The Destroyer - 61 - The Destroyer 061 - Lords of the Earth 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: 2010-03-19T14:52:49+00:00

Chapter 10

“Must we stay in this rat cage again?” Chi­un asked.

“Sor­ry, Lit­tle Fa­ther,” Re­mo said. “But un­til we find out what’s go­ing on with these labs, we stay here.”

“Easy enough for you to say, fat white thing. There is so much suet on your body that you can be com­fort­able sleep­ing on hard floors. But I? I am del­icate. My frail body re­quires re­al rest.”

“You’re as del­icate as gran­ite,” Re­mo said.

“Don’t wor­ry, Chi­un,” said Dara Wor­thing­ton.

“You know that I am re­duced to spend­ing my life with him and you tell me not to wor­ry?” Chi­un said.

“No, it’s just that we have rooms here in the lab­ora­to­ry com­plex. I’ll get them to fix one up for you. A re­al bed­room. One for you too,” she said to Re­mo.

“A re­al bed­room?” Chi­un asked, and Dara nod­ded. “With a tele­vi­sion set?”

“Yes.”

“Would it have one of those tape-​play­ing ma­chines?” Chi­un asked.

“As a mat­ter of fact, yes.”

“Would you by any chance have a com­plete set of tapes from the show As the Plan­et Re­volves?” Chi­un asked.

“Afraid not,” she said. “That show hasn’t been on the air for ten years.”

“Sav­ages,” Chi­un mum­bled in Ko­re­an to Re­mo. “You whites are all sav­ages and philistines.”

“She’s do­ing the best she can, Chi­un,” Re­mo an­swered in Ko­re­an. “Why don’t you just get off ev­ery­body’s back for a while?”

Chi­un raised him­self to his full height. “That is a de­spi­ca­ble thing to say, even for you,” he said in Ko­re­an.

“I didn’t think it was so bad,” Re­mo said.

“I will not speak to you again un­til you apol­ogize.”

“Hell will freeze over first,” Re­mo said.

“What lan­guage is that?” Dara said. “What are you two say­ing?”

“That was re­al lan­guage,” Chi­un said. “Un­like the dog bark­ings that pass for lan­guage in this vile land.”

“Chi­un was just thank­ing you for the of­fer of the bed­room,” Re­mo said.

“You’re wel­come, Dr. Chi­un,” Dara said with a large smile.

In Ko­re­an again, Chi­un grum­bled: “The wom­an is too stupid even to in­sult. Like all whites.”

“Are you talk­ing to me?” Re­mo asked.

Chi­un fold­ed his arms and turned his back on Re­mo.

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but be­ing ig­nored will nev­er hurt me,” Re­mo said.

“Stop teas­ing that sweet man,” Dara said.

She set­tled them in­to ad­join­ing rooms in one of the wings of the IHAEO build­ing.

Re­mo was ly­ing on his back on the small cot, look­ing up at the ceil­ing, when there was a faint tap on the door.

He called out and Dara en­tered.

“I just want­ed to see if you were com­fort­able,” she said.

“I’m fine.”

She came in­to the room, shy­ly at first, but when Re­mo said noth­ing, she strode for­ward and sat on a chair next to his bed.

“I guess I’m still crash­ing from ev­ery­thing that hap­pened to­day,” she said. “It was glo­ri­ous and it was aw­ful too.”

“I know,” Re­mo said. “I al­ways feel that way about transat­lantic flights.”

“I don’t mean that,” she said. She leaned over to­ward him. “I mean what we did with the Ung bee­tle. That was glo­ri­ous and it will live for­ev­er. But then, oh, those poor men, when those apes at­tacked.

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