Dav 1 on the uninhabited island.
Kwagwawang!!
Outside the villa, it was still raining like crazy.
'It's fortunate that the guy who built this had a very thorough mind for his own safety.'
The villa was in good shape, so it was fortunate.
I held my breath and lay down in the living room.
Cha Eugene laid down next to me in the same way.
[It's good to think about it like this… The outside is ruined by the zombie apocalypse! That's why we have to live in this comfortable shelter by ourselves.]
"Okay. That is very comforting."
"Hehe!"
Don't laugh, you punk.
He laughed out loud, but it was a bit complicated in my head.
'What about the shooting?'
If a few days of shooting flew by like this, it'd really be ruined…
[Hyung, we can't shoot right now anyway. Relax~ and have a good time.]
"… !"
[There is no need to worry about things that humans cannot do.]
… He spoke very conclusively.
I kept my mouth shut for a while, then looked outside at the rain.
'What will we do with the weather?'
It was organized, but it wouldn't be a big deal if we cut off the variety show. We should just do well.
"Okay. You are right."
"That's right!"
I lay in the living room watching the rain and passed the time without thinking until mealtime.
During lunchtime…
All seven of us were eating the same preserved food, and it really felt like we were in some kind of disaster movie.
"Hm, shall we go to the barn and see if there are any eggs?"
"Sejin-ah, you'll be swept away."
"Yes."
Time flew by after two uninspiring meals.
In addition, the smartphone data service, which was already slow, started to falter even more.
'I feel so isolated…'
Thanks to that, there was really nothing to do.
I, who was in charge of preparing meals today and was exempted from cleaning up, sat in the living room with the best view of the weather situation and was lost in thought.
We had run out of board games, and we couldn't go outside to get food…
Jing. Ttuk.
At that time…
Suddenly, the surroundings became dark.
"Huh??"
"Is everyone okay?"
It was a blackout.
Since it was an uninhabited island, there were no other light sources outside at night. It was totally pitch black darkness.
I immediately raised my upper body.
At that moment, someone grabbed my shoulder.
"… !"
"Hyung!"
"Yes."
… It was Cha Eugene. He was bringing laundry into the living room.
After checking the voice, I recognized the voices of the others.
"Guys, don't move for a moment. Let's adapt to the dark."
That was Ryu Chungwoo.
"Yes, yes… !"
"Wow, if it had been 5 seconds faster, I would have gotten out of doing dishes."
That was Seon Ahyeon and Keun Sejin.
Cha Eugene was by my side and Kim Raebin was on the sofa.
All that remained…
'Bae Sejin?'
At that moment, the sound of holding back a scream was heard along with the sound of a fall from below.
Ugh!
"… !"
"Hyung!"
Fortunately, the voice that came back was fine.
"… I'm okay!"
It was just shaking a bit. I shouted in the direction of the sound.
"What's going on?"
"I saw something strange… No, don't come here! I'll come to you."
"No. Stay."
Don't move.
I turned on the flashlight function on my smartphone and got up.
"Let's go together!"
It was okay to go together, but you shouldn't strangle others.
With Cha Eugene's arm around my neck, we joined the others who followed after seeing the light and moved quickly.
"Sejin-hyung, are you there?"
Bae Sejin was lying on the floor in an ambiguous position. It must have been scary to be in the dark when the flashlight on the smartphone came on.
"Are your legs okay?"
"… They're okay. No problem."
Bae Sejin, as he spoke, grabbed Ryu Chungwoo's hand and got up from his seat, but he looked a little nervous.
"Excuse me… I think I pushed something as I fell."
Bae Sejin swallowed.
"Something like that… came out."
I immediately moved the light from my smartphone in the direction he was pointing.
A half-pushed cabinet.
And after that… a door?
What was revealed in the light was a dark-colored fire door.
"Oh my."
"What's this?"
