银河系漫游指南国语 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第34章2

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第34章2  

It was the Blagulon Kappa policecraft
a bulbous sharklike affair
slate green in colour and smothered with black stencilled letters of varying degrees of size and unfriendliness. The letters informed anyone who cared to read them as to where the ship was from
what section of the police it was assigned to
and where the power feeds should be connected.
It seemed somehow unnaturally dark and silent
even for a ship whose o-man crew was at that moment lying asphyxicated in a smoke-filled chamber several miles beneath the ground. It is one of those curious things that is impossible to explain or define
but one can sense when a ship is pletely dead.
Ford could sense it and found it most mysterious — a ship and o policemen seemed to have gone spontaneously dead. In his experience the Universe simply didn't work like that.
The other three could sense it too
but they could sense the bitter cold even more and hurried back into the Heart of Gold suffering from an acute attack of no curiosity.
Ford stayed
and went to examine the Blagulon ship. As he walked
he nearly tripped over an inert steel figure lying face down in the cold dust.
"Marvin!" he exclaimed. "What are you doing?"