If you look closely, all the jars on the shelf are goblin parts; they've even encapsulated their nails and teeth, literally dissected them.

After seeing this, I sit down in a chair in the lab to try to rest, but my mind is working at full speed.

Everything I have read and learned comes together to form a story:

1. Experiments were conducted with the goblins 100 or 1000 years ago. The shape of the electrical generator can infer this as it looks like it was from the 1800s.

2. These subjects used more than 20,000 goblins since the condition to open this dungeon is to bring that number of bodies.

3. Due to the continuous experiments, the goblins started to evolve. This can be confirmed by the janitor's comment, the body, and the log sheet in the observation room.

That is what I know so far, but now some doubts arise:

1. What did they want to do with the goblins that they had to hide?

2. Why didn't they stop the experiments after the goblins started to evolve?

3. If everything was going so well, why did they abandon this place?

4. And most importantly, why did it become a special dungeon?

Maybe I can get the answers to questions one, two, and three, but not the last one. This is something I may never find an answer to.

Now that everything is settled, I start checking the lab for items.

[You have obtained a scalpel]

[Description: A sterilized knife capable of easily piercing the skin, doctors always carry a scalpel, and if they don't, they aren't]

[You have obtained lab report L-1]

[Description: Analysis indicates that all "HG" subjects are more resistant to cuts; if they want to take tissue samples, they must use a scalpel]

After checking the L-1 lab, I could only get ten scalpels and a report from the L-1 lab. I leave the room and head to the L-2 lab as there are no more.

After about 8 minutes, I checked all the labs from L-2 to L-9, I did not find another report, but I did get 80 scalpels. Now I only have to check the L-10 lab.

I enter the L-10 lab. To my surprise, it looks more like an office than a lab, I start to check the place, but the only thing I find is a piece of paper.

[You have obtained a personal note]

[Area R - Ysiti]

Eh, Area R? Ysiti? There seems to be a hidden treasure somewhere in this dungeon. If so, where is it? Please don't tell me that to unlock it. I have to defeat the boss of this place without getting a scratch because that's impossible in my current state.

Ok, jokes aside, as this floor is already empty, now I head to the fourth floor; it's strange that so far I don't find a single enemy, nor has any trap been activated, maybe all the staff believed that I would return to work here after a month, so they didn't see the need to activate any security protocol in the whole building and just activated the "Contingency" status of the generator.

On the fourth floor, I come across a terrifying sight; both the walls and the floor are stained with red and green blood as if they had unleashed a fight of all against all.

Maybe they had to leave the facility without warning, and since some people were in the operating room, they had no choice but to eliminate the goblins right here or move them somewhere else.

I see that all the doors to the operating room are locked, so I walk over and try to open one of them, but they all require a card to get in.

Since they are all locked, and I don't have the card, I skip this floor and go to the fifth floor, I barely take a few steps, and I see a pile of papers scattered everywhere. Can read none of them since they turn to dust as soon as you touch them. Being outdoors and without any shelter made them get damaged. The other documents I found were either in a drawer or locked in their room.

I check the hallway on the fifth floor, and like the third and fourth floors, this one has its doors locked, but there is no sign here. But since I have already used all the other keys, I can assume that this is the control room.

I put the key in the lock, and indeed it opens. Once I enter the room, I find 30 monitors turned off and three chairs to keep an eye on them, but why call it the operating room? It should be called the control room instead of the operating room.

Anyway, I start to check the place, but something strange happens, I find absolutely nothing, not even a sheet of paper, so I leave this room and enter the next one.

After spending 12 minutes, I enter the other seven rooms, and likewise, I found nothing, just the same scene of three chairs with 30 monitors to keep an eye on.

This is very strange. I don't think there is anything here. Maybe I have to re-activate the monitors? If so, I have to go back to the engine room on the second floor and activate the generator redistribution function.

But I don't want to do that; I feel that there is no going back once I activate that.

