One
merman stood at the crack of the door at the top of the ramp. He
pushed the barrier open and crept in.
Meanwhile those who waited poised their spears, all aimed at that
door. Raf fingered the button on his gun to "spray" as he had when he
had faced the attack of the scavengers in the arena tunnels.
There was a cry, a shout with a summons in it. And the venturesome
merman thudded back through the door. But he was not alone. Two of the
black guardsmen, their flamers spitting fiery death, ran behind him,
and the curling lash of one of those flames almost wreathed the runner
before he swung aside. Raf fired without consciously aiming. Both of
the sentries fell forward, to slide limply down the ramp.
Then Dalgard pulled him on. "The way is open," he said. "This is it!"
There was an excited exultation in his voice.
17
DESTRUCTION UNLEASHED
The space they now entered must be the core of the building, Raf
thought a little dazedly. For there, towering over them was the round
bulb of the globe. And about its open hatch were piles of the material
which he had last seen in the warehouse on the other continent.
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