George,Karl,Emily and Bill began walking through the long halls of the laboratory which are plated with galvanized steel ,with a shiny look to them,they made their way to the deepest part of the laboratory through the elevator placed at the end of the corridor.
The elevator smoothly and swiftly reached down 8 floors below the baseline floor where they were staying prior. The doors of the elevator opened mechanically with a sound of an AI voice indicating that they reached the end of their tunnel.
They moved into a large hall with dozens of people working together ,with large laboratory equipment and a couple of robots moving here and there, they were divided apart from the laboratory with a huge transparent glass door across them, a lab assistant was standing behind the counter in front of the glass door waiting for them.
The lab assistant gave the 4 ,two pairs of suit and instructed them to wear them properly. The working personnel and visitors of the lab are required to wear these high-end gear to tackle the temperature of -459F in the lab. The laboratory is maintained at this temperature to keep the quantum computers cool.
After adjusting the suits the four moved into the lab. They walked towards Dr.Phillip who was engrossed with his work ,who seemed to studying a large pile of book which is around a meter thick. Dr.Phillip is a old man who seemed to be around in his late 60's with messy unkempt white hair going all over his head.
His physique is a build which you might call a typical stereotype for a scientist.
Bill went to Dr.Phillip to call him, but he soon regretted his decision to do that ,as he always had to face the wrath of his boss when he disturbs him from his work ,but he had no choice in it, it is his work.
"You fool , why have you disturbed me now , you have taken away the glimpse of my aspirations in finding the mystery." Phillip said ,even though he is the one who wanted to invite captain George and his party.
"Sorry sir, I have called for captain George and his team and the rest of the teams are already waiting for you in the conference room."
"Yeah ok, I forgive you this time, How many times I have to tell you not to disturb me in my work time, the next time it will not fare well for you."
Bill bent somewhat , to give the idea that he is aware of his mistake ,but thought internally-"You old nuts , if it not for me who have given you your meals on time and took care of you according to you needs ,you would be one foot in the grave, I will just let you rot next time."
Phillip looked towards George and his team and said to George-"Let's go George I have to discuss something with you and others involved in the mission, and I have forgotten to mention that after this meeting we are moving to a important location where Mr.Frank and his associates are coming."
"You should have informed us before Phillip that Mr.Frank and others are coming, at least we would be bothered to prepare ourselves beforehand for two or three days."
"Not my fault , I think the management team for this operation should have mentioned this to you ,but the security of Mr.Frank and his associates is no joke, their security is even levels above UN board members. Anyways let's go the meeting is about to start." said Dr.Phillip.
"Yeah right" replied George.
The group of 5 went to a side hall attached to the laboratory which is located in a very unsuspecting corner of the lab.The door of the hall is attached in a way, that it blended so perfectly with the wall that you cannot distinguish it.
The door of the lab slid open to make a way for the group of five. Upon entering the hall you could see a crowd of people sitting on the seats which are positioned in theater style, and a dias raised in front of the crowd.
Upon seeing George ,a person who is around 7foot tall with shiny black beard who seems to be in his mid 30's ,greeted him.
"Hi George ,how's your team doing I think your team is out of commission for the past few months, good for you enjoying in your free time."
"Don't make it like you envy me Paul ,you were also free in this period other than excavating those few inscriptions from Pyramids of Giza, a few months ago."
As they were conversing they were suddenly interrupted by Dr.Phillip who was standing on dias and began speaking about the project.
"My dear colleagues we have hit a major wall in the findings for our expedition , and our findings from the murals in the deep Atlantic and Pyramids of Giza have revealed that there was a power that visited Earth in the past ,we found a lot of similarities between the inscriptions on the black pillars and on the pyramids of Giza. This lead to undisputed evidence that there was something at hand here, unless there was there is no way that two civilizations that are nearly 7000-8000 years apart have similar inscriptions." said Dr.Phillip who was simultaneously showing two different types of inscriptions on the projector and comparing them.
"We got leads about an island that is located in center of bermuda triangle that appears exactly at full moon day between 12 midnight and 2 am , the next full moon appears in 5 days, so all of you given the opportunity to be further part in this expedition and, you are to sign this document that says we will not be responsible for any deaths that might occur in this expedition , and if you die your beneficiary will receive an amount of 10 million. Uninterested people can go now." Dr.Phillip said as his eyes behind his lenses moved around the crowd ,to see if anyone was willing to go.
Around half of the people got up from the crowd and exited the room, no one was asking why they are leaving , as this is understandable tendency of human nature to avoid danger, but all the remaining people here are not remaining out of selfness compassion they are here for various reasons, some for money, some for fame after this expedition, but there were also a lot of people that are eager for the findings of the expedition and the unattainable vial of immortality that might really be present.
Karl was one of such people, he was brimming with unquenchable greed for immortality behind his facade of calmness, after all who do not desire immortality ,are rich are the only ones that desire the untainted flower, are only those in power are the only one deserving it , no it is the right of everyone to wish for it , but it will all but remain a dream, but a opportunity has arose now to shed the mortal skin and step on the clouds.
Karl thinks all those people who have left are shortsighted , as at the end of the day you will turn to mortal dust without immortality , so risking your life for immortality is worth it, if you die you are destined to die anyways at end of your road ,all the wealth ,fame ,popularity will fade one day in the book of time slowly , to remain unfaded to the passage of time is to have immortality.
But you cannot blame others on their decision as each one have their own perspective to a situation, if they leave they can at least be happy and live their life in peace , but for the rest that stayed here it might spell doom.
A lot of people's thought is similar to Karl, if there was a way for their desires to echo it will cause ,a beating of hearts that produces sonic booms.
But this lot of people have hid their desires behind their faces, after all these people didn't climb the stairs while acting as teenagers.
One by one, people began to sign the documents and leave the lab , they were given instructions about the meeting that will happen tomorrow before they left.
Author's Note:(Who do you think will come above on this grand scheme? interested let's find out..)