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He whispered quickly into the microphone. His commanders took their parts of the fleet and groupedthemselves into a thick projectile, a cylinder aimed at the nearest of the enemy formations. The enemy, far fromtrying to repel him, welcomed him in, so he could be thoroughly entrapped before they destroyed him. Mazer isat least taking into account the fact that by now they would have learned to respect me. thought Ender. And thatdoes buy me time.Ender dodged downward, north, east, and down again, not seeming to follow any plan, but always ending up alittle closer to the enemy planet. Finally the enemy began to close in on him too tightly. Then, suddenly, Ender'sformation burst. His fleet seemed to melt into chaos. The eighty fighters seemed to follow no plan at all, firing atenemy ships at random, working their way into hopeless individual paths among the bugger craft.After a few minutes of battle, however, Ender whispered to his squadron leaders once more, and suddenly adozen of the remaining fighters formed again into a formation. But now they were on the far side of one of theenemy's most formidable groups; they had, with terrible losses, passed through and now they had covered morethan half the distance to the enemy's planet.The enemy sees now, thought Ender. Surely Mazer sees what I'm doing.Or perhaps Mazer cannot believe that I would do it. Well so much the better for me.Ender's tiny fleet darted this way and that, sending two or three fighters out as if to attack, then bringing themback. The enemy closed in, drawing in ships and formations that had been widely scattered, bringing them in forthe kill. The enemy was most concentrated beyond Ender, so he could not escape back into open space, closinghim in. Excellent, thought Ender. Closer. Come closer.Then he whispered a command and the ships dropped like rocks toward the planet's surface. They werestarships and fighters, completely unequipped to handle the heat of passage through an atmosphere. But Endernever intended them to reach the atmosphere. Almost from the moment they began to drop, they were focusingtheir Little Doctors on one thing only. The planet itself.One, two, four, seven of his fighters were blown away. It was all a gamble now, whether any of his ships would第 308 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网