Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 294
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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 294
I walked.
“There was an accident in the tunnel.”
I kept walking.
“It’s a white Matex compact car. Someone is waving their hand from inside the driver’s seat door. Over there, right behind you.”
Tap tap.
The sensation of something continuously tapping my right shoulder.
“Turn around.”
A voice whispering in my ear.
A presence walking through the dark tunnel, sticking right next to me with the exact same gait, following me.
Very close.
“It looks like a hit-and-run accident.”
I kept looking ahead.
…The broken headlight of the white Matex compact car shines from behind. Because of that, a shadow falls in front of me.
From inside that car…
Swoosh… swoosh…
Someone’s shadow, waving their hand.
“You saw it, didn’t you?”
Goosebumps rise from my shoulders and my heart pounds. There’s something next to me. Something is there. Something is…
“Cat! Please start a scary story!”
My heart nearly dropped.
“Wasn’t that just a scary story? You suddenly said someone was there when no one was next to you.”
“Ah. Is that so?”
…!
I barely managed to open my dry mouth and answer.
“…That’s right. A scary story.”
Right.
I absolutely must not turn around and run or act alone.
With this group, that wouldn’t happen, but honestly, telling them someone is next to me and begging them to do something about it would be foolish.
‘Ignore it.’
I must suppress my agitation.
I must ignore it as naturally as possible.
To do that…
‘I have to pretend it’s a scary story.’
“Then continue the story. Someone is next to you.”
Ha.
“…It seems like one of the people who went missing or died in this tunnel is pretending to be a companion, walking on the far right.”
…
“Next to me.”
“Why did you say that? Why did you say that? Why did you say that? Why did you say that? Why”
Strange presence, breathing sounds, voice, and cold breath with a strange smell right next to my face.
“Dolphin mentioned it earlier. That there was an accident in this tunnel.”
“Oh, that’s right.”
“What was that about.”
“A hit-and-run case where an oncoming vehicle hit a compact car with a family inside. The entire family went missing.”
“Oh, so someone from that family is walking next to Cat right now?”
“…Well. What’s certain is… it seems to have attached itself while pretending to be Butterfly Deputy’s missing companion.”
“Hehehe.”
I barely managed to hold back from clenching my fists. Cold sweat seemed to seep from my hands and feet, but my reptilian cold heart suppressed the sweat glands.
“So what’s the ending of that story anyway?”
“When they turned their head to look, no one was there…”
I deliberately turned to look at Baek Sa-heon.
The other party flinched.
Thank you. Thanks to that, I moved a bit away from the ghost.
“Wouldn’t that be scary enough?”
…
“That’s boring.”
“Hahaha. I’m sorry.”
If there wasn’t something confirmed to be a real ghost attached next to me right now, I could have told a more plausible story.
‘But why is it doing this to me in the first place…!’
If it was going to blend in pretending to be Jin Na-sol’s companion, it would have been so much better to do it to the Deputy Manager herself.
‘That person wouldn’t have even batted an eye!’
Do ghosts also pick and choose people? Did it notice I’m a coward and do this to me?
It didn’t even go for the person left alone, but specifically chose me…
…
“Well, since we’ve gone around once, let me start again from…”
“Wait a moment.”
“Yes?”
I slowly turned my head a bit more.
And glanced at the person walking on the complete opposite side from me.
The person standing at the left end.
“…Butterfly Deputy.”
“What.”
“Earlier, you said your companion got scared and ran away, disappearing.”
“So what.”
“Did only two of you come in?”
“Otherwise, what would I be doing waiting for you guys there? How annoying.”
“…”
“…”
“So, only two of you came in… and one person ran away and disappeared.”
“So?”
“As far as I know, you’re not supposed to stay alone here.”
You must never turn around and run or act alone.
“But you stayed alone.”
“….”
“…Not only did you tolerate that situation, but you didn’t try any other method either… You just stood there quietly, waiting for the next person to come in?”
“….”
“….”
“Yes. I was waiting for a white Matiz compact car.”
I froze.
“Because there’s definitely someone in the driver’s seat over there. They’re waving their hand.”
“Hey. Look behind you. You can still see it. A white Matiz compact car had an accident. There’s someone there.”
