Chapter 205 – 205. From the Bottom

Lee Seon-jae and Lee Hoon returned in about 3 minutes. Covered in sweat, blood, and unknown filth, they shivered.

What on earth did they see down there?

I gave water to the two who were terrified and showed symptoms of dizziness and vomiting, and calmed them down.

“Hey, guys, drink some water and calm down.”

“Go… Thank you.”

“Gulp… Gulp…”

Lee Seon-jae took the water with his hands shaking, and Lee Hoon poured the water down his throat without saying a word, with tears dripping down his face. Like a person who wants to wash away the bitterness left in his mouth. Or like a person who hasn’t had water for days.

At that time, I noticed that the right side of Lee Seon-jae’s face was a little strange.

There were a lot of pimple-like things. But the color is a bit odd. I should say it’s a bit yellowish. It didn’t seem like a common skin disease. It was like a bruise.

‘What’s with so many…’

For now, in order to continue the story, I decided to ask about skin problems on my face later. Right now, it’s more important what the faces they saw are. Perhaps it could have been a major problem in exploring the Maw.

“So what face did you see? Are all faces the same? Or maybe it was something special. Seeing that it’s a face, it looks like it has eyes, nose and mouth.”

Lee Seon-jae and Lee Hoon pondered over my question for a while. They seemed to want to quickly forget what they had experienced.

However, they had a little trouble when I had to forcefully bring out the memories they were trying to forget in response to my question.

And finally, Lee Hoon opened his mouth.

“It was too strange to be a human face. Well, there’s something unpleasant about them.. The faces that make me feel sick when I look at them..”

Lee Hoon couldn’t properly describe their faces. It was just a frown, an unpleasant, unpleasant face, he said.

At that time, Seonjae Lee began to portray their faces relatively straight.

“Hey… Brother Jo Joon. Do you know the uncanny valley?”

“Know.”

“I got that feeling. It’s obviously a human face, but it’s out of place somewhere, so the faces that make you feel very bad when you look at them are stuck on the wall and staring at us. While laughing.”

“There was a smiling face on the wall?”

“Yes. He looked very happy… No, he was smiling like he was drugged.”

While saying that, Lee Seon-jae spoke in more detail about the 3-minute hell experience.

“First of all, if I explain it from the beginning… The place where we opened our eyes was so dark that we couldn’t see an inch ahead. It was really dark, so I sat down to see nothing at first.”

******

Curl… Cuckold…

Stuck… Stuck. Iron puck.

Aaaaa…

The sound of wet meat chunks squeezing and squeezing.

A damp, rotten floor.

A strangely warm space. A scream coming from somewhere.

‘This is…’

Seonjae Lee opened his eyes. With a lot of mucus smeared on my face.

It was a gooey slime that smelled sour. For some reason, Lee Seon-jae felt that the slime-stained face felt itchy and stinging.

He hurriedly wiped the slime from his face onto his clothes. It was still itchy, but not sore.

“Hey, Lee Hoon. Are you by my side? Hey.. Please answer me..”

A pitch-black space where nothing can be seen.

Lee Seon-jae could not see an inch ahead, as if he was trapped in a completely sealed box with no light source.

That’s why he felt extreme fear and searched for his comrade who had fallen with him. He groped the floor covered in unknown liquid, hoping for Lee Hoon to reach him.

“I-I’m here. But here… It’s too dark…”

“Wait a minute.”

Finding and holding Lee Hoon who was barely sitting on the floor, Lee Seon-jae pulled out his sword and used his skill. Soon, a blue natural flower blazed on his sword, and he shone a bit of pitch-black darkness, but he uncovered it.

“Fuck…”

“What are you doing here?”

They confirmed the bottom of the abyss by shining a dim light. It was like a labyrinth.

In addition, the walls, ceiling, and floor were tangled with unknown stems, squirming blood vessels, and sagging intestines, and blood vessels were bursting in places and pouring out yellow and black water.

The liquid that spewed out had a sour smell, just like gastric juice. Lee Seon-jae noticed that what he had smeared on his face was a liquid gushing out from there.

“Weird smell.. Ugh..!”

At that time, due to the unbearable feeling of vomiting, Lee Hoon eventually poured out all the food he ate.

It was because of the smell that was incomparable to the stench emitted by decaying zombies.

It was a bloody stench that would emanate from a refrigerator that had not been opened for thousands of years after grinding up dozens of humans.

While Lee Hoon vomited at the terrible stench, Lee Seon-jae swung his demonic sword around and looked around more closely.

‘Those are…’

Corridors covered in black flesh.

Bone fragments and flesh of molten creatures.

A pile of corpses of unknown creatures that have begun to rot.

And faces.

Faces with closed eyes are embedded all over the walls, floors and ceilings. It was strangely human-like, and even less human-like. The white faces were like masks. A mask made to imitate a human.

And as if they were dreaming, their eyes were closed and only their pupils were moving back and forth. It meant alive.

“Hey.. Hey, stop throwing up and stand up.. We need to get out of here quickly..”

Lee Seon-jae lowered his voice and called out to Lee Hoon, who was still gagging.

“It’s dangerous here…”

He felt a visceral sense of danger at the faces embedded in the walls. It looked more dangerous than any other place he had ever seen in his life.

Moreover, it seemed that if they stayed in this space for a long time, they would become strange. I felt like I was going to get a mental illness because of the strangely mind-numbing noises in my blood vessels, the stench that numbed my sense of smell, and the strangely unpleasant faces.

Then, at Lee Seon-jae’s urging, Lee Hoon barely stopped vomiting and wiped the vomit from his mouth.

“Wait a minute… But where are we going?”

“What? Of course we just came in…”

“Where?”

At Lee Hoon’s question, Lee Seon-jae looked at the ceiling.

