On the way to the following department, nothing new has happened to Aiden. He didn't pass any danger, or any obstruction on the way. The only thing he met was much the same as before: debris, signs of degredation and destroyed equipment. Still no traces of living people or anything other that could now haunt this place in their stead.
Passing by several more doors, almost all of them closed, and the ones that were open were just an identical copies of the offices he had met the very first time he came here. Aiden didn't even bother with checking them out, because he would probably not learn anything new, and even if he would gain something, what could he earn to justify risking his life over some scraps and pieces. He would much rather prefer to hasten his steps and reach his goal as fast as possible.
He will not be able to get to containment zone for several more minutes, so he tries to occupy his mind with what he already knows about this place. Firstly and foremostly why would they build this facility in the first place? From what he could gather it was just to research the creatures that they found at the bottom of the ocean. But why do so if just the investment into this place would cost more than at least three new settlements? Don't we already struggle due to lack of resources? Maybe the goverment wanted to weaponize whaterer they found here. Maybe and hopefully after they learned of the capabilities of this deep water creatures they wanted to develop new genetic enhancements to lower the death rate of citizans. Or rather just lower the costs of building habitable areas. He would learn that only if he asked them directly, which is not what he wants because most probably they would force him to undergo memory replacement to prevent leaks in classified data. Another problem to solve after he leaves out of here. He could lie to them about what he saw, but the context of it should be left after he is safe.
Secondly, what even are the 'monsters' that presumably killed everyone in here? The could have described them in the documents, but even then he doesn't know how they look. He doesn't even know if they should have just one look, because they described them as adaptable. Maybe basing it on the name 'The Mass' they are just giant, weighty fishes that reached unfadomable density. Or they are just blobs of unknown build that function as ocean cleaners. Maybe even they are undiscovered to this age monsters that differ from each other so much that they had to specifically name one of them with a code name to differentiate members of this species. Next question will remain unanswered, because to even learn it he would have to in the first place meet one, and seeing how it turned out for previous inhabitans of this place, this isn't exactly the best idea.
And lastly, what should Aiden even do when he finally exits this place? Should he just ignore whatever happened here and tell a lie on what happened, just like he thought before? It would save him from them manipulating his memories, but it could also endanger the research team that was arriving in this place after him. But if he tells the truth they could also label his as a lunatic and discharge him from his responsibilities. Because trully, what would he even say? Yeah, I explored this underwater facility full of dangerous monsters, which killed everyone on sight, and I somehow went passed all of them with no evidence of it ever happening? Shame that his suit's camera doesn't work on this depths, because he would at least have something to backup his claim. They also could just have planned to erase his whole memory of this place from the start, so his plans wouldn't work. The best plan in this case would be to just tell the whole truth and hope that they take a pity on you and don't use it. Summarizing, the best path for his is to tell just partial truth of what he learned, but inform them of all the dangers he met. He could also add a fake monster encounter, where he couldn't see how it looked to backup his story. That would probably wield the best results.
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Finally, after the lenghty journey Aiden reached the massive double doors of containment department. And to his joy they were wide open showing him the sight of a massive empty hall with exactly four further open paths leading from it. Unfortunately for him, the entryway to this part of facility wasn't marked on the map, so the path reaching to the exit is at the moment unknown.
He decided to walk past the first ones on the right. It seemed that it was a correct choice at the moment, because they were the closed to him and it would be easy to backtrack in case it turned out to be a dead end. Taking a step through them he noticed that the entire atmosphere and structure of this place has changed. Mainly, due to the equipment installed by the walls of this specific room. The said equipment was a dozen identical tubes filled to the brim with some kind of transparent substance, very similar to normal water, but with a little more luminescent blue coloration that usual. Well, except a few of them filled to the brim with crimson red substance, almost identical and probably it was identical to blood. And to his horror one of the tubes was ruptured, covering that patch of the floor with the first of the liquids and glass shards. Walking even further, extremely careful to not step on anything and in turn produce any louder sound, he came upon a corner blocking his sight from the rest of the room.
Taking a peek behind the corner he saw what could only be described as a nightmare fuel. The things that could only be dreamed by war veterans and mass murderers. A whole pile of human corpses. All of them in various stages of decomposition, decay and rot. This heap of corpsess measures around two times the height of average human and wide enough to accommodate the hundreds of corpses that make out the construction. Not only that, but some of the bodies are missing several or more body parts, some without heads, some without all of their limbs and some with eaten from inside out organs, with ruptured skin spiiling out the rest that was supposed to remain inside onto its surroundings.
This sight almost caused Aiden to get rid of the content of his stomach and paint the floor with new green colors. He had to use almost all of his will to stop himself, just to minimize the risk of him beeing in vulnerable position, or perhaps beeing found out by whatever created the pile. Under normal circumstances he would just get away from it as far as he can, but unfortunately for Aiden, he can see that the corridor leads further into the facillity, so he has to brace forward in hope of finding the exit.
When he is halfway towards the heap he finally notices that it doesn't emmit any kind of smell. Like not at all. He should have seen it already, because this number of corpses should produce enough smell to be felt from across most of the previous hall, but there was nothing. Not even a slight annoying scent. It is as if it was sucked away and isolated. It felt unusual, and definitely wasn't natural. But there came something that distracted him from this phenomenon.
"H-h-hello? Is s-s-someone t-there?"
He heard a weak voice comming from the side of the pile.