Chapter 54

Chapter 54: Black Sheep Exodus #1

The participants in the Death Circus had a moment when they wished they had refused to join .

It was the time when the fee needed to be paid every hour . Of course, it wasn’t pleasurable to risk their lives by challenging difficult attractions or by paying money to other people . But it was a choice they could make with their own will . At the very least, it was their money, not their lives, that was being taken away .

If they knew that there was this nonsensical system in the first place, then no one would have signed the application . But most of them had been thinking about suicide because they didn’t have the money to pay off their debts . Some were fooled by the idea of making big money from this .

Yoon Jong-hyun was stuck here for a similar reason .

“I can’t die until I kill that Choi Sung-yeol bastard!”

The Death Circus was a hell that appeared in reality .

Yoon Jong-hyun had a fairly good head . He realized that based on the rules of this place, most of the participants would die . In the near future, he might end up suffering from a painful end . Thus, it would be better to commit suicide with his own hands early on .

However, Yoon Jong-hyun’s hatred for Choi Sung-yeol kept him alive . Sometimes vengeance was a driving force in life .

But now it was the end . The remaining number on his badge was 5 . Five million won . It was the cost of living comfortably for a few months on the outside . However, in here, it wouldn’t even keep him alive for an hour .

So instead of getting revenge on Choi Sung-yeol who lied to him, 20 minutes later he would be challenging the attraction of death . Just when Yoon Jong-hyun was in the midst of despair, someone spoke to him .

“I guess you don’t have enough money to pay the fee . ”

Yoon Jong-hyun replied in a loud voice .

“Yes . Are you asking that after seeing the badge on my chest? Stop joking…”

Yoon Jong-hyun trailed off as he saw the badge on the opponent’s chest .

“3…300 million!”

If his eyes were wrong, then 360 was clearly written on there . The money needed to get out of here was 200 million . A huge amount of 160 million would remain after he escaped . Yoon Jong-hyun realized that the young man in front of him could save his life .

Yoon Jong-hyun literally fell to the ground . Then he grabbed the pants of the other person .

“P-Please . Can you give me a little bit of money? No, please help me . 30… No, if you lend me 20 million then I will pay back double the amount . Please…”

His life was at stake . Yoon Jong-hyun looked at the person’s badge . It stated that his name was Lee Cheol-su .

“Teacher Cheol-su…! It is a request!”

Tae-hyuk coughed a few times and said as smoothly as possible .

“You don’t need to do this . First of all, listen to my words . ”

“W-what…?”

“If you do a few things for me, then I will pay your fee . How about it?”

Yoon Jong-hyun didn’t answer right away, since Cheol-su could be trying to trick him . Furthermore, even though he didn’t have any money, he might be a bait to deceive others . This was the Death Circus after all . It wasn’t easy to trust a person in a place like this . But even so, there was nothing else he could do in his rotten situation .

“I know what you are thinking . You can listen to my words and not do it if you don’t like it . I want you to collect all the people who are in danger because they don’t have enough money . Of course, we don’t want them to play the final game . ”

“This means…”

“Yes . I will pay all of their fees . If you look at the money I have then you know that it is possible . ”

“O-Oh my god… God…”

“At any rate, there isn’t much time remaining, so please hurry . I will explain more once the people are gathered here . ”

“……!”

“You can treat me as a scammer, but there is no other choice . ”

Yoon Jong-hyun nodded as he looked at the face of his saviour .

“Yes! I-I understand!”

Yoon Jong-hyun thought about it as he ran around . If the other person had used more plausible words then he wouldn’t have trusted them . However, the man called Cheol-su said that Jong-hyun could doubt him as much as he wanted . It strangely gave him a sense of trust . It was the opposite of Choi Sung-yeol’s method of luring people with sweet words .

Tae-hyuk confirmed the time as he was left alone . He had said the same thing to three people apart from Yoon Jong-hyun . If they moved in a hurry, then it wouldn’t be too late to gather the people . Every minute and second was precious .

Tae-hyuk looked at the camera and laughed .

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10 minutes ahead of the payment time, six people were gathered in front of him . They were all people in danger because they didn’t have enough money for the fee payment . They looked at Tae-hyuk like he was their saviour .

Tae-hyuk said .

“You were deceived . ”

There was a huge uproar .

“W-What?”

“Are you deceiving us now?”

“T-This bastard…”

However, Tae-hyuk’s 360 million didn’t change . They couldn’t do anything but count down the minutes .

Tae-hyuk replied with a smile .

“I had decided to give the fee to you . But in the end, that idea isn’t enough . ”

“W-What do you mean?”

“First of all, let me tell you my purpose . ”

Tae-hyuk briefly looked at the six people . Most of them were men in their 30~40s . They had little or no money . They swallowed their saliva and waited for Tae-hyuk to speak .

“I want to escape from the Death Circus with everyone . ”

“……!”

