The Kim twins

Chapter 34: Letters left behind.

"I feel like we are about to rob a bank." Harley chuckled as they made their way into the old abandoned building.

They were dressed in black, they had a cap on their heads and a mask on their faces. Only their eyes could be seen. They had their flashlights in their hands, backpacks on their backs, and Harley had her comfort baseball bat.

"It feels like it doesn't it?" Jin smiled.

Based on the map Jin had in his hand, they were supposed to be at the entrance of the basement. The passage was narrow, dark and full of cobwebs. The air was hard to breath as it was polluted with dust and a strong smell of decay.

"Jesus, did something died here?" Harley scrounged her nose in disgust.

Jin shrugged. "It's a possibility." He light up the map with his flashlight. "I don't see an entrance. The map shows it somewhere around here..." He put the light over the brick wall.

Harley rolled her eyes. "It's not gonna show you a sign here's the entrance." She smacked his head.

"Hey, why did you do that for?" Jin whispered yelled.

"Haven't you watched any movie? Usually there is a brick in the wall you have to press." She explained with a straight face, trying hard not to laugh. It would be such a cliché if that were to happen. She just hoped whoever build the place would have had a little more imagination.

"You press the bricks, I look around." While Harley pushed unsuccessfully each brick that she thought it might be the right one, Jin scanned carefully the place, inch by inch, until he saw something similar to a handle. "Come here." He called for his sister.

His sister said nothing as she came next to him. "What is it?"

"This lever here. It doesn't fit in the room."

"Then push it, or pull it. I don't care, just do something." Jin rolled his eyes and first pushed the lever who did nothing in return. Then he pulled it, and a part of the floor just disappeared, showing a set of stairs that went underground.

"This was my favorite pair of shoes." Harley screeched as the water was up to her ankle. If the passage before was narrow, now it could barely fit a person.

"At least we found the source of smell." Jin pointed out.

"I swear to God, if I find a crocodile here, I'm gonna lose it."

Jin slightly pushed his sister in front. "Just move."

"Jerk." Harley muttered.

"Takes one to know one." Jin shrugged.

They slowly walked to where the map showed a hidden room. They walked slowly as the muddy water made it hard for them to see their own feet. They were thankful they had their mask on, the air was too hard to breath. It didn't take long for them to reach a rusted door. Unfortunately, the said door had a lock on it.

"Do you have a bobby pin on you?" Jin asked.

"Yep." Harley took off a bobby pin from her hair and gave it to her brother.

Due to the narrowing passage, Jin had a hard time getting in front. He squatted down and tried his luck. Jin had a James Bond phase when he was younger. First he tried wall climbing, in which he miserably failed. Then he tried to steal a car, which almost ended in burning down his father's car. Later on, he tried to learn how to pick a lock. Thank God for the existence of YouTube and Google, he managed to learn how to do it.

And to his surprise and Harley's shock, it worked. Jin managed to break the lock and open the door with a screech. He turned around and grinned at his sister.