EXO: "EXOPLANETS"
6
I've never felt such pain before. The experiment hasn't even started yet and I've experienced the worst of it.
I knew it was foolish for me to insult him and I knew I would only get hurt but I had no regrets about retaliating. I needed these people to realize that I was not just a weak child who would easily submit to their every order. I will not go down without a fight and I will do everything in my power to escape from this place, even if it kills me.
Although, when I lay in the hospital bed, the pain was still there and I didn't want to get hurt anymore. I said that I was willing to take risks in my life, but deep down I was a coward because I did not want to go through the pain that accompanied death. However, between torture and death, the latter was always a better choice.
If by a miracle, I survived, I knew after today I would never be the same again. I won't be this innocent and cheerful child anymore. It will change me, more than I imagined. I just don't know how and if it's going to get better or worse.
But I didn't expect it because I knew the odds weren't in my favor. I can't even think of an outcome that would be beneficial. If this experiment really works, it just means I won't be human anymore. I would be abnormal, alienated from the only species I have ever known.
One by one, the images struck my brain: claws, wings, feathers, fangs. Suddenly I was struck with an unreasonable thought. They won't turn me into a werewolf or a mystical forest creature, will they? That can't be their big plan.
It's so silly and unreal, to the point that I started to find it funny. I was tied to a bed waiting to be tried and hoping that I wouldn't turn into a blood-sucking monster. A laugh bubbled out of me and then I couldn't stop the hysterical laughter that followed. Am I going crazy? I think I finally lost the groove. Oh, my God, this is really bad.
A Caucasian man in a white lab coat approached me while holding a tray with one syringe. Fear attacked my common sense and I immediately realized seeing a big needle. I tried to ignore the heavy feeling that enveloped my chest and I put on a brave face. The man did not speak to me and barely acknowledged my existence as he wandered around me.
"Every day you will be injected with a substance I developed called DD. Since I only have a small sample of blood to work with, we don't yet know the extent of its effectiveness. However, for your good, it will activate the gene quickly. Otherwise, we must keep trying every day, until success is achieved, "Doctor Choi explains.
Even though I couldn't see it, anger ran through my body with his voice. This is all he did, we were treated like guinea pigs in the lab, for the sake of his curiosity.