"I don't think the how many question matters as much as the what they are or why they are here." Logically that would allow them a way to stop them. More importantly, Eli needed to know what they were. He had never actually seen an inferi up close and it was a rather unique opportunity especially with all the talk of dead men the past couple of days.
"But if you need to go, please, don't let me stop you." Eli didn't really care either way, although how he proceeded next would be different if he had an audience or not. Witnesses were always a delicate matter as they forced him to act to a more stricter ethical code.
As the lift open behind him, he triggered it to keep the doors open. It was an escape route and at the moment a makeshift lab. Eli maneuvered the bound body into the lift, trapping it so that he could run an initial scan on it, wanting to confirm vitals and get an estimate of how long dead this thing was. Except - a colorful Welsh phase escaped him.
"These things have a pulse." Okay so maybe the numbers mattered right now because that meant they weren't inferius. Eli looked back down the hall trying to get a feel for how many things were walking about and something about their clothes bothered him. "Prisoners?" He said musing out loud. Adrian wasn't even close to Argus, but if he could talk at something it helped the thought process along. "That would mean some sort of break out and given the time needed to travel that distance, this situation could be worse than we imagine - apparation, portkeys, or even something else all together could be happening. Although who could put them under the imperius on a presumably mass scale and with such skill?"