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

Lloyd was a specialist. In addition to his astonishing parapsychic ability he had an almost complete
knowledge of all electronic and gravito-mechanical problems such as occur in the construction of
force-screen generators and similar equipment.

On the other hand, Rous was equally knowledgeable. In the Academy he had completed courses in
electronics and gravitomechanics. So he was familiar with what he was doing and was able to see at first
glance at which places Lloyd had made changes in the small generator. He tested the newly soldered
connections and traced the altered circuitry in his mind. His mental findings startled him suddenly. He
reviewed his steps and arrived at the same results.

Lloyd stood behind him looking over his shoulder.

"Do you know what you have made?" asked Rous.

Lloyd nodded. "Well, the way it looks to me, IтАЩve only changed the form of the forcefield."

"Precisely, The protective field is built up by the generator in a spherical form with a variable but limited
radius. And nowтАж"

"тАжitтАЩs nothing but a circular field," finished Lloyd. "More or less a ring-shaped field."

"Correct. A ring field that in the first place we donтАЩt even know enough about to know where it is."

He continued the experimental investigation. He seemed to find what he was looking for and asked for
the soldering pincers. He undertook a few changes, turned the adjustment screws on the front panel of
the apparatus and checked through everything several times.

"IтАЩm trying to determine the position of the field," he said as he went along. "It has a ring form at present
but where the ring lies we donтАЩt yet know."

He continued working until finally Rosita let out a startled cry from the background.

"ThereтАж at the window!"

Rous looked up. On the window a circular spot of bluish-white brightness had formed. Beyond the
bright circle everything was dark. The light that fell into the room now came solely out of the circle.

"ThatтАЩs strange," murmured Rous.

"Did I say it was a ring field?" asked Lloyd. "ThatтАЩs no ring, itтАЩs a circleтАФa circular spot of light!"

Rous shook his head. "Nonsense. What you see there isnтАЩt the field but simply light, as you say. The field
itself is invisible. It lies as a ring around that circle of light."

Rosita had become curious. "Where does the light come from?"

"HaтАж if I only knew!"

Rous stared thoughtfully for a few full minutes at the round spot of light. Then he jumped suddenly as if
something important had occurred to him and thereafter he began to work as if possessed.