The Lost Treasure Map Series (77 page)

“
What type of food does this dispenser
give?
”
Merton enquired, seeing him joking.

“
It recreated all the food samples
that I gave it, as well as giving other edible food and
drink!
”

“
This isn
’
t a joke is it?
”
Mortimer asked him,
examining him closely, and Bryson nodded to disagree.

“
Where did that come
from?
”
one
of the scientists gasped, and laughed.
“
We could do with something like that
around here! The food portions are getting smaller and smaller, and
the remaining food is all the rubbish left ...
”

“
And most of the water from out there
is full of dirt!
”
an archeologist continued.

“
All right follow me
then!
”
he
ordered, and you can have some proper stuff.

“
Does this magical food and drink
dispenser happen to give pints of beer?
”
Merton joked, and Bryson nodded
that it did.

As they all marched to the room others in
the rooms joined the group, and they entered the room amazed that
there was something there that resembled a food and drink
dispenser, which now resembled an airport food dispenser machine to
Bryson.

Bryson typed in beer into the dispenser
keyboard and a pint of beer appeared in it, and he handed it to
them and they handed it about, and he got more and handed them
about.

Most of them examined it and drank it
confused, wondering what it had been doing there, and why it
created Earth food and drink with an Earth keyboard, and the others
gasped at the possibilities of it, and Bryson wondered what they
would create.

“
What do think?
”
Merton asked Mortimer, and
he laughed loudly, and the others joined in.

Later he was surprised when Parker came in,
from the outside with water supplies, and was amazed to see them
all drinking beer and tea and eating restaurant meals, and when he
enquired about it he ended up more confused!

Bryson eventually told them, and that he had
found how to control the major functions of the walls!

When they started their investigations
deeper into the castle it was in search of the treasure there and
it was organized by Parker and some of his men, with Bryson and the
two psychic investigators, and some other scientists and
archaeologists helped, who were curious what was there in the
unexplored regions.

They had been no further than at the
bottom floors of the central stair region, at the
castle
’
s
entrance, and Parker
’
s idea of going up the spiral stairs to the
top floor was really interesting.

Bryson slowly climbed all the steps studying
everything, while curiously watching Parker, as he followed Parker
up, and occasionally listened to the others behind him, and Bryson
noticed that his surroundings suddenly seemed to get dirty and
dirtier the further up they went and by the time they reached the
top they were sweeping away thin vines, like plant roots, which
hanged down from the roof overhead, which increased, and he saw the
structure at the top was cracked in places where the vines had
entered, but he realized no large amount of water had got in and
onto the stairs, and he started to consider there being dangerous
insects there.

“
Well!
”
Parker conclusively announced,
breaking his silence.
“
We have reached the top! There must be many
other staircases throughout the building as it goes out for
miles.
”

They entered deeper into the top floor, and
turned on their lights, and it looked incredible to Bryson! It
looked entirely different, and it had not preserved itself like the
rest of the structure, and it looked like the whole structure might
have originally been like it, but newer.

It was like seeing a real alien haunted
castle, where strange supernatural existed, and he considered it as
being one of the only places like it and one of the most powerful
places on the island, and world.

The corridor had to be the most ghostly
darkest places in a modern building that he had seen, and it was
even more still, silent, and empty as was possible. Even with the
lights on there were strange haunting dark shadows and glows that
held secrets and dangers!

They soon started thinking of the lost
treasure that was thought to be buried away somewhere! Most of them
had intended to do something when they could to find it! The cost
of the building proved that if there was something there that it
could have far more value!

They remained mainly together and wandered
along the corridor in the one direction, in the direction that they
had been going in outside the castle before they had found the
entrance.

With startled and bemused faces many of them
searched its interior, with faint thoughts of what it would be like
staying there in darkness. The place to everyone there seemed to
have connections to the occurrences in the wood, and it at times
was like being in a central area where something existed that was
more powerful than anything else on the island, and the stuff in
the wood avoided going there because of its power! It was like it
was checking them out and that it had hidden intentions to do
things with them!

The treasure being hidden away there was
like something were using it to lure people there to their deaths
of something, or like spiders using bate to trap insects onto their
webs, and he wondered again if he could survive this adventure, and
return home! How the hell were they going to get home? He realized
many of the others had faith in it happening for some reason and he
just left it open! Contacting the thing that landed the airplane
there was their only real chance of getting the island to reappear
home again!

Merton wandered about smiling and smoking a
cigarette, which he had the food dispenser make for him, from one
of his last cigarettes, and he spoke to anyone he met with
confidently, and they gave him startled expressions to the
surroundings and to him being a leading investigator of psychic
occurrences.

Parker started giving them confidence in
carrying out the tasks that they did, while gently persuading them
to do what he wished, and talked them into using their powers of
deduction to find clues or anything there. Motivation seemed to
make everything work, and they were all positively charged!

As they passed different rooms it became
clear that nobody had been anywhere near there in an incredible
amount of time! Dirt and what looked the fossilized remains of
alien insects and creatures shrouded regions they met with!

