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which was folded away so the
station remained strictly hidden away, which they only used when
they gave out their communications and for extra supplies to be
brought.
    The soldiers eventually found the body under
snow and soon realized that it had not been moved since the soldier
had been killed, and they took it back to the ice station.
     

Chapter 7
     
    The Scientists
     
    He was glad that their investigation of
outside for the gunmen had never revealed anything, as he knew it
would have ended in many deaths by them, as they were not equipped
to carry out such an operation, and he was sure that it would still
have done so!
    It had amazed him that they could not find
any traces of them anywhere and that they just concluded that their
base was miles away, and perhaps buried away underground.
    Yet he could still not conclude what they
were doing there with so many gunmen and who they were, and why the
people running the ice station never acknowledged that they were
outside. There were a vast amount of deaths and they were in an
immense and major military ice station at the Antarctic with many
soldiers and they had gunmen running around outside, who had
attacked and killed their soldiers and they ignored it!
    After discussions with the leader of the
soldiers at the ice station they had found out little other than
the fact that the soldiers there surely had nothing to do with the
deaths and that they had been at the station too long and many of
them had turned useless as soldiers, and others drank crazily into
the night in loud parties into night!
    His investigations for his intelligence
mission had him all over the place meeting different people, and
getting suggestions of other things that still never added up,
which he was sure he was being denied as it would be dangerous.
Something was being hidden and they were all avoiding telling him,
and some even showed deep fear of something, which he never
grasped! Were people being killed for saying too much? If so he may
be able to find one!
    The problem was he never knew what he was
actually investigating, and he entered many laboratories and drank
with many of the scientists and tried to work out what they were
working on, but they normally just told him about what they were
doing, and he would realize that there was nothing there. Yet there
was always a suggestion that work was being carried out somewhere
else, which they refused to say anything further about, and many
times they belied he knew about it.
    He knew there were scientists that knew
something and he had to find a way to get them to tell him what he
wanted!
    He had some scientists show him around the
ice station and tell him what was happening there, and in various
laboratories, and he started removing things from a list of things
he wanted to investigate.
    The large aerial communication tower and a
satellite disc for satellite communications, which were folded down
to make the place hidden, were finally raised up to transmit
communications.
    It surprised him that the commander of the
ice station at breakfast announced that a supply plane would arrive
that day and he wondered why they had to parachute down when they
could have arrived in it, and he later went up to see it land on a
flat region, where their small vehicles had cleared a landing site,
which looked just like a frozen lake.
    Yet the thing he was surprised the most at
was the size of the plane and incredible amount of food supplies
that was taken from it into the ice station, and in the end he
explained it as them building up their supplies perhaps for the
dark polar winter.
    None of the scientists ever mentioned the
lower floors and he tried to question them and received little so
he decided he had to go there and see what was there for
himself.
    Technicians fixed up a small vehicle for him
and two scientists, which they used to transport themselves around
the ice station, and they finally persuaded them to go to the lower
floors of the ice station.
    They