Chapter 67: Room 101, Cursed Room – ‘A Strange Family’ Re (5)

Chapter 67: Room 101, Cursed Room – ‘A Strange Family’ Re (5)

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Third Attempt

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[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 22

Current Location: Floor 1, Room 101 (Common Sense Renovating Media)

Sages Advice: 3]

I soon decided to head to the basement. There was a strong feeling that I should probably go upstairs for more valuable pieces of information, but that was out of the question.

The upper floors of the TV Station would be densely packed with offices, which meant there would be a bunch of people.

Even though I had the Administration Badge, even that could only push the people slightly back. Its not like I could chase all of them out of the building, so going to crowded areas was just way too dangerous.

Since I was the only one left, I deemed it better to explore the basement and leave the upstairs exploration till later, where we would come back in after coming up with a strategy.



Clomp. Clomp.

The sound of my footsteps started echoing across the corridor. There was not a single person in the corridor leading to the basement. Thanks to that, I wasnt getting any headaches or hallucinations because of the curse, but this was also far from normal.

There should be cars parked by the staff in the underground parking lot, which meant there should be some people walking up and down, but I couldnt spot a single person. How could there be not a single person walking around?

In turn, however, that might be the proof that I was going to the right location.CHeCk for new stories on no/v/el/bin(.)c0m

Clomp. Clomp.

It did feel a bit spooky now that I was completely alone. It had been a while since I got used to all sorts of crazy things happening in the Hotel and seeing corpses nearby, but it seemed that there was still some primal sense of fear left inside me.

After a while, I arrived at the underground parking lot. There was a guard house at the entrance of the parking lot, so I walked up with the plan of forcing my way through with the badge.

Huhp!

I quickly blocked my nose and took a step back.

An odour an unbelievable stench was coming from the parking lot that made it literally unbreathable.

It was the stink you would smell from old and abandoned toilets with fermented excrements, and rotten food waste.

The smell was making it incredibly hard to head further down.

However, that in turn made me believe that I indeed had to go to the parking lot.

This was clearly a strange phenomenon.

It was strange for such a smell to be coming from the parking lot, and it was also equally odd that no-one was taking care of it despite the unbearable intensity of the smell.

While somehow bearing with the smell that made me want to vomit, I walked towards the parking lot and realised that the smell was coming from the guard house.

How could a person even work in a guard house like that?

Firstly, I simply went closer to the guard house, and relied on my ability which I gained after entering Room 101 that allowed me to sense nearby infected people.

I was right in front of the door but didnt feel anything. It seemed that there wasnt anyone infected inside.

However, it became even clearer after waiting in front of the door that the smell was indeed coming from the guard house.

What in the world was it though? I wanted to check whether it was the smell of excrements or rotten food waste so I quickly opened the door with the thought of immediately closing it back up.

And there

It was a scene straight out of hell.

What would happen if a person was locked up in a small area, while only repeating the process of eating and defecating?

The floor, walls, bins everything was covered in stinky human excrements. There were empty cans of nonperishable food here and there, as well as rotten food and incomprehensible scribbles on the wall.

However, there was something more horrifying than anything else.

There was a human a living one.

Drenched in fear, the man had discarded all hope and had become similar to a beast. It was the final form of despair where he threw away his life as a human despite being born as one.

The bony man stumbled his way towards me after seeing me.

His eyes were filled with wounds, as if he had been rubbing his eyes excessively to deny what was happening in front of his very eyes. Plus, more than half of his ears were missing, which might have been because he scratched his own ears in hopes of cutting off the frightening sound.

There were signs of self-inflicted wounds all over his body, and they were especially more prevalent on his left arm and right leg, which he couldnt even move anymore.

Youre Administration What, took you so long.

Uhik! Ahah. Smells amazing, does it not?

I ran out of normal food. Its been a whole month. What do you think I have been feeding off of?

What I had to do was the exact opposite.

I had to go against the warnings. Even if that was to kill me, my job was to figure out what exactly was going on here. Escaping the room was up to Seungyub.

Now, it was my turn to die for everyone else.

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1. You must not look inside the cars in the parking lot.

2. You must not turn around in the staircase to the basement.

3. Do not turn the lights on when looking for something in the storeroom of the basement. Use a flashlight instead.

I reminded myself about the warnings.

From now on, what I had to do was look inside the cars in the parking lot, turn around in the staircase to the basement, and turn the lights on in the storeroom.

Coming back up to the parking lot, I looked around. The horrendous odour was still there, as well as dozens of parked cars.

It was strange though. Considering how there were so many cars here, wouldnt the owners of these cars be coming here at the very least? And no matter how strange their minds were because of the curse, did it make sense for them to not smell such a distinct stench?

Looking back, however, I remembered how my fake family and I ate raw ducks when I first entered Room 101, as well as how we praised how fresh the meat was. Maybe even a stench like this was considered fragrant in this world with a renovated common sense.

I cut off my line of thought and looked into the cars.

Choosing one of the cars, I walked up to it. It was hard to see the inside because of the sunshades on the windows, so I walked even closer and popped my face right in front of the window and

The sight inside the car surprised me so much that I accidentally fell back on my bum.

There was a person inside, and the fact that I did not get any headache until I was this close could only mean one thing.

There are people that are not infected by the curse.

Standing back up, I calmed myself down and observed the inside of the car again.

It was bizarre.

The inside did not resemble anything from a car. I was definitely looking inside through the windows of a car, and yet reflected on the other side of the window was another dimension. Inside was a bed made of steel and handcuffs.

An unknown man was lying on the bed handcuffed.

He was drooling from his mouth and the bed was already full of horrible signs of negligence. It was evident that he had been tied there for a long time without receiving much help.

I tried tapping on the window but didnt get anything out of him.

It felt like this side of the car and the inside were completely different dimensions altogether.

Bang!

I broke the window.

Only then did the scrawny person inside turn to me with his hazy set of eyes.

Are you okay? Where is this place? And who are

Hahh, hahh, hey

Sorry?

Call sir for me. Call sir for me.

Which sir are you takling about?

SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR.

Kung!

Listen! I cant help you if you dont tell me which sir you are talking about.

Kagack.

It was then. The sound of metal sliding across the floor echoed from somewhere.

Suddenly, the mans voice turned incredibly soft.

Coming coming The nurse is coming. Old man. Student. Save me. Save me.

Despite begging for help, he didnt dare raise his voice, as if he was deeply frightened by the one coming towards him.

This man was not sane. Seeing how I wasnt getting a headache, he wasnt infected by the curse, but he was a crazy man nonetheless.

Words werent going through to him.

After heaving a sigh, I walked away from the car and immediately, the window that I broke with the gun started to repair itself.

It was too late for me to be surprised by things like this.

I broke the windows of two more cars but they were the same. People that were not in their right minds were tied to the bed and I couldnt understand what they were saying.

By sir, were they talking about the doctor? They also said nurse. Were they in a hospital?

Next, I headed to the staircase leading to the basement.

I decided to turn around on the way down and figure out what it was that was coming after me.

Before that, I filled the magazine with my blood.