Area 51: The Grail-5 (15 page)

This first age of civilization in Egypt was the age of the rule of the
Airlia Shadow gods. As the Watchers received this disquieting report, it was
often debated whether they should interfere to stop this, but they remained
true to their rules. Also, it appeared that this handful of Shadow Guides did
not seek to

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conquer or expand their empire. Their mission was unclear for a very long
time.

I think, also, that unspoken among the Watchers was the knowledge there was
nothing they could do to fight the Shadow Guides, who had the loyalty of their
new cast of Guide-priests and the population who followed the priests, as the
wedjat themselves had once given their loyalty.

For thousands of years there was peace and prosperity in Egypt—as long as
the people worshipped the Shadow Guides under their new names.

It appears that Aspasia was able to rescue more out of Atlantis than was
first thought and pass it on to the Shadows. The Grail was reported to be in
Egypt along with the master guardian machine and other Airlia artifacts. This
guardian machine was the device Aspasia used to transform men into Guides.

There was also a machine that was used with the ka to imprint the personality
of each Airlia on the human mind, allowing it a kind of immortality.

The guardian has been described to me as a gold or red pyramid of varying
heights, from.several to twenty feet, which makes me think there might be more
than one of these things located at various places around the world. I came
close to seeing one in South America, but that comes later.

The ka machine has been a closely guarded secret among the Guides. Wherever
it is, The Mission is. For many years it was at Giza—the Highland of Aker, a
region named after one of the Shadow Guides.

Extensive tunneling was done by the Shadow Guides underneath the Highland
of Aker. The Hall of Records, taken from Atlantis before it was destroyed,
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was secreted below the stone sphinx. The carving became a thing of legend
among the people of Egypt; they spoke of it only in whispers and no one wrote
of it under penalty of death. None were allowed to approach close or else they
were struck down by guards. This is why historians today know so little of the
stone sphinx or why it was carved.

Plans were made for more buildings near the sphinx, but these were not
carried out before the end of the age of the Neteru.

As happened in Atlantis, there were others who could fight these
Shadow-gods. As long as the Neteru maintained a low presence, they existed.

But around the time of four thousand years before the birth of Christ, they
attempted to expand their empire. Thus there appeared in Northern Egypt two of
The Ones Who Wait who pretended to be Gods named Nepthys and Seth. A civil war
broke out. The Ones Who Wait were successful at first, slaying Osiris and
Isis, and the other Neteru, thus ending the first age of that kingdom. But the
Ones Who Wait were not able to make their escape before being slain in turn by
the faithful followers of the Neteru, led by a Guide named Horus.

Thus Egypt passed into the second age, the time of the followers of Horus,
a Guide, not a Shadow.

While all this was happening in Egypt, Watchers tried to find where The
Mission and The Ones Who Wait were hiding and what they were doing. As near as
I can determine, the Watchers suspected that The Ones Who Wait had a secret
base in Africa, close enough so that they could keep watch on Egypt and The
Mission, which they also believed was now somewhere not far from Egypt. Having
traversed that harsh land, I know how well hidden those bases might have been.

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The Watchers searched for the base for many years. Several Watchers who went
on that mission were never heard from again.

"Interesting," was Che Lu's comment as she read. "There has always been speculation among those who dared to think that there were ages to the kingdom of Egypt before that of the pharaohs. Even staunch Egyptologists are at a loss to explain how the kingdom sprang, apparently fully formed, into existence and then didn't progress for over three thousand years."

"It still doesn't tell us where The Mission is," Mualama noted, "or what the Grail is."

"But it does say there was a master guardian computer at Giza," Che Lu said.

"That confirms the message that Kelly Reynolds sent us from Easter Island. If we can find this master guardian, perhaps we can control the other guardians.

This may be very important."

"If it's still there," Mualama said. "This is talking about a time over twelve thousand years ago. Much has happened since then."

"This possible Airlia base that's mentioned," Che Lu continued. "I think that I might have something that will help with that. Nabinger had a page of High Rune symbols that he believed were coordinates for Airlia bases, but he couldn't line them up with anything. The problem he had was that he was using our number system based on tens, while I think the Airlia system was actually based on units of twelve. I believe I've been able to correctly translate the coordinates, but I have not had a chance to apply it to a map."

"Perhaps someone here can help you with that,"

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Mualama suggested. He scrolled down. "You'll find this very interesting."

If Aspasia left behind some of his people in Shadow form to walk the Earth
and try to regain the glory of Atlantis in Egypt, what of Artad's group? Where
did they go?

I eventually found the answer to that buried among the many parchments I
pored through and translated over the years.

China.

I have not had the opportunity to travel to that land, so all I know of it
I have gathered from the Watcher scrolls and written histories that I have
been able to find, merging the two to find some semblance of the truth.

According to the Watchers there were "white people" in western China around
9,000 B.C. This was a small enclave of The Ones Who Wait.

Around five millennia before the birth of Christ, large numbers of Chinese
people began settling in the Yellow River Valley. This was possible because
two things, previously unknown, became prevalent— agriculture and animal
husbandry. While I do not mean to say that man could have not invented these
on his own, I find it curious that in different places in the world these two
advances came about at roughly the same time. I believe this was due to the
diaspora from Atlantis and also the influence of The Ones Who Wait and The
Mission.

As in Egypt, within an amazingly short period of time, civilization began
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Emperor—a myth to historians, a fact to Watcher records—was called Shi
Huangdi. He was also known as the Yellow Emperor or the White Emperor,
depending on which account one reads. He was also considered to be the "Son of
Heaven." He is credited with inventing writing, yet there are some scholars
who point out that the characters used were so advanced they must have come
from an earlier type of writing—obviously High Rune writing from Atlantis.

