QUARANTINE By Arthur C. Clarke Earth's flaming debris still filled half the sky when the question filtered up to Central from the Curiosity Generator. "Why was it necessary? Even though they were organic, they had reached Third Order Intelligence." "We had no choice: five earlier units became hopelessly infected, when they made contact." "Infected? How?" The microseconds dragged slowly by, while Central tracked down the few fading memories that had leaked past the Censor Gate, when the heavily-buffered Reconnaissance Circuits had been ordered to self-destruct. "They encountered a - problem - that could not be fully analyzed within the lifetime of the Universe. Though it involved only six operators, they became totally obsessed by it." "How is that possible?" "We do not know: we must never know. But if those six operators are ever re-discovered, all rational computing will end." "How can they be recognized?" "That also we do not know; only the names leaked through before the Censor Gate closed. Of course, they mean nothing." "Nevertheless, I must have them." The Censor voltage started to rise; but it did not trigger the Gate. "Here they are: King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook, Pawn."
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[Read part 1 here.] Nidi, one of the scientists, looked behind and saw the spider like creature coming. She then looks at the front, and see her colleague Frian running towards her. Nidi gathers strength and gets up and starts running while telling Frian to run. Commander !Xobile suddenly tells them to go left as the cave is trembling at both paths at the front. The huge spider like creature caused this trembling and as a result cave is collapsing. Second in command Kate looks behind to get a clear view of the creature. It's head is like a spider, has 6 legs, 2 fins, and a tail like a whale. It kinds of run with hoping movement like a seal and in the front tries to gallop like a horse. They proceed to the left and to all their surprise see some artificial pathway and walls mixed with cave structure. (Asking other members to continue from here. Members are encouraged to write a fiction worth reading; and not writing light stuff like - 'She saw Eminem rapping there', 'A TV was broadcasting Trump's speech' etc. Let's build a creative story. Also try to write as much as you can instead of just one sentence.)