episode_0002

Ttogak.. ttogak. As soon as I heard footsteps, I took cover behind a pillar. When I slightly peeked my head out to check on the owner of the footsteps, I saw the nurse I had first seen looking around, looking for someone.

The nurse, who was looking around, seemed to not see the person she was looking for and disappeared back the way she came. With the nurse gone and my tension relieved, I sat down on the pillar and looked at the notebook I had just picked up.

1. Do not interact with any nurses or doctors at OO Hospital. If they come near you, hide as much as possible.

I remember a senior teacher telling me a ghost story with numbers written like this and written like rules. Did you say it was a rulebook ghost story, a modified version of the Neapolitan ghost story that has become popular recently?

I think it was a kind of ghost story where there were many rules and if they were broken, something scary would happen.

If you follow the rules to the end, there will usually be a way to escape near the end, but the notebook I picked up only had rule number 1 written down.

Judging by the content, it seems like this is the situation I just experienced, but is it really the case that the rules are updated every time I go through one by one?

I was clearly knocked out by the nurse just now, but somehow I ended up back at the entrance of the hospital. It might have something to do with the rules I don’t know.

There was nothing I could figure out even if I thought about it here, so I put the notebook in my patient’s pants and decided to get up from my seat and make it my goal to go up to the rooftop first.

If there was a door I entered through and it was locked, my goal would have been to find the key, but when I looked around what appeared to be the first floor, there was no door that looked like an exit, and there wasn’t even a window in sight.

In this situation, going to the rooftop, which was most likely connected to the outside, seemed like the best rational decision I could make. Even if it’s not, there’s nothing much you can do.

At the end of the hallway, I found the stairs leading to the second floor and carefully walked towards them. There was no sign of people around, and the building itself looked clean, but there were no signs of human use, giving it a feeling of fear.

Fortunately, we reached the stairs without any incident, but there was a security door installed on the stairs.

When I looked closer, it looked like a door that opened with a key, but of course there was no such thing as a key for me.

I was so embarrassed by the unexpected situation that I couldn’t do anything and was staring blankly at the security door, when I heard the sound of something falling on the floor.

When I checked the floor, I found that the notebook I had kept in my pocket had somehow fallen to the floor.

I picked up the notebook and unconsciously checked the first page where the rules were written. However, in the notebook that clearly only had the first rule written down, there was a second rule written that I couldn’t see.

2. All stairs in the hospital are blocked with security doors and locked with keys. The key to the security door is located in the nurse’s office on each floor. Just be careful not to bump into the nurse when you go to get your keys.

2 – 1. If you encounter a nurse, tell her that you are a patient who has been decided to be admitted on the 3rd floor. If the nurse offers to follow you and guide you, tell them that you will accompany the doctor to the second floor. You cannot run away while the nurse goes to check and get caught.

It felt like someone was looking at my current situation and giving me advice. Otherwise, how can I come up with the rules I need right now? Feeling grateful for the existence of the rulebook, I turned around and checked the names of the places I had passed.

Physical therapy room, injection room, treatment room, administrative team, nurse room. The nurse’s office I needed to find was at the end of the hallway, in the first room I passed.

Lamenting my lack of luck, I carefully lowered my posture and made as little noise as possible as I slowly walked down the hallway.

The hallway was definitely not as long as I thought when I got to the stairs, but for some reason, now that I was walking back, both mentally and physically – it just felt really long, no. The hallway really got longer.

I felt like I walked for 15 minutes, but I still hadn’t gotten to the first room, the physical therapy room. If you look up and check, you’ll definitely see a door not far away, but if you walk, it’s just an endless hallway.

There was nothing like this in the rulebook… I checked the rulebook again – I couldn’t help but sigh.

3. If the first floor hallway continues endlessly, you should never look back. Step back carefully while looking straight ahead as much as possible. Even if someone is chasing you in front, you should never turn around and run away. Even if you think you might be caught by someone chasing you, you should never look back.

It was clear that this was my situation right now. Even if you look straight ahead, the hallway just continues. No one is chasing you, but if you start to walk backwards as written in the rulebook, they will start chasing you.

It is said that even if you are bitten by a tiger, you will survive as long as you come to your senses, but what should a person do when he has to come to his senses and go to get bitten? Now I felt that feeling and started walking backwards slowly.

