Chapter 68- Lies
Jin-woo soon snapped out of his shock and asked aloud in a puzzled tone.
"How does he know I have a drawstring bag?"
Jin-woo then thought of something and started glancing around. He quickly located the camera in the top right-hand corner of the room behind him. But upon seeing it he wondered why there was a camera here that let's one see inside this security room, but not the other… Discover exclusive content at empire
This thought hadn't properly formed in Jin-woo's mind when he suddenly glanced at the broken monitor on the ground, and then at the wall to the left where it was torn from.
"Bastard, stop looking around and answer me!"
Seo-joon's voice suddenly echoed out once again, and Jin-woo frowned completely irked.
"Press this red button to speak to the other security room."
Seong said softly from the side while pointing at the red button next to the radio.
Jin-woo angrily picked up the radio and smashed his fist against the button before retorting.
"I have your damn cigarettes, alright? You better be grateful that Se-that I even bother picking them up."
Jin-woo had to quickly correct himself as he almost let it slip that he could see Seong. Though he didn't care how others saw him, he remembered Seong's warning.
While Seong was giving him an indignant look, Jin-woo asked.
"Are you alone? Is Mai-sun there with you?"
"Yeah, she's here."
Hearing this response, Seong's expression changed, and he glared at Jin-woo for having almost revealed his existence to Mai-sun.
Even though there was a possibility that no one would believe in Jin-woo's ability, he was unwilling to chance it with that girl. Better be safe than sorry.
Within the second security room, when Ye-jun heard Jin-woo ask for Mai-sun, his expression visibly darkened. In contrast, Mai-sun who was next to him looked at Jin-woo on the monitor with a curious expression.
After giving Seong an apologetic look, Jin-woo held the button on the radio and asked.
"What about the others? Is Yoon-min and Micah with you? Why did you leave the gymnasium?"
In the second security room, Seo-joon and the other students visibly stiffened.
Not hearing an immediate response, Jin-woo's heart dropped. However, before he could ask if something had happened, Ye-jun grabbed the radio from Seo-joon and said.
"Yoon-min and Micah split up with us after we escaped the gymnasium. We-"
However, his voice was suddenly cut off as Seo-joon glared at him and reached to grab the radio back from him.
Ye-jun reacted quickly and pulled the radio out of his reach. He then let go of the button on the radio just as Seo-joon growled at him.
"What do you think you're doing?"
At the same time, the other students glanced at Ye-jun with confused expressions. They didn't know why he suddenly decided to lie to Jin-woo about what happened to Yoon-min and Micah, some of them even felt a bit upset.
However, Ye-jun fixed his glasses on his nose and calmly spoke.
"Let me ask you, who in here is he friends with? If he found out what happened to those two, do you think he would help us? Right now he's the only one who has information about the situation outside."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
The students upon hearing this had their expression changed, and they glanced at each other with hesitant expressions. They thought that Ye-jun was just hiding the fact that he closed the door on Micah and Yoon-min causing their deaths, but they suddenly realized they might be just as guilty of sitting back and watching it happen.
"Bullshit, give me the fucking radio."
Seo-joon's voice which sounded like he was suppressing his anger echoed out cutting through the silence. He reached out to grab the radio from Ye-jun again, but he stumbled a bit as Ye-jun stepped out of his reach.
"Hyung, be careful."
Lackey One said as he and Lackey Two stepped forward to support Seo-joon. After getting support from them, Seo-joon glared at Ye-jun.
Ye-jun merely fixed his glasses before turning away from him.
Seo-joon seeing this glanced at the other students who were either looking down or glancing at him like they were planning on stopping him if he insisted on his actions. His heart immediately turned cold upon seeing this, but he openly snorted and said.
"From now on don't expect me to do anything for you."
Mai-sun glanced at Seo-joon and asked softly.
"Is your leg, okay? It seems you can't even walk on it properly."
Seo-joon directly ignored Mai-sun's words, he didn't even glance at her. He told the two lackeys to move him to a corner to wrap his ankle.
"Joon? What happened?"
Jin-woo asked, only having heard muffled sounds from the other end of the radio before it went silent.
Ye-jun pressed the button and said.
"When we were inside the gymnasium someone turned into a zombie somehow, and when we rushed to escape the horde from the west wing chased us. Now we're stuck inside the security room. Do you have contact with the outside world? What is happening outside, is there help coming?"
"It's the water in the school! Be careful not to drink it."
Jin-woo hurriedly said, and the students showed surprise expressions when they heard it.
Ye-jun frowned and asked.
"Are you saying that it's the water that's turning everyone into zombies?"
"Wait if the water supply is carrying this virus, then does that mean everyone in Itaewon that has the same water connection as us is infected?"
One student asked in a panic, but Ye-jun denied his claim.
"The school has its own water supply, if it's carrying the virus that caused this then someone must have done something to it. What's the media saying outside? Is help arriving?"
Ye-jun asked again.
Jin-woo paused for a moment, then said.
"There's no help coming."
The three students who were sitting on the ground glanced at each other when they heard Jim-woo.
"What?! Then are we stuck here?! Why is there no help coming?!"
One student behind Ye-jun almost broke down in hysteria when she heard Jin-woo's words. All this time she had been holding onto the hope that help was coming to rescue them, the others too held this thought, and they similarly felt despair at their current situation.
Ye-jun ignored the commotion behind him and asked Jin-woo.
"What do you mean there's no help coming? What is the news saying? It's been nearly two hours so news of what happened here must have already spread to the world."
"Wait, I'm going to do a quick search."
"What? You're just now thinking of doing that? What have you been doing all this while then?"
Jin-woo frowned at Ye-jun's words but he didn't respond as he had already put down the radio to fish out his phone from his drawstring bag.
Thankfully there's still service in Itaewon. In the movies, they always made it a point to show that it would have been cut along with the power. However, it seems that reality was different.
Jin-woo unlocked his phone and clicked on the green browsing app before quickly typing into the search bar. Immediately after he clicked search, several news articles and videos popped up.
This didn't surprise him, if news of a virus outbreak happening in their school hadn't made headlines, then the President and Prime Minister being trapped in the middle of one would.
Jin-woo clicked on a video that showed a female anchor reporting the President and Prime Minister's situation then placed the phone near the radio.