The Jurkovsky falls, drops Dauge. Bulls tries to help it. "To hell!" - the geologist rattles. How so "to hell" if they have to
reach? If remains all only hundred thousand steps... Or it is a bit more... Bulls sits down nearby and waits. E, you say lies, the
brother, you do not wait, you have a rest! Also you have a rest at the wrong time, means, you waste time, and time is water,
and water is a life. Bulls pushes Jurkovsky. That lows.
- Have gone, have gone, Vladimir Sergeevich! The nonsense remained! Jurkovsky in the answer lows and does not move.
Then Bulls bends to it, gropingly finds the oxygen crane, turns on for some seconds.
Jurkovsky greedy breathes, then slowly, being unsteady, rises. Alexey Petrovich helps it...
The step, two, three, seven, ten... No to consider senselessly. Ten and fifty thousand steps! Ridiculously! But it is interesting
- all the same any more hundred fifty. Has passed three days or not... Four? Here lines! Bulls feels that has lost count of time,
and it is important, very important! Can remains, then remains not fifty, but sixty? Eighty? Minute, minute... Bulls starts to
remember. They go the fourth days.
The first days - desert, and Jurkovsky for the first time has fallen and did not wish to rise.
Bulls were given to it by oxygen. The second days... m-m-m... The second days? And, it when it has not failed nearly in a
funnel with quicksand and Jurkovsky it has hardly pulled out. They still for a long time, nearby to hour, had a rest on this
place and drank juice. And Grisha as though breathed is easier, though and has not recovered consciousness...
Good day... And here the third days? Yes, when hands have grown dumb, were took away, became insensible. A stretcher
not to lift, not to keep. Grisha became three times, vpjatero it is heavier... And they have made loops and have hung up a
stretcher on a neck.
Jurkovsky on a halt then said that all campaign - nonsense that it to go even a week, and drink will not suffice and for four
days and that in general they will soon fall and will not rise. And then, while they slept, around namelo a sandy embankment.
And today, when began a campaign, too namelo. Jurkovsky and Dauge it was necessary to dig out... Correctly - three days!
And a day they pass on the average thirty thousand steps. Bykova have a pedometer. It is passed hundred thousand steps,
and all - hundred fifty. Means, remains only fifty thousand.