Ch.63063 – Mountain Lodge of Horror 4

# 063 – The Cabin of Horror # 4

Bong Jiyeon was trembling in fear as if she had seen a ghost.

I recognized the expression on her face well.

It was the face of someone terrified, as if their soul had left their body.

“It… it’s exactly like my sister!”

Bong Jiyeon was talking about her sister, Bong Seyeon.

I had to spend a moment trying to recall who Bong Seyeon was.

That delinquent girl who used to hang out at Yang Juhui’s house.

But she disappeared on a spring day about five years ago and was found somewhere with just her torso, without her head…

And now Bong Jiyeon was saying that this carrier was exactly like her sister.

She continued speaking.

“My sister was also found in a carrier! I never saw it myself, but… she said it kept appearing in her dreams! The image of my sister struggling inside a bag! It’s exactly like that!”

It seemed someone had discovered Bong Seyeon’s body stuffed inside a carrier.

Though she hadn’t seen it herself, news of her sister’s death and the discovery of the body would have been more than enough to cause tremendous shock to anyone.

That’s why Bong Jiyeon, upon seeing the carrier in the basement of this cabin, was reminded of that memory and, unable to bear the trauma, had crawled up to the first floor to escape.

Soon, Dahui asked with a rather serious face.

“Are you saying there’s a corpse in the bag downstairs?”

“I… I don’t know.”

Bong Jiyeon shook her head.

Then a thought crossed my mind.

If Bong Jiyeon’s intuition was right, there would be someone’s corpse inside that carrier.

And I could form a hypothesis and guess whose body it might be.

The first possibility was “Yang Dohui,” Juhui’s sister.

Since Yang Dohui, who was supposedly a friend of Bong Seyeon, also disappeared about five years ago.

If she had reached a point of no return… it wouldn’t be strange if she were inside that carrier.

But if it wasn’t Yang Dohui…?

The second hypothesis.

At the beginning of this semester, our Yeongji High School was quite noisy and chaotic. It was because a female student had disappeared. She was from a rather wealthy family, and her name was Gu Hyena.

And I had met Gu Hyena before.

The “Head Ghost” that appears in the Nightmare Corridor was Gu Hyena.

So naturally, one question came to mind when seeing Gu Hyena.

Where was the rest of her body?

Perhaps I was now facing the answer to that question.

“Oh, shit…”

Though it was my own thought, it was terribly creepy, horrifying, and something I wanted to turn away from. If I wanted to know what was in the carrier, I should go check it out.

Unable to contain my curiosity, I spoke up.

“…Should we check what’s inside?”

“…Hey, Yeongwon.”

Jeongseok looked at me with a frightened face.

He must have also roughly guessed what might be in the carrier.

That’s why he was scared.

But we had come to this cabin precisely to find that carrier, in a way. It might be of great help to us in the future. It could serve as a signpost.

I know.

It’s terrifying.

But don’t we have our brave general Yang Juhui with us?

“Um… Juhui. Could you check what’s in the carrier?”

Yang Juhui was one of the bravest people I knew.

If this were a broken spaceship and someone had to go out into space hanging by a single rope to fix the damaged wall, Yang Juhui would be the one to say, “Move aside! I’ll do it!”

But right now, Yang Juhui frowned as if she was in a bad mood.

“No way. There are lots of spiders down there!”

Spiders?

Come to think of it, there were a lot of cobwebs in the basement. Yang Juhui has always hated spiders terribly. Then the remaining person is…

“Hey… Dahui.”

“Me?”

From what I could tell, Dahui didn’t seem to be afraid of much.

Even now when we were all tense, Yu Dahui appeared quite relaxed.

Just then.

Thud-!

There was a sound like something falling over from below.

It was a sound coming from beneath the floor we were standing on.

Bong Jiyeon immediately screamed.

“Kyaah! Close the door! The door! Close the door! Lock it!”

Bong Jiyeon was almost convulsing as she piled chairs and bricks on top of the iron door to the basement.

Just as I thought she was overreacting-

Thud thud-.

Something was knocking on the iron door from below, and we couldn’t help but tremble in fear!

Thud thud-. Thud thud-. Thud thud thud-.

Whatever it was, it kept knocking on the iron door.

As if asking to be let out.

“Wh-who’s there!”

I called out to whatever was below the iron door.

Of course, there was no answer.

