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The male presenter briefly checks the screen.

“Yes. Jeong Hae-won left a comment. I heard that an organization called the Foundation is currently helping people evacuate.”

– Foundation?

– Why does it feel like I’ve never heard of it before?

– ?

– What foundation? Not the government?

“Team Leader Choi Cheol-hwan. Is it safe to follow this organization called the Foundation?”

“Do not fall for rumors. The government has never operated an organization called the ‘Foundation’, and we cannot confirm what kind of organization the ‘Foundation’ is. The only thing citizens should trust is the government. It can be dangerous to receive help from unverified relief organizations, so for now, please trust the government, firefighters, and military personnel.”

On the screen, Team Leader Choi Cheol-hwan speaks at length.

But the ending was the same.

“And Mr. Jeong Hae-won? You said you were staying in the theater earlier. It is dangerous to stay in a closed space. Please evacuate to an open space outside quickly.”

“Yes. I listened carefully to Team Leader Choi Cheol-hwan’s explanation.”

The male announcer immediately summarizes the comments.

“It is said that an unknown organization called the Foundation is evacuating citizens. Even though it is an evacuation, its intention and identity are unknown. For now, please do not move rashly and wait calmly for rescue. And. One more thing.”

Knock knock knock!

I wonder if the guy is starting to get impatient.

The knocking outside the door grows louder again.

By creating fear, people become gullible.

It’s one of his strategies.

“… … Those inside the theater, please come out quickly and evacuate to an open area. ”

The news repeats the same story again.

I was hoping to get some information about the foundation.

The news simply dismissed it as a rumor.

We don’t know yet, so please wait calmly.

Just trust the government and wait.

There is no new information.

Just need to make him a little more restless.

If you don’t hand over the information, you won’t be able to learn.

Foundation Classification Symbol CREEP-319. Alias: The Tent of Confirmation Bias.

An entity that creates a visible threat while also hunting people by deceiving them through various media.

The longer we resist being fooled, the more likely he is to come up with more and more plausible lies.

And a plausible lie must contain some truth.

The amount of facts in the news is bound to increase.

If you can just hold on in here.

“… … Dabin.”

Sister Se-rim pulls my sleeve.

When I look into his eyes, he is completely relaxed.

“We… … . I think we should go out.”

“Sister.”

“They say it’s dangerous to stay in here, right? Yeah? Monsters are always trying to get in from outside anyway. It’s just a matter of time before they break through. If we stay in here, we’ll all be trapped and eaten together.”

Sister Se-rim speaks quickly.

Her expression is one of fear. My sister’s fingers holding me are cold.

“So let’s go out quickly. Even if it’s dangerous when we go out right now, we have to somehow shake them off… … . If we do that, we’ll have a way to escape. Okay? ”

“… … Citizens, please evacuate to open space as soon as possible. ”

That news that keeps repeating the same thing.

News is not simply about deceiving the listener.

The more you listen, the more it diminishes your cognitive abilities, making it impossible for you to make sound judgments.

Of course, the effect is minimal.

First of all, if you are asleep, it won’t work properly.

And even if you stay awake, it doesn’t have much effect.

“Hey. Jeong Hae-won.”

Jeong Hae-won had just returned from blocking the theater doors.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes.”

Jeong Hae-won nods.

As expected, the effect is very weak.

Not only women who are quite tolerant, but even Jeong Hae-won, a man with relatively little tolerant, is fine.

What I can think of is that Se-rim noona is special.

“Ah.”

When Sister Se-rim uses her ability, her mental power weakens.

Resistance to mentally-influencing anomalies is also significantly reduced.

When I put the others to sleep earlier, my mental strength seemed to have weakened a little.

I should have calculated that properly… … .

It’s my mistake.

“Let’s go out quickly. What are you all doing… … . We have to go out quickly… … . Huh?”

I held onto Sister Se-rim’s shoulder tightly.

He spoke with clear tone, making eye contact.

“Sister. Come to your senses.”

“Quickly!”

“If you go outside, you’ll die.”

“Ugh… … . But.”

“Just hold on a little longer. Trust me.”

There was silence for a moment.

After a while.

The light returns to Se-rim’s eyes.

“… … Yeah. Okay. I’ll believe you. Dabin.”

“Thank goodness.”

This time we got through it safely, but time is not infinite.

That’s what I thought.

“If you have any strange thoughts in the future, please tell me right away.”

After asking Se-rim for advice, I checked my phone again.

Get the information as quickly as possible, preferably on this occasion.

I entered the chat again.

– I said earlier that the foundation was working on the structure, and now it seems like they’ve come to this area.

– And I just got a call from an acquaintance, and it seems like the people around me were rescued safely with the help of the ‘Foundation’.

