Chapter 52 Chapter 52: The Gas Chamber

A green light radiated from behind the closed door, transforming the small room into a creepy, repulsive prison cell.He could have cried out, he could have burst into tears, weeping like a baby, if his headache hadn't been so bad.The pain drilled into his skull, and his eyes felt like they were boiling in lava.Yet even at that moment, after all of this, the pain of actually losing Teresa gnawed at his heart even deeper, and he couldn't bring himself to cry. He lay there, lost in the notion of time.It's as if the man behind it all wants to give him a chance to reflect on what happened while he waits for the finale.Considering how Teresa's message to him to believe her no matter how it turned out to be a cruel ruse only greatly intensifies the role of her double-sided betrayal.An hour passed, maybe two or three hours, maybe just thirty minutes, he didn't know.

Then the hissing sound started.In the faint light of the glowing door, wisps of mist could be seen escaping from the scattered holes in the metal wall in front of him.He turned his head, triggering a new wave of pain through the brain, and then he saw all the openings spewing the same mist.And the hissing sound was like a nest of poisonous snakes swimming. So that's it?he thought.After everything he'd been through, after all the mysteries and struggles and fleeting hopes, were they going to kill him with some kind of poison gas?Stupid, it's so stupid, stupid.He defeated the Griever and the Crazy Man, survived the shooting and the infection.WICKED, those people saved him!And now are they going to just gas him to death like this?He sat up, in fact crying out because of the pain the move caused.He looked around for anything he might be able to...

Tired, so tired. Something in his chest felt wrong, sick.It is poisonous gas. Tired, sad, physically drained. Breathing poisonous gas, involuntarily. so... tired... Something is wrong in his heart.Teresa, why did it have to end like this? tired…… Somewhere at the edge of his consciousness, he felt his head hit the ground with a thud. betray. So…… tired……