Chapter 64: Westward, Without a Compass
Sae-wee had taken a few minutes to collect herself. Though Min-ho wanted her to rest a little longer, she insisted against it. No one knew if the Spectors would return, after all.
With that settled, they turned their Z-Eyes back on and headed out.
Helping her walk, Min-ho felt a knot coil in his stomach due to Sae-wee’s condition. She had lost so much blood she could no longer walk without him. And to make matters worse, he could tell there was something more going on inside her.
Thinking back on the wound, it looked strange. The arteries around it had blackened, as though housing something evil within.
’Poison,’ Min-ho thought, dread sinking further in.
He had checked his Shop menu for any potions that could mitigate poison, but he found no such vials.
As they continued to walk, he did his best to keep his mind off Sae-wee and onto their surroundings.
With Ji-su gone, they were walking blind.
For one, he had completely lost all sense of direction. They were supposed to be headed west, but after their frenzied and chaotic escape through several spiraling passageways, he realized he’d gotten them lost.
Every tunnel looked the same. The walls, the crystals, the smell of damp stone—they mocked his every step.
At this point, he didn’t know if he was headed north or south. And without that chute they fell from, he couldn’t even tell where they needed to go.