Chapter 309 — Got Dropped in a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work — Part 2

Chapter 309

Lord Cat confronts Kwak Jekang on a subway platform, accusing him of murdering Research Team 2's Team Leader, Choi Myungjin. Lord Cat reveals the charred, severed head of Choi Myungjin inside a fire hydrant cabinet to prove his point. Lord Cat deduces Kwak Jekang's guilt because his hands were wiped clean on his gown, leaving blood and scabs on the fabric. Kwak Jekang attempts to use a previous pinky-promise—that he would not go against Lord Cat's will—as a defense, claiming he followed orders by hiding. Lord Cat bypasses this by issuing a new command: Kwak Jekang must quit the Daydream research team and cease all research into the Darkness. To ensure compliance and punish his recent actions, Lord Cat orders Kwak Jekang to break his own remaining pinky finger, which the researcher does amidst a suppressed scream. Following the encounter, the narrator reflects on the violent necessity of the act and the influence of a flame-themed tattoo sticker on his own aggression. He observes the burned residential area, haunted by the auditory hallucinations of resentful citizens. He then leads Researcher Lee Yeonhwa and Kwak Jekang into a dark concourse to a burnt-out office known as the Cheerful Research Institute. There, they discover a functional, broken Dream Incubator. Kwak Jekang and Lee Yeonhwa observe that unlike Daydream Inc.'s machines, this incubator contains a round, egg-like object in the liquid tank. Kwak Jekang hypothesizes that the machine was originally designed for incubating life forms rather than just producing potions. He proposes a startling theory: the egg is not just a life form, but a "world," suggesting the institute aimed to create a new, safe world—potentially a world without ghost stories.

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