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"Fortunes of war. Biology takes second place to survival. But some of <strong>the</strong>m are coming around to my way ofthinking. You can't live in this place without <strong>the</strong> evidence staring you in <strong>the</strong> face.""What evidence is <strong>the</strong>re in Eros?""Ender, look around you. Human beings didn't carve this place. We like taller ceilings, for one thing. This was<strong>the</strong> buggers' advance post in <strong>the</strong> First Invasion. They carved this place out before we even knew <strong>the</strong>y were here.We're living in a bugger hive. But we already paid our rent. lt cost <strong>the</strong> marines a thousand lives to clear <strong>the</strong>m outof <strong>the</strong>se honeycombs, room by room. The buggers fought for every meter of it."Now Ender understood why <strong>the</strong> rooms had always felt wrong to him. "I knew this wasn't a human place.""This was <strong>the</strong> treasure trove. If <strong>the</strong>y had known we would win that first war, <strong>the</strong>y probably' would never havebuilt this place. We learned gravity manipulation because <strong>the</strong>y enhanced <strong>the</strong> gravity here. We learned efficientuse of stellar energy because <strong>the</strong>y blacked out this planet. In fact, that's how we discovered <strong>the</strong>m. In a period ofthree days, Eros gradually disappeared from telescopes. We sent a tug to find out why. It found out. The tugtransmitted its videos, including <strong>the</strong> buggers boarding and slaughtering <strong>the</strong> crew. It kept right on transmittingthrough <strong>the</strong> entire bugger examination of <strong>the</strong> boat. Not until <strong>the</strong>y finally dismantled <strong>the</strong> entire tug did <strong>the</strong>transmissions stop. It was <strong>the</strong>ir blindness -- <strong>the</strong>y never had to transmit anything by machine, and so with <strong>the</strong> crewdead, it didn't occur to <strong>the</strong>m that anybody could be watching.""Why did <strong>the</strong>y kill <strong>the</strong> crew?""Why not? To <strong>the</strong>m, losing a few crew members would be like clipping your nails. Nothing to get upset about.They probably thought <strong>the</strong>y were routinely shutting down our communications by turning off <strong>the</strong> workersrunning <strong>the</strong> tug. Not murdering living, sentient beings with an independent genetic future. Murder's no big dealto <strong>the</strong>m. Only queen-killing, really, is murder, because only queen-killing closes off a genetic path.""So <strong>the</strong>y didn't know what <strong>the</strong>y were doing.""Don't start apologizing for <strong>the</strong>m, Ender. Just because <strong>the</strong>y didn't know <strong>the</strong>y were killing human beings doesn'tmean <strong>the</strong>y weren't killing human beings. We do have a right to defend ourselves as best we can, and <strong>the</strong> only第 283 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网

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