INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 1: THE PURPLE CODE. MAN DOWN! (1)

A total silence took over the corridors of the Department of Organized Crime. It started to feel overwhelming, especially after the fight Captain Lee had with his boss, the Colonel Kim Chang Hoo, a fight that ended when Lee slammed the door behind him, leaving his boss's office. Then, another door was slammed: it was the one leading toward the stairwell because Lee, feeling that he was burning inside and too eager to get out, decided to descend the stairs rather than wait for the elevator.

Then, seconds after the stairwell door had been closed behind him, the door of his office suddenly opened with a bang, pushed by a young man about 20, who ran as fast as he could toward the elevator. Arriving in front of it, the young man feverishly looked up, trying to see what floor his boss got out of the elevator. Yet, the only thing he saw was that the elevator was defective. This made him understand that Lee finally took the path of stairs and not the elevator, doing the same shorter after that.

Descending the stairs on the run, while feeling his heart madly beating in his chest, the young man had only one thought spinning in his mind, „I have to stop him! I must do it! Otherwise, something bad will happen for sure. Boss, wait for me! Just wait! Do not dare to do that! Do you hear me? Do not..."

He stopped eventually and even his breathing stopped halfway through his throat when he heard a shot. Then... the silence took over that place again. Only the eyes of the young Hyun Shik were slowly blinking, moved by an uncontrolled reaction... up-down, down-up, and again up-down while he seemed a simple lifeless doll whose eyes were programmed to move his this way, giving the one who was seeing them the feeling that he was looking at an alive creature.

Then, suddenly, a painful sigh came out of his chest when he felt that he was not capable of keeping that air inside him anymore. After that, feeling himself lacking power, he squatted, to sit on those ladders later, still grabbing the railing with his left hand while the other arm was hanging next to his body. His head was also hanging on his neck and he felt a strange buzzing in his ears, something similar to the ticking of a clock. All this was something difficult to bear up with eventually while his own heart was beating so fast in his chest... It was partly due to the scare after hearing the gunshot and partly after the run down the stairs.

The young man winced eventually when he remembered the shot. After that, he raised his gaze and looked in front... with empty eyes... with terrified eyes. „What was that?" He asked. Nevertheless, Hyun Shik did not listen to an answer because his mind, rushing to think about everything that happened and too scared to find a reason for all those strange events, was stubborn at that moment. That's why Hyun Shik shook his head eventually, trying to chase that unpleasant thought away, a thought that started to squirm through his mind like a worm looking for food.

Eventually, he saw himself forced to give up on his idea of self-protection and stop the useless fight with his mind too when he understood that the thought „What the hell has just happened?" was bothering him more than he thought. That's why he jerked to his feet eventually and, as fast as he descended the stairs, he climbed them back.

Arriving in front of the door, the one that was leading to the main corridor, Yoon Shik stopped. Even his hand froze on the doorknob and the thought, „What if...?" started to spin in his mind again. A thought that the young man decided not to let it lead his will. That's why he suddenly shook his head and said, „No, it's not possible! Captain Lee cannot do that! No, never! He won't ever do something like this. Now more than ever because we have a lead. Yet... I'm sure I heard a shot. I'm sure of this. Someone used his gun. Who? Why? Against who or for what?"

He swallowed hard in the end when he felt a bitter taste on the top of his tongue, something damn unpleasant in fact. Yet, after swallowing that pill made from bitter saliva, another one appeared on his tongue, forcing him to swallow it again while that saliva was so stubborn to appear over and over again on the top of his tongue. A process that didn't last for long because, soon after this, he heard footsteps behind that door... Yes, someone was there, running in the corridor. Who? Hyun Shik couldn't understand. That's why he forced his mind, trying to understand at least something or whose footsteps those were. Nevertheless, he couldn't understand anything even if he hardly tried this. Then, listening to other footsteps and then to the footsteps of a third person, Hyun Shik decided that it was the right time and opened the door. Thus, he saw about 15 agents, heavily armed, heading toward the office of the colonel.