I thought people might split up for goals other than rescue, but hearing it actually makes my heart feel cold. I looked at the child on Jang Soo-jung's back and nodded. That person must be thinking about escape too. But there was a problem. I'm a dentist, and Kim is a marine biologist. We are useless for opening closed doors. We need an engineer to be able to rescue people.
"Since we don't know how to open the door, can an engineer go with us?"
I said this while looking at the three people. Lee Ji-hyun looked at Jang Soo-jung, and Jung Sang-hyun also looked at Jang Soo-jung. Jang Soo-jung looked at me with a strange expression and nodded. Maybe because she is the deputy team leader of the engineering team A. Jung Sang-hyun said to Jang Soo-jung.
"I want to go with you."
"Why?"
"I want to do something good."
Lee Ji-hyun, who was walking next to Jung Sang-hyun, said in surprise.
"Did you eat something wrong?"
"Ah, you're so mean. I can be good too."
Jang Soo-jung looked at Lee Ji-hyun and Jung Sang-hyun and then answered.
"Ji-hyun, you go."
"But I said I would go. Why are you leaving me out? Deputy team leader, you've been too harsh since the beginning."
"Are you okay with getting completely soaked? You might have to swim to escape. If I knew you could swim, I would have sent you first. I sent Sang-hyun first."
"Ah, I'm fine, really."
"After the rescue, I'll write a post on the bulletin board. If all the escape boats from Cheongryong-dong are gone, please write a post. It seems like the phones aren't working at all."
Lee Ji-hyun said this while taking the child from Jang Soo-jung and putting it on her back. Lee Ji-hyun's pace started to slow down a bit compared to before. Jang Soo-jung called out to Sofia, who was walking ahead. Sofia stood there expressionlessly and waited. As we caught up to Sofia, Jang Soo-jung said.
"Do you have a pad in your team?"
"No."
"What about phones?"
"The phones are dead."
Jang Soo-jung logged out of her pad and handed it to Sofia.
"It seems the intranet is working since you can write posts. If your team finds something when you go to Hyeonmu-dong, write a post."
"With the team leader's permission."
Sofia took Jang Soo-jung's pad and ran to the team leader, Vladimir, to explain something. Vladimir didn't even look at Jang Soo-jung and waved his right hand behind his back. Jang Soo-jung sighed, looking at his dark blonde hair. Jung Sang-hyun whispered to Jang Soo-jung.
"Why did you give the deputy team leader's pad to that idiot?"
"If I told you to give yours, would you have given it without a fuss?"
"Why are you trying to touch my pad?"
Jung Sang-hyun hugged his pad with his whole body. Jang Soo-jung sighed while looking at him. Lee Ji-hyun lifted the child on her back and said to Jang Soo-jung.
"Maybe it would have been better if the team leader stayed. It's not that the deputy team leader is incompetent. We have to keep seeing those guys, and your team is the best among them. It's going to be hard to communicate with those who don't understand, so there's no need to stress out."
Jang Soo-jung looked at Lee Ji-hyun's back and then at the people walking ahead.
"Maybe. But can people always live like that?"
Then Jang Soo-jung stretched and smiled at me and Yu Jin.
"Prioritize getting on the escape boat from Jujak-dong. If the Jujak-dong research center is safe, you can take the elevator inside, but it looks like the research center is gone. (Yu Jin's face darkened) If there are people trapped in Jujak-dong, try to rescue them if it's possible, but give up if not. It's hard enough to save your own life in this situation. If the water is too cold, it will be hard to open the door, and the people in the dorm might already be dead when you arrive. If you think escape from Jujak-dong is impossible, come to Cheongryong-dong. We'll be there to help."
"How will we take the child?"
When Yu Jin asked Jang Soo-jung, she turned her neck left and right and said.
"Jang Soo-jung and I will take turns carrying the child."
Jung Sang-hyun shook his head in surprise.
"What? I don't want to. Why should I?"
"You said you wanted to do something good?"
"It's hard enough to save my own life. Why should I take someone else's child?"
"By that logic, it's not my child either. What if the parents are rich?"
"No, why would rich parents leave their child in the fourth underwater base?"
"Hmm. I think so too."
Jung Sang-hyun gestured to me and said.
"The person who found the child should take it! Then it's fine!"
Jang Soo-jung nodded with her arms crossed.
"Sure. That's a good idea. But if we take the child, Moon-hyun and Jin can rescue more people faster. Hey, why are 5 people trapped in the Jujak-dong dorm? Were they playing poker? Or Hwatu? What do researchers do for fun?"
"What? Not much. They play board games and stuff."
Jung Sang-hyun jumped up and down in protest, but Jang Soo-jung ignored him.
We steadily walked into Jungang-dong. The last thing I experienced in Jungang-dong in my dream was a shootout. Even though it didn't happen in reality, the sound of gunfire and screams made my heart race. Jang Soo-jung looked at Jung Sang-hyun and then saw him hugging the pad with both arms and turning his body. She said in exasperation.
"Really. Such a small thing. I could take it by force, but I'm being nice."
"You don't even use the pad normally!"
Jang Soo-jung, who borrowed the pad from me, checked if there were any new posts or comments on the post about finding the child's parents and then wrote a new post. The author was "lifeboat."
Title: People are heading to the Jujak-dong dorm.
Content: Please provide accurate information about the number of people and their identities trapped in the room for rescue reference.
... It seemed Jang Soo-jung didn't believe that 5 people were trapped in one room in Jujak-dong. After writing the post, she paused while looking at the bulletin board list. She read through the posts and then handed the pad to me.
"Where did you find that post? I can't find it anymore."
"I'll find it for you."
I tried to find the post with a different tone among the waves of posts requesting rescue from Jujak-dong, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Why is it gone? The post about being trapped in the Cheongryong-dong submarine had completely disappeared from the bulletin board. It was definitely there. Not only me, but others had read it. Did they delete it after escaping on their own?
I thought about what happened on the Cheongryong-dong escape boat. The sound of two knocks and the fear I felt then. I thought of Ha Yoon from the engineering team A and suddenly wondered if these people might be in the Cheongryong-dong submarine. Jang Soo-jung looked at the ceiling and thought for a moment before borrowing the pad again to write a post. The author was "angry boxer."
Title: No one at the Cheongryong-dong escape boat port? Are you sure?
Content: Why were you working alone near the escape boat and ended up like that? If I go and check and find out you're lying, I'll punch you in the jaw.
Just as I was confused by the use of "escape boat" instead of "submarine," Jang Soo-jung pressed the confirmation button and checked if the post was uploaded properly. She then said to me, who was full of questions.
"The person who wrote the post deleted it. They probably thought it shouldn't be seen. Or they deleted it after escaping on their own. But it's rare for someone to delete their post to indirectly tell others not to come and save them. Most people forget they wrote it after escaping. Why did they suddenly delete it? They probably thought someone shouldn't read it."
"......What if someone who saw the previous post goes to the submarine?"
"We're going to the escape boat anyway. If there's no escape boat, we'll go to the submarine. We'll meet them. It might be better to write it incorrectly than to emphasize that someone is trapped in the Cheongryong-dong submarine. If the person who wrote the post sees this and doesn't like it, they'll comment on it."
Then she handed the pad back to me. In the middle of Jungang-dong, the engineering team D started walking towards Hyeonmu-dong, and Nikolai and Carlos, who were at the end of the group, waved at us. I, Yu Jin, and Lee Ji-hyun waved back at them.
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