"Robert Doherty - Area 51 - Nosferatu" - читать интересную книгу автора (Doherty Robert)

Wevelsburg in Bavaria and the blood was stored there. As the Americans closed in
on it at the end of the Second World War, it was your Russians who sent in a
parachute team to recover what they could. They brought everything they found
back to Moscow, including the blood.
"Not only that," Nosferatu continued, "but a part of Section IV from the KGBтАФ
the Russian equivalent of America's Majestic-12тАФknew from the Nazi documents
that a particular strain of blood was important and began to see if it could
find more. Deep under Moscow, there is a chamber that contains what Aspasia's
Shadow brought to the SS and what was scavenged out of the concentration camps
by the SS and by the KGB during the Cold War from prisoners at Lubyanka and in
the Gulags. If you agree, it will be your job"тАФhe inclined his head toward
AdrikтАФ"to use your resources to recover this. I believe you have the power to do
it."
Adrik made no commitment, waiting to see what else the Eldest had to propose.
"Two." Nosferatu held up another finger. "The Ones Who Wait. They were like
usтАФhalf-human, half-AirliaтАФ

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except cloned. They had some of the virus, which accounted for their extended
lives. I know where we can find some of their bodies. Intact and preserved." He
turned to Tian Dao Lin. "This will be your responsibility, my old friend."
"And where would I find these preserved bodies?" Tian Dao Lin quietly asked.
"Mount Everest. Where Merlin took the great sword Excalibur so many years ago.
Several Ones Who Wait were recently sent by Artad to recover the sword and
failed. Their bodies are still up there. Frozen. Three of them."
Tian Dao Lin steepled his fingers as he considered this.
"And the third source?" Adrik asked,
"That is most important and most difficult to get to," Nosferatu said. "Pure
Airlia blood. Preserved. Waiting to be harvested."
"Where?"Tian Dao Lin was leaning forward, his interest obvious. Adrik was also
edging forward in his chair.
Nosferatu pointed up. "The first mothership from Area 51. Aspasia's. The one
the human soldier Turcotte destroyed when Aspasia tried to return to Earth from
Mars aboard his Talon spacecraft."
"How will one get to that?" Adrik asked. "The American shuttle fleet was
devastated during the recent war and it is not likely they would kindly allow us
to use one anyway. Russia's ability to launch a manned mission into orbit is
practically nonexistent after recent events."
"I have something in the works," Nosferatu said.
The other two waited. Nosferatu pressed a button. Vampyr's face disappeared
from the computer screen and was replaced by a picture of a stubby, delta wing
craft on top of a large rocket. "The X-Craft," Nosferatu said. "A reusable, two-
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an Ariana 4 rocket. The X-Craft has thrusters for maneuvering in orbit, and it
can land on any landing strip that can take a 747. One of my subsidiaries has
been developing it for over twenty-five years. We've dropped it from altitudeтАФ