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What am I supposed to do after returning to the barrel control room?
1 of 16: You're going to need to use the barrel-moving system to rig a way to escape this area.
2 of 16: Look around the control room to find that there's an upper walkway that you can't get to.
3 of 16: Maybe you could stack some barrels up to where you could jump up onto that walkway. That was Sasaki's idea, anyway.
4 of 16: Examining the interactive control panel, you'll see that it has four clickable spots.
5 of 16: The one in the lower right corner is the only one that works at first, so use it.
6 of 16: That'll put the sliding platform in place on its track on the floor in front of you.
7 of 16: You can now use the up and down arrow controls to slide the platform between its two positions: next to you and the other side of the room.
8 of 16: Now for the top right control, which is the one that gets barrels loaded on the platform.
9 of 16: It's only clickable when the platform is on the other side of the room, so send it there with the up arrow control and then click on the barrel-loading control.
10 of 16: That'll get a big stack of barrels placed on the sliding platform.
11 of 16: Now slide it back toward you using the down arrow control.
12 of 16: Now do you see how you can jump up to the upper walkway using this barrel stack?
13 of 16: Start by jumping up onto the control console you were just using.
14 of 16: Then jump onto the higher spot just to the right.
15 of 16: >From there, you can jump onto the barrel stack and then onto the walkway.
16 of 16: Then all you have to do is go through a door and kill a grunt before dropping down onto a conveyor belt that will convey you to the Putrification Center.
