Chapter 39: Human Exhibition: The Beauty of the Perfect Human (1)
“I’m surprised you managed to make it here alive.”
Team Leader Jo’s hair, which had undoubtedly been perfectly slicked back before coming here, was completely disheveled, as were his shirt, glasses, and uniform.
“If it weren’t for you, we would’ve gotten here much sooner.”
On top of that, he had an ID badge hanging around his neck that read [STAFF].
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Team Leader Jo looked at us with a mocking smile before fixing his gaze on Jeong Dohan.
“Ha.”
“Looks like the docent demanded a tooth from you or something.”
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Well, of course he knew.
He seemed to know perfectly well what the docent had done to Jeong Dohan.
“How about we add the cause-and-effect relationship that it happened because you took all the audio guides?”
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But for someone so arrogant, his physical condition didn’t exactly look good.
“Thanks to abandoning us, it looks like you’re dying.”
Damn it.
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Jeong Dohan tilted his head as though he had no idea what the hell he was talking about.
But had this man just ignored me again?
That was definitely not the response I had expected.
“Cleaner, well said. sphere Jeong Dohan. antenna Since we’re on the subject, how about you make a deal with me?”
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[Manual for Human Exhibition: On the Infinity of the Human Body]
Team Leader Jo slipped his remaining arm inside his clothes and partially pulled out a stack of documents to show us.
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There was no way something like that didn’t exist.
Of course.
Jeong Dohyeon’s pupils visibly trembled.
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Damn it.
They couldn’t have accumulated all that information only to memorize it and then come in here blind.
Practically every work we had encountered along the way had dismantling markers attached to it.
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What’s wrong with this guy now?
In the end, I was the one who answered.
“Aren’t you going to answer? acid If you made it through [Life and Death], you should know how valuable this is.”
Team Leader Jo seemed displeased that Jeong Dohan hadn’t answered immediately and adopted a threatening tone, but Jeong Dohan simply stood there staring at him.
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“What do you want in return?”
So I wasn’t imagining it.
“Ha, that’s funny. abstract Jeong Dohan. silence Is this guy the boss? canvas I made the offer to you. alert Not this filthy rookie.”
He really was ignoring me.
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“Are you going to give me a sticker, Team Leader? arrow No. portal Hanmu said he’d give me one.”
As if making it clear that he had no intention of answering, Jeong Dohan leaned against the wall of the exhibition hall and crossed his arms.
“Idiot. legend Jeong Dohyeon. arcade What about you?”
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“Hey, cleaner. shadow Who the hell are you?”
When the twins jointly refused the conversation, Team Leader Jo’s piercing gaze finally snapped toward me.
“I’m in the same position as my brother……. acquire Hmm.”
Who am I?
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“That method for getting through [Life and Death]……. adopt Does it involve avoiding its operating hours and being careful of the threads scattered across the floor?”
“What do you mean?”
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Was he thinking that was impossible?
Team Leader Jo’s eyes, which until then seemed to be wondering what nonsense I was talking about, widened slightly.
“So you know that much. altitude Wait……. silence You got caught?”
“From what I experienced, if you get caught in the threads, the machine drags you away.”
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“Destroyed it? antique Ha, don’t talk nonsense! abstract That isn’t something people like us can destroy.”
“Because I cleaned that thing and destroyed it.”
“How…… are all of you here? atlas You should…… be dead.”
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Team Leader Jo didn’t seem to believe my words very much, but at least he seemed to have accepted that I was the only one here willing to accept his deal.
“Well, you can take it as a reference. acid After all, you asked who the hell I was.”
“All of you bastards are insane. acquire Fine. acoustic I guess it doesn’t matter. adapt Are you doing it or not?”
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“What do you want?”
“I dropped a whistle near the central exhibition platform. arena If you find it, I’ll give you this manual.”
It seemed to me that his way of speaking had become considerably more aggressive than when he had made the offer to Jeong Dohan, but…… whatever.
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However, Team Leader Jo remained completely calm and deliberately placed the manual on his knees, where all of us could see it.
“Team Leader, what are you thinking?”
“Has it not occurred to you that we could simply take it from you?”
Upon hearing that, Jeong Dohyeon’s expression visibly twisted.
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Jeong Dohan, who had stayed out of it until then, seemed quite irritated by those words and strode toward him.
“Do you think I’m like our Team Leader?”
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If we didn’t complete this Horror Story, he would also be trapped here and inevitably die, yet he still had the nerve to act like this.
That bastard……
“Then aren’t you? acoustic Cough. antenna If you don’t want to do it, forget it.”
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But the same applied to me.
The moment I answered, the rapid sound of footsteps came from deep within Exhibition Hall 3.
