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Someone saw him. He was, after all, drifting aimlessly in the open. Instinctively he pulled his legs up underhim. At that moment he was flashed and the legs of his suit froze in position. His arms remained unfrozen, forwithout a direct body hit, only the limbs that were shot froze up. It occurred to Ender that if he had not beenpresenting his legs to the enemy, it would have been his body they hit. He would have been immobilized.Since Bonzo had ordered him not to draw his weapon, Ender continued to drift, not moving his head or arms, asif they had been frozen, too. The enemy ignored him and concentrated their fire on the soldiers who were firingat them. It was a bitter battle. Outnumbered now, Salamander Army gave ground stubbornly. The battledisintegrated into a dozen individual shootouts. Bonzo's discipline paid off now, for each Salamander that frozetook at least one enemy with him. No one ran or panicked, everyone remained calm and aimed carefully.Petra was especially deadly. Condor Army noticed it and took great effort to freeze her. They froze her shootingarm first, and her stream of curses was only interrupted when they froze her completely and the helmet clampeddown on her jaw. In a few minutes it was over. Salamander Army offered no more resistance.Ender noted with pleasure that Condor could only muster the minimal five soldiers necessary to open the gateto victory. Four of them touched their helmets to the lighted spots at the four corners of Salamander's door, whilethe fifth passed through the forcefield. That ended the game. The lights came back on to their full brightness, andAnderson came out of the teacher door.I could have drawn my gun, thought Ender, as the enemy approached the door. l could have drawn my gun andshot just one of them, and they would have been too few. The game would have been a draw. Without four mento touch the four corners and a fifth man to pass through the gate, Condor would have had no victory. Bonzo,you ass, I could have saved you from this defeat. Maybe even turned it to victory, since they were sitting there,easy targets, and they wouldn't have known at first where the shots were coining from. I'm a good enough shotfor that.But orders were orders, and Ender had promised to obey. He did get some satisfaction out of the fact that on theofficial tally Salamandem Army recorded, not the expected forty-one disabled or eliminated, but rather fortyeliminated and one damaged. Bonzo couldn't understand it, until he consulted Anderson's book and realized whoit was. Damaged, Bonzo, thought Ender. I could still shoot,第 99 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网