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.

a gamble, but it's worth a

was quick to come up with a

into a fist, he pushed the wall

Bang—!

***

"Akh."

my knees buckled and I kneeled on

hurts like

Drip—! Drip—!

heavily panted for breath as I closed my eyes and repeated the same breathing

thing that

wouldn't matter how hard I pounded the wall if my breathing was incorrect as incorrect breathing would give

Gulp—!

turned toward the direction of where the water dripping sound

bottom of my lips, I forced myself to stop thinking about

about it, the thirstier

'Fuck.'

as I felt

as I was about to despair over my circumstances, my ears pricked up a muffled banging sound coming

Bang—!

"Hm?"

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

side of the wall, I tried to hear

Bang—!

wasn't left

ear against the side of

up when

there someone

long, however

is one of the people responsible for trapping

very real possibility that I couldn't exclude as

Bang—!

Even then.

from my spot, I tensed my

Bang—!

this was my only hope at the moment. While I still had energy, I repeated the same

"Huuu..."

***

Bang—!

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

"One, two, three..."

to punch the wall once more, however, just as he was about to punch, he suddenly heard another muffled banging sound coming

Bang—!

across his face as he

looks like he heard

of something, Jin didn't immediately punch the wall like the last time he did. With a rather complex look on his face, he took a

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

wasting a single second, he punched the wall in short and long time

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

***

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

"Hm?"

to hit the wall once again, my hand

"This pattern..."

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

soon covered my mouth with my hand as the chip inside of my head started to run at

before

'It's Morse code.'

long and short standardized sequence pattern...It

get

was currently on another planet. What were the chances

Unless...

I proceeded to listen

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

(Dark Room)

the chip I was able to instantly make out the message, and my head snapped

"...Human."

This confirmed it.

communicating with me at the moment was a human, and they were in a similar situation to

had no doubt about this as I crossed my arms together

"It's most likely Jin."

myself after

the conclusion I came up with after contemplating it

train of thought wasn't complicated.

currently on a planet where no humans should

the other person was human and that during the time the portal expanded Jin was resting on top of my shoulders, this was the only logical conclusion I could

is no doubt that the person on

again reaffirmed

time he seemed to have entered the