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"The buggers don't talk. They think to each other, and it's instantaneous like the philotic effect. Like the ansible.But most people always thought that meant a controlled comunication like language -- I think you a thought andthen you answer me. I never believed that. It's too immediate, the way they respond together to things. You'veseen the videos. They aren't conversing and deciding among possible courses of action. Every ship acts like partof a single organism. It responds the way your body responds during combat, different parts automatically,thoughtlessly doing everything they're supposed to do. They aren't having a mental conversation between peopiewith different thought processes. All their thoughts are present, together, at once.""A single person, and each bugger is like a hand or a foot?""Yes. I wasn't the first person to suggest it, but I was the first person to believe it. And something else.Something so childish and stupid that the xenobiologists laughed me to silence when I said it after the battle. Thebuggers are bugs. They're like ants and bees. A queen, the workers. That was maybe a hundred million years ago,but that's how they started, that kind of pattern. It's a sure thing none of the buggers we saw had any way ofmaking more little buggers. So when they evolved this ability to think together, wouldn't they still keep thequeen? Wouldn't the queen still be the center of the group? Why would that ever change?""So it's the queen who controls the whole group.""I had evidence, too. Not evidence that any of them could see. lt wasn't there in the First Invasion, because thatwas exploratory. But the Second Invasion was a colony. To set up a new hive, or whatever.""And so they brought a queen.""The videos of the Second Invasion, when they were destroying our fleets out in the comet shell." He began tocall them up and display the buggers' patterns. "Show me the queen's ship."It was subtle. Ender couldn't see it for a long time. The bugger ships kept moving, all of them. There was noobvious flagship, no apparent nerve center. But gradually, as Mazer played the videos over and over again, Enderbegan to see the way that all the movements focused on, radiated from a center point. The center point shifted,but it was obvious, after he looked long enough, that the eyes of the fleet, the *I* of the fleet, the perspective第 281 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网