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handles and go up. B left, C right, D down." He saw that the toons were oriented to follow instructions, thenadded, "And you, pinprick, wait four minutes, then come just inside the door. Don't even take your gun off yoursuit."Ender nodded. Suddenly the wall behind Bonzo became transparent. Not a wall at all, then, but a forcefield. Thebattleroom was different, too. Huge brown boxes were suspended in midair, partially obstructing the view. Sothese were the obstacles that the soldiers called stars. They were distributed seemingly at random. Bonzo seemednot to care where they were.Apparently the soldiers already knew how to handle the stars.But it soon became clear to Ender, as he sat and watched the battle from the corridor, that they did not knowhow to handle the stars. They did know how to softland on one and use it for cover, the tactics of assaulting theenemy's position on a star. They showed no sense at all of which stars mattered. They persisted in assaulting starsthat could have been bypassed by wall-sliding to a more advanced position.The other commander was taking advantage of Bonzo's neglect of strategy. Condor Army forced theSalamanders into costly assaults. Fewer and fewer Salamanders were unfrozen for the attack on the next star. Itwas clear, after only five or six minutes, that Salamander Army could not defeat the enemy by attacking.Ender stepped through the gate. He drifted slightly downward. The battlerooms he had practiced in always hadtheir doors at floor level. For real battles, however, the door was set in the middle of the wall, as far from thefloor as from the ceiling.Abruptly he felt himself reorient, as he had in the shuttle. What had been down was now up, and now sideways.In null-g, there was no reason to stay oriented the way he had been in the corridor. It was impossible to tell,looking at the perfectly square doors, which way had been up. And it didn't matter. For now Ender had found theorientation that made sense. The enemy's gate was down. The object of the game was to fall toward the enemy'shome.Ender made the motions that oriented himself in his new direction. Instead of being spread out, his whole bodypresented to the enemy, now Ender's legs pointed toward them. He was a much smaller target.第 98 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网