Dystopia Of Night - Chapter 2 Part 7

“Really, you’re amazing!”

Teacher Hyeong-jin approached Sehan and shouted.

“Thanks to you we survived!”

Even the young policeman bowed his head deeply in respect to Sehan. The middle-aged policeman who didn’t like Sehan also quietly joined the crowd.

4883, who was bitten by the snake’s fangs, was lying next to them, but the people were too busy approaching Sehan and talking to him to notice. Yuju felt scared by their fanatic attitudes, and tightly held hands with him, like she was protecting Sehan, while alternating her gaze between 4883 and Kyeong-joon.

“But is he okay?”

4883 was still alive. He groaned intermittently with his blood-stained lips and had occasional seizures.

“What the. He’s still alive?”

Hansol looked at 4883 with disgust and then went to Kyeong-joon.

“Are you okay?”

Kyeong-joon, who was severely strangled by 4883, could barely speak. He was badly bruised, and it was obvious that he was in serious pain even to those who knew nothing. He winced in pain every time he moved his neck, as if his bones were broken. He also had a concussion from hitting his head hard, and his vision was cloudy.

“Can you stand up?”

“Please wait!”

Yuju quickly stopped Hansol, who was trying to help Kyeong-joon up.

“I think it’s risky to move him right away. Shouldn’t we keep him down and put a splint on his neck?”

Yuju offered her opinion based on the emergency care course she took as an elective in college.

“That… if it’s a simple emergency treatment, I can do it. I majored in nursing.”

The younger one of the office workers, Yeonji, raised her hand and came forward.

“Didn’t you say you were an office worker, noona?”

“Is there a law that says you have to choose a career based on your major?”

Hansol and Yeonji made a simple splint for Kyeong-joon using clothes and some wood.

4883 was still lying on the ground, in a bad condition. Moreover, his condition was so severe that the more he vomited, the more blood came out. Even where the monster’s teeth had bitten him, blood was still flowing.

“Ah… we need to stop the bleeding first!”

Although the memory of 4883 strangling Kyeong-joon was scary, she couldn’t just leave a seriously injured patient like this.

Yuju thought of using the remaining pieces of clothing for Kyeong-joon’s treatment, but she noticed the people looking at her. While they didn’t stop Yuju from treating 4883, their eyes said otherwise.

Just leave him alone.

It was a sad thing. To feel guilty for saving someone’s life.

“Is there anything left?”

At that moment, Sehan pointed to the remaining cloth.

“What? Ah, yes!”

Sehan, who was sitting next to Yuju, wrapped the cloth around 4883’s stomach.

“This treatment won’t last long. There is also a high chance of blood poisoning.”

Then what should we do?

At that moment, those words kept swirling in Yuju’s head. It was an attempt to rely on Sehan’s strength like everyone else.

‘It must be difficult to take responsibility for all of them alone. I can’t become a  burden too.’

Yuju bit her lip and examined 4883’s body. It was an action meant to assess and make a decision on her own, but soon Yuju noticed something strange.

“Does that snake monster have poison?”

“Poison?”

Sehan said in a slightly louder voice. His words caught the attention of the people, who turned their gaze towards Yuju.

“His complexion looks a bit strange.”

Others didn’t seem to notice that 4883’s face turned black. Yuju gestured to Yeonji and Hansol who were treating Kyeong-joon, and they came closer with interest.

“Gasp! It’s true. Will it appear again? We have to be careful not to get bitten.”

There’s a lot of information in a corpse. That’s why the two were examining it.

Yeonji referred to 4883’s body as a corpse, and she recalled Sehan carefully observing the monster’s body.

Her words soon became a fact. 4883, who was spitting out blood, soon breathed his last breath.

“He’s dead.”

Sehan, who was examining 4883, shook his head while looking towards Yuju. Yeonji also agreed and said that 4883 was dead. There was no reason to be cautious around the corpse, so the two of them were completely relaxed.

‘Dead?’

That was when Yuju saw 4883’s finger trembling.

His finger moved.

Yuju tried to say that. But perhaps due to her surprise, the words did not come out of her mouth. 4883, whom she thought was dead, suddenly sat up and attacked Sehan from behind.

When she saw his pupils and irises flipped upside down, leaving only the whites of his eyes, Yuju let out a silent scream.

‘Sehan!’

However, her voice did not reach him. Sehan, who was looking at Yuju with a puzzled expression, was approached by 4883, who opened his mouth wide with his lips trembling. The dead lips parted, revealing a bloody gold tooth.

Before she could make any judgements, Yuju wrapped her hand around Sehan’s neck and pulled him back.

Snap!

At the sound of something hard hitting, Yuju opened her tightly closed eyes.

4883 could only click its teeth together and make noise, unable to bite because of Yuju. Sehan, who had realized the attack, kicked 4883 away.

4883 stumbled on the ground as if forgetting how to walk on its feet. Its wrists were bound in handcuffs, so its speed wasn’t fast, but he slithered towards the others like a snake.

His injured area burst open, and blood and flesh fell heavily to the ground. 4883 opened his mouth, making a cracking sound, revealing a grotesque shape that was too eerie to be considered human.

“I-It’s dead! How can it move like that!”

“Are you sure you checked properly?”

“I did! It was definitely dead! Wasn’t it?”

Yeonji asked Sehan for confirmation, panicked. However, in the meantime, 4883 reached Kyeong-joon, who couldn’t escape.

4883 immediately bit into Kyeong-joon’s face. His teeth had turned into sharp fangs. Kyeong-joon’s flesh was ripped apart with a cracking sound, and his eyeballs dangled loosely.

“Ahhhh!”

Kyeong-joon, who had been unable to speak properly due to his throat being squeezed, screamed until his throat was about to burst. 4883 continued to tear at Kyeong-joon’s face. The people who thought they had adapted to the world of monsters once again began to crumble as they heard the sound of crunching flesh.

“This is insane! What is that?”

The students cursed while watching 4883 attack Kyeong-joon from a distance. Kyeong-joon reached out to his friends and whispered.

“Hyung, h-help…”

4883 then bit at the wrist of Kyeong-joon. After that, Kyeong-joon turned quiet. It was unclear whether he was in shock, dead, or alive. No, they couldn’t even think about it.

After biting Kyeong-joon several times, 4883 regained his appetite and lunged at the nearest man. He was 1768, a criminal like 4883. Despite 4883’s death, he did not shed a single tear and quickly fled.

“Ahhhh!”

The group of college students who caught 4883’s attention were his new targets. He had been crawling on the ground, but suddenly sprang up.

However, the robust young men armed with weapons were not easy prey.

“This bastard! Die! Die!”

Along with a blunt sound, 4883’s head bursted.

That should have been the end. It was unimaginable for a human to live and move with half of its head destroyed. But this was not a world where common sense applied.