The silver airship quickly pierced the hot, hot air. The midday sun illuminated him and the deserted world below. All about the solemn silence of death. Not a single living creature appeared either in the air or on the gray-gray earth. Only the plane itself showed some signs of life. The sky, blue as indigo, did not hide a shadow of a cloud, and on the horizon the mountains crashed into it like the teeth of a giant saw.