# # #

Thud thud. Thud thud thud-! Thud thud-!

Flash, BOOM-!

Shwaaaaaaaa-.

Lightning struck endlessly as rain poured down on Gaeryong Mountain.

The downpour outside was so intense that we couldn’t take a single step out, and from below, the neurotic knocking continued.

I felt like covering my ears.

3 PM.

The rain still showed no signs of stopping.

Should we just go down the mountain in the rain?

If we end up spending the night here, it would be truly the worst!

BOOM-!

Just then, a huge impact shook the ground.

I heard the sound of chairs and bricks flying away. When I turned my head, I could see the rusty iron door was open.

Splash-!

Soon, an unpleasantly wet noise clearly licked my ears among the various sounds.

I could see a single palm stretching from the basement toward the ground floor, and I was about to lose my mind.

Soon it revealed itself… At first glance, it looked like a four-legged beast. But looking closely, I could tell it was a human body with joints bent awkwardly to take on a four-legged posture.

“Aaaaargh!”

Super-coward Jeongseok screamed.

Soon Bong Jiyeon also foamed at the mouth and convulsed.

“Kyaaaaaaah! It’s, it’s my sister! My sister is here! My sister! Sister! I’m sorry!”

Everyone was out of their minds.

The headless human torso strangely moved its body and stood up.

Crack. Crack crack.

After bending its joints, it stood on two legs and then reached out its hands toward its surroundings.

And like someone playing blind man’s buff, it was groping around with its arms flailing as if searching for something.

There was a terribly foul smell, and I felt like my mind was about to leave my body.

“……”

“……”

We silently moved around this narrow cabin, avoiding the groping of the headless seeker.

But the cabin was very small, and we might eventually be caught in those hands.

I couldn’t even imagine what would happen if we were caught.

Then suddenly, I started to get angry.

Why do I have to run and hide like this? A cornered rat, stressed out, can even bite a cat to death.

Right now, I was that rat.

Creak-.

I picked up a chair that had fallen nearby and hit the headless torso with it!

“Die!”

Thwack-!

The torso fell down from my attack.

I didn’t miss the opportunity and shouted.

“Hey! Guys! This bastard is fucking weak! Let’s all hit it! Hit it hard! Hit it like crazy!”

A headless bastard daring to scare me!

I beat the strange being mercilessly with the chair until my anger subsided. Soon Yang Juhui, who had been watching this scene, also picked up a dry log and beat the torso mercilessly.

“Die! Die! Fuck!”

Thwack-! Thwack thwack-!

Did our attacks work?

The torso’s movements were becoming very sluggish.

“We… we can do it!”

As the tide turned in our favor, Jeongseok seemed to gain courage and picked up a broken hiking stick from nearby, joined us, and participated in the one-sided violence.

Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud-.

It was a scene of one-sided violence with almost no breaks.

I’ll defeat this insolent being and make it my mercenary-

While I was having such grand thoughts.

Creak-!

Someone opened the cabin’s entrance door.

It was Yu Dahui.

“Dahui!”

“……”

Yu Dahui looked back and forth between the rainy outside and us, then went outside!

Seeing this, Yang Juhui shouted.

“Yu Dahui, that bitch! She ran away!”

Dahui, who always maintained her composure, running away?

How could that be! I was caught off guard by something I couldn’t have imagined.

Whoosh-!

The torso that was being beaten jumped up like a live fish seizing an opportunity.

And then it pounced on Jeongseok.

Crash-!

“Aaaaaaaargh!”

Jeongseok, who had fallen down, screamed like thunder.

The torso pulled and tugged at Jeongseok’s body like it was wrestling.

“Hiiiiiii! Get it off me! Aaaah! Help me!”

Jeongseok struggled frantically like a butterfly caught by a spider, and we moved our hands to beat the torso even more to save him!

Thwack-! Thwack thwack-!

In the process, Jeongseok sometimes got hit too, but we had no time to care and it didn’t matter anyway.

“Guys!”

Just then.

Yu Dahui, who had disappeared from the scene of frenzied beating, appeared soaking wet.

In her hand was a rather familiar stake.

“Let’s stop it with this! By stabbing this in! It’s a stake for sealing evil and ominous things, so if we stab it with this, it should work somehow! Take this!”

“Hey! Ha Yeongwon! Save that bastard Jeongseok!”

Yang Juhui took the stake from Yu Dahui.

