I entered a catwalk over the bar, facing an interior room with a glass wall. I cover both the door and the windows. I see Millie downstairs taking on more goons laughing maniacally. Moxxie springs out of the room ahead of me, and he leads me up the stairs in the next room to the manager's office.
We break down the door entering the manager's office. He's cowering under his desk.

"Please don't kill me!". he says.

"Cover the door, Mox," I say.

I reached under his desk, dragging him out. "Where's Emily?"

"She's downstairs in the basement. The entrance is in the storeroom just off the kitchen. "

I slammed him onto his desk. putting my gun to his head.
"We were just in there. Don't lie to me,"

Moxxie blasts a guy who came into the office.

"Please, I swear it's in that room look there's a keycard in my pocket. If you go back down there, there'll be a keycard scanner on the wall behind the shelf in the left corner behind a box of bleach. I swear I'm not lying. "

"Good boy, now I'm leaving if I have to come back up here again things are gonna get fucking ugly understand?".

"Yes sir".

"Millie is the security system down" I say into my earpiece.

"Copy sugar."

"Good."
I hit him in the face, knocking him out. I secured him to the heater in the corner using handcuffs. I checked his pocket and found a keycard I passed over to Moxxie.

"Let's go get her buddy."

"You let him live,"

"Yeah think about it with the security system down and all the goons dead, if his boss comes by and sees this and he's the only one alive who didn't stop who did this he's gonna be in deep shit".

"Not bad."

We make our way downstairs back to the storeroom. We quickly find the bleach box and move it aside to find a card reader I never would have found. Otherwise, Moxxie scans the card. We hear a beeping noise, and the adjacent wall slides away, revealing a staircase heading downwards.

"Ok, who's going down the creepy tunnel first?" Moxxie says.

We made our way downstairs slowly. As we got closer, an unbelievable stench began to fill our nostrils, a stench of bodily waste, sweat, and body odor. I get to the door at the end of the staircase, throwing it open, Moxie and I enter clearing each corner of the room. a sound of coughing draws my attention in the corner of the room in a separate hallway. I go down it to find rows of dog cages you'd find in an animal shelter. each one containing a small number of people inside them, mostly women and children of various ages.

"Oh, crumbs," says Moxxie. "This is horrible."

"I know it's none of our business, but I'm not leaving them here," I say. I noticed a key on the wall and used it on each of the doors opening them. I step aside from the door, the way clear. They look at me like it's a test.

"Listen to me," I tell them, "Run and get away while you have a chance we'll distract them." they all got up and ran out of the cells, heading up the stairs to freedom.

"That was a good thing we did." says Mox.

"I agree. I didn't see Emily among any of them. She must be in the next area."
we proceed down the last hallway as Moxxie and I make our way slowly down a door on the left opens, and a man in surgical scrubs exits.
He sees us, but before he can scream, I clasp him around the mouth, pushing him back into the room he comes out of. The room was small and had an industrial strength incinerator in it. A pile of clothes was in the corner. I can only assume they were burning the bodies they didn't need anymore.

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