Chapter 11: Central Research Institute (2)
White painted walls and ceiling, a mirror on one side.
I found myself trapped in an empty containment room.
The staff member who had escorted me wore an expression that seemed to say, ‘Now that you are here, it’s over for you!’ However, I didn’t notice anything particularly different in the Central Research Institute’s containment room.
What did catch my attention, though, was the extremely gloomy atmosphere of the room. It was far worse than what I expected.
The researchers walked about, their expressions stiff. Even the low-level employees who directly managed the Objects appeared to be in a far worse state than those at the Seoul Research Institute.
Their expressions made it seem as if they were the ones kept under quarantine, not the Objects.
Bzzz-Beep-!
An unpleasant buzzing sound rang out as high-temperature steam jetted out of the wall. Not wanting to get hit by it, I slipped into my phantom form avoiding the scalding steam.
The experiments conducted on me after I entered this containment room were all like that.
It started with guns. Sounding the buzzer before firing the gun, shooting without sounding the buzzer, and many more.The Central Research Institute seemed to like repeating completely useless things.
Their experiments so far were like this: they detonated a bomb inside the containment room, released various types of poisonous gasses, sprayed what appeared to be a highly acidic liquid, and even poured liquid nitrogen.
Considering the variety of Object’s destruction conditions that I had seen so far, these diverse attempts were not bad methods. However, they focused too heavily on destructive methods. I had to deduct some points. After all, there were times when the answer was a method that was seemingly completely unrelated to the Object.
Taking into account the destruction condition of the Steel Pig Statue from the Seoul Forest Incident, it was clear that there were difficult to find conditions that this method alone couldn’t uncover. Well, the fact that they did not know this, was the reason behind their useless endeavors in the first place.
In fact, the lizard confined in the containment room opposite mine was one of those cases.
The condition for destroying the lizard was…