Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 211

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 211

The monster’s fingers wrapped in black gloves move in a sweeping motion.

Following that smooth movement, all the basement floor buttons on the elevator light up.

The New Employees stare blankly at the scene.

Now.

What did it just do?

“Can, cancel! Can…”

Too late.

The elevator moving just one floor happened in the blink of an eye.

Ding.

[This is Basement 12th Floor.]

The elevator doors open defensively.

A scene from a few hours ago flashes through their minds like lightning.

-Uuuuuu… heuup.

-Wh, what is this…?

The elevator that had gone to Basement 12th Floor to perform a ‘mission’ returned with no employee anywhere to be found, only red blood pooled thickly on the floor…

[The doors are opening.]

And in the elevator’s light, the dark corridor of ‘that’ Basement 12th Floor is dimly revealed. The New Employees gasp for breath.

“…”

“…”

However, there wasn’t a single drop of blood in the corridor. Unlike the elevator.

“Haah.”

Before instinctively feeling relieved, something strange catches their eye. Greasy dirt-like substances are piled on the floor, stuck in the elevator gap.

‘Dirt…?’

They raise their heads to find the source.

Lumps scattered like landmarks throughout the corridor come into view.

Weathered-looking lumps.

But looking closely, eyes adapted to the darkness distinguish the silhouettes.

An ankle near the ankle bone, pieces of ear and temple, a right shoulder blade…

Body fragments remaining like models without any blood.

“Hiiiii…”

Thud.

The New Employee covers their own mouth. To prevent any groans from escaping.

They must not make a sound.

Because at the end of their gaze, they saw something enormous.

Something standing blankly in the dark corridor.

It’s also wearing a uniform.

The same Security Team uniform as the horned monster in this elevator. It was a perfect human silhouette, neat and without any deformation. It almost looked like a bored Security Team Employee standing around blankly. However…

What’s attached to its head is a scarecrow.

On a hollow face crudely made of straw, facial features are roughly drawn with fresh blood.

…

From somewhere, a song can be heard.

Standing upright all day long

The angry scarecrow mister

It echoes faintly through the corridor.

Tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet, oh how scary

The birds fly away

Ha ha ha ha ha, be careful

Your hat might fall off

Drip.

Blood gathered in the scarecrow’s crude eye drawing falls from the tip of the straw.

Standing upright all day long

But since when.

The angry scarecrow mister

Has that head been looking this way?

“…”

Gulp.

The New Employees freeze.

The Scarecrow definitely didn’t move. But…

Why did it change?

Why is it one iron door closer than before?

Why did it get closer again?

Why is its left hand made of straw raised up?

Why is it holding a sickle for grave tending in its grasp?

Why is its face…

“Aaaahhh!”

At that moment, the door of another elevator next to them opens, and light and screams pour out.

“…!”

Other people. Those who clearly came to this corridor for a mission could be heard falling inside the elevator.

“Wh, what is that thing!”

Those who witnessed the Scarecrow and the body fragments on the corridor floor right before their eyes were screaming.

…

Standing patiently all day long

The good scarecrow mister

Why is the Scarecrow standing with its head turned?

“Hieuaahh!”

“Close it! Close it!”

“Ah, no! Run….”

It was too late.

And the New Employee who had been staring blankly realized.

Right. The chance to escape.

“Hik!”

He had to take this opportunity. While it wasn’t looking at them, quickly, quickly! The New Employee stretched out his hand with all his might to press the close button….

It was blocked by a black glove.

“…!”

Bizarre horns protruding in all directions and a gas mask with yellow lantern-like eyes.

The Security Team Employee from Basement 13th Floor Room 666 who blocked the close button didn’t even turn to look at him.

It simply stared quietly outside the elevator, and thick Black Smoke flowed out from its gas mask, pooling at its feet.

Whooooo…

And it spread low like fog toward Basement 12th Floor.

Toward the Scarecrow.

Hahahaha be careful

Your hat will fall off

Standing patiently all day long

Good…

Whoosh.

The smoke surged up and covered the Scarecrow.

“!!”

The sound became heavily muffled.

Smoke so heavy and dense that the Scarecrow’s form disappeared. And beneath it….

A new sound.

Crrrrrrrack

A bizarre noise echoed through the corridor.

The New Employees held their breath and panted as they listened to it.

The grotesque Scarecrow’s form covered in pitch-black smoke could no longer even be seen as a shadow.

Only the sound.

Only the merciless sound of rupturing could be heard.

Crack crack crack, it sounded like horns or bones breaking, or being cut, or being forcibly crammed somewhere or swallowed.

