Arachnoextinction Chapter 13: Chapter Thirteen - Science Has Gone Too Far (Again)

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"Change cameras! Find out where he ran to!" I said. I felt numbness set in. I didn’t feel like I was in control of my body, more like an observer stuck watching a horror movie through someone else’s eyes. Dr. Kale found the man on the camera in an office not far from where the eggs were kept. He was slumped against the far wall, most of his body hidden from view behind a desk. I was not sure what had been on the desk before he ran into the room, but broken glass covered the floor of the office now. The man’s arms had stopped struggling, and his body was still. His body was halfway propped up against the glass wall. The spider, now satisfied that he wouldn't be running away, crawled off his face and dragged the body by the foot under the desk and out of sight. But not before I saw what was left of his face, it was peeled to the bone; the spider ate everything. "We walked right past him," I said. Despite my best efforts and screaming at myself internally, I found that I was unable to look away from the gory kill. "The desk hid his body from our view, but we were right there." Dr. Kale turned toward me and ejected his lunch at my feet. My brain was still too stuck trying to process what had happened in the facility to pay attention to the vomiting Dr. Kale. I was too numb and terrified to react. Once I could feel anything besides this imprisoning fear, I bet I would be a little relieved that Dr. Kale was so disturbed by what we had just witnessed. I couldn't even speak as a second egg opened, and another spider crawled out. It ate its eggshell, then found a way off the table and forced itself through the glass doors to the hallway. I watched in part horror, and part disgust, as it entered the other office and crept under the desk to eat what was left of the man I had heard on the walkie-talkie. I had heard him speak just minutes before his death. Then I watched it happen. "What did you do?" I said, shaking my head. "Look at what you did!" "I didn't- I don't believe it. I can't. This isn't real. This can't be real," he said. "Did you see how big that first spider was when it attacked?" I asked Dr. Kale. He shook his head, still hunched over and trying to breathe. "It had already grown twice its size since it hatched… twice its freaking size," I said as I watched a pool of blood start to ooze across the floor from under the desk. “It was bigger than his head!” Dr. Kale spewed more of his stomach onto the floor. "Alright, get it together. Twice is excessive. You owe me new shoes. Now we have to warn everyone else, get out of here, and make sure those things don’t escape," I said, and Dr. Kale nodded in agreement. "At least they're both still in-" he started to say they were still in the same room. But as he spoke, the larger spider sped out from under the desk and pushed itself out the doors and was out of sight. "How did no one else see this?" I asked Dr. Kale. "Everything is glass, there were people everywhere!" "Working hours were already mostly over," he said, then spit on the floor. He wiped his mouth before continuing. "Like I said before, most employees are probably in their rooms or down on the lower floors in the chillax zone. Probably waiting on me so they can watch the master work his pingpong magic.” Yeah, I'm sure Dr. Kale is a social savant who has everyone desperate for his attention. They’re more likely to play pingpong off his head than watch him work his ‘magic’. “Besides, everyone said that room made them uncomfortable. They avoided looking into it if possible." "Yeah, I wonder why it made them uncomfortable!" I said to him and yanked my phone from my pocket. I had to redial a few times. My hand was shaking too much, either from fear or anger, to get it right. "This better be important," a gruff voice answered on the first ring. "We have a dangerous situation on the island, sir. Already one confirmed dead," I spoke fast so he could hear me out before hanging up on me. "What? How the hell did someone die on your wa