And then he has understood, has understood and has instantly become covered ice then horror.
Since planetolet at landing it was deeply buried reaktornymi by rings in viscous, oozy soil, under it tysjachetonnoj in steel
weight elastic layers of the silt impregnated with water incessantly were compressed and caved in.
Silt conceded micron behind micron, the centimetre behind centimetre both at last has not sustained. And now the bulk of
"Hiusa" hard fails in a bottomless mud hole... Companions, having returned, will search in vain for it. They will find out only a
black wide bald spot on that place where stood planetolet... They will be lost, deprived of all - waters, oxygen, a food. And
the most important thing - alarm system means... They cannot cause the help from "Tsiolkovsky".
Michael Antonovich has seized panel edge, tearing to rise.
Planetolet has strongly tilted, it has started to be filled up on one side... In some seconds of "Hius" will lay down aboard...
Can be, even will turn over upwards djuzami and a mirror. It is death! Michael Antonovich at last has reached the main panel,
has put hands on levers... The rainbow of bulbs on devices Has flashed...
Also the bog has trembled. kolyhnulis whitish jungle. Clouds of blue steam have rushed from a black hole in a bog, the filled
hot swill...
Surrounded with dazzling light, in a thunderous rumble and voe, similar huge chlenistonogomu, pjatilapyj "Hius" has come up
from speaking hoarsely bog, has hung on a share of an instant over a bog and has risen in the black sky, having reserved
wide - metres sixty in diameter - the asphalt platform covered with twisting cracks running up from the centre...
- ... "Boy", "Boy", I "Hius"! I listen to you! I "Hius"! "Boy", "Boy", "Boy"! "Hius" listens to you. I "Hius", listen to you. I pass
to reception.
Michael Antonovich has waited, has listened to howl of an aether and has switched off a portable radio set. Do not answer.
The fifth days are silent. What happens? Why there is no signal for transition on new raketodrom? Really...