The Lost Treasure Map Series (66 page)

At the same time Bryson grew interested and
investigated how the technology functioned in far greater detail
and what its capabilities were. It had looked exaggerated and too
unavailable, and his thoughts had altered once they had met him
more and got to know him better. He had been surprised at his
virtually identical interests, and he was actually offering to help
their investigations, and future investigations of interest.

He had found out more about him and his
work, especially over at Greenland and the fascinating Pacific
island discovery, and wondered what his view on the paranormal and
work of the two paranormal scientists was?

Bryson and had told him of the death of the
time travel and what he believed they had missed, and the months he
had spent unraveling and translating what the time traveler had
given them, and what they had missed when he had given it to them,
and Parker fully believed him and had listened with
fascination.

He knew of Bryson and the American castle
discovery, and the discovery of the treasure there, and at the
first castle, and had promised to give him all the help that he
needed to carry out his mission, and to explore what he was looking
for.

He had heard
some things from the media and from members of the Exploration
Association about the ultimate time traveler and the lost treasures
and of treasure seekers risking their lives in deadly pursuits, and
was interested in Bryson’s search for it, and in the media coverage
and getting some publicity from the treasure quest, and knew other
things would surely appear.

The
entire sea was there to be explored by him and all he needed was a
few authentic clues and coordinates!
So when he had
heard Bryson had found a major clue to its location and that he had
discovered it was located on the same latitude as where the
artifact had been located, he became confident in finding it
without too much trouble as he had carried out searches over many
years of most of the same latitude, and near where the artifact had
been located.

The evidence of its existence being partly
located at this time zone and had become undetectable on its
entrance to it, and that its location had been detectable through
many time zones, had interested him greatly, as well as Mortimer,
and they both seemed to leave it until they had considered
things.

Most of the searches were done with Bryson,
Merton and Mortimer, and they grew more aware of how the equipment
worked and was used, but gradually the search started to show that
it never existed, and the disappointment grew and Bryson realized
that his reputation for searching for lost treasures and finding
hidden information was becoming more damaged each day!

The problem was most of their major
discoveries had been lucky or by constant searches until they had
uncovered something!

Chapter 13

The Expedition

The sun beamed
across the sea and Bryson watched it edging into the horizon
through the plane window, and he felt the coldness from outside at
the window and realized that in a few days they would be flying
over the Artic.

He gasped and
realized the error of doing what he had done, and that he had
persuaded them, and mainly Parker, to continue the investigate for
the treasures on the longitude of the artifact!

He had been
certain that he had only translated a few words of the future
language of the time traveler wrongly, and he had picked up the
meaning of the word latitude wrongly and that it could only have
meant longitude. But he had been sure that it had been longitude
after repeated checks and Mortimer had confirmed that he had
thought so.

Yet he saw the
error and that there could be many more such descriptions in the
future and that he could have put his foot in it this time! The
last time, when they had explored the latitude, there had only been
a small amount of ground left for Parker to explore. This time they
could be searching for years! But this time he realized that he
might be able to get out of it, and call it off, as it would take
too long to complete. He might slowly break the news to them!

What surprised
him was their belief that there was something there! He barely
believed anything at the moment! Yet why were they so confident
with so little? He had hardly come up with anything and they all
were going crazy to go on the first flight, and to search the main
regions!

He had once
heard Parker say that he was checking the line within the
longitude, as they had thought the artifact had landed at the exact
line the artifact was located on, which he had not been able to
realize why, but was sure the scientists that he had given the
descriptions and time traveler’s recordings to had been the best
and most experienced to decipher it.

Their
equipment system was functioning and monitoring perfectly and he
sensed that they could detect anything in a large radius, and he
considered if they had deliberately given reduced and incorrect
information on the distance of the scan to hide the true incredible
powers of it, as it was massively confidential equipment! The
satellites that they said had the technology used distances far
further away!

He was sure
from things some scientists on the plane said indicated that they
were carrying out a distant though less accurate scan, which he was
sure they could detect it within, and he wondered if they could use
the satellite technology to find stuff like it in the future when
there were more satellites covering the whole globe, and they were
more powerful?

What he was
unsure of was how accurate it was at different distances, and if
there was anything there how large and detectable would it be?
There was luck involved and he did not like it!

From his
window he watched s
hade
s
of light play with his
vision
in
animated
motions,
over the
sea, as the plane rushed through the air, and
he watched
Parker and
scientists at work, constantly examining their technology to
discover improvements for them to introduce, and things to make
breakthroughs with.

Mortimer and Merton sat along from him
sitting opposite each other at a table with a map stretched out
across it, searching the area ahead and discussing it. It was
strange as there never looked as though there was anything there,
especially so far north, and there was little in front of the plane
with anything, and further out there would be mainly ice. Yet
nobody knew what place it could be, and it could be virtually
anywhere! Nobody knew what it was or was doing, and what made it
end up where it was?

All they had was that they believed
something of a highly advanced nature had been detected and was of
great interest!