Since there's nothing here and the rooms on the fourth floor are locked, all that's left for me is to check the records room at the beginning.

I only have this key left, so a notification pops up as soon as I get there and open the lock.

[The object Janitor's keychain has been removed].

[The object Janitor's Diary has been removed].

So the objects are deleted once their function is completed? If so, why aren't the 17 clinical sheets and the personal note deleted yet? Haven't they completed their purpose yet? In any case, I will find out sooner or later.

After thinking about it, I opened the records room, and here I found a lot of empty shelves; they had taken all the documents. I guess they didn't want to leave loose ends.

I start to search the room, and fortunately, I find something.

[Memorandum - Level 5 Order]

[Due to recent events in the world, you are ordered to evacuate immediately and take all files from the records room and operations room; once evacuated, proceed to the designated area and do not return to this site until further notice]

[Item Memorandum - Level 5 Order has been deleted]

They were forced to leave this site, and they took all the documents that connected them to this place, either directly or indirectly.

So the people in charge got away with it, but with so many people working there, some information must have leaked outright?

...Wrong

I forget that this is a world where science and technology go hand in hand. Maybe everyone who worked here was forced to sign or use some object that forbids them to tell any information from this place.

None of this has to do with me; now, all that's left is to explore the basement, and that's something I don't want to do, I've never been good at horror games, and I've only seen others play.

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Once I go down the stairs, I find a metal door that looks just like the ones that appear in futuristic shows or games, and just as I thought, I can not enter.

Now I have no choice but to activate the redistribution function of the generator, but before that, let's review the course of action, let's see.

1. Activate the generator redistribution.

2. Go to the operating room.

3. If possible, go to the operating room area.

4. Finally, go to the basement

I want to go to the operating room because there must be something there, maybe I will get some clue, or it will show me some particular area.

It's not because I'm afraid of going to the basement, and I try to avoid it as much as possible.

Anyway, now that the plan has been formed, I go to the engine room on the second floor, and the same notification appears again.

[Currently, the generator supplies power to the entire lab; you want to redistribute it].

* Yes

After confirming the redistribution, the lights go off, and after 1 second, they come back on, then several notifications appear.

[You have redistributed the energy of the whole complex].

[The object Chief Mechanic's Instruction Manual has been removed].

[The operations room is active again].

[The doors of basements one and two are open].

[Will release the capsules of the test subjects in basement one within 30 minutes]

[To avoid this, please enter the master code into the main computer]

Shit, how the fuck am I going to know the master code? I already knew something bad was going to happen. In any case, I have 30 minutes to prepare, so let's run.

I leave the engine room and run to the operations room as fast as possible. As I enter the first room, the monitors show different places on the first floor. When I sat in the middle chair, a notification came up.

[The monitor contains an unsaved file, you want to play it].

* Yes

Now I'm up against the clock, so I can't waste time; maybe I can listen to the master code or something.

When the video plays, it shows many people running everywhere. While some are carrying boxes towards the exit, the video ends, and the screens show the different places on the first floor.

So saved the last minutes of the evacuation. Maybe it can show me something valuable.

I left the room and went to the next operating room, which showed different sites on the second floor, I sat in the chair, and the notification returned.

[The monitor contains an unsaved file, you want to play it]

* Yes

It is the same as the previous video, and there is no rescue.

As soon as the video is finished, I go to the next room. Here, different places on the second floor are shown. I sit back down and watch the video.

This time something interesting happens.

* What is happening?

* Sir, we can't store the objects

* What?!? Are you kidding me?!?

* No, sir, we can't save anything in the inventory.

* Then, use the "αβΩ SYSTEM" and buy backpacks.

* We tried that too, sir, but we can't "SYSTEM αβΩ" it's like it's been disabled, and the backpacks we have can't store these materials.

* Hell, then drop everything and help the others collect the documents from the operating room.

