Doctor Raphael Vitella entered a nearby ruin with a sample kit, cautiously moving from room to room. "I've never seen this plant before. I ain't a botanist, but I'm pretty sure that those thorny leaves are poisonous. Best to take a sample and bring it back to Ren just to be sure." Doctor Vitella said to himself as he approached a strange plant and used his scalpel to carefully cut off a piece of a leaf. Once the sample had been collected, he wiped off his scalpel before continuing his search for anything of value.

He entered a room and found fragments of bone on the floor. "Looks like what's left one of the former inhabitants. It's been picked clean by scavengers. Not even the smallest speck of bone marrow left." Raphael Vitella thought as he looked around for anything else he could find, seeing what looked like a raggedy tablecloth. "I should take a piece of this before heading upstairs. If the inhabitants died of radiation or airborne spores or chemical weapons, Ren's machine should be able to detect traces of either." Doctor Raphael Vitella thought to himself as he put on gloves, ripped off a piece of the tablecloth, and put it in a vial.

He found a staircase and headed up it, noticing that the third floor had been completely blocked off by rubble. He entered a hallway. He was about to head down it when he heard loud footsteps around the corner. He immediately bolted into the nearest room and closed the door behind him. "Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. I just had to walk into this place alone. If the others don't find me before that thing does, my ass is cooked." Doctor Vitella thought to himself as he heard the loud footsteps approach the room.