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"I am your only escape," it said. "Death is your only escape.Ender looked around the room for a weapon, when suddenly the screen went dark. Words flashed around therim of the desk.REPORT TO COMMANDER IMMEDIATELY. YOU ARE LATE. -- GREEN GREEN BROWN.Furious, Ender snapped off the desk and went to the color wall, where he found the ribbon of green greenbrown, touched it, and followed it as it lit up before him. The dark green, light green, and brown of the ribbonreminded him of the early autumn kingdom he had found in the game. I must go back there, he told himself. Theserpent is a long thread; I can let myself down from the tower and find my way through that place. Perhaps it'scalled the end of the world because it's the end of the games, because I can go to one of the villages and becomeone of the little boys working and playing there, with nothing to kill and nothing to kill me, just living there.As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it inhis life. But he wanted to do it anyway.***Armies were larger than launch groups, and the army barracks room was larger, too. It was long and narrow,with bunks on both sides; so long, in fact, that you could see the curvature of the floor as the far end bentupward, part of the wheel of the Battle School.Ender stood at the door. A few boys near the door glanced at him, but they were older, and it seemed as thoughthey hadn't even seen him. They went on with their conversations, lying and leaning on bunks. They werediscussing battles, of course; the older boys always did. They were all much larger than Ender. The ten- andeleven-year-olds towered over him; even the youngest were eight, and Ender was not large for his age.He tried to see which of the boys was the commander, but most were somewhere between battle dress and whatthe soldiers always called their sleep uniform-- skin from head to toe. Many of them had desks out, but few were第 81 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网