It seemed that the reason Bae Sejin was able to find it was because of the soft luminous light on the floor. It seemed that some kind of glow-in-the-dark paint was used.
"Wow, what kind of secret room is this?"
"I think they use it for evacuation!"
"It's plausible."
Those who were whispering soon made a very common sense judgment that 'it's private property, so it's better not to go into it.'
'… It seems to lead underground.'
Structurally, it seemed that the area beyond that door was a wildflower path.
Ken Sejin murmured eerily from behind.
"Doesn't it remind you of that? Isolated in a snowy mountain cabin, and an incident occurs at a hidden door… Oh my gosh!"
(TN: Keun Sejin is talking about the entertainment show that Moondae was on with Cheongryeo a long time ago)
"No."
Horrible… No, stop talking nonsense.
I slapped Keun Sejin on the back and returned to the living room.
The other guys also followed along, stopping at each room and looking for a smartphone.
"Phew."
"Shall we use this to find a flashlight?"
"It was in the pantry by the front door. I'll bring it."
"Oh~"
After securing a flashlight through Ryu Chungwoo's performance, it became a bit livable.
The problem was that there were no means to recharge the smartphones at this time.
'I should save it.'
The electricity was out, so there was nothing to do. I clicked my tongue.
"Well, it could be dangerous, so shall we sleep together?"
"I agree with you~"
"I'll tell you a scary story!"
That day, we gathered in the living room and went to bed.
Cha Eugene said that he would tell a scary story in English, so I consumed extra energy to pass on the translation.
And the next morning…
The situation took a more frenzied turn.
"Th-the chicken coop…!"
"Huh? It's drifting away?"
It had rained for two days and the water had filled the front yard.
Thanks to this, the chicks that had flowed out through the open barn door in the strong wind were about to float away and be swept down the yard.
On top of the flowing muddy water, yellow lumps gradually moved away…
Gogogogogok!
The chickens crowed pitifully.
"No!!"
"We have to save them… !"
In the end, out of urgency, we all rushed out to the barn together in pajamas, without umbrellas or raincoats.
'I'm going crazy.'
"Catch! Catch!"
"Guys, be careful not to fall! Get down!"
The good thing was that they were constantly exercising, so no one got their heads stuck in the muddy water.
And the chicks were all rescued after twists and turns.
I would only say that Cha Eugene and Ryu Chungwoo played an active role.
"Thank god!"
"Whoa…"
The guys with yellow lumps in both hands waddled to the barn and tried to restore it.
"Whew, I'm glad."
"We'll also bring eggs with us!"
I wondered what the use of wringing the water out of their clothes when they were getting rain all over their bodies was, but anyway, they were proud of themselves as they cleaned up their faces.
And… eggs.
'Hmm.'
I spoke, shaking my head.
"Shall we eat one of them instead?"
"What?"
"Uh huh??"
"Since there are five hens, I thought we could catch one."
"… !!"
With 7 adults, it's not like we wouldn't be able to catch a single chicken.
Kim Raebin nodded.
"That's a good idea. Excessive consumption of preserved foods isn't good for the health…"
"No!! No! No!!"
"Oh my God, how could you say that about these little chicks we just rescued!!"
"I don't understand what they are saying. Aren't we raising them to eat them all?"
And when it came to catching chickens, it was funny how the guys who would love it the most opposed it the most.
Cha Eugene was the most fiercely opposed.
"I am not eating!! We are raising them well!"
This guy passionately explained the fable of 'The Little Prince and the Rose' while mixing in English.
[These chickens are special to us, just like the rose of the little prince is special?!]
Come on, I got it.
"Haha, yes. Let's get some eggs."
After Ryu Chungwoo's tidying up, Kim Raebin secretly whispered to me.
"I strongly suggest not distributing the chickens to Cha Eugene when they are killed."
"… …"
Anyway, it meant that I went through an uproar and grabbed the eggs, and returned to the room.
But another ambush awaited.
"… The water was cold."
