The Lost Treasure Map Series (62 page)

Hazy echoes from his heavier breathing
appeared in an extraordinary silence and he examined the stone wall
around him of the second tunnel as he shifted downwards, and he
started to find the stale air harder to inhale and he frequently
gasped for air, while he dangling over obscurity, with hideous
expectations of plunging into deep water accumulated below.

It was far different that the archaeologists
were not below, and the light was not there. There could be
anything there!

The scientists and archaeologists appeared
vaguely against the changing shades of the blue sky far above, and
he vigorously checked through debris on the surrounding stone
foundations, like an ancient well, which he started to consider it
to be. What if it had not been the precise spot of the disturbance
and that they had chosen it as they had detected the lower part of
a well or some ancient homemade sewage system, from some farm?

He just
accepted the
frantic reactions of the two
archeologists to increase his speed, and that there was something
actually buried beneath him.

The haunting descriptions that some of the
Exploration Association had given him still made it almost
unacceptable to believe fully! What had they been suggesting the
chamber contained! In vivid detail he had heard some suggest that
the location was a resting place of something! His mind conjured up
visions of medieval ghosts roaming an ancient burial site!

Ancient people
could have gone to great lengths to bury people!

A distant rumble above released debris and
bits of plants and he realized that the area the two archeologists
were on might not be able to support their weight! It had been
damaged with age, water, rot, and the damage that they had done to
it smashing a hole through it, to see and get down.

He fantasized
it and them crashing down on top of him and considered how much
damage would be done!

In an instant the rope jerked and wildly
oscillated and he spun uncontrollably around and a surge of
blackness engulfed him as he dropped his light below.

It became a spot of light embedded in
something below, which gave little light to him, but he saw where
he was going and speeded up his descent.

It slightly mystified him! The actual depth
by far exceeded all their comprehension of what anyone would use!
There was not just one compartment level, it went down and down
into the depths of the ground and he thought of some ancient devil
and black magic worshippers concealing something there, beyond
their comprehension, of infinite danger, indestructible and hidden
away from mankind!

Sounds took stranger tones and he strained
his eyes more trying to see further down, about where the light
rested, but there were no features of anything. Its tunnel shape
was in darkness!

He heard distant movements from above and he
looked up to see what was happening and saw that they were still
there resting, and seeing what was happening.

A surge of water splashed across his face
and poured down in streams as he finally hit the ground not fully
realizing where it was, and in the turmoil he fell over sideways
into some water.

He got up while releasing the
rope
’
s
tightened grip from his body, and shivered from the intense
coldness and realized for some reason it was far colder
there.

With the pain away he cleaned away some
water off his face and grabbed the light, partly in dirt and water,
and he examined it carefully for damage and cleaned it, removing
the dirt over where the bulb was and fixed it at his side and
fumbled through his pocket and removed a handkerchief and cleaned
the water and muck away from his face, and rested.

He illuminated the stone wall going around
him in the shape of a large well, and its brightness beamed out
lighting up a large long black tomb shape structure, and he sat on
a boulder and examined it in detail.

Eventually clouds of dust sprayed down
through the stale air and he cleaned it from his tired eyes and saw
the two archeologists starting to come down.

He was staggered for an instance when he
realized that there was nothing other than long black box structure
there, and he realized it had to be what was causing the
disturbances.

When he went over to it he shone the torch
closely over it and was surprised that all of the mud and debris
covering its surface had been falling away from it and it even
looked new and polished, and that it was not of ancient
workmanship!

As the others came downwards he continued
wandering around it examining its clean surface, and he examined it
trying to see why there was not any notable way of entering it.

When the two archeologists arrived the three
of them stood around it in a circle, wondering what the hell they
had found! It was perfectly symmetrical and far more advanced than
it should have been, and Bryson realized the coldness there was
coming off it and then he realized that it was absorbing heat from
him.

Chapter 4

The
Artifact
’
s Removal

From the edge of a large tent, constructed
around the tunnel by the archeologists, Bryson examined equipment
and people about the tunnel and the work that they had done while
he had been away.

Dreamily he observed surrounding fields
across his front and the twilight sun rising up from below the
horizon, diverging its rays amongst tree shadows.

Golden light stretched over the surface of
the world, and he heard distant voices from the archaeologists
still at work down the tunnel removing the artifact, and he
acknowledged a sweet pipe tobacco aroma lingering in the air from
one of the scientists from the Exploration Association.

They were finally going to hoist the large
heavy artifact out of there and give everyone a good look at it in
the daylight, and he felt much excitement at the thought of it and
realized again how much he had missed such action, explorations and
discoveries!

He vaguely
watched Merton and Mortimer stroll over to him at the tent from the
nearby road, where they had left their vehicle, where they had
traveled to from their city hotel, where Bryson was located
nearby.

He perceived a
certain inner satisfaction that they had that indicated that they
actually were accomplishing something for real once again! Even
though nobody was fully sure what they had or were accomplishing!
The artifact was mysterious and out of their current reach of
understanding, and nobody grasped its function!