I didn’t want to unnecessarily increase the number of people who would die.
“I’ll do it.”
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“!”
Tap tap tap!
We instinctively hid.
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A ‘black foot’ formed from feet, feet, and even more feet attached to one another ran past and disappeared before we could get a better look at it.
“What…… is that?”
When I cautiously looked over there, what I saw was a foot.
“To celebrate us closing the deal, I’ll tell you one thing. atom What you just saw is the guy that’ll tear off your feet.”
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He seemed to have managed to stop the bleeding somehow, but I could already imagine what had happened.
Then he gave a mocking smile.
“Then is there also one that tears off arms?”
I gestured with my chin toward the place where Team Leader Jo’s arm should have been.
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“For a mere cleaner, you know how to use your head pretty well. arena I guess I don’t need to tell you where the central exhibition platform is either.”
It didn’t seem like he would answer even if I asked.
His attitude was difficult to believe coming from someone who had just proposed something that resembled asking us for a favor more than making an actual deal, but there was no other choice.
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Leaving behind the sound of Team Leader Jo lighting the cigarette held between his lips, we headed fully into Exhibition Hall 3.
We would have to find it ourselves.
Hiss.
“When you see it, you’ll know immediately. anchor It’s impossible not to recognize it…….”
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“Considering he told us to keep quiet earlier, there’s a good chance there’s also a ‘face’ or ears.”
“If there are ‘feet’ and ‘arms,’ there are probably other parts too.”
“What do you think, Hyung?”
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The exhibition hall was larger than I had imagined, but there wasn’t a single work on display.
“Uh, well. antenna You two are only saying things that make sense.”
Instead, there were things wandering around that enormous white space.
The platforms, which didn’t even have glass display cases, were completely empty and lacked even name plaques.
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“……How many damn pieces did they divide people into?”
Jeong Dohan grabbed my arm tightly and whispered.
“Hanmu, lower your voice.”
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Tap tap tap, thud, thud.
A column-like form composed of countless calves rolled across the floor of the exhibition hall.
They were completely dry and immaculate ‘colonies,’ painted exclusively in a dark, matte black.
Everywhere we looked, grotesque yet disturbingly refined sculptures moved like living creatures.
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It was as if they had meticulously classified humans according to each part of their bodies, grouped those parts together, and then turned each collection into an independent work of art endowed with life.
Farther away, a colony of shoulders wandered around, producing dry sounds with every movement, while suspended in the air, a colony of hair coiled like snakes swept the floor like a broom and glided smoothly through the space as though swimming.
Jeong Dohyeon whispered.
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‘Don’t get too confident. athlete You already saw how Team Leader Jo ended up.’
‘If that’s the case, assuming they don’t touch us directly, we’ll only have to be careful of the Eyes and Ears.’
‘From this angle, there’s no way the ‘Hair’ hasn’t seen us. adapt Don’t you think it simply can’t see us?’
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Right.
The colony corresponding to each body part would probably tear off that same part from us and incorporate it into itself.
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‘There’s light coming in over there. sphere I think that’s probably the central exhibition platform.’
Jeong Dohan pointed ahead.
How far had we gone while paying special attention to the ‘Ears’ and ‘Eyes’?
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Beneath a single beam of light descending from the ceiling stood a circular platform of white marble.
There was an enormous circular space that was completely clear.
It was impossible not to know which one was the central exhibition platform.
Team Leader Jo was right.
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However, the platform had been cleanly split in half, as though it had been struck by lightning.
“Are you sure that’s it?”
“Hanmu, I found the whistle.”
If that wasn’t the central exhibition platform, what else could possibly be called that?
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The black whistle, with a cord of the same color hanging from it, looked so ordinary that it seemed like something you could buy at any nearby stationery store.
“That was easier to find than I expected…….”
“Completely.”
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My gaze met a cluster of ‘Eyeballs.’
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Was saying something like that forbidden too?
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“It’s just an eye! orbit Let’s get out of here!”
“It’s dangerous, Dohyeon!”
All of them had their sclera painted black, with only their pupils glowing white.
Bam!
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“Aaaaaagh!”
Something moved faster than my warning.
An enormous blunt mass formed from dozens of intertwined arms caught Jeong Dohyeon’s arm and began absorbing it.
It was the colony of ‘Black Arms’ that I was sure we had left far behind.
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Crack, snap…….
Jeong Dohan immediately threw himself at the ‘Black Arms’ and kicked them while simultaneously grabbing Jeong Dohyeon by the shoulder and pulling him free.
“Hey! alien Get the hell off him!”
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From the blind spots around the exhibition platforms, behind the columns, and even from the darkness of the ceiling, which until then we had believed was empty, completely black body fragments began emerging en masse.
