episode_0014

Park Seong-jin walks out from behind the door of room 705.

“Uncle.”

“……”

“You haven’t been on the Internet, have you?”

“……Okay. Of course not.”

“But why are you holding a smartphone in your hand?”

please.

“Ah. This?”

Park Seong-jin smiles slightly.

“Just. I was trying to set an alarm. Even if you can’t make calls, there are more useful functions than you might think.”

“I see.”

thank god.

“First of all, don’t go to the internet. That’s…!”

“Want to take a look?”

“Yes?”

Seongjin Park turns his smartphone, and what appears on the screen is that phrase again. Meaningless words arranged dizzyingly pile up in my head.

I reflexively lowered my body.

Whoop-

“Written!!!! I have to use it until the end, so please hurry. I don’t have enough blood, so hurry!!!!”

Park Seong-jin swings his parru wildly. The sleeves of the dress fell down, exposing the wrists. There are traces of deep dents here and there, enough to expose bones.

“Give it to me!!!”

Kaang!

The wall crumbles, emitting white powder.

“Mister! Come to your senses!”

“I saw the article!!! Why are you fine? Why!!!!”

Park Seong-jin swings the paru like crazy and hits himself. puck! puck! The flesh bursts and blood spurts out. Park Seong-jin doesn’t stop though.

A piece of paper, scrawled in blood, falls out of his pocket.

[■■■■■■■■■■ is called ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■7■]

The letters are crumpled and torn here and there. If you leave out a few letters, you won’t be able to read it properly.

“I told you to come to your senses!!!”

Crack.

I turned around and ran down the hallway. Park Seong-jin is now running wildly, screaming inaudibly.

Huh-huh-huh-

Paru cuts through the wind. As I became a woman, my strength and stamina began to weaken. You can never win in a fight here.

What do we do?

If you continue like this, you will reach stairs. I don’t know what will happen when I go down…!

“I heard you’re fine!!!!! Im Dabin!!!!!!!”

I’m not even halfway down the hallway, and I’m already out of breath. On the other hand, the man showed no sign of fatigue even while sprinting. Park Seong-jin quickly closes the distance.

“Heo Eok. Wow…”

Why did this body explode so slowly!

The distance is too close to open the door and escape into the house. Although Yoon Da-ju and Choi Se-rim are in the house, they have passed out from exhaustion. It is difficult to expect the door to be opened from the inside.

Plus, if you think about it, your condition is really bad. Because I just walked around all day and couldn’t rest properly.

Hissing-

As I quickly lower my head, I feel the wind on the back of my head. Palu just grazed his hair.

Haven’t you figured it out yet?

And the next moment. My neck was pulled with a popping sound.

“Ahh!!”

The hair gets wrapped around the curved part of the broom and is pulled out. The pulling force was so strong that my body fell backwards without even having a chance to regain my balance.

“That’s it…Now I can complete it…”

Park Seong-jin slowly lifts the palu with a mesmerized expression, as if he has completely lost his mind.

“You have to bleed as much as possible. The quality should also be good. Only then can it be completed…”

Even when you accidentally hit yourself, it is so powerful that your flesh explodes. If you hit your head with that, you will die instantly. I need to avoid it, but my legs are loose and I can’t move…

Hissing-

The metal blunt object draws a distorted semicircle in the air.

Teuong!

And it was at the front door of room 701 that I was struck.

Daju closes the front door for a moment, then opens it again with all her might.

puck!

“Ahh!”

Park Seong-jin falls to the back of the hallway.

“Oppa! Come in!!!”

I quickly got up and went into the house.

thud! Crash.

Daju closes the door, checks the lock, and secures the hinges properly. He looks a little better now, but his face is still pale.

“Hehehehehehehehehehe…”

“Are you okay?”

“……”

I can’t speak properly because I’m out of breath.

“The Internet is dangerous. Article…I feel like I’m going crazy when I see it…”

“So, did you end up like that? While looking at the internet?”

“Yes…”

“What about other people?”

“Uncle Joongi Choi…is dead…”

“……”

Daju freezes with his mouth wide open.

“No way…”

“Sorry…I brought the internet.”

