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AMAZON VIA ATLANTIC TO THE MEDITERRANEAN - アマゾンから大西洋を経由して地中海へ

無駄にする時間はありませんでした。チャーリーは無事に船に乗り込み、ジョンとダンはハルの助けを借りて出航しました。第四帝国を支持する麻薬密売人に追跡されていないことを確認しながら。ジョンは乗船団が来ることを予想していましたが、誰も来ませんでした。

「ネモ船長」

「はい、ストーム船長」

「クルーズモードでアマゾンを出てください」

「了解しました」とナビゲーション コンピューターが答えました。

スワンはソーラー ウィングを折りたたんだまま、アマゾンを 10 ノットでほぼ 2 日間優雅に巡航し、川の河口が南大西洋に広がるまで進みました。それからジョンはもっと心配そうに言いました。「ネモ、エジプトのアレクサンドリアへのコースを設定してください。全速前進です」

「全速力で船長。了解。地中海へ向かいます」

ジョンはダンを見て、「了解」と口にしました。チャーリーはそれをキャッチしました。全員が笑いました。もちろん、ハルが口を挟んだのです。

スワン号の翼が展開し、ネモは燃料セルをすべて作動させて北に向かい、船は貿易風に乗った。エリザベス号は海流も利用しながら、25ノット以上の速度で大西洋を駆け抜けた。5日後、彼らはヘラクレスの柱とも呼ばれるジブラルタル海峡を目にした。

彼らは間違いなく順調に進んでいたが、ジョンはダイビングチームが10日間で多くのことを成し遂げられることを知っていた。ネモ船長によると、アレクサンドリアに着くにはさらに2.7日かかるという。

彼らが大西洋を横断している間、ジョン、チャーリー、ダンはナチスのキャンプから盗んだ装備品をもっと作ろうとした。

「オーケー、ダン、これは何だ」ジョンは時計と、かなり複雑そうなヘッドセットを掲げた。

「困惑している、スキップ。解決するのに少し時間をくれ」

ジョンはヘッドセットを装着し、腕時計を腕にかけた。チャーリーは残りの仕掛け箱をかき回した。ダンは分厚い黒綴じのノートの 1 つを読んで、そのすべてを理解しようとしていた。メモと図表は技術の発展を追っていた。ダンは意味不明な項目に気づいた。

「なあ、スキップ、あの時計はとんでもない額の値段がしたようだな。」

「うーん。」ジョンはダンに目を向け、数字を待った。

「200 億ドル。」

「これは何だ」とジョンは腕を上げて言った。そうすると、時計がビープ音を鳴らした。それから、ヘッドセットからチクチクする感覚が伝わってきた。時計が話しかけているようだった。

「スキップ、それは時計じゃないと思う。」

チャーリーが口を挟んだ。「ここには『RepliVator』に関する何かがある。」彼女は読み続けた。

「それはスーパーコンピューターの一種だと思う」とダンは言った。

「違う」とチャーリーは言った。「クローンとレプリカントに関するものだ」

「それはSFだよ、チャーリー」とダンは言った。「そして私はブレードランナーだ」

「そうだ」とジョンは言った。「そのすべてかもしれない。でも、どういうわけか私に話しかけているんだ」

チャーリーとダンは、ジョンが正気を失ったかのように笑った。

「いや、本当だよ。私はこのヘッドセットの装置を通して考えているんだ」ジョンは真剣な表情だった。彼は顔色が青ざめ、汗をかいていた。

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.

...

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 12. OPERATION 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 FERTILIZATION - 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

  THE EGYPTIAN QUEEN OF THE NILE RESTED IN THE AFTERLIFE WATING FOR REBIRTH - THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN STORM: CLEOPATRA'S MUMMY

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