Chapter 78: CUT. The Nazi Submariner Must Die (1)
by fnovelpia
CUT.
“That’s a pretty rusty barbed wire. You’ll get tetanus if you’re pricked.”
Men carrying filming equipment secretly climbed over the fence.
Yeoreum anxiously watched his group.
It was a dark night.
This place was an outdoor museum by the sea.
Along the long pier, there were experiential ships and marine-related collections on display.
The college festival was coming soon.
Two popular students asked Yeoreum for a favor.
They wanted to use his script <Submarine Nazis Must Die> for their entry in the screening.
Yeoreum agreed, and thus the team was formed.
He was a bit excited to interact with people other than Yuna and the club president.
It felt like his world was expanding.
Maybe living here forever instead of 1980s America wouldn’t be so bad.
They said they were scouting the filming location tonight.
There were five people in total.
A slightly chubby senior in his third year. Pierced guy and muscular guy. And the class representative. +Yeoreum.
The class rep was a girl with glasses. She was a two-year older repeat student.
She had sharp eyes and a mole on the corner of her mouth. Her face was decent but a bit insolent.
Maybe because she was the only girl in the team, the guys were nice to her.
Of course, Yeoreum wasn’t interested. He had Yuna.
“There it is, the submarine.”
Pierced guy whispered.
They saw the retired submarine at the edge of the pier. It looked like a horizontal barrel.
Strictly speaking, it was a submersible rather than a submarine.
A small, old submersible.
“If we get caught, we’ll be in cuffs, right? It’s illegal.”
“Doesn’t matter. Art is resistance.”
Muscular guy said.
The group moved swiftly in the dark. There were no guards in the outdoor museum, but they still had to move quietly.
They hadn’t received any prior permission.
They headed to the entrance of the submarine. It was sealed with a crude padlock. Muscular guy broke the lock with a rock.
He opened the entrance.
The class rep bent down and cautiously peeked inside.
“There’s a ladder here… It’s too dark to see well. Does anyone have a flashlight?”
“It’s in my bag.”
“Hurry up and give it to me.”
“Take it out yourself.”
“Quit messing around. Just give it to me.”
The class rep and Pierced guy always bickered.
From their conversations, it seemed they were cousins.
The group entered the submarine one by one. The dark interior was cramped.
“Yeoreum, be careful.”
As Yeoreum struggled down the ladder, Muscular guy grabbed his hand to help.
It felt dependable. Maybe this is what having an older brother felt like.
Yeoreum’s trust in Muscular guy and Pierced guy had grown strong. He was also becoming friends with the chubby senior and the class rep.
It felt like he was being compensated for his troubled childhood.
They entered the submarine.
The class rep shone the flashlight around. Dust floated in the bright beam.
The interior had been modified for viewing convenience.
“It’s really shabby.”
“This thing… wouldn’t last five minutes underwater.”
“It’s decorated for display, so it can’t be helped. Let’s go further inside.”
The chubby senior took the lead.
They came to a round passage. It was so narrow they had to squeeze through.
Yeoreum, being small, passed through relatively easily, but Muscular guy’s thick body got stuck.
After passing through the tunnel, they came to a room filled with tangled pipes, valves, and gauges.
It was the engine room.
The class rep smiled brightly.
“The atmosphere is great~.”
“And there’s enough space.”
“We just need some Nazi zombies.”
Pierced guy took out a camera and snapped pictures.
The class rep leaned against the wall. In the dark, she gazed intently at Yeoreum.
“Han Yeoreum. Come to think of it, you didn’t bring your girlfriend today?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“You know, the tall, white-skinned girl you’re always with?”
“Yuna is not my girlfriend.”
“Then?”
“……”
Yeoreum remained silent. The class rep accepted his silence.
The chubby senior, who was looking at the gauges, wiped his sweat.
With a rather pale complexion, he breathed heavily, gasping.
Muscular guy approached and asked, “Senior, is something wrong?”
“Well, I have a bad feeling…”
“Is it because of a lack of oxygen?”
“It’s not that kind of feeling.”
“Then is it claustrophobia?”
“No. My grandmother was a shaman. So I can see things a little…”
“See things?”
The senior squinted his eyes.
“…Something is coming this way. Something very evil.”
Bang- A thud was heard.
The air felt frozen. The group collectively held their breath.
Someone had entered the submarine.
▷21:08 – Report received of road damage. Asphalt surface ruptured.
▷21:56 – Mysterious traffic accident occurred in a nearby tunnel. Two small cars and one truck were destroyed. Four seriously injured, seven dead.
▷22:44 – Guardrail at tunnel exit damaged. Two suspicious individuals in black suits caught on CCTV.
▷23:16 – Patient with mysterious injuries urgently transported to hospital. Ankle severed.
“Wh-what is it? Who came in…”
“Sis, turn off the flashlight.”
At Pierced guy’s words, the class rep hastily turned off the flashlight.
The engine room was plunged into perfect darkness. Everyone held their breath.
Yeoreum suppressed his pounding heartbeat. He needed to stay calm.
Who was this stranger who entered the submarine?
It could be a security guard or a police officer.
There was a feeling that they should go out and check.
The round passage was narrow.
Muscular guy’s thick body got stuck. The senior’s belly also got caught. It was impossible for them to quickly go in and out.
Yeoreum and the class rep were slender and weak.
So, Pierced guy, who was slim but somewhat strong, decided to go out.
Pierced guy took the flashlight as a weapon and exited the passage.
The group watched his retreating figure with anxiety. Though, in the dark, they couldn’t see well.
Forty seconds after Pierced guy left the engine room, a noise erupted.
