" Perry Rhodan 0047 - (39) The Silence of Gom" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

reported at the end of his message that Betty Toufry believed the power which held their ship in its grip
was a telekinetic field.

This was the last word they had received from BellтАЩs group. Rhodan didnтАЩt know whether they had
survived the emergency landing on Gom or not. Pucky, the best telepath of the mutant group, thought a
few times he could hear signals. But this sector of space was so full of telepathic vibrations that even
Pucky was , unable to separate clearly the uncertain signals from the telepathic тАШbackground noiseтАЩ.

Still there was hope.

The conference on Laros continued after Talamon had succeeded in dispelling the suspicion he had
aroused. The continuation of the conference caused Rhodan to suspend further actions. Remaining
motionless in its anti-detection field, theTitan was safe. Once it started to move, the risk of being tracked
down was imminent and if they were located by Laros it was sure to trigger a chain reaction of highly
unpleasant events.

First of all the suspicion against Talamon would be renewed. Secondly, they would start checking the
memory bank data of the positronic computer aboard TopthorтАЩs ship. No organic brain was capable of
differentiating between two similar stored data concerning galactic positions. A precise galactic position
was described by 3 spatial, 3 hyper-impulseтАФand 2 time-co├╢rdinates. In addition it required the
so-called тАШbeacon determinantтАЩ which fixed the course to the goal from any other galactic position. All
this constituted a tangle of figures and imaginary values which defied the capacity of any brain. But the
Springers: would, once their suspicion had been stirred, apply a bigger positronic computer to test the
programming sequence of TopthorтАЩs equipment. In doing so, BellтАЩs trick would come to light.

Thus Perry Rhodan was forcedтАФfor the sake of the entire EarthтАФto leave his friend Reginald Bell in the
lurch.



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They proceeded through the tunnel without incidents and as time dragged on it became quite tedious.

John Marshall and Betty Toufry stated that the telepathic probing noises of the brown Gom-being grew
weaker all the timeтАФa sure sign that Bell and his people had quickly got away from the spot where they
had saved themselves from the beast.

They had noticed that the walls of the passage were seamless and smooth and remarked about its
rectilinear direction. Soon they started to grumble that no end to the tunnel was in sight.

The only one who had noticed anything unusual during the past half hour was Bell himself. From time to
time he stopped So that the entire file came to a standstill. He stared at his wrist and nobody except the
two telepaths could tell whether he looked at his watch, the radiation counter, the manometer or the
thermometer. He shook his head in astonishment and mumbled something unintelligible under his breath.

After he had done it for the 10th time, Marshall finally laughed: "Why donтАЩt you also tell Ras and Tako
why youтАЩre so amazed?"