Hanseol Human Meat Factory (2)

Almost got caught, so I came back to the bathroom right away.

For now, the bathroom seems to be a safe place.

Maybe I can use the bathroom as a base and explore from here?

Check that there are no monsters outside the bathroom before going out.

I went out and walked a bit, and another place came into view.

I couldn't see it clearly, but it seemed to be some kind of meat-processing plant.

But the facility seems filthy and horrific.

If this is a factory, there should be a door leading outside.

This time I'm going to try finding that.

If I make it out, I'll post on Sejeong-gae.

6.

Did the person above make it out of the factory?

I hope so.

But isn't Sejeong-gae that site for lunatics?

I wandered around a bit too.

There are times when the monsters roam around and times when they don't.

When they're not roaming around, they seem to be processing meat inside the factory?

I think that's probably their working hours.

That's similar to humans.

There are times when they roam around—could that be their break time?

It would be great if we could figure out these monsters' work schedules.

I'll try to find out.

If we know their work hours, it'll be easier to move around.

Son, mom will do her best.

7.

Hello, I'm in third grade.

What should I write?

Right

now

I ran away and came into the bathroom.

8.

The bathroom doesn't seem to be completely safe.

The monsters come in.

Fortunately, they went into the neighboring stall, so I wasn't found, but...

It seems like they're doing something in there.

I couldn't check.

I kept pretending no one was there, so they left.

They probably came to use the bathroom.

In my opinion, rather than keeping the bathroom door closed,

it'd be better not to close it and just pretend nobody's there.

If the door's closed, they'll think someone is in there.

Then they might call out or check.

Even if a monster calls out, we won't be able to answer in monster language.

So leave the door slightly open and pretend no one's inside.

Then they might think it's an empty stall and come in, though.

That just seems like luck.

Leaving the door slightly open and standing on the toilet to pretend nobody's there seems best.

I'll look for the factory exit too.

9.

This is a human meat factory.

All that meat is people.

Did all these people get captured and turned into meat here?

If I get caught, I'll become meat too?

I'd rather just kill myself.

There's some kind of grinder over there; I'm going in.

That seems better.

10.

There are tons of human flesh hanging on the rails.

I wanted to believe it was pork.

They were all definitely people.

There were no living people.

This is strange.

How does the government not know that this many people have gone missing?

This can't be real.

The grinder might be the escape route.

Like how you escape if you die in a nightmare.

But if you get caught by a monster, is it the kind of thing where you can't escape?

I'm going into the grinder.

11.

If you hear a loud rattling sound, that means the machine stopped, so hurry back to the bathroom.

When the machine stops, I think that's their break time.

I want to check the time, but there's no clock and I can't see outside, so I have no idea.

I'll look for the exit door too.

12.

Is this really reality?

It's strange that I can't take the notebook with me.

13.

I can't do this shit.

14.

This isn't our world.

There is an exit door.

It only leads out of this building.

This place itself isn't our world.

It's the world these monsters live in.

We've come into this world.

There's no point in going outside the factory.

I thought I'd barely be able to get out.

I'm hungry.

15.

So even if I go out through the exit, it's still the monsters' world?

I really don't want to kill myself.

Looks like a few people already have.

I'll check the exit too, and if it's no good, I'll look for the grinder.

I'll draw where the grinder is.

16.

I smashed all the bathroom stall dividers, lol.

It'd be fucking hilarious if you woke up in a trashed bathroom, lol.

Oh, you can't even hide and get caught right away, lol.

Can you read this?

I broke it so the bastards coming after us from now on would all die, lol.

I'm talking about you, you lol.

After you retards die, remember it was all because of me, lol.

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17.

The bathroom is fine.

I don't know whether what that guy above wrote is true or not, but

if it is, then countless people must have died before the bathroom was repaired.

I don't know who the bastard is, but I want to catch him and kill him.

Though he's probably already dead.

I'm going to struggle to survive.

If the exit doesn't lead back to our world, then we'll have to find another way out.

Just like how we came here all of a sudden,

there must definitely be a way back.

That's how the world works.

Let's stay strong.

If I get out, I'll leave a post on that Sejeong-gae place too.

18.

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And now it was my turn.

"..."

I closed the notebook.

* * *

I cautiously looked outside the bathroom door.

There was nothing.

There were eight bathroom stalls in total.

My stall is the one at the very end.

First, I wrote the first line in the notebook as a memento.

-I'm Bureau agent Lee Do-hyeong, section chief.

I guess that's enough for now.

"..."

It felt like the emotions of the people who had died were being passed to me.

Despair.

Fear.

Pain.

I can feel all of it.

It's not just being transmitted; I'm feeling it strongly myself as well.

Even if I regress, I'll surely open my eyes here again.

I can't ever leave this horrifying place until I escape.

No.

Will regression even work normally in the first place?

There must definitely be a point where everything goes to hell.

Like at Cheongak Mary Hospital, if I do something 'wrong,' normal regression itself might become impossible. The penalty value might go up and force a regression, but if that doesn't happen?

