2129 - Diary: The laboratory

I wake up suddenly and turn my gaze towards Adam's cot, it's empty! Where could he have gone?

I hear strange noises coming from the locker room, I get up and silently walk towards it. The door is ajar, I hear Adam talking to someone, I look and see him handling his old radio. As he realizes my presence immediately turns off the radio and when I ask him what he is doing, he says: "Oh, sorry if I woke you! I'm trying to get in touch with someone outside! Maybe there's some other survivor who needs help. But now it's very late, I better go back to sleep!" We return to the cots and he falls asleep. I don't trust him. What is he hiding? I can't sleep tonight.

Another sunrise! Adam looks really fine now. He’s very kind; this morning he woke up early and prepared breakfast. “I can't thank you enough”, he says. “These days must have been really tiring for you”. After breakfast, as I promised, we start the bunker tour. As we walk together through the various areas of the shelter I tell him about how I've arranged this place to make it cozy and comfortable. He follows me silently. I decide to show him a room in which I had found many documents containing formulas that were indecipherable to me. I believe that he can read and understand these formulas without any problem.

I ask for an explanation and he tells me that documents are about research on animal genetics but breaks off mid explanation and asks me if inside the bunker there is some kind of laboratory different from the others, then speaks about a cylindrical box and strange symbols. Now that I think about it, under the stairs of the bunker there is the room of the old shelves. On a wall of the room there is a door leading to a long blind corridor at the end of which there is a metal cylindrical box fixed on the ground. The box has a slot and some buttons representing strange animal figures. I tried to use it but it doesn't seem to be working. I never understood what it was for. My doubts are getting stronger and stronger, especially now that I'm realizing that Adam may already know this place. I want to investigate this story further! I will show him the box.