Where
did it come from?” Commander Craven gasped.
“ I do not
know! I was unable to realize much!”
“ What
happened then?”
“ When I
climbed out I was captured by some of the Russian soldiers! Who
started questioning me! They believe it opened in response to my
dream, where I mentally opened an entrance in it!”
“ What
happened then?”
“ The
soldiers were part of the same soldiers that were behind the
shootings!” the Russian commander declared. “As you have been told,
we were only to dig it up and investigate it, which we fully have
not done! We are trapped here! We cannot leave such a dangerous
object here!”
“ So the
deaths and shootings were done by a Russian renegade group that you
told us of? Where are they?”
“ They
were after technology from it, which they were unable to get until
Willis managed to enter it! They were stopping anyone for getting
anything before they could get it! They managed to get something
from it and have left! They left some of the soldiers working for
them behind!”
“ So they
copied Willis and entered it again?”
“ Yes!
They copied what Willis did and sent a man into it!”
“ What did
they get?” Weaver gasped, wondering why they were all gasping at
the incident so much.
“ We are
not fully sure what they got! They sent a man into it and we
believe it tried to make contact again, but it seems to have not
been able to do what it wanted! Which we do not fully know what! We
believe it rewarded the man for the attempt by giving him
something! We believe it could be a danger to mankind!”
Chapter 17
The
Investigation
What the hell
had they done? Had they contacted the voyager with the telescope
beneath the ice station?
Now that Weaver
knew the situation he realized that it was worse! The technology,
power, and size of the voyager was far greater than anything he
thought mankind could ever create, and he could not even explain
its existence!
All the
scientists from the ice station were there and staggered, and some
looked as though they were making plans to abandon the Antarctic!
The thing was a danger and indestructible, and had not been
properly checked, and they had only been able to check a few of its
basic functions from the two people who had entered it, and nobody
had really shown any proper awareness of the function of it as far
as he was concerned!
They had not
found a way to activate its entrance into opening again and making
contact with it, and that was the only final way of finding out
what it was for. Yet they had Willis who was confident in doing it
again, but totally refused to contact it unless there was a good
reason!
He stayed with
Willis and kept him near, and he knew if something was going to
happen that he would be there, as he was sure it had chosen him for
something and that they would need to use him for anything!
“ We
haven’t found a way to communicate with it!” a scientist with the
scientists from the ice station underground telescope announced, as
he walked over to him and Willis, as they stood next to where the
entrance had opened on the voyager.
“ What
have you been trying?” Weaver asked curiously, amazed at all of the
scientists crammed around the voyager, and into the massive
cavity.
It was
incredible the way the scientists from the ice station had all
burst into life when they all had seen it, and he and most of them
were astonished at the experience and knowledge the Russians had on
the things to do with the voyager!
It was as
though the scientists had been waiting all their lives for the
opportunity, and that they never knew the deadliness of it!
“ It has
not replied to anything we have done!” the scientist continued,
showing all the equipment that they had brought over from the ice
station. “We used the telescope and the telescope equipment over
there to communicate with it! We have finally got a chance to test
out stuff and it is not replying!”
“ Incredible!” Weaver
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