Only then did Lee Seon-jae realize that the hole they had been sucked into had already disappeared.

******

“I was trying to get out again…”

“The entrance we entered has already disappeared..”

“That, so.. I was looking for the entrance..”

Wait, this story is weird.

Apparently those guys came out in 3 minutes. Maybe it was much shorter than 3 minutes. But you were looking for an entrance? It’s like they’ve been around for hours.

“Wait a minute, you guys… How long have you been down there?”

I asked them how long they had been down there. Because as the story progressed, it seemed like I had spent much longer than three minutes down there.

“Three, three hours…?”

“I think it was between three and five hours. I don’t know the details. I wandered around frantically looking for a way out…”

“Three hours?”

“Yes.. After 3 hours of walking around that maze-like place..”

“You guys… Came out in 3 minutes.”

“Yes? Three minutes?”

“Okay. I don’t know if it was exactly three minutes, but it popped out in about that time.”

“Oh, no. We’ve been inside for a long time. It’s not..”

Lee Seon-jae is taken aback by my words. He apparently said they had spent hours down there. It seems that time passes differently.

“For now, keep telling me how you got out.”

“Uh…The red door opened.”

“The monster with six arms… Told me to go to the red door…”

******

“Seonjae.. How do we get out of here..?”

“I do not know either. First of all, lower your voice.”

“Huh..”

Lee Seon-jae stood Lee Hoon up and started to walk in the direction where his face was less embedded.

Also, both of them lowered their voices. They instinctively felt that the faces clinging to the walls should not be awakened. It doesn’t seem to respond to light, but I don’t know how it sounds either.

At least the sound of Lee Hoon vomiting was covered by the sound of gastric juices spurting out from the wall, but the sound of talking is another matter.

“By the way, Seonjae.. It goes off when its magic power goes down, right..?”

“That’s right. If you don’t find an exit quickly, it will go out. Even if you don’t use any other skills and just keep using this one… It will turn off in about two hours.”

“Ah…”

If no exit is found within two hours, the lights will go out. At those words, Lee Hoon’s expression suddenly darkened.

At that time, Lee Seon-jae, who was walking ahead, suddenly stopped. He pointed to the perforated walls and the corpses pouring out of the holes.

“A pile of shichet…?”

“Not that.. Over there.. Those..”

What Lee Seon-jae pointed out was not the pile of sachet piled up on one side. He was pointing to others near the pile of sachet.

“For a moment. Hey.. What are those?”

“I don’t know..”

Lee Seon-jae’s light was not very bright, perhaps because it was originally an offensive skill. So the light doesn’t reach far.

Thanks to this, only the vague outlines were visible, but the appearance of the beings sitting in front of a pile of corpses and eating meat was not clearly visible.

That’s why they couldn’t properly identify the white people who were eating corpses while they were naked. I just realized there was something and was terrified.

“Would you like to come closer and take a look?”

“Are you crazy.. Just.. Let’s go back..”

The two of them tried to get away from the pile of corpses by walking backwards. It’s because I realized that there is no answer when I get closer.

Then, Lee Hoon got the feeling that something was soft and he had stepped on something strange.

Standing in place, Lee Hoon lowered his head.

His face, which was buried on the floor, met his eyes.

“Uh?”

“Why. What…”

The face stomped on Lee Hoon’s feet tries to open his mouth.

It should dry. If you leave it like this, irreparable things will happen.

Lee Seon-jae hurriedly thrust his sword into his face. How many times did he crush it.

In the process, the fire on the sword went out and they were left in pitch darkness again.

Poo-wook. Poo-wook. Poo-wook.

“Hey… That, stop it..”

“Whoa…”

In the dark, Lee Hoon stopped Lee Seon-jae. Only then did Lee Seon-jae stop the repetitive action. He clutched his unsedated chest and rekindled the sword.

– Hurray.

“Fuck.”

And they realized

Awakening all sleeping faces.

That they are smiling and looking at themselves.

That you are rushing out of the place where you were stuck.

******

“From then on, I ran really crazy.”

“And… I found the monster.”

“A monster?”

“Yes.. A monster who was sitting in place like a Buddha and holding a hand sign.. He has six arms.. But he was wearing a mask, so I couldn’t see his face. “

“That, that… Showed me the direction the door was with one arm.”

All they saw was that far. I sent two people up at once. This might be more difficult than the Black Market Underground.

‘Faces on the wall. They seem to have their minds and senses linked to each other, and they seem to crawl out of the wall when they get an external shock. He seems to have almost no sense of hearing, smell, or sight. They spread out like a trap, and when one is provoked, they all crawl out and attack..’

It seems that the faces that were eating something from the pile of corpses were also…

‘Could it be… Are those in the hell parasites?’

For some reason, I thought that the six-walled space was like the intestines of an immeasurably large creature, and that the faces embedded in it might be parasites.

‘People who fell into the abyss a long time ago were eaten by a giant monster in the abyss.

It reminds me of a Japanese bizarre cartoon I saw a long time ago. Even in that cartoon, there was a story that humans evolved by becoming parasites.

‘And a masked monstrosity with six arms that was holding hands like a Buddha… Could he be… The helper that Indicron said…’

The monster who showed Lee Seon-jae and Lee Hoon the way out might be the helper that Indicron said they must meet. Or a guide who will tell the helper the way to go. Anyway, it is a miracle that Lee Seon-jae and Lee Hoon escaped alive.

‘I’ll have to ask Henry first.. Ailado too…’

I wonder if Ayla, who sold the cracked ankh to Henry and me, who said her body was in a pit right now, would know something more detailed.

This is a place where you will lose many of your colleagues if you enter without getting proper information.

I went to look for Henry’s head first.