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     Near the market the car has again jumped out on the prospectus. It was the error; here 
It was waited by two "volvo". They stood, having extinguished headlights and pretending to be 
"Sleeping", on a small platform at a crossroads of roads. As soon as 
"Phantom" has seemed at a crossroads, hunters have revived, and four beams have struck 
Sideways, having pasted to a house wall klinovidnuju a shade. 
     Max has imagined starting rocket, and the car staying with it in 
Inexplicable symbiosis, has responded squeal of tyre covers, a roar of the engine and new 
Overload. One of "volvo" has rushed across, and two wheelbarrows have met 
Under a thirty-degree corner, having hit the friend about the friend forward wings. 
The gnash of rumpled metal accompanied by hardly audible ring was distributed 
Glasses. 
     Blow has rejected cars in the parties. The left headlight of "phantom" has gone out. It 
Has taken out on sidewalk, however a second later the car was levelled. After 
Collisions the bumper "volvo" was dragged on asphalt, right a lobby 
The tyre cover has been ripped up, and the car has appeared behind and sideways. From it have begun 
To shoot on the leaving car. Lateral glass has been punched, and Max 
It was pressed in a seat, trying to save a head. 
     Another "volvo" has struck it behind, but because of a small difference in 
Speeds blow has turned out not so strong. But the serious has earned 
Fire rattle. Maxim has heard knock of automatic turn. To it at all 
It would not be desirable to look back to receive a bullet between an eye... A little 
Lead hailstones all the same have got to the case, having punched it with a sound of the bursting 
Can. 
     "AKM" honesty rumbled almost without interruption, devastating the 
Shop. Bullets rikoshetili from asphalt, but any of them and has not hurt 
"Phantom" wheels. In some seconds it has bypassed slowly creeping 
"zhiguli" also has rushed on the bridge through tracks near the bicycle 
Factory. 
     Here Max has lowered speed again not to go to flight, 
Fraught with failure. It has allowed "volvo" to come nearer to it closely. 
At the car of persecutors only one headlight too has escaped. Now shooting not 
Was, and after a crossroads Maxim has looked back. The one-eyed hunter was attached 
Behind, and behind it has arisen chetyrehokoe a monster which sent forward 
Blinding stream of light. Most likely it was "padzhero" with foolish 
The illumination which was useful, however, for a night safari. 
     Before a fan tram the rail to Max again was necessary to lower speed, 
Not to turn to a chop in the crumpled tin, and it had the fatal 
Consequences. On the right strip through rails the late trolley bus got over, 
And possibility for maneuver almost was not. From appeared too close 
"volvo" the person was put out and has let out long turn from the automatic machine. 
"Phantom" has sped up and has wagged to the right, having cleaned with a line of fire and 
Trying to hide for a trolley bus, but was already late. 
     Both back wheels have appeared punched. Max has felt, as at 
Speeds of hundred twenty kilometres per hour were sharply settled by the back bridge. Only 
Thanks to the exclusive stability and low planting the car not 
Has turned over after maneuver. Through two hundred-three hundred metres of the tyre have turned 
In a tatter. Disks have deafeningly rung out; sparks flied from under them, as 
From under two without restraint rotating grinding circles... 
     It was already too for one night. It wanted to Max to die 
Faster and, it is desirable, without tortures. If not an instinct of self-preservation, 
It, probably, would remain to sit in the car... 
     The park located to the right of road, has been shipped in the impenetrable 
Darkness. There also has thrown its crippled "phantom", having stuck with a bumper in 
Bushes. Golikov has jumped out of the car hardly earlier, having found out, that, fortunately, 
Can step into a wounded foot somehow. However, it bore a strong resemblance 
Circulation barefoot on a barbed wire, but he has recollected, that else too 
It is young for death. 

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     Max knew this park, for sure (it walked here with 
The childhood later, and walked school girl-friends), and has now hobbled on 
To direction to the monumental building which building has been curtailed 
Tens years ago. In a fence there was a set of the big and small holes, therefore 
To get on building territory it was not too difficult. 
     Persecutors have developed "padzhero" a cowl to park, and four powerful 
The headlights established over a roof, have driven away darkness much further that place, 
Where there was a fugitive. Max felt the dwarf on a scene, however to it 
Bombardment by rotten fruit threatened not, and something is worse. 
     It has hidden behind a trunk of an old tree. A kind, opened to its sight, 
Was gloomy-beautiful, even bewitching, as in Igor Sedogo's pictures. 
Illusive beams in which were turned roi hoarfrost, thawed, turning in 
Shone gas of space fogs. Black trees seemed unbodied 
Emptiness wells. In silence slowly settled any flakes similar on 
Ashes... 
     Max has listened to the sounds reaching from road. Doors have begun to clap, 
The abrupt muffled negotiations have followed. The person six have moved in 
Its party, having stretched in a short chain. "Volvo" it was developed and 
Has directed on searches of entrance to the nearest avenue. 
