？”

朱迪说：“尼克。谢谢你告诉我这些。”

尼克忽然说：“等等，贾姆·卡姆！”

朱迪说：“可以啊，我说真的。”

“不是，嘘——到处都有监控摄像头，空中到处都是，不管美洲虎发生了什么——。”

朱迪忽然明白了尼克的意思，兴奋地说：“监控摄像头都会拍到他的！”

尼克说：“对极啦！”

朱迪轻轻拍了拍他的胳膊，意味深长地说：“你真聪明，老滑头。”

“但是，如果你之前看不到监控系统，我觉得牛局长现在也不会允许你看的。”

“是的。不过我有个朋友在市政厅，他可以让我看到！”朱迪笑了起来，感觉事情又有希望了。

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

朱迪和尼克没费多大劲就在市政厅找到了羊副市长。她一边跟着狮市长，一边艰难地抱住一沓厚厚的文件。

羊副市长说：“市长先生，我们能不能先看看这几份重要的——”

羊副市长艰难地抱着文件，在忙碌的人群中躲闪，差点踩到一只小老鼠。

“对不起……先生！”

狮市长不耐烦地说：“我听到了，羊副市长。小心一点，好吗？”他把一个文件夹放在她抱着的那一大摞文件上说：“今天下午的安排全部取消，我要外出。”

“但是市长先生，您下午得跟兽类动物和食草类动物开会……市长先生——”

狮市长径直走出了门，将门摔在羊副市长的脸上，她抱着的文件散落了一地。

“哦，成羊排了。”她说着，准备把散落的文件拾起来。

朱迪走近她，说：“羊副市长，我们需要您的帮助。”

羊副市长领着他们进了自己狭小拥挤的办公室。朱迪和尼克环顾四周，惊讶地发现她的办公室竟然是门卫的壁橱！

“我们只是想要进入交通录像监控数据库。”朱迪边说，羊副市长边敲着自己的电脑键盘。

尼克碰了碰羊副市长头顶的羊毛，小声说道：“真松软啊！”他深深地陶醉了。“绵羊从不让我靠近，嗯——真软，像棉花糖一样——”

“你不要碰她！住手！”朱迪边骂，边把他的手拍到一边，让羊副市长不要看到尼克的举动。

羊副市长打开整座城市的监控录像，问道：“看哪里的？”她抬起头看向朱迪，正看到她在打尼克的手。

“雨林区，攀缘路与图洪加路交界处。”

尼克和朱迪相视一笑，这回朱迪把图洪加给念对了。

羊副市长说：“好兴奋啊！你们知道吗？我从没参与过这么重要的事情。”

朱迪说：“你可是动物城的副市长啊！”

“哦，我更像是荣誉秘书。我觉得狮市长只是想让绵羊投票……但是他确实给了我那个漂亮的奖杯。”她说着骄傲地指向一个杯子，上面写着：“世界最佳副市长奖”。

这时，办公室的对讲机突然传来市长的声音：“斯梅尔韦瑟！”

羊副市长畏畏缩缩地站了起来。“其实这是他叫我的小名，我也叫过他莱昂法特。他没在意。”她按了一下对讲机上的通话按钮说：“在的，市长先生！”

狮市长叫喊道：“我还以为你要去为我办取消下午行程的事呢。”

“哦，亲爱的……我得走了。你们有什么发现一定要告诉我。我真的很高兴能——”

“斯梅尔韦瑟，快一点去！”市长低沉的声音再次传来，她夺门而出。

尼克说：“嗯，我需要一只纱布刷。”

“嘘——好的，监控录像。图洪加，图洪加，就是这里了。”朱迪说道。

尼克和朱迪盯着屏幕上的影像。他们看到麦岔正在发狂，然后……一辆黑色小货车开了过来，缓缓停了下来。

朱迪问道：“这些人是谁？”

“伐木狼。你看这些达姆弹。”

他们看到那些狼下了车，用一张网把麦岔抓了起来！朱迪倒吸一口凉气，而尼克只是摇摇头。

“他们中有一个马上会嚎叫，我跟你赌五分钱的怎么样？”尼克说。

果然一只狼嚎叫起来。

他问：“看吧，狼和嚎叫代表着什么？”

朱迪说：“嚎叫者，夜嚎者。这些狼才是麦岔害怕的，他们是夜嚎者，如果他们抓走了麦岔——”

尼克说：“我打赌，奥獭顿也是被他们抓走的。”

“我们现在要做的就是找到他们去了哪。”朱迪一边说着，一边查看录像。狼把车开走之后进了一条隧道，但并没有从隧道另一头出来。“等等，他们去哪了？”

尼克眯起眼睛看着画面说：“如果我在做违法的事，又想不被人发现，当然我没有做过啦，我会开到正在维修的6B隧道去，那条隧道会让他们安全出来。”尼克切换着监控录像，换了一个又一个……最终，那些狼出现在了车里！“就是这儿！”

朱迪惊讶地说：“不错呀你！真是个小侦探！我觉得你挺适合做警察的。”

尼克忍着没笑，装作害怕的样子说：“你怎么敢这么说。”

朱迪又切换了几个监控录像，追踪着狼一路走过山谷和小路。“他们往城外去了，”她说道，“这条路通向哪里？”

“只有两个可能，要么是那个非常非常可怕的老房子……要么就是比弗康复中心。”

Chapter 19

Nick and Judy found the mysterious road and followed it. They stopped and watched from a distance as a van drove past a gated checkpoint. Beyond the gate was a creepy old building called Cliffside Asylum that perched high on a cliff over the ocean.

“Why couldn’t you be a Beaver Renaissance Faire?” Nick said quietly.

The two slowly ventured toward the asylum, sneaking up to the guarded gate. They could see two wolves stationed inside. Nick motioned that he was going to try and tiptoe past. He started off, but as he got closer, one of the wolves sniffed the air, picking up on his scent. Nick grabbed a piece of driftwood to use as a weapon as the wolf began searching for the source of the scent. But before the wolf could find Nick, a howl sounded in the distance, grabbing the wolf’s attention. “Ooooooooo!”

It was Judy, hidden beneath the cliffs!

Hearing the sound, the wolf couldn’t help but howl back.

Another guard approached and said sharply, “Quit it, Gary. You’re gonna start a howl.”

“I didn’t start it. Ooooooooo!” said Gary.

Unable to control it, the other guard howled back. Soon more and more wolves joined in, howling away.

Judy whispered to Nick, “Come on!” They used the distraction to jump the fence and sneak by the guards.

“Clever bunny,” said Nick, impressed.

As they scrambled over the slippery rocks, Nick nearly slid down a waterfall. They searched for a way into the building and spotted a large pipe. Climbing inside, they walked until they emerged in the asylum. The dark cavernous room was full of old, rusty medical equipment.

“Looks like this was a hospital,” said Judy.

She shined her light down a corridor and saw a metal door at the other end. They walked toward it. “You know, after you,” Nick said, motioning for her to open the door. “You’re the cop.”

Judy slowly pushed the door open to reveal a room with shiny, modern new medical equipment. They cautiously walked in and looked around.

Nick pointed to scratches crisscrossing the floor. “Claw marks?” Judy said, taking in the sight. There were deep grooves in the door, too.

Feeling a little scared and intimidated, Nick started to back up. “Yeah, huge, huge claw marks. But what kind of anima—” A growl interrupted him, and then a locked-up, savage tiger grabbed Nick and pulled him toward his cell. Judy yanked Nick away, freeing him from the tiger’s grip.

Judy held up her flashlight and swiveled it around the room to reveal...dozens of eyes! They walked along looking at each of the locked-up animals before finding a jaguar on all fours, pacing his cell. “Mr. Manchas,” said Judy.

They continued past three, four, five cells, until finally, in the last one, they found a feral otter. It was Emmitt Otterton!

“It’s him,” said Judy. “We found our otter.” She turned and spoke to him gently. “Mr. Otterton, my name is Officer Judy Hopps. Your wife sent me to find you. We’re gonna get you out of here now.”

Otterton screeched and lunged toward the glass wall, as if trying to attack.

“Or not,” said Nick, backing away. “Guess he’s in no rush to get home to the Mrs.”

Judy looked down the corridor of cells, counting, “Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Plus Manchas.” She thought for a moment, then said, “Chief Bogo handed out fourteen missing mammal files...All the missing mammals are right here!”

Click! A door started to open, so Nick and Judy quickly hid next to an empty cell. They heard footsteps approaching, and soon they could see someone...

It was Mayor Lionheart!

“Enough!” said Lionheart. “I don’t want excuses, Doctor, I want answers.”

Lionheart looked serious, intense, and tired. Judy whipped out her phone and started recording as Lionheart talked to a badger doctor.

“Mayor Lionheart, please,” said the doctor. “We’re doing everything we can.”

