Dr Burrow's Hidden Box

I did this because I was made to write a text with a given sentence in the body for an English contest. But the text felt so short (I had written 200, the limit being 140), I decided to make it bigger! I don't think I am making a Part 2 of this by the way

Hope you enjoy!

Long have they been searching for Dr Burrow's buried item, but never did they own the right equipment. The party was almost jumping to the conclusion that there was no possible way to hide an object so deep inside the cave's walls.

The person reading this might be wondering what this is all about and thinks to itself I might clear out its questions. Well, on the 22^nd December the year before, the rich, solitary, and brilliant scientist Dr Burrow passed away of old age. And in his will was found an enigmatic riddle, a beautiful subtle combination between literature and science: truly a work of art. The poem presented very exact geographical characteristics of the area in which Dr Burrow's son, Timothy's heritage was buried. The news about this mystery was first announced in the local newspaper Gallon, but soon gained massive amounts of interest all throughout the United States.

Timothy soon received aid from a group of scientists from the National Scientific Research Insitution of America. They decided to help, hoping that Dr Burrow's enigmatic “buried secret” all throughout important American newspapers and magazines would consist of more valuable sicentifc discoveries made by the famous wealthy scientist.

But, as previously mentioned in the beginning of this text, unfortunately the little party did not own the corresponding equipment. Their months of dedication on the riddle lead to Green Cave, known after its rare species of moss abundantly spread all across its rocky walls. The cave itself wasn't too big, but no matter how deep they have dug into Green Cave's walls, they discovered nothing. It was unbelievable how anybody could hide an object so deep inside the cave, yet still no sign of digging was left behind, anywhere. People began thinking the group of scientists have found the wrong place, or that there was no buried inheritance. Second hand newspapers started gossip, suspecting Dr Burrow's mental health getting worse by his life's end, or accusing him of memory loss and deliriously mentioning an inexistant heritage. But the search party knew there was no other place that had the same distinct properties as Green Cave, most mentioned in the scientist's poem and didn't dare suspect his mental health. Other scientists believed the same. Could it be that Dr Burrow had discovered something incredible, something only thought of as pure myths? It could be, given by his high level of intellect. Newspapers spread rumors, from teleportation to a whole new scientific branch, an entire field of exploration discovered by the genius science man.

But now, the government has decided to help with the search by sending in their latest invention, a contraption of millions, the most performant digging machine. It took years to make and was designed by the brightest of minds.

The machine was triumphantly marching towards the wealthy scientist's native town, near which sits his enormous mansion. It was driven by six people slowly dragging across the heavy contraption.

By the time the machine arrived, the party had already found out its arrival. It was the size and weight of a tank. As it was imposingly being dragged on the hill, Timothy and the scientists were gazing upon the enormous contraption. Luckily enough, the cave was wide and tall enough for the machine to fit into. But the veichle's usage was limited by the government, which couldn't allow digging in too deep and risking the cave to collapse and destroy the expensive device. But its boundaries were still significantly larger than the scientists' reach.

The had been digging, slowly and safely, for more than a week, and the party was starting to lose hope. But, one day, after 9 days of digging, in a moment least expected, at the crack of dawn, the machine reached something and a loud metallic noise echoed throughout the cave, Timothy looked in shock and, as the machine was going backwards, he went to see what it was the machine had found: it was a small metal box. The scientists were looking in disbelief of Dr Burrow's achievement, and looked at his son opening the box and looking back at them disappointed: inside the box were a key, and a riddle attached to it.

The search was not yet finished, and seemed to take longer than anticipated...