THE LAST REVELATION (Ulysses Vidal Adventure Series Book 3) by Fernando Gamboa

Author:Fernando Gamboa [Gamboa, Fernando]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

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“Man, that’s blacker than the armpit of a cricket,” I told Cassie when I popped my head out of the water. “I can’t see the bottom. I calculate it must be at least four or five meters down.”

“Maybe if we’d come during the day—”

“You know that would have been impossible. Besides,” I added, “it wouldn’t have made that much difference this far down.”

“So then?” she asked.

“No idea,” I confessed. “We can come back tomorrow with stronger lights and our tanks.”

“No way. We could do some dives right now,” she suggested. “Go as far down as we can, holding our breath.”

“We won’t get very far that way.”

“Even if it’s only a few meters, it’s better than just stopping here, isn’t it?”

It was true I would have felt like a fool just returning to the surface. Especially since the idea of going down the well had been mine. “You’re right,” I agreed. “But let’s be very careful.”

“Yes, Daddy,” Cassie teased.

“I’m serious,” I reproved her without smiling. “In spite of our headlamps, we can’t see very far, and who knows what they may have thrown down here—ropes, wire, pieces of metal . . . You could cut yourself or get tangled up on something and not be able to get out.”

“Fine, fine,” she grumbled. “I’ll be careful. Who wants to go first?”

“Let’s take turns,” I suggested. “While one of us goes down, the other can keep watch from ab—”

“I’ll go first,” she said, cutting me off before I’d finished my sentence. She pulled on her mask. “Be right back.”

Taking a big breath, and turning upside down in the water like a duck, she disappeared into the blackness. One second her face had been right next to mine and the next, all I saw were her feet churning the water. “Jesus Christ . . .” I muttered, turning my face away from all the splashing she was doing.

It was then that I heard the professor’s voice, echoing off the walls of the well far over my head, as if God were speaking through an old megaphone.

“Everything all right down there?” he asked.

“All good!” I said, raising my voice and my thumb as I looked up into the light from his headlamp. “Everything okay up there?”

“Boring. Have you discovered anything?”

“Not yet!” I called. “Cassie dove down to see if she can see anything under the water. I’ll tell you later!”

“Great!”

“Oh, Prof! One more thing.”

“What?”

“Remember, you have a walkie-talkie. So we don’t have to shout back and forth!” Two seconds later, static sounded from my walkie-talkie, enveloped in plastic bags, when the professor pushed the transmit button.

“Hello? Hello? Do you hear me?” A metallic version of his voice came through the speaker of my radio. “Umm . . . oh, yes. Over.”

“Loud and clear, Prof,” I answered. “Over.”

“Well yes, this is better,” he admitted with a guilty chuckle. “I was getting hoarse yelling down to you,” he said, then added, “Over and out.”

I returned my attention to whatever was happening under my feet. Cassie had been underwater for more than thirty seconds.

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