The group emerged from the corridor into a pristine, white-lit room, a stark contrast to the decaying facility they had traversed so far. The walls gleamed with an unsettling sterility, and rows of untouched equipment hummed quietly, as if waiting for use.
"This feels... wrong," Finn murmured, his voice echoing softly.
"It's too clean," Zoe said, scanning the room with narrowed eyes. "Everything else in this place is falling apart, but this? It's like it's been preserved."
Mia moved cautiously, her gaze drawn to a glass chamber in the center of the room. Inside, a humanoid figure lay suspended in a viscous, glowing liquid. Wires and tubes connected its body to an array of monitors, their screens displaying rapid streams of data.
"This is it," Ruby said, her voice tight. "The primary lab."
Caleb approached one of the consoles, his fingers brushing against the keys. "They were running experiments here, weren't they? On people."
