Spectrofon #04 31 марта 1994

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Fantasy - short story on the game "Viaje at centre of Terra" (Journey to the Center of the Earth).

           FANTASY


  Dmitry Usmanov.

NEW JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
 (Computer story on the game

  "Viaje at centre of Terra")


   Rare London's inhabitants,
released this Sunday morning
on the street to a power walk and breathe in the fresh spring 
air, could see an elderly gentleman, who, with his years of 
inappropriate speed came from the Royal Library.

Though those who knew this man would not have surprised him
such strange behavior, because
Professor Lidenbrok long
earned a reputation as a man
"Weirdo".


           This, however, prevents
           Lo him to be recognized
           nym expert in the EU
           the sciences and at
           monograph, whose author
           Tet caused no doubt
           tions for even the most
           yadlyh lovers Village
           porit in the British

           Royal Geographical
           Český society.


              But the professor

           Lidenbrok not pay

           no attention to passing through
           zhih nor the rampage

           awakening of nature
           hole. He was under

           the influence of ancient

           manuscript, deciphering
           stimulated the day before

           in the library.



   In the manuscript narrated
about the sea, from which was born the whole
earthly life, and which may
give immortality to any dip in its waters. Get to
Sea of ​​Eternity can be passed
through a world where the lights more
sun, and inhabited by strange
alien to human creation. This
world, as stated in the manuscript, lies under the ground, and 
get in it only through the muzzle

an extinct volcano on the island
Oeh-Ra, passing a natural maze of karst caves. Title
Island gave birth to a vague memory in the memory of professor. 
He have heard this phrase -

Oeh-Ra. Somewhere Lidenbrok even
see a map of the island.



   Fully immersed in their
thought, Professor went into his study and sat in his high 
chair by the fire, began to remember. On second before it did 
this small, lost in the quiet

Ocean island covered with lush
vegetation.



   But fleetingly surfaced in the memory of the image suddenly 
crumbled to small fragments, which do not

would line up in the original order. Lidenbrok tried to draw 
the island, armed with pen and paper, and its fantastic 
tenacity soon inconclusive.




   Oeh-Ra, both have called this
Island natives, or St. Helena, as later dubbed it the 
Europeans, was listed in directories as an uninhabited and 
barren. 


   In the evening, the professor came
his favorite disciple and fellow
many expeditions - Mr. Axel. To him and told the professor
about the immortal sea, and invited
part in the expedition. Axel without
hesitation agreed. They animatedly discussed the details 
concerning the upcoming trip, when the door to the office 
opened and the men went professor's daughter - Inessa. She

immediately began talking about his involvement
the expedition, as something already
solved.


   And the more Lidenbrok and Axel tried to dissuade her, 
describing the hardships and terrors of the future travel, the 
more intransigent became Inessa. In the end, the professor was 
forced to concede. 


   Travel to the island more
resembled a jaunt of a rich
slacker - three-masted schooner
quickly carried them to the shores
Oeh-Ra, to the greatest mystery of mankind - immortality.


   After a few weeks sailing travelers have already seen
island, and the day after a small expedition went ashore. 
Professor, seizing the moment withdrew in the direction of the 
captain and said: "Wait for us in the harbor. If

we do not return in two months
- Means not destiny. "


   Lidenbrok hump
heavy backpack and went on
island. The expedition moved heavily in the virgin forest.



   Men alternately cut a
with a machete their way among the
vines. They constantly had to
stop to drop
in the direction of another poisonous
snake. But, finally, the goal was
achieved: a group of brave
researchers came to the crater. Axel first came down, then 
Inessa. Closed the slope itself Professor. Hanging from the 
ceiling Cave roots travelers

used as a makeshift rope. The light barely penetrated through 
the hole at the top, so soon had to light

torches.


   In bifurcation professor invited everyone to examine their
Part of the labyrinth: "I will go on
center, look on the left Inessa
passage, and Axel right. "


   After a small meeting
decision was made and the expedition was divided.


