Someone who lost their smartphone in Death Row Street and still struggled desperately to get back to reality somehow.
I can say with certainty that I was not the first.
The Darkness Exploration Record contained quite a variety of detailed accounts of the miserable, eerie ends of those people.
For detailed records regarding employees and civilians who went missing in Death Row Street, see the document “■■■ Attempt to Escape via Route 16.”
First… let’s check the common premises.
The app’s route guidance could not be shared. In the end, every attempt concluded the same way: at some point, the person who had been following simply vanished.
As records of that failure piled up, people gave up on that approach and began trying to obtain escape hints directly from within Death Row Street itself.
They tried all kinds of things.
A shop that promised to open a back door out of the alley if you gave them one of your arms or legs, a passerby who told you to go down the manhole, a shoe store claiming you’d see the way out if you wore these shoes….
The only good thing was that I did not have to try all those methods myself before jumping straight to the conclusion.
Every single attempt above had failed.
…Right.
It was a cruel fact inferred through induction.
Every one of them was just deceiving people.
It was no different than grabbing a random office worker on the street in Seoul and asking how to get into a Ghost Story.
The residents here simply did not possess that knowledge in the first place.
I have to abandon any expectation or plan of escaping by getting help from someone here.
Which meant I had…