episode_0020
by fnovelpia■%%■!#■■↔Y###!@■
little bit more…!
Along with a tingling sensation at the tip of my nose, I feel dizzy.
[Price] ↔ [Request]
■%%■!#■■ can.
Teuong!
I reflexively put my hand on the machine. My eyelids are shaking and I feel the fishy taste of metal in my mouth.
“Oppa? Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
“……It’s okay. Wait, I want to read something over there.”
“Anomalous observation?”
I nodded.
Fortunately, the symptoms disappeared quickly, and he was able to stand up on his own. Now I have to tell Seok Hyeon-min this.
“Um.”
“…?”
When I close my mouth, Daju quietly tilts his head. Now that I think about it, it’s unclear what to call Seok Hyeon-min.
brother? We’re not that close. Moreover, if you say it with your body like this, it will look strange.
brother? This is absolutely not possible.
“Uh… Mr. Hyeonmin?”
“Mister! My brother here has something to say!”
“What? Why?”
Seok Hyun-min comes back from the back space.
“I found the letters over there.”
“Ah. that? All the letters are broken?”
“It seemed that way to me at first, but I was able to read it when I concentrated more.”
“Oh.”
Seok Hyeon-min lightly admires.
“It’s a bit much. At this rate, I think he has the best eyes out of all the people I’ve ever seen, right?”
“Wow. Oppa, is it that much?”
“Yes. I’m second. I can read most things, but even I couldn’t see that one.”
“Awesome.”
Daju, I guess that’s how it is. Seok Hyeon-min has a rare, interesting look on his face.
“What’s so amazing about this? Let’s call the strange things scattered around here ‘weird’. Then, the nature of the ‘weird’ will become ‘anomaly’.”
“…?”
“Same story. A strange phenomenon is an anomaly. Strange kids are weird. Kids with anomalous properties are monsters, and monsters have anomalous properties.”
“Yes.”
“Then how does this happen? look. Women usually lack the ability to discover ‘strange things’ or recognize ‘anomalies’. Instead, the ability to withstand it when exposed to it is rather strong. And, for men, it will be the opposite.”
I’ve heard this before.
When contacted with a ‘memetic killer’. Me and Choi Se-rim. Da-ju Yoon ended up being sick for a moment, but the men were not safe in the end. Of course, there were differences depending on the risk of the killing agent at that time.
“By the way. In my opinion, you are both very good.”
Seok Hyeon-min is lost in thought with his finger under his lips.
“Is it because you are originally a man?”
“Oh…what a scam.”
Daju is nodding next to him. Seok Hyun-min taps my shoulder lightly.
“And I heard about it before. Just call me hyung.”
“Ah. Yes.”
“So what is the sentence you saw earlier?”
“I couldn’t read it all either. There seem to be two sentences, but I can’t finish reading the one at the bottom. The sentence at the top is-”
He stretched out his words and raised his head.
A mountain of scrap metal. As my eyes reached the top, the sentence from before appeared again.
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■%%■!#■■ can.
also. If you look closely, it looks like this again.
Still, I still remember seeing it earlier.
“The above is [a price] and a [request]. There was a two-way arrow drawn between the two.”
“Below? Did you not read anything at all?”
“There are a few letters, but they are ‘eh’. ‘can’. Because it’s like this, there’s nothing about the content.”
“Okay. That’s right…”
Seok Hyeon-min holds a flashlight in one hand, takes out a cigarette with the other, takes a bite, and lights it.
“Would you like to come to the back of here?”
When you shine a flashlight on the floor, two rectangular areas appear, separated from each other. Zones are drawn on the left and right sides of the machine, respectively.
“Ask for compensation. So which one is the demand? Does it matter where you go?”
“Then try an experiment. Just.”
“Yoon Da-ju, just stay still. They say if you just go in, you’ll be in big trouble.”
Seok Hyun-min continues to mutter something and smokes a cigarette.
“Of course it won’t work. There is too little evidence.”
“Yes? Then.”
“Just let’s go.”
The flashlight light trembles. Seok Hyeon-min is looking away from the machine and only looking at the cigarette ash falling to the floor.
“Really? Should we just leave like this?”
“Yes.”
No matter how many times Daju asks, the answer is always the same.
I feel like we shouldn’t go back to this.
“This machine. It feels like the two are exchanging. If the price is small, wouldn’t it be not that dangerous? First, if you experiment with trivial things…”
“Hey. feeling? do you believe that? Don’t you have any thoughts?”
Seok Hyeon-min’s every word is thorny.
I flinched for a moment at the low, deep voice.
“That. still. Is there anything certain here? Isn’t it enough if there is evidence like this?”
“Ha……”
“Do whatever you want.”
In a cold atmosphere, I walked towards the rectangle on the left.
“Uh…a can of tuna?”
Tuk.
As I muttered softly, I heard the sound of something falling from the other side.
“Huh? Did you really get a can of tuna?”
“Really?”
