This chapter's song: EXO-K - MAMA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH6ZwnqZ7Wo)

40 REMAIN

Participant E-4 Yejun finally decided to risk his life and open the chest in front of him. His fear was useless for now, no poison, no bomb, no dead Yejun. F.cuz’maknae only saw a sort of hole and a flashlight, he took the flashlight and shined into the hole, there was a ladder to go down. ‘This must be the underground…’ the brunette thought as he stepped into the chest. Before going down into the underground, the visual closed the chest door, while he held the flashlight between his teeth. The brunette carefully made his way down the ladder and when his feet touched the ground, he pulled out a sigh of relief. Then the maknae started to walk around, scared of monsters and traps, or maybe other participants, but they didn’t come, for now…

Yejun had noticed something while he shined his light on the ceiling. His hands turned into fists and let out a ‘YES!’. This brunette was tired of the underground. There was another ladder up there and something that looked like a shutter. While the maknae was climbing up the ladder, he was alerted by a weird noise. ‘Like water… WAIT WHAT??’ Yejun looked at the place where it came from with wide eyes, a trap… He couldn’t see it well but there were tons of water coming at him at a high tempo. Yejun screamed full of fear and tried to open the shutter but it just wouldn’t work! The water was making it difficult to hold on to the ladder and the brunette dropped the flashlight, he saw a bundle of light flooding away in the stream of water. The visual could feel the water on his chin and took his last big breath and continued to try to open the shutter. Then after a minute he succeeded and gasped in the open air. ‘Phew…’ he corrected his hair, ‘few seconds longer, and I was done…’ The maknae stood up and, still gasping, looked around where he was. Yejun couldn’t believe his eyes, right in front of him, 2 bodies, and they seemed to be there in this state for already some time. “Onew… and Jongup…” the brunette murmured. He decided to take Onew’s backpack.

Key (E-2)