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Even though the party had been great and the
night wonderful he just went along with it, and to find out where
the hell his body wanted him to go and do.

He wanted to test himself and started
thinking of the gunshot, and realized his speed never altered!

Why would the person or persons go to such
lengths to kill him? What could possibly be here? What could be
here in such a desolate place?

He thought of him being killed to try to get
a reaction and studied his speed, but none of it altered
anything!

He decided to do the complete opposite and
realized that nothing had happened and that there was nothing to
prove that the person was not just trying to scare him for some
reason and that he only looked like someone else that he was after,
and if he showed himself to him that he would realize he was
someone else and ignore him and leave him.

Yet no matter what he thought it still
remained and he even realized that he could not control his body
and it running, and wondered if it was like what horses at races
were like and he recalled old accounts of horses dropping dead from
exhaustion from people forcing them on and on.

His body suddenly stopped running and he
wondered if his body had arrived at its destination for the night,
down at the bottom of sewage system, and he was surprised that his
body turned and he rushed into another sewage pipe and rushed along
it towards somewhere, and he eventually reached a sewage pipe going
upwards and started climbing a ladder on it towards somewhere, and
gasped at wondering where he might end up.

He suddenly came to a dead end and examined
lots of small toilet pipes leading into it and turned and saw a
sewage pipe cover on the side of the sewage pipe lower down and
unscrewed bolts from it and removed it.

He was surprised that it entered a basement,
and in the faint light he realized it was the cellar of a business
or someone’s building, and he found some old stairs going upwards,
and he realized that they had hardly been used in a long time and
that there were some recent footprints made with the same shoe
marks, and he climbed up the stairs and found that someone at one
point had cemented a slab of concrete over the top of the stairs
and that someone had smashed it in to get into it and had covered
it over with another new concrete slab, which he was able to push
up, and he entered another cellar that was clean and being used for
the storage of modern things.

He realized the bottom basement had been
hidden away, under the concrete slab, and that someone had found it
and had smashed it in to get into it, and replaced the new concrete
slab over the top, which looked the same as the other concrete
slabs.

He went back down and placed the slab back
over the top, making sure it fitted perfectly in and adjusted it
until it looked normal, and climbed down the stairs to the bottom,
and started examining the cellar and why it was there and why the
person that had been there had explored it.

The whole floor seemed covered in ancient
objects that had at one point been cleaned of dust and webs and he
examined the stuff and it looked like it belonged to a law court or
something.

He realized little and wondered why the hell
he had gone there!

While he went to leave he spotted something
and started to examine what caught his eye and he realized it was
an old solid metal safe that had been locked and someone recently
had used a powerful drill to open it.

He searched inside it and only found a few
useless documents left and he spotted a piece of paper that had
been attached to some document that had been there and he read it
with surprise as it said it had been Hess’s map, and he removed his
treasure map from his inside pocket and realized that they were
both the same age and that the map had clearly been attached to the
piece of paper.

Chapter 14

The New Search

“Where
did you vanish to?” Dory
asked Cameron, and burst out laughing
,
concerned,
peering
through
her
front
door
at him
with a big bright smile
.

“
I needed
the toilet!” he replied, unsure what to say.

She laughed
again and stood looking at him crazily, and brought him into her
living room.

“
You
were
to
contact me yesterday
–
at
my
office!
” she
moaned loudly, trying to get him to realize it.

“
What
happened when I left you and the party anyway?” he asked,
inquisitively.

“
They
phoned the police, and they started questioning everyone on where
it had come from and they traced it to where the person was. They
seemed to think it was just a crackpot playing with his gun!
They’re looking for the person and anyone that saw him!”

Cameron was
surprised and wondered if he was going insane as he could not get
how he could get things so incompatible. He realized now how stupid
it had looked to them and him running away into the distance. Yet
if he had not he would have not made the discoveries that he
had!

“
I think
I found something!” Cameron replied, pointing at his pocket. “I was
running along ... And I found myself in a sewage pipe and in a
cellar where I found an old safe with what could be a treasure map
...”

She
budged and
slowly
studied
his
face over again, and he studied
her tight clothing
trying to realize if she was some form of high class
hooker, but he was sure it was his imagination
.

Yet she was so
surprised about it that she reacted authentically, wanting to know
more and sounded as if she meant business.

“
I think
I’d better start over ...” she replied, wanting to explain
something firmly, for him to remember. “You did tell me of the
treasure map previously! Before you left and ended up in the army
... And I was helping you find information!”

“
Can I
ask you a question?” he replied, examining her sincere face, and
she nodded in agreement.

He examined her
and wondered why he could not remember more. After he had realized
his body not only had a will of its own and actually took him to
places he had made discoveries in the past, and he wondered if some
part of his brain had become disconnected and was trying to
discover other ways of sending information to him.

