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لقد كان هناك بخار كامل

 

 

 

 

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ATLANTIC TO THE MEDITERRANEAN  -  من المحيط الأطلسي إلى البحر الأبيض المتوسط

لم يكن هناك وقت نضيعه. صعد تشارلي على متن السفينة بأمان، وأبحر جون ودان، بمساعدة هال، للتأكد من عدم تعقبهم من قبل تجار المخدرات الذين يدعمون الرايخ الرابع. توقع جون مجموعة صعود على متن السفينة. لكن لم يأت أحد.

"الكابتن نيمو".

"نعم يا كابتن ستورم".

"الرجاء الخروج من الأمازون في وضع الإبحار".

"انسخ ذلك"، أجاب جهاز الكمبيوتر الملاحي.

أبحرت سفينة سوان برشاقة في الأمازون بسرعة 10 عقدة لمدة يومين تقريبًا، وأجنحتها الشمسية مطوية، حتى امتد مصب النهر إلى جنوب المحيط الأطلسي. ثم قال جون بقلق أكبر: "نيمو، هل يمكنك رسم مسار إلى الإسكندرية، مصر، من فضلك. بكامل قوتك".

"بكامل قوتك يا كابتن. روجر ذلك. البحر الأبيض المتوسط ​​هنا نأتي".

نظر جون إلى دان، وهو يهتف "روجر ذلك". التقط تشارلي ذلك. ابتسموا جميعًا. كان هال هو من قاطعهم بالطبع.

انفتحت أجنحة السفينة سوان، وقام نيمو بتشغيل جميع خلايا الوقود، متجهًا شمالًا، حتى وصلت السفينة إلى الرياح التجارية. انطلقت إليزابيث عبر المحيط الأطلسي بسرعة تزيد عن 25 عقدة، مستغلة أيضًا التيارات. بعد خمسة أيام، رصدوا مضيق جبل طارق، أعمدة هرقل.

كانوا يحققون وقتًا جيدًا، لا شك في ذلك، لكن جون كان يعلم أن فريق الغوص يمكنه إنجاز الكثير في عشرة أيام. سيستغرق الأمر منهم 2.7 يومًا آخرين للوصول إلى الإسكندرية، وفقًا للكابتن نيمو.

أثناء عبورهم المحيط الأطلسي، حاول جون وتشارلي ودان صنع المزيد من المعدات التي سرقوها من معسكر النازيين.

"حسنًا دان، ما هذا؟" رفع جون ساعة وسماعة رأس معقدة المظهر إلى حد ما.

"أنا في حيرة يا سكيب. امنحني بعض الوقت لأكتشف ذلك."

ربط جون سماعة الرأس، ووضع ساعة اليد على ذراعه. فتش تشارلي في بقية صندوق الحيل. كان دان يقرأ أحد الدفاتر ذات الغلاف الأسود السميك، محاولاً فهم كل شيء. كانت الملاحظات والرسوم البيانية تتبع تطور التكنولوجيا. لاحظ دان إدخالاً لم يكن له معنى.

"مرحبًا يا سكيب، يبدو أن هذه الساعة كلفت مبلغًا غير عادي."

"حسنًا." نظر جون إلى دان منتظرًا الرقم.

"20 مليار دولار."

"ما هذا؟" قال جون وهو يرفع ذراعه. وبينما كان يفعل ذلك، أصدرت الساعة صوتًا. ثم شعر بإحساس وخز قادم من سماعة الرأس. بدا الأمر كما لو أن الساعة تتحدث إليه.

"لا أعتقد أنها ساعة يا سكيب."

تدخل تشارلي، "هناك شيء هنا يتعلق بـ "RepliVator". واصلت القراءة.

قال دان: "أعتقد أنه نوع من أجهزة الكمبيوتر العملاقة".

قال تشارلي: "لا". "إنه شيء له علاقة بالاستنساخ والنسخ".

قال دان: "هذا خيال علمي يا تشارلي. وأنا بليد رانر".

قال جون: "نعم". "ربما كل ما سبق. لكنه يتحدث إلي بطريقة ما".

ضحك تشارلي ودان، وكأن جون فقد صوابه.

"لا، حقًا. أعتقد من خلال جهاز سماعة الرأس هذا". بدا جون جادًا. لقد شحب وتعرق.

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استغرقت الرحلة من مانوس إلى الإسكندرية تسعة أيام وتسع ساعات.

 

 

There was no time to lose. Charley safely onboard, John and Dan cast off, with help from Hal, making sure they were not being tracked by the drug dealers supporting the Fourth Reich. John anticipated a boarding party. But none came.

 

"Captain Nemo."

 

"Yes Captain Storm."

 

"Please exit the Amazon in cruise mode."

