" Perry Rhodan 0029 - (22) Fleet of the Springers" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

hour. "We must find the K-7 again!" Hardly anybody had heard another word
from him since the auxiliary ship had disappeared. Reginald Bell brought the
plastic strip printed with the result of the calculations of the positronic
computer. Rhodan grabbed the strip out of his hand and studied it. That took a
minute. Bell glanced at him from the side. "Well... ?" He wanted to ask more
but at that moment Rhodan lifted his bead and shouted: "Get ready for
transition! Terra and Solar System will come along with us!" .... "In two
hours," was the consensus of the inquiry. "Shortly after change of
guards." Tiff agreed. He had made the same proposal. He left the mess hall
together with Eberhardt and Mildred. Hifield remained behind. The intercom
receiver-transmitters were installed in the walls of the corridor at regular
intervals. The distance between the sets was about 25 feet. As Mildred and the
two cadets kept their voices very low there was a stretch of about six to ten
feet between two sets where the sound could not be picked up by the
intercom. Their conversation proceeded something like this: "Orlgans was
convulsed with laughter." Tiff described the situation during the
interrogation he had just endured as they slowly walked past one of the sets.
"But you know the Springers. They laugh loudly and amuse themselves royally,
thinking all the time about the best way to obliterate you." "What did they
want to know?" Eberhardt asked. Tiff glanced at the wall. The intercom they
had just passed was about 10 feet behind them and the next one 15 feet
ahead. "You'll have to engage the guards in a conversation, Milly," Tiff said
quickly and softly. "Pretend you want to show them something and lure them
away from the command centre for at least three minutes. Three minutes will be
enough for me at the worst but more would be a lot better." The intercom came
closer. "...nothing, of course," Tiff changed abruptly. I don't have the
slightest idea what secrets he thinks that I know. He doesn't give me any
clues either. He laughed loudly in my face and said next time he'd apply
different methods that would be highly unpleasant for me while he obtained his
information." Mildred's face looked frightened. "Do you believe he'll really
do that?" Tiff nodded. The intercom was behind them again. "He certainly
will! You must do your job very cleverly, Milly. Even if I set a time delay,
the guards could discover our operation if they should become suspicious and
investigate the command centre closely. You'll have to explain it all
precisely to Felicita so she won't do anything silly. And tell her not to be
afraid! They're nice guys as long as they're your friends. But look out when
you cross them up!" .... "There's no matter to speak of within a radius of
20 light-years," the rangefinder reported. Perry Rhodan sat in front of the
Stardust's pilot console. The observation screen showed the blackness of empty
space, overlaid by a contourless veil of cold points of light. Two blurred,
faintly shimmering spots appeared on the screen-the Terra and the Solar
System. "And what is beyond the 20 light-year limit?" Rhodan asked into the
microphone. The answer came promptly: "Beta-Albireo is 21.85 light-years away
from our present location, a double star in the constellation Cygnus." "What
else?" "Two more suns at a distance of 53.56 and 62.72 light-years,
sir." "Thank you!" Reginald Bell was leaning against the side of the pilot
console. Rhodan looked at him and said: "We've jumped 350 light-years.
Beta-Albireo is located about 320 light-years from the Sun. The positronic
indicated an error of 9.2% for its calculations." Rhodan interrupted himself
and connected with the rangefinder again. "Let me have the distance of the two