At that, they came to a large room. It had several doors that, according to Victor, should not be there. When they were inside, Mathias, James and Victor stood in front of those doors, but Nicole was next to the door they entered through.
- Hey, hey. - James said to Victor. - Are you serious? We're depending on you, you know? How old is this knowledge you have of the place?
- Hey, hey, stop. - Mat said. - That's what you heard about, right?
"Indeed."
- Then... Because of that it might be wrong... It's not their fault.
"But I just remembered something. What year are we in now?"
- What? Well... - James said. - It's 1987...
- Wait, don't tell me that... - Nicole said.
"The last date I heard was October 30, 1980. And that was before I heard anyone talk about the facility."
- Oh... So... Ah! Rightly so. - James.
As they were talking, Nicole noticed something, but didn't say a word. Then, out of nowhere.
- Agh!
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Everyone turned around. The one who made that noise was Nicole. She was scared because one of the monsters, which Mat had smashed, made a strange noise behind her. After hearing that, Nicole fell down in fright and tried to get away from those monsters that were slowly approaching her, walking strangely, swaying from side to side. Without the helmet they were almost like the ones in the illustration next to her, but scarier (alas... I can't draw well... Never mind.) They were fighting each other, for some reason; at that, one of them fell close to Nicole and, noticing her, grabbed her leg. Nicole kicked it several times to get away from it, but she couldn't.
- Nicole! - Mathias exclaimed.
- Oh, Mathias, save me, help me, do something, ah! - cried Nicole. For some reason this made me laugh a little bit as she was kind of squirming to get out of it, but... She was doing it in a comical way. Don't judge me.
- Ok! Huh? - At that, Mathias noticed something.
"Huh? They're more than before... No way."
It took him a moment to act, and because of that, Victor attacked the creatures those with his tentacles first. It looked painful.
With that attack, he pierced through the... Eight monsters that were there.
- Huh? - James. It all happened so fast for him.
- Ah... Ah... - Nicole was scared because they butchered creatures in front of her, but... - T-thank you...
She said that after turning to look at Victor. She hurried to get up to get away from there. She started to think something about those monsters, but she didn't come to a good conclusion and didn't say anything to her friends.
"Let's move on."
Victor whispered that and chose one of the doors. They went that way.
- This... - Mat said, before going through the door. He turned to look at the dismembered bodies of the creatures and... - No way!
The separated pieces of the creatures began to fuse together. The other pieces, being far away from the others, began to sort of regenerate and create another individual.
- H-hey. - said Mat. - Look...
- What's that, Mat? Huh?! - exclaimed James.
- B-but how? - asked Nicole.
Victor, without a second thought, attacked them again.
- Wait! - Mat exclaimed, but by the time he did, it was too late.
Victor had hacked them all to pieces again.
"What's wrong?"
- This... I think those things... They multiply when you attack them.
"What?"
- That... See? - said Nicole, pointing at the ugly creatures. They were regenerating and new ones were appearing.
"In that case, the only thing we can do is..." They said, and braced themselves. "Run away."
They took off running.
- What? - They said in unison, but followed them.
Just as they did that, the creatures went wild and started jumping on all fours or running in strange ways. The group started running faster because of that. Nicole was running abnormally.
- Hey, Mat! - James asked as they ran away. - Can you create explosives?
- W-what? - Mat replied. - No, I can't.
- I see... - James replied. They kept running through several corridors, following Victor. - Well... Do something anyway!
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- Ok, ok! - Mat replied. - Then...
He stopped, standing back and... Created a pink PSI barrier, blocking the way to the... 60 of those monsters.
- That's enough, isn't it? - said Mathias.
- I guess so. - said James.
- L-look! - said Nicole.
The monsters were hitting the barrier ferociously while screaming horribly (as well as fighting each other). The barrier started to crack. They decided to keep running away while Mat put up more barriers.
After a while...
- Let's see, let's see... This is all in place... - a man, dressed like the guys Mathias knocked out, was checking some kind of tablet (?). He was walking down a hallway. - The specimens on this floor are all in place apparently.
He kept walking until he reached an elevator, and went down. As he went down, he kept checking his tablet.
"This place is too big, then... Why are only thirty people managing it?"
A while later, he reached the bottom floor and got out. He walked around for a little while.
- Let's see... Will the test subjects we brought in be all right? - he said. - Well... Yeah, they seem to be lasting a long time...
He turned to look up, for some reason.
- I hope the brethren are doing well... - look at that tablet. - Wait, wait...
He noticed that, apart from the three test subjects, there was another entity near them... And a bunch more following them.
- But... But what is this? Somebody tell me, because I don't think this is right. - He updated his tablet, that strange one. He kept walking. - But... This is true, no... No, no, no.
On that.
- Excuse me! - Mathias said to him. He felt some spiritual power in him, but did not give it importance.
- Excuse me! - James said.
- Excuse us! - Nicole said to him.
"We're so sorry." Victor whispered to him.
- Huh? W-what? - the guy was surprised. Mathias and the others left him. At that... - Oh my God, I don't believe this... They escaped!
He said this at the sight of the artificial monsters. He ran away too... But it was too late.
Mathias and the group arrived at the elevator where the guy had come from, and by the time the man got to them, the door was closing.
- No, no, no, no, no! Please don't! - the man exclaimed.
- We are very sorry... - Mathias said to him.
The man turned around and saw the monsters approaching him. The elevator door closed and Mat and the group went up.
As they went up screams were heard.
"...At least it went well for us."
- Yes... - Mathias affirmed.
- I guess... - James asserted.
- Agh... - Nicole.
- H-hey, are you okay... Ah!
Mathias looked at Nicole's leg, it was injured. It looked like, when the monster grabbed her from there, it grabbed her really hard... Or something like that. It was bruised, as well as being kind of worn, and bleeding.
"How was she running normally with that wound!?"
- Nicole... Really? - James replied. - This... Why didn't you say anything about the injury? Running like that must have been upsetting for you.
- No... It's just hurting and... Agh... - She fell. - It hurts a lot.
Mat walked over to her.
- I'm going to heal you. - He told her, knelt down and created a PSI knife, with which he cut her finger.
- Wow, what the hell are you doing? - James said to her.
- Just watch. - Mathias replied.
He poured his blood on the wound and... It started to regenerate.
- What? - James asked himself, surprised.
- I-it doesn't hurt anymore. - said Nicole to Mathias.
- That's good. - replied Mathias.
- Hey, Mat... That was awesome! - James said to him.
"Seriously, even I'm surprised."
- Thanks...? - Mat said.
"So what are you going to do about your wound?"
- Yes, Mat... What are you going to do? You had to hurt yourself to heal me.
- It's okay, I'm fine. - he said smiling.
- What? Why do you say that? It's going to get infected or something... - said James.
- Nah, I don't think so, see? - said Mathias, and made to see that his finger was regenerating.
- Mat... You scare me. - said James.
- Hey! - Mathias
They laughed. Even Victor, it was weird.
Ah yes, it seemed that his regeneration was fast with minor injuries.