The Phantom School

Person 1: "What happened? Don"t stop now, just bring it down!"

Person 2: "The primary capacitor blew up."

Person 3: "Can"t we activate the seconary?"

Person 2: "The secondary isn"t charged yet. We will have to let the generator run for a while; otherwise it won"t provide enough charge."

Person 3: "I told you that we should"ve connected to the city line."

Person 2: "We can"t risk interfering with the school"s power distribution. We can easily short-circuit the system and cause the fuzes to blow. If that ever happens, the higher-ups will definitely yell at us."

Person 1: "Bring me a gun."

Person 2: "WHAT? Are you out of your mind?"

I almost let out an unintentional scream.

Person 1: "Bring me a gun, I can"t watch this guy the whole day."

Person 2: "At this point you are just enjoying this, psycho. We don"t use guns. If we are going to end someone"s life, we will do it properly."

Person 1: "If I have to repeat once more-"

Person 3: "I"m on my way."

Someone was about to come out of the room, so I had to hide. I couldn"t make it out of the whole underground facility in time, so I could not sprint through the exit. But this time, instead of running back into the surgery room I came from, I ran deeper into the hallway and turned to a pa.s.sage on the right. The narrow pa.s.sage had doors on both ends, but they were open. I stood there and peeked around the corner.

Someone came out of the electric chair room and started walking this way. It was the same man I"ve seen in the surgery room. I couldn"t watch him for too long because he was approaching me. I had to run further away.

I kept walking through the pa.s.sage and got through the door on the other end. Behind the door, there was a hallway with sets of jail doors on left and right.

As I walked further, I encountered an occupied cell. There was a tall, slender man sitting on the corner of the cell, looking down without doing anything. He didn"t even notice me. He was standing so still that I couldn"t even understand if he was alive or dead at first, but later, I noticed that he was breathing. As I had no means of helping him right now, I left him there and kept walking.

"Hey!"

I was startled by a whisper when I was walking past the cells. I turned around to see who it was.

Idil was waving her hands from one of the cells.

"Fancy meeting you here." she said.

"How did you end up in there!?" I asked her.

"How did you escape?" she asked in return. "Anyway, just get me out of here too!"

"I can"t break those jail doors apart!" I said. "Where is Mr. Kenan? What happened to him?"

"He wasn"t with you!?" she asked.

I was worried, because the man in the lab coat could still be coming this way. As I got away from the electric chair room, I had no time to check where he actually went. I had no time to stop and chat here.

"I have to go, I will come back later; but for the time being, don"t let them know about my existance." I told Idil and ran away before she could extend the conversation.

I continued into the hallway, and came to a stop in front of an unlabeled heavy steel door. The door had a large metal wheel on it. I unlocked the door by turning the wheel and got inside. I closed the door and locked it again from the inside.

I looked around to explore the room. It wasn"t a large room but it was interesting; the room was full of rifles, guns, explosives and ammunition boxes. So, the prison had an underground armory...

Just when I was looking around the room in wonder, I heard something from the other side of the room. Idil was coughing violently and loudly. Just when I was about to go back and take a look at her, I heard something from the door itself. The metal wheel began turning; someone was about the open the door. Idil was only trying to warn me.

The room was small and I had nowhere to hide, so as an instinct, I grabbed a gun from the table near me and pointed it at the door. I have never held a real gun before, and I had little idea how to properly use one, but it was much better than being completely defenseless.

The wheel stopped turning and the door opened. It was the same guy I"ve seen coming out of the electric chair room. He had proabably come here to grab a gun.

"Stop right there!" I said. "Stop there, and keep silent."

I didn"t know what I was doing, but at least I caught him by surprise. The man, totally unaware of how incompetent I am, panicked and raised her hands.

"Hands behind your head, on your knees." I commanded him. He immediately dropped to his knees. I was safe for the time being, but I didn"t know what to do next.

He was looking carefully at me, watching my every movement. It was almost like he was judging me.

"Okay, stand up." I said. "Turn around." It looked like I was just having fun with him, but I simply didn"t know what to do. "You are going to release those people in the cells." I finally told him.

"What makes you think I will comply with that order?" he replied with his back turned to me.

"You"ve obeyed all my commands so far." I told him.

"It was for my own well-being, but unfortunately, I can"t jeopardize the operations of this facility. In that case, I am afraid I will have to alert the personnel of your presence here. You will have to shoot me and we will die together." he said.

I couldn"t risk being found by other "facility personnel". In the heat of the moment, I pulled the trigger. But, contrary to my expectations, the gun didn"t shoot; it simply made a clicking sound.