Chapter 148 - Horrendous Discovery (1/2)
Finally, Ariana reached the square looking exit at the end of the stairs. Holding onto the handle to the exit, she paused and listened for any movements from the other side. After making sure that there weren't any sounds, she pushed the square shaped door outwards.
She didn't think about anything, but her own safety as a priority. Being cautious by nature, she didn't step out immediately in case of sudden attacks from above. Slowly, she tested the waters to make sure nobody was there to ambush her. Once she had gotten out safely, a heavy rotten iron stench filled her nose that made her gag.
Covering her mouth with her palm, she tried her best not to vomit. At the same time, she felt suffocated by the putrid scent that would make anyone's stomach turn upside down and right side up. Still, she focused her attention on details around the room.
Her eyes wandered around the dimmed, blood splattered room. The walls had fairly new half dried red fluids and old brown stains of blood in an explosive, messy manner. She traced the blood stains to an old and rusty looking shower curtain with unevenly ripped edges.
”This is where the blood stains are blocked off. So, these random ovals or slashes of red marks must have been from whatever was killed here...” Since the curtains were layered unevenly, it exposed the legs of a bathtub behind it.
The dimmed lights flickered, heightening the tension in the room. She gulped and pulled the curtains to the side to discover a bathtub full of blood and layers of stitched patches of human skin soaked in the liquid.
Jars and containers that held body organs in transparent fluid could be seen arranged in the order from smallest to largest on a table behind the tub.
A pair of slender, neatly chopped, skinned body thighs and knees were hanging separated in a row from the ceiling using a hook. The teeth marks on the thighs matched the small amount of flesh that was floating in the tub. It looked like someone had teared out the victim's flesh to drain their blood out slowly in the most brutal way possible.
From the looks of it, the dangling half body in front of her had already been boiled or cooked by oil after the blood was completely drained. A huge freezer with a transparent door was located next to the bloody dissected parts.
She gulped silently and took a deep breath before gathering enough courage to see what was in that freezer. At this point, the pungent smell was not the main point anymore, and she had loosened her palms from her face.
Her body froze on the spot as she felt the chilliness from the icy insides of the functioning freezer. Through the transparent door, she saw bags of ice with some kind of bloody parts that belonged to animals and humans.
Some bags held smaller sized parts which seemed to look like it belonged to infants, children and wild animals. Other parts were too far from her vision as it was stacked between other bags. She was ready to find human heads from the fridge, but had not expect to see more parts preserved in there.