Chapter 152

Chapter 152

“What do you want to know?”

My voice came out slightly sharp as I tried to hide my tension. Shin Hae-ryang, who had come closer, took off his gun and placed it on the floor to his right. It was on the opposite side from me and the unconscious John Doe, and far from Tumanako as well. Then he leaned against the elevator wall. With his hands clasped on his knees, Shin Hae-ryang hesitated slightly before asking.

“Why are you so terrified?”

I was expecting questions like “Are you actually an Infinity Church believer?” or “Where did you get all this knowledge from? Spill everything if you want to live.”

I was tensed up, ready to make excuses that I had no connection to Infinity Church and was just an unlucky dentist caught up in this mess. Trying to feign composure, I retorted like someone caught off guard.

“Me?”

“You’ve been scared since we first met until now. Especially after our group got guns, your condition worsened, and after Henry escaped, you’ve been showing reactions close to panic.”

“I... I think I’m fine.”

“Your pupils have been constantly dilated due to excessive adrenaline secretion. I thought that was normal for you, but Jihyuk said it wasn’t. Check your heart rate.”

I dazedly checked my pulse, and it was over 140 beats per minute. I’m usually a person with almost low blood pressure within the normal range. My body is going crazy. ...Then my mental state probably isn’t normal either.

“Are you afraid of guns?”

At Shin Hae-ryang’s question, my gaze automatically turned to the gun. The gun itself isn’t scary. Even a gun decorated with green jewels is just a piece of metal when thrown on the floor. I’m afraid of people. Why can they be so cruel? They don’t have to be.

“I’m more afraid of the person holding the gun than the gun itself.”

“I feel the same way.”

“Mr. Shin Hae-ryang, are you afraid of anything?”

With such physical abilities, height, and build, he has things he’s afraid of? Shin Hae-ryang smiled lightly and said.

“I’m human too, so of course I have fears.”

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden power outage. Experiencing a power outage in the elevator is now familiar. As long as no one suddenly touches me like a ghost, I won’t be startled.

Tumanako whimpered, “What’s this? What’s going on? Why is this happening?” As Baek Ae-young started explaining about the standby power that would activate in 5 minutes, Seo Jihyuk sighed and turned on the light of his pad. Because of the pad’s light, we could only distinguish the outlines of people. I took out a flashlight from my bag and shone it towards the elevator wall. As it brightened, people’s faces relaxed a bit. Shin Hae-ryang looked at the flashlight beam and said in a subdued voice.

“Before I hear your story, let me tell you a few boring updates about myself.”

“Huh? Okay.”

“I’m scheduled to resign in three weeks.”

“What?!”

This is the first I’m hearing of this. Is this something everyone in the undersea base already knows and I’m just finding out now?

“...The dental office will get busy along with it. But it will be peaceful after three weeks.”

He seemed to think that things would be a mess while he was there, but there would be no problems after he resigned. Thinking about Zhu Shi’an’s behavior, it seemed that all the grudges against Engineering Team D were concentrated on Shin Hae-ryang. Zhu Shi’an wasn’t on bad terms with Kang Soo-jung, but was only hostile towards Shin Hae-ryang. Is it too far-fetched to think that this person might have set up this dynamic? Realizing that all of Shin Hae-ryang’s statements were future-oriented, I asked blankly.

“You’re confident we can get out of here, aren’t you?”

“Yes.”

“...We might not make it out and die here, you know.”

After saying it, I realize I sound like a whining child. It’s because I’ve seen things. It’s because it seems like your or my peaceful resignation might never happen. No, does death automatically process as resignation?

I didn’t want to die being eaten by a shark, I didn’t want to die being shot, and I didn’t want to see other people die like that either. I think this is a modest wish, but in this undersea base, it seems to be a wish harder to fulfill than winning the lottery.

“You’re very worried about not being able to escape the undersea base.”

Wouldn’t it be strange if I weren’t? How do we escape to Daehan Island while avoiding the eyes of the Infinity Church believers in the Second Undersea Base? Moreover, as time passes, the undersea bases will collapse with a crash. If we don’t get out before that, we’ll die horribly. Shin Hae-ryang seemed to interpret my worry differently.

“Don’t you trust me?”

“It’s not that. ...We have no idea what’s going to happen from now on.”

“? That’s how life usually is.”

His tone, as if stating the obvious, leaves me speechless. Right. Not knowing is normal. I happened to know what’s coming, but originally, it’s normal to live without seeing such things.

“I’ve told you one of my secrets, so please give me one of yours. Even a trivial one is fine.”

I thought Shin Hae-ryang would apply pressure and intimidation close to torture, wringing information out of me like squeezing a dry rag, but he didn’t. It was surprising how different it was from what I expected. Suddenly, I felt like no matter whether I lied or told the truth, the other person would filter it as they saw fit. And no matter how I thought about it, I didn’t think I could appropriately persuade the other person with lies. It’s also because I have a face that shows when I’m lying.

The thought suddenly occurred to me that he might tie me up tightly and sell me to Infinity Church, but I tried to dismiss such ominous imagination while looking at the unconscious John Doe. One of the people showing an enormous obsession with guns is trying to put down his gun and talk just because I said I was afraid. ...Maybe we can get out this time. Or at least these people might succeed in escaping from here.

“I know a bit about the future. I’m living May 31st for the third time.”

I honestly spilled everything. I talked about the people I went with in order of our movement routes, and when I summarized it as much as possible, it wasn’t as long as I thought. Shin Hae-ryang asked detailed questions about things like the number of Infinity Church members and what happened at the gem exhibition. I glossed over the parts related to life and death, but Shin Hae-ryang didn’t particularly ask detailed questions about those parts. Without much reaction, he only asked, “Is that all you have to say?”

I let out a huge sigh of relief and explained what happened the second time. Summarizing the long day, it was all about going to the main engine and trying to escape through the main engine cargo elevator.

Seo Jihyuk snorted and didn’t even listen properly to parts like his knee being shot by Zhu Shi’an, but when Jihyun appeared in the story, he crawled right next to me, propped his chin on one hand, and started to focus. And he kept interjecting with comments like “Jihyun is pretty cool, right?” Baek Ae-young only listened at the beginning, then started talking to Tumanako, seemingly bored.

Just as I was about to start talking about what happened the third time, the lights came on and the elevator started moving. As I barely managed to bring the story to the present, Shin Hae-ryang fell into thought. Seo Jihyuk reacted more simply.

“The drug effect seems too strong, doesn’t it? I’m sure I only gave you half. Did you secretly take more? What kind of drugs have you been doing to think like this?”

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