Gaaaaahhh! The eyes that burned out at the young air fleet pilot were those of a maddened beast. Nnngaaaaaahh!! Janno ducked for cover, but still the “creature” pursued him. Desperately, Janno rasped a message into his throat microphone. Calling the heli-jet! Come in low with your hook trailing! This is an emergency! As the red-eyed killer swung his makeshift club, Janno saw the heli-jet coming in low. Now for it! Janno ducked the first wild swipe, and snatched at the trailing hook which he attached to Sollum’s belt. Ugh!Take him up! Bang on time! Thanks a lot! Nngaaaaaaahhh!! Later that day, Janno visited the secret laboratory where the great scientist Peric had secured the killer. So the result of the fall-out from that radioactive waste is—this! The strength of ten wild Zargots and the killer instinct of a venomous Nobra! The radioactive material has caused a complex mutation in his cells, producing this effect. I am afraid that we are looking at what a very large proportion of our planet’s inhabitants could become . . . Perhaps—all of us! What I find the most awful part is—the red eyes! At that moment, a party of old people from Trigan City were on a day’s outing to the sea. They disembarked from their coach. Look there! A fine crop of wild zamberries. I love a nice zamberry. The old people ate their fill. And he who had seen them first was the first to be—affected. Gnaaaaaah!
This instalment was originally published in Look and Learn issue no. 750 on 29 May 1976.
