The Lost Treasure Map Series (75 page)

The long corridor led into a hall, where
there were corridors going out everywhere going up to the top, with
spiral stairs going around the hall up to the high roof, and their
group formed there and explored there.

Bryson realized immediately that the
deadliness of the jungle never existed there, and he could tell
that they all thought it. Yet he sensed other things of danger and
mystery existed there!

The rooms in corridors went away into the
distance until he could see nothing!

It caused confusion amongst the scientists
and they could not believe that such a structure could be a mere
castle and place of rest, and many of the scientists argued
constantly!

As they moved along the corridor nearest
them, and the outside, going along in the direction that they had
come from outside, they saw different shaped and sized large rooms
everywhere, which were modern or more advanced looking rooms, with
various objects that were clearly advanced technology, and human
type beds in many.

The majority of it was confusing and he
found little to answer his queries, and why such a construction
existed! And he considered his theory that the place was built to
scare off enemies with its magnitude and value, and he wondered why
it existed. They looked complex and advanced people that never used
their rooms for more than basic living functions.

He wondered where they had gone to when they
were not in their rooms? Perhaps further out in some central
region?

When he
checked Mortimer he was trying out some of their communications
equipment and listened to the static response, and considered it as
though he thought that entering the structure would alter it.

Eventually all the scientists and others either rested,
trying to get some sleep, or used
their highly
advanced equipment to try to get a detailed investigation of there,
and Bryson realized that their food supplies would soon run out!
Even though they had everything else they wanted!

Chapter 7

The Highly Advanced
Technology

When Bryson awoke, in the room he had chosen,
he never knew what time it was or if it was day or night, and going
by their new day and night times, and he wished that he had brought
a watch.

He sat upright and turned on his room light,
which was about the only function that they had found out how to
operate.

He considered if his tiredness was caused by
his earlier exhaustion, lack of food, or from something in the
castle influencing him.

He recalled the dreams that he had been
having and how incomprehensible they had turned, surely caused by
the environment and occurrences.

None of it made sense and had been full of
freakish occurrences and things happening to him at places that
they had visited, and something like a colossal vortex, where he
never did anything, and it had been like he never existed and
experienced what was there.

He liked the room around him and it had a
warm appearance, and he had a hard time believing its age and it
being far older than the other castles put together, and he
wondered what he would witness there if transported back in
time!

He could not even properly understand how
the lighting there worked. The light appeared from out of nowhere
from regions of the walls, with no visible source. It was generated
within the air in front of the walls!

The room seemed to have a way of repairing
any damage done to it like the outside walls of the castle, and
surely cleaned and repaired any deterioration and damage done to
it.

It was strange being surrounded by an
invisible intelligence everywhere that they looked and he wondered
what sort of technology was behind it, and what the various
scientists would be thinking of it, and how they would solve how it
worked and if they could recreate it, and what it would be worth
back on the Earth.

The problem was that nothing was visible or
shown to be happening and they could not find where it was! What
was in the walls that could carry out such tasks?

It was like cavemen trying to work out how
their electronic technology worked, with no experience of seeing
anything like it!

Merton was in the room next to his,
near the castle door, with the jungle through the large outer room
wall, and Mortimer
’
s room was next to that, and Parker was in
the room next to Bryson on the other side, where he was next to his
scientists, and many of the Exploration Association and
archeologists were together at the opposite side of the
corridor.

Bryson noted the air suddenly cooled and
never seemed to have any scent! The only really normal thing there
was the bed, which he thought the owners of the place kept for
pleasure. Though it was also made of strange materials that had
intelligence that cleaned and repaired it, and it looked just like
a normal altered version of a bed, and he realized that they had
found a way to program materials to carry out functions, but he
could not understand how it generated things that it created or how
to go about properly investigating it.

He remembered earlier being in a huddled
posture with his blankets tightly wrapped about him, with him
reacting to being cold and the blankets making his warm, and he
recalled that it had made his body warm itself to the right
temperature.

For a moment he recalled a dream and that he
had thought he had died and gone to some form of afterlife and he
tried to recall everything that he could about it. If only he could
find a way to get information from the place!

The sky outside the structure would be
blazing with the stars of the immense galaxy, and exploding with
energy going beyond his comprehension!

And he imagined normal stars and light being
there and illuminating the outer structure instead, and he realized
how far they were from the world and that there was nothing
normal!

Yet it was so peculiar that he liked it more
than he should have! His normal life and things he encountered were
too repetitive and he relished finding abnormal things to do and
explore, especially when they had new outcomes and findings!

He wished that there was a window in the
room though, so he could see the jungle through the wall and see
what was happening there, and he fantasized it there instead and
was amazed when he looked at the wall in front of him and saw what
looked like a window looking out into the ancient jungle, and
realized that the wall had detected his thoughts and had carried
out his wishes and had taken a view of outside and created a window
view for him, as though he were standing at a real window.

