Perry Rhodan (104) The Man With Two Faces by Perry Rhodan

Author:Perry Rhodan [Perry Rhodan]
Format: epub
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Published: 2010-01-03T09:01:57+00:00

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They had held their breaths when the space-jet flew through the gap in the energy screen surrounding the synthetic world. Even Cardif was strained to control himself when it suddenly appeared beneath them: Wanderer, planet of immortality!

It was not a planet in the normal sense. It was actually a vast disc, 600 kilometres wide, above which the bell-shaped defence screen arched invisibly. The extensive disc below them contained every aspect of beauty that was to be found in the cosmos. Brazo Alkher and Stant Nolinov would have preferred to look at this miracle for hours on end but they were under the Chiefs orders to fly toward a circular clearing, 2 km wide, on the edge of which stood a slender, fragile-looking spire that towered more than 2,300 meters into the artificial blue sky.

This was the domain of It or Him-who had lived here for unknown eons of time!

Just before the gap had appeared in the energy screen, Thomas Cardif had heard from It. He heard a voice inside him saying: Perry Rhodan, do you wish to come to me?

And before Cardif could free himself from the impact of the strange contact, the inner voice sounded forth again: I am pleased to see you once more. You seem very desirous of visiting me. But were you not here but a few moments ago?

Rhodan's transferred knowledge enabled Cardif to realize what the collective entity meant by a few moments. He or It had a different time concept. What represented decades to humans was for Him but a matter of moments.

And now the voice remained silent even as the I-109 made a light landing in the circular area before the slender tower. Cardif stood behind the other 2 men and looked over their heads at the viewscreen gallery. Rhodan's knowledge enabled him to understand what he saw. Nothing here was strange to him. He even knew where he was supposed to go. The last rumble of the engines died out. Alkher and Nolinov had shut the ship down.

"Wait here for me, gentlemen," they heard the Chief say behind them. "I am going alone."

They watched him in silence as he traversed the radial corridor and came to a stop at the airlock. The batches swung open and he left the ship dressed as he was, without any form of protection whatever.

Wanderer's gravitational pull measured 0.9 gravs. The conditions here were almost the same as on Earth.

Cardif crossed the clearing and was approaching the tower when he suddenly heard or perceived the equivalent of roaring laughter in his subconscious mind.

Rhodan, I've almost been devoured by boredom! Friend, how happy I am to see you! It is regrettable that I am not in material form so that I might embrace you and slap you on the shoulder!

Once more the peals of laughter resounded in Cardif's subconsciousness but it no longer disconcerted him. It had greeted him as Perry Rhodan. It had even expressed the desire to clap him on the shoulder!

Abruptly, however, the laughter ceased.

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