“Yes. Isn’t your brother hurt anywhere?”
“Um…wait a minute.”
The back of your hand. So, I feel a sharp pain in my left hand, which is not broken and is fine. When I looked, there was a cut.
It’s nothing serious, just a paper cut.
“You’re fine. Well then, this time I’ll tell you about something a little more expensive.”
“Hey. Even if it looks fine right now, if you keep doing it…!”
“I’ll really try to increase it just a little bit more.”
for a moment. Now that I think about it, is this something other than food?
“A bottle of antibiotics.”
Tangrang!
The effect was intuitive. Instead of what was requested appearing on the other side, more cuts appeared on this side.
“Wow. If you do this wrong, each arm will be cut off. I have to be careful.”
But I don’t know how much it would take for this to cut off my arm. Should I ask for house documents?
Anyway, when it comes to securing food, I think scratching the back of my hand is enough. Because it’s not just me doing it, there are other people too. I think it would be a good supply plan even if it wasn’t as good as the 11th floor.
Daju, who was quietly watching the experiment, came running towards us.
“I’ll try it this time.”
“Okay. Instead, start with something very light.”
“I know. Chupa Chups Cola flavor one!”
Talk.
A candy falls lightly in the opposite area and rolls. It was good up to this point, but Daju’s reaction was unusual.
“Uh…?”
He is standing with his left hand raised with a clear expression of embarrassment. Seok Hyeon-min, who was just watching from afar, also approaches quickly.
“What is it? What’s going on?”
I quickly ran to the other side of the machine.
“Hey. Are you hurt?”
“That…”
“Give it to me.”
I snatched Daju’s hand and shined the flashlight on it. The blood seeping out of the back of the white hand shows that the wound is deep at a glance.
“Hehe…I guess it varies from person to person. The candy came out, right?”
“Hey, Daju Yoon. I got hurt, does that matter now?”
“Of course it’s important. It tastes like cola.”
“Ha…here.”
Rustle rustle. Daju fidgets with his hands as he opens the package. Immediately put the cola-flavored candy in your mouth.
Is he trying to force himself to be bright? I wonder if he is a fool. Maybe it’s both. Anyway, I feel a little sad.
“Let’s stop here and come back later.”
“Yes.”
“That’s right. How do I get up here?”
Seok Hyeon-min, who had been silent, turns around.
“Follow me.”
The exit is the stairs. At the top of the stairs, you can see the first elevator you came to.
“Something is unreasonable.”
“What is it?”
“You had to jump when going down. What kind of stairs are one-way?”
Slurp-
Seok Hyun-min is already holding the elevator.
“Get on quickly. First, stop by the 7th floor and give him some treatment.”
Yoon Da-ju runs off to do dog.
I tried to speed up, but stopped at the stairs.
That thing on the wall. Is it graffiti?
* * *
[13A1]
A group of people gathered in front of an old mechanical device.
“I pray to the Father who exists before order. Our brothers want to sacrifice their bodies to seek eternal life.”
A person wearing white clothes brings good luck.
“I sacrifice my body and seek eternal life.”
“I wish you to live together forever.”
“Raise your head, let’s look together.”
The weak and miserable sing together with their mouths.
“Now. Now it’s time to go to the temple.”
continue. next.
“When I call, come without hesitation, without hesitation.”
” Just as a salmon takes in the sea, and as a bee is drawn to the stamens, so too, take in eternal life.”
“I will embrace you in eternal life.”
Everyone gathered in a rectangular area called the ‘temple’.
“Wait a minute. Where are you? I am definitely!”
“Brother. It’s prayer time.”
“What a freezing prayer! okay. You guys brought it here. By doing some strange brainwashing or something! Release this now! Get out of the way!”
“Brother.”
“Get out of the way…get out of the way…”
There was a brief commotion, but that was it.
The man, who came to his senses for a moment, blends back into the crowd.
Soon, the man in white recites the last sentence of the prayer.
“I wish to restore eternal life by sacrificing my body.”
Believers who follow along with their mouths.
“I wish to restore eternal life by sacrificing my body.”
“I wish to restore eternal life by sacrificing my body.”
“I wish to restore eternal life by sacrificing my body.”
Singing prayers in unison, believers stretch their hands toward the sky.
Your posture will soon break down. The skin melts. For a moment, the exposed bones lose their shape and become crushed and mixed into the flesh.
Trudging. Trudging.
The leader walked slowly and reached the other side.
Dark red lumps of flesh writhing on the floor. The man in white picked one of them up, put it in his mouth, and chewed it.
Yes.
Yes.
The fog in my head clears and my vitality returns. Old wounds heal, and purpose becomes clearer.
The man took out a large sack and swept up all his believers.
One by one. With sincerity.
Sabak.
The man suddenly stops moving. Lower your gaze to the floor. Although it is dark, you can clearly see what is around you.
Plastic shell underfoot. Sneaker footprints. Traces.
I guess I should have left a few people behind.
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