Chapter: 376
These rumours didn’t slip by the headmaster either – he knew Jay had to be protected from some of the other students, so he had to make a decision.
Would he have Jay keep his class a secret? Who knows.
Suddenly, an idea popped into his head.
“Hmm, they won’t like it…but, perhaps things will be better this way.”
Norgrim began drafting a speech which would be announced to the whole school assembly in the coming days.
Jay walked alone down the passage to the right, silently contemplating, wondering how passionate the helvetians must have been for revenge, to even give up their own lives and become abominable monsters.
He still had his skeletons with him, but technically he was alone. It was a little darker without Anya’s brighter luminous orb.
He crossed another ring of crystals, and it turned yellow as he passed through.
The scanners only meant one thing.
“Mm, thought so. Must be another laboratory down here…”
Jay proceeded down to the gate, finding another heavy iron bar. He got the four skeletons to lift it once more.
Apparently, the living were prevented from opening it as it heated up and stopped moving whenever Jay touched it – even when he was too close it wouldn’t budge, causing him to step back further.
*Clung!~~*
The heavy bar dropped, and the skeletons pulled the door open.
Jay carefully sneaked in, but he knew that whatever was here was probably in hiding, watching him. It would not be found unless it wanted to be, and Jay’s sneaking was only to keep up appearances – perhaps it would slice him into two halves if it thought he was mocking it.
He began exploring the room for anything that he might be able to use – but he doubted there would be another pit of nearly two million skeletons, so he didn’t get his hopes up.
Maybe only one million this time.
Compared to the other room, this one was quite different. If the other one was used to grow specimens, this one was used to dissect them.
Four different sized tables were in the room, each of them for different sized creatures. Many thick chains and various hooks of different sizes were laying around the room and near the tables, ready to pin down whatever was brought to the cutting slab.
Along the tables laid all kinds of cutting instruments – saws, picks, crowbars, axes, hammers, and knives of all shapes and sizes.
Perhaps the hexamists were trying to salvage any little piece of research or insight they could.
Due to all the chains, it seemed that live dissection happened quite regularly here..
The dihexapede definitely would not have fitted on any of the stone tables, but that was probably because it had grown to an enormous size after it turned on its captors, consuming them centuries ago.
“Hmm… if there were dissections, then there are probably skeletons?” Jay began to smile mischievously, his hopes for finding skeletons were now growing.
Moving deeper into the room, he found some small chambers built into the walls with bars, like prison cells. Some of them had much thicker bars, while others had an interweaving mesh.