* But sir, the A-Z ingots are here.

* I KNOW! But in terms of importance, those documents are more valuable than you think. Now go.

* YES!

The video cuts off here.

I can't believe it; it's not that they didn't want to take those things. The inventory and the "SYSTEM αβΩ" didn't give them the opportunity. I thought they just took the documents and left with the idea of coming back later, but seeing this. I realized I was wrong.

I go to the next room, and this time it's the monitors on the third floor.

In the video, there is no rescuing, just people in gowns taking a pile of sheets.

The video ends, and I go to the next room, where the fourth floor is shown.

Here something interesting happens and it is surgeons come out dragging stretchers with goblins on them while they continue suturing; green blood paints the walls and floors, and as they go at full speed, the surgeons end up getting hurt and bleeding. But in some doors, the surgeons continue working on the goblins, so their doors are still closed, and their "SURGERY" signs are still red. Then some guys appear, and a conversation takes place.

* Subject 1: Quick, pass me the access card.

* Subject 2: I don't have it.

* Subject 1: Shit, what about the unlock code?

* Subject 2: I don't know it either.

* Subject 1: For fuck's sake, hey you! What's the unlock code?

* Subject 3: I don't know, you have to ask the operations area.

* Subject 1: Quick, ask them.

After that, the video cut off.

I immediately go to the next room and watch the video.

It shows several people carrying papers and what appear to be VHS tapes that look like glass, then a guy comes running in.

* Quick, what is the unlock code for the surgical area?

* The surgical area? Hey, what was the code?

* I don't remember. I think it was 7029 or 2970. Try both.

* Roger!

Then the staff continues to load paperwork, and that's the end.

7029 or 2970, now I can open the doors to the surgical area.

Now I enter the next room, but before watching the video, I check the monitors, and as soon as I see them, I turn pale. The monitors show hundreds of goblin capsules stored in basement one, while there is a counter at minute 21:44 and keeps going down.

I shake my head and quickly play the video.

It shows many people taking documents out of the basement and others dragging goblin capsules to the side.

* Sir, we will finish moving and encapsulating the goblins in 5 minutes.

* Copy that. How is the document extraction going?

* Maybe 2 or 3 minutes.

*

* Excuse me, sir, what about subjects HG#01 through HG#013? Shouldn't we encapsulate them?

* No, they will put them in a cryogenic state as their room is adapted for it.

* Ok, what about subject "R"?

* I have no idea. That is taken care of by those in basement 2.

The video ends after the conversation between these people.

Are you serious? Not only do I have to face the goblins and 13 other HG subjects, but there is also a hidden boss.

The difficulty of this dungeon is insane. Fortunately, the HG subjects are locked in their rooms, so I won't have to fight them simultaneously.

Ok, only one room left. Let's see what it shows me.

I enter the room, and the monitors show me the 13 HG subjects tied to thick chains, and a timer with the number 7: 32 appears, the monitors also point to an area where there is a subject lying face up, unlike the others he is not chained, but if you look closely, you will see that on his arms and feet there are three pairs of thick shackles giving a total of 12 shackles, it seems that this is the subject "R" they talked about in the other video, the monitors also point to other empty areas, but I did not pay attention to them.

Time is of the essence, so I quickly played the video, and some men started talking.

* Scientist 1: Are you finished?

* Scientist 2: Yes, the only thing left to do is close the door of subject "R".

* Scientist 1: What about the rooms of subjects HG#01 onwards?

* Scientist 2: I already programmed the cryogenic state. Will activate it in 10 minutes.

* Scientist 1: Ok, then let's close that door and activate the cryogenic state.

After that, they go to the back room, and he places some chips on the electronic board, then he takes out a piece of paper, and I start typing a long code, then something strange happens.

* Are they leaving already?

* Scientist 1: ...

* Scientist 2: ...

* They're not even going to say goodbye to me? I knew they weren't very smart, but not that they were rude.

