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Book 9 The Wasp Men Attack




1/ THE HIDDEN CAVERN




IT WAS TIME—the end of hours of concentrated work in locked seclusion.Perry Rhodan depressed
the purplish knob with its strange white engraving. The etched symbol reminded him of a letter in the old
German runic alphabet; however, today its origin didn’t matter. It was enough to know that it indicated
the switch for cutting off power to the super positronic Brain.A monotonous vibration which he had only
been subconsciously aware of ebbed away. The magic eye scales dimmed out and the sonic diaphragms
became rigid and still. The largest, most versatile and powerful positronic brain ever to be stationed in the
solar system registered zero activity.



Rhodan leaned back, exhausted. The dialogue with the almost omniscient machine was over with.



The vast silence that was just settling in the sub-Venusian mountain cavern was suddenly ruptured by a
repeated buzzing sound. Rhodan manipulated the intercom unit. "Who’s there?"



"It’s me!" Reginald Bell’s husky voice left no doubt as to who was behind this anonymous "me".From
his table, Rhodan activated the door lock release. "Come in, Bell!"



"What the devil, Perry!" Bell exclaimed as he came in. "You worry me! For more than 24 hours now
you’ve barricaded yourself in this spooky cave. One would think that you were on the trail of the greatest
secret in the world!"



"We’re always on that trail, my friend, but if in spite of it all we still keep bungling, it must mean that the
secret is very far off."



"I’m willing to bet you haven’t eaten a bite during all this time."