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to happen with their presence!
    I realized
once again that Oswald was avoiding telling things, as I clearly
heard them mention things that he had avoided telling!
    I was
surprised when they eventually mentioned bringing something in and
I wondered what! I knew they were avoiding saying things, and I
watched Higgins final come back down the shaft carrying a large
piece of equipment, which was part of something, and I examined it
as he careful placed it in the cavity, and watched other scientist
come down with more of it.
    “ What
will that do?” I finally got the chance to ask him.
    “ Forms of radar detection can be used
to examine things below the ground, but also with inaccurate
results …”
    “ What about a powerful
sonar?”
    He looked up at the idea and continued
working, and I realized scientists scanned the center of the Earth
with forms of sonar, using high explosives.
    As I watched him setting up the
equipment, he replied, “ The new surveying equipment on the airplane
we used in Loch Ness to detect the monster! I managed to persuade
them to remove it from the airplane and bring it down! As it’s the
most powerful we have available …”
    “ They might be able to dig it out
eventually if it doesn’t work!”
    “ You’re right! But we want to check
out what’s there first! This can scan more accurately, deeper and
faster, and more powerfully than anything we have, and has been
vastly improved since its use at Loch Ness! The detection
components are highly confidential again, and is used by the
military …”
    “ It’s
top secret!”
    “ It produces the most detailed mapping
of beneath the ground ever seen, to a far greater depth, making it
possible to observe small and large objects – of the dimensions we are
interested in, and further out! As we are not sure if it is
directly below! We have detected occurrences at other locations
…”
    I realized it could detect underground
military bases and such far below the ground, perhaps hidden away
in mountains, normally undetectable, and I realized why they were
avoiding telling anything, and the majority of people there never
knew what it was or was happening, and that they might not be
allowed to use it, and that some of the scientists there were
military scientists, and I wondered what they were doing there.
     

Chapter 20
     
    The Discovery
     
    The equipment
system was functioning and ready to monitor everything around the
surrounding cavity in a far greater degree, and after all their
rigorous setting up of it, and taking down large powerful electric
cables, and all their preparations of everything, and their highly
advanced use of it I was fascinated at what it could do, and at
such a close range, as the other version on the airplane was not as
advanced and as powerful, and I considered if they had deliberately
given a reduced and incorrect estimate of the distance of the scan
to hide its true incredible powers, and it being confidential
equipment!
    I grasped the
dangers of it as when I had only activated the metal detector at
the woman’s house it had made me collapse and made me unconscious,
and had a tremendous reaction, and I wondered if it could hit us
all with it, and kill us!
    The whole
exploration seemed useless as I and most of the others surely would
not profit from it, and would only get the chance to solve
mysteries, and I wondered if we could get marked in history, and
have future explorers recalling our achievements.
    What surprised
me was their firm belief that there was something there! The others
barely believed anything! They had had not found anything though!
Yet why were they so confident with so little? Were they keeping
something secret? Had they detected something? Had they known of
something before the occurrence there, and were investigating it
for the first time? They had hardly come up with anything and they
all were going crazy to do something, and I started to wonder what
was happening, and if I would survive to see