“Oh, I don’t think you are,” said Lionheart. “Because I got a dozen and a half animals here who’ve gone off-the-freaking-rails crazy, and you can’t tell me why. I’d call that awfully far from doing everything.”

“Sir, it may be time to consider their biology,” said the doctor.

Otterton, in the cage behind them, slammed against the glass walls of his cell.

“Biology, Doctor? Spare me.”

“We both know what they all have in common. We can’t keep it a secret. We need to come forward,” the doctor said.

Lionheart snarled and turned on the doctor. “What do you think will happen if the press gets ahold of this?”

“What does Chief Bogo think?” asked the doctor.

“Chief Bogo doesn’t know. And we are going to keep it that way.”

Brrring! Brrring! Judy’s phone broke the silence. It was her parents calling.

Lionheart looked up, startled. “Someone’s here!”

“Sir, you need to go now,” said the doctor. “Security, sweep the area!”

Nick and Judy ran as an alarm blared throughout the asylum. Wolves swarmed the halls.

“Great, we’re dead. That’s it. I’m dead. You’re dead. Everybody’s dead,” Nick declared.

“Can you swim?” Judy asked Nick, ducking into an empty cell and putting her phone into an evidence bag.

“What? Can I swim? Of course. Why?” Nick watched Judy dive into a large hippo toilet. He closed his eyes and jumped in after her.

They slid through the pipe, twisting this way and that until they finally shot out, cascading over a waterfall. After a gasp of air, Nick swam to the riverbank. But Judy was nowhere to be seen. “Carrots? Hopps? Judy!”

He sighed when her saw her emerge from the water, holding her bagged phone over her head. “We’ve got to tell Bogo.”

第 19 章

尼克和朱迪找到了那条神秘的路，沿着路向前走。远远看见一辆小货车开过门岗，他们便停了下来。门的那头是一栋阴森森的老房子，立在海边的悬崖上，叫作“悬崖精神病院”。

“我们为什么不装作是比弗康复中心的工作人员呢？”尼克轻声地说。

他俩试探着摸向门岗，慢慢向精神病院走去。他们看到两只狼在里面站岗。尼克示意他要踮着脚走过去。但当他靠近时，其中一只狼嗅了嗅，闻到了他的气味，警觉地寻找起气味的来源，尼克抓起一根木棒当作武器。那只狼还没发现尼克的时候，远处传来一声狼嚎，引起了他的注意。“呜……”

那是朱迪叫的，她正躲在悬崖下面！

那只狼听到声音，不由得回应起来。

另一只狼走过来，厉声说：“盖里，不要叫了。你会引起整个狼群长嚎的。”

盖里说：“我没有。呜……”

那只狼闻声也忍不住长嚎了一声，很快，其他的狼也开始嚎叫起来，此起彼伏。

朱迪小声对尼克说：“快走！”他们在狼群分神之际跳过栅栏，躲过了警卫。

尼克钦佩地说：“你这兔子真聪明！”

他们在湿滑的岩石上攀爬时，尼克差点滑倒掉进下面的瀑布里。他们试图找到进屋的路，结果发现了一根大管子。他们爬了进去，顺着它一直走直到进入了精神病院。屋里像山洞一样，黑乎乎的，摆满了生锈、破旧的医疗用具。

朱迪说：“这里看起来像家医院。”

她打开手电照向走廊，发现另一头有一扇铁门。他们朝那儿走去，尼克示意她去开门：“你先走，你是警察。”

朱迪缓缓推开门，门后的房间里满是崭新的现代医疗器械，泛着金属的亮光。他们小心翼翼地走进去，环顾四下。

尼克指着墙，上面布满抓痕。朱迪望去，问道：“是爪印吗？”接着他们发现门上也有很深的凹槽。

尼克怕得浑身发毛，不由得一边往后退，一边说：“是的，是很大很大的爪印。但是是什么动物的——”一阵咆哮声打断了他，一只关在笼子里的发狂的老虎抓住了他，把他往笼子那儿拽。朱迪见势赶紧把尼克从老虎爪中拉了回来。

朱迪举起手电在屋里转了一圈，发现……屋子里还有许多双眼睛！他们边走边查看每个笼子里都关着什么动物，最后发现了在笼子里来回踱步的美洲虎，朱迪喊了一声：“麦岔先生！”

他们走过第三个、第四个、第五个笼子，走到最后一个笼子的时候终于找到了野性大发的水獭——艾米·奥獭顿！

朱迪说：“是他！找到我们要找的水獭了！”她转过身对他轻声说：“奥獭顿先生，我是朱迪·霍普斯警官。您的妻子托我来找您，我们会把您救出去的。”

奥獭顿对着玻璃尖叫着，像是要发起进攻。

“或许不救，”尼克边说边往后退。“我猜他没那么着急回家见他妻子。”

朱迪顺着走廊数了一下笼子：“11,12,13,14。麦岔也算上。”她想了想，说道：“牛局长列出了14宗失踪案……所有失踪的动物全都在这儿！”

咔嚓！一扇门打开了，尼克和朱迪迅速躲在了一个空笼子的旁边。他们听到脚步声越来越近，很快一个人出现了……

竟然是狮市长！

狮市长说：“够了！医生，我不想听解释，我想要答案！”

狮市长看起来既严肃又紧张，还很疲惫。朱迪掏出手机，将狮市长对獾医生说的话录下来。

医生说：“狮市长，求您了，我们已经尽力了。”

狮市长说：“是吗？我可不这么觉得。因为我弄了这么多动物来，个个都发狂到完全不正常的程度，你却不能告诉我原因。我觉得你远远没有尽力。”

医生说：“市长先生，也许是时候考虑一下他们的生物特性了吧。”

他们身后的奥獭顿猛撞了一下他笼子的玻璃。

“生物特性？饶了我吧，医生。”

医生说：“我们都知道他们有个共同点，我们不能一直守着这个秘密。我们得提出来。”

狮市长转向医生咆哮道：“你觉得要是媒体知道了这个秘密会怎么样？”

医生问：“牛局长怎么想？”

“牛局长还不知道，我们也不想让他知道。”

铃铃铃！朱迪的手机突然响起来，是她父母打来的。

狮市长抬起头，大惊失色：“有人！”

医生说：“先生，您赶紧离开。保安，搜索现场！”

警报响彻精神病院，朱迪和尼克迅速往外跑。大厅里聚集了一群狼。

尼克表示道：“这下好了，我们死定了。就是这样。我死定了，你死定了，我们都死定了！”

朱迪问尼克：“你会游泳吗？”说着她钻进一只空笼子，把手机装进了证物袋。

“什么？我会不会游泳？当然会。怎么了？”尼克见朱迪潜入了一个河马用的大马桶，他也闭上眼跟着跳了进去。

他们在顺着管道蜿蜒滑行，直到最后冲了出来，从瀑布上落下。尼克深吸了一口气，游到了岸边。但朱迪却不见了踪影。“胡萝卜？霍普斯？朱迪！”

当他看见朱迪从水里浮了起来时，终于舒了一口气。她把装在袋子里的手机高举过头顶。“我们得去告诉牛局长！”

Chapter 20

An hour later, the ZPD burst into Lionheart’s office.

“Mayor Lionheart, you are under arrest for the kidnapping and false imprisonment of innocent citizens,” Judy said as she cuffed him.

“You don’t understand!” shouted Lionheart. “I had to do it!”

“You have the right to remain silent,” Judy continued.

“I did it for the city!” Lionheart exclaimed.

Later on, Bogo addressed the press. Behind him were posters of the savage animals—each one of them sporting a muzzle. “Ladies and gentlemammals,” said Bogo. “Fourteen mammals went missing, and all fourteen have been found by our newest recruit, who will speak to you in a moment.”

“I am so nervous,” said Judy as she and Nick stood off to the side.

“Okay, Press Conference 101,” said Nick. “You wanna look smart, answer their questions with your own rhetorical questions. Then answer that question. Okay like this, ‘Was this a tough case? Yes. Yes, it was.’ ”

“You should be up there with me. We did this together,” said Judy.

“Well, am I a cop? No. No, I’m not,” answered Nick.

“Funny you should say that...because I’ve been thinking. It would be nice to have a partner,” said Judy, handing Nick an application to the ZPD. She offered the carrot pen to him. “Here. In case you need something to write with.”

Bellwether gestured to Judy to come up to the podium. “Officer Hopps, it’s time.”

Nick looked down at the application, clicked the pen, and began filling it out.

As Judy stepped up, Bogo saluted her. She saluted back, and then the reporters started shouting out her name and asking questions. Judy pointed to one of them. “What can you tell us about the animals that went savage?” the reporter asked.

“Well, the animals in question...Are they all different species? Yes. Yes, they are,” said Judy, looking toward Nick.

