The God in the Clear Rock by Lucian Randolph

Author:Lucian Randolph
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nanotechnology, apocalyptic, quantum computer, military adventure, giants, high technology, ancient civilizations, hard science, epic sci fi
Publisher: McDonald Press Publishing Co.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

December 19, 2012 AD – 12:59 PM,

Mayan Archeological Dig, Yucatan

18:59 GMT

“Hang on.”

Marissé stopped abruptly, and Jacinto almost ran into her from behind. Before she started off into the pitch black darkness in front of her, she checked her watch one more time.

She first checked it when she and Jacinto returned to camp to get the equipment. They’d started into the pyramid about an hour after the aurora light show ended and everyone went home. They were back at the camp a half hour after they entered the pyramid and found the secret passage. Then they were back in the pyramid in under twenty minutes with arms full of equipment. She and her favorite Cuban grad student only marked off the body of the Mayan warrior in front of the hidden entrance. They would do the others later. Once they had it marked off, they photographed the body and the scene in detail, but quickly.

Then they laid out the specialized body bag that would wrap around and protect the almost five-hundred-year-old Warrior Priest. After so many centuries, his body was much lighter due to the loss of fluid weight. They both gingerly moved the hero onto the pure white cloth of his first formal funerary covering. Then they lifted the padded, anti-static, and germ-proof material over the partially mummified warrior. Both Marissé and Jacinto crossed their chests as they zipped the bag over the seated Mayan Priest. Peace and glory would now come to the chosen savior of the God in the Clear Rock. Five centuries after the heroic action of this one man; which were added to the hardworking sacrifice of millions of people over ten millennia; who came together to build this holy-purpose facility and to protect the God that commanded them to build it; after all of that, this one servant of the God of the Maya would finally be laid to rest in peace.

Then Marissé and Jacinto photographed and scaled the section of the carved relief wall that the holy soldier had leaned himself against. It was Jacinto that found the notch-plate in the topmost section of the oblong tunnel plug. They carefully used a rubberized crow bar to wiggle out the hatch covering the hidden corridor. After she had made sure the air inside the tunnel was not foul, she took the air circulator hose and pointed it into the hole. The air did not readily go into the tunnel. This meant that the hole did not open up into a vented room, which was unlikely anyway this deep underground.

But she had to check.

She was a scientist, and that’s what they did. They checked things.

Marissé checked her watch, again. She and Jacinto were now headfirst and prone crawling through the hidden tunnel into the side of the subterranean chamber. Marissé had talked herself into this action by concluding that the deceased and scratched crawler outside the tunnel, must have come out from the tunnel. And since the tunnel did not seem to have any venting

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