Entering the room, an unexpected message had occurred, but the door behind Quinn closed instantly. Judging from what happened with Vorden, now there was nothing he could do until the trial was complete.
"Did that thing just say trial two?" Layla asked. "And not trial one?"
They all thought the same thing. When entering, they thought the robot would recognize Quinn as a new subject. Starting the process all over again from the beginning.
Seeing that this wasn’t the case, Logan naturally tried looking for answers. He placed his hand on the terminal, trying to communicate with it one more time. Machines, robots, they all followed a set of code, instructions, rules.
However, he was only met with disappointment. Once again reminded about how this strange computer seemed to have a mind of its own. Doing things out of the ordinary.
Quinn was unafraid, confident in his new skills and newfound power. He was able to get a good gauge on the Wendigo’s strength watching Vorden, and if he was to face something a little harder, he knew he could get through it.
Instead, multiple thoughts were running through his head, thinking about how they could get out of this place. What exactly was this place being used for.
Looking at several of the blood marks, Quinn activated his level three inspect skill. A little window popped up above each one of the blood, giving out little bits of information.
What had surprised him a little was how the blood marks were a mixture of human as well as an unknown blood type. If he was to take a guess, the unknown blood type would belong to the vampires. They didn’t have a set blood type like the humans did, but were still red in colour all the same.
Looking at the information, there wasn’t much detail. Only what letter the blood type was, as for the ones he couldn’t recognize, it just came up with several question marks.
Before the trial would start just like last time, the robot opened up its little tray from its chest piece and revealed the green solution.
[Inspect]
[????]
[A 10 percent increase in all stats. Once consumed. Will last one hour]
Although the inspect skill once again couldn’t tell where the green liquid had come from, seeing that message caused something to click in Quinn’s head. The effect he was looking at now was the same effect when he had consumed the Dalki’s green blood. It couldn’t have been a coincidence that the liquid in the syringe was green in colour, on top of having the same effect. There was a high chance that it was Dalki blood.
’Are the vampires and the Dalki really related after all?’ Quinn thought, but there was another confusing thing. The system had seen Dalki blood before, so why didn’t it register it. Instead, it just came up with question marks.
"Will you be taking the solution for this trial?" the robot said.
"Yes," Quinn replied.
"What are you doing, Quinn!" Vorden shouted, hearing his answer. "It a risky thing, and maybe the robot won’t start the trial until you actually take the thing. We can’t guarantee it will be like the rewards."
But Quinn had another theory, he was 90 percent sure this was exactly the same as the Dalki blood. When he consumed the blood before there were no side effects and only positives. The way he was now, it was unlikely he would die by such a thing, and it was clear they were testing this out on vampires and possibly humans as well.
They wouldn’t just outright give them a solution that would kill them.
Taking the syringe from the robot, he waited for some type of response. But nothing came, which meant Vorden was right. It wanted him to take the syringe before the trial would start.
"Sorry Logan, looks like I’m going to have to find some other way to get you this stuff." Digging the needle into the top of his thigh, the green liquid slowly injected into his body.
A strange tingling sensation could be felt inside travelling through, it started to spread all over as if his body was on fire. It reminded him a little of the sensation he had felt at the hospital after consuming too many blood types. Finally, it stopped, but his body felt fresh.
[Status]
After looking at his stats, a big smile appeared on his face. It was a temporary buff in strength, but since he had hit his limit, he wasn’t too sure if it would have worked, but looked like the effects were still there as all of his stats had increased by 4.
"Trial two will now begin." The robot said as it moved back and allowed for two objects wrapped in rags to fall to the floor. There was no need to check what was underneath those rags as they all already knew.
[Inspect]
[A severed human arm]
"Not too much of a surprise.." Quinn said.
Shortly after, two more larger objects had dropped from the ceiling, and they had already seen these once before. They were the Wendigo’s that Vorden had faced only moments ago.
"I’m glad I could leave the room," Vorden said. "I would have been dead otherwise."
It wasn’t because Vorden was by any means weak. Just at this moment, he felt so, due to not having any of his abilities to copy from. He was thankful he had at least the two swords to defend himself.
"Where are those ugly things coming from?" Cia asked.
"She has a point," Logan replied. "How many of those Wendigo’s do they even have? Is there a breeding ground somewhere of some sorts, maybe a storage room where they are all kept in? On top of that, how long have they been up there, judging by the "food" They are dropping with it, it’s been a long time since anyone has looked after this place.
"I hate to say it, but this facility might be incredibly dangerous. Once Quinn gets out of there, we should do our best to leave this place and stop playing this robot’s silly games.
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