Paranormal
scientists rarely found anything worthwhile!

Merton marched happily over and sat on a
boulder next to him and the tent, and examined the tunnel and
equipment about it that was going to be used to hoist the
artifact.

It amused Bryson that they actually thought
they might damage the thing hoisting it out and had gone to such
elaborate lengths! He considered that if they dropped it at the top
and it fell straight down onto a sharp boulder that it would not
even be scratched!

Merton examined him next after he had
completed checking everything for changes and signs of progression,
and considered his thoughts and turned towards him.

“
We
found some evidence that t
his thing might have been
found by one of the soldiers in the Second World War, when they
were here getting Hess. He
’
s believed to have found it and discovered
its incredible properties
–
which he was going to use for something or
sell it to someone, but something happened and he had it buried
away! It could be dangerous! It could have dangerous paranormal
powers, and be buried away for a reason!
”

“
That
’
d explain why he chose this site and
tunneled so deep!
”

“
We believe they used an ancient well
construction built here, which had gone deep to get
water!
”

“
Yet there is plenty of water here,
and there are streams ...
”

“
Therefore there could have been
another use for it not stated!
”

“
The artifact looks as though it were
new and had little contact with the outside
world?
”

“
They clearly would have had trouble
realizing just what it was and its properties were
–
even after
carrying out careful experimentations of it.
”

Bryson
rubbed his
weary eyes vaguely observing the remains of
a fire the archaeologists had built, and they stood next to it
considering it.

“
Its origins may become clear once the
scientists of the Exploration Association get hold of
it!
”
Mortimer announced.
“
If they don
’
t explain what it is, nobody
will!
”

“
They could run into some problem
...
”

“
Why?
”

“
That artifact must be made of the
strongest material known! All their attempts to take samples off it
have failed so far ...
”

Bryson
stared into smoldering red ashes of the
fire and at a black shape within it and saw images of the
artifact.

He had spent most of the morning thinking of
the discovery and had not realized anything new. At one point in
the night he had believed that the many myths of the world had been
all remarkably true! He just could not grasp something! Science had
explained so many things that had been thought to be magical!

Were there occult creatures buried away all
over the world? He gasped at recollections of drawings and one of a
dragon-like creature that he had recently seen.

The artifact was roughly the same as a
drawing on an old parchment, from a collection of old parchments.
Yet it did not fit into any descriptions! The trip had been a
success, but they could say what they had!

“
It could very well be some secret
Second World War technology that either has been forgotten or is to
this day still highly secretive?
”
he muttered to Mortimer, trying another
angle.

“
That thing was invented
here?
”
Merton joked, looking over at a bright blue box shape of a
distant company building.
“
It
’
s far more than anything they should have
had!
”

Mortimer nodded firmly in agreement, and so
did the other scientists crowding around them, including
archeologists.

Bryson heard heavy scuffling noises and
heard there was at last some action occurring in the tunnel, and he
watched them finally hoisting the artifact out of the tunnel.

Chapter 5

The Black
Artifact

The discovery was far too big and remarkable
and David Parker had been unable oppose anything and could not get
to see what was there fast enough, and use it for his own
publicity, and send in his leading scientists with their best
equipment, from another major important project, to examine the
artifact as soon as possible, and he had even been contacted by the
military to investigate it, after the incredible media reports.

The Exploration Association members were
mainly concerned in if the artifact was dangerous, as many thought
that it was some form of highly advanced military weapon, even
though they still could not account for its appearance there.

The dating of the construction of the
tunnel, carried out for the archeologists, had proven that it had
been built when Hess had landed there in Eaglesham, at the exact
same time as the claims had mentioned and there surely had to be a
connection to what had been witnessed.

Had the artifact been used to spy on or
attack the plane, or had it actually been with Hess?

The military scientists there were the first
there to examine the artifact when it had been hoisted out of the
tunnel in chains, and brought out of the archeologist tent and
witnessed in bright daylight for the first time.

Bryson watched on astonished, and could well
believe it had a military source.

It resembled a large black shiny missile,
completely unmarked, with no scratches or dirt marks, with a deadly
look to it Bryson could not fully grasp.

One of the scientists near him curiously
picked up some mud and threw it over it and they watched it repel
it and it fall to the ground. It clearly had defensive powers, and
could stop damage being done to it, but this did not answer if it
was of military origins!

Bryson walked forward and surprised them by
touching it and in less than a second he felt heat being withdrawn
from his hand until it felt like ice, until he felt his hand pushed
away by some form of energy.

If it had not had such a perfect symmetrical
and artificial shape he wondered if he would have properly noticed
the object, and would have thought it to be something left by the
tunnel builders.

It curious how many members of the
Exploration Association there actually had misgivings about it, and
thoughts of it being something normal and not new, and he was sure
that many of them doubted many of the things put forward by their
association, and knew it had to be because of the way they treated
them at times, and that there was so little of anything out of the
ordinary and that they had not actually witnessed many of the
things that the others had.