The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 47

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Calamity-Grade Relics from Urban Legends Obsess — Episode 47
Since his purpose was exploration, it stood to reason that Happy held the answer.
“Woof!”
Happy barked as if to say that Woo Ju should trust only him, and immediately began to sniff the air.
And soon, he took off running in one direction.
“Let’s go.”
“Right.”
Both of them started running after Happy at once.
Happy’s pace was relentless.
The bizarre architecture of this place, the infinitely repeating spaces—none of it seemed to constrain him in the slightest.
Though he might have paused along the way, watching Happy barrel forward with his eyes fixed only ahead, Woo Ju found himself wondering.
‘He’s not just running because he’s excited, is he?’
It seemed unlikely, yet the way he charged forward without hesitation made the thought unavoidable.
Still, there was no stopping now, so Woo Ju kept running.
How long had they been running after Happy?
By Woo Ju’s watch, about twenty minutes.
During that time, a few monsters had lunged at them, but Woo Ju hadn’t needed to lift a finger.
Crash!
Happy had handled them all.
Then, not long after.
“Woof!”
Happy suddenly stopped.
The place where he stopped was a Corridor no different from any other.
Peeling wallpaper, flickering fluorescent lights, a musty smell—nothing particularly striking about it.
“Woof! Woof!”
But Happy barked insistently at one spot.
Woo Ju and Baek Ho looked in that direction, and quickly spotted something.
“Here.”
The pattern on one section of the wallpaper was slightly—just slightly—off.
In the Backrooms’ infinitely repeating landscape, anything that differed was the critical point.
“Good job, Happy.”
Woo Ju gave Happy’s head a quick pat and repositioned the Iron Pipe in his grip.
“Should we break through?”
“Break it.”
Baek Ho’s answer was short and clear.
Without hesitation, Woo Ju swung at the wall.
Crash!
Once, twice.
On the third swing, the wall crumbled helplessly inward.
As the dust settled, what lay revealed was—
Whoosh, whoosh.
A space tangled with wiring and pipes.
Whether it was a deeper section or somewhere else entirely, they had discovered another location.
“Team Lead Hwa Ryeon!”
And there, in that very place, was Hwa Ryeon.
Leaning against a pile of pipes, breathing heavily, Hwa Ryeon turned at the sound of her name and widened her eyes.
“You two…!”
Hwa Ryeon glanced around briefly, then immediately approached them.
“You broke through that wall just now?”
“Yes. But what’s happened here?”
Baek Ho spoke first, asking the question.
Hwa Ryeon furrowed her brow as she answered.
“It’s a long story. I made contact with a Survivor, and things got complicated.”
But then, at that very moment—
Rattle-rattle-rattle!
The wiring and dense pipes running along the wall suddenly began to vibrate.
Hwa Ryeon pulled Woo Ju toward her at once and called out to Baek Ho.
“Press yourselves against the wall!”
Woo Ju flattened himself against the wall, nearly touching Hwa Ryeon, while Baek Ho quickly pressed himself against the opposite side.
And then, immediately after—
Whoooosh!
A crimson flash burst from some distant point, and moments later, a band of light swept rapidly along the center of the corridor.
Hwa Ryeon waited until it had completely vanished from sight before she spoke.
“Phew. We can let go now.”
“What was that just now?”
Woo Ju’s question drew a brief answer from Hwa Ryeon.
“A Scan.”
“A Scan?”
“If you don’t get out of its way, Entities come swarming in from all sides in a heartbeat. It’s a nightmare.”
Hwa Ryeon clicked her tongue once, then spoke to them again.
“For now, let’s head to where the Survivors are. It’s relatively safe there.”
“Understood.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
It seemed better to save any serious conversation for after they reached that Safe Location.
So Woo Ju followed Hwa Ryeon along with Baek Ho and Happy.
Whoooosh!
A few more Scans passed by on the way, but nothing else happened.
They reached the Safe Location about ten minutes later.
“Here it is.”
Hwa Ryeon pointed to a gap between pipes barely wide enough for a single person to squeeze through, then slipped past it herself.
Woo Ju and Happy followed close behind.