I hurriedly turned my head to face forward.
To avoid looking left or right.
‘Damn.’
Damn damn damn!!
I’d rather not have known!
Why did I ask! It’s just like suspecting the serial killer’s identity in a horror movie and then asking them directly.
Well, of course I need to confirm to be able to deal with it!
“Ah, they were both ghosts.”
“Ha.”
I hear the sound of tongue clicking and cheerful footsteps moving beside me.
From where Jin Na-sol, or rather something that was mimicking her, had been, comes the sound of patting Lee Seong-hae’s shoulder.
Alternating with the sound of ‘someone on the right’ patting my shoulder.
Pat, pat.
Pat pat,
“There’s an accident vehicle behind us.”
“If you look back, you can see the accident scene. You can learn the tunnel’s secret.”
“Can’t be helped. Then shall we three start talking again!”
…They think they can get through this like that?
Right now ghosts are clinging to both sides of our group whispering to look back, and that’s their only reaction??
Just how nerves of steel do these crazy Field Investigation Team people have? They think they can escape like this? No….
“Keep walking!”
At that moment.
Lights came on in the tunnel.
Bang, ba-ba-bang.
I almost jumped into the air at the sound. But people’s walking pace remained unchanged.
“Oh, visibility opened up. It’s easier to walk now.”
“Yeah, well.”
And they keep walking. No…!
“Then let me start talking again!”
Why did the lights turn on?
And I realized the next moment.
“You can see the crashed car.”
When that wrong-way accident happened, the tunnel would have been operational with lights on.
“….”
Screech.
The sound of an engine starting comes from behind.
“There was an accident.”
A broken engine starts up, and with strange roaring sounds, damaged tires screech against the asphalt road.
Headlight beams.
Follow me.
The light from the broken car casts shadows in front of us.
A strange silhouette to my right.
A human-shaped figure walks while clapping and dancing excitedly in a bizarre way. It resembles a balloon doll, or like a doll with wrongly assembled joints, moving crazily.
Pat.
An arm touches me.
Clap clap.
I hear clapping sounds in my ear.
Scary. Scar… no, no. Endure it.
“Ah, shall I tell one more tunnel story? It’s a rumor about the car that hit the compact car and fled.”
Oh please.
“Come to think of it, there’s talk that it’s strange too.”
“….”
“The cars collided head-on, but even if it was against a compact car… would the other car be unharmed?”
Vrrrrrr… screech.
“Actually, that side should have been badly damaged too, or the vehicle should have been wrecked. But how could there be no trace at all? Maybe….”
“….”
“It didn’t collide with a car, but with something else?”
I swallowed.
“There seems to have been an accident.”
Behind us, a broken car slowly drives along the tunnel road, following us.
It seems about to speed up, then hits the brakes.
As if about to hit us.
Screech, screech.
As if it might speed up at any moment and run us down.
“….”
I’m going crazy. Really going crazy.
‘No.’
But this is all fake. I just need to ignore it and keep telling scary stories. I just need to endure.
Vrrrrrr… Screech.
“So the speculation is that it wasn’t a traffic accident between vehicles. Actually…”
“….”
“That compact car encountered something ominous, something shamanic or supernatural in this tunnel… and the people in the car suffered some kind of fate.”
“….”
“The disappearances that happened afterward might be because that ominous something learned the pleasure of harming people.”
The compact car’s headlights are now right behind us.
The back of my neck, my ears seem to stiffen with fear.
And…
“Well, that was the speculation.”
“….”
I realized that the presence that had been on my right side had disappeared.
The strange weight, touch, and sounds had all vanished.
Silence.
I looked ahead.
The eerie shadow that had been on my right side was also gone.
“….”
“….”
‘Phew.’
I had gotten through it well by not reacting.
Hah. I held back a sigh of relief, grateful for the first time for my current body that doesn’t show much agitation.
‘I endured this.’
Now that I had gotten through it, I could respond to Deputy Manager Lee Seong-hae’s ghost story. Phew!
“I think it’s quite convincing.”
“Right?”
“Yes. There’s also the superstition that ghosts do things in reverse. Maybe it wasn’t a wrong-way vehicle, but something driving the wrong way through the tunnel in the dead of night
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