     In a "Beretta" holder there were all some cartridges (Max not 
Remembered precisely, how much time has shot in "the Black pearl" and did not know capacity 
Shop of "scorpion"). In general, it was time to look for to itself for a tomb 
Place more chilly... It has started to recede in depth of thickets, trying not 
To fall outside the limits a narrow corridor of the shade rejected by a tree. 
     He has had time to make no more than twenty steps when has heard deaf growl. 
The sound reached because of trees, and it was impossible to define, where is 
Its source. For one terrible instant it seemed to Max, that for it hunts 
Flight of werewolves. Growl has muffled a roar of silently working engine 
"padzhero"... 
     People from "the Black pearl" have stopped. Someone has obscenely sworn 
Also has distorted a shutter. Maxim has looked in that party where were 
Persecutors, but has not seen anything, except a blinding strip from four 
Projectors. Out of light cone any inconceivable movement proceeded. 
There the round dance of figures which had dim transparent eyes rotated... 
     Max has felt, as its finitenesses grow cold. In vagrant dogs, 
Appeared from darkness, there was something rather frightening. After some 
Seconds he has understood, that they behaved not how usual animals, with 
Not clear methodicalness being built by a semicircle... 
     Someone has thrown a stick which has struck sideways large is dirty-grey 
Dog. That has not jumped aside and has not begun a bark. It seemed, it had an occasion for 
Personal hatred. Its sight has stopped on the person who has thrown a stick, and 
More he did not look any more at anybody another. 
     Dogs came nearer absolutely silently; Max has counted more ten 
Variegated dogs. Probably, there were also others, expecting somewhere nearby. 
This which have unexpectedly interfered with a pursuit the third force hypnotised it. If 
From people still it was possible to hide, from dogs you will not hide and in the absolute 
To darkness... 
     At someone have handed over nerves. The shot has sounded deafeningly; the bullet has pulled out 
Shred of meat from a hip of a black-and-white dog also has rejected it in a thicket. It has served 
Signal to attack. The illusive round dance has broken up, and the park has turned in 
The enraged menagerie. Six surrounded people have opened fire in all 
The parties, but dogs was too much, and they have been too well organised. 
     With a ring one headlight "padzhero" has burst. Among trees became hardly 
More darkly. Under shumok Max was dragged to a fence and has rolled over through the concrete block, 
Over which boards here and there stuck out. Here it has hidden from a stray bullet and 
Therefore has passed an outcome of the performance which has appeared to the short. 
     ... Squeal of wounded animals merged with the inarticulate human 
Shouts and spiteful uterine growl. On this background wildly and terribly the silent sounded 
The champing gradually filling with self eloquent emptiness, formed 
After shots. 
     Chaotic shooting has soon degenerated in sickly single claps. Max 
Has understood, that the unique escaped person is shot. He has looked out from 
The shelter also has seen a shade of last victim who has leant against a tree... 
     On avenue headlights coming nearer "volvo" have seemed. The person loudly 
Has cried. Its voice has sounded, as howl the badgered animal. Then something 
Happens with its figure. At it as if the huge stomach, and with feet has grown 
Was not that's all right. 
     Any creature has jumped, having seized to it in a drink, and has hung on him. It 
Has shot at an emphasis. From the dog back has struck a bloody fountain, but jaws 
As if has jammed. Dying pjatidesjatikilogrammovye flat-nose pliers pulled it 
Trunk to the earth while two more dogs tormented his feet and genitals. 
     He could not shout any more. Blood was thrown up by pushes from the broken off throat. 
The dead dog has fallen off it, as if a piece of the decayed meat from the syphilitic. 
Silent terrible growl accompanied body falling... 
     From the stopped car some times have called to someone. Max well 
Imagined confusion of these people because itself did not know on what 
Light is. Again has monotonously begun to knock "AKM", disseminating a fan of bullets on 
Level of a human stomach. Golikov has hasty hidden a head. Escaped 
Dogs have reasonably left in darkness. 
     If someone from passengers "volvo" also has considered results of the bloody 
Fights Maxim knew nothing about it. He only has seen, that later 
Minute after last shot the wheelbarrow has promptly dashed away on avenue in 
The prospectus party. The come silence cotton wool lumps has crept in ears. Headlights 
"padzhero" shined the pacified cemetery, and it was cold memorial 
Light similar to a haze... 
     Golikov has turned back and has understood, that any more one. 

			THE CHAPTER TWENTY SECOND 

     Earlier he not so believed that the person by name of Charles Baskervil 
Could die of one only a kind of a dog. It was represented to it by a lung 
Author's exaggeration. He was convinced of the return when has seen that 
Faced to it, silently having arisen from the bowels of any natural 
Foul places. 
     IT not seemed to animals at all. More likely, the protoplasm burdened by the malicious 
Spirit. Nevertheless, his neck was covered by the wide and badly manufactured leather 
Collar on which dimly shining trinket dangled. At desire 
(And such desire at Max, strangely enough, has appeared) it was possible to make out 
Ring with three beams departing from a circle. The Egyptian key. A symbol 
"anh". 