Nothing showed any clues to what Bryson
wanted, and all the major things still made little sense.

The killer had to be ruthless and carefree
to have done what he had done and in the way that it had been done,
especially to one of them, and having to live with them! Perhaps
permanently!

The person had done it right under their
noses! Yet it could indicate that he never fully knew them or what
they were like, and that he was an outsider, and Bryson tried to
fit the description onto all of them and realized that there were
more strangers there than he had been thinking there was.

From the looks that he had caught when the
subject had come up he knew that the incident had affected most of
them deeply! Some of them had even been argumentative when the
others mentioned the dead guy, and he was sure that they had not
found any major clues on the death yet.

Bryson touched his cold sore forehead with
his fingers, feeling it as if the coldness had sunk through into
his brain, and blamed it on the lack of sleep he was getting!

Through large cracks in the roof and walls
he saw that the world was now at the intergalactic sky and he tried
checking again how it affected the surrounding world and climate
conditions. He saw that it had still stopped raining and that there
was a good chance, according to his earlier forecast, that the
weather would stay that way until their night.

He again wondered what beings had lived
there, and if they had been identical to humans, as everything was
sized and perfectly designed for them, and he wondered what had
happened to them, and if they had slowly expired or if something
had killed them off!

He wondered if the killer had an interest in
something that they never knew about and had even killed for
it!

A loud thud emerged away in the distance and
they all grew silent and considered it, and Bryson knew it was an
immense meteor strike. Perhaps in the cavity itself! And Bryson
watched some of the others and he heard one mention earthquake,
making some of them even change their interest there to other
places, and he heard some of their communications blaring out as
they spoke to people below at the bottom of the castle, showing
Bryson and the others there that they had adapted their
communications to work on the island, which Bryson had seen them
creating parts for from the machines that they had created with
their minds in the walls of their rooms.

They had discovered many other things than
his food and drink dispenser, and he realized that it would have
been a mistake keeping it a secret. The scientists were able to
create parts and devices to use for their work, and even the
archeologists had created many things, and he had seen the
appearance of many things and living aids there and knew that they
could survive well there, and wondered if they could create some
vehicle for their transportation through the castle.

Yet could they build small airplane? Yet
that would take months and there was nowhere they could use to take
off and land! Though the site the airplane had landed at was flat
he did not know if they could use it to land such a small and
fragile plane!

Some of the scientists with Parker had
formed a group that were going to act as the police to stop the
killer if he struck again, and they caught him, and Bryson noticed
Mortimer joined them, but others left it.

“
We can separately look
about,
”
Parker declared, clearly getting interest with the
idea.
“
We
can cover more ground!
”

They all split up and into groups, going
into rooms, and searching more, and Bryson started to enjoy himself
more, and so did Merton and Mortimer. It was incredible they were
probably the only people to have explored something of some alien
technology. If they could find things and return to the Earth the
value of it would be immense, and he was also looking for things of
value to them to survive there.

Bryson marched away on his own to where he
thought there was one of the main rooms ahead, which was a larger
and unusual room that he was sure was an important room.

It was incredible how fast Merton followed
him and Mortimer rushed after him, and he watched Merton follow,
seeing he also thought that it was the most interesting place to
go, but he probably also thought that he had discovered
something.

What he liked about the upper floor was that
it was damaged and had things that were in the original way of the
castle, and had not been altered by what was altering the rest of
the castle, and that things there showed things of the original
ancient structure.

He was sure that if there was anything about
to give them evidence of what existed there that it would be there,
and he was determined to look in depth for it.

The archeologists mainly agreed to search
around the corridor from room to room checking for anything, and
look through vast heaps of dirt and rot piled up in regions, from
regions of the structure crumbling with deterioration.

The door to the room was firmly shut and
felt locked when Bryson reached it, just before the other two had
made it to him, and he quickly confirmed that it was locked and
realized that it was the only room that he had seen closed there.
For some reason they remained open when there was nobody in them,
and he gasped wondering why.

“
Curious!
”
Mortimer muttered, seeing his
reaction as he arrived.
“
Very curious! It
’
s locked from the inside, of
course!
”

Merton ducked low and shoved hard at
it and moved backwards, and asked,
“
We could wait and try to find a key
or something, which may not exist. Or we could just break it
in?
”

“
Let
’
s try and break it
in!
”
Mortimer quickly replied first.
“
What
’
s in there could be of value to us!
And if we leave it someone else will do it first! This place is
getting more and more excited, and they
’
re looking for action and results
...
”

“
All right!
”
Bryson replied.
“
How strong is that door? And
can we actual smash it in?
”

Mortimer immediately left to nearby rooms
until he found what he wanted, and arrived with a large chunk of
stone, collapsed in from the roof, and they used it to smash in the
lock and viciously shove it in, until the door screeched right
inwards and Bryson saw only darkness and that the room was covered
in thick blankets, and dust blew up and flew over them as they
shifted in and they entered like they were entering a sacred
region.