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That was forty million tons of matter a second, and for a hundredth part of a second it had flowed. Before them, in a vast plane, had been created an infinitesimally thin film of artificial matter, four hundred thousand tons of it, and into this invisible, infinitely hard barrier, the Thessian fleet had rammed. And it was gone.
All the Thessian ships above poured the full concentration of their moleculars into its tremendous bulk. A diffused glow of opalescence ran over every ship save the giant. The moleculars were being reflected from its sides, and their diffused energy attacked the very ships that were sending them! A fort moved up, and the deadly beam of destruction reached out, luminous even in space.
Its strength was nothing, its energy pitted unnoticed against the energy of five hundred thousand million suns as vain as those futile attempts of the Thessian battleships on the invulnerable walls of the Thought.
Morey grinned a bit. "Better, how to get out of here, and down to old Neptune." "Fix it!" replied Arcot. "Come on; you get in your space suit, take the portable telectroscope and set it up in space, motionless, in such a position that it views both our ship and the nose of the Thessian machine, will you, Wade? Tune it to seven-seven-three."
At last the screen had fallen, and the Thessian ships, a hole once made, were able to move, and kept that hole always under them, though if it once were closed, they would again have the struggle to open it.
I don't think you noticed it. I'm going down now to give them a nice little dose," said Arcot grimly. His ship was repaired but they had caused him plenty of trouble. "How long have we been out here, their time?" asked Wade. "About an hour and a half." The Thought had been on the time field at all times save when the Thessian fleet attacked.
It quivered, then quickly faded into mist, a haze, and was gone! A last awful thing a thing they had not noticed as all eyes watched that Thing was standing by the rent in the Sphere now, the gigantic Thessian, with leering, bestial jaws, enormous, squat limbs, the webbed fingers and toes, and the heavy torso of his race, grinning at them. In one hand was a thing and his jaws munched.
The tremendous mass of the nose of the Thessian ship had caught them full amid-ship, and the powerful ram had driven through the room. Their lux walls had not been touched; only a sledge-hammer blow would have bent them under any circumstances, let alone breaking them. But the tremendously powerful main generator was split wide open. And the mechanical damage was awful.
The flight of ships headed south at a speed that heated them white in the air, thin as it was at the hundred mile altitude, yet going higher would have taken unnecessary time, and the white heat meant no discomfort. They reached Antarctica in about ten minutes. The Thessian ships were just entering through great locks in the walls of the dome.
"As to progress, I can say only that it is in a more or less rudimentary stage. We have the basis for great progress, a weapon of inestimable value but it is only the basis. It must be worked out. I am leaving with you today the completed calculations and equations of the time field, the system used by the Thessian invaders in propelling their ships at a speed greater than that of light.
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