Chapter 55: Transformer Area
"While it's true that I'm a doctor," José said as they entered the elevator, "I'm also a professor of Hunter Academy. Since you are all now students, please refer to me by that title."
The elevator itself was an industrial machine without any touch of decoration, a far cry from the other elevators Alexandre had been accustomed to using lately. Though it was large, probably for the sake of moving medical equipment from floor to floor, there were simply so many students that it was quite crowded.
During the long elevator descent, Alexandre concentrated his gaze on Professor José. The fact that such a vulgar person was intelligent and competent enough to develop the Aurora system seemed bizarre. But this thought only occupied Alexandre's attention for a minute—he kept wondering, over and over, whether Professor José had any information on Project Genesis.
Eventually, the elevator arrived at its destination and the doors opened.
Alexandre was astonished by the sight before him. He'd been expecting to see more rooms like the infirmary above, completely white and sterile, but this was very different. Several rows of corridors were lit by a dim and restful deep blue light, and the faint reflections of metal and glass could be seen retreating into each corridor.
Professor José led the group down one corridor. Every five meters, there was a room with an armored door and a long, reinforced glass window for observation. They occasionally passed doctors writing something on a tablet, but these doctors paid little attention to the group.
Alexandre looked into each room as they passed. They were extremely sparse, containing only a cot and a small cupboard bearing a green cross-shaped logo. Some rooms had an unconscious figure on the cot. For each of these rooms, the window looking in had a visual interface projected onto the glass, showing vital information like heart rate, blood oxygen level, body temperature, and many other parameters which Alexandre didn't recognize.