                Professor admiration
             was placed majestic

             natural beauty
             Nogo maze

             opened before

             him. However, the beauty

             was misleading: a

             the first hours

             it became clear what

             difficult

             they chose to cross
             BOJ, deciding to go down

             a volcano - Liden
             Brock has twice
came across big bats bloodsuckers. While he managed to shoot 
them out of their revolver, but what will happen next ...




                From the ground

             often unexpectedly

             escaped hot

             fountains, geysers,

             roots treacherously

             broken off in his hands,

             and the land is often rushi
             las underfoot.

             Soon Professor

             discovered a waterfall,
climbing over which he
almost got into this lake
Lava - a fiery blood of the earth. Lava was everywhere - the 
passage here simply did not exist and had to turn back to help 
his daughter. 


   Inessa cheerfully jumped
stalagmites and sharp rocks, and
trying not to get caught on the stalactites.



   Going down the cliff, she suddenly
slipped and flew a few feet, fell on stony bottom of the cave. 
Decline, fortunately, was not too serious: Inessa escaped with 
only a few abrasions and contusions. Treading heavily, she 
began to pass a small lake, and - oh, miracle! Forces suddenly 
began to return to it! It was a really lively

water from the fairy tales. After standing for several minutes 
in the pool, Inessa again feel yourself cheerful and

ready for testing. As a practical girl, she filled
healing water flask and its
went further, giving himself
words continue to be cautious.



   Then she floated towards the small cloud, very innocent 
looking. But when it came close, Inessa experienced all the 
underground nature of deceit: the cloud - the hot and humid 
immediately extinguished the torch and enveloped her head, 
filling his nostrils and causing coughing from sulfur gases. 
Chustvuya that loses consciousness, Inessa frantically jumped 
up and sipped fresh air, but landing, sprained his leg and, to 
top all, doused her with boiling water a

of geysers. We had to make
a few gulps of precious
flasks and re-ignite the torch, after which she quickly rushed 
to get out of this place until the danger has not returned a 
cloud ago.




   Axel descend. It is not
stopped either lava flows or
deadly clouds, no flying
mouse, which he immediately killed.
He had to walk on thin
layer of the earth, which often crumbled under my feet, jump
through waterfalls and restore
their strength in small water bodies with
living water.


   This water, as it turns out, is not so rare in this
giant maze. The only thing was sorry the young man that he, as, 
indeed, Professor, there was no

capacity to save for future use
healing moisture.


   It is true they were their
true revolvers, and their bags laden with ammunition, but it was
small consolation.


   Axel came down to the next
failure, when climber suddenly broke in his hands
and he flew from a great height
down. Fortunately, the bottom was
lake with the water of life, and only
it saved him from death.



   Axel got to the right bank of this huge lake,
compared to which all others seemed to just puddles.


   Appeared before him plumb
wall. Climb up on it was not
no way. Axel is already
was about to turn back
when he noticed the water snake vague shadows.


   Filled with curiosity,
Axel broke off a small stalactite and threw it in the middle
lake. When he touched the surface of the water from the depths 
of a sudden flew a huge whitish tentacles and with such 
terrible force squeezed stalactite that the stone was 
disintegrated. 



   Axel had to solve: just as well stay on shore and die from 
starvation or enter the water and take a horrible death from 
the tentacles the underwater monster. In desperation,

He sat down on a coastal boulder.


   At this time, Professor Lidenbrok join to his
daughters, and they continued to search for
out together. The scientist, however,
was often forced to recuperate in the lakes of living water.


   Inessa quickly moved
forward, and soon came to the high ledge that comes close to 
the ceiling peschry. From the ceiling hung two vines, and then 
begin another cave. Inessa looked down at the bottom of the 
abyss, she managed to make out pond with the water of life.




  "I wonder how to get there?"
- Thought the girl. She jumped at the far liana and went down 
on her. To the bottom climber lacking, but simply Inessa

jumped into the lake, the benefit that
height was already small. Swim, she went to the left, in
completely, seemingly inaccessible branch of the maze.


   Inessa down to the roots
down went ahead and ... stopped short, suddenly
noticed in centimeters away
huge spider web, partition off the entrance to the cave.



   Cold sweat broke out a girl
when she presented the one who could
weave a web. There was a fumbling, Inessa jumped in horror, but 
it's down her father, also has found the secret entrance to the 
branch of the maze. 


