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It was Centipede Army, and they only beginning to emerge from their door when Ender was halfway across thebattleroom. Many of them were able to get under cover of stars quickly but Ender had doubled up his legs underhim and, holding his pistol at his crotch, he was firing between his legs and freezing many of them as theyemerged.They flashed his legs, but he had three precious seconds before they coud hit his body and put him out ofaction. He froze several more, then flung out his arms in equal and opposite directions. The hand that held hisgun ended up pointing toward the main body of Centipede Army. He fired into the mass of the enemy, and thenthey froze him.A second later he smashed into the forcefield of the enemy's door and rebounded with a crazy spin. He landedin a group of enemy soldiers behind a star; they shoved him off and spun him even more rapidly. He reboundedout of control through the rest of the battle, though gradually friction with the air slowed him down. He had noway of knowing how many men he had frozen before getting iced himself, but he did get the general idea thatRat Army won again, as usual.After the battle Rose didn't speak to him. Ender was still first in the standings, since he had frozen three,disabled two, and damaged seven. There was no more talk about insubordination and whether Ender could usehis desk. Rose stayed in his part of the barracks, and left Ender alone.Dink Meeker began to practice instant emergence from the corridor-- Ender's attack on the enemy while theywere still coming out of the door had been devastating. "If one man can do that much damage, think what a tooncan do." Dink got Major Anderson to open a door in the middle of a wall, even during practice sessions, insteadof just the floor level door, so they could practice launching under battle conditions. Word got around. From nowon no one could take five or ten ar fifteen seconds in the corridor to size things up. The game had changed.More battles. This time Ender played a proper role within a toon. He made mistakes. Skirmishes were lost. Hedropped from first to second in the standings, then to fourth. Then he made fewer mistakes, and began to feelcomfortable within the framework of the toon, and he went back up to third, then second, then first.After practice one afternoon, Ender stayed in the battleroom. He had noticed that Dink Meeker usually camelate to dinner, and he assumed it was for extra practice. Ender wasn't very hungry, and he wanted to see what itwas Dink practiced when no one else could see.第 114 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网