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Rumble—!
Thud!
The makeshift wall blocking the emergency passage crumbled at last.
A few quick-footed survivors rushed in, shouting in disbelief and excitement, “There really is a passage here!”
“Does this mean we don’t have to break through the enemy defensive setup?!”
Murmurs swelled into hopeful chatter, spreading fast and fierce, like flames dancing through the tunnel’s heart.
Thump. Thump.
As soon as Eun-Ho took the first step inside, Jae-Hyuk caught up beside him, whispering in awe, “Hyungnim! When did you even find this passage?”
“Um… Just now?” Eun-Ho replied.
“What?”
Eun-Ho remembered reading a special note scribbled in tiny print at the bottom of the proposal he had stolen from the ghosts. It said “all side paths that must be sealed off to prevent deviation from the Shadow Path.” Thanks to that, Eun-Ho had known the side path existed.
He guessed it was probably one of the emergency evacuation routes connecting the tunnels. The tricky part was finding it.
“But how did you even know where to look? There weren’t any signs!” Jae-Hyuk added.
Jae-Hyuk was right. There were no signs or markers. The smooth, bare tunnel walls gave nothing away, perhaps because the signage had been removed in advance.
“I memorized the map,” Eun-Ho replied.
“The map?”
“And the layout of the three Namsan tunnels. There’s an emergency passage in Tunnel 3, about six hundred meters from the entrance. I made sure to keep a pace of fifteen seconds per hundred meters,” Eun-Ho explained.
Jae-Hyuk gulped, his eyes growing wider with each word.
“So based on time and step count…” Eun-Ho pointed to the ground calmly, “... we’re right around that spot.”
“Whoa! That’s amazing!”
“Shh.” Eun-Ho hushed him quickly, holding up a finger.
Even so, a few awed gasps escaped the others behind them.
“You’re incredible, Hyungnim! Calculating all that while everything was happening?!”
“It’s not a big deal.”
Keeping pace and time had been second nature back in his athlete days.
Jae-Hyuk stared like he was witnessing a miracle.
“I didn’t...
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