Virgil told Mel earthquakes have been happening and destroyed the facility, even items from the future came.
Virgil pretended to be Cave Johnson and convinced her nothing have changed since her sleep. Mel made her way up to the section where Virgil was and eventually found him, bringing him along.īetween the events of Portal and Portal 2, Virgil awakens Mel in a prototype relaxation chamber where she slept for an unknown amount of years. At first, he pretended to be Cave Johnson, attempting to convince Mel nothing had changed, until he admitted Mel wasn't stupid enough to fall for that and then revealed who he really was and what was really going on.
Virgil (or ID as VC321xb47, 01 in AEGIS) is a personality construct who worked as a maintenance Core who fell off his management rail and into the depths of Old Aperture, where he laid for a long time until Mel was reawakened.