which is filled in with some special golden light was too huge for the private apartment. In the middle of this room there was such big marble basin that in it it was possible to float freely. On both sides of the pool there was a double number of white columns, and among them there were blossoming plants. In one side of the room there was a black ebonite platform with a chair, and over it something like an umbrella without matter. Near a chair there was a case.
– You sit down – Li told and, having looked at me, continued: – Yes, you should shave and leave your head of hear. Um, we have no hairdressers – at us hair just do not grow, there are no scissors and razors. Let’s put, the razor could be got from the museum. But it is the whole operation. It is possible to be cut. Blood, blood poisoning, br-r… Better I to you to a call a product for destruction of hair.
“I will cause a product for destruction of hair” that for strange expression” – I thought.
Li approached the distributive board hidden in flowers and, having told something, pressed several buttons. Did not pass also minutes as in a wall the door which is not noticed by me earlier opened. There was something like a spray.
– From where it? – I asked.
– Sent from a warehouse on an automatic pipe.
Having taken a spray in hand and having wrapped up me a sheet, he asked:
– Allow?
– Please – I obediently answered and blinked, expecting that I will begin to be spryskivat. But Li only fanned me some pryano smelling current of air. And it appeared enough that my hair fell about the heads as cut, and the person took smoothly shaved form.
Li was satisfied with the work.
– Perfectly. You were quit with hair for the rest of life and, the right, so look much better.
Having looked at the hair lying around me on a floor, Li shuddered all over and even turned pale.
– Hair in general are awful, but dead hair are even more awful. Forgive me, but I cannot force to move away them. Perhaps, to cause nippers, brushes?
– Only brush.
– Here the floor is washed automatically – Li as if justified himself. – But hair, they… they can litter pipes. It is better to burn them. You know that, we will burn also your disgusting suit.
– What? To burn a suit? No, I thank you!
– But why it to you? I to you will cause a fine suit of our breed.
Near me there was one more door. Li opened it and told:
– In this small room there is a waste incineration furnace. I you very much ask to throw hair, a suit into the furnace and…
– You know that, we disinfected it, killed all microbes of the twentieth century, we will leave it as a museum subject – I used cunning, wishing to save the suit from fire of this house crematorium.
– Well, I agree. Let me take of you measurements. Your suit will be whole, but you after all will put on another. Here so. You much above me. What color you prefer?
“I would be good in golubenky, devil take it” – I thought.
– Black, gray, as a last resort olive.
– Well. I will cause a suit. For now undress and swim for a while in the pool. Throw linen into this hatch in a floor.
Li left.
I undressed and began to go down on white steps to water. But hardly fingers of my leg touched water, I screamed from surprise, having felt pricks thousands of needles.
– Forgive – I heard Li’s voice about myself though it was not in the room – I forgot to warn you – water of an elektrizovan. We cannot do without it, electricity is a massage for our nerves. I will reduce current now.
Li entered, turned the lever, undressed and plunged into the water.
Having swum for a while and having dived, we left. Bathing in electric water miraculously refreshed me.
– Now one more electrization – Li told. – Sit down on this chair.
I obediently took seat on the chair standing on the black ebonite platform. And suddenly since the ends of rods of “umbrella” streams of pale lilac light zastruitsya.
– Electric shower. Well?
– Yes… yes… about – it is very good – I told, feeling as the criminal sentenced to death on an electric chair. However everything was safely.
– Now here here – Li continued to dispose of me – pass to this case. This is, so to speak, the automatic doctor-controller. Give your hand. So. It here.
Li applied to my pulse and heart of a plate, attached to cords, and turned off light. On the screen there was a shining curve, it noted blows of my heart.
– Yes, heart at you is a little not as it should be – Li told. – Let’s look at a stomach, lungs.
On the screen the image of my internals appeared.
– Lungs as it should be. But the stomach is strongly reduced. Obviously, on one chemical food pills it is difficult for you to exist – the organism did not get used yet. I will order to you something like porridge and mousse. At us also not still passed to pills. There are fans of more “essential” food though all these dishes very easy and semi-fluid.
Li lit fire.
I sighed, having remembered a good piece of meat. But it was not necessary and to dream of it. They for the sake of me will not kill the last cow of a zoo?
– Well, at you everything is relative as it should be. And I will accept electromassage.
Li, улегшись on a long bench, pressed the button, and suddenly from under a bench some hands cores terminating in spheres, handles, rakes got out. All these “hands” attacked on Li’s body and began to rumple it, to rub, poshlepyvat, drum, iron.
From outside it seemed, perhaps fell into clutches some terrible arachnoid insect. Well, perhaps saved me though from this pleasure. I, probably, would shout for fear, broke joints of these metal paws and fell down from a bench.
But Li felt excellently, turned over with a side sideways and repeated:
– Well, perfectly!
At last this execution came to an end. Li quickly rose and put on in a pure blue tunic.
– And here to you – he told, giving me the same tunic from silvery fabric.
I put on. And when looked in the big mirror fixed into a wall did not recognize himself. At me not only head, but also eyebrow hair disappeared. The suit gave me the strangest look. “To seem on Kuznetsk in such look” – I thought.
– Now five minutes
