Chapter 7

“What the hell was that?” Jamie thought flabbergasted as she saw Rob run out like a mad man. “No way am I dating that guy, I think I dodged that bullet.” She put her hair back in place, began to get ready for bed, and then thought a little more. “I wonder what he just came up with?”

Dr. Geyser was running like a mad man. He was “singing in the hurricane.”

“I got it I got it! How did I not see it before!!!!! We’re in the same boat! We’re the same!!!” He ran and yelled down the long corridors underground. Oh what he would give to run in the rain. What he would give to run down a meadow. There hasn’t been that in decades. He remembers it vaguely. Last picnics on the few lawns left over, with his parents eating the little food that was available at the time. Oh the precious days, precious in the memory now but at the time, it was just life. Had they only known then what they know now.

“How did I not see it!!!!!????” He kept yelling to himself. After all, he was one of the scientist on the execution of the underground city plan. They modeled it after the Australian underground desert cities that began in the late 20th century.

He ran into his lab and pulled up maps on the screen. Slammed his fist into the table and called: call Jim Hyunh home.

“Hey Rob what’s up!?”

“Jim, are you wearing glass?”

“Yeah”

“OK I’m sending you something.”

“Wait, what is that? Is that what I think it is? Holly fuck!!!”

“Yeah..”

“So if this is true.. then what came first, the chicken or the egg… I guess we’re the chicken..”

“Uh-uh..”

“You have to write this up! We need to get the committee together. I mean is it possible that they came here? If they came here.. then what happened to them? Are we them or did they die off?”

“I don’t know Jim but I will write this up and send it to the journals.”

“No, that will take too much time, they will ignore you, they will bury you. We need to form a small group of people we know and trust. This idea is too huge to just let out like this. Those who don’t know you and those who don’t like you will have time to destroy you. Here’s what we’ll do, you write it up and I get a group of us together for a small conference. It will be invite only here in Hong Kong. Here you will present the findings and here you will show your paper and from here you will send it to the journals. We as a group will discuss the best way to go forward, we will use our connections to push this into the government and to our sources and connections. This is too important to just let loose. Sounds good?”

“Thanks Jim, that sounds great.”

As Dr. Geyser hung up the phone, he sat down. Writing had never been a problem for him but this was too huge… The blank page was eerie and begged the words but there was too much in his mind at the moment.

He put his hands on the keyboard softly, the keys lit up, he closed his eyes and began to type:

“In the beginning….”