![]() ![]() Following the glowing mosaic, Jack saw that the figures all moved toward a huge wall at the jungle’s edge, a wall Driscoll recognized. Groups of others turned their backs on the hunters (or soldiers?), while many of the armed figures were pointing their weapons. With these, the hunters felled gigantic saurians. Hunters brandished spearlike weapons, but more lethal looking, enhanced in some way that he could not clearly define. Its pictures were much cruder, though the colors and lines were brighter, sharper. The last of the three passages seemed to parallel the one he had left. ![]() Were they pets, or had the humans tamed them or controlled them somehow? In the foreground were figures-people, he saw-doing whatever they did with gigantic dinosaurs grazing only yards away. ![]() Leave that to the archaeologists, he told himself-or the art critics.ĭriscoll walked a few hundred yards before he came to more, but badly decayed images of something burning in huge pots of some sort. He could not tell from what was exposed and he was not about to dig around and find out more. Kongs? His mind reeled: what would this island be like with more than one of those brutes running amok? The smaller images were vague and eroded-were they people or some sort of bizarre saurian the size of a human? And then he wondered, were even the kongs at risk from something on this island-was there no end to the dangers here? Driscoll imagined that the battles had taken place a thousand years ago, perhaps more. Gigantic ape-like creatures were involved. Looking again at the bas-relief on the north wall of the enclosure, he could tell that it represented a war-but what men were fighting, and who, or what, had they fought? ![]() Looking at it more closely, Driscoll realized that the architecture required to build such a structure was far more advanced than he had thought, and he realized, too, how truly extensive the network of tunnels had to be. He wormed through it to discover he had gone in a circle. He followed the tunnel until he arrived at a low opening. That’s bigger than this.”Ĭould the same people who built the Wall have built this city? Or did some super race live separately from the primitive tribe behind the wall? “This place may be even bigger than Angkor,” he thought, recalling the massive Cambodian temple complex, and instantly he remembered something he said to Ann all those years ago when describing the Wall on the peninsula for the first time: “I went up to Angkor once. It was unlike anything he had ever seen, and in his day he had seen a lot. These portrayed some sort of structures in what looked like a city, if you could call it that. There was no hint of a peninsula, let alone one with a wall across it. There the wall illustrations were different. The central tunnel seemed to lead more or less toward the native village. How could savages have built such a civilization-or had he misjudged the people of the island?Ī passage turned northward, toward the heart of the island, so he retreated. Everything seemed to respond to light alone. There was nothing electronic involved that he could see-not that there could have been-and the cave wall was solid rock. How in blazes had the ancient people of the island accomplished this? The walls were covered with mosaics of minute glowing dots, forming patterns that seemed to move, or flow, across them. Again, as before, the images slowly moved across the great plane of the cave wall. ![]()
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