High school student Ryu Jaekwan held his breath.
It had already been hours since he and the others had moved through Segwang Special City following the researcher named Lee Jaheon, whose features were disturbingly perfect.
…And it had also been hours since the agent who had saved him disappeared beneath the heap of concrete rubble in the station.
—Agent!
That shock still remained, but just now, something shocking had happened again.
“…….”
Ryu Jaekwan stared at the underground tracks before his eyes.
Just moments ago, he had communicated with the Agent, who had suddenly appeared from that passage as a sheet of paper and then vanished again.
He had no idea how such a thing could even be possible, but a sheet of paper had definitely sprung out of empty air….
Relief and confusion crossed within him.
“It’s enough to make a ghost choke.”
“…….”
“Researcher, you’re really saying we just wait here like this?”
“Yes.”
Actually, following the Agent’s instructions, they had tried to take the subway out to a station as far from the center as possible, then escape along a nearby mountain path.
But after many twists and turns, when they approached the far edge of Segwang Special City, beyond the mountain path……
A strange phenomenon occurred.
—Do not stare.
…When he came to his senses, the two of them were already a fair distance from the mountain path, being carried by the researcher.
The only thing he remembered was the overwhelming signal of ‘there is nothing.’
Ontological terror.
The mind that had nearly been swallowed by that place had made his heart pound like mad….
—I will change the destination.
In the end, following the researcher’s guidance, they had revised their route and pushed through to this place.
The entrance to a maintenance track.
Though it was relatively near Segwang Station, the place was desolate, with only staff tracks for a station where no people remained.
They had already turned off all their smartphones, and the strange…