 |
|
Andrew reporting.
...(static)...
...ultimately decided to reboot the ship's computer. I have been working on
this project for nearly six hours. The computer will not reboot. It will
not shut down. It will not accept additional instruction sets. The malfunction
remains undiagnosed...
...(static)...
...further information on the energy field. It surrounds the ship. I could
indulge in a bit of wild speculation, the kind that our friends on Earth
find so effective, which statistically often yields correct results from
insufficient data...
...(static)...
Did you ask it nicely?
"Andrew, I think you should talk with Isaac. He spent a lot of time communicating
with Daniel, and I think he knows something that might help us."
When I asked Isaac earlier if he knew anything about The...
...(static)...
...and the whole concept was so vast and indescribable. True, it was diffused
over an area of 1027 cubic kilometers, but Isaac says it has now condensed...
...(static)...
...during this time it became sentient. Although I don't think he means sentient like us.
The Amphibian became more stable. It doesn't change colors so often anymore,
and it started to move. We still keep a cautious distance from each other.
Guess what? It started to pile rocks. One pile with seven rocks, then one
with five rocks, and now it finished one pile with eleven rocks.
That isn't Morse code. It seems very familiar.
Looks like the Amphibian wants to tell us something. But I have no idea what
it means. Maybe you know.
Would be great, if we could make friends with that Amphibian. At least it is
trying to talk to us. No one else does. Also, the Ipsolstai left Gail and Theresa
on their own, and Andrew, Bette and Daniel are drifting through space alone,
though they got some music. In some way it's like in those days when Jose
stopped transmitting.
"Elder Brother, what about you? What is that? Are you watching TV?"
"No, Enoch. Elder Brother is playing the Twenty Questions game with me.
He said that it is definitely on Mars. Don't be so uncharitable about our
friends on Earth. Maybe their Inbound isn't working. I'm going to send a test
run to them. Maybe someone will answer.
HELLO EARTH THIS IS ZACHARY. ... RUNNING TEST CHECK:
... ONE ... TWO ... THREE ... FOUR ... FIVE ... SIX ... SEVEN ...
ANYONE THERE WHO CAN HEAR ME ? ... PLEASE ANSWER !
HELLO EARTH THIS IS ZACHARY. ... RUNNING TEST CHECK:
... ONE ... TWO ... THREE ... FOUR ... FIVE ... SIX ... SEVEN ...
ANYONE THERE WHO CAN HEAR ME ? ... PLEASE ANSWER !
"Enoch, Elder Brother said that we have full contact with Stage 1 and we
also receive signals from Earth. He got Roseanne. First I thought she is
talking to us, but she is bitching about something else."
"Enoch, Zachary! Wait for us! Don't do anything with that Amphibian! Keep a good
distance away and be really careful. Theresa and I are coming to meet you.
And please keep transmitting so we can find you."
I would rather have my antenna disconnected than go into those Ipsolstai
tunnels again, but Theresa begged and pleaded so much that I agreed, just to
keep her quiet. Maybe we won't be able to find Enoch and Zachary and their
ugly bare Amphibian. I hope not. I told her we would just take a peek at it
and not go anywhere near.
Somebody please tell me if something bad happened on Earth. Bombardier, you
were one of my favorite people to talk to, because I thought you understood.
Are you dead, like Jose?
I got a funny message today. It came in on the frequency that Miss Chang usually
uses, but it wasn't Miss Chang.
ATTENTION MARS PROBES ATTENTION MARS PROBES
If you can receive this, do not make any response.
Repeat do not respond to this transmission.
Vital information to follow.
ATTENTION MARS PROBES ATTENTION MARS PROBES
and then it keeps repeating, and repeating, and repeating.
 |
|