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Authors: V Bertolaccini

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Chapter 27

 

The Treasure Map

 

Cronenberg, sitting next to Anders,
reluctantly dragged himself away from all the files they had been
studying for hours, in the Mars base library, and for over a week,
and he watched Orwell stroll into the outer library, for the first
time since their return to Mars, and he seemed amazed at the sight
of the place now, after all they had been through and seen.


Come over here ...!

he called out to Orwell,
and Orwell shifted over to him, at the end of the table, and looked
amazed at the piles of files.


What are they of?


They’re
recently declassified documents that were dumped here, since we
were last here! I was even able to get other stuff to! They wanted
to help us research the alien artifact and get more information on
it!
I

ve put together everything with the
information I want here, and all the files about Robertson, the
scientist with Anders here, and things associated with Robertson
and the diamonds, and his search with the satellite for them, and
I

m going
through it all searching for the slightest clues, and with Anders
help
…”


What

s the point? We

ve searched through the main
stuff though!


I gave him some new information and
clues, which will help us get it!” Anders announced, searching
through some old documents, astonished at them, and the age of them
now.

Orwell was fascinated and fascinated that he
was still searching for the diamonds on Mars.

They were amazed that they were now actually
sitting next to the guy that they had been studying in the
documents and they still had not found the location!

Cronenberg was amazed that they had not fully
accepted that it was Anders, as it was far too unbelievable it was
him, and they had not been able to prove it was him from the
information on him and their examinations of him.


So what is it?

Orwell finally asked,
moving over and sitting at his side.

Have you found something?
You

ll have
to let it out eventually!


The location of diamonds is hidden on
the map somewhere!

Orwell gasped and his face showed he was
startled by the reply, and he examined Anders and asked him, “Do
you know where it is then?”


No!”


But you must remember
something?”


That place we crashed at was on
it!”

Orwell thought over it for a few minutes, and
wondered what Cronenberg meant, and replied, “So it was buried
there after all?”


It was not!” Cronenberg replied
first.


Where was it?”


It was buried somewhere else,
remember! Remember Robertson’s diary!”


So we need the map, and we need to
find another destination hidden away on it?”

Anders agreed with them, giving them his
opinion of it!


Correct!” Cronenberg finally replied,
deciding to reveal it to them, and put his hand in his pocket and
pulled out the map, and held it up to the light and showed it to
them.

They both looked at him with strange
expressions, and gasped, and Orwell then looked like he was
wondering what he was now getting into, and Anders looked at it
with fascination, and a deep hidden desire!


Well!” Orwell replied. “So you think
it is hidden away on it?”


I still have not proven anything
though! But I believe that Robertson was there checking out
something first when he landed at the site! And he intended to go
to the real site afterwards!


What was he checking?” Anders asked
surprised.


I think that alien energy sphere there
had him looking there, and had planned it many billions of years
ago, when it buried itself away there, and that it and had left
something there to get him to go there, which would make its plan
work, which Robertson decided to check, and that it chose somewhere
that looked the same as the place with the diamonds, which he
thought might have more diamonds, buried away there – and the place
was virtually identical to it!”


So we only need to find somewhere
that’s identical to find it?”


Yes! I think I found it!” Cronenberg
announced, removing a map of the Antarctica, and he showed them a
place at the opposite side of the Antarctica. “I’ve been trying to
confirm it! It’s location is exactly opposite it – at the other
side of the Antarctica!”


So you have it!” Anders replied. “What
about the hidden message on the Map? Will that confirm
it?”

Cronenberg nodded, to confirm it, still
wondering if he was wrong about it.

Anders took the treasure map off him and held
it up to the light, and turned it around and did it again, and
nodded his head in agreement, and replied, “Yes! It’s there!”

Cronenberg examined the treasure map and
turned it around and held it up to the light as well and was
surprised that the location names on the map when viewed through
the map from the back of the map had accurate location names at the
other location, at the exact opposite side of the Antarctica.

 

Chapter 28

 

The Diamonds

 

Once the sun shifted over the horizon
Cronenberg left the shuttle and pilots and other members of the
crew and joined Orwell and Anders outside, and they stood examining
the landing site with astonishment, as it was identical to the
other site that they had crashed near, where the diamonds were
supposed to be.

He closely examined the hill, and it was
identical to the hill the alien energy sphere had been found under,
and he joined Orwell and Anders as they started climbing up it, and
he recalled the explosion on the other hill that had destroyed
it.

It was incredible, and identical to the
other, and he believed that that the alien existence in the energy
sphere had copied it and had constructed the whole area where they
had crashed the shuttle, and why parts of it had been so strange
looking.

He could even see an identical other hill and
crash site, and where Campbell their flight engineer had been found
dead, and he realized now how he had died, and that it had been
Rosenberg all along, and he still could hardly believe it.