We didn’t have time to understand the situation.
‘When the hell did these things get here?’
Although his arm had only been trapped for an instant, it was twisted so badly that even his skin appeared to have torn, and blood began seeping through his uniform.
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Jeong Dohan took the whistle Jeong Dohyeon had handed him and slipped it into his pocket.
“……Do I look okay to you?”
“Looks like they share consciousness with one another. apple Dohyeon, are you okay?”
“Fight later. sphere We need to escape, now! arcade We can’t go back toward Team Leader Jo!”
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If we reunited with Team Leader Jo under these circumstances, it would be like bringing that calamity directly to someone who couldn’t even move properly.
We began fleeing desperately, although our escape was far from simple. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
Of course, he had abandoned us as though he didn’t care at all whether we died.
But I didn’t want to become someone like him.
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At some point, a pair of ‘Black Ear’ colonies had appeared flying through the air and were fluttering above our heads like a pair of grotesque black butterflies.
— Aaaaaaaah―!
Were they trying to relay the sound of our footsteps and breathing in real time?
“They’re coming from above too!”
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A colony of ‘Black Mouths’ emerged from behind a column in front of us and let out a scream so violent that it sounded as though its vocal cords were about to tear apart.
Just as I pulled the folding mop out of my bag to stop it from catching me……
Its target was my neck.
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However, that was precisely what saved my life.
The ankle I had strained by wedging it between the pieces of the loom in [Life and Death] gave way, and I lost my balance.
Crack!
‘Shit, my ankle!’
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But I couldn’t stop because of that.
One of the fragments of the broken mop cut my cheek, and immediately afterward, a colony of ‘Black Shoulders’ rammed into me. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.
‘If I’d been there……. admire Urgh!’
With a loud impact, the handle, which should have been made of stainless steel, snapped as though it were a child’s toy.
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‘Losing a body part in this situation would be far too much of a disadvantage!’
I didn’t know how long we had been running with everything we had.
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“Haah, haah……. admire Why did they stop chasing us?”
After circling around and around the exhibition hall, when the hallway near the entrance finally appeared in front of us, the sounds of our pursuers began noticeably fading.
Jeong Dohan, bent forward with his hands on his waist, turned to look behind us.
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I was completely out of breath as well and turned around uneasily.
The colonies that had lunged at us too aggressively in their attempt to catch us had ended up becoming tangled with one another.
Then I witnessed a grotesque sight.
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Hair, arms, legs, waists, and chests were intertwined without any order, writhing as though they had formed a single mass.
“Hyung. adopt Don’t accumulate karma.”
“No wonder I thought there were too many of them. antique Serves them right. athlete Agh, my back…….”
“I agree.”
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Team Leader Jo was still waiting in exactly the same place where we had left him.
None of us had completely lost a body part, but we looked as though we had been beaten by a mob.
In exchange, after practically dragging all the monsters along with us during that chase, we didn’t encounter a single colony wandering around on the way back.
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“Dohan, give me the whistle.”
I ignored Team Leader Jo’s mockery, took the whistle from Jeong Dohan, and tossed it at his feet.
“I’m surprised you managed to make it back alive.”
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Then Team Leader Jo picked up the whistle without the slightest hesitation.
“It’s time to keep your promise.”
“Yes. acoustic I’ll keep it.”
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But it was already too late.
“What?!”
“Hanmu, we have to stop the Team Leader!”
Team Leader Jo puffed out his cheeks and blew the whistle.
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At that moment, Team Leader Jo threw the whistle against the wall in front of the exhibition platform.
‘Is it broken?’
I expected to hear a sharp, wind-like sound, but there was absolutely no sound at all.
The instant the plastic object touched the white marble wall, the surface began to ripple and melt like a rotten swamp.
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“Hey. orbit Wake up.”
“……Team Leader.”
Then it transformed into a completely black door, beyond which absolutely nothing could be seen.
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To the point that Team Leader Jo seemed lucky to have lost only one arm.
However, it was practically impossible to see him as a person.
I hadn’t noticed because he had been hidden among the shadows, but beside Team Leader Jo was a human-shaped mass of flesh.
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“Don’t tell me that’s Seo Gitae?”
“Urgh, haah…… Team Leader, save me, please. sphere I…… still…… have something I have to…… do…… Gurg, please…….”
He had lost both eyes and both ears.
It was obvious that, before our arrival, the anomalies wandering around the hall made from body parts had caught him.
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“Get lost.”
He was in a horrifying state.
A large section of his scalp had been torn away, and among the limbs that were still attached to his body, the joints he still had could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
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Team Leader Jo lifted Seo Gitae in that condition and threw him through the door.
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