I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 120

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Chapter 120

Awoooo!

Just then, the sound of wolves howling came from very far away.

“Damn it.”

I urgently turned my head and saw Eun-ji looking at me with a bright, tilted head.

I looked down at Eun-ji once, then at the dark stairs below, alternating between them as I pondered.

“I guess it would be better to go down, right?”

Awoooo!

Hearing the wolf howl that followed, I decided to go down without hesitating any longer.

‘I need a torch.’

Looking around, I picked up a long wooden stick. Then I unwrapped the bandage around my forearm. Fortunately, the wound area had stopped bleeding, so it shouldn’t be too much of a problem if I applied medicine.

I put the bandage down on the floor and took out the lighter from my cross bag. I soaked the bandage with lighter fluid, wrapped it around the end of the wooden stick, then looked at Eun-ji.

“Eun-ji, give me some fire.”

When I asked, Eun-ji spewed out a small fire about the size of a fist. The bandage caught fire and the torch blazed brightly.

I reached out my hand toward Eun-ji. As if she had been waiting, Eun-ji climbed up my arm and settled her head comfortably on my shoulder.

I slowly went down the stairs. And as I descended, I didn’t forget to reach for the wooden board at the entrance to the stairs and close the door.

Everything was pitch black, making it difficult to distinguish what was what. With my vision barely sustained by the torch, I carefully stepped forward.

Tap. Tap.

Apart from the sound of my footsteps going down the stairs, there was only silence, making me feel suffocated. My shoulders stiffened with tension.

I don’t know what’s at the bottom of these stairs, but I hope it’s better than the magical beasts above ground. Please.

The stairs that had continued for a long time eventually ended, and solid ground touched my feet.

When I held up the torch to illuminate the surroundings, there was a corridor so dark I couldn’t see ahead properly.

The corridor was very narrow and low in height. Only people with small builds could enter.

Men with large builds like Enoch and Kaiden probably wouldn’t be able to pass through. Perhaps that’s why it felt even more eerie.

‘Who could have made something like this.’

Could it be Jenas after all?

Rather than exploring such a suspicious space alone, it might be better to just sit on the stairs and go back up when the sun rises.

‘But I can’t just pass by without properly investigating.’

The information we had about the island was already extremely limited.

If there’s a chance to find out even a fingernail’s worth of information, I should actively seek it out.

Who knows, another space like Jenas’s cabin might appear.

I took a deep breath and started walking.

Since the space was narrow, I stretched out the hand holding the torch in front of me and moved carefully. Perhaps because it was a corridor made of stone walls, it felt cool and chilly.

Drip. Drip.

The sound of water dripping was particularly loud. Feeling somewhat desolate, I walked forward but also turned the torch to check behind me.

I couldn’t see the end ahead, and since I had walked for quite a while, the same was true for behind me.

I stood there blankly in the middle when Eun-ji on my shoulder lifted her head and rubbed her scales against my cheek, helping me come to my senses.

“Thank you.”

After whispering softly to Eun-ji, I started walking again.

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I was gradually feeling like oxygen was running out.

I was caught up in serious contemplation about whether I should retrace my steps back the way I came.

‘Wouldn’t it be better to go outside and look for Enoch and Kaiden?’

But how would I know where they are.

After standing in the dark corridor and pondering, I eventually started walking again. The corridor seemed endless.

Then Eun-ji, who was wrapped around my arm, stretched out her head and looked straight ahead while baring her sharp fangs.

Kyaak-

I stopped dead in my tracks, tensed up.

I stretched out the hand holding the torch far forward, but all I could see was barely an inch ahead.

And at that moment, I heard the sound of something approaching from very far away.

Thud thud thud thud thud thud-

It was an eerie sound, as if something huge was rolling toward me.

There was nowhere to hide here. It was a narrow corridor with low height.

Damn it. Whatever it was, was I going to die so pathetically here?

…No, that can’t happen.

‘I need to escape right now!’

I turned around to retrace my steps back the way I came. Then Eun-ji, who had climbed onto my shoulder, suddenly climbed up over my head.

“Huh? Eun-ji!”

