Ghost Belly

Ah-yeon wrapped Wu Heng's teenage corpse in her hair and led the five injured survivors out of the laboratory, down the corridor, and toward the fourth floor.

Evil ghosts lurked within the pitch-black hallway.

Yet, miraculously, they encountered no attacks along the way. The group safely arrived at Room 402.

Just as Ah-yeon was about to place Wu Heng's body on the floor, she caught a strange smell.

"It stinks!" Ji-hyun whispered.

"Why does this smell feel familiar?" Je-yoon asked strangely, enduring the pain.

He felt as though he had smelled this intense stench somewhere before.

"It feels... like the smell of a rotting corpse. There can't be... a decaying body here, can there?" Charlotte said weakly from the side.

She had explored many places and had discovered rotting corpses in caves before.

This sort of carrion stench was extremely strong. In contrast, the corpse on Ah-yeon's back had no unusual odor whatsoever.

If not for the complete absence of a heartbeat and life force, it would have looked just like a living person.

"A rotting corpse?"

Hearing that, Ah-yeon stopped lowering Wu Heng's body. Her hair swept outward like a broom, and one meter in front of them, a rotten chicken carcass crawling with maggots appeared.

"W-Why is it here?!"

"Isn't that the chicken from the storage room?"

"Did a ghost bring it here?"

Je-yoon had nearly stepped on that chicken back then, so he was the most familiar with it. The others had also been sickened by it. Once someone smelled that rotten stench, it would be etched into their mind.

It triggered a nauseating association with 'death,' something they would almost certainly not forget for half a year.

That was why it had left such a deep impression on them.

One of Seung-wook's hands had melted while