28 Annas Definition of "Desolation" (2/2)

She tried to distract it so Ephraim could run through the doors, although it isn't a guaranteed escape. There are other creatures looming in around the corners—but as of now, it would be wiser to escape this room. Anna once again analyzed the situation as she closed her eyes to drift her consciousness to several sectors of the laboratory, examining where would be the safest route.

Almost all of the laboratory was looming with monsters. She can't believe she didn't notice this—is it because her system did not recognize the creatures? But that can't be the case. She immediately knew there was an intruder. She immediately knew when Ephraim fell to the lagoon, and his companion to the opposite.

Is she programmed to let the creatures pass undetected? None have destroyed vault doors, yet they were spawning everywhere.

The flowers!

Anna wanted to blame herself, but she couldn't. It seems like the creatures could pass undetected because they were lab-made and perhaps it was because she herself was immersed in examining the room. This was the laboratory she remembered.

The laboratory she remembered . . .

She then analyzed the situation once more, and then rummaged her senses to different premises of ANDROMEDA. Room by room she examined.

One safe room.

A specific room she had access to—but contents botched and deleted by the scientists. It was all dark in her mind, but this part of the laboratory was the only sector unoccupied by the never-ending spawn and hoard of laboratory creatures. Anna sees Ephraim dodging the attacks of the monster, and she was there unable to do anything. She couldn't even sense the presence of these intruding creatures!

Intruding creatures . . .

Intruders!

Anna then noticed in her system that there is a person who touched the glass pane separating the laboratory from the jungle. Anna wanted to 'kick' herself (one term she learned in watching animes at the time she couldn't do anything)—she had put her system to idle to lavish and enjoy her walks since it's been forever she was in her hologram form.

Without wasting a time, she started to run through walls. She still couldn't teleport, but at least she could actually be a Hologram and float through thin air and 'walk' to the ground. She ran (because it seemed easier for her) towards corridors and walls, hoping it isn't too late to save the 'intruders'—

And then as Anna set foot to the premise—she stumbled upon mountain of corpses. She couldn't really smell, but she 'knew' rotten flesh smelled horrid.

Surrounded by the mountain of corpses was a man with ink-black hair and dark eyes. The person who helped her and reprogram her hologram form along with her security chip. The guy who saved Ephraim from drowning.

He saved Ephraim once.

Now he got to do it twice!