Chapter 48: Object Exhibition: Epilogue (1)
The exhibition grounds were abuzz with rowdy soldiers, creating quite a ruckus.
Seeing the mess I felt even worse after regaining my consciousness. I thought I had simply lost consciousness, but when I woke up I realized that something terrible had occurred.
The soldiers made everyone who participated in the exhibition stand in a line and took their statements one by one.
Beside me, Yerin wore a sullen expression.
“Sehee unnie, the exhibition’s going to end here, isn’t it?”
“I guess so. With the number of body bags piling up, it seems there have been quite a few casualties.”
On one side of the exhibition ground, soldiers were solemnly placing corpses into body bags and transporting them elsewhere. It was clear that the exhibition couldn’t possibly continue after such a dreadful turn of events.
As I eavesdropped on the conversations around me, it became apparent that the death toll wasn’t the only issue—a considerable amount of valuable Objects had also been lost.
As the line slowly shrunk, it was finally Sehee Research Institute’s turn to be interrogated.
The interrogation was just a simple back-and-forth of questions and answers.
The soldiers simply asked if we had lost any of our Objects, had any of the lab personnel died, and so on.
There were also a lot of questions related to the golden tree.
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