And a scream like a plea could be heard.

The sound of something begging and trying to flee mixed with the roar, then soon disappeared with a death rattle of “gack.”

The moment silence fell.

“….”

“….”

Finally, the Black Smoke scattered again.

The Scarecrow that had been hidden by the smoke also revealed itself again in the corridor….

“…Huh?”

It was a corpse.

The New Employees blinked their eyes.

But the appearance of the blood-soaked corpse lying on the floor with its entire body crushed didn’t change.

Blood gathered on its facial features like a scarecrow dripped to the floor.

Drip.

“Aaaahhh!”

“Ahh!!”

Screams filled the air. But the gas mask wearer sucked the smoke back in with a single breath. The New Employee crawled in terror to a corner of the elevator.

[The doors are closing.]

Meanwhile, from the adjacent elevator came the sound of frantically hammering buttons without breathing, and the doors closed.

“Th-there!”

The other New Employees were escaping safely.

At the same time, the Black Smoke that surged back from the Basement 12th Floor corridor pooled neatly on this elevator floor.

“Hiiik!”

“Wait!”

Someone grabbed the shoulder of the person who was convulsively trying to avoid the smoke.

A Fellow Employee named Jang Heo-un. He whispered urgently.

“Don’t needlessly go against its nerves.”

“…!!”

“That smoke hasn’t covered our heads…. Calm down, let’s calm down.”

He was right.

The smoke was quietly pooled on the elevator floor.

“Huff, huffff….”

The New Employee swallowed and caught his breath, grabbing the elevator handle.

[The doors are closing.]

And so they left the 12th Floor.

He desperately averted his gaze from the corpse that would be beyond the elevator doors, but just before, through the gap in the doors, he seemed to see it staggering and getting up again….

Like a scarecrow.

“Huuuu.”

He swallowed with a groan.

But the intense impression of what he had just witnessed didn’t fade.

A strange being.

And the smoke that turned that strange being into a corpse.

Suddenly, he realized an amazing result.

‘…We’re alive.’

Everyone was alive.

His legs trembled with relief.

At the same time, a thought crossed his mind.

‘Wait a minute.’

Then rather, did that bizarre horned ‘Security Team Employee’ from Room 666 help people escape to the elevator?

‘Wait, if that’s the case….’

Right. Maybe he shouldn’t be this scared. Maybe it was okay! Unable to bear being trapped in an elevator with something terrible, he rationalized and turned his head.

“Th-there….”

He made eye contact with the Security Team Employee.

But….

“Thank… you….”

Was it originally… melting like this?

The Security Team Employee’s arms were strangely long. It was strange… it had too many feet. Its melted lower body mixed with the smoke, bulging on the elevator floor.

And it had thirty-seven eyes.

Eyes stare at him without blinking.

“Uh, uhhhhh…”

What is that?

What is that thing?

[Basement 11th Floor.]

The external shock temporarily postpones the panic.

They’ve arrived again.

[The door is opening.]

“I’ll remove the optic nerves.”

“I’ll connect my mouth and navel.”

“I wish I didn’t have feet!”

On Basement 11th Floor, an employee in a doctor’s gown was having a cozy consultation for surgery in Room 910.

Whoosh.

Once again, the gas mask wearer stares outside with thirty-seven eyes and sends out smoke.

Soon, the bizarre being wearing the doctor’s gown became a bloodless corpse with limbs sutured in wrong positions.

“Aaaaah!”

Another scream. Escape.

The people who had been conducting consultations as if enchanted frantically rushed out of Room 910 and took other elevators, and this elevator’s door naturally closed as well.

[The door is closing.]

“…”

The New Employee looked down at his feet.

He couldn’t see the elevator floor.

Because the Security Team Employee’s melted lower body was covering it.

Thump.

Something like a beating sound comes from the wall.

Because the left upper body of the Security Team Employee was broadly stuck to the wall.

“…”

It repeated like that.

[Basement 10th Floor.]

[Basement 9th Floor.]

[Basement 8th Floor.]

Every time the door opened and closed on each floor, every time the smoke created bizarre situations, the shape of ‘that thing’ inside the elevator became stranger.

It gradually grew larger and got crushed.

[Basement 6th Floor.]

[Basement 5th Floor.]

The shape of what rode the elevator became increasingly grotesque and hard to look at, a strange ■■■■■■■■■■strange

[Basement 4th Floor.]

[Basement 3rd Floor.]

[Basement forever basement.]