– The foundation is also broadcasting on the radio, and they say it’s safer to stay inside the theater.

If you move rashly, it will be more dangerous, so don’t move and wait for rescue.

– Which one should I believe?

– I can hear the sound of a monster coming from outside, so I’m debating whether I should stay inside the theater until the end.

– But wouldn’t it be better to trust the government?

– They say the monsters become more powerful inside the theater. I think it would be better to leave quickly, even now.

– Do you know what kind of place the foundation is?

This time the effect was much stronger than before.

A reaction to the heated chat.

And the facial expressions of the people in the video seem somewhat embarrassed.

All of this shows that the guy is agitated.

It’s just as I expected.

‘I’m wondering if I should hold out until the end.’

This one word elicited a reaction from the bastard.

Jeong Hae-won checks the video screen while standing close to her.

The presenters and experts are keeping their mouths shut,

The chat keeps coming up.

They all attack the foundation and tell people to trust the government.

“Sister. This chat is fake too, right?”

“Yeah. You’ll get a response soon.”

As expected, there’s new news on the news.

He raised his index finger toward Jeong Hae-won.

“Shh.”

“Ah. I just got some news. I want to quickly tell Jeong Hae-won, who left a chat message a little while ago.”

The male announcer delivers the news in a slightly faster tone.

“We have discovered that the organization currently known as the ‘Foundation’ is carrying out various terrorist activities.”

“The destruction wave was also revealed to be the work of the Foundation. The Foundation recently announced the beginning of a plan to annihilate humanity through radio abduction. It appears that terrorism and destruction wave activities are also part of that plan. ”

After that, the data video appears.

An ordinary TV entertainment show.

Suddenly the screen becomes distorted, and the figure of a black man appears on the screen.

“Hello, citizens of the world.”

There is no information to be obtained.

The black man’s figure that appears on the screen is just an image. A voice flows out, but even that is so thoroughly altered that its original form cannot be identified.

But I could tell who he was.

“We are an organization called the ‘Foundation’, and we have been playing a role in protecting humanity behind the scenes.”

As a member of the council that leads the foundation, one who exerts influence on the foundation’s major agenda.

“For a very long time. ”

One who sees the future and thinks ahead.

“To protect humanity, we have always made the same choice. We isolate anomalous phenomena, anomalous entities, and unconventional concepts that fall outside the normal range, and prevent contact with the outside world. We prevent the collapse of reality as we perceive it, no matter what the cost.”

The person I met in my apartment.

“But at some point we realized that our actions to define and protect reality were deeply flawed. Those things outside reality were something that could never be separated from us, and were one of the devices that protected us.

As a result of our wrong choices, we, the human race, are all infected with disease, waiting for a terrible ending. ”

He takes a moment to catch his breath.

“The Foundation has made a decision.”

The one who transmitted this broadcast to the entire world a few days before we escaped from the apartment.

And, the one who will be the final enemy in this story.

“From this moment on. All real countries, societies, groups, and all organizations in the supernatural world.

The UN Security Council,

The World Occult Society,

Librarians of the Wandering Library,

I declare war on these groups.”

professor.

He had been showing hostility towards all mankind for days before I left the apartment.

“The Foundation will do its best to eliminate all intelligent beings, including humanity.”

The video cut out.

On the screen, two people appear again: a male presenter and the head of the disaster safety headquarters team.

The presenter emphasizes in a strong tone.

“As you have just confirmed, the ‘Foundation’ is nothing but a terrorist group. I hope you will never give in to the ‘Foundation’s’ requests or be deceived by them.”

After that, the man continued to talk about something, but I couldn’t hear him very well.

Because I found out something even more important.

There are facts to be gleaned from this fake news.

The ‘Professor’ accepted the ending I proposed.

If the sole goal was to exterminate humanity, there would be no need for broadcasts like this.

in other words.

‘Seven’ is the professor, and the foundation he leads. Or the act of annihilation of humanity led by the foundation.

The way to beat ‘Seven’ is to survive it.

Now, as long as we survive, the story will never be extinguished by the ‘Seven’.

Now that you have the information you need, it’s time to get away from the enemy in front of you.

“Jeong Hae-won, could you please leave a chat?”

– yes

Then I typed a message into the chat window.

One word that will really hit that bastard’s weak point.

– By the way, where did the video just now come from?

“It was terrestrial news.”

– And what about the broadcast you’re doing on this channel now?

Two people in the video look this way at the same time.

He keeps his mouth shut and says nothing.

I typed the message without stopping.

– Wasn’t that a YouTube channel run by the same terrestrial news channel?

– But what if you just got this video?

– That doesn’t make sense.