" Perry Rhodan 0040 - (32) Challenge of the Unknown" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

Perry Rhodan is on a secret mission on a planet of Arkonide descendants. With him, on a
mile-long ‘liberated’ space battleship is the extraordinary Pucky, and the imperious Thora.



But new mysteries arise on the planet Zalit.



The Zalites are coppery-skinned aliens with copper-green hair. Their planet has become
the base of the ‘Watchdogs’–telepathic, marine methane-breathing creatures from another
world who establish themselves on Zalit for unknown purposes.

What are their aims? Are they malevolent? A new and fantastic challenge for Perry Rhodan
and his mutant allies…



This is the stirring story of–




CHALLENGE OF

THE UNKNOWN


1/ THE BRAIN MUST BE BEFRIENDED



"A PLANETSHIP!" Reginald Bell declared. "I don’t call this a spaceship any more—it’s a regular
planet!" Perry Rhodan’s aide was panting with exhaustion as he let himself be engulfed by the black gullet
of the antigrav cylinder. Lieutenant Julian Tifflor, his eyes shut tight, followed suit. "And we’re livinginside
this planet!"

"You’re absolutely right, Mr. Bell." Tifflor—also known as Tiff—uttered these words with great effort
while the speed of their falls was automatically braked till their descents gradually changed to gentle
floating. "Sometimes I think I’ll lose my way in this monster of a ship."

"Which of course is the reason for all these constant alarm drills," Bell enlightened him. "We’resupposed
to learn how to find our way around in this maze." His healthy red complexion deepened several degrees.
Above his broad moonlike face bristled his reddish hair, while anger and amusement alternately fought for
supremacy in his watery-blue eyes. "I’llnever master it!"

Tifflor simply nodded his bead, remaining silent. They had been ordered to report to station H 35,
wherever that might be. ‘H’ probably stood for ‘hangar’, indicating that location might be found in the
vicinity of the outer wall of the giant craft. Inside the antigravitor they were falling toward the hull but
fervently hoped they hadn’t chosen the wrong side for this would mean they had made a detour of at