   Together they went to the web,
and Professor gently lifted
sticky snare. The reaction was immediate - from the depths of 
the cave they moved most monstrous spider of all, they

ever seen.


   The huge insect, flashing
red eyes and snapping powerful mandibles at waist man 
approached nearer and nearer. 



  Lidenbrok released into a spider
the entire drum cartridges, put
new and continued firing. Bullets
knocked large chunks of chitinous cover spider, but he 
continued to move. Professor shot, still, and soon life in the 
monster faded. When echo of the last shot was quiet

under the roof of the cave, a professor with
Inessa continued on into the depths of the labyrinth.


   Soon their eyes opened a beautiful picture: the roaring 
stream underground river carried their stormy

water in the cave, where according to legend, lay another world.



   Axel, hearing the shots came from the painful numbness and
decided to somehow get out of the trap. He made up his mind for 
despair step: climbed onto a small boulder

the lake and gather strength,
jumped ... It was not easy,
but in the end, he succeeded in
cross the lake.


   Axel rushed to meet
others. He tucked his torch from the oily red stains on the 
walls. 


   On the way down, he noticed the elevation where the three 
stones, if take a closer look, form a triangle.




   Axel stood at the base of the triangle, but he felt some 
movement, bounced away and saw a funnel, which was formed 
behind him. Small stones and sand are broken in

crack in a rock and flew in
abyss, and she quickly crack
poured with new stones and
soon nothing much was not.


   Once again I marveled at tricky traps dungeons, Axel rushed 
to his comrades. 


   A few minutes later the whole
the expedition was already in the collection and
confusion decide what to do
further - in fact they have not had any supplies for the move 
by river. 



   But nobody was going to retreat, and researchers together
stepped into the troubled waters.


   Turbulent flow twisted and threw
desperate people who dared to
violate his secular loneliness
and took the travelers in the depth of the tunnel.


   The water tore at them with a bag
Arms and the new rage dragged forward.


   Soon, the flow rate was
subside, and travelers were cast ashore in
vast grotto.



   Results were disastrous voyage: a weapon swallowed river
clothes were torn and only narrowly survived a jar Inessa
resembled that in the cave
brought together representatives of civilization, not savages 
in loincloths bandages.



   People came out of the cave, and their eyes opened a new
world dramatically different from the cold splendor of the 
caves. Huge sun shone exotic bushes, rising from sand.



   Above the earth stood haze
The heat is akin to that
is on the continental equator.


   - Where are we? - Asked
Axel.


   - I think that the hypothesis
that the earth is hollow inside,
brilliantly confirmed, - said the professor.


   - Since then, the light that we see over the other - at all
not the sun? - Intervened Inessa.


   - No, it's obviously a red-hot core of the Earth, are still 
not cooled down since then, when she

just created.


   - Here is the vegetation,
and whether there is fauna?


   - It is possible we will soon
learn it.


   The expedition decided to re-divide: Axel went to the west,
Ines to the north, and Professor
headed east.


   Axel, before heading
in a way, like Lidenbroka,
Made of solid wood spear
which added to it in common with primitive man, released on
hunting. He came out of caves and then
also came across a representative
local fauna: at him, menacingly
growling, was a huge saber-toothed
tiger.


   Axel poked at him with a spear,
the tiger roared and struck Traveler huge clawed
paw.



   From the new hit the young man managed to dodge. And then
tiger jumped, ready to put in
stroke terrible fangs, but when he
flying over squatting Axel,
he put a spear piercing through a tiger. Rising from the earth
and viewing the defeated opponent, and his wounds, Axel decided
no longer engage in opposition to the tigers, but only to evade 
them. 

   From the north turn left Inessa. A little ahead, she
suddenly heard a strange klekotanie behind her. Sharply 
turning, she saw the huge reptile, hovering in the air on their 
leathery wings - a pterodactyl. The monster is clearly decided 
refreshments, and folding wings top dive on her.

A terrible fall, sprinkled with lots of small curves of your 
teeth, disclosed in the wicked scream.

