Chapter 735 - Interrogating prisoners (1/2)
~ Los Angeles, Cliffside Villa ~
On the sixth level underground, Sophia, JoAnna and Sarah are standing in front of an oversized iron-like door.
Sarah gave final reminder to her sisters before opening the door: ”Don't forget, whatever you see in the room is not real. Don't try to pick up things or interact with them because that will expose that they don't exist. Rats will run away if you approach them, but the rest is static. Other than the prisoners and the fact that they are tied up to the floor, everything else is Virtual Reality. OK?”
”Prisoners?”, Sophia was entertained by Sarah's choice of words.
Sarah shrugged. ”How else would you call them?”
JoAnna was impatient to get in. ”Come on. Now we are just giving them truth serum and it will take a minute or so to work.”
”Oh, you improved it?”, Sarah remembered that they needed to wait two to three minutes last time they used it.
JoAnna grinned in response and gestured to open the door.
Sarah opened the door and all three sisters grimaced.
”Close it!”, Sophia almost screamed while holding her nose.
”What was that?”, Sophia asked when the door was closed, and she took few steps back.
JoAnna didn't need to think before answering: ”Someone defecated.” After several years of working in the hospital, she has seen people in all kinds of unsanitary conditions. She turned to Sarah. ”Improve ventilation… and probably add some drainage if you don't have any.”
”Note taken… now what?” Sarah almost wept while thinking that she has some high quality equipment within those floor tiles. And now those scums relieved themselves… she can only hope that everything will be working fine after a good sanitizing scrub.
”I take back my offer to interrogate them.” Sophia took few more steps back and waved her arms in front of her. ”There is no way I'm going in there. It stinks.”
”Wait… I got something…” JoAnna went through her bag and pulled a small box while explaining: ”You attach it to the cartilage between nostrils, and it neutralizes odors while giving off a nice scent. I have… lavender, mint and spring breeze.”
Sarah looked at JoAnna in awe. ”You are prepared!”
JoAnna rolled her eyes. ”I work in the hospital. You have no idea with what kind of stench I need to deal sometimes. I always have these handy, don't make a big deal of it. Now, which scent you want?”
…
Sisters put the odor-blockers from JoAnna on and headed inside.
After injecting four people with truth serum, they watched their frightened prisoners in silence.
The four people are mentally exhausted, hungry, thirsty, each of them relieved themselves at least once while fully clothed… they are stuck in a middle-age dungeon with rats and human bones. On top of all that now they have all three Milena's daughters standing in front of them and observing them silently. It's absolutely… terrifying.
The fact that JoAnna was glancing at the time every few seconds only made them tenser.
”We are sorry we tried messing with you!”, Mari almost screamed and started sobbing.
JoAnna glanced at the time and shook her head while looking at her sisters. ”It's still early.”, she was referring to the time when truth potion becomes effective.
After another twenty seconds passed, JoAnna looked at Mari. ”You were saying?”
”We are really sorry that we tried messing with you!”, Mari repeated.
JoAnna gave a satisfying smile and gestured to Sophia to take over.
Sarah and JoAnna took two steps back and observed Sophia who circled around four people on the floor before standing directly in front of Lazo. She remembers that in the hospital others looked at him for decision making, so she knows that he is the leader.
”Who are you?”, Sophia asked.