The Bored Immortal

"NOOO!!!" The young woman screamed in horror upon seeing Veroz's face, remembering the horrifying things she had seen the first time she stepped into this death lab.

She had no idea that she had signed up for something so inhumane. But before she could run away, she found herself restrained on this bed, unable to even properly move any of her limbs. Even her neck was restrained to the bed, and she could only move her eyes to look around frantically, desperately trying to find any way to escape.

The young woman began to cry as tears trickled down her reddened cheeks. Her voice was fragile, and she was squirming her body around as if trying to loosen the restraints. But it was all in vain.

"Shhh, don't cry, uhh…what is her name?" Veroz asked casually towards one of the nurses, who immediately replied, "It is Lana, Dr. Veroz. She is the one who came in yesterday. Her file should already be there on your tablet."

Veroz swiped the screen on his tablet as he scratched his nose, "Keke, only 22 twenty years old? How magnificent! Her age is not too high but ripe and young enough to do my tests," Veroz laughed with a gleeful smile.

Lena was even more terrified upon hearing his unsettling words and tearfully begged as she cried, "P-Please don't kill me…L-Let me go…I promise not to tell anyone about this…"

"Tch, tch, yet another cry baby. Why does everyone cry for such simple experiments? Youngsters these days have it too easy. But guess what, dear…soon you will be thanking me for granting you power that no other human can dream of. You should feel honored that you are already on the road to a higher power and perhaps immortality in case I obtain some breakthrough, keke," Veroz said while dreaming about the scenario where he developed the drug further and made it powerful enough to make one immortal. Just thinking about it made him feel immense pleasure.

As he said this, he was already busy preparing a new syringe and took out a small vial containing a dark red liquid. It seemed like blood but, at the same time, seemed much more than just ordinary blood. Just looking at it would make one feel that this liquid was far from ordinary.

And the sight of that vial only scared Lena even more as she continued to mumble in a brittle voice, "No…no…no…please…"

If she had known the reality of what this whole thing was, she would have never signed that contract no matter what.

She was just a poor nobody who had recently lost everything, especially her mother, who was the one taking care of her and the only family she had left.

But her mother's sudden demise left her on the streets, and after living in hardship for months, she fell into despair when suddenly she got a rumor that some company was looking for test subjects for one of its new medical drugs.

All she had to do was sign a contract to become a test subject and receive a hefty sum as compensation. Of course, the contract also stated that since the drug was new and experimental, it could have ill effects, but people like her who were already drowning in despair would sign it without much hesitation since they thought becoming ill for a while was worth it as long as they got rich.

But she had no idea that she was entering a death chamber and not some lab where they were going to administer a drug to treat fever or something ordinary like that.

She already saw what happened to the people who had signed the contract along with her. Some of them died in ways that left her mentally scarred.

And those who survived were taken away to god knows where. All she could now think was escaping this torture chamber, but Veroz's words were ringing in her ears like the sound of death bells.

Just looking at that vial and the sharp needle of the syringe made her feel goosebumps all over her body.

She even looked at the nurses around her as she desperately cried, but none of them was even looking at her face. 

Taya's eyes were shaking with visible anger as she saw this atrocity happening right before her. Umilia felt the sudden change in her aura and placed her hand on her shoulder as she said, "Taya…remember what I said? We are simply here to observe. Not to start anything. I know what is happening down there is not right, but if we make some noise now, we would be putting more things at risk."

Taya gritted her teeth as she felt conflicted, knowing that Umilia was right. Still, that didn't mean that her urge to save that girl lessened. 

At this time, she suddenly remembered a question she had asked Viktor in the past, 

"Viktor, how do you make a decision when you are confused about making the right choice?"

She remembered Viktor's usual charming smile as he answered, "Right or wrong…all depends on you. But what's important is to think about which choice will leave you with more regrets. Once you figure that out, it is easy to make your choice."

At that time, Taya felt that Viktor was, as usual, telling her answers that were really not answers. But right now, she again realized what his words meant as she said, "Umi…please trust me on this one. Just be prepared to leave as quickly as we can."

"Taya, you…" Umilia was about to use her voice of reason to dissuade Taya from doing anything outside of what they planned, but seeing her sharp, determined eyes, she stopped herself from saying anything, knowing that Taya had made up her mind already.

"Keke, just a simple prick, and you, my lovely child, will bloom into a superior being," Veroz laughed as he primed his syringe before grabbing her arm to inject the Rebirth drug into her system.

"N-NOO!!! Help me!!!" Lana cried out, her voice turning shrill as she closed her eyes shut in panic, but...