A little suffering for the greater good…

I pushed the tall wooden door open, and what lay inside made me feel like I had stepped into a science fiction movie. Wow, how the hell did they make this?

My eyes were met with flashing lights and walls made entirely of metal—or at least something that looked like it. The exterior had been a complete misdirection, cleverly concealing the high-tech laboratory inside. This place felt like a spaceship. As I walked through the narrow passage, the pulsating lights made me feel a little overwhelmed.

At the end of the passage, which sloped downward as far as I could tell, stood a metal door with a keypad next to it. Yes... a freaking keypad. In this world, people were already developing advanced technology. Could they not have waited another hundred or two hundred years so we could at least get a break from all this loud machinery? Well, I guess it's not that bad, right?

How wrong I was. Now, I understood why Seong-Hoon had smiled at me like that.