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went down different floors at a
specially designed region for the vehicles, away at the end of a
main central corridor, and when they started to get near the lower
floors he started to see the deterioration in the corridors and
rooms, and it was as though he were traveling in a time machine
into the past, and at the bottom two floors there was so much
deterioration there that rubbish and rubble, collapsed walls,
dampness and rot was covering the entire corridors and rooms, and
only a few lights were still working. And he started to realize
that the killers, who surely had a highly desperate and ongoing
motive to kill, could be outsiders and be hidden away there, and
that they could be part of the gunmen group that had shot at
them.
    When he got out the vehicle he watched
everywhere for movement and evidence showing that anyone had been
there, and he and the two scientists marched through the bottom
corridor and connecting corridors searching for anything, and
anything lurking in shadows. The place was vast and went out to
quarter of a mile forward and sideways.
    Weaver had his gun, and army clothes on, and
led them along occasionally entering rooms studying everything and
things of interest, while curiously watching the reactions of the
scientists to things, and he sensed that they had not been there
and had been warned about the dangers of the killers.
    He noticed that his surroundings suddenly
seemed to get dirtier and dirtier and seemed to remain clean in the
central region for some reason, and it became clear someone had
cleared everything away from there to make a pathway.
    There were too many unsolved mysteries!
Another main one emerged and what the place was to do if a war
broke out and it was to be used, as it had no real use in a war
anywhere, and he could not see it even carrying anything out! They
built such a massive building and kept the place going for nothing
as far as he could see. Occasionally he heard loud deep thuds below
and realized that the thick Antarctic ice was under there.
    Further in he had to sweep away webs to enter
rooms, and some hanged down from the roof overhead going across to
the walls, and he would study ancient laboratories and apparatuses
with deep interest wondering what they had been for, and what
highly confidential discoveries they were researching and
creating.
    He wondered if they would have anything left
to discover someday, and tried to find any books with details of
the work and found little, other than old tattered sheets of paper
with useless scribbles on them.
    He even started considering if the place
could be revived someday, and if the world in the future, hundreds
or even thousands of years from then could increase their
transportation and civilization to the Antarctic, and if they would
have cities at the region and if they had to defend it in future
world wars, and he realized that he was underestimating the
future.
    He realized that no real dampness and water
had entered that area recently, and there were cracks in the outer
places where the outer ice was.
    “ Well! ” one of the scientists conclusively
announced, breaking his silence. “ We have searched! The rest of the
place must be the same, as it is throughout the
complex! ”
    They entered deeper into it and he turned on
lights in some of the rooms to see there in more detail, and it
looked incredible, and he realized that he had started to enjoy
exploring there! It looked entirely different to anywhere he had
normally been, and mysterious things kept him intrigued. It had
preserved itself and it held all the past secrets, and perhaps
hidden military secrets, and he wondered what kind of secret
weapons they could have discovered that might not have been
revealed to the world, and he wondered what the whole structure
might have originally been like when built.
    Then while approaching a corridor going
sideways at his front, a white shape seemed to jump out, and he
then saw a scientist in a white laboratory jacket