" Perry Rhodan 0015 - (09) Quest Through Space And Time" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

The short, heavy-set Earthman, whose red bristles seemed always to stand on end, excitedly paced the
floor in the control centre of the giant spacesphere. A strange fire glowed in his pale-blue, almost faded
eyes.

"We got a rotten deal from this positronic brain!" he growled. He punctuated his displeasure with wild
flailing gestures of his great hands. "Here we sit waiting for an answer from this brainy monster and I
doubt that weтАЩll ever hear from it. WeтАЩve had it, Perry!"

The two men stood within the semicircle of the shipтАЩs control centre. Rhodan, the leader of the
expedition, was thirty-six, two years older than his friend Bell. RhodanтАЩs lean figure revealed toughness
and courage. Determination sparkled in his grey eyesтАФand a great sense of humour.

"Are you serious, Reg?" Rhodan looked intently at the face of his closest collaborator but failed to detect
any signs of genuine rebellion. "Do you want to give up the whole deal?"

"WhoтАЩs talking about quitting, Perry? But weтАЩve been sitting here for weeks, waiting for this confounded
monster of a positronic brain to honour us with some informationтАФmaybe. All weтАЩve heard from it so far
is excuses.The code of this message is extremely difficult to break . Most likely it will never be
deciphered. Who knowsтАФthe so-called immortals may have played a dirty trick at our expense."

Meanwhile another man had joined them. He entered almost unnoticed. He looked like a human being
but a certain something in his appearance exuded the impression of superhuman qualities. The tall figure,
the uncertain age, the thick, whitish hair, the very high forehead, the reddish albino eyesтАФand especially
the expression in his eyesтАФall these combined to make him appear тАж different. He was a scientist from
a star system thirty-four thousand light-years from Earth. The Arkonides, his race, had mastered all the
secrets of space travel for thousands of years. Several years ago his research vessel had crash-landed on
EarthтАЩs moon, where it had been discovered by Perry Rhodan, who rescued the two survivors of the
catastrophe, Khrest, the scientist, and the beautiful Thora, the female commander of the research cruiser.

Upon entering Khrest had overheard BellтАЩs last remark. He addressed Bell with a trace of reproach in
his voice: "ArenтАЩt you a bit quick to draw such conclusions? The immortals, whose trail we are pursuing,
never intended to make our task an easy one."

"I never doubted that," replied Bell impatiently. "Your infallible race found out several thousand years
ago that this system contains a planet that is the home of the immortals. But this planet disappeared in the
meantime. In order to track it down, we are forced to solve almost impossible tasks, for the inhabitants
of the vanished planet have puzzled out a kind of cosmic treasure hunt. Only beings capable of
five-dimensional thought processes will be able to find this planet of eternal life. They concocted a real
dilly for us poor mortals. We are trying to rack our brains to solve this galactic riddle. And all because
we want to find the secret of immortality."

Perry Rhodan smiled a friendly greeting to Khrest. "Reg is feeling blue that the positronic brain has not
yet deciphered what the coded message of the immortals has to tell us."

"IтАЩm not feeling blue, IтАЩm sick and tired of waiting around for weeks on end." Reg sounded disgusted.

The smile had left RhodanтАЩs face. He was serious now as he regarded the giant console of the positronic
brain which was was hidden behind the huge panels of Arkonite. He knew what must be going on now
behind these walls: incomprehensible mechanisms and positronics of superior intelligence were busy
translating the encoded message composed in an alien language. Nobody had expected that this message