Creature of unknown kind - страница 42

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– Glyzin, damn it, where are you?! – yelled the Colonel. He yelled again. Deadman.

Glyzin jumped out of the toilet, deftly maneuvering the barrel of the rifle in the doorway.

– Doesn't he need to clean up after himself? – Shultsev asked Nabis.

– He does not, – Nabis replied, and this answer angered Shultsev forever. But Korostylyov intervened.

– Ensigh Shultsev!

– Me! – automatically exclaimed Shultsev.

– Cut the crap! – the voice of a two-year-old girl pronounced what the Major intended to tell the Ensign very loudly, deafeningly, the clear bell-like.

And now the Colonel, Korostylyov and the Ensigns, – both jumped up in the truck's body, one, sharply turned around with a mop, so drops splashed from it into the space in a vane, and the other, quickly stood on his knee at the back wheel and put the rifle in the voice's direction – and simultaneously saw the Father.

(Nabis spotted him about three minutes ago, right during the utterance of the phrase “And there is a time to look at you”, and Kharon saw them (for sure) even earlier.)

If the current moment wasn't being described by me, Zharkovsky, but by the correspondent of the local newspaper “The Star”, Klyuvkin, it would look like this.

Courageous full face photo “the look into the distance” on a quarter of the page.

Heading “THE MAN IN HIS PLACE”.

The text: “Forty-six year old Colonel frontier Guard Blinchuk, Sergey Borisovich has seen a lot during his service. He also saw the death of his comrades, being the head of the outpost on the Afghanistan border in the late seventies. He saw the grief and misfortunes of people during his hard work in the area of liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. The experience has tempered Sergei Borisovich's will, his subordinates and colleagues in one voice speak of his ability not to lose his head at the most acute moments. Academician Velikhov spoke warmly about him. Sergei Borisovich was one of the first candidates for the permanent position of the military commandant of the special quarantine district around Kapustin, and his appointment was unanimously approved at a joint meeting of the Government and the Commission for Elimination of the consequences of the meteorite attack in the Astrakhan region.

But here he freaked out“.