Murder Cases At Inwang Mountain 3

With that, Zeha decided to skip his part-time job and head to the mountain.

Yes,I went there. I took the bus, got off and saw the mountain right in front of me. I remember

that. But what happened afterward? How did I end up in the hospital?

Just then, a nurse entered the room. She rushed to Zeha's side as soon as she realized that he was conscious.

Sir, you're awake. How do you feel? Are you in any pain?"

"My chest feels a little.."

"That's not surprising. You have a big wound there. Let me just put some pain meds into your IV"

As she set up the IV drip, the nurse commented,

"You've been out for three days, you know. You were bleeding so much and very badly injured

that I was afraid that you wouldn't make it. It's such a relief to see that you're all right"

I've been out for three days?

After the nurse left, Zeha struggled to remember what had happened on the mountain. But the painkillers made him feel drowsy.

Zeha fell in and out of consciousness when he eventually woke up to someone calling his

name.

"Mr. Zeha? I heard you woke up. Do you have a moment?"

It was a man.

He looked sharp with his eyeglasses.

Zeha blinked, staring at the man with a puzzled look. The man dipped his hand into his pocket

and fished out a card in response.

"I'm Detective Kim Soo-hoon from the Sin-si Police Department he explained.

Zeha took the card and looked at it.

This was his first time receiving a name card froma police officer

Zeha looked at Soo-hoon and noticed that he was in a suit. He couldn't help but think that he

looked more like a prosecutor than a detective.

"I just have some questions about the incident back at Inwang Mountain."

"Inwang Mountain."

Zeha had questions about what happened too.

He groaned as he sat up gingerly.

"What were you doing at Inwang Mountain on the lunar date of January 16?"

I just had some business to take care of."

"And 'm here asking you what that would be!"

Somethings off.Soo-hoon sounded accusatory, as though Zeha had done something wrong

Zeha frowned as he glared at the detective.

"It's personal" he retorted, "Do I really have to tell you that as well?"

"Yes, that's why I'm here" Soo-hoon stated firmly. "Listen, you'd better tell me the truth" he

warned. "What were you doing on the mountain?"

"I don't want to say" Zeha shot back. "I want to exercise my right. My right to remain silent"

Soo-hoon's cold eyes pierced into Zeha.

"Typically, criminals like to exercise that right"

"Excuse me? lI'm simply exercising my rights, and you compare me to a criminal? Don't you think that's too much? I mean, can you seriously do that? A police officer condemning me as soon as I exercise a right that I'm entitled to?"

Soo-hoon sighed as he explained,

"On the day that you didn't show up to work and headed to the mountain, twenty-four

mutilated bodies were found scattered around the area"

Zeha was momentarily rendered speechless.

Mutilated? Bodies?

Zeha had only ever heard those words in the news.

Just then, he contorted his face as he brought his hand up to his chest again.

It was starting to throb again as the effects of the medicine that he had been given were starting to wear of.

Soo-hoon took out some pictures from an envelope.

As Soo-hoon laid out the pictures in front of Zeha one by one, seeing the gruesome scenes

made Zeha stop breathing

Torm arms, shredded bodies, and deep cuts across chests and stomachs..

Zeha wondered if he'd seen these bodies there.

Did I?

Just then, an image flashed across his mind.

Splattered blood, heavy breathing, and a scream..

"Zeha!"

His mother's scream was so clear that it was as though she was yelling right into his ear, but

Zeha couldn't remember anything

"Mr. Zeha?"

Soo-hoon's voice was mixed with his mother's scream.

Zeha stared at him with bloodshot eyes.

"What about now? Do you feel like talking about what happened?"

Zeha told Soo-hoon that nothing came to his mind.

"It was the anniversary of my parents' death." He further explained, "I headed there because

that was where we used to live"

Zeha assumed that this detective wouldn't believe him about the suspicious man who came near his house.

"I remember climbing up the mountain, but I can't seem to remember anything after that.."

After taking down Zeha's account, Soo-hoon told him that he would go for now. Before he left,he added that they might have to meet again.

Zeha sunk back onto the bed as he brought up his hands and buried his face in them.

What on earth happened?

The pictures that Soo-hoon had shown him flashed rapidly in his mind like a movie.

A human couldn't possibly have done that.. How could someone kill people like that?

The victims' wounds weren't from knives or axes.

Perhaps they were from predators? Like tigers and bears...

But Sin-si was a big city. It was impossible to have predators lurking around.

Oh, my.I really can't remember anything. This is nuts.

Little did Zeha know, these murder cases of Inwang Mountain would shake the city. It was only the start of something malicious.

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