I called out to her in surprise, but she mercilessly leaped up high. It should have been blocked by the ceiling, but she disappeared into the darkness.

Surprised, I held up the torch and saw tree branches tangled together like a steel frame structure. Eun-ji was hanging among them, looking at me and flicking her tongue.

Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud thud-

The sound that had been faintly audible was gradually getting closer. It was enough to tell how long the corridor was.

I quickly bit the handle of the torch with my mouth and jumped up to firmly grasp the tree branches on the ceiling.

Then, like doing a pull-up, I bent my legs up and tucked them between the tree branches, hanging from the ceiling.

‘Damn it, I feel like I’m going to fall.’

My hanging hands were trembling like aspen leaves. Even during high school PE class, I was always last at hanging from the pull-up bar. Moreover, I was currently injured on my arm.

The torch in my mouth might accidentally touch the vine stems. That made it even harder to maintain my position.

‘My face is getting hot from the torch.’

But if I dropped the torch here, that would be an even bigger problem. I had to endure it. Because I needed to survive.

That desperate desire not to die gave me strength I didn’t know I had.

Thud thud thud thud-

The sound that had been coming from far away was now very close. I had thought it was the sound of rocks rolling, but listening carefully, it felt a bit lighter than rocks.

Hanging from the ceiling and looking down upside down, I could see something moving in the distance at the edge of my inverted vision.

Large-bodied rats were clumped together and rolling toward me.

Seeing them gradually approaching gave me chills. I pressed my body tightly against the ceiling and just waited for them to safely pass through the corridor.

Before long, the ball of rats rolled under me and passed right by.

I let out a sigh of relief as the feeling of reassurance washed over me,

Snap.

The vine I was holding in my right hand broke. Hearing that sound, the ball of rats that had been moving away in the distance stopped abruptly.

Snap snap. This time the vine stem I was holding in my left hand broke. Because of that, my upper body tilted downward.

‘Fuck, I’m screwed!’

I put strength into my legs to avoid falling to the floor. Then I grabbed the torch I had been holding in my mouth with my hand and stretched it forward to secure my vision.

In the distance, the rats that had been huddled together like a ball suddenly scattered and came running toward me.

I hastily landed on the floor and threatened them by waving the torch toward the rats to prevent them from approaching me. As the flames swung around, the rats hesitantly stopped and backed away.

At that moment, Eun-ji, who had been hanging from the ceiling, came down to the floor.

The reaction of the rats who belatedly discovered Eun-ji was unusual. They began to flee, making a commotion as if having seizures, and some hesitantly watched for their chance. Since the predator anaconda had appeared before the rats, it was understandable.

The problem was that those rats were also magical beasts, so Jenas might have figured out my location through them.

‘Damn it.’

Eun-ji crawled toward me, wriggling. The little one glanced at me sideways, reading my mood.

“Do whatever you want.”

As soon as my permission was given, the little one wagged its tail once and immediately opened its mouth wide.

In that state, as it inhaled, even the rats that were far away rolled in with the wind and were sucked into Eun-ji’s mouth.

The powerful suction force caused wind to whirl through the narrow corridor, and the torch flame flickered as if it would go out.

After a moment, the wind stopped and Eun-ji’s snout returned to its original size. There wasn’t a single rat left in the corridor.

Eun-ji glanced up at me and stuck out its tongue. Soon the little one burped. Do snakes burp too?

What do I care. Eun-ji isn’t even a real snake anyway.

“Good job.”

At my praise, Eun-ji spun around in place as if pleased. So cute.

‘If it weren’t for Eun-ji, I would have been in big trouble.’

Eun-ji really is the best.

I picked up the little one and put it on my shoulder, then walked toward the end of the corridor again.

Actually, it was such a gloomy space that it wouldn’t be strange for rats to pop out at any time. Seeing that Eun-ji devoured them, they seemed to be rats with mana.

I walked a bit more hurriedly. I needed to quickly find out what was at the end of this corridor and then meet up with Enoch and Kaiden.

It was when I had walked for about thirty more minutes by my estimation. A faint light flickered at the far end of the corridor.

I briefly took out a flare I had stored in my bag, loaded it, and carefully approached the light.

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