outbreak | svt

twenty-three

"wonwoo, come here! come look at this!" 

mingyu and wonwoo had been walking for quite some time.

wonwoo took out a small golden clock from his pocket.

it read 3:58 pm. he sighed, snapping it shut and sliding it back into his pocket.

he jogged over to mingyu who was standing at the entrance of an alleyway. 

"what is it?" 

"look," the taller male said, pointing to the ground, "do you see the red line?"

wonwoo looks down, brow raised, and indeed, there is a thin red line going straight down the road.

"it's probably nothing," wonwoo says, stepping over the line. 

"wonwoo!" mingyu yells in surprise when the older male falls back, holding his right hand.

"holy crap," wonwoo gasps out, massaging his hand, "that's not just a red line."

"what happened?" mingyu asks, taking a glance at the enigmatic red line.

"it shocked me. it's an electric fence, i think." wonwoo hisses in pain when mingyu lightly touches his hand.

"but, why? why is it here?" mingyu raised a brow.

"i....i don't know. hey,  does it keep going?" wonwoo inquired, struggling to his feet. 

"let's check!" he runs back over to the mouth of the alleyway, peeking in, making sure not to cross the line. "oh my god, it does! we have to tell the others when we get back!"

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 "jihoon! you're walking too fast!" soonyoung whined when jihoon sped up even more. "jihoon!"

"fine." jihoon halts abruptly, causing soonyoung to run into the smaller's back. "you're no fun." jihoon laugh quietly at the pout soonyoung's wearing. 

soonyoung then runs ahead of jihoon and the smaller huffed out an exasperated breath as he attempts to catch soonyoung. 

 "soonyoung!" jihoon yells out when he sees the older male fall backwards, catching himself with his hands. "what happened? are you okay?"

soonyoung smiles up at jihoon, who look very concerned, "awh, look who cares."

"shut up." he snarks back, sitting next to soonyoung on the ground. 

"i think this shocked me." soonyoung said a after a moment, pointing at a thin red line going all the way across the street, and farther. 

"what, that?" jihoon reaches down to touch it, only to retract his hand in pain. "shit, yeah, okay."

soonyoung smirks, "told ya." 

jihoon gives him the middle finger and gets up, slowly following the red line.

"hey, wait for me!" 

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"please keep your voices down." mark led the duo through the dimly lit hallways that seemed never-ending, until they came across a door on the right side of the hallway. 

mark opened the door slightly and gestured them inside. 

the room had multiple tv screens surrounding a black rolling chair. 

mark swiftly sat and began working on disabling the cameras. it wouldn't be long until someone noticed.

"what are you doing?" seungkwan spoke up.

mark glanced at them, "getting you out of here."

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"what was that?" jisoo asked seokmin, who was walking beside him.

seokmin looked at him, "what was what? did you hear something?"

jisoo was sure he had heard a low growl. 

"nah, it's nothing." 

wrong.

"shit! seokmin, run! now!" jisoo grabs seokmin's hand and bolts. they were being followed. the younger boy turns his head slightly to see two infected chasing after them. jisoo grabs his gun and points it behind them, shooting without bothering to look back. 

"you got one!" shouts an adrenaline-hyped seokmin. 

seokmin grabs the gun from jisoo's hand and easily takes down the other one.

the younger boy tugs on jisoo's sleeve and they both stop running, catching their breath.

he gives back the gun and they look back to the bodies, slight disgust etched in their features.

"i think we need to be more careful."