Chapter 14 Desperation - Into The Dark

• I've been guarding this tunnel for what seemed like a year now, this new menace that is terrorizing us gets more and more restless. No one had the guts to go deeper into the tunnels; many people disappeared within; even a squad of heavily armed soldiers were gone.
• One of them, however, managed to return but, he came back with a permanent grimace on his face, and his voice sounded like he was mocking whoever tried to speak with him. "You will never ever find out!" he kept repeating while sounding like a twisted version of a pre-teen girl teasing an older sibling. A day later, he died. The autopsy revealed that his brain exploded inside his skull.
• A part of me is sure that there are more people that need to be saved. While an operation like this takes no bureaucracy to approve, none of my squadmates had the guts to support me; not even a drone operator and his UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) wanted in so, I am going in alone.