Book-3. Panacea novella

high vacuum quality of the products has reached the highest level strength and reliability. Now the plant was, as they say, in a preserved state. Suddenly the light flashed everywhere.

– Apply power! – Said Theo.

– It is necessary to turn off unnecessary lights.

– Who will go? – Asked Pontius.

– All the same! – Theo said, heading for the bunker supply.

– Wait. Give me better!

– Go.

Pontius slowly walked to the hatch door. He moved rhythmically sticking magnetic soles of his suit to the metal platform unnatural, like a robot. If, at that moment was atmosphere, the steps being hit on a metal beater as a bell. But Cosmos absorb sound. In the dead silence of silver Figure man seemed a ghost walking across the desert floor, still frozen between the stars and the blue ball Gaia. In opening the door he went, like a ghost in the cave. Pontius was one. From this was somehow not on itself. Whopper metal pressed on the psyche, causing fear of something. Incomprehensible anxiety possessed people. But then he took a fading one by one, cascades of light lamps, which remained in place a dim glow of light duty. Light enough for their inspection. Theo felt the work and Pontius cheered. Spirit, an inexplicable fear has passed at all, as only a transparent helmet it seemed on the surface.

– Let’s hire a place for the laboratory, and then think about what to do next. – Suggested by Theo.

They started looking for him. The factory was located five stories complex, takes ninety percent of the space launch pad seemed Shuck compared to the rest of the enormity of dormant plants. On the top floor, which adjoined platform, housed offices and assembly shop. After examining a number of rooms, they came to the door with the inscription: “Entrance is strictly forbidden. “Theo looked at Pontius. Work Experience in the creation of the plant he did not remember anything like this. door is not opened. It was locked from the inside.

– I’ll get the welder. – Said Pontius. Theo gesture stopped him.

– No need. – And, looking at the surprised mathematics, he pressed the red button near the glistening knob, the door at the same moment, moved away from the doorway and opened easily. Inside, in the dim light of a lantern they found shelves, completely littered with human body parts. Horrifying picture appeared before the eyes of Pontius. He broke down and fell to the metal without memory. The concepts of weightlessness there, and his body was to sail from side to side, holding magnet soles. Theo took him by the shoulders and began to stir up trouble. Large drops of sweat-drenched face was suffering.

– Pontius, Pontius! Come on, do not stick to your guns! Come on! Pontius opened his eyes slowly. In view painful felt fright and despair.

– Come on! – It bothered the Theo.

– What is it? – He whispered.

– This is just a part.

– Are you kidding me?

– Pontius, you’re an intelligent and gifted man, look at yourself. Pontius made an effort to look at the “arm” that he has already managed to bring a colleague. With the shoulder at a location where the hand was “cut off”, hung dozens of wires that ran inside a hollow solid “bones”. Pontius with a sigh of relief robot inspected the replacement part. Then, emboldened, I was not afraid. Now he understood the meaning of the warning labels.

– How Pontius, in my opinion, a suitable place for the laboratory.

Pontius nodded his head in approval. But he did not want live and work in this room.

– Only for housing we’ll find something else.

– Come on, there are many rooms. Pontius chose a room opposite. So, they found a box near the platform of twenty rooms for prelaunch adaptation of astronauts. Each cabin had everything we needed, from a set of bed linen to wear. And most importantly, the box is sealed, which was especially important for create a climate and atmosphere. The only inconvenience in the company was the fact that the station has not had a system Artificial gravity due to the large energy consumption. So, the door marked “entrance is strictly forbidden” was the threshold into the world of search. Scientists have cleaned the entire room from the “spare parts “and began assembling sensitive instruments. When space turned into a mini-coordination-computing center with a powerful computer-signal analyzer, Pontius took up radar station maintenance. Its powerful disk antenna has been installed on the last ship, who retired in the depths of the universe, and now hung on the spherical surface of the rod in the space as a huge saucer. Pontius set a remote antenna control in the laboratory, and began to manipulate the search locator. Radio signals are gone Space and taken to the “voices” of distant stars, but in none of the they did not have even a hint of intelligence. Thus, the program “Search” began. Antenna methodically, in automatic mode, sounding out the space. And Pontius sat down payments. He literally fell asleep computer programs, and the machine tirelessly gave out a solution. After a few tens of handling such programs and comparing the results, he loudly and solemnly declared: – I found it! Theo fiddling with with gravity meter, raised a surprised look: – What?

– Found it! You know, find one!

– Yes, you can really say is do not build the same to me guessing.

– The antenna receiver.

Theo thought, then asked: – You’re sure to find practical expression?

– And how!

– Well, tell me, do not wait!

– It is necessary to make the surface of the reflector antenna to rotate and rotate at a variable from a few revolutions per minute to hundreds and thousands.

– I do not know why?

– The energy of an unbalanced system can be captured an unbalanced system, operating in resonance with the generator or an object emitting the energy.