<<span class="mu-b">"Did the Prototype get finalized? If SHE'S involved, we need it NOW.</span>>
<<span class="mu-b">"We need to contact Mr. Shockley soon. We need to determine how to proceed from here.</span>>
You can't quite tell where the voices are coming from but you now know three things. One, they know about you. Two, they have SOMETHING meant to deal with you. Three, they're watching you right now.
The good thing is that they don't know you know. They also aren't making a move now for whatever reason.
Best to play dumb for now. If you can't locate them you might as well pretend they're not there. The three of you are promptly escorted into the SECURITY ONLY section of the station. You need to know what the guards here with bribed with.
https://youtu.be/duWUBuj9k4g - SHITCURITY
As expected for a place meant for only Drones, the first thing that hits your nose is the lingering stench seemingly radiating from the walls. The faint, disgusting scent of wet dog hair and moldy fruit. You envy Kiara not having a sense of smell.
"They haven't filtered the Security Pheromones here in a bit." Benjamin says as if that's common knowledge. "They should've been replaced yesterday."
"Did they forget or? Is it more tampering?" Kiara asks him. Benjamin responses with a shrug. You have more pressing issues to worry about.
The actual area behind the counter is pretty small by all measures. You're in a hallway barely wider than two regular sized people with two doors on each side (ignoring the one you came from). "CAMS" and "RECORDS" on the left, "REC ROOM" and "LOCKERS" on the right.
You feel like if they were bribed with something it'd probably be hidden in the rooms on the left side. Testing to see which are locked, CAMS is unlocked while RECORDS isn't. Doesn't take a genius to figure out if they bothered to lock something that only they should access, something weird has to be here.
Luckily, you have a lockpick set. The three of you break into it without any real struggle. Opening the door was a mistake, however, because the stench radiating from there is awful. It almost smells like...oh.
Inside that room is a <span class="mu-r">dead body.</span> Three, in fact. Two in a security uniform and one in a suit and tie. Your group enters the room and promptly locks it behind you so you can investigate further.
The actual Records room itself, corpse notwithstanding, has been trashed. Filing cabinets have been knocked over and are dented to hell and back. Shelves that normally contain folders of important documents are laying on the ground in a heap, papers scattered all throughout without any rhyme or reason.
"What the fuck? So, you know how we pretended to be auditors?" Kiara kneels down to examine the man in the suit a bit further. "I think this was the actual auditor."
Benjamin's face turns grim as he gives a good look over at the corpses. "They've been dead for a while. Layers are starting to peel, probably been three days by now."
"Should we even be here?"
