Test Site Horror by Gustavo Bondoni

Author:Gustavo Bondoni [Bondoni, Gustavo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2020-11-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The stairs grew darker as they descended. Some areas had artificial light, but the further down they went, the more likely the lights were to be out, which meant that they had to depend on the natural light filtering through the hole in the wall. Marianne put her hand on the handrail and immediately regretted it. Cobwebs and dust covered her fingers and she shook them off with a shudder.

“Does anyone use this?” Max asked.

“I do, at least a couple of times a month. My personal assistant does as well. She is in here more often than I am,” Sun-Lee replied.

“Not today, though?”

“No. She is on a trip abroad.”

“How convenient.” Max cursed as they entered another pitch-black area. His words echoed like a demonic summons in the stairwell. “So how do you get up the stairs with no light?”

“I just use the flashlight from my phone. Unfortunately, the battery’s dead because we used it to send a satellite signal this morning so Tatiana could tell the world what’s happening here.” He smiled smugly. “I think it will make this place front-page news all over the world.”

Max didn’t seem to be listening. “Well, if the roof hadn’t collapsed, we’d have no light at all, so I guess there’s that.”

The light Max was referring to was quite tenuous, and less and less of it made it through the floor space into the stairwells as they descended.

But there were only a dozen or so flights of stairs, descending six floors, and they soon reached the bottom.

The final stairwell opened onto the gap where the floors had fallen in. There were a couple more stories beneath them, a sort of sub-basement, but no sign of office or assembly space on those levels. There was simply an empty concrete area with a pair of wrecked helicopters in the middle of it.

“That’s where they kept the monster,” Sun-Lee explained.

“Who was in charge of it?”

“Selene, of course. She ran most of the more sinister programs.”

“It figures,” Max replied, but Marianne wondered. The North Korean had spoken a lot about keeping the data away from the woman, and also about he and his assistant coming into this place… all of which gave Marianne a strong sense that, no matter what might be happening in the central facility out by the highway, the monsters in here were much more related to Sun-Lee than anyone else. She would be surprised if Selene knew what was going on.

Max’s mind was on more practical matters. “Where now?” he said.

“Along that ledge, and then down a corridor to get to the tunnel entrance.”

Max led, with Marianne and Tatiana behind him, then Sun-Lee and Vasily bringing up the rear. The ledge was a small piece of wooden-floored corridor, a meter wide, that skirted the drop beside the sub-basement where the helicopters lay.

Tatiana grabbed her hand, and Marianne squeezed back. “You okay?”

“No. I hate heights. It would have been better to do this in the dark.”

Marianne chuckled at that. She’d seen Tatiana leaning nonchalantly on the railing of a penthouse suite twenty-five floors above the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

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