Chapter 427: Ninety-First Floor, The Maze of Saboden (3)
The Community on Earth, during the events of the ninety-first floor.
[(Translated) Kwon Su-Hyeok Left Alone - Where Did the Other Climbers Go?]
More than a year has passed, but the Tower of Ordeal remains one of the most widely discussed subjects across the globe. The sheer volume of attention it receives speaks for itself, and today, the tower became the stage for an unprecedented development.
At 5:32 PM EST today, when the tower’s broadcast resumed, the close to six thousand remaining climbers had abruptly disappeared. Only one remained, Kwon Su-Hyeok.
In the brief span that followed, numerous theories emerged, though the debate soon narrowed to three main possibilities.
While the broadcasts from every tenth floor have never been shown, the dominant belief has been that they function as rest areas, since no climber has ever died during those intervals.
Taking that into account, the first hypothesis contends that the ninetieth floor may not have been a rest area at all. The second speculates that something discovered within the rest area may have triggered the incident.
However, both of these explanations quickly lost ground, due largely to Kwon Su-Hyeok’s presence. Considering his feats to date, the notion that every other climber had perished while he alone survived seemed implausible.
Moreover, when he appeared on the ninety-first floor, his expression showed no hint of inner turmoil.
Indeed, users on Peddit even subjected his expression to an emotion analysis program. The results indicated that there was a 9% chance he was worried, 33% he was anticipating something, 12% he was tense, and 46% he was determined, with no trace of sadness whatsoever.
If the others had truly fallen, surely the program would have registered sadness as a possibility.
The argument currently gaining the most traction is that Kwon Su-Hyeok is once again undergoing a unique ordeal, much like prior occasions.