Episode 494
『I will call this [Rest Area].
A cafe located in the middle of the hallway connecting the Amazon Corner of the World and the Sea Treasure Museum. Since it is not blocked by a separate wall, it is not easy to prevent monsters from entering. There are a lot of mannequins that imitate people.
It was a cafe full of mannequins, but I was lucky enough to find a table. The group I came with also found a seat. There seems to be no regularity in the time when seats are empty. However, I don’t know where the mannequin disappears after leaving.
Not knowing what would happen, I tried to buy something between the mannequins, but the mannequin saw the child’s admission ticket and gave me a free drink. I’m not sure what’s inside. I had to drink it all because I felt like throwing it away like this was a shame.
But
thanks to that,
the people sitting next to me
knew
the rules. It’s a struggle. You can purchase drinks according to the number of people with free pass admission tickets for minors, and only one drink is a cure. The rest only adds to the wound. It seems like a curse. It must be a curse.
People who just sit in the store and then leave seem to go crazy. The group screamed loudly, as if they were hallucinating, and were eaten. So does this mean that all people who do not have a free pass for minors must die? I do not know.
I don’t know if records like this are meaningful, but they might be helpful to someone. We couldn’t have been the only ones here. doesn’t exist.
Actually, I think I’ll go crazy if I don’t do this.
Sorry. ㅇ』
-Survivor’s Record 2-
* * *
While other survivors were active, Lee Jae-heon and Jeong Eun-woo also achieved considerable results.
“…It’s a lock.”
After finding the key, the lock was found.
“It’s a shame.”
I was hoping that I might find a key to open the doors to rooms 7 through 12. However, it was not strange to feel disappointed that the lock came out of nowhere.
Jaeheon Lee asked in a casual tone.
“Are any of rooms 7 through 12 still open?”
“Yes, everything is tightly closed.”
“It seems there is a separate condition for the door to open. What is it?”
“It may be a door that only those who have passed through the aquarium before can open. “Just as we expected.”
“I think that’s very likely.”
In the novel, In-ho Jeong was able to open the door to the room without any preparation.
“Anyway, it’s a lock.”
Jaeheon Lee saw the lock covered in mermaid’s blood.
You could obtain a lock by purchasing fish from the fish market in room 4, putting them on the table in room 6, and finishing the meal by dragging the 6 unconscious mermaids to room 5 and cleaning them. Because it was stuck in the mermaid’s intestines.
It is made of water and has rust. Just looking at it, it was a clover-shaped lock paired with the six keys I had obtained earlier.
“Then…”
Lee Jae-heon came out of the torture room holding the lock and slowly looked around.
“…Is there room around here to put a lock on?”
“If you bet, you can bet anywhere.”
“That too.”
What caught Lee Jae-heon’s eyes as he nodded was a scratch on the door handle of room 5.
Traces as if something metallic had been tightly inserted.
“….”
Lee Jae-heon rolled his eyes and moved to check the doors of the 12 rooms.
“aha.”
Only the handles up to room 6 had the scratches I had just seen.
Lee Jae-heon gave an order to Jeong Eun-woo, who was staring at me blankly.
“Jung Eun-woo. Please put a lock on the door handle of rooms 1 to 6. “I think you should walk in order, starting with the less corroded ones.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Eunwoo Jeong followed his words without raising any questions.
Lee Jae-heon thought to himself.
‘It’s nice that I don’t have to explain things in a complicated way.’
There were traces of a lock being placed on the door handle to room 6. Although it was not intended to tie the seam, it was simply a lock, but there must have been a reason for the traces left behind by previous survivors.
There were also keys that matched the lock. The purpose of the key is to open the lock, so even though it may seem like a funny action, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to try it at least once.
‘No matter what I do, I can’t open the room after number 7, so it’s unfortunate that I can’t check it like the original, but I’ll have to do whatever I can right now. You never know. If I proceed randomly, I wonder if I will be able to open the locked room.’
I wanted to find the computer room in the novel, but all I could find was a key and a lock. I don’t know where our progress is going, but I didn’t have time to worry about it.
Get the information as quickly as possible and prepare for anything. So that I can help the kids when they come….
“I put everything on the line.”
“….”