Nick smiled and gave her a thumbs-up.

“Okay, what’s the connection?” shouted another reporter.

“All we know is that they’re all members of the predator family,” said Judy.

Nick frowned. The press reacted. Again, they yelled questions all at once. Judy was surprised.

“So predators are the only ones going savage?” demanded one reporter.

“That is accurate,” said Judy, hesitating before she spoke. “Yes.”

“Why is that happening?” yelled several reporters.

“We still don’t know—”

The crowd rumbled with disappointment.

“BUT, but, but...it may have something to do with biology,” said Judy, surprised by the escalating tension in the room.

Murmurs rippled across the press and a reporter asked, “What do you mean by that?”

“A biological component. You know, something in their DNA,” Judy said.

“In their DNA? Can you elaborate on that, please?”

“Yes,” Judy nodded, as the crowd got louder. “Thousands of years ago...predators survived through their aggressive hunting instincts. For whatever reason, they’re reverting back to their savage ways.”

Her comment caused a big hubbub. Nick didn’t like what he was hearing. Clawhauser looked up. He was feeling uncomfortable, too.

“Officer Hopps, could it happen again?” asked another reporter.

“It is possible,” said Judy. “We must be vigilant. And we at the ZPD are prepared and are here to protect you.”

The press suddenly went into an absolute frenzy, asking questions like “What is being done to prevent it?” and “Should all predators be quarantined?”

Bellwether stepped up, eager to put an end to the questions. “Uh, thank you, Officer Hopps. Uh, no more questions.”

“Oh, okay...but...I...didn’t—” Before Judy could say another word, Bellwether ushered her away.

Unsure of how she had done, Judy walked across the lobby to Nick. “That went so fast. I didn’t get a chance to mention you or say anything about—”

“Oh, I think you said plenty,” said Nick, interrupting her.

“What do you mean?” Judy asked, confused.

“Clearly there’s a biological component,” he said sarcastically, repeating her words. “These predators may be reverting back to their primitive savage ways.” He looked at her incredulously. “Are you serious?”

“I just stated the facts of the case,” said Judy. “I mean, it’s not like a bunny could go savage.”

“No, but a fox could, huh?”

“Stop it, Nick! You’re not like them.”

“There’s a them now?”

“You know what I mean. You’re not that kind of predator.”

Nick gestured at all the posters. “The kind that needs to be muzzled? The kind that makes you think you need to carry around fox repellent? Yeah, don’t think I didn’t notice that little item the first time we met.”

Nick got angrier and angrier, “So, you scared of me? Think I might go nuts? Go savage? Think I might what...try to eat you?”

Nick lunged, like he was going to bite her, and she flinched. Automatically, she put her hand on the fox repellent.

“I knew it. Just when I thought somebody actually believed in me,” Nick said calmly. Then he handed her back the application. “Probably best if you don’t have a predator as a partner.”

As he walked away, he took off the sticker badge, crumpled it up, and tossed it into the trash.

“Nick!” Judy called after him, but he went straight out the door.

Judy had broken their friendship, and she didn’t know how to fix it.

第 20 章

一小时之后，动物城警察局的警员们涌进了狮市长的办公室。

“狮市长，你现在以绑架罪和非法拘禁罪被捕。”朱迪说着把他铐了起来。

狮市长大喊道：“你不明白！我不得不这样做！”

朱迪接着说：“你有权保持沉默！”

狮市长呼喊道：“我是为了我们的城市才这样做的！”

随后，牛局长召开了新闻发布会。他身后张贴着那些发狂的动物们，每一只都戴着口套。牛局长说：“女士们，先生们。我们市有14只动物失踪，但这14只动物全都被我们的新警员找到，接下来让她来讲讲。”

“我好紧张！”朱迪说着，和尼克起身站到一边。

尼克说：“好吧，101号新闻发布会，你得表现得机灵点，回答问题的时候要先反问他们，然后再回答他们的问题。比如说‘这个案子是不是很难侦破呢？是的是的！’”

朱迪说：“你应该跟我一起到前面去，案子是我们一起破的。”

尼克回答道：“嗯，我是警察吗？不，不，我不是。”

“你说的这个很有意思……因为我也一直都在想这个问题。我要是有个搭档就好了。”朱迪递给尼克一张动物城警察局的职位申请表，还递给他一支胡萝卜笔：“给，以防你需要填表用的笔。”

羊副市长示意朱迪到演讲台上去：“霍普斯警官，该你了哦！”

尼克低头看了看申请表，按下笔头开始填起来。

朱迪上台时，牛局长向她敬礼，她也回敬了。接着，记者叫着她的名字，开始提问。朱迪指了指其中一个。那个记者问：“你能和我们讲讲那些发狂的动物吗？”

“是这样，这些出了问题的动物……他们是不同的物种吗？是的，是的！”朱迪边回答边望向尼克。

尼克笑了起来，向她竖起了大拇指。

另一个记者大声问道：“那他们之间有什么联系吗？”

朱迪答道：“据我们所知，他们都是食肉动物。”

尼克皱了皱眉。媒体开始骚动，大家再一次异口同声地要提问。朱迪有点惊讶。

一个记者问：“那么，发狂的只有食肉动物吗？”

“你说得没错。”朱迪说着，顿了顿又补充了一句：“是的。”

几个记者一起问道：“为什么会这样？”

“这个我们现在还不清楚——”

人群中开始传出不满的声音。

“但是——但是，但是……这个可能会跟生物特性有关。”朱迪说着，惊讶于屋内不断升级的紧张气氛。

媒体间开始窃窃私语，一个记者问道：“你这话是什么意思？”

朱迪说：“就是一种生物成分，在他们的基因里。”

“在他们的基因里？能请你详细说说吗？”

“好的。”随着人群中的声音越来越大，朱迪点点头说道，“几千年前……食肉动物因为他们的捕猎特性而存活下来，而现在因为某些原因，他们又回到了以前原始的野蛮状态。”

她的话立刻引起了人群的骚动。尼克不喜欢他听到的这番话。克劳豪瑟抬起头，他也不太舒服。

另一个记者问：“霍普斯警官，那这种事情还会发生吗？”

朱迪说：“有可能。我们必须保持警惕，我们动物城警察局也已做好准备，保护大家的安全。”

媒体突然陷入大混乱，各种问题不断被问及，比如“你们通过什么措施来保护我们？”“所有的食肉动物都应该被隔离起来吗？”

羊副市长赶紧上台，试图终止提问：“呃，好的，谢谢霍普斯警官。提问到此结束。”

“哦，好吧……但是……我还——”还没等朱迪说完，羊副市长已经将她领了下去。

朱迪不确定自己表现得怎么样，便穿过大厅走向尼克：“整个过程太快了，我都没逮着机会提到你，还有——”

尼克打断她说：“哦，我觉得你已经说了很多了。”

朱迪不解地问道：“什么意思？”

“很明显是一种生物成分。这些食肉动物有可能回到原始的野蛮状态。”他重复着朱迪的话，其中不无讽刺意味。他疑惑地看着她问道：“你是认真的吗？”

朱迪说：“我说的只是事实。我的意思是，就像兔子不会发狂一样。”

“兔子当然不会，但狐狸就会了，对吧？”

“不要说了，尼克！你跟他们不一样！”

“现在已经有‘他们’这一说了？”

“你知道我的意思。你不是那种食肉动物。”

尼克指着墙上所有的海报说：“是那种需要戴上口套的食肉动物吗？是那种你觉得你需要随身带上驱狐剂的食肉动物吗？你别以为我们第一次见面时我没看到那个小东西。”

尼克越说越生气：“你害怕我对吗？觉得我会发疯？会发狂？觉得我会……吃了你？”

尼克猛地冲过来，像是要咬她的样子。她畏缩了一下，手不自觉地放在了驱狐剂上。

“我就知道。我本以为有人会真的相信我。”尼克平静地说着。接着，他把申请表还给了朱迪：“你最好还是不要找一个食肉动物当搭档了吧。”

他离开时，把身上的徽章摘了下来，捏碎扔进了垃圾堆。

“尼克！”朱迪在后面叫他，但他头也不回地往门外走去。

朱迪搞砸了他们的友情，她不知该如何挽回。

Chapter 21

After the press conference, a wedge was driven between the animals of Zootopia, and everyone was talking about it. There were conflicts and protests. The animals began to treat one another differently.

At one protest, Judy stood in the middle of the two opposing sides as they argued.

“Go back to the forest, predator!” a pig yelled.

“I’m from the savanna!” shouted a beaver.

As the divide between prey and predators grew, it was on every news station.

Pop star Gazelle rallied for peace. “The Zootopia I know is better than this. We don’t just blindly assign blame. We don’t know why these attacks keep happening, but it is irresponsible to label all predators as savages. We cannot let fear divide us. Please give me back the Zootopia I love.”

