Wrong Universe | All of us are dead

ˏˋ°•*⁀➷Chapter 19

"Is it done?"

"I think you placed the battery wrong."

"Is it going to work?"

Byeol stood in front of the door to the broadcasting room, contemplating whether she should stay with them or leave since she's infected. She don't know when she's going to get hungry again and she didn't want to hurt her friends but at the same time, she doesn't want to be alone in this school filled with undead. She didn't want to be alone again.

She could hear their conversation inside although she couldn't see them because the windows were covered. However, she could tell that they're making something that they can use to apparently look for the both of them.

At the mention of Cheong-san's name, Byeol finally made her decision. She slip out the now filled with supplies backpack and places it by door, tapping her knuckles lightly in pattern, repeating it again until someone--- ehem, Nam-ra or Joon-yeong manages to decode it.

Meanwhile, inside of the broadcasting room, the group of misfits were all crowded around the table while Joon-yeong take the lead to fix the drone with Dae-su, Wujin, and Gyeong-su hovering beside him and annoying him.

Joon-yeong sticks the note they made on top of the drone, connecting the wires as it chimes signalling that it was working.

"Does it work?" asks Dae-su, "Is it working?"

"I think it is." Wujin commented.

Just then, a series of soft knocks took their attention from the drone to the door. All of their heads snapped towards the door, Joon-yeong removing the monitor goggles on her eyes as Dae-su and Su-hyeok steps forward in alert.

"Do you think it's a zombie?" Gyeong-su asks in nervous tone.

"Does zombies know how to knock?" Dae-su asks in uncertainty as the soft knocks continues.

"Maybe it's Cheong-san or Byeol?" Su-hyeok suggested to which made On-jo to stand upright, forehead furrowing as she begins to walk towards the door but got pulled back by Hyo-ryeong.

"It might not be them. We can't be sure." she stated.

Nam-ra, ever the genius was the first one to notice the consistency and pattern on the knock, "Wait, I think it's not a zombie," the knocking stops at her sentence.

The group watches in confusion as she pulled out a pen and a sticky note just as the tapping sound starts again. She starts drawing dots and dashes which confuses everyone more aside from one.

"What's that?" Su-hyeok asks but he got shushed by Nam-ra.

"It's a morse code?" Joon-yeong answers in whisper tone to not disturb the class president.

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Nam-ra stares at dashes and dots as she starts decoding it. Writing the corresponding letter below the group of dashes and dots, "Food?"

As she read it out loud, the knocks starts again and she scrambles to write it on the sticky notes.

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"Byeol?" said Joon-yeong after a couple of silence, decoding it himself.

This time, no one could stop On-jo as she closes the distance between her and the door. She lifted the newspaper blocking the window to look outside but she sees no one. However, she saw a black backpack by the door.

"It's Byeol's backpack," said On-jo and was about to open the door but Su-hyeok blocks it.

"Wait, how can we be sure it's Byeol? It's impossible for her to walk on the hallway, there's a lot of zombies outside the broadcasting room and we didn't hear a single commotion," Su-hyeok explains, taking precautions.