“
Whose
map was it?” he replied, determined to confirm things further, as
what had happened was too strange and fantastic now.

“
You
claimed it belonged to Rudolf Hess!” she replied.

Even though he
knew she was going to say it he could not grasp what was happening
somewhere. It was as though someone was playing games with him, to
a final conclusion.

She studied his
face and realized how deeply surprised he was.

Her
hand
automatically
reached into
her
handbag
and
pulled out some
cigarette
s
and
a
gold
en
lighter.

She
ignited
it and
mechanically drew in
and blew out
smoke,
showing him
she enjoyed it,
and
he
glared at the end of it
brightly
glowing
red,
with
smoldering
gray ash
falling over her and she picked up an ashtray, and she
created
long gray
wisps of smoke
swirling up
through the
air, while rushing up to the ceiling,
and he saw it dispersing into the
atmosphere
.

With one swift
movement
s
he switched on
her
television and
kept
changing
channel
s until she
saw something of interest
.

“
Well?”
he continued. “I was looking for the treasure after finding the
map!”

She seemed to
start over again and started checking his clothes, and asked, “You
look as though you’ve been living funnily!”

“
Did I
drink a lot of beer before?” he asked, curiously, trying casually
to answer another unanswered question.

“
As far
as I know you never! You must have picked up the habit somewhere!
There are some cans in the fridge!”

Cameron gasped,
feeling an intense thirst, and marched over and went into her
kitchen and got them out of her fridge, and rushed back with them,
and she smiled as he poured one down his throat ecstatically until
he had finished.

“
I found
somewhere I think there might be something!”

“
Whereabouts?” she asked, confused.

He was
determined to bring someone else into it, and never knew anyone
else to trust.

“
It’s in
an ancient cellar and I’m sure there might be more!”

She just nodded
in agreement, and wondered what he wanted to do, and knew he had a
plan and it might be worth going along with, and she nodded
again.

“
Have you
any objections of going down a sewage pipe?”

She laughed and
looked startled, and asked, “No! Is that where you ended up?”

He nodded
firmly, and she examined him strangely.

“
You’re
still in the army?” she giggled, and laughed wildly. “How did that
happen? You must have really damaged yourself?”

“
I’m
still visiting an army psychiatrist ...”

She inhaled
some smoke and started laughing.

Chapter 15

The Cellar

Through plumes of
smoke
s
he resolutely
analyzed
him in the sewage pipe
, slightly startled, trying to put sense to
something
s
he
had
heard and
seen, while
trying to suppress
laughter
with blank and
confused faces, not knowing
entirely what they were doing
.

“
Well!
This is a magnificent treasure hunt?” she explained, and laughed at
the surrounding sewage pipe.

She stared at
him with astonishment, and looked at him at various angles and
shook her head, not fully confirming something, and quietly
announced, “You’ve a vague look of someone else! That I can’t
identify!”

Cameron ignored
it and eyed up her figure in her explorer gear, with her backpack,
and torch on her belt, and they began moving away from the sewage
pipe opening above.

He went first
with his bright torch examining how different it now looked in the
bright light.

Now he seemed to recognize the sewage pipe
but he was not being taken along it by himself, but he never knew
why, but as though his brain had stopped him receiving information
on what it was, and while he was thinking it over he decided to
start to move faster, and she joined in and they moved off
splashing through the sewage water, smelling the stink, and he
occasionally wondered if he had become mad in places.

He was surprised when he had a strange
feeling and turned and saw another sewage pipe going sideways, and
realized it was the route he had gone in and rushed along it, until
they eventually reached the sewage pipe going upwards and he
started climbing up its ladder.

He suddenly came to its top and examined all
of the small toilet pipes leading into it and gasped and turned and
quickly removed the sewage pipe cover on the side of the pipe lower
down and shifted into it.

They both walked about the cellar and in the
bright light he realized it was different now and it was clearly
not someone’s building and belonged to something he could not
grasp, and he examined the area around the old safe and realized it
never looked like the legal place he had thought.

He watched Dory wander around and he knew she
could not grasp something and she started looking through things
trying to get something that would give her a clue to the place’s
identity, and Cameron realized that it had to be somewhere
important and he wondered how he had originally found it.

He swiftly removed his backpack and removed a
metal detector that he had bought that day, and she smiled at it,
and he started using it to examine objects everywhere that might
have things hidden in them and was surprised that it detected
something astounding from an area under the floor, and he believed
it was the exact place he should look, and he wondered why!

He removed two tools, a hammer and chisel,
and started smashing the concrete floor away, and was surprised
that it was crumbling and he started to reveal another floor
below.

“
That’ll take a long time to do?” she
moaned, and looked up the stairs, wondering where she was, wanting
to see what they were under, and she left him and marched up the
stairs to the top.

Cameron decided it was a good idea and just
to finish his work some other time.