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Shen shook his head-- he wasn't trying any fool stunt like that. But one boy did take off, not as fast as Enderhad, because he didn't begin with a flip, but fast enough. Ender didn't even have to see his face to know that itwas Bernard. And right after him, Bernard's best friend, Alai.Ender watched them cross the huge room, Bernard struggling to orient himself to the direction he thought of asthe floor, Alai surrendering to the movement and preparing to rebound from the wall. No wonder Bernard brokehis arm in the shuttle, Ender thought. He tightens up when he's flying. He panics. Ender stored the informationaway for future reference.And another bit of information, too. Alai did not push off in the same direction as Bernard. He aimed for acorner of the room. Their paths diverged more and more as they flew, and where Bernard made a clumsy,crunching landing and bounce on his wall, Alai did a glancing triple bounce on three surfaces near the corner thatleft him most of his speed and sent him flying off at a surprising angle. Alai shouted and whooped, and so did theboys watching him. Some of them forgot they were weightless and let go of the wall to clap their hands. Nowthey drifted lazily in many directions, waving their arms, trying to swim.Now, that's a problem, thought Ender. What if you catch yourself drifting? There's no way to push off.He was tempted to set himself adrift and try to solve the problem by trial and error. But he could see the others,their useless efforts at control, and he couldn't think of what he would do that they weren't already doing.Holding onto the floor with one hand, he fiddled idly with the toy gun that was attached to his suit in front, justbelow the shoulder. Then he remembered the hand rockets sometimes used by marines when they did a boardingassault on an enemy station. He pulled the gun from his suit and examined it. He had pushed all the buttons backin the room, but the gun did nothing there. Maybe here in the battleroom it would work. There were noinstructions on it. No labels on the controls. The trigger was obvious-- he had had toy guns, as all children had,almost since infancy. There were two buttons that his thumb could easily reach, and several others along thebottom of the shaft that were almost inaccessible without using two hands. Obviously, the two buttons near histhumb were meant to be instantly usable.He aimed the gun at the floor and pulled back on the trigger. He felt the gun grow instantly warm; when he letgo of the trigger, it cooled at once. Also, a tiny circle of light appeared on the floor where he was aiming.第 63 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网