Outside the room, Nick found himself in a small and secluded hallway.
Natural light from the outside shone through holes in the light shaft in the ceiling.
The walls, ceiling, and floor were made out of uniform steel with no gaps.
The hallway was long, and there was no space for anyone to hide.
The black figure in the brightly lit hallway seemed to collapse into black smoke, which moved along the edge of the ceiling.
At the end of the hallway, a set of stairs led upwards, but before the black smoke reached the stairs, it stopped.
A shadow.
There was the shadow of a person on the stairs.
Naturally, the supervisor whom Nick had killed had asked for backup before going in.
It was illegal to trade with the Parasite, and the supervisor wanted to make sure that nobody accidentally walked into this hallway and saw something that they shouldn't.