Chapter 151

Chapter 151

The elevator, enclosed on three sides by the dark sea, is lavishly decorated with hologram stickers of various marine life. More frightening than the bizarre luminous creatures were the six curious eyeballs of people just like me. It feels like I’ve been thrown into a fish tank. Shin Hae-ryang spoke to me lightly.

“If you’re uncomfortable answering my question, you don’t have to.”

“Okay.”

I can remain silent? Didn’t I just witness someone getting shot in the leg? I thought Shin Hae-ryang’s interrogation technique would be something like punching until the truth comes out, but it seems that’s not the case. Is this another benefit for fellow nationals? ...No. People shouldn’t resort to violence when having a conversation in the first place. I need to get a grip.

“Is everything you broadcast true?”

“Yes. Is there any reason I should lie?”

“I thought that telling people not to use the escape pods and central elevator itself might be providing false information to restrict their actions.”

...Why would I do such a thing? I don’t understand. Shin Hae-ryang looked at my face and said simply.

“Think about the guys trapped in West District because of my broadcast.”

So you thought it might be a trap.

“Ah. ...I see. Then why did you believe my broadcast, Mr. Hae-ryang?”

“If there really was a problem with the escape pods, using them would be extremely dangerous.”

Seo Jihyuk smoothly interjected.

“As soon as Jung Sanghyun left, Vladimir came carrying a sleeping child, asking the team leader if you ordered him to mess with him, saying that the Korean dentist had played with him.”

Shin Hae-ryang didn’t seem to want to mention that incident. Was there such an incident before I came? ...Shin Hae-ryang seems to omit too many words. Ignoring Seo Jihyuk’s interruption, Shin Hae-ryang said.

“You already knew there was a sleeping child in Room 80. And that they were in a situation where they couldn’t escape.”

“There’s also a cat and a snake.”

Baek Ae-young added from the side. Then the heads of all three turned towards Tumanako simultaneously. Tumanako, who had been resting in the corner of the elevator as far away from the four of us as possible, flinched at their gaze and looked around nervously, asking “What? What’s wrong?” I did come to the escape pod port with Tumanako.

“I met Tumanako for the first time today.”

At my answer, perhaps judging that we were having an insignificant conversation, Tumanako’s expression brightened a little. Then I turned my head towards John Doe and said.

“I’m meeting Mr. John Doe for the first time today as well.”

“Yeah! I won’t do anything. I’ll stay quiet and still. After all, the one who tied should untie...”

Shin Hae-ryang pressed the skin of John Doe’s neck and near his ear with his other hand. It happened so quickly that my brain couldn’t properly process what had occurred. If pressed like that, blood can’t reach the brain! Grabbed by the large hand around his neck, John, with his carotid artery compressed while lying down, slumped without making a sound.

“What, what are you doing?”

I approached to remove Shin Hae-ryang’s hand from John Doe’s neck, but Shin Hae-ryang withdrew his hand faster than I expected. Then he laid John Doe on the floor as if accustomed to it and turned his head to the side. Shin Hae-ryang, half-kneeling, unbuttoned a few buttons constricting John Doe’s neck and said in a low voice.

“I made him unconscious.”

I can see he’s unconscious! I feel nothing but shock. Looking around, I saw Seo Jihyuk and Baek Ae-young amicably blocking Tumanako’s view. Don’t worry too much. Next time we find an escape pod, we’ll make sure Tumanako gets out. How should I dye my hair to make it look pretty? Baek Ae-young’s voice was followed by I want to dye my hair a different color from the great white shark too. When we get out, I’ll give you a cool ride on the used boat we got today! Such voices were heard. The bodies of the two were ingeniously blocking this scene.

“How can you knock someone out so brutally?”

“Then should I hit the back of the neck or head hard instead? ...That was a joke just now.”

Tumanako glanced our way while rolling the sugar-free candy with his tongue, but John Doe was lying peacefully. Once again, Shin Hae-ryang was sitting on the floor, and only I was standing, glaring at him.

Hitting someone on the back of the head hard enough to knock them out can kill them. It’s not unconsciousness, it’s instant death. How do you have such an excellent talent for irritating people? I understand why these broken or missing guys come to the dental office and curse Shin Hae-ryang. Seo Jihyuk knocked people out by punching them in the solar plexus, and Shin Hae-ryang deliberately induces a stroke.

“Is this what you call making it comfortable? Then what happens when you make it uncomfortable? ...Don’t answer that. I don’t want to know.”

I’m afraid to know more. In my imagination, Shin Hae-ryang was drilling a hole in the elevator floor and throwing people down through it. No way. Surely not. When Shin Hae-ryang glanced towards where Tumanako was, I shook my head vigorously.

“Let’s not do that. Don’t do it.”

“...Alright.”

Then there was silence. As Shin Hae-ryang, sitting on the floor, quietly raised his head to look up at me, I hesitantly sat down on the floor.

“There are too many suspicious parts.”

“People usually have one or two suspicious aspects in their lives.”

As I said that, I felt a tickle in my throat.

“There are parts that can’t be explained by such words.”

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