“Aaaaaahk!”
“Uwaaah! Save me! Help me!”
Jo Gyu-Min was in a panic.
‘Crazy sons of b*tches!’
The aquarium instantly morphed into the scene of pure pandemonium. The whole building seemed to rock precariously as a massive explosive noise deafened him. And then, panicking people flooded out from the deeper parts of the aquarium and rushed toward the exit like a horde of zombies!
With so many people running in panic, the whole building seemed to be shaking and trembling from their feet stomping on the floor.
Screams of people and shrill siren noises assaulted Jo Gyu-Min’s hearing nonstop. And it felt like a powerful gush of hot air blew right into his face.
He suddenly had an epiphany just then. He now understood why more victims than necessary always accompanied large-scale disasters.
People died in their droves because they had failed to see the obvious exits and didn't respond rationally. As a bystander, Jo Gyu-Min struggled to understand why that was. By staying calm and responding appropriately to the unfolding situation, all those people could have survived the disasters. So why did they act so irrationally? He couldn't figure it out.
But now he knew.
‘Keep what cool now?!’
How could anyone stay calm in this situation?
Jo Gyu-Min was quite some distance away from the location of the disaster, yet he still had a torrid time holding on to his sanity. Even though he knew something terrible was about to happen, he still felt lost and unsure of what to do.
In that case, what about these people? People who were figuratively hit by the bolt of lightning out of the blue? How could anyone expect them to maintain their rational minds!
‘You stupid f*ck!’
If it was possible, Jo Gyu-Min was tempted to shoot his past self in the head for subconsciously looking down on those victims.
An observer would never understand. Unless one had personally experienced it, they would always be oblivious. Unfortunately, this world saw so many events that fit those two descriptions too perfectly.
Jo Gyu-Min forcibly suppressed his heart pounding at an unbelievable rate and calmed his heavy wheezing, then urgently turned his head to scan his surroundings.
‘Where are the kids?’
Jo Gyu-Min finally sobered up. And that reminded him of what his job was supposed to be. He had already done what he could for the aquarium's visitors, so he should shift his priority back to safely evacuating the kids.
Just as he urgently scanned the area, a new wrench decided to throw itself into his plan. Just as the panicked crowd rushed past him to obscure his view, the lights illuminating the interior started flickering on and off.
‘Lights are shorting now?! You... sons of b*tches!’
To think these bastards were careless enough to allow the aquarium’s electrical fittings to get exposed to water! Jo Gyu-Min should’ve suspected something like this while estimating how much money the constructors might have skimmed off the top!
Unfortunately, now wasn’t the time to hurl all sorts of insults in the direction of the aquarium’s operators. Jo Gyu-Min gritted his teeth and threw himself into the fast-moving walls of human bodies.
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Splash!
As he moved, he sensed cold water splashing against his legs. Before he had the time to notice it, water was already up to his ankles. To make matters worse, he could sense the water level rapidly rising higher and higher with every step he took.
Initially, the cold wetness was below the ankle bone, but within the span of a few steps, the water had risen past the bone!
“Son of a...!”
The water was rising in the figurative blink of an eye!
Jo Gyu-Min reflexively looked back. He could see the water level had risen up to the knees of the crowd desperately fleeing the aquarium's interior. He could instinctively tell the water level would rise even faster from now on.
‘What the f*ck?! Even though Mister Jin-Ho is blocking the water?’
When Jo Gyu-Min thought about it, though... This outcome should’ve been obvious.
That main fish tank had to be several stories tall. So, imagine all that water gushing through the narrow passageways of the aquarium. Without someone blocking the water flow, the rapid onslaught of water would've already reached this place to sweep everyone away, and the water level would have reached the ceiling.
In that case... What about swimming? Holding breath underwater?
‘Don’t make me laugh!’
If doing that was enough to survive, shouldn't those people getting swept away by the rapids during the heavy rainy season just hold their breaths and swim back out after reaching the calmer waters? Unfortunately, that wasn't how reality worked. The rapids didn't drown you. It pummeled you to death!
The water pressure was one thing, but the debris and things getting swept up by the water would destroy the person’s body first.
However, would an aquarium have things like that? Of course it did.
‘Look at all these people!’
If so many humans got swept into the rapids at once, they’d get entangled underwater and kill each other. Human skulls would crack other skulls, while arms and legs would get into messy tangles and twisted knots.
“Goddamn it!”
Jo Gyu-Min pushed aside the panicked people in front of him while making his way forward. It wasn’t easy, though. The visitors would’ve grumbled but still stepped out of the way not too long ago, but now? Who would do that in this crazy situation?
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