Lee Jeong-Uk asked Bae Jae-Hwan about the black creature before he mentioned anything about the mutant. Bae Jae-Hwan repeated the question, his eyes going wide.

“Wait, you know about the black creature?”

“Of course. When you mentioned the mutant zombie earlier on, you were talking about the black creature, right?”

“No, I wasn’t. It… I somehow can’t explain it in words. But, you can tell that it’s a mutant the moment you see it.”

“Hmm. Okay, we’ll leave that aside for now. Tell me how you survived seeing the black creature.”

“I don’t remember exactly how it happened, but we saw it on our way to get drinking water. Its entire body was pitch black, and it was eating other zombies. We were quite far away from it, so we hurried back without turning back even once.”

“Seems like you were lucky.”

“We think so too. Just looking at it creeped me out. Its entire body was pitch black, and it had glowing blue eyes.”

“What did you just say?”

Lee Jeong-Uk had a frown on his face. Bae Jae-Hwan looked puzzled, as if he thought he had said something wrong or unrespectful.

“Is… Is there something wrong?”

“The black creature had eyes?”

“Yes. Why would you think it wouldn’t have eyes?”

Lee Jeong-Uk glanced at me in surprise. I was surprised as well. I quickly took out my notepad and wrote down some words.

- Draw the black creature you saw.

I handed my pen and notepad to Bae Jae-Hwan, who started drawing away. Once he was done, he stammered hesi...