 

"Copy that," replied the navigation computer.

 

The Swann gracefully cruised the Amazon at 10 knots for almost two days, solar wings folded, until the mouth of the river expanded into the South Atlantic. Then more anxiously John said: "Nemo, can you plot a course for Alexandria, Egypt, please. Full steam ahead."

 

"Full power Captain. Roger that. Mediterranean here we come."

 

John looked at Dan, mouthing 'Roger that.' Charley caught it. They all smiled. It was Hal interjecting of course.

 

The Swann's wings unfolded, and Nemo engaged all of the fuel cells, heading north, until the ship caught the trade winds. Elizabeth sprinted across the Atlantic doing better than 25 knots, also taking advantage of the currents. Five days later they sighted the Gibraltar Straights, the Pillars of Hercules.

 

They were making good time, no doubt about it, but John knew a diving team could accomplish a lot in ten days. It would take them another 2.7 days to get to Alexandria, according to Captain Nemo.

 

While they were crossing the Atlantic, John, Charley and Dan tried to make more of the equipment they'd stolen from the Nazi camp.

 

"Okay Dan, what is this." John held up a watch and a rather complicated looking kind of headset.

 

"I'm stumped Skip. Give me a bit of time to work it out."

 

John strapped on the headset, and put the wristwatch on his arm. Charley rummaged around in the rest of the box of tricks. Dan was reading one of the thick black bound notebooks, trying to make head and tail of it all. The notes and diagrams followed the development of the technology. Dan noticed an entry that did not make sense.

 

"Hey Skip, that watch seems to have cost an extraordinary amount."

 

"Uhm huh." John looked to Dan waiting for a figure.

 

"$20 billion dollars."

 

"What this," said John holding up his arm. As he did so, the watch beeped. Then he felt a tingling sensation coming from the headset. The watch seemed to be talking to him.

 

"I don't think it's a watch Skip."

 

Charley chimed in, "There is something here about a 'RepliVator.' She kept reading.

 

"I think it's some kind of super computer," said Dan.

 

"No." Said Charley. "It is something to do with cloning and replicants."

 

"That's science fiction Charley," said Dan. "And I'm a Blade Runner."

 

"Yes," said John. "Maybe all of the above. But it is talking to me somehow."

 

Charley and Dan laughed, as though John had lost it.

 

"No, really. I think through this headset contraption." John looked serious. He had turned pale and was sweating.

 

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It took nine days, nine hours for the journey from Manaus to Alexandria.


 

PROLOGUE    INNER CIRCLE OF SIX - Nazi funded medical human research laboratories Joseph Mengele's Fourth Reich escape to Brazil reserve plan.

CHAPTER 1.   THE POISON ASP - Pharaoh Queen Cleopatra takes her own life in a suicide pact with Mark Antony

CHAPTER 2.   WRATH OF THE GODS - The destruction of Thonis and Alexandria 365 AD

CHAPTER 3.   NEW WORLD ORDER - A Neo-Nazi plan to regenerate Aryan supremacy

CHAPTER 4.   CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a religious sect.

CHAPTER 5.   INCUBUS - Italian scientist Franco Francisco invents a cloning machine and is head hunted by Neuwelt Rittertum

CHAPTER 6.   SPLICE - Klaus and Eva Kolreuter's search for everlasting life, the fountain of youth

CHAPTER 7.   TREMORS - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries. Until a shift in the tectonic plates triggered a tremor off the coast of Alexandria.

CHAPTER 8.   PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - Backpacker Majorie Boyle's Blog features Panama running at incredible speed

CHAPTER 9.   THE AMAZON - The largest river by discharge volume, 2nd longest after the Nile

CHAPTER 10. TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures.

CHAPTER 11. SCOTLAND YARD - Metropolitan police headquarters in London, Harold Holland, Chief Constable

CHAPTER 12OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace.

CHAPTER 13. KIDNAP - Charley is taken prisoner by Neuwelt Rittertum near Manaus, along the Amazon River

CHAPTER 14. UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice.

CHAPTER 15. REPLICANT - The Society reproduce Cleopatra using Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence and implanted memories.

CHAPTER 16. FULL STEAM AHEAD - Storm speeds to Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered.

CHAPTER 17. RITUAL SACRIFICE - The Baron prepares a drugged Cleopatra for ceremonial impregnation.

CHAPTER 18. SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds secret Nazi hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators.

CHAPTER 19. THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John comes under her spell, despite her being a replicant.

CHAPTER 20. MILITARY INTERVENTION - The military detain Cleopatra to appease stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught.

CHAPTER 21. DÉJÀ VU - History repeats itself, military lock up technology as gross violation of human rights, John left disillusioned:  FINALE FOR NOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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