Chapter 19 The Erchius Mining Facility Incident 6 (1/2)
After a temporary blindness, John opened his eyes. He was in a room that was completely colored black and there was a blinking red light at the top of the room. He was able to hear the warning siren echoing through the entire facility.
John looked at his side and saw Lenny sprawled in the ground.
”Are you okay?” John's eyebrows lifted when he saw Lenny laid with his face on the ground barely moving.
”I'm fine, it's just... I really hate teleporters...” He tried to get up, but he fell on the ground again.
John sighed and helped him up.
Lenny thanked him and they soon moved out of the teleporter room.
When they reached the hallway they saw that there was barely any type of light source beside the blinking red light, and the sounds they were able to hear were only of the siren and some strange roaring coming from the distance.
John looked at his PIPS, ”S.A.I.L can you communicate with anyone in this base?”
”No.” S.A.I.L's emotionless voice ringed from the PIPS, ”There is no radio signal coming and going through this entire facility. But I'm receiving reports of a highly concentrated energy coming from the center of the moon.”
”There are life signals?” John worriedly asked.
”Searching... Yes, there is... But it isn't human or from any of the other 6 major races...”
”What do you think,” John asked Lenny since he had better senses than him.
Lenny closed his eyes and concentrated in his other senses, smell, hearing, and tact, ”There is something wrong here... I can feel... Death... All around the facility...”
”What does feeling 'death' means”
”A lot of lives were lost here.” Lenny looked at the dark corridor in both of their rights and left, ”The feeling is stronger in the right... I think we should go to the left first to see what's going on.”
”Let's go then.” John took the Hyperion pistol and a flashlight from his Inventory.
Lenny retrieved the Hyperion sniper and followed John as he walked toward the left corridor.
John stopped and looked at Lenny, ”Can't you turn your shining, bright yellow light a bit lower.” Lenny's entire body was glowing with a light even stronger than John's flashlight. He was just like a walking beacon screaming ”I'M HERE, SHOOT ME” or ”I'M HERE, DEVOUR ME”. Either way, it was bad for them, since they don't know what is happening and they need to keep stealthy.
”Impossible, that's how my body and the body of any other Novakid is.” Lenny said in annoyance.
”Well... Then-” John suddenly stopped speaking and started to look around, ”Have you felt it?” John whispered.
”Yes...” Lenny readied his gun aiming all around them, ”Someone or something is watching us.”
John spotted a security camera just above them. He took a small debris that was on the ground and threw it on the device.
*Bam*