Free The Alien Artifact 8 by V Bertolaccini

he was on
another world!
    Out of the silent empty Martian night
high-powered rifle blasts were astonishing, especially in the deep
darkness engulfing him, threatening to totally blind him! The
explosions were so powerful that he believed a powerful explosive
was used in the bullets, and again he was staggered that he could
hear anything in such a thin atmosphere!
    Someone definitely was trying to kill him,
and as he rushed furiously away through thick reddish Martian sand,
with his legs sinking deep, deeper and deeper in regions,
threatening to impede him completely, and even turn to some form of
quicksand!
    Why he had been so stupid as to leave the
shuttle without anyone else, and without saying anything, and even
without any form of communications, and he wondered why he kept
doing such things on Mars, which he never did on the Earth!
    He had left the two shuttles, on his own, and
as it was getting dark, and he had entirely underestimated the
depth of the sand there, and that there was even anything there,
which had impeded his speed for a long time and by the time he
reached the hill, in the southerly direction, south of the last
hill he had climbed, when they had crashed there.
    He had to see the hill as he was sure it was
really where there was something, and he was sure it had been where
Anders and the scientist had intended to land, and he had known
that he would never have a chance to search there again!
    More high-powered rifle shots blasted out and
hit the ground behind him and he realized how deep the darkness was
now, and why he had survived, especially when the person had been
close!
    His pale cold complexion had entirely altered
now and his face was bright red! Sounds of his heavy breathing and
outer sounds took strange tones as he started trying to explain
what they were, and he strained his eyes trying to see in front of
him, and in the darkness he spotted the mountain stone was nearby,
and that he would entirely escape the sand there, where he would
have to escape from the gunman behind him!
    While he rushed furiously on he thought of
the injured state the survivors of Eagle’s shuttle crash had been
in, and their account of what had landed them there, and he thought
of all the things they said, and when he had realized that
something had definitely landed them there, as the they had
approached from the south, and he had worked out the distance that
they had claimed it had taken control of their shuttle, and then
the distance it had been taken control of at the other side, as
they had approached from the north, and he had worked out where the
central point was, and the hill that he was going to had been
directly in the middle, and he was sure it was where there was
something, and that it had been only able to use its powers on both
shuttles at a certain distance, at either side of it.
    Though there was no sign of the diamonds
being there he was sure they had to be there somewhere, and he
wondered what the hell the connection was between them and what had
made them crash there.
    The solid ground ahead of him increased in
size, as he slowly got nearer and nearer, and he considered using
his light, by flashing it, to get a brief view of what was fully
there, and where to run, but he decided not to as the person would
see him and could easily shoot him.
    He was sure it had to be someone from one of
the other shuttles, as he had the same reactions, and he realized
how desperate they had become to get the diamonds and he blamed it
all on Eagle and his scheme to get the treasure, and have all the
shuttles search and have himself go to that site, and crash.
    Something staggered him about the mission and
the fact that from the very start he sensed something was going to
occur, and had seen something approaching, edging its way towards
him, which he knew he could not avoid! He had to go through with
it! And he somehow thought he could survive if he did everything he
could and avoided a deadly mistake!
    It was