Then I'd just be trapped in this hell forever.

Maybe the round could advance... but that can't happen. I don't know what would happen then.

I have to live.

I have to get out alive.

Along with the fear, my survival instinct surges. I have to live. I have to live. I am Bureau agent Grong. I've been through this kind of thing many times. If it's me, I can definitely escape...

First, let's set a plan.

The notebook.

It's about the notebook.

This notebook could be considered a kind of rulebook too.

It's a street-style rulebook written directly by people who've been through it.

It's definitely got a raw, street-level feel. There's almost no useful information, and you can't tell how people ended up. At this rate, I almost miss the rulebook from Cheongak Mary Hospital.

For now.

I'll use the things in the notebook as references, but I can't trust all of it.

According to the notebook, this place is a human meat factory in a space outside reality, and monsters are processing human meat here. Most of the people who came here are probably dead. It even said that even if you find the exit and go out, it's not our world but this bizarre world.

Everything about the exit was said by number 14. I'll only believe it if I confirm it with my own eyes. Let's go look for the exit.

Fuck.

At the very least, that bastard number 16... he broke the bathroom? I don't even know his face, but my killing intent is surging. Guys like that should be sent to the fake Bureau, have their brains ripped out, and then be subjected to permanent brain torture.

He’s probably already dead.

I calmed my anger.

Rather, after getting really angry once, my mind became clearer. In the end, anger and hatred are the strongest emotions that make humans sharp.

But is he a Sejeong-gae user?

So there really was something.

That number 5 guy seems pretty smart, but he mentioned Sejeong-gae at the end. Twice, too. He must have succeeded in one exploration, come back, and continued writing the note.

At this point, he could almost be called Bureau material. Knowing guys like this are active makes me even more interested in that place called Sejeong-gae.

Anyway.

Before I properly explore this human meat factory, there's something I need to do.

And that is verifying the notebook.

This notebook seems to be some kind of 'supernatural something.' Everyone said they couldn't take it out with them.

Common sense says it makes no sense for the notebook to still be here when dozens upon dozens of people have died. Like everyone said, there must be something to it.

There’s also a pen next to it.

I put the notebook and pen in my pocket and stepped out of the stall.

"..."

A plain tiled floor.

No matter how I looked at it, it was just some out-of-the-way factory bathroom.

I moved without making a sound and approached the bathroom door. I pressed my ear against it. I don't hear anything special right now.

Then.

—...

Very carefully.

Slowly, I opened the door.

I cautiously looked outside.

"..."

I can see a factory-like hallway.

I don't see any monsters.

But what do those monsters even look like? People haven't really described them, so I don't know. Oh, did they say they were human-like?

Ding.

[You have been transferred to 'Hanseol Human Meat Factory'.]

Ding.

[Useful hint : Find a way to escape.]

Ah, fuck, that scared me!

I was already tense, and it popped up all of a sudden, almost stopping my heart. If I regressed for a reason like this, even the most insignificant vampire would laugh at me.

Anyway, this bastard of a thing feels a bit late to appear... and it's still completely useless.

What, Hanseol Human Meat Factory?

Even if I know that, it isn't very useful.

Find a way to escape?

What the fuck kind of nonsense is that, bastard?

You give me this crap and call it a hint?

I wanted to point at the status window with all my strength and tear into it, but I don't have time for that right now.

I quietly stepped out of the door.

I immediately checked my pocket.

The notebook and pen were gone.

I went back into the bathroom and into the eighth stall.

As soon as I went in, the notebook welcomed me back.

So that's how it is.

It seems this supernatural notebook only exists inside this bathroom. You can't take it out, and maybe it's invisible to the monsters too?

The monsters probably know that people respawn here. If they knew that, they'd check the notebook too... No, wait.

I can't jump to conclusions.

If they knew people were respawning here, they'd have had a dedicated monster waiting around. Common sense says that if something separate from them—especially a reserve of human flesh—were respawning in the factory, they'd do something about it. Didn't they even go so far as to smash the bathroom?

But since that's not happening, there must be some kind of rule here.

Good.

There's nothing in the hallway.

For now, let's explore.

"..."

I'm nervous.

The people who came here and died. I don't know their faces or anything, but there were kids too. I can feel the same fear they felt.

But I have a pistol in my pocket.

At the very least, I can fight.

If necessary, I can even kill myself with the pistol.

Of course, this thought also crosses my mind.

What if I kill myself with the pistol, and these bastards turn out to be monsters that handle human meat, so they treat my left-behind corpse as human meat and 'freshen' it up?

Could it maybe trigger a can't-die state like at Cheongak Mary Hospital?

Of course, thinking about it like this... only makes things harder for me.

Gripping the pistol, I went outside.

It really was a wide, rough, and dark, desolate-looking factory corridor.

There are open doors and closed doors.

For now, let's approach the open door and peek inside.

I moved cautiously like that.

I pressed myself against the side of the door and looked inside like a spy.

Whoosh.

A bloody stench wafts out.