96 The Ninth Layer of Hell

It was endless. If anything, the place seemed more like a godforsaken labyrinth than a research station. They trekked for more than three hours on foot and still had not even scratched the surface of the damned place.

How far does this fucking place go down?! How much space did these assholes need?! I can't even begin to fathom the amount of the work that must have been done to dig this far down…

Over the course of their descent into hell, the lonesome pair had traversed through all manner of places. Xibalba was a world of its own, rather than a research facility as Lu'um had described it.

They'd traversed past abandoned, silent underground cities that'd been built in vast pockets of unearthed cave and soil. Vast stretches of unused, empty space and an endless amount of sealed doors, gates, and barriers.

"You said this was a research station, right?"

"Yes, that's right," said Lu'um.