The Longest Dayz

Chapter 24: Jeon Yeongsu

Yeongsu wasn't sure why, but he was almost confident that what Hanwoo was accusing the foreign woman of wasn't true. It had to be a misunderstanding. He looked around the group and saw that Kittichai also didn't seem to be suspicious of her, maybe he believed her as well. Yeongsu didn't know why it bothered him to see all the other people of the group look at her accusingly. She seemed like she had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. After all, why would the person who caused this mess, help them? Yeongsu knew she had helped save Jiwon, and also helped them when they were on the street. If she had caused it, she could've just let Jiwon be thrown out of the train. She also could've just stayed on the train where it was safer, but the foreigner had gone out of her way to help them, so it wouldn't make sense for her to be one of the people who caused it.

Unconsciously, he made his way towards the confrontation and stood idly by as she reached into her backpack. As she pulled out the evidence a couple papers fell out of her hand that she had accidentally grabbed with the clipboard. Yeongsu picked them up and examined them. They were drawings of people. The first drawing looked like one of Jiwon's professional photos from his modeling and the other looked like one of himself. He stared at the drawing for a moment, it was a very detailed drawing of him sleeping on the train. He scanned over the paper amazed, his eyes came to a halt over her name which was neatly written in cursive at the bottom of the page. Yeongsu wasn't good at English, but could still read her name; Sawyer Kayzhen.

"Is this me and Jiwon-ssi?" Yeongsu asked his thoughts out loud as he stared at the drawing of himself. The mention of his name made the blonde step forward and look over his shoulder curiously. She turned her attention to the papers Yeongsu held after she gave the detective the clipboard. He noticed a slight blush crossed her face as her eyes landed on the paper he was staring at.

"I like to draw people." Yeongsu watched as she gave him a timid smile, holding her hand out for the papers, which he respectfully returned.

"Hey, look at this?" Hanwoo passed the clipboard to Seojun hastily. Yeongsu turned his gaze to Seojun as he flipped through the pages.

"They were trying to make a biological warfare weapon to sell to the government." Seojun stated. "Most of the test subjects were a failure. Test results: Bite wounds and scratches spread the parasite. Discovery made: they were blind, but extremely sound oriented. When they bite a living human they become different. They were slower, but could see." Seojun said. Everyone remained silent, they probably weren't sure what to say. Kittichai was the first to speak as he moved to peeked over Seojun's shoulder.

"So they are really like-" Kittichai started.

"Zombies... so instead of an illness or chemical, it's a parasite?" Taehyun finished.

Seojun then continued reading. "Types of adaptations discovered: Three. Cure: unknown. Turn time: varies."

"So if there isn't a cure then it's fine to kill them?" Jiwon questioned shakily, "but if a cure is later discovered does that make us murderers?"

Yeongsu noticed that Minseok and Taehyun exchanged thoughtful looks while the rest looked at their feet at the heavy question.

"No, it doesn't." Kittichai stepped forward and put his hand on Jiwon's shoulder. "How could we have known that there would be a cure later? They can't label you a murderer for surviving." He smiled warmly at the blonde. "If you can't do it, let me do it for you." Yeongsu could tell how protective Kittichai was of the model, it didn't take a genius to figure that much out.

"What does it mean by adaptations?" Yeongsu couldn't help but ask.

"I'm not quite sure." Seojun furrowed his brows.