Perry Rhodan 016 - Secret Barrier X by W. W. Shols

Author:W. W. Shols
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2017-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

5 - Rhodan To The Rescue

John Marshall felt he had reached the end of his rope.

Half a morning on Venus was more than a full day on Earth. During all that time he had tried to draw the attention of the seals.

He knew they inhabited the shore on the opposite side of the sea channel. This distance was so far as to discourage even a born optimist. By the same token, the sea was the element of these semi-intelligent creatures. Was it not natural to assume that they swam far out and came close to the beach on this side?

Why didn’t they hear him?

Had they followed a nomadic instinct and gone to another place? Yet other seals were bound to take their place if they had left. No biological vacuum ever persisted in the abundant life of Venus.

John Marshall went out to the farthest point. A mile and a half from the spot where he had reached the ocean a flat spit of land extended deep into the water. It was not much more than a sandbar. The grass cover ended after 100 yards. His footprints left a mile long track seemingly leading into a dead end of hopeless desolation.

He stood at the tip of the land ridge, surrounded by water on three sides. The ocean reached as far as the horizon. The hills in the north were far below the brim of the water.

It was all very depressing.

Why didn’t the seals hear him?

The intensity of his telepathic luring grew weaker and weaker. He required longer pauses to recover his strength. It was not the physical fatigue alone which hindered his concentration but also the emotional depression he suffered.

Why didn’t they hear him?

The constant question produced a shock as he suddenly seemed to have found the answer. Their frequencies were not attuned Transmitter and receiver must be synchronized in conformance with the simple basic laws of physics. Marshall recalled his first encounter with the seals when they needed an array of technical instruments to establish communications between them and humans. The seals ‘talked’ with each other in the ultrasonic range and it was inaudible for human ears. The ultrasonic waves had to be transformed with the aid of a frequency-communicator and then the language of the seals was made comprehensible by using the cerebral analyser and the positronic decoder.

Marshall was at first completely consternated. Then he realized that he had failed to think his problem through to the end. After all, Perry Rhodan was not such a half-wit as to send him out alone into the wilderness if the circumstances were utterly hopeless.

"I’m a good telepath," he kept telling himself. "I don’t need these technical crutches. Thought waves are thought waves—of the same frequency! This is true for the seals as well as for me. They’ve got to hear me! Unless their apathy is to be blamed for ignoring my call for help."

He stretched out on the sand to relax half an hour without moving a finger. He let his mind go blank.

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