So began our hurried search, all 1,000 of us frantically searched for any sign of a vent. We searched as long as we could, but many gave up trying. this room was very large and it was hard for even such a large amount of us to find anything. Then came the day when i was the only one searching.
"I give up!"
"Ben, you heard the wrong thing, listen harder Ben!"
"Why didnt you tell me this earlier?"
"Odd works in mysterious ways."
I listened intently and pondered what i am supposed to hear. Maybe it wasnt something physical but from beyond the physical world. Maybe i was supposed to feel what i heard. I didnt have any other choices but to try it. I was sitting and thinking very hard, then i began to feel what i thought. i thought about where these vents might be. Suddenly i began to chant, i chanted more rapidly and vigorously, faster and faster, moving my hands quicker and quicker. I heard a gasp from behind me.
**"A vent!! I found a vent!"
I whirled around and stopped chanting. there was a 3 x 4 ft vent in the middle of the room. I ran over to it and removed its lid.
"Everyone stay here! Im going to see what this is all about!"
I dropped down into the vent and landed a long ways down. The drop almost killed me. the vents became too small for me to walk so i instead began to roll. eventually i came to a grate in the vent, i peered through its slits and looked down below. it looked like a security room. An inter with a blitz packer was watching a moniter of the black room we were in.
**Intern**
"Mmmph mmph mhh mph mphhh"
An armored vykker sawbones entered through an automatic door and looked at him.
**Vykker**
"Are you sure they found the vent?"
"MMPHH MMPH MPHH MPPHHHH!!!"
"So they know about our cloaking device, it was about time they figured it out."
"MMph Mpph mhhh"
"You know your right. Those dumb beasts dont know what it is. Only the one who crawled down probably understood it!"
I recognized that voice, but who was it?
"Well, were almost there anyway. The test is complete and we dont need to keep them in the dark anymore. Turn on the lights!"
The intern flicked a switch, i glanced at the moniter. To my horror i saw that what we had been staying in was an old sluaghter house and soul storm brewery. Blood was soaked into the steel the room was made out of and thousands of bottles of brew lay all around.
The vykker took off his mask. It was Vincent, the doctor!
"You understand if word got out about what we are doing with these slaves they would kill us" he asked the intern.
"MMMMH HMMMMM!" the intern glanced at him feverishly. he was probably thinking about the horrific things they might do.
I ran back down the vents and got back to the other muds as quick as possible. It was even more horrifc in the room. It looks like Vykkers labs did its own brew and mudoken pops when the glukkens werent looking.
But what did he mean by cloaking device, and what did he mean by if they were caught they would be killed, and why would he need so many of us?
"You will know very soon Ben, but you have little time!"
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