Chapter 403
I blinked my heavy eyes.
My slowly returning consciousness, as if weighed down, began to grasp my situation.
‘So….’
I was being transported.
Rrrrrrrrrrr—
I could hear the mine cart moving.
It was the same vibration I felt whenever I was being sent into a Darkness—whenever I was being taken to work.
It seemed to use the same rails.
But the vehicle itself was a little different.
The enclosed space, surrounded by iron bars, restricted movement like a prison transport, and the workers—including me—had been blindfolded, restrained, and “loaded” inside.
I couldn’t see it, but I knew.
We had already been briefed about this last night.
Just as Baek Saheon had said, the effects of the medication whose dosage had been adjusted in advance gradually faded, and my consciousness returned.
…Things had gotten a little awkward after yesterday’s conversation, but that didn’t mean he was going to abandon me somewhere I would die.
I could hear Assistant Manager Jin Nasol moving beside me as a test.
It seemed she had woken up around the same time.
But I didn’t try to sense anything beyond that.
…Because I knew the condition of the other workers loaded in here with us.
It still felt as though those voices mimicking musical instruments were ringing in my ears.
‘Huu.’
Trying not to let my body stiffen from the chill creeping over me, I waited.
Rrrrrrrrr—
Unlike usual, it felt as though my body was being pulled backward.
‘…Are we going uphill?’
I’d never experienced anything like this while riding the mine cart before.
Apparently, we were heading somewhere entirely unfamiliar, not to an isolation room.
And I soon understood what he had meant by everything proceeds on its own.
I don’t know how much time had passed when the mine cart finally stopped.
Screeeech.
The entire space tilted, and my body began rolling violently to one side.
“…!”
Thud!
My rolling…