Only the sound of me walking echoes in the hallway. No one is chasing me yet, but I know they will, so I can’t let my guard down.

How long did I walk in that tense state? I saw something faintly at the end of the hallway.

I squinted my eyes and tried to focus as much as I could to see – that thing was a naked woman walking on all fours. The woman walking towards me, walking on all fours as if she were an animal, was clearly faster than me.

“Huh…Huh…Huh…Heuh…”

The woman approached me, moaning like an animal, not a human. Gradually, the distance between me and the woman narrowed, and I could see the woman more clearly.

It had bizarre knife marks on its arms, legs and neck. It looked as if someone had deliberately grafted it on. Her head was lowered, so her face was hidden by her long hair, but even from here it was clear that the woman was not a normal person.

The distance between me and the woman is gradually narrowing, but no matter how much I step back, nothing changes. The woman also – I don’t know if she checked me from this distance, but her walking speed was clearly getting faster. I felt my heart beating faster and faster.

Should we trust the rules in the rulebook? Even now, wouldn’t it be possible to escape if you turn around and run away? Many thoughts ran through my head and I tried to walk backwards as fast as I could, but no matter how fast I walked, the distance between me and the woman only narrowed and did not increase at all.

“Hehe…Hehe…Hehe…Hehe…”

Has he finally checked on me? The woman who raised her head couldn’t be seen clearly because her face was still covered with hair – but the slightly exposed mouth was clearly smiling to anyone who could see it.

The woman who was running at me at full speed, moving her arms and legs violently, was smiling more and more bizarrely – it felt like the corners of her mouth were going to split.

“Huha…Aha…Ahahaha!!! Ahahahaha!!!”

The sound of a woman laughing continues to linger in my ears. The distance between me and the woman was so close that I could touch her if she stretched out her hand.

When I saw the woman up close, I saw that she had knife marks all over her body, her skin was as pale as the nurse, and she didn’t look like she was alive – she was in terrible shape. Finally, the woman who came right in front of me stopped walking on all fours and stood up on both feet.

I didn’t know it when she was crawling, but the woman who was able to stand on her own two feet was a giant who looked to be well over 2 meters tall, or at least 40 centimeters taller than me.

The body itself was curvy and voluptuous, in the shape of a beautiful woman, but the sight of a long knife mark in the middle of the stomach, showing the internal organs and dripping blood, aroused fear rather than sexual desire.

As I gave up and shed tears due to excessive fear, the woman stretched out her long hand and grabbed my cheek.

The woman, who was holding my face and turning it around as if she were giving a review, laughed again, and brought her face closer to me and licked my cheek for a long time with her long, cold tongue.

As I shivered at the goosebump-inducing touch, the woman giggled happily. The woman was playing with me now.

‘…Do the rules in the rulebook also apply to monsters like me?’

As my face was being licked by a woman, I involuntarily had that thought. According to the rule about never looking back, there was something behind me, but no matter how far back I walked, I couldn’t see that something.

If that’s the case, wouldn’t that something be following me and continuing to be behind me? I had thought this far, and when the woman let her guard down for a moment – I quickly fell flat on the floor.

When I raised my head and looked up at the woman, she seemed to not understand what I was doing, tilted her head for a moment, and grabbed the back of my neck, perhaps to help me stand up again.

I tried it just in case, but maybe the rules only applied to me? My last resistance was in vain, and I was just about to adopt a state of resignation.

“Ah…ahhh…”

The woman let go of my neck and slowly walked backwards. As if I had seen something scary – just like me a moment ago, the woman walking backwards looked very unfamiliar and seemed frightened.

Soon, the woman ran away on all fours back to where she came from, at a speed that was incomparable to the time when she approached me. As if she was being chased by something, every time she looked back, she let out a frightened scream.

As he continued to look in the direction the woman was running away – a large figure appeared above the woman, who now appeared to be in a crushed form.

“Kyaaa!!!!!”

And with the woman’s piercing scream, the long hallway became an ordinary hallway, just like the first hallway I checked.

I got over the immediate crisis safely, but rather than thinking that I was alive, I wondered what on earth the woman saw behind me… If I couldn’t hold back and looked back, what would have happened to me – such thoughts passed through my head for a moment.