“A third team was sent, this time they were accompanied by a group of soldiers, in case the last two groups had been attacked by bandits. At the time, outsiders rarely visited Tibet.
“It was a complete fluke that when the third group entered through the winding tunnels, out into the hidden valley that one of the soldiers was wearing a gasmask, due to suffering chest pains because of the high elevation. He thought breathing through the mask would help his lungs. It saved his life, and he was able to return to sound the alarm.”
Technicians were milling about; they had obviously finished their assignments.
“If you have finished, make your way to the elevators, and you will be taken back to the surface,” Doctor Hall announced.
A group of nine people left the room. They all seemed glad to be able to return to the world above.
Melanie found their nervousness odd.
“Archeology was just gaining ground and becoming popular. That’s when references to other pods started to make sense. The Egyptians painted images of it inside their temples and pyramids. The Mayans carved likenesses of it at Chichen Itza. It was also found referenced at Teotihuacán, in Mexico. At Angkor Wat in Cambodia. On one of the fifty tonne sarsen stones at Stonehenge. At the Puma Punku temple in Bolivia. In the Temple of Jupiter, in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. There is even a glyph of a pod in the Nazca Lines, in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. Even Babylonian stone tablets referenced it. And more recently at Gobekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey. All the ancient civilizations seemed to know about the pods and inscribed or carved warnings for future generations.
“It was later found out, while excavations were carried out, that some of the ancient temples and pyramids were built over the pods to protect mankind and stop the spores from spreading. One is beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. The second is inside the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán in Mexico. The third is inside the temple at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The fourth was discovered in a vast sealed temple cave in the Northwest Territories, near Great Bear Lake in Canada. The fifth is at Groom Lake, Nevada. You may know it as Area 51. Stories of crashed alien crafts and top-secret military black ops are just smoke screens to divert people from the truth. The American government has been studying the pod since it was discovered in July 1947.
“Four had been located by ancient civilizations, and sealed away beneath thousands of tonnes of stone. Clarkson found the fifth in Tibet, and a well digger found the sixth in Nevada. However, the ancient scripts and carvings described seven Seeds of the Gods.
“The first registered reference to a pod was found in Sumer, an ancient Sumerian city. The Sumerian legend, The Epic of Gilgamesh, referenced one on a clay tablet.” Doctor Hall seemed happy to impart his accumulated knowledge. It was so rare to find someone who had not been completely briefed.
“Nebuchadnezzar wrote about the pods, calling them the Temples of the Seven Lights of the Earth.”
Melanie was astounded that with so many pods in the world, that the story had not leaked.
“There were even references found in the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. The Great Isaiah Scroll, one of the seven original parchments, called them ‘Seeds of the Lord’. Other fragments, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean, written on parchments and papyrus and even engraved in bronze, also referenced the ‘Seeds’.
“Books that were not canonized into the Hebrew Bible, such as the Book of Tobit, Wisdom of Sirach, Psalms 152, Jubilees and the Book of Enoch all referenced the ‘Seeds’ God had placed on the earth.
“The Book of Enoch, sections obviously never released, even stated the ‘Great Flood of Gods Seeds’. This, some believe, to be the Great Flood, which wasn’t water, but a pandemic that wiped all living things of the face of the earth, apart from those inside the Ark.” Doctor Hall was enjoying giving the hidden history of the world.
“The governments that knew the secret have had teams of specialist searching for the last pod for sixty-six years. A group of loggers in a deep valley in Madagascar found it first.
“The rest, as they say, is history.” Doctor Hall’s fingers were twitching, possibly his nicotine habit was kicking in. He was a long way away from where he could smoke.
“Bunkers started being organized when the world’s population started growing, and mankind started expanding out into new regions. It would only be a matter of time before the last pod was found by someone who had no idea what it was, and touched it.”
“Finished,” the man sat at the computer said.
“If you would like to scan through the–”
A loud ear-piercing siren filled the room.
“What the hell?” Doctor Hall said as he walked over to a phone on the wall. He picked it up and pressed a quick dial button. He used his free hand to cover his other ear, so he could hear what was being said.
“What’s going on?” The doctor listened. His face paled. He slammed the phone down.
“We have to return to the surface; the prison is under attack.”
“Return to the surface? Surely, we are safer down here?” Melanie said while getting to her feet.
The technicians who were left in the room were running to the elevators.
“It doesn’t work like that. Only those who have been chosen are allowed to stay in the Ark. They will be starting to get them underground within the next hour.” The thin doctor was heading towards the exit.
Melanie was jogging along behind.
“I’m not going aboveground if we are under attack,” she stated and stopped dead.
The doctor spun around. “You don’t understand, only those chosen have had the injection needed to survive in the Ark!”
“Survive what? You said there was no cure for the spores?”
“The injection is not to counteract the spores. Only time locked away below ground, while the spores decimate the surface, eventually mutating from one species to another, until the whole planets surface has been wiped clean.
“The injection is because the whole underground bunker has been fitted with a system that will release a fine mist into the air ducts, which will affect everyone who hasn’t had the injection. Once the Adam and Eve finalists, and their support staff and protective soldiers, have been sealed underground, the gas is released to kill off any unauthorized technicians or hideaways. Only a chosen few can survive the end of days.”
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To be continued...
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part of the Sixth Extinction:
THE ARK
Out soon.
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