Submerged Reality

"Is he okay?"

Ji-hyun saw that the green water had already spread to the young man's corpse's ankles, yet he seemed utterly unaware, standing straight in the water like a statue. Only the thick chain extending from his right hand kept retracting, and she asked worriedly.

"Look at those things in the water. They don't even dare touch him. They're all avoiding him." Je-yoon pointed at the transparent evil ghosts in the water.

Only then did the others relax slightly.

At least for now, they hoped Ah-yeon was right—that the corpse before them still had a chance of helping them escape.

As the chains pulled, the water gradually turned into a gushing torrent.

The cracks in the floor also grew larger. This was clearly not as simple as cracks in a single floor's flooring; it seemed as though the entire underground had become one whole.

Wu Heng, standing on the ship that had turned into a block of red ice, was likewise continuously retracting his chains.

The ghost ship, enclosed in a U-shape by the chains, was restrained between two chains and sped forward like a railcar.

It grew faster and faster.

The surface of the entire green sea completely boiled, and no one knew how many ghosts had dissipated.

A full hour later.

Inside Room 402, the floor had completely collapsed, and Wu Heng's young corpse had been fully submerged.

Ah-yeon and the other five had been forced up to nearly the ceiling, with the water already reaching their feet.

No one knew how deep the bizarre green water beneath them was.

Yet every piece of wood or plastic submerged in the water failed to float back up. Only invisible ghosts drifted through it.

A lock of Ah-yeon's hair had already sunk into the water, constantly driving away those