Part 2
They announced: "We are opening the chamber to
test the microphones; step away from the door and
lie flat on the floor or you will be shot. Compliance
will earn one of you your immediate freedom."
To their surprise they heard a single phrase in a
calm voice response: "We no longer want to be
freed."
Debate broke out among the researchers and the
military forces funding the research. Unable to
provoke any more response using the intercom it
was finally decided to open the chamber at midnight
on the fifteenth day.
The chamber was flushed of the stimulant gas and
filled with fresh air and immediately voices from the
microphones began to object. 3 different voices
began begging, as if pleading for the life of loved
ones to turn the gas back on. The chamber was
opened and soldiers sent in to retrieve the test
subjects. They began to scream louder than ever,
and so did the soldiers when they saw what was
inside. Four of the five subjects were still alive,
although no one could rightly call the state that any
of them in 'life.'
The food rations past day 5 had not been so much
as touched. There were chunks of meat from the
dead test subject's thighs and chest stuffed into the
drain in the center of the chamber, blocking the
drain and allowing 4 inches of water to accumulate
on the floor. Precisely how much of the water on the
floor was actually blood was never determined. All
four 'surviving' test subjects also had large portions
of muscle and skin torn away from their bodies. The
destruction of flesh and exposed bone on their finger
tips indicated that the wounds were inflicted by
hand, not with teeth as the researchers initially
thought. Closer examination of the position and
angles of the wounds indicated that most if not all
of them were self-inflicted.
The abdominal organs below the ribcage of all four
test subjects had been removed. While the heart,
lungs and diaphragm remained in place, the skin and
most of the muscles attached to the ribs had been
ripped off, exposing the lungs through the ribcage.
All the blood vessels and organs remained intact,
they had just been taken out and laid on the floor,
fanning out around the eviscerated but still living
bodies of the subjects. The digestive tract of all four
could be seen to be working, digesting food. It
quickly became apparent that what they were
digesting was their own flesh that they had ripped
off and eaten over the course of days.
Most of the soldiers were Russian special operatives
at the facility, but still many refused to return to the
chamber to remove the test subjects. They
continued to scream to be left in the chamber and
alternately begged and demanded that the gas be
turned back on, lest they fall asleep...