Thud-
A dull thud. Followed by a short groan.
Did he hit someone with the flashlight…?
Pierced guy crawled back into the engine room.
But he was bleeding heavily.
He had a nosebleed. The piercing on his nose was torn off.
Now it was clear that he hadn’t hit but was hit.
Right after Pierced guy, someone else crawled into the engine room.
A white, long arm entering through the passage… Jet-black hair flowing like a waterfall…
…Was it Sadako?
The sudden appearance of a creepy woman startled the class rep. The chubby senior screamed at a high pitch.
Yeoreum’s heart dropped.
“Yu… Yuna…?!”
The stranger who entered the submarine was none other than Yuna.
Pierced guy had been beaten by Yuna, resulting in his bleeding nose.
His torn nose was gushing blood. The bleeding was beyond imagination.
With tears welling up, he glared at Yuna.
“You crazy b*tch, suddenly punching me…!”
“You… you startled me first.”
Yuna replied like that.
The class rep was furious.
“Damn it, who are you?! Why did you hit someone? Are you a thug?”
“I don’t want to hear that from criminals trespassing here…”
“And you? Why did you come here?!”
The class rep glared and asked.
Muscular guy was ready to punch Yuna if necessary. The chubby senior was also on guard.
Yeoreum inwardly wanted to defend Yuna. But seeing Pierced guy’s torn nose, he lost his nerve to step forward.
It was clear to anyone that Yuna was at fault.
“I was following Yeoreum… and ran into him…”
“You followed us?”
“No, I was following Yeoreum.”
“…”
“Then I encountered… Naziface.”
Yeoreum felt his mind go blank.
Naziface. He was the villain from videotape S#12.
He had been attacked and killed by a bio-weapon saw shark developed by the Nazis, but an old man resurrected him using Nazi technology.
Thus, he became the monster “Naziface,” barely maintaining a human form.
In the latter part of the story, a gigantic saw shark, as big as a building, appears and swallows him whole along with a gas station building.
It was a magnificent end.
But could he really be here?
“You should be grateful to me… That thing was targeting you. I diverted it.”
“I have no idea what bullsh*t you’re talking about.”
The class rep crossed her arms and frowned.
At that moment, the submarine shook.
Thud-
The sound of footsteps. Another intruder.
“Close the door…!”
Yuna shouted. It seemed she had been mistaken about having diverted Naziface.
Muscular guy hurriedly closed the passage door. He turned the hatch to lock it tightly.
Through the small window in the middle of the door, the intruder’s figure was visible.
A large frame filling the submarine corridor. A tattered gas mask. A menacing Nazi uniform.
The class rep stepped back in fear.
“What is that?!”
“Oh my god… It’s a Nazi zombie…”
“No way… The scenario is happening for real…! This can’t be!”
Naziface approached.
His shadowy figure through the small window looked like a black grim reaper.
All the film students in the engine room were thrown into chaos.
Naziface stood before the locked passage.
He began pounding on the door with the machine gun attached to his right arm.
The impact was as strong as a grenade explosion. It was a monstrous strength far beyond human limits.
However, the alloy door was quite sturdy and didn’t break easily.
The monster pressed his gas-masked face against the round window. His eyes rolled wildly, counting the people inside.
One (muscular guy), two (pierced guy), three (chubby senior), four (class rep), five (Yeoreum), six (Yuna)…
After counting the prey in the engine room, Naziface licked his lips.
He turned and seemed to vanish into the darkness, and then a cold metallic sound was heard.
He was sealing the entrance.
It was a forewarning that no one would survive.
The submarine had become a hunting ground.
Yuna muttered.
“Persistent bastard…”
“What do we do now?”
“Don’t worry, Yeoreum… We can contact senior Joo-Yi.”
Yuna pulled out her phone.
Pierced guy leaned against the wall.
“Ugh… damn it…”
Holding his injured nose, he groaned in pain.
The submersible was filled with the thick scent of blood.
The class rep looked worriedly at her cousin.
“Are you okay?”
“No. It f*cking hurts, sis. I feel like I’m gonna die.”
“When we get out of here, I’m going to sue that b*tch Yuna. But first, let’s stop the bleeding…”
BANG─────────────
Suddenly, the view flipped upside down.
A long object pierced through the wall.
It was a saw. The saw of a saw shark.
It went right through the shoulder of the pierced guy who was leaning against the wall.
A 7-meter-long saw shark had attacked the submarine.
The submarine lost its balance and rolled off the pier.
The dark sea welcomed it.
The heavy splash sent waves rippling across the surface.
Thus, the retired submarine submerged again after a very long time.
▷23:44 – A small submersible at the outdoor maritime museum was pushed off the pier. The submersible sank into the sea with six university students and one unidentified individual onboard.
Yeoreum opened his eyes.
What he saw was an upside-down space.
The engine room was flipped, as if seen from a handstand.
Everyone else was knocked out, their heads against valves or pipes.
Yeoreum was the only one who retained consciousness.
No, there was one more person conscious.
“Ugh… ugh… Help me…”
It was pierced guy, with his shoulder pierced by the giant saw.
Water gushed through the gap between the saw and the wall at a terrifying speed.
The engine room would be filled with water in no time.
Yeoreum’s body trembled.
The submarine had rolled off the pier and plunged into the sea.
If this continued, they would all die. They had to get out before the space filled with water.
He looked beyond the passage window.
A chilling gas mask was staring back at him.
“Damn it.”
In front was Naziface.
Behind was the water rising in the room.
There were no other exits.
Cold sweat ran down his face.
There was no need for deep contemplation; the current situation was painfully clear.
They were f*cked.
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