Tae-hyuk had collected six people using the bait of 10 million won .

The reason was simple . Right now, there shouldn’t be a wolf hiding in this group . It was a collection of specifically selected people .

There were two conditions .

They should have no money . A person who couldn’t do anything before the thought of death .

The people who satisfied these conditions absolutely couldn’t be wolves . The only woman among the gathered people raised her hand . She was a timid-looking woman in her early 30s .

“W-Will you really save us?”

“That will be the result . ”

“Ah… Thank you… Thank you very much…!”

The woman bowed until her head was touching the ground .

‘…Ugh . H-Her chest all of a sudden…’

At that moment, Tae-hyuk’s conscience showed itself . It wasn’t simply through goodwill that Tae-hyuk wanted to help these people escape . It was so that he could break the Death Circus and Tiwai . He gathered this crowd as part of his plan .

‘You are being used! Don’t look at me with such expressions of respect! I’m a bad person!’

Tae-hyuk wanted to shout those words, but he stopped himself . The rules that Kim Joon-young created for the Death Circus were absolute . There were many masked witnesses watching .

However, if the death penalty ended and all guests disappeared, then this promise would be discarded . No matter how much money he made here, he wouldn’t be able to take it outside . It would just turn into a piece of data on the badge .

In the end, he had to finish everything while the guests were still here .

Those who didn’t know that Tae-hyuk was plotting a wicked conspiracy spoke with touched expressions .

“I-I really want to escape from here…”

“Bringing out all the participants…”

Yoon Jong-hyun, who was mixed among the people, opened his mouth .

“If this succeeds then it will be a miracle like the Exodus .

“Exodus?”

“Yes . The Exodus from the bible . Moses received a revelation from god and took those who were slaves to escape from Egypt . He took them to a land of paradise . Doesn’t that seem like the exact same situation now?”

“Ah…”

“Hmm . ”

Tae-hyuk coughed at Yoon Jong-hyun . He was now treated as Moses . However, no matter how many crime skills he had, he couldn’t split the sea in two .

There was only one thing he could do .

“Then I will give each of you 10 million won and put you in Group A . After this fee settlement is over, I want you to spread this fact to others in the Death Circus . Everybody has a means of escape . ”

“T-That is all you need?”

“Yes . The next instructions will be in 20 minutes . ”

“I-I understand . ”

Those who received money from Tae-hyuk bowed their heads and ran to other places in the Death Circus .

“Hu…”

There was a way for all participants to live . That information would surely spread around the Death Circus in an instant . It was what Tae-hyuk was aiming at .

The participants would no longer need to take part in dangerous attractions or gambling . They had a new hope that they could leave this place alive .

Once that happened, the remaining wolves wouldn’t be able to hunt . They would hide their identities and approach Tae-hyuk .

Thus, he invested 20 minutes to gather the Group A . People who couldn’t hurt others despite being in a dangerous situation . They absolutely weren’t wolves . They would be the main axis for the Exodus .

Tae-hyuk finally contacted Moonlight Flower, who was the most important figure of this operation . He smiled at the surveillance camera and made a shooting motion with his fingers .

It meant to report the current situation . Of course, it also provoked the people watching him .

The reply arrived in seconds .

[P1 Panel]

-It was destroyed by a strong shock .

Tae-hyuk smiled as he saw the message on the Demon Revealing Mirror . The content of the message sent by Moonlight Flower was simple .

-No problem!

Tae-hyuk was inside while Moonlight Flower was outside . The operation to crush the Death Circus was progressing gradually .

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The wolf hid among the sheep .

Of course, it was in order to eat the black sheep .

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Tae-hyuk looked at the gathered people .

Group A had done well and almost all of the living participants of the Death Circus were gathered . There were exactly two people missing .

‘Indeed, the Tae-soo and Dae-soo brothers aren’t here . ’

Wounded wolves would be eaten by other wolves . Maybe they already…

“I think you know why I gathered you here . ”

Then one participant shouted .

“Are you really going to save us from this place?”

“It could be as a result . ”

“What do you mean?”

“I am going to escape from the Death Circus from now on . I will take all the people here with me . But there is something you have to do for that to happen . ”

“……!”

The gathered people started buzzing again .

“You can’t escape from here using normal methods . In order to get out, you need to collect 200 million according to Kim Joon-young’s rules . I’m not a saviour . I’m just going to give you a definite path . ”

It was at that moment . The wolf hiding in Group B walked forward .

“Doesn’t that mean we have to participate in dangerous attractions after all? How can we believe you? Aren’t you a spy sent by the organizers of the Death Circus? Everybody is deceived by that man . If you follow him, then you will die . ”

“……!”

The words were plausible .

The man who was throwing suspicion towards Tae-hyuk . Tae-hyuk confirmed his name .

‘Kim Jun-tae . ’

It was strangely similar to someone’s name . Tae-hyuk narrowed his eyes and looked at the other person .