《Let There be Darkness》中的设定的收集（1）(45)

第二个生物冲向Zarrian，塔格特看到它在运动时忍不住打了一个寒颤，就像他以前看到的那样。这是一个深棕色的球体，直径约四英尺，有两只黑色的、凸起的、面无表情的眼睛；它在一大堆细长的鞭状触须上在地板上扭动，让塔格特同时想到了章鱼和橡胶蜘蛛。
【不知名的球形种族提出的关于地球的要求】
A second creature scuttled forward to join the Zarrian, and Taggart could not repress a shudder at the sight of it in motion, often as he had seen it before. It was a dark, brown sphere roughly four feet in diameter with two black, bulging, expressionless eyes; it writhed across the floor on a mass of slender, whiplike tentacles, making Taggart think simultaneously of an octopus and a rubber spider.

What of the watery portions of the planet, then? it demanded in powerful thought-tones. The race you speak of breathes air.
第二个生物冲向Zarrian，塔格特看到它在运动时忍不住打了一个寒颤，就像他以前看到的那样。这是一个深棕色的球体，直径约四英尺，有两只黑色的、凸起的、面无表情的眼睛；它在一大堆细长的鞭状触须上在地板上扭动，让塔格特同时想到了章鱼和橡胶蜘蛛。
那么，地球上有水的部分呢？它以强烈的思想语调要求。你所说的种族呼吸空气。
【Galactic对不知名的球形种族的关于地球的要求的回复】
AS DOES YOURS, said the Galactic, EVEN THOUGH YOU THRIVE IN WATER, ALSO. WE KNOW YOUR HISTORY -- A GALACTIC REVOLUTION AGO WE AND THE GREAT RACE HAD TO DRIVE YOU FROM THAT WORLD BECAUSE YOU WOULD NOT LIMIT YOUR CONQUESTS. WE KNOW, TOO, THAT YOU STILL MAINTAIN POPULOUS OUTPOSTS ON THE OCEAN-BOTTOMS OF THE GLOBE IN QUESTION, AS WELL AS ON THE FORTH PLANET OF THE SAME SOLAR SYSTEM. YOU MUST ABANDON THOSE OUTPOSTS.