Once the shard disappeared into the Containment Subspace, PCL-1 slowly changed with it.
Nothing dramatic happened.
The broken lights remained broken. The damaged panels didn't suddenly come back to life, and the bodies scattered through the deeper sections of the facility stayed exactly where they were.
But the strange field that had covered the inner part of the laboratory began to disappear.
It weakened first around the chamber, then through the corridors leading back toward Operations. By the time Hans was halfway out, the facility simply felt like an abandoned laboratory again.
The area was cold, damaged, and eerily quiet. Nothing else.
The Engineers noticed the difference as well. They had already started moving closer toward sections they previously avoided, checking instruments and equipment that had been difficult to approach while the shard was still inside.
Hans left them to it.
