I remembered.
The basement of Baekilmong Co., Ltd.’s main building, where the past of the Cheerful Research Lab had been layered floor upon floor.
The shadows and corpses of researchers dying in the burning lab that I had seen there.
The moment I had escaped with Ho Yuwon through the office of the lab, engulfed in flames dozens of floors underground, chilled by the thought of what on earth had happened to set the lab on fire.
…So the Cheerful Research Lab really had been underground.
Though I never imagined that underground place would turn out to be part of the subway facilities.
I looked again at the Cheerful Research Lab office spread out inside the machine room on the outer-line platform side of Hanbam Station.
……Could this be a projected Ghost Story too?
“Agent, do you sense anything like an evil presence?”
“…At the moment, no.”
I turned to Baek Saheon, but the one who had discreetly lifted his blindfold and been peering inside also hurriedly shook his head.
…So this isn’t a Ghost Story, but an actual place?
And it seemed no one else in the group recognized where this was.
I realized it.
No one here has ever been in Baekilmong’s basement.
Because that was a place mostly entered only by the Facility Security Team.
“Roe Deer. Do you want to go in and take a look?”
Slowly, I nodded.
“…It seems to be a place I know.”
“…!”
“But since this whole place is burned out, it would probably be dangerous for too many people to enter all at once. I’ll go, and….”
“Can I come too?”
Assistant Manager Lee Seonghae shot her hand straight up.
“…I’d be grateful.”
And so Assistant Manager Lee Seonghae and I entered the burned corridor.
Splash.
The black…