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Ender's mind felt dead. This was stupid. He didn't have a chance, outnumbered two to one and forced to attack aprotected enemy. "In a real war, any commander with brains at all would retreat and save his army.""What the hell," said Bean. "It's only a game.""It stopped being a game when they threw away the rules.""So, you throw 'em away, too."Ender grinned. "OK. Why not, Let's see how they react to a formation."Bean was appalled. "A formation! We've never done a formation in the whole time we've been an army!""We've still got a month to go before our training period is normally supposed to end. About time we starteddoing formations. Always have to know formations," He formed an A with his fingers, showed it to the blankdoor, and beckoned, A toon quickly emerged and Ender began arranging them behind the star. Three meterswasn't enough room to work in, the boys were frightened and confused, and it took nearly five minutes just to getthem to understand what they were doing.Tiger and Griffin soldiers were reduced to chanting catcalls, while their commanders argued about whether totry to use their overwhelming force to attack Dragon Army while they were still behind the star. Momoe was allfor attacking -- "We outnumber him two to one" -- while Bee said, "Sit tight and we can't lose, move out and hecan figure out a way to beat us."So they sat tight, until finally in the dusky light they saw a large mass slip out from behind Ender's star. It heldits shape, even when it abruptly stopped moving sideways and launched itself toward the dead center of the eightstars where eighty-two soldiers waited."Doobie doe," said a Griffin. "They're doing a formation."第 226 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网