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"They don't let me use the nets. There isn't a computer in the place, except the household machines that run thesecurity system and the lighting. Ancient things. Installed back a century ago, when they made computers thatdidn't hook up with anything. They took away my army, they took away my desk, and you know something? Idon't really mind.""You must be good company for yourself.""Not me. My memories.""Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.""No. My memories of strangers. My memories of the buggers."Valentine shivered, as if a cold breeze had suddenly passed. "I refuse to watch the bugger vids anymore.They're always the same."I used to study them for hours. The way their ships move through space. And something funny, that onlyoccurred to me lying out here on the lake. I realized that all the battles in which buggers and humans fought handto hand, all those are from the First Invasion. All the scenes from the Second Invasion, when our soldiers are inIF uniforms, in those scenes the buggers are always already dead. Lying there, slumped over their controls. Not asign of struggle or anything. And Mazer Rackham's battle -- they never show us any footage from that battle.""Maybe it's a secret weapon.""No, no, I don't care about how we killed them. It's the buggers themselves. I don't know anything about them,and yet someday I'm supposed to fight them. I've been through a lot of fights in my life, sometimes games,sometimes -- not games. Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy thought. Fromwhat they *did*. I could tell what they thought I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And Iplayed off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think."第 250 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网