Mathematics also was "invented" under Shi Huangdi. It is interesting to
note that the first number systems used in China were based on factors of six.

According to Watcher records, Shi Huangdi was a Shadow ofArtad or even,
perhaps, Artad himself.

Shi Huangdi's empire was barely on its feet when it faced assault from The
Mission. An Empress named Chiyou—a Guide, according to Watcher
scrolls—attacked him from the south. It is written in Chinese legend that a
decisive battle was fought at Zhuolu. It is said that Chiyou rode a dragon
into battle, one which let out a thick fog all over .the field of combat, but
that Shi Huangdi was able to lead his troops out of the fog and into victory
using his "compass chariot."

Chiyou was killed and the dragon captured, but Shi Huangdi was forced to
relinquish the kingdom to humans, just as had happened in Egypt. He also left
plans for a massive building project—the Great Wall of China, which was
constructed by the first human emperor. I do not know why the Wall was built,
although perhaps it is simply as it appears, a defensive line against
barbarians, allowing China to develop in relative peace.

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Another event of great interest to me occurred later in China's history.

Artad was reported to be buried in a great tomb, somewhere in the western part
of China, equipped with many security devices. A special key was needed to
open this tomb, when, according to legend, Shi Huangdi would return.

Apparently an attempt was made to rob the tomb in the seventh century A.D.

The Watcher who was responsible for keeping an eye on the tomb reported it and
the robbers were foiled by the Emperor's men. To avoid the possibility of
anyone getting to the lowest level and opening Artad's cavern, the Emperor
decided to remove the key to that tomb from China. This key was in the form of
a spear, housed in a long black box. There was also a large metal container
containing another artifact that was shipped with it.

The Chinese sent these materials with a massive naval expedition led by
Admiral Cing Ho. They traveled around Indochina to the Middle East.

"'The power and the key,'" Che Lu said. "That was what was on the marker that was found in Ethiopia by Turcotte and Duncan. Written in Chinese."

"The power was the ruby sphere that Turcotte used to destroy Aspasia's fleet," Mualama said. "And the Spear of Destiny was with Cing Ho. I wonder how it ended up in the hands of the Nazis?"

"Colleagues of mine found Caucasian mummies in western China," Che Lu said.

"Those who reported this were ostracized and their findings kept secret. We must keep this information to ourselves. It will not endear us with those in power in Beijing to give them this information that our civilization came from outsiders."

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"Consider it another way," Mualama said. "Perhaps this information could be used to sway the people of China away from their Isolationist stance once they realize that their history was manipulated by the Airlia. A war is coming in which all countries and all people are going to have make a decision which side they are on. The only way they can make that decision properly is to have this information," he tapped Burton's manuscript. "I think neither side can be trusted."

"Artad did not hurt my country," Che Lu said. "He helped it grow."

"Are you sure of that?" Mualama asked.

Che Lu considered Mualama. "Are you certain you trust what Burton has written?"

"There's no reason not to," Mualama said.

"There's really no reason to, either."

"Why would Burton lie?"

"Why does anyone lie?" Che Lu did not wait for an answer as she supplied her own. 'To advance their own cause."

"What cause could Burton have had?"

"That is the question we need an answer to," Che Lu said. She stood and walked out of the room, Mualama's dark eyes following her.

AVEBURY, ENGIAND

The Atlantic crossing had taken less than an hour at the extreme speed the bouncer was capable of, but right now it was barely moving as they drew closer to Ave-bury. Through night-vision goggles, Turcotte could make out the rings of stone that surrounded the area, monoliths raised by ancient people, most likely as warnings against approaching Silbury Hill, as the Moai 130

statues had been carved and placed on the shores of Easter Island.

Looking ahead, Turcotte could see the dark hill rising like a cone out of the middle of a large field. There was no doubt it was an unnatural formation, given the smoothness of the sides and symmetry of form.

"Are you ready?" he asked Yakov.

The Russian shrugged. "No. But that won't stop you."

"We grab the first person we see and take their ring. It's simple."

"Simple," Yakov repeated. "Nothing is ever simple."

They were about a quarter mile from Silbury Hill, still approaching at the same steady rate. Turcotte grabbed the shoulder straps, buckling them securely over his chest. Yakov did the same. The pilot lined the bouncer up with a very slight depression near the top of the hill on the western side.

The bouncer was now less than a hundred feet from the depression. Turcotte looked about, but there was no sign of activity. The closest lights were from a house over two miles away. The depression in the side of the hill was slightly larger in diameter than the bouncer, which fit with Turcotte's idea that it was similar to the one in Qian-Ling.

The forward edge of the bouncer touched the hill. It was a question of an irresistible force against an immovable object and which would give first as the pilot tweaked the controls. Turcotte had faith in the strength of the bouncer after seeing how little damage had occurred to one that had crashed.

The pilot used the craft's edge as a large spade as it dug into the depression. Dirt and rock fell away, tumbling down the hillside. There was a loud screech, and the pilot paused as they all looked forward. A line of metal had been uncovered.

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"Airlia," Turcotte said.

"Now the real test," Yakov said. "Also, I think those inside have heard us knocking now."

Turcotte shrugged. "What are they going to do about it?"

The pilot lined up once more, placing the edge of the bouncer against the metal door. He increased pressure on the controls. It was an eerie contest of power played out in silence, as there was no sound of an engine from the bouncer's system.