On the rooftop.
All color drained from the couple's faces.
The heavy footsteps in the stairwell sounded like nothing a human could make.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
One after another, the heavy, muffled thuds came with the terror of approaching death, each step almost seeming to land on their hearts.
They could practically picture it.
A hulking, inhuman monster, carrying an iron hammer as big as an adult's head, was inching toward tonight's prey with a savage grin.
"Honey, what do we do? What do we do? Every bone in our bodies is going to be smashed! Think of something!"
"Fuck! How the hell should I know?"
The man was frantic too.
The two were hiding beneath a solar water heater, where several pieces of a dismembered corpse lay.
A little girl's head was the most intact of them. Most of the flesh on it had rotted and blackened, but its eyes were very lively, seemingly staring fixedly at them!
That made the atmosphere even more terrifying.
The footsteps drew closer and closer.
Amid their prayers, they still reached the rooftop, and the couple's faces turned ashen.
Their pursuer approached the solar water heater.
Their hearts were practically in their throats.
But the footsteps paused, then headed off in another direction, apparently without discovering them.
After searching the rooftop, their pursuer actually left just like that.
Listening to the sound gradually recede,
the two survivors embraced, weeping with joy.
"Boohoo, honey, I was scared to death! We survived! Heaven was watching over us."
"Yeah..."
"Yeah what?" the woman couldn't help asking.
Because the instant her husband said that word, his voice cut off.
The man's eyes were wide, his Adam's apple bobbing, his whole body almost petrified. On the other side of the solar water heater, a face had abruptly appeared.