Judy felt exhausted by all the fighting—and she also felt responsible. She rode the subway on her way into work. There she watched a mother bunny pull her child to her as a lion boarded the train, and Judy shook her head. Judy got off at the next stop and went into the hospital.

“That’s not my husband,” Mrs. Otterton said, as she and Judy watched Emmitt Otterton flail around like a madman inside a padded room.

Judy sighed, her face full of worry. But there was nothing she could do.

Even inside the ZPD lobby the news was on.

Bogo called to Judy. “Come on, Hopps. The new mayor wants to see us.”

“The mayor? Why?” she asked.

“It would seem you’ve arrived,” Bogo said.

As Judy followed Bogo, she saw Clawhauser packing up his desk. “Clawhauser? What’re you doing?” she asked.

“Oh, they thought it would be better if a predator such as myself wasn’t the first face you see when you walk into the ZPD. So they’re moving me to Records downstairs. By the boiler,” he said.

Judy’s disappointment was evident on her face.

“Hopps. Now!” Bogo commanded.

Mayor Bellwether was behind her desk in her big new fancy office as Bogo and Judy sat down. In front of them was a pamphlet with a picture of a smiling Judy that read “ZPD, Put Your Trust in Us.” Judy looked at it, confused. “I don’t understand.”

“Our city is ninety percent prey, Judy,” said Bellwether. “And right now, they’re just really scared. You’re a hero to them. They trust you. And so that’s why Chief Bogo and I want you to be the public face of the ZPD.”

“I’m not—I’m not a hero,” said Judy sadly. “I came here to make the world a better place, but I think I broke it.”

“Don’t give yourself so much credit, Hopps,” said Bogo. “The world has always been broken. That’s why we need good cops like you.”

“With all due respect, sir, a good cop is supposed to serve and protect—help the city, not tear it apart,” said Judy. She took off her badge and handed it to Bogo. “I don’t deserve this badge.”

“Hopps,” said Bogo.

“Judy. This is what you’ve always wanted. Since you were a kid...you can’t quit...,” said Bellwether.

“Thank you for the opportunity,” said Judy. Then she rushed out of the office.

第 21 章

新闻发布会事件在动物城的动物间不断发酵，人人都在谈论此事。矛盾和抗议不断爆发，动物们看待他人的眼光和以前明显不同了。

在一次抗议活动中，朱迪站在争论的两派中间。

一头猪喊道：“你们这些食肉动物，滚回森林去！”

一只河狸叫道：“我是从平原来的！”

随着食肉动物和食草动物的不断分化，矛盾频频见诸报端。

艺人夏奇羊召开和平集会。“我所知道的动物城远比现在美好。我们不要胡乱指责。我们现在还不清楚袭击频发的原因，但是给所有食肉动物贴上野蛮的标签却是不负责任的行为。我们不能让恐惧离间我们。让我所热爱的动物城回来吧！”

朱迪在争斗中感到筋疲力尽——也感到自己应该要负责任。她乘地铁上班的时候，看见一位兔妈妈因为一只狮子上了车便赶紧将孩子抱在怀里，朱迪不住地摇头。她在下一站下了车，去了医院。

“那个不是我丈夫！”奥獭顿太太说。朱迪看着手舞足蹈的艾米·奥獭顿，就像是精神病院里软壁病房里的疯子。

朱迪叹了口气，脸上满布愁云。但她什么也做不了。

即使是在动物城警察局的大厅里，新闻依旧上演。

牛局长叫朱迪道：“霍普斯，走。新上任的市长想要见见咱们。”

她问：“新市长？为什么？”

牛局长说：“好像是因为你到了。”

在朱迪跟着牛局长走的时候，她看见克劳豪瑟正在打包他的桌子上的东西，便问：“克劳豪瑟，你在干什么？”

他回答：“哦，他们觉得，别人来动物城警察局时看到的第一个人最好不要是像我这样的食肉动物，所以让我搬到楼下锅炉房边上的档案室。”

朱迪一脸失望的神情。

牛局长命令道：“霍普斯，快走！”

牛局长和朱迪走进市长宽敞漂亮的新办公室坐下时，羊副市长市长正在桌后。他们面前摆着一本宣传手册，图片上的朱迪微笑着，上面还写着“动物城警察局，请相信我们！”朱迪疑惑地看着这些，说道：“我不太懂。”

羊副市长说：“朱迪，我们城市里90%都是食草动物，而现在他们都在担惊受怕。你是他们的英雄，他们相信你。这就是牛局长和我想让你做动物城警察局形象代言人的原因。”

朱迪伤心地说：“我不是——我不是英雄。我到这儿来是想让世界变得更加美好，但我觉得我弄砸了。”

牛局长说：“霍普斯，不要太自责了。世界总会不完美的，所以我们需要你这样优秀的警察。”

朱迪说：“长官，恕我直言，一个好警察应该保护百姓，服务百姓——去帮助城市，而不是分裂它。”她说着摘下了警章递给牛局长说：“我不配拥有这枚警章。”

牛局长说：“霍普斯！”

羊市长说：“朱迪，这是你一直以来梦寐以求的。从你儿时开始……你不能放弃……”

“谢谢你的好意！”朱迪说着，夺门而出。

Chapter 22

At her family vegetable stand in Bunnyburrow, Judy bagged carrots for a customer. “Four dozen carrots,” she said robotically. “Have a nice day.”

Stu and Bonnie approached her, concerned. “Hey there, Jude—Jude the Dude, remember that one? How we doin’?” asked Stu.

“I’m fine.”

“You are not fine. Your ears are droopy,” said Bonnie.

“Why did I think I could make a difference?” Judy asked.

“Well, because you’re a trier, that’s why,” said Stu.

“You’ve always been a trier,” said Bonnie.

“Yeah. I tried, and I made life so much worse for so many innocent predators.”

“Oh, not all of them, though,” Stu said. “Speak of the devil. Right on time.”

Beep! A horn blared as a bakery truck pulled up to the stand.

Judy’s eyes widened. “Is that...Gideon Grey?”

The truck had a sign that read GIDEON GREY’S EPICUREAN BAKED DELIGHTS...MADE WITH HOPPS FAMILY FARM PRODUCE.

“Yep. It sure is,” Stu nodded. “We work with him now.”

“He’s our partner! And we’d never have considered it had you not opened our minds,” said Bonnie.

“That’s right,” said Stu. “Gid’s turned into one of the top pastry chefs in the triboroughs.”

The fox in question climbed out of his truck. “Gideon Grey,” said Judy. “I’ll be darned.”

“Hey, Judy,” said Gideon. “I’d like to say sorry for the way I behaved in my youth. I had a lot of self-doubt that manifested itself in the form of unchecked rage and aggression. I was a major jerk.”

“I know a thing or two about being a jerk,” said Judy.

“Anyhow, I brought you all these pies,” said Gideon, holding them up. Kid bunnies ran across the field, beelining it for the pies.

“Hey, kids!” shouted Stu. “Don’t run through the Midnicampum holicithias!”

“Now, there’s a four-dollar word, Mr. H. My family always just called them night howlers,” said Gideon.

Judy’s ears pricked up. “What did you say?” she asked.

Stu gestured to the flowers growing on the edge of the crops. “Oh, Gid’s talking about those flowers, Judy. I use them to keep bugs off the produce. But I don’t like the little ones going near them on account of your Uncle Terry.”

“Yeah, Terry ate one whole when we were kids and went completely nuts,” said Bonnie.

“He bit the dickens out of your mother,” added Stu.

“A bunny can go savage...,” said Judy, putting the pieces together.

“Savage? Well, that’s a strong word,” said Bonnie.

“There’s a sizable divot in your arm. I’d call that savage,” said Stu.

Judy stood still as the thoughts raced through her head. “Night howlers aren’t wolves. They’re flowers. The flowers are making the predators go savage. That’s it. That’s what I’ve been missing.” She raced away, then turned back. “Keys! Keys! Keys! Hurry! Come on!” Stu tossed her the keys to his pickup truck and Judy jumped in. “Thank you, I love you, bye!”

She peeled out and raced toward Zootopia.

