"Rumble, rumble..."
The heavy hatch opened. Under the dim lights, they could see that the passage ahead was shrouded in darkness. Beneath the constantly flickering lights, blood and mangled corpses were scattered everywhere.
"Oh, God..."
At the sight of this, everyone couldn't help but shudder. It wasn't simply because of the corpses, but because of what they looked like—they weren't ordinary human corpses. They looked more like modified humans. Although they still retained a human appearance, their bodies were covered with all kinds of tubes and machinery. Some people's arms had even been replaced with things resembling universal tools. Their heads had been opened as well, with data cables connected to them.
Now, these people lay on the ground, reduced to one mangled corpse after another.
"What is this...?"
Ashley frowned and cautiously approached a corpse. The man's stomach had been blown open, revealing tubes and machinery that had replaced nearly half of his internal organs and body.
"I remember the Inquisitor saying that these things are called Servitors..."
"Servitors?"
"That's right. According to the Inquisitor, the Inquisition considered killing or imprisoning criminals far too wasteful of resources, so they would directly turn them into these... half-human, half-machine beings and use them as laborers."
As he spoke, Shepard's brother looked at the Servitors that had died so horribly before him and couldn't help sucking in a cold breath. When they had fought the Reapers, he and his sister had acted alongside Duanmu Huai. Whenever something went wrong back then, the Inquisitor would fly into a rage and say that turning the person into a Servitor would be more useful... Well, now he had finally seen the real thing.
"But... we never saw anything like this in the Inquisition?"
"Because this is technology from an ancient era. The Inquisitor said that