"I know, right."
There was no hot water, probably because of the power outage, so we had a cold water conflict. Bae Sejin, who showered with hot water even in midsummer, seemed to have had quite a shocking experience.
'We can't go on like this.'
It was fortunate that the kitchen ran on gas rather than installation, so the rice was warmed up, but that also had its limits.
So after the meal, I spoke to the guys who filled their stomachs with white rice, half-cooked fries, and red pepper tuna.
"First of all, we should do something with the electricity."
"… Yes."
"You are right, but… we have no special expertise."
Okay. It was a problem because everyone had overlapping occupations. An ambiguous silence passed between the guys who devoted their lives to arts and sports.
At that time, Bae Sejin spoke with a worried face.
"Wouldn't it be nice to find something like a fuse box?"
"Oh."
"Oh, maybe!"
Yes. There was a possibility that the switchboard breaker was down.
'We had been supplying electricity with solar power, but the last few days the sun hadn't come and even the electricity had been cut off…' I stopped thinking in the middle of making quite pessimistic reasonings.
'Then, it might be easier than I thought.'
Ryu Chungwoo crossed his arms.
"Um, where is it? I couldn't see it under the porch or on the outer wall."
"Hey, let me ask…?"
I tried to text the PD as I said, but it failed frequently. It seemed that the signal was not being picked up well.
"Has the device been damaged by the strong wind?"
"Maybe it's because it's such a remote place. It hasn't worked a few times so far."
"Mmm."
I thought about it for a while, but soon came to a conclusion.
"We have nothing to do anyway, so let's look for a fuse box."
"Let's do that~"
So, roughly divided into groups of two or three, the guys brought a flashlight one by one and started exploring every nook and cranny of the house.
Well, we'd find it before the sun went down.
• * *
"Um, nothing?"
"… …"
Why couldn't we find it?
-There's a high chance we'll find it, right?
-Yes.
I was in charge of searching the first floor with Keun Sejin and Kim Raebin.
And fuse boxes were usually in the corner of the first floor.
But even after wandering around for quite a long time, we couldn't find anything.
"Is there a possibility that it's on another floor?"
"It could be, but…"
If it was a house, wasn't it usually on the lower floors?
At that time, Kim Raebin raised his hand.
"Could it be inside the secret door that Bae Sejin discovered last time?"
"… …!"
"Oh, it could be."
I thought of a dark fire door hidden behind a cabinet.
'Surely… There is a possibility.'
It seemed to lead underground, so a boiler room and a distribution board may have been installed there.
"Shall we go?"
"… Оkау
Together with them, I headed to the corner of the hallway where the cabinet was.
The further we went in that direction, the darker it was because there were no windows. Even in the daytime, I had to turn on the flashlight.
"Good thing you brought it~ It almost scared me!"
"Visibility is important."
We arrived in front of the cabinet in no time. When the half-pull cabinet was pushed away, a fairly large fire door was revealed under the light of a flashlight.
'…It's a bit excessive to say it's the entrance to the boiler room.'
"Do you want me to open it?"
"… It's alright."
It was better for the person holding the flashlight to open it.
I grabbed the handle of the fire door and turned it.
The door was not locked
Geeeeeek.
The door opened with a reluctant sound, as if it hadn't been opened often.
Inside, it was dark and quiet.
When I shined inside with a flashlight, I could see the stairs going down in the dark.
"… …"
"… …"
".. Isn't it a little scary?"
No, it was because of my mood.
"Let's go."
"Wait a minute!"
"Everyone, how about joining the other people who are searching elsewhere and moving together?"
"Moondae, you're scared too~ We can see it all on your face, right?"
It was entirely because the two scaredy-cats actively insisted that we waited for a while and joined the search team on the second floor.
"Ah, here."
"WOW, it's dark!"
Bae Sejin and Cha Eugene.
I was doubtful that that combination had completed the search on the second floor, but… Anyway, they joined us, so we went in.
