air
supplies. He examined one and realized it was virtual impossible to
enter and it was taking in air.
It was incredible that such a place could
exist in such an environment, and he spotted one of the soldiers
had found something and he sensed that it was the way in! They
thought only of survival and getting in!
The soldier showed them a communicator
device covered in ice and snow and then large entrance doors that
they uncovered.
Weaver realized that there had to be at
least another entrance where they took in and kept large objects
and vehicles.
Commander Craven was soon arguing with
someone inside of his identity, and that they were expected, which
he attempted to clarify, and Weaver realized that some of the
scientists had arrived and that they sounded different, and the
scientists realized the soldiers had clearly been out in the
Antarctic blizzard a long time. They also sounded as though they
had not had any proper communications with the outside in a long
time!
They finally put a soldier in command in the
ice station on and Commander Craven identified himself and they
sent out some soldiers to get them.
Weaver could not blame them for being
precautious after all the mysterious deaths there, and them being
trapped out there, and with the gunmen being there! And he wondered
if they were actually at war with each other, for some reason that
they had not mentioned and that they had made it confidential?
Reeves repeatedly tapped the solid metal
entrance trying to measure its thickness, and realized that it was
abnormally thick, and Weaver realized that the entrance had
recently been fitted and had replaced a smaller weaker entrance,
and he noticed someone had been trying to gain entrance to it or
the earlier entrance!
Weaver realized one main point and that the
gunmen had to have a base somewhere, but he was unsure if it was
faraway or nearby, and he knew that it could be a major clue to
finding them!
Surely when it was light and the blizzard
stopped they would leave footprints near there!
The entrance was slowly opened by two
scientists and two soldiers from inside and Weaver gasped at the
warm comforting air and the effect it had as it caressed his body,
and he immediately rushed in with the other soldiers, and marched
in through a long corridor going downwards, wondering what it would
be like staying in such an ice station.
As he moved in at the front of the others he
saw that there was better lighting further in and he felt delighted
that he would soon be able to rest and be inside and away from the
severe cold and blizzard, and be actually exploring an ancient ice
station and doing his job that he was there for.
He wondered what the real people and
conditions there were mainly like and if they were peculiar with
being in such a place, as he had seen elsewhere. Yet the other
places were old places and people living in harsh environments
without any proper heating or comforts. He realized more than ever
how much he had enjoyed exploring hidden secrets and places, and
basically the unknown and unexplored, and he examined long
corridors, untouched rooms, looking for evidence of anything.
He wondered what being on another world like
it would be like, like being on the moon wearing spacesuits and
what it would be like to be the first humans to visit another
world! What would it actually be like? What would the surprises be?
Could they grow food and create and find all their needs?
What magnificent wonders would exist there?
Would people eventually start changing and altering to the
environment?
At one floor below the ground long corridors
went out to a incredible distance that astounded them, as the size
was at least quarter of a mile in length with corridors and rooms
all along them, with spiral stairs going downwards to the other
floors, and their group explored them as they went along.
Weaver realized immediately that the place
would be hard to explore and there may be far more people there
than they had
1906-1998 Catherine Cookson
R.L. Stine - (ebook by Undead)