- You do not know, why Ermakov so was disturbed? - He has asked.
- I do not know. That is would be, of course, much quieter without this dirty trick... One it is possible to tell: Ermakov not such
person to worry on trifles.
It is Bulls understood also itself. However, Ermakov has satisfied its curiosity. When in three hours tired to last degree
crewmen of "Hiusa" have converged at last in a wardroom to have supper "than god has sent", as Krutikov was expressed
with bitter sarcasm (a meat broth and chocolate), the commander has told on anybody not gljadja: - Five years ago crew of
the American starprobe vehicle "Astra-12" which have landed on Kalisto, was lost from the unknown illness proceeding
fifteen hours. I think, with us anything similar does not happen. I have all bases so to think. But... Be cautious. At the slightest
indisposition immediately inform me.
He has kept silent, drumming fingers on a table, and dobavil: - After a supper all to wash, be rubbed off and sleep. At your
order seven hours of a dream. You, companion Krutikov, I ask to come to me.
- I now with pleasure would drink a glass to cognac, - have whispered Bulls.
Ioganych has shortly sighed.
RED And CHERNOESprava and at the left steep black rocks, smooth, shining, as anthracite slowly creep. Ahead all sinks in
a reddish twilight - it seems that walls of an infinite corridor are closed there. The bottom of the cleft pitted n warped, is
covered by a thick layer of a dark heavy dust. The dust rises behind the conveyor and quickly settles, burying under itself
traces of caterpillars. And above the strip of the orange-red sky lasts narrow izzubrennaja, and on it spotty crimson clouds at
reckless speed slide.
Strange and horribly in this direct and narrow, as a cut a knife, pass to black basalt rocks. Possibly, on the same road Vergil
in a hell of the author "Divine comedy" conducted once. Smoothness of walls suggests about the surprising... Can be, even
reasonable accuracy of the forces which have created it. It is one more riddle of Venus, too difficult to solve it by the way.