"1 day until we die."
We inspected the secrets of the tunnel all day. This discovery was crucial, but it might've been too late. There could be exits all over the city, but it was impossible to look everywhere all in one day.
We slept in the tunnel that night, but as I drifted off to sleep, I realized something.
We never found that room with the computers.
"16 hours until we die."
I paced the halls impatiently.
Fear was the only thing in my mind.
Only 16 hours left.
Would we die in 16 hours?
Most likely. There was no way we'd escape from certain death in just 16 hours.
We were going to die.
"8 hours until we die."
"What do we do?"
Kiya glanced at Aiko, who'd just spoken. Aiko was looking tired and deflated.
It scared me.
Junichi shook his head. He seemed at a loss for words. I felt the same.
"I- I don't know," he spoke quietly after a few moments. I breathed out slowly, scared.
"Is... there anything we can do?"
Junichi, Aiko, and Kiya all looked at me with varying degrees of solemness.
No one said anything.
No one needed to.
We all already knew.
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40A25K4
Mystery / ThrillerWe had 40 days. We had an old photograph. We had 25 thousand dollars. We had the four of us. And that was all we had to escape death.
