Return to The Deep (From The Deep Book 2) by Bray Michael

Author:Bray, Michael [Bray, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2015-01-21T18:30:00+00:00

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PROJ BLUE

O/MIST ENCOUNTER

UNVERIFIED

With his heart trip hammering against his ribcage, Decker looked at the other photographs. Both were taken in what looked to be the creature’s lair. The grainy image showed a gargantuan bowl of water, and on the edge, a smaller version of the creature from the first photo. Due to his interest in the subject, Decker had seen his share of fakes. In a world of Photoshop, it was very easy to make realistic looking forgeries if someone had the skill. However, this photo looked...right. It looked real. It wasn't designed to show the creature in frightening pose or from deliberately arty camera angles. It looked exactly like it was - an obviously quick photograph taken in the heat of the moment without wanting to be detected.

The third photo was similar, but from a wider angle, and showed people in the cave, agents armed with weapons and clad in snow gear. The creature was still visible at the water’s edge, but also beyond a huge wake in the water. This photo had been written on in the same hand. Above the wake in the water, was written: Adult female.

Even more interestingly, was the man at the forefront of the image. He was in profile, and looked to be shouting orders as he pointed at the creature. Above him, written in pen was a single word.

Russo.

The man who the government had insisted never existed when Decker had queried, the man who for all intents and purposes, was an enigma, a ghost.

It was enough to spur Decker into action. If the government were so unwilling to talk, then he would take matters into his own hands and go look for himself. The submersible had been specifically designed for this one project at a cost of almost three hundred million dollars. He had hired the best staff. The submersible pilot was a veteran of several high pressure dives including numerous visits to the wreck of the Titanic. Decker's plan was simple. He wanted to see if there was still a way into the alleged underwater cave, and if so, he wanted to go in and look for himself.

"I don’t see anything," Decker said, cupping his hands to see through the tiny window.

"Look on the screen," the pilot said, speaking perfect English despite being French.

Decker shifted position in the cramped sub, his arms brushing against the arrays of wires that covered the interior.

"See there?" the captain said, pointing to the screen.

Decker could see it. The video feed came from the high powered cameras mounted at the front of the sub. In missions that relied on greater depths, they were quite useless and couldn’t penetrate the blanket of darkness in the deep. For the shallows, however, they delivered a fantastic panorama of the crisp blue ocean. On the screen, the base of the Ross Ice Shelf met with the ocean floor. Majestic for its sheer size, Decker had to remind himself that he was underwater and not in outer space. In the centre of the screen, the evidence of the collapse was plain to see.

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