The Lost Treasure Map Series (63 page)

They vaguely reacted the Exploration
Association and many of their elaborate unproven claims and were
unconvinced of the occurrences, and only some occasionally openly
had criticized the lack of proof.

So it never fully surprised Bryson that all
the members there all started touching it and checking the effects
it had on things and made crazy attempts at giving equivalent
things that it could be related to, but they never fully achieved
their aims.

In the end they seemed to accept that they
had something new, and remained in doubt at how exaggerated the
findings had been! Surely they had to have intensified things to
revive the lifelessness and lack of new discoveries!

Many of the critics of the project had
visited the site and had witnessed its removal to the surface, and
many retired and old members had turned up (like Professor Lynam,
Professor Thomas, and Dr Davidson), who remained together, and
mainly eagerly listened to everything and searched for any proper
new findings.

They loved everything to do with new
exploration and science and they consistently showed their
gratitude for being brought along, and constantly encouraged the
others to describe what they thought about it.

Dr Davidson wrote down details that he was
given, and Professor Lynam asked for lengthy descriptions for a
lecture at their next meeting, to introduce the findings, and give
a planned expedition to see it at its future destination.

“
Make
sure you get
some good photos?
”
Davidson eventually
muttered, unable to constrain himself.

Many more of the scientists started removing
cameras and started filming the artifact at various angles, and
Bryson wondered where they intended to take the artifact first and
what they would eventually do with it, and he considered what other
surprises the artifact had for them.

“
There must be something recorded of
this technology somewhere?
”
Davidson announced to one of the critics,
who still did not know what to think.

“
I
’
ve had people searching
everywhere,
” the critic
scientist replied. “
Without any results! Perhaps
someone you know in the Exploration Association can
help?
”

“
So far I
’
ve not heard anything
yet!
”

“
We
better
wait,
”
Thomas continued,
“
before we can comment
further!
”

“
There has to be
something!
”
Lynam continued.
“
Something hidden away within the depths of
some out-of-way place that can explain what it is! Massive unread
achieves exist throughout the world ...
”

“
What were the findings from all the
data that was recorded by scans of it?
”
Davidson asked firmly, as he read
through his notes.

“
There was not anything
worthwhile!
”
Thomas answered firmly.
“
The artifact never allowed scans
...
”

Some of the surrounding scientists
immediately gasped!

“
How does it do
that?
”
one
replied curiously, seeking theories.

“
If
you’ll remember ... They detected it when David Parker’s plane was
scanning here, and
the equipment stopped functioning
properly and only gave strange, almost incomprehensible, images of
here, which were clearly artificial
..
. All the other attempts at
scanning it yesterday also received the same output ... By some
phenomenon, of which they
’
ve not properly explained, the instruments,
going by scan records, showed some form of powerful magnetic like
influence
–
or something of that nature
–
acting upon it.
”

“
What could allow it to create such
power? It has to have a tremendous energy source!
”

“
It hardly looks Second World War
technology, but all the
dating
data shows it is! Looks can be deceiving! Some people think
we may be dealing with some old lost technology hidden away here!
What if someone hid it because they could not destroy it, because
for some reason it was too dangerous to keep?
”

“
Someone could have been be
experimenting on something?
”

“
We are waiting to have many things
clarified! So if any of you can help we would be grateful!
We are making enquires to find out if someone had something
like it!
”

Bryson wondered what they would do if they
could not explain anything? Would they put forward theories about
it and allow them to be accepted as facts?

Chapter 6

The Museum
Exhibition

Bryson stood baffled at the entrance to the
giant museum hall, where the Exploration Association were showing
an exhibition of the artifact and their latest discoveries from the
scientists, which they claimed would astonish everyone.

It had confused Merton and Mortimer as they
had not come out with anything new for weeks and they believed that
they would have discovered everything of interest over that amount
of time, and would have announced it earlier.

The audience in the outer corridor had
baffled them when they had seen their astonished behavior and loud
accounts on the discovery of something, which for some reason they
all avoided saying anything directly about.

He saw something over on the stage, away out
in front of the audience, which he could not identify, which the
whole audience seemed to be watching and talking over. Scientists
and famous people were everywhere, and the atmosphere unbelievable,
and as though the audience were waiting for something unbelievable
and dangerous to occur.

As they marched up the central aisle to
their seats, at the front, he felt a shiver run through him as he
sensed something was going to occur there, and he slowly noticed
the appearance of an energy bubble over where the artifact was
resting, over a thick metal display table.

The thing looked entirely deadly and was
pulsating with energy, which looked and sounded on the brink of
something.

Mortimer looked the most confused and sat in
his seat examining everything, considering what had happened to it
and was occurring, and perhaps why they had not told them anything
about the alterations in it, and what had happened.

Bryson at times spotted that the artifact
looked like it turned vaguely translucent and he thought he saw the
shape of something inside it, and after along time of carefully
examinations he thought he saw a life form inside it, resting flat,
in some form of rest.

