The Destroyer - 62 - The Destroyer 062 - The Seventh Stone by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir

Author:Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir [Murphy, Warren & Sapir, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pulp Action
Publisher: PINNACLE BOOKS
Published: 2010-03-19T14:52:52+00:00

Chapter Seven

Regi­nald Woburn III saw the film. He saw the bul­lets and he saw the move­ments. The film was fed in­to a com­put­er. The com­put­er cal­cu­lat­ed the speed of the bul­let, the time of the bul­let, and it told Regi­nald Woburn that the plum he was sup­posed to pluck had to be mov­ing be­fore the bul­let left the bar­rel. The plum seemed to move, vir­tu­al­ly on the sniper’s de­ci­sion to fire.

Stick draw­ings an­alyzed the move­ments of the body. They com­pared the move­ments to those of the top ath­letes in the world. The high­est score so far in this con­cept of per­fect move­ment had been a 4.7 by an In­di­an fakir who had cho­sen to com­pete in the Olympics ten years ear­li­er. He had won the marathon run in a record time that had nev­er been ap­proached since then.

This plum, this white man named Re­mo, reg­is­tered a 10. Regi­nald looked at the num­bers, shut down the ma­chine, went in­to the bath­room and vom­it­ed in fear.

It was al­most dawn when he re­al­ized that he was ac­tu­al­ly do­ing ev­ery­thing right. The sev­enth stone was cor­rect. For the great se­cret of the sev­enth stone was that the oth­er six meth­ods had failed. There­fore the Ko­re­an of the time of Prince Wo, that as­sas­sin from Sinan­ju, could not be killed by sword or poi­son or the oth­er four ways. The sev­enth stone had said, “Do not use meth­ods that fail.” Of course, that was ob­vi­ous. But when one thought about it, when one un­der­stood the stone, one re­al­ized that it was not that ob­vi­ous. The way of the sev­enth stone was to find the way, per­haps the most mys­te­ri­ous of all, es­pe­cial­ly in the light of this Re­mo’s ex­traor­di­nary pow­ers. And if he had such pow­ers, what kind did the old Ko­re­an pos­sess?

“He will show you how to kill him. Be pa­tient and let him.” That was an­oth­er mes­sage from the sev­enth stone.

But how? Reg­gie didn’t know, and so to find out how, he first had to find out, and to un­der­stand, how not.

Reg­gie went back to the bath­room and retched again. He had not ex­pect­ed it to go this far. He had be­lieved that at least one bul­let would work. But he had tak­en pre­cau­tions, even if he didn’t think he would need them.

The aw­ful sense of see­ing how eas­ily the plum had avoid­ed the first death and the mag­ni­tude of the man’s abil­ities ter­ri­fied Reg­gie. He trem­bled as he looked at the stone’s mes­sage again. Let him show you how to kill him.

But what if he es­capes again? Reg­gie thought. What if the great sea it­self does not work?

What so wor­ried Woburn this dark night of his soul was that he had been sure that if bul­lets did not work, he would find some way to pluck his plum. But the film showed noth­ing, no weak­ness. What if they could not be killed? That lit­tle house of as­sas­sins had been around for thou­sands of years. What if they were im­mor­tal?

Regi­nald Woburn III went

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