第 22 章

朱迪家在兔窝镇社区有一个蔬菜亭，朱迪正在为顾客装胡萝卜。“您的四包胡萝卜，拿好慢走！”她机械地说着。

斯图和邦尼忧心地走过来。“嘿，朱迪——祖德的朱迪，还记得吗？你还好吗？”斯图问。

“我还好。”

邦尼说：“你一点都不好，你耳朵都耷拉下来了。”

朱迪问：“我凭什么认为我可以和别人不一样？”

斯图说：“那是因为你是一个勇于尝试的人。”

邦尼说：“你一直都是个勇于尝试的人！”

“没错，我尝试了，我让这么多无辜的食肉动物生活变得这么糟糕！”

斯图说：“哦，也不是所有的啦。说曹操，曹操到。来得正是时候啊。”

滴滴！随着一声喇叭响，一辆面包车在亭子前停下了。

朱迪眼前一亮：“那不是……吉丁·格雷吗？”

车上的标志写着：“乐享吉丁·格雷烘焙美食……霍普斯农场原料烹制。”

斯图点头道：“是的，就是他，我们现在和他一起干。”

邦尼说：“他是我们的搭档。我们不敢想象要是没有你帮我们开阔思维会怎么样。”

斯图说：“是啊，吉丁成了我们这三个镇上最好的几位糕点师之一。”

正说着，那只狐狸爬出了卡车。朱迪对他说：“吉丁·格雷，好样的！”

吉丁说：“嘿，朱迪。对于我小时候做的事情我得跟你说声抱歉。我曾经怀疑我自己，却以过激的方式发泄出来。我真是个大混蛋。”

朱迪：“我对混蛋还是略知一二的。”

“不管怎样，我给你们带了些馅饼。”吉丁说着，把馅饼拿了上来。兔宝宝们看见，纷纷从田野里径直奔向馅饼。

斯图说：“嘿，小朋友们！不要从藏红花田里穿过来！”

吉丁说：“现在有个非常简单的词来称呼它，H先生。我们家一直把它们叫作夜嚎者。”

朱迪的耳朵竖了起来，问道：“你说什么？”

斯图指了指种在庄稼边上的花说：“哦，朱迪，吉丁说的是那些花。我们用这些花来驱虫，但是因为你叔叔泰利的事情，我不想让小孩子靠近它们。”

邦尼说：“对，在我们小的时候泰利吃了一整棵，然后就发疯了。”

斯图说：“你妈妈还被他咬了，伤得不轻。”

朱迪把事情的各个细节拼在了一起，说道：“兔子也可以发狂……”

邦尼说：“发狂？这个词可有点夸张。”

斯图说：“你手臂上沾了一大块草皮，我也可以叫它发狂。”

朱迪静静地站着，脑子里飞快地思索着。“夜嚎者不是狼，是花。这种花可以让食肉动物发狂。就是它！这就是我漏掉的线索。”她跑开了，然后又转身回来：“钥匙！钥匙！钥匙！快！给我！”斯图把自己那辆小卡车的钥匙扔给了她，朱迪便跳上了车：“谢谢，我爱你，再见！”

她加足马力，直奔动物城。

Chapter 23

Judy found Nick sitting in a lawn chair under a dark, lonely bridge.

“Night howlers aren’t wolves. They’re toxic flowers. I think someone is targeting predators on purpose and making them go savage.”

“Wow,” said Nick. “Isn’t that interesting?” He got up and walked off, but Judy followed.

“Wait, listen! I know you’ll never forgive me. And I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t forgive me, either. I was ignorant and irresponsible and small-minded. But predators shouldn’t suffer because of my mistakes. I have to fix this, but I can’t do it without you.”

Nick sighed but still refused to look at her.

“And after we’re done, you can hate me, and that’ll be fine, because I was a horrible friend and I hurt you...And you can walk away knowing you were right all along, I really am just a dumb bunny.”

Nick didn’t respond. It was awkwardly quiet until, suddenly, Judy’s voice played back on a recorder. “I really am just a dumb bunny. I really am just a dumb bunny.”

Nick emerged from the shadows, holding up her carrot pen. “Cheer up, Carrots. I’ll let you erase it...in forty-eight hours.”

Judy’s eyes welled up with tears. Nick shook his head. “All right, get in here.”

She put her arms around Nick and hugged him tightly.

“You bunnies are so emotional,” said Nick. “Are you just trying to steal the pen? Is that what this is? You are standing on my tail, though. Off, off, off.”

Nick and Judy climbed into the pickup truck.

“Oh! I thought you guys only grew carrots!” said Nick, grabbing a basket of blueberries and popping a few into his mouth. “What’s the plan?”

“We’re gonna follow the night howlers. Know this guy?” Judy asked, holding up a picture of Duke Weaselton, the crook Judy had busted in Little Rodentia for stealing flower bulbs.

“I know everybody,” said Nick.

第 23 章

在一座昏暗的、孤零零的大桥下，朱迪发现尼克坐在一把躺椅上。

“夜嚎者不是狼，是一种有毒的花。我觉得是有人在故意加害食肉动物，让他们发狂。”

尼克说：“哇，听起来真是有趣啊？”他站起身走开了，但朱迪跟了上去。

“等一等，你听我说！我知道你永远不会原谅我，我不怪你，我也不能原谅自己。我是那么无知，那么不负责任，那么鼠目寸光。但是食肉动物却不能因为我犯的错而承受这么多。我得挽回这一切，但没有你我做不到！”

尼克叹了口气，但还是没有看她。

“事情办好之后，你尽管讨厌我，没有关系，因为我这个朋友做得太糟糕了，伤害了你……你可以离开，你一直都是对的，我确实就是只笨兔子。”

尼克没有回答。突然朱迪的声音从录音机里回放出来，打破了尴尬的沉默：“我就是只笨兔子。我确实就是只笨兔子。我确实就是只笨兔子。”

尼克从暗处走了出来，拿着她的胡萝卜笔：“开心点，胡萝卜！我会让你挽回的……在48小时之内。”

朱迪眼里噙着泪水。尼克摇摇头说：“好了，过来。”

她伸出臂膀，紧紧拥抱着尼克。

尼克说：“你们兔子感情真是泛滥。你是要偷这支笔吗？是这样吗？你踩在我的尾巴上了，下来，下来，下来。”

尼克和朱迪爬上那辆小卡车。

“哦！我还以为你们只种胡萝卜呢！”尼克说着，抓过一篮子蓝莓，塞了几颗到嘴里。“我们的计划是什么？”

“我们要找到夜嚎者。你认识这个人吗？”朱迪拿出一张威斯顿公爵的照片问道，这个人因为偷花根在小型啮齿动物镇被朱迪揍过。

尼克说：“我谁不认识啊。”

Chapter 24

Judy and Nick found Weaselton standing on a street corner, selling random junk. “Anything you need...I got it,” he called. “All your favorite movies! I got movies that haven’t even been released yet!” In front of him were knockoff movies like Wreck-It Rhino, Wrangled, and Pig Hero 6.

“Well, well, look who’s back in the bootleg business,” Nick said, walking up to him.

“What’s it to you, Wilde? Shouldn’t you be melting down a pawpsicle or something?” Weaselton recognized Judy. “Hey, if it isn’t Flopsy the Copsy.”

“We both know those weren’t moldy onions I caught you stealing,” said Judy. “What were you going to do with those night howlers, Wezzleton?”

“It’s Weaselton! Duke Weaselton. And I ain’t talking, rabbit. And ain’t nothing you can do to make me.” He flicked a toothpick in her face. Judy turned to Nick and smiled. She knew they had the exact same idea.

Not long after, polar bears held Weaselton over the icy death pit inside Mr. Big’s place. “Ice ’im,” said Mr. Big.

Weaselton screamed and squirmed, trying to break free. “You dirty rat! Why you helping her? You know she’s a cop!”

Mr. Big motioned for his polar bears to wait as they dangled Weaselton over the pit. “And the godmother to my future granddaughter.”

Fru Fru emerged from the other room, showing off her pregnant belly. “I’m going to name her Judy,” said Fru Fru happily.

“Aw,” said Judy.

“Ice this weasel,” Mr. Big ordered.

“Wait! Stop! I’ll talk!” screamed Weaselton. “I stole them night howlers because I could sell them for a lot of dough.”

“And to whom did you sell them?” asked Judy.

“A ram named Doug. We got a drop spot underground. Just watch it. Doug ain’t exactly friendly.”