“Oh.”
They stepped into a fairly spacious chamber and let out a soft exclamation of wonder.
But then they fell silent at the sight of the people huddled together inside.
Specifically, at the exhaustion and terror etched into their faces.
Hwa Ryeon spoke to them in a measured tone, though suspicion was written across their expressions.
“These people work with me.”
Woo Ju and Baek Ho instinctively bowed their heads in greeting.
Yet the wariness in the Survivors’ eyes did not fade.
Rather than press the matter further, Hwa Ryeon led the two of them to a secluded corner and got down to business.
“Those are the Survivors.”
“They all look pretty worn down.”
“Can’t blame them. From what I’ve heard, the Entity in this place is a particularly nasty type.”
“Nasty type?”
“Yeah. There are a few kinds of Entities that pose as human beings. And quite a few people have fallen for it.”
Baek Ho spoke up quietly at that point.
“How did you end up here in the first place?”
The original plan had been to link up immediately upon entry and evacuate the Survivor who had sent the distress signal.
After that, they were supposed to seal off any newly discovered passages, and the mission would be complete.
Hwa Ryeon answered his question without hesitation.
“I was trying to link up, obviously. But I spent nearly four days getting lost before I stumbled across the Survivors first.”
“Four days?”
“Yeah. And that was already more than three days ago.”
Which meant more than a week had already passed.
Hwa Ryeon narrowed her brows as she looked at their startled faces.
“How many days has it been for you two?”
“For me, four days.”
“For me, two days.”
They looked at each other then.
They had both just realized that their timelines didn’t match up precisely.
Though they’d traveled together for quite some time.
“It’s possible the Backrooms is distorting our sense of time, or maybe time itself is twisted in here.”
“Yeah, that seems to be it.”
Baek Ho nodded, his expression clouded with thought.
The Backrooms was a horror and a space where far more remained unknown than had been uncovered.
“Anyway, let’s sort out those details after we get back. What matters is that we’ve all regrouped.”
Hwa Ryeon met Baek Ho’s gaze as she spoke.
“The Survivor is already gathered here with the others. I’ve even found a way out.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. But there’s one thing we still need for the escape.”
After saying that much, Hwa Ryeon turned her gaze toward Woo Ju.
“What is that?”
“Power.”
Hwa Ryeon smiled slightly.
“If there’s a place you have to force your way through, that’s your strong suit, isn’t it?”
Woo Ju smiled back at her.
“Of course.”
It was undoubtedly the field where he had the most confidence.
“Good. Then I’ll go over the detailed plan. Take a look at this.”
Hwa Ryeon pulled a sheet of paper from her bag and unfolded it.
It was a kind of map—one that appeared to be drawn by her own hand.
The map was quite detailed, as if it had taken her more than a day or two to complete, and Hwa Ryeon pointed to a rectangular space on it with her finger as she spoke.
“Here. This is where we are right now.”
Her hand then traced a long line starting from the rectangular space.
“And if we follow the corridor connected to this place straight through, we’ll arrive here.”
Her fingertip came to rest on a spot where several circles had been drawn overlapping, as if for emphasis.
“This is the nearest passage to the exit.”
“But wouldn’t it be better to head back the way we came if there are danger elements?”
Hwa Ryeon shook her head at that.
“That won’t work. The survivors are in poor condition. We were dangerously short on water and food.”
“I see.”
Before the mission briefing, they had prepared plenty of rations and water.
Hwa Ryeon especially, as team leader, had even borrowed a special artifact to bring even more supplies.
But having spent over a week with some dozen survivors, nothing would be left in abundance.
It wasn’t mere exhaustion that had made Hwa Ryeon look so worn out when they first met.
Some of the survivors had been in this place for far longer, so traveling any great distance would be difficult for them.
“Besides, with our current strength, we have more than enough to break through. And since you’re here, even the trickiest part won’t be a problem.”
“Exactly what am I supposed to destroy?”
“A machine.”
“A machine?”
“Yes. There’s one blocking the exit.”
Hwa Ryeon explained the entity Woo Ju would face in meticulous detail. Then, at the end, she asked:
“Can you handle it?”
