- We have brought to you a portable launcher and two rackets with nuclear charges. If... Fie-fie, certainly... If there will be
something bad and our help is required, you will send one of rackets upwards, vertically over yourselves. It will blow up at
height about two hundred kilometres.
Certainly, it is possible to shoot not at any moment. Here to you the table for time calculation. Appointed minutes our
observers will carefully watch area of your disembarkation.
- Well, also what? - Ermakov has asked.
- I. Anything. We will know that at you not everything is all right, and we will try to take measures.
- What? - We will throw to you automatic rockets with a necessary emergency stock. Rockets will go precisely on yours
peleng.
- Perfectly! - Ermakov has nodded. - and what for the second alarm racket? - Two rackets successively you let out, if landing
has passed unsuccessfully and planetolet has seriously failed.
There has come silence.
- Rather probably that then they could not be let out, - has noticed Dauge, having frowned.
- My pessimism does not come so far, - has softly answered Moves.
After meeting of Dauge has offered Bykovu:- we Will go we will look at fine Venus. Ermakov has allowed to let out you.
In ten minutes they dressed in clumsy armours with transparent caps on heads, stood in a cubic caisson in front of the
external hatch.
Dauge has tightly battened down behind itself a door, then has included the pump and has turned to a manometre
strengthened on a wall. The thin arrow rough jumps has begun to jump downwards. When it has stopped, Dauge has cast
away a wide steel strip from the hatch, and the thick ridge cover has softly fallen off aside.
Bulls expected to see that hundreds n hundreds times was described in reportings, sketches and novels: the black-violet
chasm spotted with dazzling points of stars. Instead the round failure of the hatch has lighted up with muddy yellow-pink light.
Planetolet hung over the enormous, dimly shined foggy dome. Grayish shades crept on a brilliant orange field, slowly
approached and dispersed, svivalis in rings and were broken off on incorrect disappearing stains. More close to edges the
dome darkened, but its borders were not sharp, they is somehow imperceptible, dim lilac tones passed in full impenetrable
blackness. And in the centre the most thin pink, yellow and grey smoky tapes intertwined among themselves, but did not mix
up; that clear and distinct, tightened monotonous red, dymkoj...