The biologist examines moss and animal samples she has collected and discovers that they contain human cells. Due to the effects of inhaling the spores in the tower, the biologist recovers enough to shoot and kill the surveyor. The biologist returns to base camp, where she is shot in the shoulder by the surveyor. After the biologist extracts some answers from the psychologist, the psychologist dies.

The psychologist tells her she jumped after being cornered by a strange creature. She finds the psychologist nearly dead in the sand beneath the lighthouse. There, she finds an archive of journals from previous expeditions, including one written by her husband, and thus learns that there have been many more expeditions than she has been told. The biologist sees light emanating from a lighthouse in the distance and goes there in search of answers and the psychologist. When they resurface, the psychologist is nowhere to be seen. While the psychologist tells the surveyor and biologist that the anthropologist chose to leave Area X the night before, the surveyor and biologist find the body of the anthropologist deep inside the tower structure. The morning after the team explores the tunnel, the anthropologist is missing from base camp. She later discovers that the psychologist has been hypnotizing the team members inhaling the spores has made the biologist immune to this hypnosis. The biologist conceals this event from the others.

While inspecting the words, she inhales some spores released by the substance. Inside, the biologist finds words written on the wall in a mysterious organic substance. The structure is not on any of the maps the team members have with them, and they decide to explore it. Her husband was a member of the 11th expedition to Area X he returned under mysterious circumstances, acting strangely, and died soon after.Īt the beginning of the novel, the expedition has come upon a structure in the ground that the biologist sees as a tower but the rest of the crew sees as a tunnel. The novel depicts the events of the expedition while also providing backstory for the life of the biologist before she volunteered for the expedition. The psychologist leads the group, while the biologist narrates the story in the first person. Their task is to explore Area X and document their findings in journals and other materials. The 12th expedition into a wild habitat called Area X consists of four women: an anthropologist, a psychologist, a surveyor, and a biologist.

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