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"For what?""For keeping you from meddling."***Ender sat in a corner of the battleroom, his arm hooked through a handhold watching Bean practice with hissquad. Yesterday they had worked on attacks without guns, disarming enemies with their feet. Ender had helpedthem with some techniques from gravity personal combat -- many things had to be changed, but inertia in flightwas a tool that could be used against the enemy as easily in nullo as in Earth gravity.Today, though, Bean had a new toy. It was a deadline, one of the thin, almost invisible twines used duringconstruction in space to hold two objects together. Deadlines were sometimes kilometers long. This one was justa bit longer than a wall of the battleroom and yet it looped easily, almost invisibly, around Bean's wrist. Hepulled it off like an article of clothing and handed one end to one of his soldiers. "Hook it to a handhold andwind it around a few times." Bean carried the other end across the battle oom.As a tripwire it wasn't too useful, Bean decided. It was invisible enough, but one strand of twine wouldn't havemuch chance of stopping an enemy that could easily go above or below it. Then he got the idea of using it tochange his direction of movement in midair. He fastened it around his waist, the other end still fastened to ahandhold, slipped a few meters away, and launched himself straight out. The twine caught him, changed hisdirection abruptly, and swung him in an arc that crashed him brutally against the wall.He screamed and screamed. It took Ender a moment to realize that he wasn't screaming in pain. "Did you seehow fast I went! Did you see how I changed direction!"Soon all of Dragon Army stopped work to watch Bean practice with the twine. The changes in direction werestunning, especially when you didn't know where to look for the twine, When he used the twine to wrap himselfaround a star, he attained speeds no one had ever seen before,It was 2140 when Ender dismissed the evening practice. Weary but delighted at having seen something new, hisarmy walked through the corridors back to the barracks. Ender walked among them, not talking, but listening to第 213 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网