- That's it, - Spitsyn has whispered.
- ... We sit on a bog. Besides, according to a radar-location - not so reliable, the truth, - the bog is surrounded by a mountain
ridge, concluded in a ring of rocks, and in this ring it was not possible to grope any signs of a gleam.
- Volcano? - Has asked Dauge.
- Probably, we are in a crater of a giant mud volcano. And very strange it is a volcano, should be, because the analysis of
oozy water shows... - Ermakov has opened a notebook: - Here, all right. A mix approximately in an equal proportion of heavy
and superheavy water.
The Jurkovsky has jumped up on meste: - Tritievaja water? - Т2О, - Ermakov has nodded.
- Yes. A half-life period tritija all about twelve years.
- Means, - has picked up Dauge, - or our volcano was formed very much recently, or there is any natural source which is
filling up a decrease tritija...
What should be a natural source of superheavy hydrogen - an isotope which on the Earth is made in specially equipped
reactors, - Bulls could not present itself. But he was silent and continued to listen.
- And there is more to come, - Ermakov has told. - the Crater - if is a crater - represents a bottomless precipice. Anyway, we
eholoty have appeared are powerless.
- What diameter of a crater? - Has quickly asked Jurkovsky.
- Crater, obviously, almost round, its diameter about fifty kilometres. "Hius" is more close to its northeast edge: from this party
from us to a ridge only eight kilometres. Such is position, companions.
The Jurkovsky has risen, has smoothed volosy: - To put it briefly, under us hundreds metres of bog. From the purpose we are
separated by hundred kilometres, from which ten kilometres of a bog, and a rocky ridge.
Correctly? - Such is position, - Ermakov has nodded.
- The bog half consists from tritievoj waters. I will dare to remind that trity breaks up with emission of neutrons, and a neutron
irradiation - a long neutron irradiation I mean is at all honey, even at presence spetskostjumov.
- Quite right.
- But... Bulls assures us that "Boy" will pass through a bog. And through rocks? - "Boy" will pass everywhere, - has
obstinately repeated Bulls. - as a last resort rocks I will tear.