The Deadliest Alien Artifacts (Story Collection) by V Bertolaccini Page B

vast!
    Who had dug such a hole? And he wondered if
it was by some foreign country that intended to destroy the secret
military station?
    It was then that he discovered an old rope
and harness buried away in the snow, and knew he had a way to climb
down, and he decided to investigate it, while avoiding being killed
by them or the blizzard! He was sure it had been dug for a reason
and that something was just below him!
    He swiftly attached the ropes and fitted the
harness around him and shifted in, and turned on his light, and
covered the top with the wooden cover.
    Mind-bending sounds and echoes from the
haunting blizzard screamed down through the ice shaft with fury and
left him stunned at the dangers, and no matter how he tried to
shake it off and contemplate identities his thoughts never formed
stable recognitions of what was occurring in the blizzard
above!
    The ice that the tunnel went through
fascinated him as it was different from the regular ice below the
ground there! It looked to him to have been formed from water that
had melted and had been frozen quickly afterwards!
    Clouds of powdered snow and snowflakes
swirled down and through the beam from his light and he continued
to release the rope, edging him down, seeking to discover what was
below.
    He realized that he had avoided being killed
after all and wondered if he was going to be killed later, when he
climbed back up and went outside.
    He groaned as he moved down, realizing the
mistake he was making and the trouble he would have getting back to
the surface and trying to find the ice station in the dark.
    He stopped and dangled about on his rope and
examined how the tunnel had been cut, while glimpsing parts of the
shaft above, and was surprised again at how large and expensive the
equipment used must have been.
    He had always wanted to investigate some
great mystery and it had even helped lead him into becoming a
scientist, at such a far out desolate location, and he wanted to
explore more. He had wanted to explore and discover new things of
value and greatness, and perhaps even be remembered in history
somewhere!
    What interested was why they had gone to
such lengths to kill him, and why he had not known about the
tunnel! Surely they had a way of examining below the ice and would
have done it while constructing the underground ice station,
especially with it being of so confidential and belonging to the
military.
    What treasures could be hidden away in such
a region, with it being one of the last not properly explored
regions?
    What was he dealing with though? Why were
they trying to kill him? Were they protecting something that they
had hidden there?
    Something of unfathomable unidentifiable
nature could be under him and he had to explore it!
    As he lowered himself progressively he
started to realize the depth of it and that there could be
something there!
    Something could be secretively built there
with the help of the Russian spies in the ice station, and to be
used to destroy the entire ice station in an atomic war!
    He realized the implications of the find and
that he would have to check what was there, no matter what! He
could not let it go, and he had to survive and give the information
to someone.
    Willis was blinded by the black abyss below
him as he lowered himself down through the cold tunnel, uniquely
drilled with an incredible precision.
    He gripped the rope hard, but spun round,
and fixed his foot against the tunnel wall to stop it, and looked
up to the top of the tunnel and just saw darkness there now, and
looked and listened to what was there, and realized that if he was
caught there they could cut the rope and let him fall to his death
at the bottom. If he never died he would starve to death there!
    So far he had been unchallenged with his
insistence in going down and he realized that he best increase his
speed!
    A silent thud echoed down from the top and
eventually a cloud of snow came down making him gasp and search for
anything, and consider