Lee Jae-heon’s thoughts stopped.
“Boss?”
Lee Jae-heon, who had been staring at the hallway outside the concert hall for a while, answered Jung Eun-woo’s call.
“yes.”
“Do you have any problem?”
“No, just.”
“just?”
“I was wondering if you were resting.”
“….”
Jeong Eun-woo, who understood the meaning of those words, asked back.
“Were you looking down the hallway to see if the students you mentioned were taking a break?”
“yes.”
“okay.”
“There was a cafe, and if you got hurt, you could stop by there for a moment…”
“Manager?”
“Yes, I think so.”
Although the context was incomprehensible, Jeong Eun-woo just smiled and nodded.
“understand.”
“Keep moving… oh how far have we gone?”
“You asked for a lock. There are 6 in total. “I hung it on the door handles of rooms 1 through 6.”
“Then let’s open it. “Because we have keys and locks.”
“That’s a good idea.”
Lee Jae-heon, who was about to insert the key with a bright red lock covered in blood on the door handle of room 1, stopped.
“What did I just say?”
“You said we have a key and a lock.”
“Was that all?”
For a moment, Eunwoo Jeong thought of a broken machine or a bizarre fairy tale. It was quite similar to them as they continued to randomly spit out sounds that may or may not have meaning.
Jeong Eun-woo said to Lee Jae-heon, who was smiling while holding a lock and key.
“If you’re tired, I think it’s not a bad idea to take a little rest.”
“Uhm… then you can’t do that. That’s too inefficient. “Isn’t that right?”
“Is that so?”
“It’s okay, Captain, you can take care of it. “You’ve done well so far.”
“….”
“Why don’t you answer yes?”
Jeong Eun-woo smiled.
“That’s right, Captain.”
I thought they did a good job of matching the rhythm to the madman, but I think there were some parts that were questionable from the point of view of a competent madman. Suspicion filled my pupils, which were shiny like glass.
Jaeheon Lee asked, gently wiping the corner of his mouth with the hand holding the key.
“…was this the first time we saw each other?”
“Maybe.”
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t even their first meeting, but Jung Eun-woo didn’t bother to say that.
“It’s a big deal. “Am I crazy?”
“It seems like that.”
“It’s a big deal.”
Lee Jae-heon said once again as he inserted the key into the hole.
“It’s a big deal.”
Then he mutters.
“But it’s okay.”
“Why?”
“It will all end up like nothing happened anyway.”
“okay.”
“You will forget everything.”
Lee Jae-heon, smiling, looked at Jeong Eun-woo and continued.
“So, my friend, don’t make things complicated either. We are doing very well and will achieve good results. “You don’t have to tell anyone or organize it in your head.”
“It’s my specialty.”
“You will do a good job. Who were you? Oh right. Junior. Come here. No, I’m standing there. You know that I perform better than you, right? If you nag me again, I won’t leave you alone. “That’s the worst.”
“….”
“…Aren’t you a junior? I’m sorry my brain melted. It hasn’t melted yet, right? Was it water this time? Did it hurt a little this time? I couldn’t breathe. It wouldn’t have hurt. I think I was scolded for a long time. I think I forgot something, but it’s probably because I’m tired. “What was I doing?”
Eunwoo Jeong didn’t bother to answer and just looked at the blood he shed.
There was enough pain and confusion to destroy a human who was originally in danger. Lee Jae-heon’s spilled blood, pale face, several missing fingers, and his tattered body showed that.
“….”
But Jung Eun-woo would not describe Lee Jae-heon’s condition at all.
“Oh, right. I tried to open the door. Is that correct?”
“you’re right.”
“It’s okay, we will soon be forgotten. So you don’t have to think. “It has no value.”
“understand.”
What was important to Jeong Eun-woo was not making his own judgment, but the fulfillment of orders. If Lee Jae-heon thought Jeong Eun-woo’s judgment was useless, that was enough.
So, what did Jaeheon Lee do during this long time, what did he find, and what did he sacrifice? There was no need to reproduce it or tell it to anyone.
Jaeheon Lee smiled as he opened room number 1, which was dyed pure white.
“You’re good at lying.”
“thank you.”
I received praise.