第 24 章

朱迪和尼克在街角找到了正在卖假货的威斯顿。他吆喝道：“你们想要的……我这儿应有尽有。所有你们喜欢的电影我都有！没有上映的电影我也有。”他面前摆着许多盗版影碟，像是《无敌破坏王犀牛》《吵嘴公主》《超猪陆战队》。

“看看，看看，这是谁在卖盗版碟呢？”尼克边说边向他走去。

威斯顿认出了朱迪，说道：“这跟你有什么关系，王尔德？难道你不是应该在融化梅化掌棒冰之类的东西吗？嘿，这位是弗洛普西警察吧？”

朱迪说：“我们都清楚，我抓到你正在偷的不是霉洋葱。你要拿夜嚎者干吗，韦泽尔顿？”

“是威斯顿，威斯顿公爵！兔子，我不想跟你说了，反正你们又不能把我怎么样。”他用牙签在她脸上轻轻弹了一下。朱迪对着尼克笑了笑，她知道他俩想到一起去了。

不一会儿，北极熊把威斯顿带到了大先生的冰坑那里。大先生说：“把他冻起来。”

威斯顿一边尖叫挣扎，想要挣脱。“你这只脏老鼠！你为什么要帮她，你知道她是警察！”

北极熊把他倒挂在冰坑上，大先生示意他们等等，说道：“教母保佑我未来的孙女。”

露露从另一个房间过来，怀了孕的肚子明显大起来。露露开心地说：“我准备叫她朱迪。”

朱迪叫了一声：“哇！”

大先生命令道：“把那只黄鼠狼冻起来。”

“等等！不要啊！我说，我说！”威斯顿尖叫道，“我偷夜嚎者是因为我可以卖很多钱。”

朱迪问：“那你卖给谁？”

“一只叫道格的公羊。我们进行的地下交易。小心点儿，道格不是那么好惹的。”

Chapter 25

Nick and Judy followed Weaselton’s instructions and found the drop: an old subway car in an abandoned station. They hid as two tough rams exited the car. Once the rams were gone, Nick lifted Judy and she pushed open the window to peek inside. “The weasel wasn’t lying,” she whispered as she climbed through.

The interior of the car had been transformed into a greenhouse. There were rows upon rows of night howlers. “Yeah, looks like old Doug’s cornered the market on night howlers,” said Nick.

Click! A door opened, and Judy and Nick quickly hid under a desk. They watched as a ram wearing a lab coat with the name DOUG on it entered and stood over the flowering plants. He carefully harvested the pollen and produced a small blue paint ball–like pellet of serum. Nick and Judy watched in disbelief.

Doug’s phone rang and he held it to his ear. “Yeah?

What’s the mark? Cheetah in Sahara Square. Got it.” Doug loaded the pellet into his gun and cocked it. A map with pictures of various animal targets was on the wall behind him. “Yeah, I know they’re fast. I can hit him. Listen, I hit a tiny little otter through the open window of a moving car,” he said.

Judy and Nick shared a look. It was suddenly clear. The map contained the images of all the missing animals. The ram must have hit them with the serum from the night howlers, turning them all savage.

“Yeah, I’ll buzz you when it’s done. Or you’ll see it on the news. You know, whichever comes first.”

Bam! Bam! The two rams banged on the door.

“Hey, Doug, open up,” said one of the rams. Doug finished his call and let them in.

Wham! Suddenly, Judy kicked Doug in the back, knocking him into the rams. With them on the other side of the door, she locked it, shutting them out.

“What are you doing?” shouted Nick.

The rams surrounded the subway car and pounded on the doors from outside.

“We need to get this evidence to the ZPD,” said Judy.

“Okay. Got it,” said Nick, picking up the case.

“No. All of it,” said Judy, smiling.

“Wait, what?” Nick said. “You’re a conductor now? Listen. It would take a miracle to get this rust bucket going.”

She fired up the engine of the subway car and they started to move.

“Oh, hallelujah,” Nick said in defeat.

The train gained speed and began to race down the tracks. Nick finally allowed himself to smile.

“Mission accomplished. Would it be premature for me to do a little victory toot-toot?” Nick gestured to the train whistle.

“All right,” said Judy. “One toot-toot.”

Toot! Toot! Nick happily blew the train whistle.

Bam! One of the rams burst into the car through the door. The train slowed down as Nick and Judy tried to push him out. Nick managed to get the door closed, but the ram continued to bang up against it.

Bam! Bam! Bam! The other ram appeared on the windshield and headbutted it. “Maybe that’s just hail?” Nick joked.

Boom! He finally managed to bust through the windshield and knocked Judy out the window! She grabbed on to his horns as the subway car continued chugging down the track.

“Speed up, Nick! Speed up!” she shouted.

“Are you crazy? There’s another train coming!”

“Trust me! SPEED! UP!”

A split second before the trains crashed into each other, Judy kicked the ram into a track-switch lever, and the train car they were riding in changed tracks!

Then the subway car derailed, and Judy and Nick dove out onto a platform. The car exploded, and all its contents, including the night howlers, burned to a crisp.

“Everything’s gone. We lost it all,” said Judy.

Nick held up the case containing a gun and a pellet. “Yeah,” he said, “except for this.”

第 25 章

尼克和朱迪按照威斯顿所说的找到了那个交易点——位于一个废弃地铁站里的一辆旧地铁。看到两只公羊从车厢里走出来，他们俩便躲了起来。公羊一走，尼克便举起朱迪，她开了一扇窗往里窥探。她一边朝里爬，一边小声对尼克说：“黄鼠狼没有撒谎。”

车厢内部已经被改造成了一个温室，整齐地种着一排排夜嚎者。尼克说：“是的，看起来老道格很关心夜嚎者的市场嘛。”

咔嚓！一扇门打开了，朱迪和尼克赶紧躲在桌下。他们看见一只穿着实验室工作服的公羊走了进来，站在花的旁边，他胸前写着“道格”。他小心地采了一点花粉，做成了一个蓝色的、内含汁液的小球状子弹。尼克和朱迪看着这一切，难以置信。

这时道格的手机响了，他接起电话：“喂？”

“目标是哪个？撒哈拉广场上的猎豹？知道了。”道格把子弹装进枪里并扣上扳机。在他身后的墙上，挂着一幅有着各种目标动物图片的地图。他接着对着电话说：“没错，我知道他们跑得很快，我能打到他们的。听着，我上次还从一辆正在行驶的汽车车窗里击中了一只小水獭。”

朱迪和尼克对视了一眼，瞬间明白了。地图上包含了所有失踪动物的头像。那只公羊肯定是用夜嚎者毒汁击中了他们，让他们发狂的。

“好，我干完了会再打给你，当然你也可以在新闻上看到。哪个早算哪个。”

嘭！嘭！两只公羊在使劲敲着门。

其中一只说：“嘿，道格，开门！”道格闻声挂了电话，让他们进来。

这时，砰的一声！朱迪突然从背后踢了道格一脚，把他踢到那两只羊身上。将他们撞出门外后，她关上门，把他们锁在了外面。

尼克叫道：“你在干吗？”

羊群迅速包围了车厢，从外面敲打着车门。

朱迪说：“我们需要把这个证据提供给动物城警察局。”

“好的，我知道了！”尼克说着拿起了箱子。

朱迪笑着说：“不，都拿走。”

“什么？等等！”尼克说，“现在你成列车长了吗？听着，只有出现了奇迹才能开动这破铜烂铁！”

她不由分说地启动了地铁的发动机，车子开始动了。

尼克深受刺激地说道：“哦，天哪！”

列车缓缓加速，开始顺着轨道飞驰起来。尼克终于露出了笑容。

“任务完成！我要是现在就让它嘟嘟庆功是不是太早了点？”尼克指了指列车的汽笛。

朱迪说：“可以啊，就嘟嘟一下。”

嘟嘟！尼克兴奋地拉响了汽笛。

嘭！一只公羊突然从车门闯进来。尼克和朱迪奋力想把他推出去，列车慢了下来。尼克终于把门关上了，但那只公羊还在不断地敲击车门。

嘭！嘭！嘭！车的挡风玻璃上又出现一只公羊，还在用脑袋撞着玻璃。尼克打趣道：“也许那只是冰雹而已。”

嘭！他最终把挡风玻璃撞开了，还把朱迪撞出了窗外！她抓住公羊的角，而列车还在轨道上行驶。

她叫道：“加速，尼克！加速！”

“你疯了吗？前面来了另外一辆车！”

“相信我！加！速！”

就在两车即将相撞的一瞬间，朱迪一脚把公羊踢了出去撞在变道杆上，于是列车开到另一条轨道上去了！

然后列车脱了轨，朱迪和尼克跳了出去，落到站台上。列车接着爆炸了，连同车里所有的东西都化为灰烬，包括夜嚎者。

朱迪说：“什么都没了，我们把什么都搞砸了。”

尼克举起放了枪和毒子弹的箱子说：“是的，除了这个。”

Chapter 26

Nick and Judy came up the stairs from the subway and raced through the empty Natural History Museum on their way to the ZPD. All around them were statues and exhibits telling about the history of the evolution of Zootopia.

“There it is!” Judy said. She could see the ZPD offices through the exit doors of the museum.

“Judy! Judy!” a voice called.

They stopped and turned to see Bellwether standing behind them with two sheep cops.

“Mayor Bellwether!” Judy said. “We found out what’s happening. Someone’s darting predators with a serum—that’s what’s making them go savage.”

“I am so proud of you, Judy. You did such a super job,” said Bellwether, applauding.

“Thank you, ma’am...How did you know where to find us?” asked Judy.

“I’ll go ahead and take that case now,” said Bellwether.

