Chapter 4:
We all thought of the shutter on the lower level when I read that out, finding out how to open it wasn't easy though, there weren't any switches around it so we had to find another way of opening it. "I'm going to carry on looking in here." Benj said. "I think I'll join you, by the looks of this room we're more likely to find something in here than anywhere else." I replied. "As you said before Emily, it would be best for us to stay together, I mean look what happened to Mathew!" Ben said still holding his arm. I looked on the table without a chair; there was nothing other than a sheet of paper with drawings on, I tossed it aside and then looked under the desk, it took me a while but I managed to see a switch that was concealed inside a notch in the leg, I just had to press it. The top cover of the table, which was a green hard piece of leather I think, slowly opened and slid down the back of the table, then three panels came up out of the table and all the buttons lit up, I thought about it and came to the conclusion that it must have had it's own power source that just hadn't been used so not ran out. All of the buttons were clearly marked as to what they did, so first of all I pressed the button marked "general power", as I pressed it all the lights downstairs and upstairs came on and the machines started to make humming noises, I continued to look at the consoles in hope of finding a switch to open the lift, none of the buttons that were marked had anything about a lift on them but one had nothing at all, I felt reluctant to press it but did anyway and the middle two sections of the bookcase moved away from us and then behind the other two sections revealing a hidden passage. The passage was very dark with the only lighting coming from the office we had been in, a few switches were on the wall beside the opened bookcase, Joseph pressed every one of them, the lights turned on a conveyor belt turned on and the bookcase closed behind us, we all stepped onto the conveyor belt and went along wherever it took us, which was a room with an entire wall covered by screens, all off when we got in.
Benj walked forward and slowly sat down at one of the tables, he then pressed a switch that was marked "security power", and all the screens suddenly turned on showing different areas of the factory, including the once open bookcase, I noticed that the panels were still open on the table in that office, it also showed an area of the factory that none of us had seen, unless Mathew had. This room, presumably one for security, had a control panel for the lift, I was really confused as to why everything had power, Benj unlocked the lift. We heard a sound from below us; it must have been the lift opening, so we all walked out of the room, and down the corridor hoping that the switch Benj pressed would open the bookcase if pressed again, which it did so we walked out of the corridor into the office and out of the office onto the balcony and down the stairs to the lift. When we got to the lift there was a light inside it that was very bright and also two switches near the side of the door but also a keyhole, neither of the switches worked without the key. Back we went up to the security room; nothing happened on the way, we were in complete silence as we walked past Mathew's corpse, through the office and corridor. We looked around the room and all we found was a book concealed in a back panel of the lift control, it had the centre cut out and two keys placed inside, both were identical, or they seemed so anyway, it also had instructions written on the inside of the cover, both keys had to be turned at the same time for the lift to function, one in the security room and one in the lift, meaning that someone had to stay behind. Ben offered but in the condition he was in if we couldn't get back up without someone turning the key then we might have got stuck down there, it ended up falling on Benj to stay up and turn the key. He stayed up there as we walked down to the lift; I closed the bookcase and panels on the table on the way, just in case someone else came into the factory. We got to the lift and I looked up at the camera put the key into the hole and started to do the count of three with my fingers when I heard: "I can hear you, you know? You don't have to use your fingers." So I counted to three and turned the key, there was a sound like something opening and then silence, nothing else happened. "It's activated according to this screen, which must mean that you now have to press the switch, therefore I can come down right?" "Wait there I'm on my way, I'll close up the security room in case someone walks in and decides to pull the key out!" "Ok then, we'll be waiting for you." Joseph replied
We all thought of the shutter on the lower level when I read that out, finding out how to open it wasn't easy though, there weren't any switches around it so we had to find another way of opening it. "I'm going to carry on looking in here." Benj said. "I think I'll join you, by the looks of this room we're more likely to find something in here than anywhere else." I replied. "As you said before Emily, it would be best for us to stay together, I mean look what happened to Mathew!" Ben said still holding his arm. I looked on the table without a chair; there was nothing other than a sheet of paper with drawings on, I tossed it aside and then looked under the desk, it took me a while but I managed to see a switch that was concealed inside a notch in the leg, I just had to press it. The top cover of the table, which was a green hard piece of leather I think, slowly opened and slid down the back of the table, then three panels came up out of the table and all the buttons lit up, I thought about it and came to the conclusion that it must have had it's own power source that just hadn't been used so not ran out. All of the buttons were clearly marked as to what they did, so first of all I pressed the button marked "general power", as I pressed it all the lights downstairs and upstairs came on and the machines started to make humming noises, I continued to look at the consoles in hope of finding a switch to open the lift, none of the buttons that were marked had anything about a lift on them but one had nothing at all, I felt reluctant to press it but did anyway and the middle two sections of the bookcase moved away from us and then behind the other two sections revealing a hidden passage. The passage was very dark with the only lighting coming from the office we had been in, a few switches were on the wall beside the opened bookcase, Joseph pressed every one of them, the lights turned on a conveyor belt turned on and the bookcase closed behind us, we all stepped onto the conveyor belt and went along wherever it took us, which was a room with an entire wall covered by screens, all off when we got in.
Benj walked forward and slowly sat down at one of the tables, he then pressed a switch that was marked "security power", and all the screens suddenly turned on showing different areas of the factory, including the once open bookcase, I noticed that the panels were still open on the table in that office, it also showed an area of the factory that none of us had seen, unless Mathew had. This room, presumably one for security, had a control panel for the lift, I was really confused as to why everything had power, Benj unlocked the lift. We heard a sound from below us; it must have been the lift opening, so we all walked out of the room, and down the corridor hoping that the switch Benj pressed would open the bookcase if pressed again, which it did so we walked out of the corridor into the office and out of the office onto the balcony and down the stairs to the lift. When we got to the lift there was a light inside it that was very bright and also two switches near the side of the door but also a keyhole, neither of the switches worked without the key. Back we went up to the security room; nothing happened on the way, we were in complete silence as we walked past Mathew's corpse, through the office and corridor. We looked around the room and all we found was a book concealed in a back panel of the lift control, it had the centre cut out and two keys placed inside, both were identical, or they seemed so anyway, it also had instructions written on the inside of the cover, both keys had to be turned at the same time for the lift to function, one in the security room and one in the lift, meaning that someone had to stay behind. Ben offered but in the condition he was in if we couldn't get back up without someone turning the key then we might have got stuck down there, it ended up falling on Benj to stay up and turn the key. He stayed up there as we walked down to the lift; I closed the bookcase and panels on the table on the way, just in case someone else came into the factory. We got to the lift and I looked up at the camera put the key into the hole and started to do the count of three with my fingers when I heard: "I can hear you, you know? You don't have to use your fingers." So I counted to three and turned the key, there was a sound like something opening and then silence, nothing else happened. "It's activated according to this screen, which must mean that you now have to press the switch, therefore I can come down right?" "Wait there I'm on my way, I'll close up the security room in case someone walks in and decides to pull the key out!" "Ok then, we'll be waiting for you." Joseph replied