“Yes.”
No lengthy words were necessary.
Unless it was something that couldn’t be broken at all, he had the confidence to smash through anything.
“Good. Then, would you mind getting out some food and water? We’ll eat together and then move on.”
“Of course.”
“Right here.”
The two unpacked all the rations and water they had brought.
Hwa Ryeon carefully divided everything according to the number of people beforehand, then distributed it among the survivors.
Only then did the survivors’ faces brighten a little.
After they had eaten everything that was distributed,
“We’re moving now.”
Hwa Ryeon gave the survivors a brief overview of the plan.
Of course, she said nothing about what needed to be dealt with.
She only mentioned what to be careful about and that they would soon be able to escape.
That alone was enough to make hope flicker across their eyes.
“Then, let’s depart.”
Hwa Ryeon took the lead, and Woo Ju positioned himself at the very back. He naturally found himself in the middle alongside the survivors.
He could have taken the rear, but when the time came, he would need to break through the path ahead.
“Woof!”
Happy, of course, stuck closely to Woo Ju’s side as they walked.
The journey was relatively smooth.
Several Scans passed by along the way, but they all quickly pressed themselves against the walls and avoided them.
As for monsters, they were even simpler to deal with than Scans.
Crack!
When Woo Ju stepped forward and swung the Iron Pipe, they usually couldn’t survive a single blow.
As the survivors watched, they flinched and trembled, yet at the same time showed signs of relief.
The sight of a monster shattering in one hit was horrifying, but it also meant they had someone powerful protecting them.
And so they moved forward under Hwa Ryeon’s guidance.
“Here we are.”
They had finally reached their destination.
The casualty count along the way: zero. Up to this point, luck had been on their side.
But there was still one final obstacle between them and escape.
‘That must be it.’
Woo Ju narrowed his eyes, peering ahead.
Hadn’t Hwa Ryeon mentioned it earlier? That there was something like a machine blocking the exit.
She was right.
A massive metal structure stretched from ceiling to floor, completely sealing off the corridor.
Red light pulsed rhythmically across its surface, and as time passed, that glow spread outward, traveling along the corridor.
This thing was the source of the Scan signal.
“Do we just break it?”
“Yeah. The core’s right there. That red sphere thing.”
Hwa Ryeon pointed to the center of the structure.
A sphere the color of blood was embedded there, and even at first glance it looked far from ordinary.
“Then we’ll cover the rear.”
With that, Hwa Ryeon turned and headed toward the back where Baek Ho stood.
She had explained the plan beforehand.
Attacking the structure would likely draw creatures swarming in from all sides.
And that made sense—this structure itself was believed to be what called the creatures together, serving as the source of the Scan signal.
So it was reasonable to expect it would react in some way when attacked.
Woo Ju waited for Hwa Ryeon and Baek Ho to take their positions, then picked up the Iron Pipe.
“All right.”
The sooner he destroyed it, the better.
Woo Ju gathered all his strength, raised the Iron Pipe high, and then—the moment he swung it down.
Crash——————!
With a deafening boom, the Red Sphere and all the structure around it exploded outward.
“Gasp!”
“W-what—?”
The Survivors stared, their eyes wide.
They’d seen Woo Ju take down creatures on the way in, but watching him obliterate that colossal structure in a single blow was something else entirely.
Then, immediately after.
Whirrrrrrrrrr——!
The entire corridor flooded red as a siren shrieked to life, wailing like madness.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
—Screeeeech!
At the same moment, inhuman shrieks and countless footfalls erupted from the darkness.
“Run!”
At Hwa Ryeon’s cry, the Survivors instinctively surged forward in a mass.
Woo Ju, however, went the opposite direction.
Toward where the creatures were coming from.
Far from afraid, Woo Ju was grinning—a clean, easy smile.
“Right. This is better.”
Now he just had to smash everything and get out.
Continued in the next chapter ▶
Calamity-Grade Artifacts in Urban Legends Grow Obsessed
Author
Lee Se-gye
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
Published by
Grae Publishing
Contact
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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G720:N+A327-20260410110
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