"Destroyer 022 - Brain Drain.pdb" - читать интересную книгу автора (Williams Remo)

He saw the nurse make a move toward them, but then Chiun was up, circling in his deceptive slow movements, making almost imperceptible feints with the long fingers. The nurse, too, circled. Remo noticed that she limped.
"Gracious," she said in the flat mechanical voice. "I remember exactly. I think you have me, gook."
In Korean, Chiun ordered Remo to join in. For a nurse? The Master of Sinanju needed help with a nurse?
Remo moved into Chiun's circular pattern so that he was opposite the Master, with the nurse in the center.
"Maybe you can help me with a paraplegic sometime, Little Father," said Remo.
"Do not joke. This one moves backwards equal with forwards and does all things with balance beyond men."
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"I was pretty well programmed that way," said the nurse. "But I still doubt that I could duplicate some of your moves."
"Who are you?" said Remo.
"What is a better question," said Chiun, and in Korean, he ordered Remo to hold.
The nurse's head spun around like the turret on a tank. She looked at Remo, smiling, her chin directly above her backbone.
"Oh," said Remo.
"I see you remember," said the nurse. "I wouldn't attack right now if I were you, human. It would result in the destruction of Smith. Immediately."
"Remo," called Smith. "Who's out there?"
"Do not move, oh, Emperor. We are saving your life," said Chiun.
"There's somebody after you," said Smith weakly. "I think it's Mr. Gordons."
"You're a great help," mumbled Remo.
"I see we are at an impasse, gook and orphan," said the nurse.
"What's happening?" yelled Smith as loudly as his strength let him.
"Take two aspirin and call me in the morning," Remo yelled back.
"There was a high probability that you should enter the room with Smith. Why didn't you ?"
"Do not tell him, Remo," said Chiun.
"Let's finish the old business now," said Remo.
"No," Chiun said.
"I see you are the better thinker, gook," the nurse said.
"One does not need special wisdom to see that," Chiun said. "What do you want?"
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"Your destruction," said the nurse.
"Why?" said Chiun.
"Because while you live you are a danger to me."
"We can share the earth."
"I am not here to share the earth. I am here to survive," said the nurse. "You and your pale whelp are the one force I must destroy."
As the nurse spoke, another nurse passed them in the hall, nodded toward the nurse between Remo and Chiun and entered Smith's room.
Remo watched her go in. A moment later she came out. She walked away down the hall.
"See, you may go in now," the first nurse said in that flat voice. "It is safe now."
"Remo, stay away from that door," said Chiun. "Why do you wish to destroy us?" he asked the nurse.
"Because you two represent a force that has been continuing for centuries and centuries. Is that not right, gook?"
"Correct," said Chiun.
"Then there is no reason that it might not be many centuries more. I have determined that I could outlast any country just by disappearing for a while, until it is no longer the country it was. But you humans of Sinanju stay around forever. Better we meet now, rather than I unexpectedly meet one of your descendants centuries from now."
"Blow it out your transistors," Remo said and moved into a two-line attack that could converge the maximum force upon the target. He needed only a piece of this thing to rip it apart. A normal blow to
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the heart or brain was useless. The motor responses could be anywhere. The last time they were in the creature's stomach; now they could be under the nurse's hat. Inside the white shoes.
"No," said Chiun to Remo. "Smith will die. Stop."
"He knows," said the nurse.
"What's going on out there ?" yelled Smith.
"What have you done, thing?" said Chiun.
"That is for you to find out. I am leaving, but remember, I will destroy you. Goodbye."
"Goodbye, thing, and let me tell you this. All that was made by man disappears. But man continues."
"I'm a new generation of thing, gook."
Remo watched, puzzled, as the nurse walked smoothly to an exit door.