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

A look up through the overhead canopy showed the position lights of the two spacespheres. They
were still 800 meters above the ground. That was 300 meters too many. They were running out of time.

The scanners flashed. Somewhere in front of them, a rapidly expanding heat source had appeared.

"You up there - activate tractor beams!" Khan exclaimed. "Make sure you grab all the Herreach, and
I mean every last one!"

The plain was splitting apart. They could follow the rupture on the scanner as a fissure opened a
kilometre below the surface and quickly spread upwards. Hundreds of spotlight beams stabbed down
from the two spaceships in the sky and illuminated the chaos.

The ground gaped open. A dark crevice three or four meters wide suddenly ran across the plain.
Smoke billowed out from within.

The Herreach reacted as though in slow motion. Some of them took no notice at all of the obstacle.

"They're like lemmings," Drenderbaum whispered. "They have one goal in their minds and nothing
else."

They're running after their Kummerog, Khan thought, and threw his friend and assistant a quick
glance. "There up ahead, Bruno," he said. "It's up to you."

A group of Herreach were headed towards the crevice as though magically pulled to it. Drenderbaum
raced the glider ahead and grazed the natives with the force-field. He adroitly shoved them away from
the crevice and forced them to change their direction. Moments later they came within range of a tractor
beam, lost their contact with the ground, and floated upwards towards the two LFT ships.

The Paper Moon called again. Trokan's surface had broken open in two hundred different places.
The phenomenon was occurring mainly in the equatorial region and at the two poles.

"Has Nathan reported yet?"

"No, Chief," Prett Boemer's voice replied, "but we're expecting something any minute now. We have
a continuously open data link with the Supersyntronic on Luna. It has been kept informed of everything
happening on Trokan and in the area surrounding the fourth planet."
 Although decades had passed since the exchange of the crystallized Mars with its threatening death
field, Cistolo Khan had trouble accepting Trokan as the actual fourth planet. The planet from the
Arresum had never been more than an alien body, and it had been the undoing of the Polyamid along
with Geo Sheremdoc, Boris Siankow, and its entire crew.

An exclamation from his pilot directed Khan's attention to the crevice in the ground. It had now
widened to at least ten meters, and the growing distance between the edges was increasing fast enough to
be easily seen. Herreach were crowding along either side. They found themselves in a blind spot between
tractor beams and paid no attention to the danger they were in. They hurried along the very brink of the
crevice and now and then one of them fell into the depths. Drenderbaum dropped the glider into the
abyss, using the vehicle's one tractor beam in an attempt to prevent the worst from happening. The beam
caught most of the falling Herreach, but a few were already too far down. They fell more than a kilometre
to their deaths.