58 Chapter 58 Specimen Lab (2/2)
”We haven't seen him.We're still looking.”The white one stepped aside as he answered, to let them go by.
”Any leads or clues?”
”No, sir,” replied the blue one, shaking his head, and joining the white one against the wall.
”Keep looking!Reports say they were last spotted near the locking bays where they entered.They've killed a fair number of biobots, but it doesn't look like they've acquired any weapons, so that's good.”
The rest of the Josagn ignored them, glancing up the hall, but also not noticing him.He said a silent thank you to his PED who responded warmly.He liked the new upgrade.
The two left, turning the corner at the end of the hall, and the Josagn continued their march. They went right under him, and he was sorely tempted to kill them all with his gun, but he didn't want to risk them setting off an alarm.Plus, he was very interested in what the two lizard men had said.
It sounded like there were clones made, that bombs were planted in their brains, and that they were each 'given' an Olivia.He was pretty sure by this point that those two had known he was there, and were intentionally trying to help him.Not one to pass down a good chance, he followed after them once the Josagn were gone.
He followed at a distance for over an hour, pausing to hide whenever Josagn showed up, but his camouflage seemed to work incredibly well.How was it that they couldn't see him with all of their tech?
The two paused outside of a door, after the second hour, and waited for more Josagn to go by.The Josagn seemed to ignore them on purpose.
”Inside this room is the specimen lab.I'm not sure we won't get in trouble for going in…” said the white one, holding his hand just over the plate to open the door.
”But we're doing our job, looking for them.We can't possibly get in trouble for that!” said the blue one, hitting his hand down, and opening the door.
They entered, leaving the door open, and Dustin swooped inside.The lights were dim, and all around the room, which was pretty large, there were tiny jars.Dustin quickly flew back up near the ceiling, and saw that beyond the rows of tiny jars, there were more containment units of varying size.
”Everything they've ever hunted is in here.I wish I had my PED to get some samples of everything.Sure would be helpful.”The white one moved to the end of the room and looked down at a computer terminal.
”No use even messing with it, you can't hack it anymore.”
”I know.My sample is in the system.If I access the terminal it would show up as a specimen hacking it.”
Dustin waited for them to move off as they checked each row dutifully, in case he was hiding in any of them, and flew down to check the terminal out.He was surprised it didn't have an encrypted code on it, but was just free to access.Whipping out some cords on his PED, he hooked it up and started downloading data.
(THERE IS A LOT OF DATA HERE, DO YOU WISH TO ATTEMPT ANY EVOLUTIONS AT THIS TIME?)
”No, just get as much data as you can hold, and quick!”
(DOWNLOADING EVERYTHING WILL FILL THE AVAILABLE SPACE TO 95% CAPACITY, ASSUMING YOU DO NOT WISH TO ACQUIRE PLANT GENETIC MATERIAL.)
”No, I don't want any plant stuff.Though it would be nice to take it, just in case…” he thought hard, but just couldn't figure out how to save the information.If Olivia's PED was working, he would save it on hers…
Laying her down, he pulled some wires from her PED, and started to hook it up to the monitor too.Maybe he could use the screen and keypad here to fix her programming while he waited for the download to be complete.
Dustin lost time, as he programmed and downloaded.The other two lizardmen watched him from the shadows off to the side, not bothering him while he worked.As soon as he was done, he finished her PED and disconnected all of the wires, as his PED was done too.
”I miss my Olivia,” sniffed the blue lizardman, as he stepped out of the shadows.
”We can't officially help you, but we can do what we've been doing so far.” The white one stayed in the shadows, as if afraid to come any closer.
”Who are you?” Dustin asked.
”We're clones, just like you, who were released onto the planet to survive as long as possible.When we managed to get here, we were given the option to survive until you came around, then be freed if we killed you, or be released back onto the planet for another run.”
”One guy went with the second run, convinced he could do it again.They said they would let him go if he could do it again, that was number 15.He's in a containment pod in the back,” said blue, jerking his thumb behind him.
”His bomb didn't go off, and they freaked when they found out he had removed it somehow.”