It made a shiver run through him when he
realized that it had detail to it that could not have been made up
and that he was really looking outside there, and he tried to make
it show him the deadly things that were there and that they had
encountered there but none of it showed there, and he realized that
it was because there was now nothing there.

It was another world and they were put there
to explore it to him, and it was like a world without a proper sky
with an immense galaxy and at the opposite side thousands of light
years of empty space between it and other stars.

The world outside was a dark landscape
shrouded in deadly things with energy, and he tried to imagine
various things to change the view to, but nothing worked until he
tried to see things that were in or directly outside the structure.
And it showed him different views from its walls if he concentrated
on them appearing enough!

He was sure that it was the answer to
controlling the other technology in the room and about there!

An array of door knocks made the solid but
light door shift about, making him consider if it had been done by
him, reminding him of the dangers of the place, and he wondered
again why it had such advanced objects and structure.

He slowly marched over and opened it, which
had been clearly expertly manufactured, and he watched Merton and
Mortimer standing glaring at him from the dimness in the corridor,
and they suggested something was along the corridor. Bryson nodded
and left and allowed the door to close behind him as he followed
them along the outer corridor.

He decided to make the corridor about him
brighter and mentally turned the light that it created brighter,
and Merton and Mortimer watched it happen with surprise, and he
realized that they had not yet discovered it and was about to tell
them when the corridor returned to its dim state, and he realized
something had done it, and he left it until he had more
information.

He considered how tired he was and what they
were up to and thought of other things that they had done that had
been the same, and of them awaking him early, and as he recalled
situations he gasped suddenly realizing that he could hear sounds
emerging from somewhere further ahead, and he gasped even more when
the sounds seemed to magnify.

He also realized that the sounds reminded
him of an earlier dream, but he could not notice any connection or
why.

“
What happened?
”
he moaned, asking them,
rushing along the corridor after them, seeing them rushing towards
something!

He felt like slapping his face to awaken
himself further, vaguely looking like he had a hangover, and he
recalled him taking alcohol with him in his bag but he was keeping
that for emergencies, and if they also ran out of painkillers.
Things were bound to happen there, and they had no known way of
returning home.

As they entered a region further along the
castle, going away from the entrance, where nobody had been, they
explored what was there, and they slowed and became cautious, and
Bryson started to consider questioning them firmly on what was
there and why they suddenly thought that there was something
there!

Yet as they approached a region of the
corridor he heard the sounds again and far louder!

He wondered if they had found another
haunted castle, and wondered how such a modern structure could be
haunted and realized again the tremendous age that it must be!

The disturbance, if it was a paranormal
disturbance, seemed as if it had different states to it and
regularly altered, and Bryson was amazed that the paranormal
scientists had found something there at such a place!

He imagined it as a warp through in space
and time causing many different things to occur and create sporadic
sounds about the location, and he recalled his dream and he
wondered if he had been affected by it.

Yet even if it was something paranormal he
still never knew what was happening, what created it, and why many
of the things in the jungle had seemed to have paranormal origins?
Even if they never fully investigated them! Did the things,
whatever they were, become part of the disturbance while something
was near it? Like some spectral visitor emerging and taking control
of them!

Two scientists rushed up to Merton and
Mortimer and they began discussing the occurrences and situation
there, and a scientist rushed back to get equipment and more
help.

Merton and Mortimer stood listening to
the sounds and Bryson spotted a device in
Mortimer
’
s
hand that had been concealed in his pocket, and he was trying to
establish things and where something was mainly
emerging.

“
Is that new
technology?
”
Bryson firmly asked.

“
Yes!
”
Mortimer answered.
“
We used the
findings and technology that we used at the last castle to create
it! A handheld device that can detect and give us the information
we want about paranormal disturbances!
”

“
Which paranormal investigators from
throughout history would have dreamt of?
”

“
Yes!
”

Bryson could recall seeing him with the
device on occasions, and had not noticed it as they had other
stuff, and had ignored it as another piece of equipment of theirs
to investigate!

“
Did you discover stuff in the jungle,
and about the island?
”

“
Yes! But we never properly
investigated it! Much of it is dangerous and not possible to
investigate properly with it!
”

Things sounded trapped in some form of field
or something, and he could not identify anything further!

The scientists rushed back and started
setting up all their equipment and started to realize the mistake
that they had made
–
and that they had used up all their battery
power, and that there was no power supply to plug it
into.

Bryson tried to mentally control the
corridor wall there as he had in his room to view the outside of
the castle, and was amazed when he made a working electric socket
appear on the wall for them to power their equipment, at the exact
point where he had wanted it.

“
Where the hell did that come
from?
”
one
of the scientists gasped, and they all marched over and stood
looking confused, and Bryson took the plug from the equipment and
plugged it in and gasped with the others when it actually
worked.

He immediately decided to keep it a secret
until he had investigated it further, and to see what the others
came up with!

The possibilities were tremendous! If it
made other things appear like it had!

“
What do think?
”
Merton asked him, leaving
Bryson with little to say.