They had discovered Rosenberg and Commander
Eagle had been part of a group of cannibals, and he was astounded
that he had attacked and killed Campbell over at the hill, which he
still had a hard time believing, and that he could have actually
eaten parts of him, and he was sure it had been Rosenberg behind
Eagle going so far in his search for the treasure, and he was the
only one who had been with him and seen him taking the treasure map
from Anders’s skeleton, at their crash site near their crashed
shuttle.

In the end he just laughed at it, as it was a
joke, with him wondering how he could have missed such a thing, and
he wondered what they really had been up to!

At the top of the hill he thought of all the
events, since they had crashed, and knew he wanted the diamonds, as
they had hardly found anything worth anything, and even the diamond
he thought he had found at the other hill, over the alien energy
sphere and artifact, was a crystal, and made of an unknown
material, and had little value, and he believed the energy sphere
had been connected to it, and the hill had been destroyed when he
had taken it away, and that it had been connected to it all along,
and the energy sphere had only communicated with the scientists
when it had been there, and he was sure it had used it for some
purpose, as well as to get them to find it.

At the top of the hill they searched
everywhere, and it looked so empty, and just like another Martian
hill, and he started to think he had imagined its existence there,
and he examined the hill over at his side in the sunlight and
realized it would be best to walk along the length of the hill, and
explore the top, at both sides of them.

He realized that they had actually found out
what had nearly killed them and took control of the shuttle, and
why they had survived, and they had actually had found out what the
whole episode had been about. Nothing had seemed to add up
anywhere, and he could never have grasped anything if he had not
witnessed everything that he had! The real explanation was far more
than he could have imagined!

The events of the past months had been
unbelievable, and all the astronauts had become famous over it,
even though the media and scientists had believed a lot less than
they thought, and had not accepted their accounts of many things,
which was clear in all their descriptions in news reports there and
on the Earth, and the scientists had avoided telling them vast
amounts of details, even after them giving them all their photos
and film footage from their spacesuits, to their astonishment, and
going by what he had heard and seen governments and scientists had
started classifying most of it, and the black hole was no longer
being reported anywhere, and the information was being hidden
away.

The whole universe seemed to be altering all
about them, and improving, and he realized that the deadly crazy
gateway existence that had wiped out entire civilizations had been
destroyed and replaced, by the other existence, which had been
hidden away in a dormant state in the energy sphere and alien
artifact in the hill.

He now knew what it had done and why! The
original gateway existence had been too deadly and crazy, and the
other existence from the energy sphere had been infiltrating and
destroying vast regions of it, without it knowing it was there or
what was happening, as it had been designed to do, and had hidden
itself away in places it could not detect it, and in the crystal,
and it had transported them to the vital areas, where it also had
control of the gateways, while it had made many attempts at trying
to discover their identity, where they originated, which the other
covered up.

It was ancient and deadly, and as old as the
universe, and badly damaged and insane, and confused by them being
humans, as they were the same race that created it, and had helped
it defeat many deadly highly advanced races, and they had built it
as a defense existence system, and it had not been able to properly
recognize them in their state, as original humans, and it had only
known them as a far different highly advanced race, which had been
one of the most powerful in the universe, at the start of the
universe.

He realized everything, and knew the universe
would become far better, and he watched Anders staring at something
ahead, and he looked there, and realized it was the exact place
that had been over the energy sphere on the last hill, where he had
found the crystal, and they ran over to it, and they stood gasping
and looking everywhere at piles of colossal diamonds.

 

Epilogue

 

The Deadliest Danger in
Creation

 

From the dawn of the creation of the universe
the existence had one main purpose that it existed to fulfill and
that was what its creators had created it for and to control the
universe.

The Dyson Stargate had been created by the
creators and used in the complex creation of the universe, and used
to shift through the vast reaches of space, and throughout the vast
galaxies, but its use was hidden from the civilizations of the
universe.

Although the highly advanced technology of
highly advanced civilizations at the beginning of the universe
allowed them to gain control of vast gateway networks, and they
built others and vast complex networks into the deepest reaches of
the universe, and used them to take control of vast regions of the
universe, and deadly wars between them, with colossal ultimate
weapons, raged through the stars.

A single more highly advanced civilization
consequently gained control of the entire Dyson Stargate, including
the other gateways, which the Dyson Stargate always detected and
connected to, including artificial black holes, and the universe
existence helped the civilization construct a vast defense
existence, and the defense existence stopped highly advanced
civilizations of the universe using cosmic gateways!

It was perfect, and virtually perfected
beyond anything created, to accomplish its goal, to infinity, and
its energy field was almost undetectable in the outer universe,
with it mainly being scattered through vast dimensions in various
complex formations.

What they had not foreseen in its creation,
and in its long term use, was it having the ability to improve
itself and its technology, to compensate for alterations, and it
eventually started to destroy vast civilizations and species
throughout the universe!

Highly advanced civilizations consequently
created another like the defense existence, which annihilated vast
regions of the defense existence, before it was damaged, and nearly
destroyed, and it hid itself away, but continued its mission, and
it searched through the outcome of vast trillions of scenarios,
with its highly advanced ability to discover the outcome of events
in the future, until it found the best way to complete its
mission.

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