Falsehood

As Je-yoon and the others hesitated over whether to truly turn off the flashlights completely and plunge all four of them into the darkness of the hospital corridor, the lights inside the filming tent halfway up the mountain flickered once more.

The tent canvas was being violently pressed inward by the wind outside. This time, palm-shaped prints appeared on the indented canvas.

It was as if someone were pushing against the tent.

Captain Ha-joon stared anxiously at the screen, which kept sparking. The viewer count had now risen to 800,000.

He hurriedly lit a candle. The instant the flame came to life, every light bulb and computer screen went out.

Only the faint candlelight remained.

This time, he placed the candle inside a glass jar. Though the flame swelled and shrank, teetering on the verge of going out, it did not extinguish completely.

Stubbornly casting its limited light into the darkness.

Holding the candle, Ha-joon went to the generator in the corner to find out why the computer and light bulbs had lost power.

After searching for a while, he discovered that the battery module was leaking underneath. There was a tear in it, as though it had been scratched open by fingernails.

Especially when he saw the connector, he froze completely!

"How is this possible?!"

Ha-joon stood there like a wooden statue, seized by a terrifying sensation that he might faint. He desperately gripped the candle jar in his hand, the faint warmth keeping him conscious.

On the ground before him, the computer plug was not plugged into the battery pack at all!

Didn't that mean

the computer had not been connected to a power source this whole time? Then how had a computer with no power turned on?

He had clearly been sitting in front of it just