Chapter 111 - Fourteen Presences.
Isaac and Darth reached the first floor after carefully and quietly moving down the stairs.
There is a door on the left side, which leads to the lounge and the reception desk.
But, they ignored it and focused their gazes on the wall, which had a painting of a child hiding from another child.
Darth took the painting off the wall and put it gently on the floor. The first thing they saw was a metallic pipe, which was large enough to fit an adult, and it seemed to go down straight to the underground.
Isaac put his head inside the metallic pipe and looked down to try to find where it went. At the bottom of the metallic pipe was the largest garbage disposal he had ever seen, and it was already filled with garbage bags.
A disgusting scent appeared from the metallic pipe, which made Isaac grimace in disgust, but soon he pushed that disgust out of his mind and pushed his courage to its limit.
He put the pistol on the leather pouch, which had enough space to fit the pistol, but the voice didn’t seem to be pleased.
‘Is this necessary?’ The voice seemed annoyed after being surrounded by the bullets, which wasn’t even made for him.
Isaac wryly smiled and whispered, ”Sorry… Won’t take long…”
”Did you say something?” Darth asked after hearing Isaac muttering something.
”Ah, no,” Isaac replied and climbed inside the metallic pipe. His body fit perfectly, and he didn’t seem to be suffocating even the slightest.
He took a deep breath and was hanging from the top of the metallic pipe; he glanced below him and hoped that there weren’t anything sharp or hard items on those garbage bags.
His grip slowly loosened, and he started falling down to the garbage disposal.
*Bam*
Isaac’s figure landed in the middle of the smelly garbage bags and sank deeper and deeper until he was almost touching the blades located on the bottom of the garbage disposal.
”Ugh!” He grimaced and started moving his hands around him rapidly, trying to remove the garbage bags from suffocating him.
He used the garbage bags as a foothold to climb out of the garbage disposal.
*Thud*
He landed on the ground with an exhausted expression, and then he heard another sound of someone falling down to the garbage bags.
”Ugh!” Isaac heard Darth’s shout and soon saw him climbing out of the garbage disposal in the same way as he did.
Darth landed on the ground on his butt, which caused his face to show his pain for a split second.
Isaac slowly stood up and finally looked around him, trying to find out where they were.
The room they were in was filled with metallic walls and dozen other pipes leaving the room, leading to somewhere unknown.
He saw the exit, and it wasn’t anything fancy; there wasn’t even a door, only a corridor leading to somewhere.
Darth stood up with his face slightly dirtied, but it showed his seriousness as he grabbed the bow from his back.
Isaac took the pistol from the pouch and nodded towards Darth, who returned the nod.
They left the room and started making their way over to the exit of the corridor.
The walls of the corridors were greyish with few cracks, which had dirt gushing out in a slow manner. They looked at the floor and saw it being brownish, caused by the dirt.
It was painfully obvious that the hospital was falling down and who knows how old it is, but the hospital has some futurist items, which could mean that it’s not too old, but it was built by someone inexperienced.
Mark of their footsteps appeared on the brownish floor as they were approaching the end of the corridor in a steady manner.
At the end of the corridor had one door, which made both Isaac and Darth wary.
They stopped in front of the door and grabbed their weapons tighter. Baba Yaga could be waiting for them on the other side of the door if they were unlucky.
Isaac signaled Darth to open the door while he went into the shooting position.
Darth gulped and put his hand on the door handle.
He pulled the door handle down and started pulling the door towards himself.
The door’s opening didn’t make even the slightest of sounds, and soon it was wide open.
Isaac saw a spacious room with five doors surrounding the room. One of the doors was wide open, and the stairs, which leads to the reception desk, were visible, while the other doors were tightly shut.
He was the first one to enter the spacious room, which resembled a lounge usually seen in large mansions.
Darth followed and closed the door behind him.
A small chandelier was hanging from the ceiling, which colored the room in a yellowish hue.
‘I feel fourteen presences behind the first door.’ The voice suddenly said, and Isaac’s head turned towards the door closest to him.
‘Wait… You can tell where everyone is? Why don’t you tell me where Baba Yaga is?’ Isaac asked inside his mind.
‘Baba Yaga is a mythical figure, and I am only a spiritual individual in the form of a gun. Even if I am stronger than she is, there are limits I can do without a proper body.’
Isaac sighed, ‘Of course, everything has to be done the hard way…’
Without further ado, he went to the first door and opened it without wasting any time.
Darth looked shocked to see Isaac opening the door without any care in the world. He thought that there might be traps and Isaac would process carefully onwards, but he simply opened the door without any care in the world.
But, the next thing shocked him even more. After opening the door, a dilapidated room became visible, and at the end of the room, a large cage was seen with fourteen individuals sleeping without any care in the world.
Isaac and Darth entered the room; they went straight towards the large cage and saw the malnourished children sleeping on the hard ground.