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Ender scrambled up, the turves coming away from his feet in the soft ground. Abra was pointing downward."Can you believe this?" he asked.The hill was hollow. A deep depression in the middle, partially filled with water, was ringed by concave slopesthat cantilevered dangerously over the water. In one direction the hill gave way to two long ridges that made a V-shaped valley: in the other direction the rose to a piece of white rock, grinning like a skull with a tree growingout of its mouth."It's like a giant died here," said Abra, "and the Earth grew up to cover his carcass,"Now Ender knew why it had looked familiar. The Giant's corpse. He had played here too many times as a childnot to know this place. But it was not possible. The computer in the Battle School could not possibly have seenthis place. He looked through his binoculars in a direction he knew well, fearing and hoping that he would seewhat belonged in that place.Swings and slides. Monkey bars. Now overgrown, but the shapes still unmistakable."Somebody had to have built this," Abra said, "Look, this skull place, it's not rock, look at it. This is concrete.""I know," said Ender. "They built it for me.""What?""I know this place, Abra. The buggers built it for me.""The buggers were all dead fifty years before we got here."第 333 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网