003: The Thing

Kim Hyun Bin woke up, as usual, at 6 A.M.

That's what Hyun Bin wants speak most, but it never happened.

Now, when he wakes up, Hyun Bin has found himself in "a white place".

Yes, that is the word that best describes this place.

White.

There is only one white stretching around, there is no other color.

It feels like this place has endless space. There were no borders or a wall, plus white as the main theme, making everything virtual. Hard to distinguish.

"Where is this place?" Hyun Bin raised a question.

Hyun Bin clearly remembered being on the Din Yok Bridge, pondering about life. When he was about to go back ...

"Then what?"

How did i come here? Hyun Bin frowned.

The reason for why he was in here was too difficult to understand, at least, should give him any clues?

Standing too long to tired of his feet, Hyun Bin sat down, resting his head on his kree.

He tried to recall fragments of unreal memories of the past.

"When I was walking home ... Everything suddenly became dark."

After trying to remember every single piece of memory, he remembered seeing something. A truck.

The image of the truck's head got bigger and bigger as it approached him.

If so ... Isn't Hyun Bin ...

"Am I dead?" Hyun Bin shivered his voice. It was difficult for him to acknowledge his death. "So where is this place? Heaven? Hell or Purgatory? "

Hyun Bin didn't believe in dogmatic divine stories. Because he always thought, if there was a real god, why did he give Hyun Bin such a miserable life? But now, when he himself was hit by a truck, then suddenly came to this strange place, the divine stories gradually became more "real" to him.

"Or maybe after the car hit me I'm still alive. Is this place a subconscious state? "

It could be. Hyun thought. If so, then everything will be clearer and less scary.

"Sorry, it's not like that, boy."

A deep voice came from behind him.

Hyun Bin was startled, he turned around in fear, towards the source of the sound.

But there was no one there. Empty and pure white.

"Let me tell you, this place is not some damned" subconscious state "of yours." The voice spoke again. "This place is not right to call heaven, it's also wrong to call hell. So what is this place? "

Every time the voice came out, Hyun Bin tried to look in the direction of the sound. But every time, no one.

"You ... What the hell are you? Why not show up ... "

Before he could finish the sentence, Hyun Bin's words stopped before a figure appeared before his eyes.

Hyun Bin swore that there were nobody there a few seconds ago.

"Welcome to the non-living realm, my house." The posture of raising both hands creates a welcoming pose.

Hyun Bin bewildered, he stared at the figure in front of him without knowing what to do or say.

The person ... or the thing before him is weird. Yes, strange is the correct word to describe that "thing".

That thing clearly had the appearance of a person, but upon closer inspection, its appearance became unusually blurry. The most noticeable point is the face, always changing, from a woman to a man, from a man to a girl, then from a child to a girl ... White and black, black and yellow. , yellow and white again.

"Who are you?"

"The owner of this place." At Hyun Bin's question, that thing calmly answered.

"So what is this place?"

"Didn't I say it to you? It's sad that you don't listen my words. This place is a non-living realm. Remember carefully, I will not repeat it. "

"Your answers really didn't explain anything."

At Hyun Bin's words, that thing was smiling or like smilling. It is difficult to determine the feelings of that thing.

"Since I don't want to explain, I just informed you of the name of this place."

"So you are the owner of this place? Are you God? "

"..."

Hearing that, that thing did not immediately respond. It took a few seconds for the voice to continue.

"It is not wrong to say "I am God". But, I and the "concept of God" in your thoughts are completely different. Call me The Thing. "

The Thing? It is difficult to try to explain this name.

"Don't try to explain the meaning of the name." The Thing seemed to be able to read Hyun Bin's thoughts immediately. "I just took it ramdom." Then The Thing laughed, or something like that.

"So why am I here?" Hyun Bin raised the question he had been thinking up till now. A question needs to be answered.

"Do you remember the memories before coming here?"

Hyun Bin nodded, feeling he was trembling. "Yes, I am dead."

"Yes, you are dead."

"So the dead will come to this place?"

"No, it is not." The Thing shook his head. "When people die, they will go to other places, like heaven and hell in your people's view. And you're the exception to this place. "

"..." At the answer of The Thing, Hyun Bin didn't know what to say, he was silent and nervous at every word of The Thing.

"I see you had a hard life right?" The Thing made a sarcastic smile or something like that. "That is pitiful. Those are the words I want to say to you. Watching your life is boring. "

"So you called me here just to tell you how boring you were to monitor my life?"

"Boring is light. I feel disgusting. " The Thing spoke, that did not hide the disdain in words. "I have to remain in this eternity, so my only pleasure is to watch human life, like watching movies. And in the lives I hate the most, yours is first. "

"It is your fault that my life is like that."

Hyun Bin could not control it anymore, he angrily shouted. Regardless of whether it's god or The Thing or damn it.

"Why is it my fault?"

