" Perry Rhodan 0080 - (72) Caves of the Druufs" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

Fellmer Lloyd were still present on Grautier. The base had no chance against the massive attack. Within
a few short hours the Arkon bombardment had transformed the entire planet into a glowing nuclear hell.

Perry Rhodan and his companions had succeeded in escaping to an island and from there had sent a
distress call over minicom. A ship appeared at the last moment to rescue them. However, it was not a
Terranian ship, as they had hoped, but Arkonide. They had narrowly escaped the clutches of death only
to fall into the hands of the Arkonides.

A few light-minutes away from Grautier, the Arkonide ship that had picked them up transferred them to
another vessel also serving the robot Brain of Arkon and apparently charged with bringing the prisoners
to Arkon as quickly as possible. Perry Rhodan noticed that the commander of this second ship, an
Ekhonide called Chollar, did not know his name. From this he deduced that the robot rulerтАЩs intent was
to keep the capture of his most important opponent as secret as possible.

In one bold move the four prisoners succeeded in overpowering the Command Central crew of the
Ekhonide ship and in sending out an emergency call. The message was worded in a manner they hoped
would arouse the interest of only a Terranian ship.

Barely four hours later a spaceship appeared to rescue them. This time, however, it was neither
Terranian nor ArkonideтАФbut a ship of the Druufs. The relationship between Terranians and Druufs was,
politically speaking, quite peculiar. One regarded the other as a potential ally in the struggle against Arkon
but for the time being mistrust far outweighed any enthusiasm for alliance. Like the Arkonides before
them, the Druufs regarded Perry Rhodan and his companions as their prisoners. They brought them on
board their ship and hastened to flee the space sector controlled by the Arkonides.

Passing through the overlap front, for the present the only connection between the Einstein Universe and
their own, they returned to their time-plane and confined their prisoners in a subterranean chamber on a
monster of a planet.

The flight had lasted two days. Other than the visits by a Druuf robot, who brought their meals, the four
prisoners were alone during that time and seemingly unobserved. Their cabins contained no viewscreens.
They saw nothing of what went on about them but the trip had apparently encountered no difficulties.

Finally the ship landed. Perry Rhodan and his companions had meanwhile had time to accustom
themselves somewhat to the gravitation on board of 1.95-normal, the same as the gravitation prevailing
on the native planet of the Druufs.

The four prisoners became aware of the fact that they had landed when a Druuf entered their cabin.
With the aid of his electronic communicator he urged them to put on the spacesuits brought along from
the Ekhonide ship and to leave the Druuf vessel. The Druuf offered no further details concerning the
reason or purpose of these instructions. He was a тАШMikeтАЩ, as Terranians had come to call the
lowest-ranking Druufs, and was apparently not authorized to give out information. On the other hand it
was possible that he did not know much more about it himself.

In any case the prisoners did as they were told and left the ship. The Druufs had landed their cylindrical
vehicle flat on a sweeping rocky plain. From the rollramp of the Druuf ship Perry Rhodan and his
companions took in a picture that seemed to have been created by a surrealistic painter, someone, who
had shown few compunctions in his choice of colours.

The plain expanded into the unending distance. The muted grey-brown of its rocky ground was the only