Chapter 119
Walking through the long pathway, Michelle’s eyes turned from velvet purple into dangerous blood-red, but that couldn’t be seen in the darkness. She was disgusted and enraged. From the moment she entered the darkness, she realized that the person who created the pathway was not only not picky about his study subjects, he was a maniac who had it like a collection.
Every single glass bottle on the shelves had a label, stating what creature it was from and what organ it was. It also had a date on it, probably from when the creature was dissected. And the dates weren’t far apart. Putting the creatures together in her mind, the person who was dissecting them dissected at least three creatures a day, and did it for years. Many years.
Even Nyxaroth was surprised by the sheer amount of organs in the pathway. In the thousands of years he had lived, he had never seen something like that. "This is why humans can be so disgusting..." he muttered. "They say monsters and beasts are crude and evil, but monsters and beasts could never do something like this..."
Michelle didn’t show any reaction to Nyxaroth’s remark because she thought the same. Whether in her past life or at the moment, humanity had always shown her that even though humans could the kindest and most amazing things in the world, there still existed those who cast away their humanity and acted so disgusting that even she, who was never a saint, abhorred their way of acting. And the worst about those disgusting people was that even though they cast away their humanity, they were still humans.
Slowly, Michelle and Nyxaroth proceeded forward, their eyes scanning the glass bottles, some bigger, some smaller. It didn’t take them long to realize that they didn’t see a single pair of eyes in between the organs. Did the psycho who dissected the creatures cast the eyes away, use them for an experiment, or store them somewhere else? Michelle had the feeling they would find out if they ventured deep enough into the darkness.
But even a person like herself was feeling disgusted from seeing such a huge number of organs in one place, and as she didn’t know how long the pathway was, she didn’t know if she could reach the end.
Thinking about that only strengthened her guess that the pathway was also used to block out people who wanted to find what was on the end. If everyone stopped somewhere before the end, no one would find the things hidden in the deep darkness.
After a while, the pathway opens into a room, with a dissection table, gruesome tools and remnants of blood and flesh. Even before they reached there, they could smell the rotting flesh and blood.
But that wasn’t the end of the pathway. After exploring the room, they realized that the pathways continued behind it.