" Perry Rhodan 0005 - (3a) Galactic Alarm" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

CHAPTER ONE




"You wonтАЩt be able to understand that! You will be unable to comprehend any of the impulses. Your
brain will become utterly confused, and you-"Thora stopped short without completing her sentence. The
words would not come as fast as her frantic mind demanded.



How simple it is to see through her game, thought Perry Rhodan. It is not my brain she is worried
about. Her real concern is to convince me that I am not yet sufficiently developed to grasp her
secrets."What difference does it make to you?" he countered. "What would you lose in me? And the sight
of Rhodan as a babbling idiot should give you a lot of satisfaction. Or am I mistaken?"



She was aware that he was trying to throw her on the wrong track, and it particularly annoyed her that
he seemed to succeed so easily.



"That isnтАЩt the point at all," she replied tersely. "The psychotapes can be played only a certain number
of times, and we must be careful not to exhaust them unnecessarily-especially in this case, where failure is
so clearly indicated."Rhodan extended his right hand in a pleading manner. "But you do me wrong,
Thora," he said. "HavenтАЩt we managed so far to understand everything thatтАЩs been presented to
us?"Thora snapped her fingers with disdain. "Whatever you have learned before is nothing compared
with what you will be faced with now!"



Rhodan turned around to look at Khrest, whose face bore the usual serious expression. One had to
know him well to recognize from the way the skin on his forehead was moving how much Khrest was
actually enjoying this.



I would gladly exchange 1,000 fictitious programs for a single situation like this, thought Khrest. Lord
of all the universes! The most intelligent of all Arkonide women and a demigod of the human species тАж
and behaving like little children!But in reality there were quite serious things at stake here. After some
initial resistance, Thora had no longer objected when the two members of the "underdeveloped human
race" received instruction, via the hypnoschooling method, in some of the achievements of the superior
Arkonide sciences. But now she offered strong resistance to their demand to open up the last secrets of
the aliens treasury of highest knowledge. She deeply distrusted RhodanтАЩs argument that this would
increase his efficiency.Khrest supported Rhodan in his plea. He explained to Thora that the ArkonidesтАЩ
last hope lay in the inherent energy of the underdeveloped human race and the assistance they were giving
to the two survivors of the Arkonide space expedition. This help could be increased many, times if
Rhodan and his friend were given the necessary scientific information.In the end Khrest had to make use
of the authority he had over Thora in his capacity as a member of the ruling Arkonide dynasty, before he