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

"Make a new one!" Bell instructed her.

Betty went to work. However, for some reason she didnтАЩt get anywhere. Either the flounders had
undergone some change in the meantime or she didnтАЩt have the same knack as Reginald Bell for this kind
of work.

When the men with the motionless Goratschin caught up with her, she sobbed in frustration: "I canтАЩt do
it!"

Without a word Bell let go of the arm by which he had pulled the mutant and slammed his clenched fist
against the wall. He felt it first give under his punch like a loose rubber sheet and then it promptly
bounced back.

Bell got up on his knees and flung himself full force against the wall but his luck was no better than hers
was.

Obviously something had indeed changed the texture of the flounders in the meantime.

"Stand back!" Bell shouted. "WeтАЩll have to shoot our way out!"

However before he could aim his thermo-beamer, it began to rustle and rasp behind him. Bell didnтАЩt let
the noise deter him but the others looked back and Marshall shouted: "TheyтАЩre after us! TheyтАЩre leaving
the walls, the ceiling and the floor in droves. Hurry up!"

Bell fired. The changed substance of the flounders was unable to withstand the hissing blast of the raygun
and Bell burned out a hole big enough for GoratschinтАЩs huge body in a hurry.

A few seconds later they were on the other side.

Then they noticed the same rustling grating noise they had heard in the room they just left and they saw
by the light of their helmet-lamps gobs of flounders float down from the ceiling, slide down the walls and
detach themselves from the floor. The hole, which Bell had burned out behind them, suddenly grew
larger. Some of the flounders that had combined to form the thin wall rearranged themselves to extend
the opening to the floor in order to permit access to the other flounders poised for attack in the other
room.

"Keep going!" Bell ordered. "WeтАЩve got to try to find the entrance on the surface through which we
came in."

They strenuously pushed the two-headed mutant in front of them. Bell kept his thermo-beamer handy
and shot at the Gom beings without hesitation whenever they crowded too closely around them.

There was still no hint why the flounders acted in this manner.

They had no weaponsтАФneither natural nor artificial ones. They had no arms, no legs and no teeth.

Yet nobody had any illusions as to their ability to conquer an opponent after they had seen what they did
to the chewed up spacesuit of Goratschin.

Shoving the heavy body of the mutant before them, they reached the centre of the room. Betty used the