It looked powerful, and perhaps deadly! By
the artifact he could tell that it had much power but he could
recognize what it was or what it could do, and glared at it trying
to get a clue.

They learned some information from a leading
Exploration Association member nearby, but he realized that they
wanted everyone to get everything from the scientists that were
going to appear on stage, and he was convinced it was true by the
media further along from him and their reactions to them on not
wanting anyone to get anything before what happened there, as the
scientists particularly never wanted the media to get any
information until they gave it.

It looked like some form of freak show
at angles, with the museum
’
s strange lighting there.

Every major scientist and media source
seemed to be there and he wondered why the Exploration Association
members were so obsessed with such displays and occurrences!

He examined a brochure that had been handed
to him and realized that he should have visited the museum before
and was amazed at the amount of historical and interesting
artifacts there, detailed filmed accounts of the artifact finding,
and stuff on ancient civilizations uncovered, with detailed
accounts of findings at their locations, and on space, other worlds
and environments, and he even saw some of the work that he had
recently heard of, and decided to visit the place in the
future.

The artifact and energy bubble was
astounding, placed in the center of the stage, in bright colored
beams of light, fascinating everyone there and especially those
still arriving.

The featured expeditions at the museum were
some of the best and some people left there to visit them, and some
remained looking worried at what was going to happen there and
perhaps wondering how dangerous things actually would become!

Many people even thought of it as a type of
horror show and examined it as a strange evil look exhibition, with
anticipations of more in the upcoming lectures.

Some of the exhibitions were clearly set up
like they were based on other worlds, and he wondered what the
outcome of the occurrences would be and if it was going to be part
of the greatest of them all, which he liked the thought of being a
major part of and was one of his dreams.

He realized that Merton and Mortimer were
not fully known as paranormal scientists from nearby conversations,
and only vague descriptions of them investigating that sort of work
was revealed.

On the stage a few scientists emerged and
shifted over to the artifact, and a leading scientist and member of
the Exploration Association arrived and gasped when they saw the
artifact, in its new state, and ignored it and rushed over to the
microphone and started giving detailed descriptions of their
detection of the artifact, and their detection of its new energy
source.

“
More
details of the artifact will soon be
revealed,
”
Professor Thomas revealed.
“
It should give you more of an
insight into what it is! We have scientific findings but little on
where it came from, which surely is somewhere exceedingly advanced,
as all the information indicates. There only seems to be one of its
kind on the whole world! Its present state shows us more about
it!

“
More
particular facts of the being inside the
artifact may become known some day if we find a way to control the
artifact, which will allow us to study it.

“
A variety of clues of its highly
advanced technology were found. Though we still have found little
on, even with our technology!
”

Bryson watched
a group of scientists bringing in equipment and arranging it around
the energy bubble around the artifact, and Bryson gasped and
wondered what they were doing and dealing with, and for a moment
thought he saw the being inside it shift.

A highly advanced clock was entered
into the energy bubble
’
s field by the scientists, and the scientists
reacted immediately when they noticed results and concluded that
its precision digital numbers were frozen, and it altered into
multidimensional forms as the clock was shifted slightly inwards,
and they studied the suspended cluster of partially transparent
layers, and the audience all watched the phenomenon with
amazement.

Many famous scientist sat astounded, and
many filmed it and what might be an incredible historic occurrence
and a discovery that might prove time travel existed and that they
might finally fully prove what it was, and Bryson watched the media
go crazy filming it, surprised.

The scientists occasionally gave detailed
explanations of what they were doing and believed was occurring,
and they had the clock edged into the confines of the energy
bubble, creating magnificent optical effects with the clock, making
it distort in twisted forms, deliberately designed for their stage
performance, shaping beams of light with matter.

New leading scientists were allowed to
investigate it and they crowded around it loudly discussing it, and
they applauded it and announced it was the first discover of a form
of time travel anyone had found, and the audience wildly
applauded.

Most of the audience watched on in wonder,
and many watched on wondering what the hell it was, as it was far
more different than he had thought, and Bryson realized that he had
not heard anything that could properly explain how it worked and he
studied the two paranormal scientists and main scientists in hope
of picking something up.

It looked as if it were rupturing the fabric
of space that played with time, with properties of altering and
suspending it!

Many of the leading scientists that had been
working with it were carrying out numerous basic and complex
experiments on it with all the equipment available to them, and
they showed detailed information had been accumulated, but most was
not currently available, and it left the other scientists, media,
and public wondering what else they had!

The abnormal antics of some of the
scientists and technicians at times was captivating, mystifying
them with the depth of their fears of something, and Bryson had not
seen them actually react about anything without there being
something there!

Some repetitively studied readings from
equipment that they had set up around it!

Were
they
preparing themselves for something, which he saw
the two paranormal scientists occasionally become aware
of?