Sharp as knives, nails and aimed at his head. At the last 
moment Inessa bent down, and claws clicked above her head. 
Woman rescued only awkwardness pterodactyl. Having more little, 
Inessa suddenly felt her feet sink into the sand.



Go harder and
difficult situation was complicated by
by the fact that she had
constantly dodging pterodactyls circling around: it
barely had time to dodge a reptile, as it immediately
another dive. Her legs are
more and more deeply mired in the sand.
Inessa was horrified to find that
it can not pull his leg,
and the sand sucks it all
stronger. She tried to get out of
sand, and helped himself with his hands, but
land held her already
only shoulders towered above
sands. The girl screamed in terror and frantically rushed
up ... It was a miracle she was able to
get rid of sand captivity. Inessa hurried as quickly as possible
leave a dangerous place.



   On her way more than once met pterodakteli and saber-toothed
Tigers, and once she saw
herbivorous Stegosaurus, which
waking from sleep, stared at her with big eyes.
Spiked tail swish swept through the air and easily hurt
Inese leg. Fortunately, the living
water from the caves quickly heal
wound.



   The professor went on Lidenbrok
lifeless area, go to
who feared
even the ubiquitous
tigers. The reason
become clear once
as soon as they heard howling and the clearing out king
Underworld -
Tiranosaurus-Rex,
the largest of the known science
predatory dinazavrov. His jaw
could easily be a meal
man in half.


   Tyrannosaurus saw a man
zaurchal in anticipation of easy prey, and went ahead, it is 
hard moving your feet, stand. That You can make a spear against 
a colossus? 


   Lidenbrok few seconds
chose the most vulnerable place in a tyrannosaur, and took the 
only right decision, he rushed towards the armored giant. From 
this unexpected outburst Tyrannosaurus stopped and hesitated a 
moment, but this immediately was sufficient to professor ran 
dangerously zone. Horrible jaw closed

directly behind Lidenbroka.
The professor ran up against the
torso monsters and struggling
stuck his spear into the soft belly
monster. Go to pierce the skin
he failed, but Lidenbrok beat
again and again - and soon struck a spear defense and took the 
body of the dinosaur. 



                 Tyrannosaurus under
              nyal head up and

              bellowed from the wild

              pain, which at
              chinilo it is small
              Lyonka prompt

              creature

              he could not

              rend. In

              rage, the monster of
              tried to crush

              human legs,
but rebounded in time professor,
again stuck a spear in razodrany
stomach.


   Black Blood monster a fountain from the wound, and her spray
mingling with sweat, filled
Professor's eyes. But Lidenbrok
not for one second stop.
Blood pounded in my temples ... Bang!
Another blow! More!


   Finally Tyrannosaurus last jaws snapped and fell forward, 
almost crushing its carcass professor. Terrible

tail a couple of times in a deadly
agony hit the ground and died.


   The winner, leaving the last
vypotroshennogo look at the enemy, wearily trudged on,
meet new threats.


   Inese Tyrannosaurus met
at the end of the path - what to do, because
She was not even a spear! Brave girl decided to first watch the 
huge creature. When they arrive, when the dinosaur came pretty 
close, girl rushed headlong past the reptile. Hulking dinosaur 
girl noticed too late Inese could safely escape the monster.


                     Tyrannosaurus

               met and Ak
               village. He is also on the
               way to go UBI
               vat and they no longer

               afraid to meet with

               them. But the latter
               tions dinosaur was

               just awful -

               He was the first
               Section hardy

               others, and COH
               Yes, it would seem

               already had
die, the monster suddenly went
through the pain, go ahead. His
large hind legs were ready to
trample Axel. To avoid this fate, the young man ran to a safe
distance, but only in order
then to repeat the surprise attack and release yourself
way.



   At this time finished his
opponent and professor, and
Ines also passed through all
obstacles. Taken together, they both went to three different
Cape, and saw a wonderful picture: Sea of ​​Eternity, the 
greatest mystery of all time, lazily carried its waters to the 
shore. The manuscript was right - and expedition, so 
painstakingly make their way to goal yet reached it. The secret 
of immortality, budorazhuschy many minds over the millennia has 
been found!