" Perry Rhodan 0059 - (51) Return from The Void" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

"What makes you think we can help you?" asked Rous calmly.

Flaring indicated the chairs and said, "Sit downтАФand donтАЩt try anything foolish!"
Rous, Lloyd and Rosita sat down obediently.

"You claim that you come from Wollaston," Flaring began without any hesitation. "In Wollaston there are
many uncivilized people. I doubt that any one of them could drive an omnibus without instructions. And if
he were instructed, then he would know the traffic regulations and he would have parked it on the left
side of the street instead of the right side."

"Okay," he answered. "ThatтАЩs your theory. WhatтАЩs the rest of it?"

"Since the catastrophe in the country the arterial highways to the city have all been occupied by double
sentry positions. Coming here on the road from Resaz you were able to get past the 2d station, meaning
the innermost guard post, without interference, but the outer stationтАЩs sentries strangely have no
recollection of 3 people from Wollaston coming through their position."

Rous raised his right hand in a sign of agreement but he said, "Of course we canтАЩt help it if your people
have poor memories."

Flaring smiled. "They have very good memories, I can assure you. Moreover, I havenтАЩt finished yet. The
3 of you were downtown this afternoon when the new disaster struck. And you 3 are the only ones who
survived it. What explanation do you have to offer for this?"

RousтАЩs hand sank down again. "None," he admitted. "We can only be thankful that we did survive."

Flaring frowned gravely. "What about the assertion you made that at the time of the disaster you
happened to be on the Finnestal Bridge? Is that no longer true?"

Rous was startled. "You know that already, too?"

"Yes, thatтАж and also that you seem to violate all our customs, which as I have been given to understand
are also practiced on the island of Wollaston. In spite of the friendliness of the sentry who questioned
you, you did not give him the proper courtesy of a goodbye when you left."

Rous stared at the floor in front of him.

"Now listen here!" said Flaring, taking a new approach. "We are scientifically advanced enough to be
able to detect that you are not of this world. We ourselves have just entered the age of space travel.
Presumably your race is already well into the middle of such an age. You have attacked MirsalтАФon what
basis we are not aware. So far we have done nothing to antagonize any alien race because heretofore we
were not in contact with any to be able to do so.

"So we donтАЩt really know what you have against us. But if we knew, then perhaps we might be able to
remove the cause of your resentments instead of suffering the disappearance of millions of our people."

"It is our most ardent wish to arrive at a reasonable peace with you. We will do what we canтАж if only
no more of our people disappear. Mirsal has an approximate population of 3 billion inhabitants. In the