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CHAPTER 8 - THE FIERY ABYSS
The explosion causes a rockslide, knocking Flash, Dale, Roka and Zarkov unconscious. The Rock People carry them a little distance away and one of them pounds on a rock, which releases a gas that revives our heroes. Luckily, Zarkov can understand and speak Rock talk, which he identifies as the language of an ancient Earth tribe that once inhabited the Gobi desert. Everyone is taken to the Rock King but, en route, two giant lizards fight. One of Ming's soldiers panics and runs for it, and is killed (off screen) by one of the giant lizards.
In the Rock King's throne room, the prisoners are jointly blamed for the disappearance of the Rock King's son. If he does not return, they will all pay with their lives. Flash, Roka and Zarkov are sent to a cell separate from Sonja and Dale. When Flash tries to protest, he is clubbed unconscious.
Thinking Sonja is asleep, Dale takes out a short wave radio and contacts Karm, but he cuts her short because Ming is about to arrive. Sonja overhears and fights with Dale, getting the radio from her. The Rock Guards separate the two women, and Sonja, ever the trouble maker, contacts Karm, pretending to be Dale. As she hoped, Ming overhears and realizes Karm is a traitor and has him locked up.
Roka pretends to be poisoned. When the Rock Guards investigate, he grapples with them as Flash and Zarkov escape from the caves, each grabbing a spear as they leave. They feel a strong gravity pull and notice one of the Rock Men, the King's lost son, trapped on the side of a cliff by a lodestone, the source of the magnetic attraction, which has been exposed by the explosion Torch set off. (The Rock King's son is identifiable because he has a sun pattern painted on his costume). Zarkov explains this part of Mongo is made up of highly magnetized particles (!!).
Flash sends Zarkov back to the caves to inform the King his son has been found. Flash sets off to rescue the King's son, laboriously climbing up the cliff face against the extreme magnetic pull. Back in the caves, the prisoners are sentenced to death. One of Ming's soldiers is tossed into a fiery pit, as Dale screams and covers her eyes.
Zarkov is delayed returning to the caves by another giant lizard, as the Rock Guards gather up Dale to lower her into the fiery pit in this chapter's cliffhanger.
In Obi Wan's opinion, this series was on a level of excellence with the film Plan Nine from Outer Space
Do not attempt if Glenda, the Ice Queen is present or when area is closed for Hunting (posted then)
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