Thong! Thong! Thong! Thong! Thong!

The sound of hitting an iron door with a hammer. The vibrations spread throughout the house and I felt like I was shaking my head.

“No. It’s not your fault.”

Daju lowers his head with a blank expression.

“Ahaha… it’s the 7th floor. I guess it wasn’t safe here either.”

Then he starts spouting out words.

“This is my opinion. It can’t just be here. It is a space where people should not live. Right? How am I supposed to live here if that guy is going to die too? brother. How did you die? Are you okay? Or because it turns into something strange? Has it disappeared without a trace at all?”

“……Stop it.”

“Say it!!!”

“For now. You have to come to your senses.”

“Wow. Huh…”

As if her emotions were getting stronger, Yoon Da-ju buried her face in her hands and squatted down. Daju’s shoulders are shaking along with the sound of sniffling.

“Okay. I’m sorry…”

Thump thump thump thump!

“Open!!!!”

Outside the front door, Park Seong-jin screams at the top of his voice.

“Stay here for a moment.”

Still, you can save that guy.

My tired legs are shaking. If I lie down even for a moment, I think I’ll faint. That can’t be possible. I walked to the bed and opened my laptop.

“Still there?”

– Not yet. I’m still here.

“That memetic killer. You can decipher it.”

– Detox?

“A person who felt strange after seeing that. Can it be cured?”

– therapy? It depends on what you see?

– why. Wasn’t it treated earlier?

“It’s another person.”

-Tell me what you saw.

“I didn’t see it properly. I think I saw an article on my smartphone, but then I cut my wrist and wrote something in blood. Now I’m running wild outside the door.”

– wait for a sec.

There is silence for a moment. I can’t even hear the loud knocking on the front door anymore.

– Perhaps it was written by that person. Did you see the content?

“Only a few letters. I didn’t read the rest properly.”

– This is not good.

In the background, Choi Se-rim is sleeping as if she is dead. Anxiety runs up my spine.

“Why.”

-Tell me what it is about.

“I didn’t see a few letters. ‘cast’. ‘Irahani’. And the number ‘7’.”

– under……

………………………………………………………..

The hot dot extends over the screen.

– that person. Is it a man or a woman?

“Man.”

– Give up.

“……What?”

– I looked at some data, and men are usually weaker in this type of attack.

Given the firm and clear answer, I couldn’t think of anything to say.

– This apartment has a concept called anomaly observation. It is a sensory ability to recognize hidden, unrealistic beings, and men tend to be better at it than women. So, here’s where the weak point is stabbed. This memetic killer is also one of the hidden, unreal beings.

I watched blankly as letters appeared on the laptop monitor.

– That’s why you’re strange. If you listen to the voice, it’s a woman, but she can read everything I write. But when I see a memetic disaster agent and see it still intact, I wonder if this is something else?

“Tell me how to treat it. Is there really no way?”

-No.

– Even if you are exposed to the same memetic killing agent, the more you understand its meaning, the more lethal it becomes.

– Plus, the 7 you mentioned is also a problem… Have you seen the data on how I classified the grades?

– this. This is the most dangerous information among murder agents.

What on earth have I done?

Wasn’t the server I brought from the department store Pandora’s box?

bang! bang! bang! bang! bang!

“Oppa!!!”

Reality again. The door shakes as if it will fall.

I immediately got out of bed and headed back to the entrance.

“Aren’t you breaking the door and coming in?”

“No matter what, you won’t be able to break down the iron door. They must have paid attention to crime prevention when building it, so still…”

I stopped talking at the sound that followed.

Instead of the dull metallic sound, a sharp mechanical sound now began to be heard.

Beep-Beep-

“Do you know the number of this house?”

“Yes. I’m sharing the door lock number in case anything goes wrong.”

Beep-

There is a sound of pressing the door lock.

The password is seven characters.

Beep beep beep-

Beep-

♬♪♪♪-

I entered all 7 letters, but the door does not open.

Confused about your password?

“Keep pulling!”

“What are you going to do!”

“You have to tie them up with a rope so they can’t come in!!!”

I checked again that the hinges were on and took a quick look around the house.