* Scientist 1: Shut up...

* Did I hurt your pride? HAHAHAHAHAHA what idiots. They should have expected this from the beginning. What they are trying to do is impossible, and yes, if they succeeded, the consequences would be disastrous.

* Scientist 1: SHUT UP!

* It looks like something happened outside. Maybe my brain is not that developed, but even us monsters know that you can't mess with nature.

* Scientist 2: READY!

* Scientist 1: Finally...

* Is the conversation over? I was hoping we would have a little more fun. Now I can't laugh at you anymore; please come back. I want to continue making fun of you.

Then they leave the room and talk again.

* Scientist 1: Have you put the key away?

* Scientist 2: Can't; the inventory is locked.

* Scientist 1: Locked? In that case, hide it in the file room on floor 1.

* Scientist 2: Ok, shall I put a key?

* Scientist 1: I don't think so. We might end up forgetting it.

* Scientist 2: Got it. I'll put it under that tile where we hid the beer.

* Scientist 1: Good thinking

The video ends here.

What the hell was that guy "R" talking about? Can goblins talk, were the guys working here trying to create intelligent monsters? No, no, no, no, this can't be right.

I leave the room and go to the surgical area, I put in code 7029, but it doesn't work, so I put in the other code 2970, and it unlocks the door. I start checking the room and only find a chart.

[You have obtained a medical chart - Subject #G-009]

[Description: Subject # G-009 his arm was destroyed, and a prosthesis should be fitted].

After checking and finding nothing, I went to the next room, but I only found another 11 medical charts. But in the last one, I obtained a diary.

[You have obtained Surgeon's Diary #23]

I started to read it while I was going to basement 1

[Surgeon's Diary #23]

[Day X - Month X - Year X: I just started working at this facility; at first, I thought I would be treating patients who get hurt dealing with the goblins, but when I found out that I treat the same goblins, I was baffled].

[Day X - Month X - Year X: A goblin came in with a cut leg, we reattached it and took the goblin out, then I found out that after two days, he started walking normally, what a level of recovery].

[Day X - Month X - Year X: We had to amputate a goblin's arm and put a prosthesis on it, I asked them why they didn't hire a priest or use medicine to cure it, and they told me that normal medicine doesn't work and that priest cures don't work on undomesticated monsters or monsters that haven't been raised since childhood].

[Day X - Month X - Year X: Talking to some researchers, chemists, surgeons, and doctors, I learned that most of them work here to find a way to exterminate the goblins completely].

[Day X - Month X - Year X: A new goblin arrived in our area, he is taller and stronger than the other goblins and was given the name HobGoblin].

[Day X - Month X - Year X: From what I heard, the HG arises when a group of 30 goblins gathers together, then one of them evolves and becomes their leader].

[Day X - Month X - Year X: Today, researchers and doctors found a way to weaken Goblins and HobGoblins strongly, they commented that yes, they suffer dehydration or freezing for a long time, their recovery and strength levels will drop significantly].

[Day X - Month X - Year X: A roar woke up all the staff, we were forced to evacuate quickly, and after 30 minutes, we returned to rest].

[Day X - Month X - Year X: We were informed that an evolved HobGoblin caused the roar and that from now on, any goblin or hobgoblin showing should eliminate the slightest sign of evolution].

[Day X - Month X - Year X: The alarm has just sounded and we are informed that we must evacuate the place immediately, right now we are suturing so we can't leave if anyone finds this diary, please don't tell the high command and return it to its place].

[You have just read the Surgeon's Diary #23]

[The object Surgeon's Diary #23 has been deleted.]

Now I get it. Everyone working here was looking to rid the world of goblins once and for all. In their efforts, they found ways to weaken them but also caused them to evolve, which resulted in the birth of the hobgoblin and subject "R."

As soon as I finish processing that, I find myself in front of the door leading to the basement.

It's time. Let's go.