The mine was definitely deeper on the inside than it had looked on the outside. So far it had appeared empty despite signs of workers tools discarded about. The smells got worse further in. Xanthiana knew Gulanite could stink, but she had no idea it could smell this awful, or whatever the 99'ers were doing down in the dark could stink this awful. It was overpowering to the point of her eyes watering.
"What is that smell?" Xanthiana started to doubt it was the rocks, and feared it was something else horrible instead.
"Unknown, I don't believe its gulanite, the mining process does not produce an odor like this, also I keep bringing this up, but the stability of this area is highly compromised Xan, we need to get out of this mine."
"Well if you can identify an exit I'd surely agree with you and we could leave." Elly didn't have an exit and Xanthiana continued on. The mine was broken up in active veins and what seemed like administration, or whatever the 99'ers would consider administration. Xanthiana decided on the admin buildings since that would possibly have a map and/or a clear indication of another entrance to the mine.
"No 99'ers currently on radar, its hard to pick up signals thanks to all the interference, so I can't say that with 100% accuracy, but I'm scanning on multiple frequencies and coming up with nothing."
"Well thats encouraging or terrifying, smell is getting worse though, maybe this isn't admin, and its actually waste processing?"
"Unlikely, from what I've scanned of the 99'ers the first thing they remove from their subjects is the digestive system."
"How nice of them."
"My records indicate prior to the madness that gripped their miners union that particular digestive track removal was necessitated by the company, without food to process workers productivity was increased 58%."
"All at the cost of their humanity, how nice of that company." Xanthiana didn't know a lot about how earth had been running post arkfall, but every time she thought she'd reached the limits of madness she'd find something else horrible. Administration was also completely empty, though the smell was getting worse and worse, it was a building sense of dread that percolated through everything. She had to wonder how the 99'ers dealt with it, but she was sure like their intestines they probably had their noses removed as well.
"Xan I just ran an analysis of the smell, I advise against continuing here, this is not administration, nor will it lead to an exit." Xanthiana was about to ask what it could be when she turned a corner and ran into a room full of body parts. It made sense of course, the 99'ers kidnapped people and forcibly turned them into 99'ers obviously all those body part had to go somewhere. Though it was more than a little alarming for Xanthiana to see them casually strewn about the room.
"This is their surgical operation."
"Correct, though this appears to just be a storage area for dead organic matter according to my analysis the 99'ers don't see it as anything more than organic waste." Xanthiana was going to make a quip about that when her footing gave way. She clanged around some access tunnels before being deposited in what looked like a large hollowed out mine shaft.
"Ow, anything broken Elly?"
"No Xan some areas will bruise but I don't detect any broken bones," Xanthiana was about to ask where they were when she heard a large growl, "Xan I'm detecting a fairly large biomass approaching." Out of the darkness a hulking cybernetic giant emerged, it looked about twenty feet tall.
"Gee you don't say."
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