The Secret Bunker Trilogy: Part One: Darkness Falls by Paul Teague Page B

are sounding, the first release must have begun.
She’s making her way to the bunker, like everybody else is. That’s where he needs to be too.
He follows at a distance, an expert at not being seen, but is quick to
realise that they’re not going to make it to the bunker doors in time.
    He knows that when the first release is completed, they will not be
able to see a thing. So, she’s doing the best thing, the most sensible strategy right now is
to wait by those doors. She makes good decisions under stress.
Sooner or later they’ll be spotted and he’ll be able to get in.
He’ll just pretend to be bunker staff, nobody will know. He can patch in clearance levels when he gets inside, should be simple
enough.
    So as the woman and the child sit closely together on the left hand side
of the bunker doors, they are completely unaware that only a few feet
away from them, standing in complete silence and completely
unknown to them, is the man who will be forced to shoot one of them
in the next 36 hours.
A Lucky Hunch
    I’m pretty amazed that Kate and the two security guys just let me go
after that.
I suppose that they’ll know exactly where I’m going and what I’m up to
from the surveillance cameras that are positioned wherever I go in
this place. I assume that pretty well every room I go into must be monitored too.
    This place seems to run on biometrics and although I’m not entirely
sure what that means, I suspect that everything I do here is directly
tracked back to me. Which means that I can’t really get away with anything. The best bet, as far as I can tell at present, is to carry on exploring and
get a feel for this place. Really, we’re all waiting for that mission announcement which must
still be a few hours away. Plenty of time to have a good snoop around.
    First though, I decide to head directly for the bathroom and shower
areas because I want to get a look at my neck. I’m not really sure what happened to me in the MedLab earlier, I
assume I was just checked over to make sure everything was fine.
    That reminds me of another unusual thing that happened earlier. How come the darkness didn’t have any impact on me? I was in the entrance area at the same time as Dad, David and Harriet
and the bunker staff from the cottage area were also coming below
ground at that time. So why are they in the glass pods and I’m not?
I feeling totally fine now. I’m almost embarrassed to admit that after the temporary discomfort
of being all alone in that corridor for so many hours, and having
stuffed myself with food, I’m back to 100 per cent Dan.

If they have put one of those weird, glowing things into my neck, I
certainly can’t detect it. Neither does it seem to be making any impact on me, I can’t feel it
pulsating or vibrating in any way, so I assume I don’t have one.
I enter the bathroom area and head straight for a mirror.
    The light is unusual below ground, you can’t quite catch the full light
that you would if the area had a window to natural light.
I inspect my neck closely, on both sides, but I can see and feel nothing. I’m pretty sure I’m clear. I see a mirror that is lit better, so I go over to it and check again. Everything is fine.

Whatever Kate and the security guys have going on, I seem to be well
clear of it. I reckon it’s probably just something bunker related. A communication device or something like that. But I resolve to check out everybody that I encounter from now on to
see if they also have one of these devices fitted.
    Satisfied that all is as it should be, I leave the bathroom area and start
to walk along the corridor once again. It’s pretty quiet here, the main hub at present must be in the Control
Room which I’m guessing has changed quite a lot since I last saw it. I’d expect that to be a Red Zone area and although, in theory I’m
allowed in there, I decide that the best strategy is to explore as many
Green Zone areas as I can and just