Trevor Collins

To their surprise, they heard a calm voice respond in a single phrase.

We no longer want to be freed.

Debate broke out amongst 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 15th day.

The chamber was flushed of the stimulant gas and filled with fresh air, and immediately, voices from the microphones began to object.

Three 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 were 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 were in, life.

The food rations past day five 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 it and allowing four 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 fingertips 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.

With the heart, lungs, and diaphragm remaining 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, but had been taken out and laid on the floor, fanning out around the eviscerated but still living bodies of the test 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.