chapter 68:
"Well I'm out of here then...apparently I have no choice but to go to the command post where the AI's consciousness is located "Ethan said, as he started to walk out the way he came in.
Wait!
The girl Ethan was talking to called out to him, apparently conflicted about the next words she would say.
"can you help us get somewhere... "Said the girl who was now full of resolve as she asked Ethan for help.
She looked calmer to the girl, now that she had asked for help, after all since she had seen Ethan, he seemed like a nice guy even if he looked the way he did.
"No...they will only get in my way, I know it sounds very harsh of me, but I don't want to hang out with people who caused all this and I don't know if at any moment they can stab me in the back "Ethan said as he left the place.
The girl's hopes had been shattered by the few words of Ethan, who was now not in the room...she had asked a lot and she knew it very well, but that did not give her the right e the boy she had kindly asked for some help to pass from her face as if he were not a living being like her.
Haci was the girl for several minutes in her own world while ranting in a rage about the boy she just met.
"Okay calm down Rebecca chambers...there is no need to get upset about this...you came here to find out if your father was in this facility, so go ahead with your plan."
The now recognized as Rebecca now calmer, went with the 4 scientists who were with her while planning a plan to get out of that room in which they were locked and surrounded by biological weapons called a zombie.
After leaving the room, Ethan went down the corridors being ignored by the zombies, who upon seeing Ethan's anger, began to leave Ethan's side, as if he was the most dangerous being they had ever seen.
In Ethan's walk through the halls, he didn't realize what he was causing, as apparently all the zombies that were escaping from Ethan, were beginning to mutate into other things very different from what they were.
* Shouting
The screams of the now new creations began to echo in the room calling Ethan's attention, who saw 3 beings with long whip-like tongues and large claws, surrounding him, as if they were dogs following their owner.
At first, when Ethan saw the creatures, he was frightened like anyone else, but when he saw that they did not attack him and that on the contrary, they seemed to follow him like little animals, he calmed down.
Ethan now calmer seeing the new zombies in front of him tried to test if these creatures were following his orders.
The first thing Ethan did was to see if the small holes they had for eyes in their heads were useful to see, so he put his hand in front of the three creatures and the three began to follow his hands, which gave Ethan to understand that the three could see or at least had a way to see the movement of things.
"If you know what I mean, scratch the floor "Ethan said to see if the creatures would listen to him.
Contrary to all of Ethan's expectations, the three creatures had apparently understood Ethan, as they began to scratch with their strong claws at the metal floor, which was now full of claw marks.
"Okay...I want you to finish off those zombies standing at that door "Ethan said, to give a helping hand to the people inside, albeit he had been acting like someone else.
But it was partly because the scientists were asking for his help when they were the ones who created those creatures, but now they wanted his help to escape and leave everything they caused as if it never happened...that was not going to be allowed by Ethan and the other reason why he behaved like Ethan, was because he had a headache, which was making him unable to keep his emotions under control.
"Well I'll give them a hand...but I still won't help them anymore...if they want to escape let them do it themselves "Ethan said as he watched his three new pets finish off all the creatures at the barricade gate that was being blocked by the scientists.
"Well let's go hachiko, laika and pongo "Ethan said as he decided what to name the three creatures that seemed to follow him around like puppies.
Ethan had always seen pictures of pets from a very young age, but after witnessing the death of his first animal, he didn't want to have any more animals because he always suffered when he saw the last cycle of life, which is death.
"death is always the saddest thing in the cycle of life, as you don't know what follows you after that...you disappear or there is another life after death "They were always Ethan's words when asked why he never wanted to hear from dead people and it was also the reason why Ethan didn't want to get attached to other people often.
Being the few people that surrounded Ethan, like the people at the orphanage a special case, after all, it was Ethan who in those moments could not resist getting close to them forgetting the fear of someday losing them.
For someone who always helped others, when he saw people in trouble, he couldn't help but jump in to see if he could help solve their problems.
That's how Ethan met Elsie, a woman devastated by the loss of her husband, who always spent the whole day with a fake smile, to avoid the concern of other people who approached her out of pity...something she didn't want because it made her feel worse.
Another case would be, Richard who when Ethan saw how he hated him...wanted to know why and how he could make him stop hating him for something he didn't know the reason for.
Doing like those two cases, Ethan had always made friends that way, he could be considered someone very nosy, when it came to other people's suffering.
In one profession Ethan could be considered a psychologist, there were times when everyone around Ethan called him the little village psychologist.
"Well let's be on our way "Ethan said as he left with his three new pets, after coming out of his thoughts that had kept him still for several minutes.
Ethan, who did not know where to go, decided to return to the reception since there should be a map there, since it was the entrance to the facilities, although it was impossible that the map of the reception has the way to get to the room where the artificial intelligence was, it was still better than walking around all the facilities without knowing where he was going.
N/A: Well, I've been thinking about some things and I already know how these chapters will go, so I think the number of chapters will be the same as Alan's arc in the mansion or more.