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Soobin's Pov

Using the flashlight from Kai's phone, we continue down the stairwell. The atmosphere around us is a little odd, but it's kind of nice in a weird way.

You'd think that group of boys in their teens would've been going through a midlife crisis and have a mental breakdown after teaming up to kill someone....something?

However ,we're at peace. Yeonjun even makes some quiet small talk at the back with Kai while helping him walk.

We ripped the bottom of his shirt and used it to create a makeshift gauze for his wound.

Even if it's not very deep or even a a fatal wound necessarily, it still seems to be putting him in a lot of discomfort. I mean, I wouldn't blame him.

Thankfully, I've never had my side gashed out by a rabid-dog acting- human (?) but I think I can speak for everyone when I say that it looks ridiculously painful.

It's not a gnash that you can ignore that easily.

Continuing our decent down the stairwell, we start to see a dim light at the bottom. After somewhere between twenty and thirty minutes, we finally make it to the end.

Stepping off the final step and onto laminated, smooth concrete floor, we look around. There are a multitude of pillars at the bottom supporting the stairs above us.

A couple meters ahead are two giant metal doors with caged amber lights illuminating the top two corners. It looks very similar to the door we got in through upstairs, but there doesn't appear to be any weird scanner device and I can only make out what I assume to be a handle on the door.

We look up to observe the spiral abyss of iron bars and steps above us, each pillars glossed with a warm glow from the dim amber lighting until it eventually descends into the darkness we just stepped out of.

We look ahead and walk towards the doors. Taehyun reaches out to grip the handle, but beomgyu grips his writs before he can.

"We don't know what could be behind those doors," he whispers as if the walls were listening.

"We could run into people who are on Woojin's side...or more things like what we left upstairs".

Taehyun holds his gaze for a second before nodding in agreement. "What do you suggest we do then?".

Beomgyu points above the door without hesitation.

We look up to see the metal rectangular box.

A vent.

"Bitch wants us to play among us," Kai rasps, followed by a dry laugh that leaves him coughing.

You could hear the strain and exhaustion in this voice underneath the snarky tone he took.

We all look back at him unimpressed faces but don't bother coming up with any retort to avoid putting any strain on him.

"Think about it, if we can boost one of us up there to unscrew the cover, we can probably squeeze through and make our way about. It's better than finding a way to pass through those doors and risk running into someone," he says while beaming.

I have to give it to him, it's not that bad of an idea, but where are we gonna get a screwdriver and how is kai gonna get drag himself through a vent right now.

Almost as if he read my mind, Kai says just that.

Taehyun suggest we use the edge of the axe since its thin enough and the quietest option since we only have a pot cover, golf club, mallet, axe and bat to choose from.