Adrian led the way, walking through an empty hallway until they reached a basement on the lower level. As soon as they entered, Cheyenne felt the temperature drop significantly. She was only wearing a thin beige coat and instinctively pulled up her collar to cover her stomach.
This simple reflex action carried with it a hint of maternal tenderness that was unique to her.
The basement looked like another huge laboratory; there were rows upon rows of rectangular glass containers. They looked like giant boxes or ice coffins lying there motionless.
Inside each container were people of different genders, ages and skin colors all frozen in colorful liquid. They appeared lifeless as if they were ice sculptures rather than human beings who had once been alive and breathing.
Recalling what she had seen before - the immortal beings and white worms crawling out from the pregnant woman's belly - Cheyenne boldly guessed that this was an "experiment" that went against natural laws and human natu