And as she raised it high, I gritted my teeth and pulled Jeongseok.

Swoosh-.

Jeongseok slipped out of the grasp.

Taking advantage of that moment, Yang Juhui drove the stake down with all her might.

Thunk-!

The torso was pinned to the floor by the stake like a moth or butterfly fixed to a board.

It struggled a bit, then lost strength and went limp.

『Congratulations! You have defeated the ‘Headless Rider’!』

『Beginning settlement for 5 survivors.』

『You gain 500P.』

“Ha. It’s over.”

Only when the text appeared before my eyes could I finally sit down in relief.

My whole body was sticky with cold sweat, as if I had been caught in the rain.

It was an experience I never wanted to have again, but I found myself laughing at how happy I was that 500 points had come in. My courage has become quite impressive.

Whether it was because we defeated the strange monster or simply nature’s harmony, the rain that had been pouring down as if there was a hole in the sky gradually stopped.

Soon, a familiar-faced man also barged in.

“Oh my goodness, what is this! What on earth happened here! Oh, the smell. Hii! What is that! It’s… it’s a headless corpse!”

Dr. Ji, who had disappeared somewhere, returned and made a fuss.

However, we were all exhausted, and no one could answer the man’s questions.

# # #

Wee-woo wee-woo-.

Police cars making loud noises filled the entrance to the mountain.

A body discovered in an abandoned cabin.

This was enough to cause a big commotion.

Students chatting with the swarming police officers.

Some female students were even shouting loudly.

“No, fuck, it was moving! The corpse! Oh! This is so frustrating! That’s why we beat it up!”

“How can a corpse move! Did you all drink alcohol together?”

“Look at their glazed eyes. Did they take some kind of drugs?”

“That’s right! I heard high school students in Gaeryong City are doing drugs these days!”

It seemed problematic in many ways.

A middle-aged police officer asked Dr. Ji Dongseok, who was turning a rosary in his hand while watching them.

“Are you the one who reported this, sir? May I ask your name?”

“My name is Ji Dongseok. As you can see from my business card, I’m the director of the Pacific East Asian Culture Research Institute. More importantly… has the child’s identity been confirmed?”

Dr. Ji Dongseok kept looking at where the body had been.

According to Ji Dongseok’s memory, the body was wearing a school uniform. The uniform would have a name tag.

Since a wallet containing an ID was also found, identifying the body didn’t take long.

The middle-aged police officer who appeared to be in charge of the scene said to Dr. Ji Dongseok.

“It’s a Yeongji High School female student who went missing earlier this year. Sigh. I wonder what kind of beast would do such a thing. Poor girl. What kind of psychopath would do such a fucked up thing… It’s truly sad and infuriating.”

“This isn’t just the work of a psychopath, but a ritual that deals with formulas. It’s a type of evil sorcery that separates the body and head, reducing the being to one that follows the sorcerer’s commands.”

“Excuse me? Ah… yes. Well.”

The police officer made a subtle expression at Ji Dongseok’s story.

However, Ji Dongseok was talkative by nature.

“Usually it’s a Japanese sorcery that uses decapitated animals, but in Korea, only three people know this sorcery. One has died from dementia, one is here… and the other one…”

Dr. Ji Dongseok recalled the faces of the female shaman he could call his master and the man he could call his peer. It was the face of the culprit.

Time passed, and two days later.

The police were able to identify two types of external DNA from the headless body.

One was skin cells from the student Jeongseok, and the other was hair caught in the fingernails.

Since the owner of the hair was already the prime suspect in a similar case, the police quickly dispatched and arrested the man.

The man’s name was Kim Haeil, and he worked as a facility deacon at Yeong-gwang Church in Gaeryong City.

The man didn’t resist or ask any questions, as if he knew he would be arrested.

He just muttered blankly as if reciting a prayer.

“Prisoners in the cave. Everything we see is merely shadows cast by the torch. Heaven is the spiritual Idea, a treasure hidden in a field, and secret spiritual wisdom…”

“What the fuck is he saying? Mr. Kim Haeil. You have the right to remain silent—”

“I saved them! I saved them! Hehehe! You stupid bastards! Now you can’t stop it. The water veins are overflowing! The sea of Aion that will spurt like magma from the hole in the ground! Aaaaargh! Aaaaaaaargh!”

“This guy is completely insane! Hey! Grab his arms and legs!”