Chapter 20 The Erchius Mining Facility Incident 7 (1/2)
Mouro watched as John and Lenny walked toward the Overseer's office.
He turned off the computer and the screens, turned around and left the Overseer's office.
He was almost reaching a good position to ambush John and Lenny when he received a message in his PIPS. He looked at it, ”New orders. Make sure, whatever it cost, the Human and the Novakid die.”
[Well... I was about to do it anyway...] Mouro confusedly looked at his PIPS, [Whatever... I'll just be more careful.]
Mouro retreated to safer distance and decided to watch for now and wait for a opportunity.
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John and Lenny reached the Overseer's room. It was empty, there was neither Clark or anyone else. John started to roam through through the office, while Lenny stayed by the door.
”Shhh...” Lenny tried to silence John, ”There's something there...” Lenny pointed at the end of the corridor.
John glanced at there and soon he was able to see a silhouette of a humanoid being.
It was about the size of a normal adult human, but what was surprising was the fact that its entire body was covered in some kind of pink slimy material that keep dropping from its body and corroding the floor beneath it.
John tried to approach a little more, but the monster soon discovered them.
*Growl!*
It growled toward them and waved its arm, launching a few drops of the pink, slimy liquid.
”Wow” Lenny and John dodged the projectiles.
John aimed with his pistol and swiftly fired two times, one at the head the other in the place where was supposed to be the heart.
*Fisst*
The energy bullet opened holes in the monster's body, but it only made the thing more angry.
*Growl!!!!!
The sound that came of from the monster's mouth reverbered through the claustrophobic hallways, making John's ears ring and making him dizzy.
Lenny on the other, wasn't that affected, he readied his gun.
*Bang*
The energy bullet exploded the monster's head. This time the pink mutant fell on the ground with a thud sound.
”What is this thing.” John shook his dizziness away.
”There's no information about them in the Universal Bestiary Codex.” S.A.I.L's voice came from his PIPS.
Lenny approached the creature and tried to touch it.
With the touch a very small part of Lenny's finger was corroded. He immediately retrieved his hand.
”I've seen them before...” Lenny said.
”This things?”
”Yep, when I was mining at a moon a long time ago, I found a Mining Facility, similar to this one, but a lot older. Inside the place it was completely swarmed with this things. I didn't try to approach I just observed from afar. But I found a crashed ship that was somewhat away from the base. Inside the ship I found some recordings and notes. I read them and discovered that the Facility was abandoned because of a monster that was awakened deep inside the moon, they called it, Erchius Horror. This creatures, pink mutants that we see here, they received the name, Moontants.” Lenny explained.
”Strange... If this things are likely common, why there is nothing on the Universal Bestiary Codex...?” John muttered.
”We've a problem...” Lenny interrupted John's thoughts.
”What's it ?” John asked.
”Look at your Retriever...”