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"But you will, Ender. Because I am going to grind you down to dust, if I can. I'm going to hit you witheverything I can imagine, and I will have no mercy, because when you face the buggers they will think of thingsI can't imagine, and compassion for human beings is impossible for them.""You can't grind me down, Mazer.""Oh, can't I?""Because I'm stronger than you."Mazer smiled. "We'll see about that, Ender."***Mazer wakened him before morning; the clock said 0340, and Ender felt groggy as he padded along thecorridor behind Mazer. "Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in theeyes."He had been dreaming that buggers were vivisecting him. Only instead of cutting open his body, they werecutting up his memories and displaying them like holographs and trying to make sense of them. It was a very odddream, and Ender couldn't easily shake loose of it, even as he walked through the tunnels to the simulator room.The buggers tormented him in his sleep, and Mazer wouldn't leave him alone when he was awake. Between thetwo of them he had no rest. Ender forced himself awake. Apparently Mazer meant it when he said he meant tobreak Ender down -- and forcing him to play when tired and sleepy was just the sort of cheap and easy trickEnder should have expected. Well, today it wouldn't work.He got to the simulator and found his squadron leaders already on the wire, waiting for him. There was noenemy yet, so he divided them into two armies and began a mock battle, commanding both sides so he couldcontrol the test that each of his leaders was going through. They began slowly, but soon were vigorous and alert.Then the simulator field went blank, the ships disappeared, and everything changed at once. At the near edge of第 291 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网