human
The hybrids are controlled through the small opalescent globes on their heads, globes that are in direct tune with a huge master globe of opalescent fire in the invaders' camp. When Ruth attacked you after you placed the opal head-piece upon her head, she was for the moment merely another of the invaders' servants blindly obeying the broadcast command to kill. The white globes that Ruth and I wore when we escaped from the camp were identical with those worn by the invaders themselves, being nothing more than harmless insulators against the effect of the green moonlight.
gpt
I'm all right, Bruce, he gasped.
human
My strength is nearly exhausted, that is all. Like a garrulous old fool I've worn myself out talking about everything but the one important subject. Bruce, have you developed that new and infinitely powerful explosive you were working on?
gpt
Yes, Dixon answered grimly.
human
I have an explosive right here in the laboratory that can easily blow the Centaurian's camp completely off the map.
gpt
Destroying the camp would do no good. We must shatter the space ship itself if we are to extinguish those green rays in time to save our world.
human
That is impossible if the space ship is hovering up there by the moon!