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Step by step. Step by step.

A man wearing a beanie walks out of the elevator. Grumpy hair and gloomy expression. The bag in my hand contains something writhing.

It looks like it’s alive. what?

“……”

The man doesn’t even look at this side, and goes straight to knocking on the door of the house in front. Room 701. A place that acts like a conference room for the survivors gathered here.

Rattling-

Choi Jun-ki and an unfamiliar man soon come out of the house. The two looked at each other.

“That student last time. I found it.”

“What? Seonghun? Are you alive?”

Patter.

The items in the sack spill into the apartment hallway. Squishy dark red lumps. Even after falling to the ground, it continues to move.

Then what about that? Probably not?

Choi Jun-gi chews his lip with a miserable expression.

“It’s a variation.”

“That’s right. I found it while walking around the stairs on the 8th floor. You must have gotten lost in a surprisingly nearby place. Or.”

“Or?”

“I may have moved unconsciously after this happened. It’s slow now because I’m out of energy, but just a few hours ago it was moving pretty fast.”

Masses of muscle twist their bodies in a pool of blood.

When I think about how that thing was once a person, I feel like all my blood is draining out of me.

Choi Jun-ki, who had been silent for a while, opened his mouth heavily.

“Sung Hoon said two weeks ago that he would go to Area A on the 13th floor. Minjun Kim went with him and came back alone. First of all, I said I got to the 13th floor safely. Then an accident occurred. But can it be found on the 8th floor?”

“He probably crawled down the stairs.”

“Are you sure?”

“Okay. I also confirmed that there were traces left.”

Living meat leaves a red trail in the apartment hallway.

“Then this is Seonghoon?”

“Okay. All my belongings were scattered around.”

Choi Jun-gi took a deep breath and this time brought up a different topic.

“Then why did you bring this? I told you this last time. If someone ends up like this during the expedition.”

“The case is a little different this time.”

“What?”

“This is not an ordinary piece of flesh.”

The air dries out in an instant. Choi Jun-ki glares at the other person with bloodshot eyes, and an unfamiliar man speaks despite hesitation.

The tension continued as if it would explode at any moment.

“This lump has an incredible recovery effect. You probably got lost and wandered around and ended up in a space similar to a ‘place of recovery’. A ‘transformation’ process must have been involved there. If you just peel it off and stick it on the wound, it will become fresh again.”

“Stop it.”

“After trying it a few times, you may be able to fix at least one arm. To do that, you’ll have to use up all of it, but it’s amazing to have your damaged body come back as it was.”

“Stop it. You bastard.”

“I think I know what you’re thinking. But this is…!”

“Hey Park Seongjin!!!!!”

Choi Jun-gi’s voice resonates through the hallway.

“Are you still a human being? Do you want to live by eating corpses? Seonghun. This is the girl who stayed with us until two weeks ago. I do not remember? You lifted the heaviest load every time you organized the warehouse. But a kid like that. Are you just going to watch Madecas Solo?”

“It’s not like that.”

“No, no!!! Are you going to do an experiment later? Replacing just a few people will revive the dead, so why not mass-produce them? Huh?!!!”

Choi Jun-ki, who was out of breath, muttered softly.

“Bury me and come. I can’t tolerate this kind of thing.”

“……Okay.”

The unfamiliar man named Park Seong-jin left, leaving Choi Jun-ki alone in the hallway. He keeps his head down, then raises his fist and hits the front door.

Quang!

A loud noise travels through the walls. It feels like the building is about to collapse. Slime left on the floor. Air that weighs down the lungs. I feel like throwing up.

Playing pranks on each other. I’m annoyed. I thought it was a place where I could feel safe. I had forgotten for a moment that people were going to die here.

“Oppa. This way.”

I took a step back towards where I heard a familiar voice. Room 705. Daju Yoon was making a small gesture to me.

Inside Daju’s neatly decorated house. An angry scream is heard from outside.

Daju pulled me by the wrist to the bedroom and made me sit next to him.

No words this time. Heavy silence. Daju, who was always joking around, has an expressionless face this time.

“……Sung Hoon. He was a very active younger brother. I lived in room 704 before.”

“So it was an empty house.”

“Yes.”

“What’s the point of being sad all the time? This kind of thing is common here. It’s very easy to die, but staying still doesn’t mean you’re safe. A lot of people come here dead or injured, right? It can be fun to risk money sometimes. We even make guesses about who dies first and things like that. But if the bettor dies, who gets the money? I don’t know.”

“……They say it has been transformed. Is it similar to what I experienced?”

“Yes. On the contrary, my brother is strange.”

Daju, who had been talking for a while, lowered her gaze to the floor.

Just keep your eyes on the floor. He speaks again in a wet voice.

“Oppa. You know what I said last time. The man who went to the library.”

“Yes.”

“The man picked up the wrong book and it just melted. I still don’t know what book it was. Was it like a chocolate fairy tale? It could be about candles. Or ice cream. Or ice…I mean, that’s what I meant! It seems like if I touch the wrong conditions, I get cursed. It turns into something completely horrible. That’s called transformation. Then. Oh, what was I going to say? Suddenly I can’t think clearly. Aha…ha…”

“Oppa. Do you know why I called you?”

“Why?”

Daju raises his head. Short hair with volume. A cute look beyond the line. And yet, the inside of the haughty eyes are filled with tears.

Kuuk.

“I really hate this kind of atmosphere. The man is angry. Everyone else is huddled alone at home.”

“……”

“I just wish this was a normal apartment and no one died. That would have been nice. I don’t know why it’s doing this. Hehehe. I don’t know Why…”

This time it wasn’t the shoulder. Daju wrapped his arms around my waist and hugged me as if I was falling.

Warm and fluffy feeling. I looked down at Daju in silence.

“You will be able to go out.”

“Ugh. Hmm…”

“No one will die in the future.”

I suddenly turned into a small woman’s body, but I made a promise without any solution.

***

Late afternoon. The sunset is already shining. I pulled my body out from under Daju’s sleeping head and jumped down from the bed.

That beanie guy. I said his name was Park Seong-jin.

There is something to find out.

– Access to this document requires A0 or higher authority.

Category: lemma-003

outline :

– This refers collectively to the anomalous phenomenon in which the human body collapses and reassembles. The causes and cases are described below as lm003-1 and lm003-2. There are also cases where the exact cause is not known, and these are recorded in the lm003-# document.

– There appears to be a connection with lemma-001, but no meaningful research methodology has been presented to date.

– There is also no known way to return to the original state. There is a theory that the principle of time interference or reality creation is valid, but follow-up research is needed.