"You took away my parents, you made me ugly, you made my life unhappy .... And now you say the life I've tried is boring, disgusting ... "

Hyun Bin cried, he could not bear to hold himself any longer.

He was always lonely and hurt. He had always been.

Although he has tried to make himself a lot better, it will always return to him. He came back with the title "loser".

"That's not my fault." The Thing casually answered. "That's because of fate."

"You can say anything you like..." Hyun Bin spoke, he wiped away the tears. "But, you took everything from me and told me how to strive? When I think about this, Are you S ?."

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha….

The Thing laughed. This time Hyun Bin knows for sure that thing is laughing.

"What are you laughing about?"

"You told me, that i take everything from you?"

"Right." Hyun Bin nodded.

"So if you have everything, can you do something great?"

At The Thing's question, Hyun Bin thought deeply.

Then he nodded. "Maybe."

"Do you still want to live?"

The Thing raised a question. His cold and dignified voice made Hyun Bin a little hesitant.

"Of course I do." Huyn Bin strongly answered.

"So, play with me for a game."

"Game?"

Hyun Bin found it a bit difficult to understand the topic of this conversation.

"Yes, a game. As for the rules or the way of playing, you will have to find out for yourself. Have fun. Goodbye."

As soon as he finished speaking, The Thing did not wait for Hyun Bin to speak and then snapped his fingers.

"I ..."

Hyun Bin quickly lost consciousness. He once again fell into the black of the mind.

.

At a hospital that is somewhere.

There are three people sitting in the hospital lobby. All three of their eyes looked blankly into the operating room. The red light was still shining on the door of the room, the more they looked at it, the more confused they were.

Those three people seem to be a family. Including mother, father and daughter.

The mother could not stand it anymore, she burst into tears.

And the father quickly hugged her to comfort.

The girl closed her eyes and prayed all this time.

This family has four members. The three members are here, so where is the other one?

He is in the operating room.

That person is the eldest son, he was born into a wealthy real estate business family, so since childhood he has always been pampered. Because of that, he also went on a rampage even though he had just graduated from 9th grade.

Today is also one of his play days. The only difference is, he had the guts to get drunk and drive a motorbike at full speed. The result was an accident and was subjected to being in the operating room here.

A worthy outcome for the unruly?

Or is this an opportunity for someone who always fails?

The notification light turned green, the surgery was over.

All three of them nervously stood up and waited. They swear that each person's heartbeat can be heard.

Thump, thump.

"You are the patient's family ..." The doctor raised a cold voice as soon as he stepped outside, he carried the name tag "Han Ho Bin". "Kim Hyun Bin… the patient, right?"

It's the same name, not mean anything else. But is that just an accident? Who knows.

"Yes." The father nodded.

The father glanced at the mother, who cried so much that she could not speak.

"If you allow me, I will speak frankly. Your son have died. " Like a grim reaper, the doctor inflicts grief on all three members of the family.

The father was shocked.

The mother cried.

And the younger sister fell down due to unsteady legs.

Suddenly…

"Doctor ..." The panicked nurse ran out of the operating room, where she was tasked with tidying up the tools. Her face was extremely confused now. "Patient Kim Hyun Bin is alive again."

"What ... It can't be like that." This time the doctor, he was also bewildered when he heard the nurse's words. "Are you sure?"

"Yes."

Then he quickly ran back to the room, his legs trembling, because he swore that this patient should have died. His 20-year medical experience is sure of that.

As for the family members, they were bewildered, but at this moment a glimmer of hope in them began to glimmer.

.

So cold. Kim Hyun Bin thought.

This is our fat Kim Hyun Bin.

My whole body was damp, why? Oh, maybe it's because of the injuries that Kim Suk caused. So I'm still alive? What are non - living realm and The Thing? Is they my imagination?

Hyun Bin tried to open his eyes.

The scenery he saw was a bright room, with characteristic scents. An operating room.

So I'm at the hospital. I may be dumped by a truck and taken to the hospital. Hyun Bin reviews his situation.

Around him, doctors and nurses were bewildered. They kept running to the door and ran back in. Someone even measured certain parameters on the device, then pressed his hand on him.

"Did you wake up?" A seemingly experienced doctor spoke when Huyn Bin's eyes widened.

"Yes." Hyun answered. "Who took me to the hospital."

"It's your family."

So aunt and uncle? Hyun Bin sighed thinking about what they would say to him when he was discharged from the hospital.

But the doctor's next sentence made him confused.

"It's your father and mother."

What did he say? Hyun thought. How could he have father and mother.

"You should be dead." Ignoring Hyun's bewilderment, the doctor continued to speak. "But miraculously, you came back to life. I find it hard to understand. "

The doctor looked at Hyun Bin for a while and sighed. "Well, please rest."

Hearing that, though bewildered, Hyun Bin responded. "Thank you doctor ..." He looked at the doctor's name chart. "Thank you, Dr. Han Ho Bin."