A massive, decayed underground laboratory stretches endlessly, dimly illuminated by flickering, sickly green fluorescent lights. The air is thick with the stench of antiseptic, rusted metal, and something rotten. The walls are lined with massive glass tanks filled with murky, yellowish liquid, where grotesque, half- formed humanoid figures twitch and convulse, their eyes vacant and mouths frozen in silent screams. Tubes and fleshy organic tendrils snake across the walls, pulsing as if alive, oozing a black, tar- like substance onto the cold, stained concrete floor. Rows of operating tables, covered in dried blood and deep claw marks, sit abandoned, their restraints still fastened as if something had escaped. Surgical tools, rusted and jagged, lay scattered across the surfaces, some still dripping with a thick, viscous red fluid. Faint, distorted whispers echo through the empty corridors, as if the very walls remember the suffering that took place here. At the far end of the hallway, a steel door marked "EXPERIMENTS: DO NOT OPEN" hangs slightly ajar, revealing only darkness beyond. Something wet and heavy drags itself across the floor inside. The ventilation shafts above rattle sporadically, as if something thin and fast were crawling through them, watching, waiting. A flickering security monitor on the wall shows grainy, looping footage of a room you haven't entered yet—except the feed has a two- second delay, and in the corner of the screen, something is standing behind you
