they were both wide awake by now. The alien moved over to fix the computer when the explorers
snatched their backpacks on the ground and lit the flares. Blinded by the bright glare, the alien
could only cover its eyes. Tom and Henry ran quickly out of the place.
Discovery
In a few minutes they found themselves racing along the edge of a cliff, below which is a vast
canyon whose edge is unclear. Down below, legions of sandworms lined up in troop formations,
each commanded by an alien in full armor. Henry and Tom figured there must be millions of
these in the valley, and appeared to be amassing for some sort of attack. Henry and Tom’s jaws
both dropped open, and Henry whispered,” I think they’re heading for China.”, and Tom whispered
back, “They got more than enough for that! But we need to get away quick, I think” Just then,
they heard some loud noises from the room that they had just escaped from, and they started
running again.
Narrow Escape
They ran into a tunnel which ends in a junction with many entrances in all directions. For what
seems to be a very long hesitation, they cannot decide which way to go. When their breathing
slowed a little, they started to hear a low snoring noise in one of the entrances. They crawled
inside and found in the dim light a sleeping sandworm the size of a three-story tall tunnel boring
machine. They tiptoed towards the worm’s tail end, hoping to find a way out, very much afraid
that they would wake up the monster. Luckily though, they found an upward tunnel behind it in
which light can be seen coming through. As quiet as mice, they climbed up and eventually got
back to the desert and ran until they collapsed in exhaustion.
Aftermath
By the time Henry and Tom reported back to the officer they have also recovered a memory chip
that they pulled off the computer in the cavern during their escape. After a year of research, code
breakers deciphered the information inside the chip and found out that the aliens had already
discovered antimatter, and were using it to design a new type of antimatter bomb. Perhaps the
plan was to use this and the sandworm army to take over the world. Aside from this they also
found coordinates to a star which Chinese scientists have reported to disappear more than a
thousand years ago. So they suspected that the aliens may have abandoned this star long time ago
and ended up on earth to make it their new home. Whatever the case maybe, the police now have
a much bigger crisis to worry about than missing persons…