Strange finally realizes.Now the entire elevator is made of sticky smoke and yellow lanterns and thorn crowns and bone tomb-like curves of ■■.That’s it!This is Basement 13th Floor!Being sucked into Basement 13th Floor I

Ding.

…

…

[First Floor.]

[The door is opening.]

Light pours in.

“Huhhhhhh…”

The moment the familiar ground-level lobby revealed itself, the New Employee collapsed.

Someone who rushed over urgently patted his back.

“Slowly, slowly… just breathe out.”

The fellow new employee named Jang Heo-un?this?again me caught I breathe huff huff huff huff and die and the smoke tells us ■■sir…

■■sir?

“…Excuse me.”

Someone is speaking.

He unconsciously turned his head.

Before he knew it, ■■sir? the Security Team Employee’s form had returned to its original state.

A man wearing a gas mask with horns, emanating a strange sense of intimidation. ‘Jang Heo-un’ was speaking to him…

“Did you just… help us?”

No.

The smoke moves.

“Hik!”

However, instead of covering his head, the smoke forms letters.

An employee’s duty

“…”

After a long silence, Jang Heo-un finally opened his mouth.

“Yes. Thank you…”

His voice sounded both choked up and hoarse.

Then he turned around and began supporting another team member who was trembling in the corner of the elevator.

They might have lost their mind from fear.

‘Crazy bastard.’

He needed to get out of here immediately. The New Employee suddenly regained his senses.

And he hurriedly escaped from the elevator. Desperately ignoring his fellow employee.

If he tried to help others rashly in such an insane situation, he’d likely die. Self-preservation, only self-preservation was the way to survive… He gathered what little reason he had found amid fear and panic.

“Wh-what is that thing?”

“Huhuik…”

Fortunately or unfortunately, the lobby was already in chaos, occupied by various noises from all kinds of survivors who had returned, creating a distracted atmosphere where not many people had witnessed the Security Staff inside that elevator.

The gaze of that yellow lantern-like thing briefly turned toward the lobby while ‘Jang Heo-un’ was supporting the other employee and exiting the elevator… then suddenly, it stared directly at him.

And…

Be grateful for your luck

“…!”

[The doors are closing.]

The elevator started moving again.

To basement 13th floor.

[B13]

The New Employee stared blankly at the floor indicator, then collapsed onto the lobby floor with a thud.

He was drenched in cold sweat.

The elevator doors closed.

I am alone again.

“….”

I feel smoke rising as my body, which had been crushed and distorted, slowly regains its proper form to fit the frame of the Security Team uniform….

….

Something stirs.

I brought my fingers to my chest, but felt no heartbeat. The me inside has collapsed formlessly, so much so that I don’t even know where it is or if it exists.

But the strange churning sensation persisted for a moment.

And I savored it.

Like nostalgia.

Ding.

The doors opened at basement 13th floor.

The underground filled with silence. I could see the dark corridor and the ominous iron doors with flickering red and blue lights.

But there was something else too.

-Target confirmed.

Security Team members.

Those employees in familiar uniforms emerged from the corridor to confront me.

Apparently someone had concluded that I had acted erratically and reported it.

That was a misunderstanding. I had properly performed the security duties of my zone without ever setting foot on other floors or ground level.

Question

However, instead of paying attention to the words I had created, the Security Team took out their specialized suppression tools and began transforming into contaminated forms….

“Oh my, everyone’s being too hostile!”

A white hand suddenly popped out from behind.

“It’s alright. Please step aside here….”

A bright voice inappropriate for the situation was heard, and a Research Team Employee walked out from the center of the Security Team.

I still couldn’t identify him since human faces looked like melting mosaics, but I could tell from his clothing and employee ID card.

His identity.

“Good day.”

Gwak Je-gang.

“It’s been a long time since we met in person like this… no, this is actually the first time. Hahaha!”

His bespectacled face seemed to wear a calm smile, but his voice couldn’t hide his excitement as he spoke.

“I’m the person in charge of our Security Team’s new special department employee! I’m also in charge of today’s annex building experiment, by the way.”

Not seeming afraid of the Security Team’s gazes, the excited man pulled out documents from his jacket and flipped through them while grinning at me.

“I’d like to start with some light questions… haha, well then. First, shall we proceed with introducing today’s basement 13th floor visitors? These friends seem to have forgotten to introduce themselves. Let’s see, 28-year-old Lee Jeong-in, 25-year-old Park Yong-hae. And….”

His voice paused as if building suspense, then emphasized:

“26-year-old Jang Heo-un.”

….

….

Just now.

“Hmm? Is there a familiar name among these by any chance? Hahaha.”

What did he just say?

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