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It was 9:37 AM, about twenty minutes before the next trial was set to begin.
[ROK-145 District trials have been completed.]
The Safe Zone vanished. Everyone out there had probably received a short break and whatever reward they were owed just like always. However, the survivors shown on the screen were different.
“Huh? W-why are they acting like that?” Eun-Ho asked.
Instead of relief, they wandered about with even more anxious faces.
“S-shouldn’t they be running?” Jae-Hyuk asked.
He was right. Not far from the survivors’ Safe Zone lay a habitat crawling with monsters. Those were massive ones baring their teeth, sometimes even turning on one another like competing predators.
“They must’ve heard the roaring, so why aren’t they running away?” Eun-Ho muttered.
The survivors, their faces blackened with soot and grime, only lifted and lowered their heads helplessly.
Thud!
One by one, they gauged their surroundings, then began crawling into the debris of a collapsed building. The place seemed ready to crumble the moment someone breathed on it.
“Why are they going in there?” Eun-Ho muttered.
“That place will collapse if someone sneezes!” Jae-Hyuk said, reaching out helplessly before dropping his hand again.
“It’s the rain,” Ji-Eun said quietly.
“Sorry?”
“They’re trying to avoid the rain!”
“Huh?”
“Do you know something that we don’t?” Eun-Ho asked.
When he looked at her, puzzled, Ji-Eun bit her lower lip and said, “During my OJT at the Investigation Bureau, I got a glimpse of a report. They took it away before...
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