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Note 2 Day 5 Year 1

I spend the past few days exploring this wing of the laboratory and trying to get as much information as I can. I did a lot of mapping and I was usually too exhausted at the end of the day to sit down and write an entry. But finally, today I sat down to compile my thoughts and observations.

First, I decided to try to remember and gain as much information as I can about myself. I know my name is Atanas Bogdanov. I am sure of it. Even though, I keep having the feeling that there is a middle name that I am forgetting. But it’s not that important, to be honest.

I have no idea how old I am. I really can’t remember. From my physical appearance, I believe that I may be in my mid-30s.

My hair and eye color are black. My skin color is unhealthily pale. I honestly look like a walking ghost.

I went to the medical room to use the equipment there and did a few checks.

My height is 175 cm. (5′8″)

My weight is 65,5 kg. (144,4 lbs.)

My heart rate is normal.

My blood pressure is a bit low.

My eyesight, thankfully, is quite good for the moment.

Only thing of note is that I still can’t remember anything from before I woke up in this world. Every time I try, my head hurts and I get dizzy.

I did a little sketch of myself with that information along side it. I am quite bad at drawing human figures, but it’s only for me to reference anyway.

Next, I did a detailed sketch map of this wing of the laboratory. I will refer to it as the “Dormitory wing” from now on, since it hosts mostly the apartments, equipment and rooms for relaxation for the staff. It has six floors, a roof area and a basement. The first floor is the most spacious and has a higher ceiling than the others. The building has two blocks on the side, which are actually the elevator and the stairs. Each floor has doors that lead to them respectfully. I have marked the elevator as X and the stairs as O on the map. The entrance to the building is very interesting. It is a very big gate, that has a smaller door on the bottom. That door opens with a staff security pass. I found one in the medical room. It belonged to Nurse Min Jiang. I took it, to use it whenever I need to go outside.I apologize in advance for stealing it, my good lady, but I couldn’t find mine, nor any other. I do hope that you are alive and in good health. Unless enough time has passed and you have reached a very, very old age. In which case it would be a bit weird for you to still be alive. Uhm…

What am I talking about?

Anyway. It is interesting that there is this big gate. When I first discovered the building, before the power was restored, it was opened. It means that it has some use. It is weird for it to be here in this Dormitory wing. The structure of it indicates that it allows big things to be transported in or out of the building. Perhaps machinery like tanks or planes, or maybe something even bigger. For the time being its purpose is a mystery to me.

Here is the map of the Dormitory wing that I have made:

I will go over each floor individually, explaining my findings.

The first floor:

The first floor is simple. It consists of the entrance, which transitions into an area for security check-up. There are two booths on each side of this area, meant for the doormen/security guards. At the far end wall of the floor is a wall with mail boxes. I tried to check my box; however, it requires a security pass. It meant that I could check only Nurse Min Jiang’s box. Apologies again, miss for the invasion of privacy, but I really need to get to the bottom of this! Unfortunately, there was noting in there. I will try to find a way to bypass those locks.

The second floor:

The second floor consists or the medical room (on the bottom left of the sketch), the canteen (on the bottom right of the sketch), as well as two storage closets (on the top). I have already been to the medical room a few times. There is a lot of equipment that you would expect to see there – needles, medication, scales, blood pressure monitor and many, many other. I don’t know what year it is and I am unsure of the medication. Some of it could be expired. I used some on my first day here and it healed my wounds, so at least the one I used seems to be working. I have to note, that my wounds healed quite quickly by my estimations, which made me a bit suspicious. I have a feeling, that it’s not the medication to thank. Point is, I am unsure how much of the medication here could be used.

The canteen is as one would expect. Many tables and chairs, a glass window where the food would have been, as well as a kitchen area, where the food is prepared. The food in the freezers, looked gross. When the power went out, it must have soiled. I threw it away.

It was then that I realized something…peculiar about myself. It has been two days from when I first woke up and I haven’t had a meal since then. And yet, I didn’t feel any hunger. It was interesting. I have no idea why. However, I knew that I needed to find food. I thought that I will go hungry eventually and I would need to have something to put on the table.

I searched the storage closets. There is a lot of things there and I definitely need to search a second time and make a list. I found a lot of plants seeds, but opening them, they all seemed expired. I was getting nervous. I had no available food in the laboratory and most of the plants and animals outside are still not familiar to me. I don’t know what is eatable and what is not. But more about that later.

The third floor:

The third floor is what I have deemed “Relaxation floor”. It consists of a library (on the bottom left of the sketch). A game room with different digital, board and sport games (on the bottom right of the sketch). A pool (on the top left of the sketch) and a fitness (on the top right of the sketch).

I was most interested in the library, of course. There are a TON of books and documents, I got overwhelmed. It will probably take me a week to go over them, so I left them for later. I tried to search for book of the local flora and fauna. Unfortunately, I found none. I will keep looking.

The fourth and fifth floors:

The fourth and fifth floors are the dormitory floors where the apartments of each staff member are. These apartments are locked with simple locks, requiring keys, but I found that most of them are left unlocked. I want to explore them thoroughly in the future, but they are quite many, so I have left them for a different day. I apologize in advance past colleagues, but I really need some answers.

