Everywhere was dark, the only light being the red monotonous flashes along the corridors.
With each turn Myung-hee made she glanced up at the various cameras.
At the last corner, she turned but had to hurriedly rush behind it once again.
"What's happening?"
"I don't know, the fire alarm just went off."
"But there was no fire on the cameras. Stay here and monitor the situation, I'll go check what's going on. But if you see anything on the monitors, quickly get out of here, okay?"
"Yes, boss."
A young and old security guard was talking in front of a door before the old security guard hurriedly left.
Thankfully it was in the opposite direction and not where Myung-hee was hiding.
Moving from behind the corner she quickly approached the door.
She glanced through the small window on the door to see the young security guard inside with his back turned to the door.
An anxious expression appeared on Myung-hee's face as she looked around. Her eyes suddenly stopped on the fire extinguisher on the wall nearby.
The young security guard was skimming through the camera videos to see what exactly happened. He focused on a monitor that was showing a female's bathroom, and skipping forward he saw that smoke was suddenly billowing out and people rushing outside.
'This was purposely instigated?'
His eyes narrowed, and he continued to watch the people in the hallway for anyone suspicious.
His eyes happened to catch sight of Myung-hee heading away from everyone else but the camera was blocked by smoke so he couldn't see her face clearly.
The security guard went to check the other cameras along the halls, but at the same time, the door behind him suddenly burst open.
"Who?!"
The guard yelled and pulled the gun by his side, but as he turned around only white smoke greeted him and he was blinded.
"Ahh!! My eyes!!"
The security guard covered his eyes and backed away but ended up bumping into the desk behind him.
Myung-hee took this opportunity when he was blinded to hit him over the head with the fire extinguisher. A sickening crack echoed out as it made contact with the man's skull, instantly knocking him out.
Myung-hee had labored breaths but she threw down the fire extinguisher and went to the desk with the dozen monitors.
Myung-Hee had worn her black gloves and she tapped away at the keyboard. With a few clicks of the mouse, a pop-up screen appeared on the center monitor.
"Enter Identification To Shut Down Monitor System."
Myung-hee seeing this quickly went back to the security guard to retrieve his key card. She then swiped it through a key slot nearby and the pop-up disappeared to reveal another one that said…
"Are You Sure You Want To Shut Down Monitor System?"
"Yes/No"
Myung-Hee went to click 'Yes' with the mouse but paused her actions.
"Wait…"
After releasing that mumble, she paused shutting down the monitor system and instead went to erase the last twenty minutes of the selected monitors she passed and memorized.
When that was done, she watched as the monitors all turned black one by one.
Fixing her handbag over her shoulder, Myung-hee then rushed out of the security station and towards her true goal.
While sneaking around, she had to hide inside rooms from a few security guards who were escorting people outside.
"Let's go! Let's go!"
A few people passed by the door she was in before she exited.
The alarms were still blaring as she walked along the empty hallways. It gave her an unnerving feeling, but she moved forwards as fast as she could, nonetheless.
She soon reached a restricted area of the compound that had numerous signs that said no trespassing without authorization.
Stopping at a cross-section, Myung-hee looked to the left and right of her before she took the right path.
She quickly approached a huge and intimidating metal door. Without any hesitation, Myung-hee searched through her handbag to take out a key card.
As she did, a memory replayed in her mind.
She was waiting outside the bathroom for Madelyn while holding her lab coat. She had stealthily removed the key card clipped to her collar and replaced it with one that looked extremely identical.
That scene came right before she chased after Madelyn begging her to be let onto the program.
Remembering that the key card she bought from that gang had actually worked when Madelyn entered her office, Myung-hee only snorted and said.
"I didn't trust them to give me a working key card, so I decided to swap them. That was my original intention anyway, so it didn't matter if it worked or not."
Myung-hee then placed the stolen key card on the door's scanner and with a confirmation click and a green light, it slowly opened.
As it did, white mist escaped the room along with a freezing chill, showing just how cold the temperature inside was.
"The experimental pills need a cold environment to stay inactive. I understood that when I saw the papers about it, but why so cold? Has the pill become more unstable?"
Myung-hee's breath came out in white puffs as she spoke to herself in the room.
Looking around, there were specially designed hazmat suits on the wall for the cold, but she decided to ignore them since there was no time to follow protocol.
The entire room was filled with science equipment, but what immediately caught her eye was the separate room at the back.
Approaching the door, she looked through the small glass window to see a single desk in the room that had a metal tray on top of it.
Seeing the grey pills on the metal tray, her heart fluttered.
"Found you."
Myung-hee went to open the door, but she struggled to scan the key card as her hands were trembling. Not from the cold, but from the adrenaline pumping through her body due to excitement.
She soon managed to open the door and enter, but immediately felt the temperature drop even more.
On the room's walls, there was even frost present.
The lab coat Myung-Hee was wearing didn't do anything about the cold, but she was only focused on the metal tray.
Her eyes trembled as she dug through her handbag and took out a brown medicinal bottle that had white pills inside.
Taking up one of the various holding tools nearby, she picked up one of the seven gray pills and placed it inside the already-opened medicinal bottle.