The Pathless on Paths---------Chapter VI part 1(11)
2024-03-27 来源:百合文库
“Did you use to work here?” Hunter asked with interest. “I should love to see this facility in its working state.”
“I did indeed work here for some years, but then I was transferred elsewhere, to another facility just like this. Yes, it is a very lively facility when working, but the research conducted here..well, the ethics were questionable. Wait, what is that?” Emmerich suddenly pointed through the glass doors at something drowned in the darkness.
Karrson looked in the direction he pointed. Very faintly, he could see a black budge on the ground. It lay there motionless. Hunter pressed the visor of hid gas mask against the door. “A...body. I think it’s a human body there, but I cannot tell for sure, too dark.”
“Alright...let’s see. Manual operation. Yes. Alright. Let’s pull the door open. Quietly.” Emmerich finished working on the door.
Hunter and Karrson each seized a handle and pulled slowly, and the doors gradually slid open. They entered. They were on one side of what resembles a small train platform. Not far away the ground fell away steeply, and a sudden gap showed itself as a darker shade of black amid the darkness of the platform beyond the door, before the ground rose again on the other side. “For the tram. There are tracks at the bottom of that depression.” Emmerich explained. To their right there were many lifts, but they could see only a few in the inadequate lighting, now all disabled, the panels no longer showing which floor the lift was on. To their right were many doors topped with a dim glowing sign of an emergency exit. Most were open, but they could not see the staircase behind them. The black budge was farther away on the floor, in the dark beyond where the light of the emergency lamps near the doors failed. They could see the floor lit about their feet, but the remainder of the platform was hidden in shadow. They had kept their weapon-lights off for the entire time due to the fear of being discovered, but now they had no choice but to compromise stealth for sight.
“I did indeed work here for some years, but then I was transferred elsewhere, to another facility just like this. Yes, it is a very lively facility when working, but the research conducted here..well, the ethics were questionable. Wait, what is that?” Emmerich suddenly pointed through the glass doors at something drowned in the darkness.
Karrson looked in the direction he pointed. Very faintly, he could see a black budge on the ground. It lay there motionless. Hunter pressed the visor of hid gas mask against the door. “A...body. I think it’s a human body there, but I cannot tell for sure, too dark.”
“Alright...let’s see. Manual operation. Yes. Alright. Let’s pull the door open. Quietly.” Emmerich finished working on the door.
Hunter and Karrson each seized a handle and pulled slowly, and the doors gradually slid open. They entered. They were on one side of what resembles a small train platform. Not far away the ground fell away steeply, and a sudden gap showed itself as a darker shade of black amid the darkness of the platform beyond the door, before the ground rose again on the other side. “For the tram. There are tracks at the bottom of that depression.” Emmerich explained. To their right there were many lifts, but they could see only a few in the inadequate lighting, now all disabled, the panels no longer showing which floor the lift was on. To their right were many doors topped with a dim glowing sign of an emergency exit. Most were open, but they could not see the staircase behind them. The black budge was farther away on the floor, in the dark beyond where the light of the emergency lamps near the doors failed. They could see the floor lit about their feet, but the remainder of the platform was hidden in shadow. They had kept their weapon-lights off for the entire time due to the fear of being discovered, but now they had no choice but to compromise stealth for sight.