All the apartments share the same layout, so I have sketched just mine for reference. My apartment is the bottom most right on the fifth floor.

Here is the layout of my apartment:

It enters into a large corridor/lobby? area.

Right when you enter, on the left is the entrance to a bathroom area. It too has a small corridor, where there are a washing machine and a drier. If your back is facing the washing machine, the room ahead is the bathroom, equipped with a sink, drawers and a mirror, a bathtub and a shower head. There are also a few basins. The room on the left is a toilet.

Back in the lobby, on the right there is a large closet, with a lot of clothes for all the seasons. They are all my size. In front of the closet there is a big mirror with a cabinet.

From the lobby on the top left there is a kitchen. There is a sink, stove, cupboards with different cooking equipment, a refrigerator and a big table.

From the lobby on the top right is the bedroom. There is a bed, the desk with the documents, computer and a printer/scanner. There are a lot of cabinets and a wardrobe where, apparently, I kept the clothes of the current season and the ones I was currently wearing.

The sixth floor:

The sixth floor is what I called a “break floor”. It’s basically a large café. There are tables and chairs and a large booth in the back with a coffee machine and an area where there were pastries and sandwiches. When I saw it, I got a craving for something sweet. It was weird that I got that instead of feeling hungry. It shows that I got my priorities straight.

The basement floor:

The basement is quite big. There is a large corridor with rooms along it. However, they are locked and require a staff pass. I tired the pass of Nurse Min Jiang. However, it didn’t work this time. It appears that this area requires a pass with a higher rank than a simple nurse (no offence, Miss Jiang). At the end of the basement is the big room with the generator.

The rooftop:

The rooftop is quite large. It is also overgrown with trees and other weird plants. It was a row of solar panels on each side as well as a greenhouse. There was nothing fresh in the green house, unfortunately.

And that is the whole building. There is a lot to unpack and I would need a lot of time to go over everything there is to find here.

Now back to the question of food. With the seeds in the storage and the green house in mind, I decided to try an experiment.

I have some suspicions from last time about the nature of my blood. The shadow creature seemed to crave it. That isn’t necessarily a cause for suspicion, it could be craving any creature’s blood. However, the mysterious power on of the generator, when I touched it with a bloody hand and the fact that my wounds have healed relatively quickly, makes me a bit suspicious.

So here is the experiment:

I planted the same type of seed in two areas close to each other. I cut my arm and put my blood on the first area. I left the second area untouched. I want to see if the seeds will grow and if yes, will there be any difference in them.

Of course, the plants will need time to grow. In the mean time I though what I could do. There is a huge field around, but it seems mostly bare. There are plants, but I am unsure if they can be eaten without consequence. There is also the forest. I saw many creatures there. I might go and try to hunt some. However, I am afraid that I might run into that thing again. For the time being, I thought to try my luck with the body of water. There must be some eatable fish, right?

I looked for equipment for hunting from the storage closet. There was a lot, thankfully. I went to the shore the third day and tried to study the situation. There were a lot of fish in one particular area, not too far from the laboratory. There were a few small ones and a few bigger ones. They seemed edible enough. The next day I took the fishing rod and a harpoon and went to hunt some food. I manage to catch a few of the bigger ones. Here is a sketch on what they look like:

The ones I caught had roughly the same measurements. They were 50 cm (19,7 in) in length and weighed around 3 kg (6.6 lb). They had a black beak on their faces. Their bodies were covered with scales and ended with a tail. From their bellies, came one four pair of small arms. They looked quite out of place for some reason.

I somehow felt a bit disturbed by the looks of this creature at first. It felt wrong in a way. My brain was giving me the image of what a fish looks like and for some reason it differed a lot from this.

Anyway, I quickly got used to the look. I caught five of them. I don’t know what this type of fish are called, but I chose to called them Shamarcho. Why? Because, I thought that the thing I should be worried about with them was their beak. But no, no. Their main weapon of choice…. are those tiny arms. They use them to slap. Hard! So yeah. Not the most pleasant of surprises, but an important information nonetheless.

The Shamarchovtsi use their tiny arms as defense to slap. With the combined strength of four arms slapping at the same time, it’s not pleasant. So, keep in mind!

After I captured them, I decided to spare their suffering of slowly dying from suffocation and cut their necks open. They bleed normal red blood, so a good start there. I brought them to the medical room and took their measurements for reference. Then I brought them to my kitchen. I put the other four in the freezer of the refrigerator and cooked one of them. I didn’t have any herbs, so I ate it like that. It actually tasted quite good. If it had herbs it would have been a delicious meal. I remembered the taste as something similar to a fish that I remember eating before – a carp. It has been a day and I feel quite good. No sight of poisoning or anything bad. So Shamarcho is qualified to be eaten. I am sorry, buddy.

I will keep researching the Dormitory wing, trying to gather information and insight. I hope to find some answers soon.

Anyway, that is all for now.

Dr. Atanas Bogdanov Abandon laboratory, Dormitory wing Don’t know where Day 5 Year 1

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