Capítulo 30: The Unexpected Guests

We placed ourselves on the surface near the entrance of the building. I've disabled the electricity in this part of the building and we're gonna fight in the dark I guess. We waited and waited until we heard footsteps and people talking. We'll engage them if its time. I began the first shot and took two of them and that began a widespread shoot-out. Bullets flying left and right, up and down. They're good but they lack proper communication. As cartridges litter, the floor all over the rain of bullets never stopped. We instead split up and took care of them one-by-one till only their team leader is the last remaining. "I wanna know why you went through everything here just to get me. You'll talk eventually bring him in the 'Room' he'll be talking and spilling everything that he knows but for now let him sleep." I injected him with a special sleeping medicine that will last for two days. For now, we headed back to work in my lab and I can finally read the report they gave to me. "Ma'am great work out there, I also confirmed that our area is clear outside," I replied. "Great job everyone. But now that the intruder has been taken care of time to go back to our regular working times. I'll be in my office reading the report just enter the room if you got any questions. Tom can you call the cleanup crew for the mess upstairs." Tom nodded and left while carrying paperwork. I enter my room with the report in my hand, I said to myself. 'Here goes nothing.' I breathe deeply to prepare myself for the results that might break my soul since this will determine if my best friend is alive or not from the test. As I read the words in the report I saw this while I was reading in between the lines... 'Test subject died from the test... I'm so sorry Miss Hailey, but she gave results that surprised us. We've found out how to stabilize the mixture. I repeat the mixture can now be stabilized. It's both a failure and a success.' As tears fall from my face and hearing that she did give the results we've been wanting all this time. I mourn for a while in my office, it took me two hours to mourn but that stopped as I heard someone knock in my room and said. "Ma'am this is Tom I've got something to say. Are you in right now?" I replied. "You can enter Tom," Tom replied. "Oh, I'm sorry that you're in the middle of... That. I'm so sorry but Ma'am the framework of the medicine is now prepared and ready for further study. I'm sorry that Irina died for this I tried to stop her when she appeared for volunteering before. But she forced me to include her in the testing. I remember what she said to me while I was persuading her to back down. 'Tom, Hailey's out there waiting for a test subject I'm telling you I want in I'm serious Tom. Can you please just listen to me, Tom? I'm one of the people that abandoned Hailey during Golden Week. But I knew that I was foolish and ended up getting infected by the plague. This was karma for me for abandoning a friend that's been with me ever since we've first met during elementary. Tom, I gotta have to make up for the time I lost Tom you got to understand, please it's the only thing I have left.' I don't have a choice but to pick her. I'll hold the responsibility for her death..."