— Chapter 391
—Morning has arrived. All workers, please prepare for today’s assignments~
I opened my eyes.
I sat up, shaking my throbbing head, and the empty three-person bedroom for Group X’s 910-numbered workers came into view.
Only the morning announcement broke the silence.
“……”
Even when I left the room, there was no one in the shared common area that served as the lounge.
Because I was the only one left.
Instead, all that remained were the ominous traces where the white cords and hoses had passed, along with stains left by human bodily fluids.
Ha.
That’s right.
I had survived and returned to the worker area after Baekilmong had “roughly cleaned it up.”
At any rate, the company had begun “cleaning.”
Though they hadn’t entered until they were certain the containment breach had truly been resolved.
—Z999 confirmed! We found Z999!
I had been found quite a while later in an out-of-the-way shop in the off-duty zone.
I had closed the door and hidden in a shop tucked away in a corner, making it look as though I’d barely escaped the cords before losing consciousness.
No, actually, I really had lost consciousness.
I was that exhausted!
I thought I was going to die….
After shutting down the central system, carrying Assistant Manager Jin Nasol on my back through the “staff-only area,” which had been left a complete wreck by bizarre bodily fluids and the traces of passing hoses, had pushed my stamina to its absolute limit.
At least I was lucky I hadn’t needed to destroy the CCTV in the off-duty zone. Whether because of the white hoses or something else, all of it had already been wrecked.
I was panting so hard I couldn’t believe I’d ever had the nerve to plan on cleaning that up too….
I’d already resigned myself to the possibility that there might be footage of me opening the bathhouse door and going inside at the beginning, but fortunately, that spot turned out to be a CCTV blind spot.
Considering nobody had questioned me about anything so far, it looked as though I hadn’t been caught.
Yeah.
Anyway, in the end, Assistant Manager Jin Nasol and I both survived…