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"Major Imbu, I'm asking you.""There could be a thousand meanings.""Try one.""You've been isolating the boy. Maybe he's wishing for the end of this world, the Battle School. Or maybe it'sabout the end of the world he grew up with as a little boy, his home, coming here. Or maybe it's his way ofcoping with having broken up so many other kids here. Ender's a sensitive kid, you know, and he's done somepretty bad things to people's bodies, he might be wishing for the end of that world.""Or none of the above.""The mind game is a relationship between the child and the computer. Together they create stories. The storiesare true, in the sense that they reflect the reality of the child's life. That's all I know.""And I'll tell you what I know, Major Imbu. That picture of Peter Wiggin was not one that could have beentaken from our files here at the school. We have nothing on him, electronically or otherwise, since Ender camehere. And that picture is more recent.""It's only been a year and a half, sir, how much can the boy change?""He's wearing his hair completely differently now. His mouth was redone with orthodontia. I got a recentphotograph from landside and compared. The only way the computer here in the Battle School could have gotthat picture was by requisitioning it from a landside computer. And not even one connected with the IF. Thattakes requisitionary powers. We can't just go into Guilford County North Carolina and pluck a picture out ofschool files. Did anyone at this school authorize getting this?""You don't understand, sir. Our Battle School computer is only a part of the IF network. lf we want a picture,第 129 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网