It seemed like I was doing well now.
* * *
Park Da-young said, barely able to calm her rumbling stomach.
“It’s like shit….”
“Who was it that told you to speak nicely?”
“It’s all like shit…”
I didn’t hear any separate rules or explanations about this cafe, but since there were two people with their heads turned around, it wasn’t difficult for them to sort out what had just happened.
“…So, all of them except one are poison. “This is such a situation.”
“maybe? It seems like a poison that causes various abnormalities. “At least the ‘green tea latte’ I drank… according to what these kids say, it seems like the ‘green tea latte’ I drank was a cure.”
The dark red drink No. 1, the translucent liquid No. 2, and the ground-fiber drink No. 4 that Song In-myeong drank were poison, but the bright red liquid No. 3 was medicine.
I don’t know how poison and medicine are determined, but I couldn’t tell them apart because there were no characteristics other than that they were strange. In the end, it seemed like it depended on luck.
“Fucking random game.”
“Thank goodness I had my second latte.”
Song In-myeong laughed and made fun of Park Da-young.
“Thanks to you, I’m so lively now. “What should I do?”
“…Fuck!”
She closed her eyes tightly.
‘What can a ghost do if he doesn’t catch that bastard?’
The drinks at this restaurant were terrible and the rules were even worse. The fact that Song In-myeong benefited from that rule was truly terrible.
Park Da-young, who hated everything in the world except Lee Jae-heon, muttered through clenched teeth.
“Then are you going to jump?”
“what?”
“You’re a fucking murderer. Or are you going to kill me? “It’s going to spin, and I don’t even have the strength to avoid it.”
“….”
“Are you really going to kill me?”
Seeing Song In-myeong with his eyes wide open, Park Da-young strengthened her body, preparing to crawl, and Song In-myeong opened her mouth with a still surprised look on her face.
“…uh? Is that so? “Can I just leave it and run away?”
“개새끼야.”
“Is there something wrong with my head to remember this after hearing it from the person’s mouth first?”
“Now I blame myself for not being more vicious than a high school student. There are various testimonies. “Korea University has produced such talented people.”
“No, really, why didn’t I think of that?”
He furrowed his eyebrows as if it was absurd.
“what? I did my best to help you, but you died on the way, so wasn’t it okay for me to tell you that there was nothing I could do? “Why did I work so hard?”
“Minhong, Jiji. Come down. “Jiji there.”
Park Da-young shook her head at Song In-myeong, who began to think seriously, and gestured to Choi Min-hong. Minhong was still sitting on Song Inmyeong’s lap.
Song In-myeong was furious at her reaction.
“Miss, please try to be quiet.”
“Ebebebebe, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? “If you’re going to kill me, kill me quickly.”
“You are truly unlucky and annoying.”
“Who’s going to say anything now…?”
“uh? “No, wait a minute.”
Song In-myeong, who was looking into Park Da-young’s strangely calm eyes, pointed and asked.
“Are you preparing to die now?”
“Do you know that now?”
“Do you look a bit like him? No, they resemble each other?”
“Alba?”
“….”
What are you thinking? Park Da-young felt a strange sense of ominousness from the shiny gaze that resembled a reptile. Why did I have the intuition that it was a little dangerous?
Song In-myeong, who was quietly rolling his eyes, soon muttered with a serious expression that had completely erased his playfulness.
“…Lee Jae-Heon Syndrome…?”
“…are you going to look beyond art and into psychiatry?”
“No, listen. I think we can definitely define this phenomenon where people around Lee Jae-heon are becoming Lee Jae-heon. “This is how the invention of the century begins.”
“There are degrees of bullshit.”
“Originally, geniuses were called crazy or idiots during their lifetime.”
“What can you say about the disaster that came from heaven….”
“Speak nicely?”
Song In-myeong said with a sassy look.
“If you pray to me, maybe I’ll spare you out of pity, right?”
“Damn nono. How much shit do you have to go to be satisfied? “I am satisfied with just the fact that Park Da-hoon escaped alive.”
“Oh, if you don’t kill me, it won’t be okay. “Speak kindly.”
“…?”
“Really realo.”
Song In-myeong added.
“Bet on your uncle.”
