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Of course, their footsteps remained steady, unwavering.
Their composure was so flawless that it didn’t even seem like they were distracted.
From the outside, it merely looked like they were keeping an eye on their surroundings—nothing out of the ordinary.
“Ahh, ngh, a-agh…!”
Kang Taewon plunged his hand in up to the wrist, and from that moment on, he started pounding without hesitation.
The camera they were watching had an auto-zoom function, capturing every explicit detail of Go Yeonwoo’s hole swallowing his fist without pause.
Thud, thud, thud!
Kang Taewon’s fist ruthlessly tore through his insides, and Go Yeonwoo couldn’t stop himself from screaming.
Once again, Kang Taewon smacked his ass, growling at him to shut up, but it was useless.
Clicking his tongue in irritation, Kang Taewon refocused on shoving his fist deep into Go Yeonwoo’s hole.
Thud, smack!
The fist almost slipped out completely before plunging back in up to the wrist in one swift motion.
Lee Dohoon shifted his gaze from the video showing Go Yeonwoo’s rear to another screen capturing the front.
Between Go Yeonwoo’s parted lips, his tongue lolled out helplessly.
Go Yeonwoo’s eyes had already rolled back, drool dripping uncontrollably from his mouth.
He looked completely out of it, unable to gather his senses from the relentless pain and shock.
Lee Dohoon ran his tongue over his lips.
His mouth was dry, a thirst rising within him.
If they weren’t inside the gate, he would’ve joined in on the scene without hesitation.
He wanted to push Yeonwoo down right now, shove himself deep into that mouth, while Yeonwoo struggled to block those fists.
“Ha… I wish I could watch that drenched hole up close… What a shame our filthy little Yeonwoo’s mouth isn’t usable. Don’t you think, Jihyuk?”
There was an implicit complaint in his words—why the hell had he been called into this bothersome squad in the first place?
Han Jihyuk understood the implication but didn’t bother responding.
Instead, he turned his gaze toward the camera that was capturing Yeonwoo’s face.
He simply stared at the screen, watching Yeonwoo choke and gag under Kang Taewon’s relentless fists.
That pale face, utterly ruined by tears, was driving him insane with arousal.
The proof was right there—his groin was already straining.
Dohoon noticed and let out a deliberate chuckle.
“You don’t have to say it—I can tell you wanna fuck him too. Well, it’s not like Yeonwoo’s hole is just any hole, right?”
“Shut up and keep watch.”
“Still pretending otherwise, huh?”
Lee Dohoon, still sneering, cast a sideways glance at Han Jihyuk before exaggerating a shrug and shifting his gaze forward instead of the screen.
Inside the gate, the scenery remained that of a jungle-like forest.
Even though they had already ventured deep inside, the air was thick and heavy, yet unnervingly silent.
By now, it wouldn’t have been strange for a horde of monsters to jump out.
“Did you notice anything strange when we first entered the gate?”
At Lee Dohoon’s question, Han Jihyuk shook his head.
If he had sensed anything off, he would have reacted immediately.
But the entry had felt no different from usual, leaving the cause of the current situation unclear.
“It seems like this has something to do with the first unit that entered earlier.”
“The detector?”
“If neither of us can sense anything, then the detector won’t pick up on it either.”
“I know. Check anyway.”
At that, Lee Dohoon pulled out a gate detector from his pocket and checked it.
As expected, not even a trace of a living creature, let alone a monster, was detected.
“See? Nothing’s—”
Before he could finish his sentence, an abrupt change occurred.
The damp ground beneath them caved in and collapsed without warning.
There had been no sign, no time to react.
At the same time, shouts rang out from all around.
“Fuck, what the hell?!”
“We’re falling!”
“Shit, I can’t see anything!”
The entire second unit plunged downward without resistance.
Unlike the surface, the space they were falling into was pitch black.
With their descent taking them underground, securing visibility was nearly impossible.
Amidst the panic, only Han Jihyuk and Lee Dohoon remained calm.
Though nothing had been visible at first, their eyes quickly adjusted to the darkness, allowing them to look straight below.
The bottom was still nowhere in sight.
Realizing this, Lee Dohoon made a judgment call and activated his ability.
Initially, he had thought they would hit the ground quickly and hadn’t used it, but with no end to their fall in sight, he had no choice.
A wide sheet of ice formed beneath the falling espers.
A thick ice barrier floating midair stopped their descent.
“Hah… What kind of bullshit situation is this?”
“I don’t know, asshole.”
“Does anyone have a light ability? The flashlights we brought aren’t working at all. They’re completely dead.”
The espers swore and scrambled to assess their surroundings.
Among them, one with clairvoyance suddenly muttered something strange.
“…Hey. Hey. The walls are wriggling.”
“Wriggling? What the fuck are you talking about—”
At that moment, the pitch-black space was flooded with light, revealing their surroundings in gruesome detail.
And to their horror, what they had assumed to be a tunnel underground resembled something far worse—something eerily similar to the inside of a living creature.
Only now did they start to feel the heat that had been absent earlier.
The unsettling realization made both Han Jihyuk and Lee Dohoon tense.
Even with their heightened perception, they had failed to recognize the truth—the “walls” around them were not just walls.
They were inside an organ.
Han Jihyuk shot a glance at Lee Dohoon, and understanding the unspoken message, Lee Dohoon conjured a long ice spear in his hands.
The thick yet razor-sharp tip drove into the fleshy wall.
At that instant, the surface split open violently, exposing raw, red flesh beneath.
Embedded within were partially digested human body parts—undeniably once people, now reduced to remnants that had failed to be fully broken down.
The espers, except for Han Jihyuk and Lee Dohoon, all exchanged uneasy glances.
There was no need to say it aloud.
Every single one of them understood what those body parts meant.
“Hmm… Maybe we should’ve brought Kang Taewon along. This just turned into a real fucking hassle.”
Lee Dohoon, wearing an expression of irritation, stared at the fragmented glimpses of flesh visible through the cracks and spoke.
“At this point, I think it’s best to clear this as quickly as possible and get out. What do you think?”
Despite Lee Dohoon’s question, Han Jihyuk didn’t respond. Instead, he activated his telekinesis.
As an oppressive force radiated around him, the espers instinctively took a step back.
The wrinkled walls of the organ twitched faintly at first, then suddenly convulsed as if going mad.
It was because Han Jihyuk’s telekinesis had struck the entire wall, twisting it as though wringing out a rope.
“Screeeeech!”
At the same time, an ear-splitting scream erupted, likely from the monster that owned these organs.
Han Jihyuk remained unfazed and continued to twist the insides.
Another shriek followed, even more intense than before, as the walls convulsed violently.
Reacting swiftly, Lee Dohoon conjured an ice barrier just as the entire interior was wrenched apart.
Trapped within the ice, they were suddenly hurled upward.
It was as if the monster was vomiting them out.
Boom!
The ice barrier crashed against the ground with a deafening impact.
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