" Perry Rhodan 0042 - (34) SOS Spaceship Titan" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

Now the video scanning section reported hastily. Their special Arkonide observation equipment was
capable of focussing on the slightest exterior detail of terrain, all the way to the horizon. "Sir, we’re
picking up movement near the lake shore. Good lord—it’s people, sir! They’re emerging from a narrow
canyon. The first of them are moving toward the ship. No doubt about it—they’re humans. Must be
Arkonides, even though they look like a bunch of hobos. We count about a hundred of them…"

Tests, probes and samplings were processed through with lightning speed. One department after the
other reported results and evaluations of their assignments. Bell had taken his place next to Perry and
both men were reduced to mere nods and glances as they divided the workload and registered incoming
data into the ship’s positronicon.

Rhodan still found the time to mobilize his Mutant Corps. He didn’t tell them much over the intercom.
Each of them knew his own field of specialization. Hypno, esper, telekin, teleporter… Rhodan’s flashing
thought-processes omitted nothing. John Marshall, somewhere in the interior of the mightyTitan ,
received his mental impulses, took notes and passed the orders along to the other mutants.

The group of obviously very degenerate human colonists moved slowly closer to the ship. The mutants
examined their mental condition, dissected their innermost thoughts and feelings.

All probe equipment and personnel had returned. Most of the results of tests had been analysed and
evaluated with a clinical accuracy.

"No danger!"

"Nothing threatening in this area!"

"Safe."

"Fauna and flora harmless."

Thus, the urgently desired reports one after the other.

Bell began to grumble. "Sounds just a shade too goody nice! Even if our trained watchdogs wag their
tails and howl their praises, this whole Death Valley cemetery can go to blazes. I wish we’d left it in its
grave…"

Perry heard him without a smile. He remembered Khrest’s disturbing story about Thora’s lapse of
memory.

TheTitan remained under a Condition 2 alert.

Perry Rhodan personally was just about in Condition 1. Fourteen thousand years ago Arkon had
banned this system from any kind of contact—and this ban had never been lifted. Where could the
danger be hidden, which even the Arkonides had not been able to master…?



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 All 4 of them sat in front of the observation screen in the cabin: Rhodan, Bell, Thora and Khrest. The
instrument was focussed to the maximum of sharpness, giving close-ups of the people who squatted