“You are a very difficult and painful person. “Don’t be so reckless.”
“Seeing as your tone has improved, it seems like you decided to listen to me.”
“I thought it might be worth listening to. “Anyway, you’re not going to kill me?”
“for now?”
Beneath those unique languid eyes, the eyes were filled with interest and reflected on Park Da-young.
“I think I need to find out why I thought about dying so quickly.”
“What…”
“If you die, these little kids will die too. And yet you gave up your desire to live like this? That doesn’t make sense. “I don’t think you will now abandon the babies you have protected and cherished so much.”
“….”
“Besides, you’re not worried about your younger brother whom you cherished so much, are you? If you die and all the kids die, she’ll be left alone, right? “Isn’t it so strange that you put aside your worries about your mentally weak little brother and think about dying right away?”
Park Da-young blinked with an expressionless expression.
I guess this was the reason for the ominous feeling I felt earlier.
“…Fucking life, really….”
“Oh, that was a bit like an old man too.”
“You’re like a wheel-like person.”
She had to admit she made a mistake.
‘I should have made sure that Song In-myeong had no idea about the regression.’
Honestly, that’s right. I knew that I would forget everything and everything would come back anyway, so I tried to die in peace.
But that didn’t mean Song In-myeong knew about regression. Even the weak-hearted Park Da-hoon, when pushed into a corner, reverts to killing kindergarten students, much less what about Song In-myeong. He would have exterminated the survivors without hesitation in order to return as the final survivor.
I had to make it so that Park Da-young wouldn’t realize that she was resolute in the face of her and her kindergarten students’ deaths. I should have been scared. It wouldn’t have been strange if he had struggled and said he didn’t want to die.
‘I was too tired to think about it. ‘That…’
Song In-myeong laughed, tearing his mouth wide, as if he knew Park Da-young, who was blaming herself.
“I’ve been thinking about this since I was at Unhak High School… It seems like there’s something that only some of you know about.”
“Ugh, shit. Just kill, kill, kill.”
“It seems like a kind of secret that allows you to suddenly recognize information from the distant future, but what is it?”
“Ah, kill me.”
“Are you going to kill me? “You can’t miss this opportunity.”
If I were alone, I would have committed suicide, but there were kindergarten students just watching them indifferently. I had to overcome this obstacle before that psycho tortured Park Da-young and ripped off her information.
I quietly rolled my cold head.
‘…Wouldn’t it be possible to kill that bastard so that he can forget about his current speculations and completely eliminate the possibility of him becoming the final survivor?’
Although she tried to pretend she was okay, Park Da-young was pushed to her limit.
Not only did he get bitten by the monster a few times and suffered additional injuries from poison, but he also had the mental strength to crawl through the ground. The burden of the enormous task of handling Song In-myeong and leading the team on the right path was great.
Maybe that’s why I had no hesitation in wanting to kill the man in front of me.
“….”
“Do you want to kill me?”
“…little.”
“You want to kill a lot.”
“maybe.”
There wasn’t really any way.
‘monster.’
The monster that chased us all the way from the feeding experience corner.
Song In-myeong must have an appearance that stands out even to a monster, so if he draws attention to this, wouldn’t he be able to get Song In-myeong involved….
“….”
Huh?
“…monster?”
“huh?”
“Monster, fucking monster. Our Dahun….”
“What the hell.”
“Dahun.”
Uddangtang—!
Dayoung Park tried to get up from her seat and collapsed onto the table.
I had no strength in my legs. Song In-myeong wrinkled his face when he saw that, but Park Da-young didn’t have time to confirm it. Seo-ah, who was sitting on her lap, was crying.
“There might be monsters coming after me from the other side, but if only Dahun was in the hallway right now…!”
I raised my voice out of frustration.
“Then how…”
“….”
“…do it…”
I remembered who the person in front of me was.
The other person was Song In-myeong, a serial killer, and not the right person for Park Da-young to receive help or complain about. He may be an ally now, but in reality, he is not even an enemy.
When the feeling of emptiness filled in once again, Song In-myeong spoke.
“Do you want me to help you?”
“….”
“Hey, answer me.”
He asks as if he is so happy.
“Help me?”
(Continued in the next part)