With the five of us, we opened the fire door and walked down the stairs, relying on the light from our flashlights.
The temperature was low, probably because it was underground, and there was a rusty fishy smell somewhere.
Ddubeok.
"Why on earth did they make it like this?"
"It must be the owner's taste."
"That's true"
Ddubeok.
"… I thought about it a little bit"
"Yes."
Bae Sejin stopped.
"Why did this person bother to build such a villa on an uninhabited island…?"
"… …"
In an instant, the atmosphere became tense.
"…Well, maybe they preferred a quiet atmosphere~"
"But they provided it for entertainment purposes."
Bae Sejin spoke with an expression as if he was breaking out in a cold sweat.
"If they liked the quiet, they wouldn't do that."
"… …"
Everyone was quiet again, but soon desperate defenses came out here and there
"They're a person who likes entertainment!"
"They may have a very close acquaintance at the station!"
"… Yes. Sorry."
Bae Seiin quietly kept his mouth shut.
I turned my slightly stiff neck and pointed forward.
"Looks like we've come all the way down."
"Ah."
The stairs ended before I knew it and the floor came out.
A huge nook… It looked like wooden boxes were piled up all over the place.
"Oh, is it a warehouse?"
"It seems so."
The voices of the others brightened as if they were a little relieved.
'Distribution board…'
And as I kept looking for the wall and turning the flashlight on, I made an unexpected discovery.
"… !"
"Huh?"
It was another door. Even double doors.
There was nothing special about it. However, what leaked under that door…
Keun Sejin spoke in a trembling voice.
"… Isn't that blood?"
Blood?
Indeed, a thick dark red liquid dripped onto the floor under the door.
"… …"
After recognizing it, I realized what I had thought was a rusty smell until now.
'Iron content.'
Blood.
"… !!"
"Aaaagh!!"
"Ahhh!!"
Frightened screams filled the nook.
I staggered back.
'Report…'
Where the hell would I report this? What was this?
[My God, what the hell is this shit! It's blood!!]
"I told you it was weird!! Ahh!!"
"Go up, go up now…!"
At that time…
Click.
Suddenly, the light returned.
In an instant, my vision became clear.
"… ??"
"Uh?"
It was a very dim light. In an instant, the atmosphere turned upside down.
What I thought was a gloomy warehouse… It was quite a sensuously designed cellar.
" … ?!"
The wooden boxes I saw earlier also seemed to have been stacked for a pure atmosphere.
A storage room with a nice interior.
And the door saw…
"… Is that a freezer?"
Yes.
What I mistook for a door… It was a modern gray, glossy freezer.
"… …"
I strode over and opened the freezer door.
My nose felt cool as if there was still cold air left.
And as the various sausages and meat melted, I could see the blood draining out and flowing down.
It was the source of the fishy smell.
"… …"
"… …"
A long silence passed.
"Oh, you guys were here."
"Moo-Moondae. We found the fuse box… !"
" … Guys?"
"U-um… ?"
Until the guys from the 3rd-floor exploration team who found the power distribution board came down here, the rest of them stood in vain and chewed on their foolishness.
I wouldn't deny the fact that I was among the rest…
• * *
"Still, there is a lot of meat."
"Yeah, it was a problem because we mistook it for human meat."
Be quiet.
After coming to my senses, I took out some edible meat from the freezer that had not yet melted.
I'd have to ask the owner of this villa for his understanding later, but since it was a natural disaster, he should be able to understand us to some extent.
"Look! Good thing we didn't eat the chickens!"
"… … I know."
I silently confirmed the frozen chicken from the freezer that Cha Eugene lifted up.
"The refrigerator above is running again, so let's move the food."
"Yeah~"
'Still, it's a relief that no one has to see that idiotic side of me…'
I was relieved internally, but soon realized it was in vain.
… Cameras these days, the batteries on them lasted longer than I thought.