For a moment, I stared blankly at the camcorder in Baek Saheon’s hand.
Just now,
he had killed a person and stolen the camcorder….
“Aaaagh!”
“…!”
I whipped my head around.
Inside the door Baek Saheon had locked, the camcorder’s owner was pounding on it again like mad, shrieking. And as if in response, a human-shaped figure flickered into view at the far end of the fifth-floor corridor of the ruined hospital and began approaching….
The black silhouette of a neatly dressed Baekilmong Co., Ltd. office worker. Then a startled voice rang out….
“What’s going on over there?”
There was no shadow.
‘A patient.’
A chill ran up my spine.
I hurried to the ward door where the camcorder’s owner was trapped and tried to undo the lock. I heard Baek Saheon grab my shoulder and shout in alarm.
“What are you doing!”
Damn it.
I shook off Baek Saheon’s hand and undid the lock the rest of the way.
“Ack!”
As the door opened, the original owner of the camcorder spilled out, even more battered than before. I practically hauled the person up and ran for the emergency stairs again.
Faster…!
“Are you all right? You seem hurt.”
The patient’s voice came closer.
“Run.”
Baek Saheon ground his teeth and ran beside me.
Bang.
Before the figure down the corridor could get any closer, I hurriedly shut the emergency exit door.
Then, avoiding the discarded syringes scattered across the floor, I lowered the person I had been supporting to the ground.
‘…Ha.’
The moment the tension finally eased—
“…….”
I turned toward Baek Saheon.
Baek Saheon was looking at me with an expression mixed with confusion, annoyance, and stiffness.
“What are you doing?”
“Citizen.”
“Why waste time on someone who was going to die anyway…!”
Baek Saheon gritted his teeth, shot a glance at the camcorder’s owner, and spoke in a restless rush.
“Do you think that person’s going to be any…