The Thing: from the Depths of Hell by V Bertolaccini Page B

two
scientists and all their assistants were speedily monitoring
everything, which confused Kruger when his normal scientist
opinions surfaced, and he wondered what there was to monitor
there.
    The dark sky
through a porthole in the spacecraft showed it was located at the
edge of the spacecraft, and showed the abyss of billions of light
years of blackness.
    This region of
the spacecraft now looked silent and lifeless place to him. The
area was virtually an empty zone, which they liked for their
work.
    Many regions
aboard were empty though. The immense miles of corridors were by
far greater room than was needed, and it was there either for
looks, and showing the immense power of the craft, and the GSO, or
it was needed in the future for some unknown mission.
    “ How are
you, Kruger!” Mitchel, the older of the two scientists, asked,
dragging himself away from his work, after suddenly realizing
something, and that Kruger’s visit was more, and it was far more
than what they were doing.
    “ Great!
Seen the media?”
    “ Everyone has! And you! You’re famous!”
    Bryan, the
second of the two scientists, marched over after seeing them talk,
and patted him on the back.
    Kruger
recalled again why they liked him so much, and it was more him
being a leading scientist on aliens than anything.
    Kruger
examined their assistants and equipment carefully, placed evenly
apart. He estimated the temperature there and outside, and wondered
if it was colder at the edge of the craft.
    “ What is
this stuff for?” he asked them, for something to say, and to see if
he could find out something about their work, unless they wished to
conceal it.
    “ We have
been checking outside!” Bryan answered first.
    “ What in
that emptiness? What the hell could exist out there?”
    “ It is a
good way of detecting if there is something near here!” he
replied.
    “ So you
should theoretically detect anything around here as well!”
    “ Yes!
Why?”
    “ So did
you detect anything from that alien we encountered?”
    They
simultaneously nodded in disagreement, firmly, but he sensed there
was something else that they were not saying, and he only needed to
wait for while for them to agree to something and tell him.
     

Chapter 17
     
    The Discovery
     
    It never took
long for the two scientists to make an agreement, after conferring
in whispers at the other end of their laboratory, and they marched
over, with Mitchel in front, while Bryan followed trying to calm
him, and persuade him into not doing anything too hastily.
    He soon saw
his point of view when they confided with him that they wished him
to keep their research confidential, especially with him being in
the media, and meeting leading scientists, and they wanted him to
agree to a verbal contract agreement of not disclosing anything
without their consent, which he agreed to, and wondered what they
could actually discover.
    As they
considered what to say next, Kruger examined nearby equipment, and
that he recognized, and that it was for detecting neutrinos, and he
considered what it was for, and just guessed it was another way of
detecting paranormal phenomena.
    Bryan moved
over again, and considered what he was doing, and examined him for
a few seconds.
    “ We are
checking outside, as we detected something strange out
there!”
    “ When
was that?”
    “ When we
entered the region of this void!”
    “ What
did you detect?”
    “ We
barely even found it,” Mitchel added. “It was pretty well
concealed!”
    Kruger looked
confused, and wondered what they were suggesting, and why they were
so secretive anyway. Surely they would only receive fame for their
discovery. Scientists all over the ship would have announced
whatever it was straightaway, without any hesitation, just to be
acknowledged as the finders, and they wished it concealed.
    “ We
found something new!” Bryan continued. “And we have not seen
anything like it before. It is totally unknown, and it has
intelligence!”
    “ A