Something about the way Bellwether was acting made Judy suspicious. “You know what? I think Nick and I will just take this to the ZPD...”

Judy turned to go, but the sheep blocked their way. Why wouldn’t Bellwether let them leave? All of a sudden, it became crystal clear to Judy. Bellwether was the one behind this from the very beginning! That was why she had known where they would be. Judy signaled to Nick and they dashed off down a corridor as Bellwether shouted, “Get them!”

While she and Nick were running as fast as they could toward the police department, Judy glanced over her shoulder. She didn’t see the woolly mammoth tusk sticking out in front of her, and ran right into it. Judy screamed in pain as the tusk slashed her leg and knocked her off her feet.

“Carrots!” shouted Nick.

Nick rushed to her. Her leg was bleeding badly. He carried her behind a pillar. “I got you, come here. Okay, but just relax.” A few blueberries rolled out from Nick’s pocket. “Blueberry?” he asked, offering one to Judy.

“Pass,” she said.

“Come on out, Judy!” called Bellwether.

“Take the case,” Judy whispered passing it to Nick.

“Get it to Bogo.”

“I’m not going to leave you behind. That’s not happening,” said Nick.

“I can’t walk,” said Judy.

“Just...we’ll think of something,” said Nick.

“We’re on the same team, Judy!” said Bellwether, trying to get Judy to surrender. “Underestimated. Underappreciated,” she went on. “Aren’t you sick of it? Predators—they may be strong and loud, but prey outnumber predators ten to one. Think about it: ninety percent of the population, united against a common enemy. We’ll be unstoppable.”

Bellwether spotted the shadow of long rabbit ears against the wall and gestured to the sheep. They pounced, but it was just a mummified jackalope. Judy and Nick made a run for it.

“Over there!” Bellwether shouted.

Whack! A sheep tackled them, knocking the case out of Nick’s grip and sending them both into a sunken diorama. Bellwether looked over the edge from above.

“What are you going to do?” asked Judy. “Kill me?”

“Of course not...he is,” said Bellwether, gesturing to Nick. She took the dart gun out of the case and aimed at Nick. Thwick! The dart sank into Nick’s skin.

“No! Nick!” Judy yelled.

Nick started to shake and crouched over as Bellwether dialed her phone.

“Yes, police!” Bellwether said into the phone. “There’s a savage fox in the Natural History Museum. Officer Hopps is down! Please hurry!”

Judy searched for a way out of the diorama, but there was nowhere to go. Nick, now on all fours, looked like a wild animal. “No. Nick,” said Judy. “Don’t do this. Fight it.”

“Oh, but he can’t help it, can he?” said Bellwether. “Since preds are just biologically predisposed to be savages.”

Nick stalked Judy like a predator about to attack as she helplessly tried to limp away.

“Gosh, think of the headline: ‘Hero Cop Killed by Savage Fox,’” said Bellwether, pleased with herself.

“So that’s it? Prey fears predator, and you stay in power?” asked Judy.

“Pretty much,” said Bellwether.

“It won’t work,” said Judy.

“Fear always works,” said Bellwether. “And I’ll dart every predator in Zootopia to keep it that way.”

Nick growled as he cornered Judy.

“Bye-bye, bunny,” said Bellwether.

Nick lunged at Judy. Bellwether smiled.

“Blood, blood, blood!” shouted Judy. “And death.”

Bellwether looked on, completely confused.

Nick stood up and helped Judy to her feet.

“All right, you know, you’re milking it. Besides, I think we got it, I think we got it. We got it up there, thank you, yakety yak—you laid it all out beautifully,” Nick said.

“What?” Bellwether said, trying to figure out what was going on.

Nick held up the ball of serum, then gestured to the gun. “Yeah,” he said. “Oh, are you looking for the serum? Well, it’s right here.”

“What you’ve got in the weapon there—those are blueberries. From my family’s farm,” said Judy.

“They are delicious. You should try some.”

Nick licked his fingers.

Bellwether looked down to see a blueberry in the chamber of the dart gun.

“I framed Lionheart, I can frame you! It’s my word against yours!” she yelled angrily.

Nick held the carrot pen up high into the air so that Bellwether could see it.

“Oh, yeah, actually...,” Judy started.

Nick pressed a button on the pen, and Bellwether’s voice played back: “And I’ll dart every predator in

Zootopia to keep it that way...”

“...it’s your word against yours,” said Judy.

Judy and Nick looked at one another and smiled. “It’s called a hustle, sweetheart,” they said together.

第 26 章

尼克和朱迪从地铁站里走出来，穿过空荡荡的自然历史博物馆，向动物城警察局进发。他们身边有许多雕塑和展品，诉说着动物城演变的历史进程。

朱迪说：“就在那！”她看到博物馆的出口外就是动物城警察局办公室了。

“朱迪！朱迪！”一个声音响起来。

他们停住，转过身看见羊市长正站在他们身后，旁边还有两位绵羊警察。

朱迪说：“羊市长！我查清事情的起因了。有人用毒液射击食肉动物——正是这种毒液让他们发狂的。”

“我真为你骄傲，朱迪。你干得真漂亮！”羊市长说着鼓起了掌。

“谢谢您，女士……您是怎么知道我们在这里的？”朱迪问。

羊市长说：“我现在得把这个箱子拿走。”

羊市长的举动让朱迪起了疑心，她说：“不瞒您说，我和尼克正要把这个送到动物城警察局去……”

朱迪正准备走，绵羊警察却拦住了她的去路。羊市长为什么不让他们走？朱迪突然之间茅塞顿开。羊市长从一开始就是幕后黑手！所以她才会知道他们的行踪。朱迪给尼克使了个眼色，两人便向走廊冲了过去，羊市长喊道：“抓住他们！”

她和尼克拼命地跑着，就在他们快要跑到警察局的时候，朱迪向身后瞥了一眼。她没有注意到前方有象牙立在地上，一下子踩了上去。象牙刺到了她的腿，让她摔倒在地，朱迪疼得叫出声来。

尼克喊道：“胡萝卜！”

尼克跑了过来。她的腿出血很厉害。尼克把朱迪抬到一根柱子后面说：“没事，过来，有我在，别紧张。”几颗蓝莓从尼克的兜里掉了出来。“蓝莓？”尼克说着塞给朱迪一颗。

她说：“不用了。”

“朱迪，出来！”是羊副市长的声音。

“你拿着箱子。”朱迪对尼克小声说，把箱子给了他。

“拿去给牛局长。”

尼克说：“我不会丢下你不管的，绝对不会！”

朱迪说：“可是我不能走。”

尼克说：“但……我们会有办法的。”

“我们是在一条船上的，朱迪！”羊市长说道，想要引诱朱迪投降。“真是没想到，低估你了！”她接着说：“难道你不厌倦吗？食肉动物虽然身强力壮，但是食草动物的数量是他们的10倍。你想想吧，90%的人数团结起来对付共同的敌人，我们坚不可摧！”

羊市长见兔子长耳朵倒映在墙上的影子，便示意绵羊警察。他们猛扑过去，却发现只是个干瘪了的兔子玩偶。朱迪和尼克已经借机逃走了！

羊市长喊道：“在那边！”

澎！一只绵羊抓住了他们，把尼克手中的箱子夺了过来，把他俩推进一个下沉式的三维景观模型区里。羊市长站在边缘处俯视着。

朱迪问：“你要做什么？杀了我吗？”

“当然不是……是他要杀你。”羊市长指着尼克说。她掏出箱子里的枪，瞄准尼克。嗖的一声！子弹打进了尼克的皮肤里。

朱迪大叫一声：“不！尼克！”

尼克开始浑身发抖，伏下身来，羊市长拨通了手机。

羊市长对着电话说：“是的，警察。这里有一只发狂的狐狸，在自然历史博物馆。霍普斯警官倒下了，请快一点过来！”

朱迪寻找了一下哪里可以从模型区出去，但无路可走。尼克现在趴在地上，像一只野生动物。朱迪说：“尼克，不要！不要这样，坚持住！”

羊市长说：“哦，可他无法控制，对吗？食肉动物从生理上说，天生就是要发狂的。”

尼克慢慢向朱迪靠近，就像一只食肉动物准备发起攻击，无助的朱迪试图一瘸一拐地逃走。

“天哪，想想明天的头条吧：‘英雄警察遭发狂狐狸杀害’。”羊市长喜不自禁地说道。

朱迪问：“就为了这个吗？食草动物害怕食肉动物，然后你就掌权了？”

羊市长说：“你说得太对了。”

朱迪说：“没用的。”

羊市长说：“恐惧的力量一直都很有力，我要让动物城的每一只食肉动物都发狂，让恐惧蔓延。”

尼克咆哮着把朱迪逼到了角落。

羊市长说：“再见了，小兔子。”

