The drones had reached the surface and were returning to the lower levels, which were turning more and more gruesome as they progressed.
The hallways were immaculate as if nobody had ever set foot on them, but the labs were all full of failed human experiments. Some were inert, some had survived the power outage but couldn't escape their confinement and had starved to death, but all were heavily mutated humans.
[Commander, you don't think that they sent the test subjects to the surface to fight the Klem and ended up giving them material that helped build a new design of Klem, do you?] Major Miller asked.
[I don't know. It is possible that the super soldier project that the base was working on was among the defenders, but the lab shut down months before the distress signal marked the invasion of the planet.
For now, we need to rely on Nico and keep those drones scanning. We need more information.] Max replied.