The Author's POV

Jin carefully moved around the room, feeling the hard texture of the walls. At the moment, he was searching for anything that could help him escape.

He had no trouble seeing through the darkness, thanks to his extensive training in the darkness, and it was because of this that he also had no trouble moving around the small room.

In fact, he was almost like a fish inside of a pond.

"Hmm "

As he raised his head, he noticed a small hole above him.

He was instantly able to tell what it was as he looked down at his clothes which were covered in filth.

'Should I perhaps wait until when they open up again and take a chance from there?'

Jin thought to himself as he carefully observed the tube.

"That won't work."

He soon shook his head.

The whole was a bit too small for him to fit in and even if he managed to somehow deal damage to the person above, it would only serve to anger them which in this situation would prove fatal.

"...Just what am I supposed to do?"

Moving toward a certain section of the room, Jin placed his finger on a certain area of the wall where he felt a slightly wet sensation.

Without further ado, he brought it to his mouth and drank.

'I'm glad all of my training is paying off.'

Jin thought as he tasted the water in his mouth. From a glance, he could tell that it was water and not poison as it did not release any strange smell that he was familiar with.

Of course, that wasn't the only reason why Jin could tell it wasn't poisonous because there were several other clues that indicated to him that the liquid was drinkable.

One such example was the fact that it left no trace on the wall behind it as typically, with strong poisons, it would leave corrosive lines on the hard rock. Further adding onto that, the moss around it did not decay but seemed to rather thrive on it.

That alone was already an indication that it was unlikely that the liquid was poisonous. Regardless, Jin didn't really care as his body was immune to poisons.

With the amounts of poisons he had tasted in his lifelines, he wasn't afraid of any of them.

Given his profession, this was a must. What sort of assassin could not withstand poison?

This place.

...It was like the back of his house.

Bang—!

It was at that moment that Jin suddenly heard a muffled banging sound coming from the other side of the room he was in.

"Hm?"

He immediately became startled.

"What was that?"

Bringing his ear close to the wall, he tried to see if he could hear the sound again.

Bang—!

Once again Jin was able to hear the same muffled banging sound. It felt as though someone was punching the wall with full force.

'Are there other people here?'

Was he perhaps not the only one that was trapped in this place but there were in fact others too?

The thought suddenly reanimated his mind as he carefully placed both hands on the wall to better hear the sound.

Bang—!

Bang—!

Bang—!

Over the next few minutes, Kevin would continuously hear the same banging sound coming from the wall.

Keeping track of the intervals between each punch, Jin slowly took a step back.

"Eight seconds delay for every sound."

Sometimes a little bit less and sometimes a little bit more, but that was more or less the time interval between each punch.

Counting down from eight, Jin's brows furrowed.

"It stopped?"

Waiting another couple of seconds to see if the sound was going to appear again, he soon realized that whoever was the one responsible for making the sound had stopped.

gamble, but

to come up with a

fist, he pushed the

Bang—!

***

"Akh."

and

it hurts like

Drip—! Drip—!

heavily panted for breath as I closed

an essential thing

incorrect breathing would give me no benefits and

Gulp—!

saliva, my head turned toward the direction of where the water dripping sound

lips, I forced myself to stop thinking about

thought about it, the thirstier

'Fuck.'

cursed as I felt my

to despair over my circumstances, my ears pricked up a muffled banging sound coming

Bang—!

"Hm?"

in the direction of where the sound came from as I slowly stood up and

the side of the wall, I

Bang—!

I wasn't

my ear against the side of the wall, I heard the same muffled sound

lit up when

there someone close

did not last for long, however as I

is making the noises is one of the people responsible for

very real possibility that I couldn't exclude as my excitement dyed down a

Bang—!

Even then.

spot, I tensed my back and once again

Bang—!

moment. While I still had energy, I repeated the same

"Huuu..."

***

Bang—!

wall, Jin merely frowned at the pain. With how sturdy his body

"One, two, three..."

he was about to punch, he suddenly heard another

Bang—!

spread across his face as he heard

like he

immediately punch the wall like the last time he did. With a rather complex look on his face, he took a small

it is that's on the other side, they know

punched the wall in short

Ba..Baang..Bang..Bang...

***

Ba..Baang..Bang..Bang...

"Hm?"

the wall once again, my hand suddenly froze

"This pattern..."

Ban...Bang!..Baaa!..Bag...

with my hand as the chip inside of my head started to

before I realized

'It's Morse code.'

long and short standardized

get ahead of

another planet. What were the

Unless...

there, I proceeded to listen to

Baaa...Bang!..Baaa!..Bag...

(Dark Room)

was able to instantly make out the message, and

"...Human."

This confirmed it.

at the moment was a human, and they were in

had no doubt about this as I

"It's most likely Jin."

myself

conclusion I came up with after contemplating it

thought wasn't

currently on a planet where no

during the time the portal expanded Jin was resting

doubt that the person on the other side of the wall

once again reaffirmed

Kevin, but at the time he seemed to have entered