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

"Good grief!" Bell growled. "I know youтАЩre telepaths but I also want to know whatтАЩs going on!"

John Marshall leaned forward as he listened. Then he shrugged his shoulders. "The impulses are stronger
than those from the blue plants," he observed, "but itтАЩs impossible to make sense out of it."

"Where is it?" Bell demanded.

"Up front!" Marshall pointed in the direction of a flat rock lying a few feet from the entrance to the cave.
Bell wanted to ask another question but held his tongue.

In the reddish twilight something crept around the rock. It looked like a plain dark spot of oval outline,
perhaps 10 square feet-big. It slithered around the rock and moved toward the cave.

"It wants to come here!" Marshall whispered.

Bell stared at the thing. It didnтАЩt have any definite contours. Wherever it moved it gave the appearance
as if the ground had been darkened by a shade.

It was about to creep between two of the blue plants but the plants seemed to fear the dark spot more
than the storm. They retreated into the ground with amazing agility and with their scraping noise.

Reginald Bell drew his thermo-weapon, prepared to shoot.

"DonтАЩt!" Marshall ordered. "ItтАЩs only curious."

Then the spot stopped at the entrance to the cave and Bell gawked at it. It looked like a thin layer of
dark brown lacquer. Bell felt ill at ease and looked to Marshall for reassurance. "What does it want?"

Marshall shook his head. "Nothing else. It doesnтАЩt find us interesting."

With a slight scratching noise the spot started to move again. However it didnтАЩt return the same way it
had come but wandered to the right around the cliff in which the cave was located. After a few minutes it
was out of BellтАЩs sight. "Good Heavens," he groaned, "what kind of a world is this?"

Tama Yokida seemed less impressed. "I can bring it back, sir," he offered. "Do you want me to?"

Bell wearily waved him off. "Let it go! What should we do with it?"

Kitai Ishibashi, the Suggestor, drew BellтАЩs attention. Kitai lay next to the wall of the cave and stared at
the stone wall. "WhatтАЩs the matter?" Bell wanted to know."
 Kitai sighed and turned around. "I thought I could force my will on it. But itтАЩs probably too dumb to be
influenced."

Bell laughed angrily. "I guess youтАЩre right. It seems to be no smarter than the blue plants that are hiding
from the storm."

He moved back from the caveтАЩs exit and muttered for the second time as he crawled past Marshall:
"Good Heavens! What kind of a world did we get into?"