Parker was the owner and leading
research scientist, and was responsible for organizing things, but
it was their find and the Exploration Association
’
s expedition.

Many scientists of Exploration Association
had joined the trip and first exploration of the new latitude
search, and they sat around excitedly discussing it, and
occasionally talking with Parker about things, and sending out
messages back to the other scientists that had not come along.
There had not been enough room for more, especially with all the
equipment that the scientists had brought with them, and he counted
at least twenty of them.

Bryson believed that they now knew things,
which they had not said, which he, Merton, Mortimer may not know,
and he got the impression that they thought that it was located
somewhere beneath the sea. Where else could it be?

Yet he wondered if even it could survive
below the sea without attaining damage over such a length of time,
which it would have had to have been there for, and wondered how
they would get it?

All the flight might lead to could be its
possible detection? They would need to find a way of getting
whatever it was up from the immense depths of water. What if it
were the size of a ship?

The crew and members of
Parker
’
s
team notably still considered the Antarctic as a potential location
for their original work, where the ice in regions had been proven
to have been on the land there for millions of years. Where
amphibious or other prehistoric animals, which had been there,
could be buried there? Extinct species, and even some remaining
dinosaurs, might have been roaming there and could have been killed
in avalanches or snowstorms and frozen there.

When something did occur with the
equipment, the reactions they gave were unbelievable, even when
they knew something was there already, as with the artifact in the
field! T
he equipment had
started showing strange reactions and nobody had comprehended
anything at first, as it had been too vague, and minute reactions,
which could have been anything being detected, and some nearby site
creating a disturbance or being detected for something.

The problem
was they had not fully checked its reactions to everything, even
though it had been tested out for years, and they were sure that
other things like the artifact could create some reactions. The
equipment was more sensitive at detection than ever before, and had
even been modified before the trip, for detection at distances that
they had not worked at, which Parker was more interested in, to
speed up his other future searches.

All Parker’s
scientists went around a scientist, where reactions were being
detected, and they all started discussing what they thought of it,
and what could cause the disturbance, and Bryson saw that some were
disappointed, and thought that if it were the same as the artifact
that it was far weaker and less advanced, and they started to
believe the find would be a disappointment!

Yet what they
never realized and soon started to was that it was weaker because
it was far further away, and that the other artifact, Pacific
island discovery, and Cornwall discovery would not even have been
detected at that distance and that the new advances in the
equipment to work at a that distance had confused their computers
and technology, and had shown them that it could be something
else.

They thought
by the reactions that it would be nothing, and that they would
discover something that it had detected wrongly, but as the plane
rushed forward across the immense sea they started getting
increased strange reactions and accounts, and they checked for
equipment problems, and they only gradually perceived that there
was something ahead that had similarities to the artifact, but with
immense proportions!

Chapter 14

The First Attack

The two
paranormal scientists and other scientists were more baffled than
Bryson had accepted they could be!

It surely had
been the occurrence emergence that had done it and had them and the
other scientists unraveling what had been wrong with the equipment,
with them gradually realizing that something else had been
emerging, with them studying the slightest reactions created, while
still trying to prove what had been wrong had been the alterations
introduced to the equipment.

Though it
could have been the combination of it and the appearance of an
island in the distance, where all the disturbances had been found
to be generated, where there had not been an island earlier!

Where had the
island emerged from? Was it a coincidence that the equipment had
malfunctioned at the same point?

He knew they
would hide any flaws in the technology! It was valuable and might
still need advanced further, in its new state!

Mortimer
checked his map with Merton and they found nothing, and
investigations proved that the island never existed!

Nobody
accepted the equipment had made an entire thirty-mile circular
island appear out of nowhere, and nobody had the slightest response
to give on an explanation to the phenomenon!

Any answers to
that would be incomprehensible and crazy, and would surely be
recorded at such a discovery!

Bryson
realized that he could name the island and be remembered by it, and
realized what the outcome of it could really be! Nobody had a clue
what to think! What was it? They now were now not in control of
their own fate!

All the
communications from and to the outside world had gone and the
pilots reported it to them, expecting them to offer them help or at
the least their scientific theories, but nobody could help and they
left the professional pilots on their own to handle all the
problems themselves! They were better without them being there, and
knew more about what to do.

Would they
even survive to see what was there? The equipment and plane had
increasing signs of being in danger at an alarming rate, as they
advanced forwards.

Shudders and
fluctuations ripped through the plane as unknown energy surges
swept through the region, threatening to rip it to shreds and
scatter it across the sea, and Bryson imagined the remains being
recovered days later floating over the sea and being fitted
together later to try to explain what had occurred.

He was sure
something was starting to become more powerful with its defenses,
and could be weaker at the incredible distance away they were from
it.

The other
scientists also started to realize it and that they might not even
see what the island was, but Parker and his scientists insisted in
ignoring it and going there until the plane was in real danger! Yet
he was sure that they might not be able to change their course!
Whatever it was could have control of the plane, and if they did
come down that they were best doing it near the island, especially
as it would be a great deal of time before anyone turned up looking
for them there.