Chapter 10 - Entrance

After a couple minutes of walking, I start to hop over the fencing, carefully making my way across metal wiring and other obstacles leading up to a strange opening leading underground. Completely open, too. Weird. I sling my bag full of resources along my shoulder and carefully descend a creaking ladder that leads me to a hallway with a large metal door. The walls, floor and ceiling are thick and made of metal as well.

I push on the large metal door, expecting it not to budge, only for it to open with ease. It leads out into a long, empty hallway where multiple other rooms connect. All of the lights are on, strangely enough – and then I realize. Someone else might be here, someone alive! And this place is huge! My face lights up and I slowly walk inside. This might be a nuclear bunker of sorts, which means there should be resources! But why is it so… empty? This place looks like it hasn’t been touched at all.

Even the floor is perfectly clean, not a speck of mud or dirt in sight, besides the trail from my dirty and worn boots. Any sound I make just echoes and bounces off the walls before fading away. The fact that this place still even has power is baffling to me, but… I feel like I’m being watched. I reach into my bag for a knife I found while searching for resources earlier, and keep it to my side as I slowly walk inside, further from the doors.

Everything seemed to be fine until a voice called out all around me, and I jumped in surprise. “Well! What do we have here..? A human? It’s been… years…”

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