尼克朝朱迪猛冲过去，羊市长笑了。

“血，血，血！”朱迪大叫：“出人命了。”

羊市长看到这一幕，茫然不解。

尼克站了起来，把朱迪也扶了起来。

尼克说：“好了，你知道吗？你们提取了毒液，然后我们得到了证据，我想我们得到了，就在那儿，谢谢你——你策划得完美至极。”

“什么？”羊市长想要搞清楚到底发生了什么。

尼克举起一颗毒汁子弹，然后指向她手中的枪说：“没错，你是在找毒汁子弹吗？在这儿呢。”

朱迪说：“你枪里的，都是蓝莓。我们家种的蓝莓。”

“很好吃，你要不要尝一尝？”

尼克舔了舔手指。

羊市长低下头，看见了枪膛里的一颗蓝莓。

她生气地叫道：“我可以嫁祸给狮市长，同样可以嫁祸给你！我说的话比你说的算数！”

尼克高高举起胡萝卜笔，让羊市长看到。

朱迪说：“哦？是吗？事实上……”

尼克按了一下笔上的按钮，羊市长的声音传了出来：“我要让动物城里的每一只食肉动物发狂，让恐惧蔓延。”

朱迪说：“……是你自己让你说的话不算数了。”

朱迪和尼克相视一笑，异口同声道：“这才叫买卖，亲爱的。”

Chapter 27

The next day, all the news channels aired footage of Bellwether in an orange jumpsuit, being led to jail. “Former mayor Dawn Bellwether is behind bars today, guilty of masterminding the savage attacks that have plagued Zootopia of late,” said a newscaster.

The footage showed Lionheart being led out of prison.

“Her predecessor, Leodore Lionheart, denies any knowledge of her plot, claiming he was just trying to protect the city,” the newscaster said. “A reporter interviewed Lionheart from jail.”

“Did I falsely imprison those animals? Well, yes. Yes, I did. Classic ‘doing the wrong thing for the right reason’ scenario. Know what I mean, Kitty?”

“No. No, I do not,” answered the reporter, deadpan.

Back in the studio, the newscaster continued. “In related news, doctors say the night howler antivenom is proving effective in rehabilitating all of the victims.”

When Mr. Otterton awoke inside the hospital, his wife was hugging him tightly. Judy was there, watching and smiling.

“Thank you,” said Mrs. Otterton gratefully.

Months later, Judy stood proudly at a lectern giving the commencement address to graduates of the Zootopia Police Academy.

“When I was a kid, I thought Zootopia was this perfect place where everyone got along and anyone could be anything...Turns out, real life’s a little bit more complicated than a slogan on a bumper sticker. Real life is messy. We all have limitations. We all make mistakes, which means...hey, glass half full! We all have a lot in common. And the more we try to understand one another, the more exceptional each of us will be. But we have to try. No matter what type of animal you are, from the biggest elephant to our first fox, I implore you: Try. Try to make a difference. Try to make the world better. Try to look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us.”

Nick approached the stage. He stood tall in front of her, his chest out. Judy pinned on his badge.

The crowd went wild with applause as cadets threw their caps high up into the air.

“All right! Enough! Shut it!” said Chief Bogo.

Judy and Nick took their seats among the other cops in the bullpen. Bogo stood up at the front, calling order. “We have some new recruits with us this morning,” said Bogo. “Including our first fox. But...who cares?”

“You should have your own line of inspirational greeting cards, sir,” said Nick sarcastically.

“Shut your mouth, Wilde,” said Bogo, then began calling out assignments. When he finally got to Judy and Nick, they waited eagerly. “Hopps, Wilde...Skunk Pride Parade. Dismissed.”

“Fun,” said Nick. “Funny guy.”

“Parade detail is a step up from parking duty,” Judy said.

Bogo looked as if he was going to smile...but then he didn’t.

第 27 章

第二天，所有的新闻频道都在播放羊市长身穿橘色囚衣、被押入狱的视频。一位主播报道：“前市长道恩·贝尔韦瑟以谋划狂暴攻击的罪名被关押入狱，她的罪行近来给动物城带来了沉痛的灾难。”

同时，新闻还播放了狮市长被释放的视频。

主播说：“她的上任里奥多尔·莱昂哈特不承认对她的谋划知情，他坚称自己是试图保护城市。一位记者在监狱采访了狮市长。”

“是我误关了那些动物吗？嗯，是的。是的，是我误关了。这不就是典型的‘好心办错事’嘛？你懂我的意思吗，小猫？”

记者面无表情地说：“不，不，不懂。”

演播室里，主播继续说：“相关新闻报道，医生说夜嚎者抗毒剂已被证明对所有受害者康复均有疗效。”

当奥獭顿先生在医院醒来时，他的妻子紧紧地抱住了他。朱迪在一旁微笑地看着他们。

奥獭顿太太感激地说：“谢谢你！”

几个月之后，朱迪站在了讲台上，自豪地为动物城警察学院的毕业生们做演讲。

“小时候，我以为动物城是一个完美世界，每个人都可以过得很好，都能成为自己想要成为的人……但事实证明，真实的世界比贴在汽车保险杠上的标语要复杂一些。真实世界有点混乱。我们每个人都有局限。我们每个人都会犯错，这意味着……嘿，看开点！我们都有共同点。我们越是努力去相互理解，就会变得越优秀。但是我们必须尝试。你是大象也好，是狐狸也好，不管你是什么物种，我在这里恳求你们：去尝试。试着做点事情出来。试着让我们的世界变得更加美好，试着观察自己的内心，你要认识到，改变是从你自身开始。改变从我开始，改变从我们每一个人开始。”

尼克走近讲台，站在她前面，昂首挺胸。朱迪为他别上警徽。

观众席报以热烈的掌声，毕业生们将帽子抛向空中。牛局长说：“好的，够了，停一下。”

大厅中，朱迪和尼克坐在了其他警察中间。牛局长站在前面发布指示：“今天早上，我们迎来了新一批警察，包括有史以来第一只狐狸！不过……谁管他是不是狐狸。”

尼克挖苦道：“长官，你该准备一份鼓舞人心的欢迎稿了。”

“闭嘴，王尔德。”牛局长说完便开始分配任务了。当最终轮到朱迪和尼克时，他们俩都激动极了。“霍普斯，王尔德……你们负责臭鼬骄傲大游行，解散吧。”

尼克说：“你是在开……开玩笑吗？”

朱迪说：“负责游行已经比看停车场强一些了。”

牛局长看起来好像想笑的样子……但是没笑出来。

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“So are all rabbits bad drivers, or is it just you?” asked Nick.

Judy slammed on the brakes, causing Nick to lurch forward, accidentally jamming his pawpsicle into his face.

“Oops. Sorry,” she said.

“Sly bunny,” said Nick, wiping his face.

“Dumb fox.”

“Come on, you know I love you,” said Nick.

“Do I know that? Yes. Yes, I do.”

Judy and Nick smiled at each other. Suddenly, a tricked-out red sports car blasted past them going over a hundred miles per hour. Their smiles got even wider, and Nick hit the siren. Bwoop! Bwoop! Judy stomped on the gas and they took off, chasing after the sports car, catching air along the way.

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尼克问朱迪：“所有的兔子开车技术都这么烂吗？还是只有你？”

朱迪猛踩刹车，尼克的身子不由往前一倾，手里的梅花掌棒冰拍在了脸上。

她说：“啊，对不起哦！”

“狡猾的兔子！”尼克边说边擦脸。

“笨狐狸！”

尼克说：“别这样，你知道我爱你！”

“我知道吗？是的，是的，我知道！”

朱迪和尼克相视一笑。突然一辆伪装的红色赛车从他们眼前疾驰而过，速度超过100英里每小时。他们笑得更开心了，尼克拉响了警笛。呜！呜！朱迪一脚踩下油门，车子便飞驰了起来，紧追着赛车扬长而去。

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Table of Contents

疯狂动物城

Chapter 1

第 1 章

Chapter 2

第 2 章

Chapter 3

第 3 章

Chapter 4

第 4 章

Chapter 5

第 5 章

Chapter 6

第 6 章

Chapter 7

第 7 章

Chapter 8

第 8 章

Chapter 9

第 9 章

Chapter 10

第 10 章

Chapter 11

第 11 章

Chapter 12

第 12 章

Chapter 13

第 13 章

Chapter 14

第 14 章

Chapter 15

第 15 章

Chapter 16

第 16 章

Chapter 17

第 17 章

Chapter 18

第 18 章

Chapter 19

第 19 章

Chapter 20

第 20 章

Chapter 21

第 21 章

Chapter 22

第 22 章

Chapter 23

第 23 章

Chapter 24

第 24 章

Chapter 25

第 25 章

Chapter 26

第 26 章

Chapter 27

第 27 章

Chapter 28

第 28 章