章 23: SPRAINED ANKLE

*DROP*

I first threw my backpack through the bottom opening of the vent to the floor in order to accurately measure the distance I had to jump. It took one and a half seconds, roughly two seconds to hit the ground which gave me a good estimate of the distance I had to jump. Because of my new size, which I was still getting used to, my read of 3D spaces wasn't that accurate hence the bag toss.

With that known now I bolstered myself and jumped down, trying to position my body in the air so that I'll land well and I landed right next to my backpack but I wasn't able to balance myself properly for the land and ended up twisting my left ankle. *CRACK*

"AHH!" Immediately my ankle got twisted and the instant influx of pain caused my knees became weak and so I dropped and fell flat on the floor, screaming.

Reflexively I sat up and held my sprained ankle then I screamed out once more in pain but luckily there was nobody around to hear me or even cameras for that matter. It was a completely isolated part of the building with its own power source and these were all things I wasn't going to know about until later on.

I sat down for a couple of minutes massaging my sprained ankle with gritted teeth, tears on my eyes and vibrating hands due to the pain while looking around and observing the room every moment i remained sitting with the first thing on my mind being the location of an exit but unfortunately for the time being I couldn't find any.

The one thing I observed was that this room was a medical lab, at least that was what the machines present made me think and it was set up more like an observation and experimentation lab then a regular medical lab.

Behind me was a big mirror wall and as I looked back I could only see my own reflection staring back at me showing me the ugly yet cute grimace I had on my face. My face which was mostly covered by my fallen and unpacked hair.

"Okay?" I mumbled then turned back still gritting my teeth.

I was sitting in the middle of this big and white all over room with only high grade state of the Art technology all around me and all I felt apart from the pain was like I had died from the jump down and went straight to tech heaven. These were all equipments that I never would have imagined were going to be here.

"Awesome–" I whispered but got interrupted when--

*BAM* *BAM*

A strong and loud smashing sound evolved from the left end of the room.

"What was that!?" I panicked and lightening quick turned my vision to the left the moment I heard the sound and remained looking at that spot for a couple tens of seconds but after the second time the sound didn't repeat itself again. The minute I started to move my head to look away suddenly the sound came yet again *BAM*

"What is that?" I whispered again but this time more in a curious and less panicky tone.

*STAGGER*

My overwhelming curiosity took over me and so I managed to get up on my feet, one foot to be exact while trying to minimize the pressure I placed on my left leg which had the sprained ankle and so I started to walk in the direction the banging noise had just emanated from, limping as I moved along.

*STARE*

"What are these?" To my right were three large high tech glass box containment units positioned one after the other, side by side one another, and the sound was coming from the last one to the far left, next to the wall.

"Are those Typograph Layer Moduling Crystals on them?" I said as I walked closer and got to observe even more about the glass box containment units and the shimmer that the Typograph crystals gave off to the light was unmistakable on them.

The first containment unit was empty but had little droplets of water on it's wall and patches of water on the bottom as well.

"Something must have been in here recently"

*STEP*

I continued to move forward, walking over to the next containment unit and it was completely empty except for scratch marks on the walls. The marks were of different sizes but looked like to have been made by the same creature which got me to wonder what type of creature had claws that could scratch tapered glass and leave a well visible mark on it.

"Let's see what the crystals can tell me" I placed my hand on the wall and the crystals on it activated, functioning like a display screen showing me an overview of what had recently been recorded on it.

[SUBJECT CLASS: Aerial specie

TEST: Modification coefficient not compatible with a lack of adaptability progression...

RESULTS: Failed]

Then right under all the information displayed was a symbol for a recorded video overview of the test subject. I raised my hand forward to press the play symbol and start the video when to my left there was another slamming sound which was even louder this time due to my close proximity to it.

The noise caused me to jolt back with fear, stepping hard with my left foot and got an intense stream of pain immediately I did that and so I was distracted from what I was going to do.

*STEP*

I quickly readjusted my position and the pressure on my left leg, limping back from the second containment unit and took a couple steps to the side and as I got closer to the third and last unit the smashing noise stopped and the room became completely silent.

The sudden silence filled me with chills in my spine and this time I had the same amount of fear coming from my consciousness to match that coming from my host Amanda and the double dosage was terrifying.

My breathing had already been affected the moment I entered into the room because of the ACs it had at every corner and this situation made it even worse with me feeling lightheaded and my vision a bit blurred