From Leo's diary
Orion seemed to be affected by the symptoms of that weird contamination more and more often, and in the meanwhile his morale was dropping very fast too.
Orion: Bah...
Leo: I don't know precisely how it can be done, but I'm sure there is a way to cure that contamination, right?
Orion: Oh, you're talking about that... Well, it seems plausible...
My brother is hard to read sometimes, I'm sure that even if he doesn't talk about it out loud about this spore contamination he's more affected by it than he would ever admit.
I can't even imagine how he's feeling and what's passing through his mind right now... All I can think is that we need to find a solution as quick as possible, I can't stand seeing him in this state any longer.
Also the situation in town seems to be further worsening, as the number of those alien plants scattered all around the place is rising exponentially.
Orion: Well, they are literally all over the place now...
As if the situation was not yet complicated enough, even those of the secret services were starting to openly investigate the Strangerville case. In my experience, when they stop hiding their operations it is usually a very bad sign.
Leo: This place mainly cooks burgers, so why do you always get salads?
Orion: Silas is a vegetarian.
Leo: Oh.
Silas: (serious) And I also think we shouldn't be wasting our time on such nonsense.
Leo: What is the next step then?
Silas: (exhausted) We should try to put together an antidote that contrasts the neurotoxic action of the spores, to treat contaminated people and prevent others from being affected.
Orion: Besides that, we also should find a way to reach the downstairs lab, the one where the accident happened.
Silas: True, whatever is happening, the source is down there. And we need to understand what it is.
Leo: But how are you going to do it, the corridor was blocked by a cloud of those spores! We need a diving helmet, or something like that!
Orion: I had in mind to call it “anti-contamination suit”, but that's roughly the idea, yes.
Leo: And where do you think you will find any of those?
Orion: We will probably have to make the air filter ourselves. For the rest of the suit, however, I think to have an idea...
Leo: (to himself) This nutcase really sells everything...
Conspiracy Theorist: do you need something?
Leo: Actually, yes. Do you have any suit that can protect us from those toxic spores?
Conspiracy Theorist: I don't know if they will work, but these are nice yellow suits, aren't they?
He's really a nutcase... Who knows what his expression would be if I told him that we are actually three aliens, with faces not very different from those masks he exhibits in his stall...
However, I can't deny that he had helped us more than once already by now.
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Orion immediately started to work on those anti-contamination suits. Returning to the laboratories without those seemed too risky at that point, both for me and Silas who risked being contaminated for the first time, and for Orion who risked worsening his condition.
Leo: But are you really sure that those are the most suitable tools?
Orion: With some creativity, these tools are more than sufficient.
It didn't take long for Orion to assemble three full-body anti-contamination suits. They were a bit bulky, but at least they seemed effective.
At that point, then, we could walk through that corridor full of spores and reach the laboratory where the explosion had occurred. If indeed the accident had been caused by the gang I was investigating, it was also likely that I would have been able to find some clues down there.
Silas: At the end of this corridor there is another door blocked by the magnetic key, after which we should be able to go downstairs.
The downstairs laboratory was very similar to the one I had already seen, just larger. In one corner, however, the walls were already suspiciously covered with purple vines.
Leo: Don't tell me, the accident happened in that corridor full of creepy vines, didn't it?
Orion: We were just beyond that other door, actually. (To himself) Where are all those vines from? It doesn't seem like a good sign...
I could read in Orion and Silas's faces that the situation appeared extremely worrying also to them, so I was already prepared to find the worst beyond that last door. But what awaited us on the other side was worse than anything I could ever have imagined.
Orion: What? How could it grow so much?
Silas: Get out now, it became more aggressive too!
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