Chapter 161
Thanks to the hair salon’s proximity to the escape pod port, we were able to move to the port without any problems. When opening the door to the escape pod port, people quickly slipped inside like infiltrating shadows, pausing only briefly to check the interior.
After confirming there was no one inside, Shin Haeryang first checked the positions of the escaped pods. Seo Jihyuk surveyed the interior of the port and then approached Tumanako and me. His attitude suggested that something might attack us even if there were no people.
It was my first time entering the Third Underwater Base’s escape pod port, but its structure looked similar to those in the Fourth Underwater Base. The first thing that caught my eye upon entering was the mess on the floor.
I couldn’t be sure if people had fought or if it was due to injuries sustained during escape, but someone had bled on the floor, and various shoe prints had dragged through it in all directions.
The floor was a mess with blood-stained clothes, slippers with only one side removed, smashed phones, hair ties that had lost their owners – perhaps loosely tied, a few coins that seemed to have fallen from pockets, broken bead accessories that could have been bracelets or necklaces, shattered watches, and broken glasses.
It felt like we had arrived after a massive human storm had passed through the escape pod port. Fortunately, there were no corpses inside the port.
The front panel showed the escape pods that had left this place floating on the sea surface like jellyfish. While looking at the escape pods, I noticed that Baek Ae-young wasn’t among our group.
“Ae-young is missing.”
Seo Jihyuk replied without looking at me.