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

seemed to have a low air pressure. A sharp gust of hot air almost propelled Bell through the hole and
hurled dust and stones around him.

At the same moment Betty heard the desperate cry: "TheyтАЩre in the western reservoir!"

She was not quite certain that what she had understood as тАШwesternтАЩ actually meant тАШwestern.тАЩ But that
was how she translated it to Bell.

"Suppose," Bell growled, "they mean us by тАШthey and aliens,тАЩ then weтАЩll soon be very busy. IтАЩm curious
who the flounders down there expect to help them."

He hadnтАЩt finished saying the two words "down there" before the light of one of the helmet-lamps fell on
a wall of the spacious room in which they stood. Most of these walls, as well as the floor, consisted of
bare rocks but at the spot which Ras Tschubai now illuminated was some kind of a curtain made of the
dark shiny substance of the floundersтАЩ bodies.

Bell didnтАЩt doubt for a moment that the odd curtain covered an exitтАФprobably to a shaft serving the
ventilation and maintaining the constant temperature of the subterranean system.

He looked in dismay at the unconscious Goratschin and grumbled: "ItтАЩs hopeless, weтАЩve got to drag him
out. Over there!"

He pointed to the curtain. Tako Kakuta crawled to the curtain and threw a punch at it but found that the
bodies of the Gom creatures had as yet lost nothing of their newly-acquired elasticity.

BellтАЩs fusillade quickly turned the lacquer disks into hissing vapours and fiery drops which cascaded to
the floor where they solidified.

Bell held the unconscious mutant by the left arm while he fired and hastily dragged him forward when the
hole was big enough to show the endless depth of a dark tunnel behind it.

But a second later he recoiled in horror. There they came through the tunnel: stomping cohorts with legs
like columns, carrying bulky, massive bodies. Bodies with 4 arms and round heads from which dull eyes
bulged with a blank stare.

At least 20 of them, Bell estimated. They stooped forward as they approached since they were 10 feet
tall whereas the tunnel was only 6 feet high. They carried weapons, each of which was so heavy that Bell
and everybody else would have trouble lifting one of them.

They were BiosтАФrepulsive artificial creations that were bred by the Aras on Laros. Bell had once
caught sight of them on Laros, making him wish he would never get embroiled with them in earnest.

At the moment, however, it didnтАЩt look as if his wish would be granted.




3/ OF SUPER-GOM & MULTI-BIOS
Marshall felt BellтАЩs terror as he rested, breathing heavily, on one of the steps. He tried to get up and
hurry on but his arms buckled and failed to support him.