Chapter 395
I briefly considered getting some sleep before night fell, but there was no way I could fall asleep.
So even while I continued digging at the dirt wall from inside the blind spot, my thoughts remained tangled.
How much have they prepared for?
Did the Namhae Branch know exactly what would happen if someone consumed these pills together with alcohol?
Or were they still in the process of deciphering the writing on the medicine bottles, and planning to deliberately violate the dosage instructions as part of that investigation?
If they deliberately arranged it so the experiment overlapped with a day when people could go to the off-duty zone….
Either way, I had a feeling they were going to take action.
And my suspicions only gained momentum.
[Those of you who didn’t drink alcohol today, come out into the inner corridor.]
Because when night came, the researcher suddenly called the workers out and began separating the people who had alcohol in their systems from those who didn’t.
“What’s this about?”
“Good grief, what do they want on our day off now…?”
Since nobody knew what was happening, most people answered the businesslike summons honestly.
“Hmm….”
“Ahem.”
Still, socially speaking, being caught after drinking alcohol rarely led to anything good.
So, based on past experience, several people who actually had been drinking quietly tried to raise their hands and join the nondrinkers.
[Ah, we’ve suddenly received a night assignment, so we’re separating you for that reason. There’s a job that can’t be performed while under the influence of alcohol.]
At those words, several people lowered their hands and went back.
…They really know how to set the stage.
Apparently the researcher still wanted to be certain, because they even used breathalyzers, testimony, and CCTV footage to cleanly separate everyone.
Assistant Manager Jin Nasol and I came forward together.
I hunched my shoulders and stood almost as though hiding behind her, but I was watching everything that happened as closely as I could.
Where were they taking the people who had been drinking?
Are they just separating them from the control group?
That was when—
“I’ve got something to tell you~”
A loud voice suddenly rang out.
I turned my head.
One of the men standing among the “drinkers” in the…