     Max has felt, as heart has failed somewhere very deeply in 
The become empty bag of a body. Its breath has got off, hands of kilometre length suddenly 
Became very heavy, and he did not try to lift at all the weapon from bog, in 
Which uvjazli brushes. 
     The creature has attacked not at once as though wished to take pleasure in its horror. It was 
The huge dog covered with shreds of the felted brown wool, but with 
Hairless muzzle that gave it similarity to the smoothfaced humanoid 
Hyena. His eyes flashed green sparks, as tsirkonievye stars, and 
Each spark was born in the heart of a bottomless sucking in well. Pleated 
Skin blood was baked. Another's blood. Outgrowths on a place of ears shook, as if 
Wings of a bat. It seemed to Max, that the creature does not breathe. On extended, 
Snout furrowed with wrinkles shone kristalliki ice... 
     The being stood in metre from Golikova, and that with shudder has felt 
Stench proceeding from it. A smell of excrement, a wet wool, 
Decaying meat. Everything, everything, except a smell something live. It and 
Could not be. The being was the correct companion of death... 
     Max has understood, that has involved in it a dog (if it was a dog), — fantastic 
Aroma of blood. His foot bled, and, probably, it reserved 
Too appreciable trace. He was afraid to move and even to take away a sight. Quite 
Probably, that at this time behind and sideways to it servants of it came nearer 
Demon — pity small dogs in comparison with the leader. Dead all the same, 
Nevertheless, Maxim would prefer to be shot, instead of broken off on 
Pieces the dog teeth. 
     As it sat on the earth, its mobility has been limited. When a dog 
Has jumped forward, Max was tumbled down to the left, cleaning a head which could 
To be flattened out about the concrete block, and almost has had time to lift "Beretta" on the necessary 
Height. Before two huge shapeless pillows have pressed down it, it 
Has shot, and the bullet has got to the left hinder leg of the monster. 
     The paw has moved, as though a creature ljagnula someone, and zavisla in air, 
Gleaming blood and the shattered white bone. However it almost 
Has affected inertia of the dog running into the person laying on one side. 
     The intolerable stench has struck Golikovu in nostrils; a saliva half-glass 
It was splashed out to it on the person. He has seen an open mouth of colour of crude meat with 
Yellowy-brown sepulchral columns of a teeth. Lobbies hardly have been bent 
Back, that similarity to the spark gave to jaws. 
     Max nearly stoshnilo. His hand has been beaten instantly off, a pistol 
It is turned out and pressed to the earth devjanostokilogrammovoj by weight. Publishing sounds 
bljujushchego drunkards, the creature has hung over it. Now her eyes have been tightened 
Muddy film of a pain and fury... 
     It desperately pressed a head in shoulders to save a throat, as though from 
It there were less vulnerable other parts of its body. Uterine growl 
Has filled all world and monotonous waves pulsed inside its skulls. 
From below he saw the naked stomach of a dog covered with parallel wrinkles and similar 
On a stomach of a reptile, and also the impressive equipment of a dog, from which 
The dense white liquid exuded... 
     While Max has already thought, what is it will be last show 
In his life, the bull terrier tightened in white-pink whence has sideways come up 
Shroud of the skin, — according to Golikova, one of the most disgusting 
Representatives of the dog tribe. Boulle was very big and powerful, and still 
It could be located freely between paws of a brown dog... The Fetid mouth 
It was closed on Max shoulder, and simultaneously jagged klinovidnye nippers 
Bull terrier have stuck into the part of a body of a monster most accessible to it — grey 
Wrinkled stomach. 
     Through a fog dimming eyes, Max has seen medley izmochalennyh guts, 
Which was squeezed out between jaws bulja, turned to the stiffened 
Rage lump. It has felt some strong blows by paws, as though 
It pressed to ropes, someone kneaded like Mike Tyler, and a sharp pain in 
Shoulder from a sting; has heard a sound of a torn apart fabric of a coat and a torn skin. 
The bull terrier was trampled down on its stomach, and has then flied up in air, when the brown 
The monster has started to be developed to snap at it and to tear off from itself. 
     As soon as vosmilapaja, the creature devouring was rolled away in 
The party, Max has tried to rise to the feet. It has knelt and has begun to rock. 
Trees have begun to spin around, turning in a black roundabout... It has looked 
White shade of the saviour against this roundabout also has seen the small light 
The stain fighting, as if a rag on a wind. 
     The right hand with "Beretta" powerlessly hung along a trunk; on it 
The sharp needle of a pain wandered. It has lifted left, having directed a stupid snout of "scorpion" 
On the shapeless shade tormenting its unexpected ally. Max already was not in 
Condition to think and has not thought that will occur if a trunk 
Pistol-machine gun it will appear hammered by the earth... 
     It has pressed a trigger hook. The turn has shaken it, as blows otbojnogo 
Hammer on a backbone. Animal howl a thin cord has slipped in his ears and 
Some instants sawed its brain. Then Max has lost consciousness and has fallen 
Forward, having hit the person about dead, rotten, damp foliage. 

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