" Perry Rhodan 1804 - Struggle To Survive" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

 Even watching was difficult for him. He could barely stand being near Kallia.

And yet he couldn't bring himself to look for another job. It was for Myles Kantor's sake that Gobert
Grifaan remained at his post.




2.




The glider convoy with the data-recording instruments headed towards the west and followed the
smoke trail down in the plain. A train hopelessly overloaded with Herreach struggled in the direction of
Moond. Some of the passengers clung to the outsides of the cars while others lay on the roofs. Now and
then, one fell off in exhaustion and remained lying next to the tracks.

"Khan to convoy," the LFT Commissioner said. "The range of our tractor beams is too limited to be
able to reach from here. Four craft remain on course. The others follow the train. We'll try to save what
we can."

They swung around and accelerated. Cistolo Khan dropped some robots off near the tracks to tend
to the fallen Herreach, but all they could do was confirm their deaths. The Herreach on and in the train
didn't care about their fellows.

The LFT Commissioner sighed in frustration. "The ones who fell off didn't have any fatal injuries," he
said. "They could have lived. But they just gave up and died."

He would have given anything to be able to help in every case and avoid such incidents, but it was
hopeless. He would have to assign a guardian to every single Herreach, and that was impossible for a
population of 145 million individuals.

"The train will need another two hours at least to reach its destination," Bruno Drenderbaum
estimated. Next to the broadshouldered Cistolo Khan, the LFT Commissioner's friend and assistant
seemed downright undernourished, even puny. "The city can't handle the flood of refugees. Large parts of
Moond were destroyed or badly damaged by the earthquake."

Cistolo Khan shook his head as though trying to rid himself of an annoying insect. His hands gripped
the armrests of the pilot seat. "They're reacting completely contrary to common sense," he murmured. "I
would have expected them to leave the city and scatter across the countryside. Instead, it's just the
opposite."

"It's because of their mentality." Drenderbaum leaned to the right to see more of the plain below.
"They think only about the present and never about the future. Well, almost never. After all, they stormed
the Temple after Schimbaa wrecked it almost as if they expected to find gold inside."

The glances of the two men met. Khan let go of the armrests and busied himself with the scanner
controls. "There's an earthquake in progress 1500 kilometres to the west of here!" he exclaimed. "That's
in the area of the Herreach city of Hovver." He made a decision on the spot and activated the com.