Chapter 100

Chapter 100

The space story hes talking about now seems almost identical to the situation Im currently experiencing?T/his chapter is updated by nov(ê(l)biin.co/m

Did Kanu notice that Im going through something like this?

Have I ever told Kanu about the dreams Ive had?

Or did someone tell Kanu about the dreams Ive had?

Or is he simply telling a story he learned about without any intention?

Is it one of the many fancies that people who believe in conspiracy theories like?

Could it be that the dreams I had were actually real events that happened, and Im experiencing that situation again?

Space, but this is the deep sea?

Could he be telling this story to make fun of me?

This story Kanu is telling may have nothing to do with me, and I may have just had a wrong dream.

All sorts of thoughts slapped the back of my head and passed by. Kanu yawned once, then looked around with lazy eyes and said,

As you know, the explosion of the Martian base Ares was the largest scale death event since the London and New York incidents. Among the people who were a jumble of race, gender, and age, why was it that only one poor woman from Haiti, a third-world country, who had almost nothing, was able to survive?

Why did only that person survive? Is there a reason? Is it me here? It cant be me, right?

What conditions would have had to exist for such a thing to happen? Could such a situation be artificially created?

As I was listening to Kanus story as if being sucked in, Logan irritably asked from the side,

Where in that story is there hope, fun, or whatever? Was I fooled again?

The story of all the people at the Martian base dying and only one person surviving didnt seem fun or hopeful to Logan. A few people laughed softly or jeered, seeing Logans reaction.

It became the starting point for research on time that was floundering to approach it in other ways besides biology, medicine, physics, and astronomy. Similar things had happened from a very long time ago in train derailments and passenger plane crashes.

Kanu said while scratching his chin,

People who very coincidentally avoided such accidents by a narrow margin, received revelations like dreams, sudden oversleeping, their pet dog ate their train ticket and passport, or strangely mistook the time on the date of the accident in the morning and were able to avoid such large-scale accidental deaths by very trivial things, or were able to be unharmed even while directly experiencing it at the scene of the incident.

Kanu looked at Logan, who seemed dissatisfied, and acted like a professor generously allocating time for a stupid student.

Entering the mid-21st century, the resource considered most important is now time. Not things like diamonds, oil, or food. Depending on how one can control time, almost omnipotent things can happen. Its the only answer that can transcend the limits of organic beings.

Alright. Then Ill bake the cookies and the remaining breads.

I will occasionally drop by that bakery and become an excellent consumer.

I tried my best not to look at Jihyun. I wanted to immediately ask with my eyes, You also know my situation, but can you keep quiet in this situation?

No. Why cant I get caught? I tried to calm my body that was desperate to unnaturally turn and look at Jihyuns face. Then I tried to naturally fix my gaze on Yoo Geum-yi and Kim Ga-young next to me. Fortunately, there was no reaction from Jihyuns side.

I have absolutely no relation to this story. I have absolutely no relation to Kanus story. So lets act naturally. Act naturally. Im so anxious Im going crazy.

It felt like someone would suddenly grab me and shout, Youre the one experiencing something similar to that Haitian woman Kanu talked about! In a situation where no one was saying anything to me, my feet were going numb.

Then suddenly, Emma reached out towards me and I was so startled it felt like my heart would burst. It seemed that the flashlight illuminating the ceiling was shaking. It wasnt because I was holding one arm up and shining the flashlight at the ceiling, but because I was anxious without realizing it. What happens if I get caught? A feeling of anxiety with an unknown basis brushed my back.

When I handed the flashlight I was holding to Emma with a stiff face, Emma took the flashlight from me and retreated back to the corner where she originally was. Emma slightly raised her arm and held the flashlight towards the ceiling. When she rested her forearm on her knee, the light illuminated the ceiling without shaking.

As the light source disappeared from me, I finally started to feel a bit more at ease. Because I was holding the flashlight, peoples gazes would sometimes linger on me, but now my facial expressions and actions would be buried in the darkness of the elevator.

Logan suddenly said with his arms crossed,

No, if you think about it that way, there should be at least one person alive in all sorts of disaster situations or places where mass deaths occur. But there are many incidents where everyone dies and there are no survivors.

Kanu answered Logans words while yawning and leaning against the elevator wall,

Thats right. There are a tremendous number of incidents without survivors, too.

If the elevator falls, everyone here will die, so itll just be the end.

Logan also yawned and rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand. Kanu said to Logan,

If we look at the entire underwater base, not just the 12 of us, there may be a possibility. The sect would scrape together all the events that occurred after humanity came into existence and search for the stories and contents of the survivors, and collect a tremendous amount of data. Unexpectedly, there were far more death incidents without survivors. Especially among the mass death cases, the repetitive continuity of time like at the Martian base almost never occurred due to massacres by civil war or dictators. These strange things only happen in accidents where a large number of people die in a very short period of time.

Sect? It felt like having cold water poured on my head. I blankly asked Kanu while looking at him,

Can I ask what Kanus religion is?

Kanu answered right away as if it wasnt difficult,

What was the name again? Uh. The Infinity Church. Im a member there.

But youre not wearing that strange cap, and youre not carrying a gun!