The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Volume 2: Battle of the Minds
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The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Volume 2: Battle of the Minds (Les Sarcophages du Sixième Continent, Tome 2: Le Duel des Esprits) |
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| Date | October 2004 |
| Series | Blake and Mortimer |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Yves Sente |
| Artists | André Juillard |
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| Language | French |
| Translation | |
| Publisher | Cinebook Ltd |
| Date | April 2011 |
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| Translator | Jerome Saincantin |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Volume 1: The Universal Threat |
| Followed by | The Gondwana Shrine |
The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, Volume 2: Battle of the Minds is the seventeenth Blake and Mortimer book in the series.
Blake, Mortimer and Nasir land at Cape Town, South Africa, where they miss little departure from the ship La Madeleine. Fortunately, Lord Auchentosham, billionaire protective nature, offers to join the boat with his seaplane. Once aboard the ship, the three friends explain the reason for their presence to the Pr Labrousse. In order to intercept the package of uranium to Singh, they believe Ravi Kuta that their ship was immobilized by the storm of the day before and that they have a serious injury requiring care. Nasir boarded the Indian cargo and sabotaged its engines, allowing Blake and Mortimer arrived first at the British base of Halley. Exchange the captain of La Madeleine radio shows the arrival of the British two to Acoka, but the latter ordered his men to assault the basis of Halley.
Le next day, Blake and Mortimer landed at the base where they are captured by the Indians. Blake manages to escape in sled dog and wanders in a blizzard to the Soviet base. While major Varitch is about to kill him by pure vengeance, Blake fled to Snowmobile and joined the French base. Thanks to the invention of the Pr Labrousse allowing movement in the ice, the Subglacior, the French release their British colleagues. All together, they go to storm the Indian base. Meanwhile, Mortimer took the Indian basis where Acoka explains the functioning of his weapon and tells him that he will be the second Guinea pig after Olrik. Then the Professor is preparing to enter the sarcophagus, Nasir, until then hidden under the guise of Singh, intervenes. At the same time, the Subglacior emerges in the base, causing a shootout wins the French and British. But Acoka and Radjak have taken refuge in an electromagnetic with Mortimer and Nasir cage, while earthquakes due to the Central Indian Ridge multiply.
La Princess reappears and threat to kill Nasir if the British did not call the current. Once the requirement has been satisfied, it sends the spirit of Olrik sabotage exposure universal but allows Mortimer to use the second sarcophagus if he wants to stop him. Mortimer is found in the form of electromagnetic waves in Brussels where he engages with Olrik. But he has a plan: while Labrousse distracted Gita at the base, the two enemies, who made a truce, joined their bodies. The Princess, furious, embarks on Nasir to kill him but the Professor her out several times.
Un new earthquake causes the collapse of the entire database. Mortimer and Nasir Labrousse have just enough time to escape on board the Subglacior, leaving Olrik. But they find themselves crushed by a rock needle over a pile of lava. A big explosion projects them outside where they are stranded on an ice floe. Thanks to the transmitter in the possession of Mortimer, the Lord Auchentosham seaplane manages to locate them. The protagonists in La Madeleine débriefent their adventure. On 17 April 1958, Blake, Mortimer and Labrousse are present at the inauguration of the Exposition by the King of the Belgians, Baudouin. In the old Indian Antarctic base, Olrik wakes up in his sarcophagus.
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