NINE WORDS

I recently started to live by myself. It was pretty difficult to get this room of the apartment, but in the end I finally settled in.

Then one day, at 1:00 am, I was watching TV in the living room when my cell phone and the house phone started ringing at the same time.

I answered the house phone first. It was my friend.

"What’s up?" I asked.

"What a relief, you’re not asleep. You… did you get a weird text message?" He replied in a relieved voice.

"Text message?"

"Hm… how should I describe it…. it’s written in English. Didn’t your cellphone ring?"

I immediately checked my cellphone. There was a message and it was written like this:

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1em#g:2t4diks%7wmhtxrcb&j

¥7mdyvbqak+luh_/qyv3jmp!

8mhxgbfme”q5gxgqnb??

hil9kmzxyutrobhjg22wzd*gj&hi-ur>vzx

I’ll give you ten minutes. Find my message….

START!

HINT: nine words

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It was from an unknown number.

"…I think I got it as well."

"I got mine at 12:57 am. I wonder what this is? It’s really weird… but I want to find the answer. I guess I have about 5 minutes left…”

"Then let’s solve it together." And then we continued to talk over the phone to solve the problem.  

—

The time is 1:02 am.

We were still stuck. We couldn’t figure it out.

It seemed like someone had mashed the buttons on the phone - and the only hint we is ‘nine words.’

"Do you think you could figure it out?

"Not really… But the hint says that it’s 9 letters. Maybe there’s something that’s 9 letters in the text?"

"It seems like it…."

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1:07 am. 

"Ah… It’s game over for me…" My friend said when he noticed that his 10 minutes are already over.

Suddenly, I could hear someone pressing the doorbell over the phone.

"Did someone come…?" I asked.

"In the middle of the night? No way… Is it because of this text?"

"Just look through the view hole. It’ll be okay as long as you don’t open the door."

"Okay… I’ll come right back after checking."

My friend put down his phone and went to the main door.

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1:08 am.

My friend didn’t come back. What happened? I wonder….

But I only had 2 minutes left myself - so I decided to pour all my energy into solving the problem. I guess that there wasn’t supposed to be any special meaning into the time limit - but for some odd reason, I was extremely anxious.

I focused on the 9 letters that my friend had talked about.

In the text, I just had to find a 9-letter word.

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1:09 am.

I had one minute left. I was sweating and my heart was thumping hard.

But even so, I kept myself together and focused entirely on the cellphone screen.

And then I found it…

The answer was in the numbers.

In the text, there was exactly 9 numbers.

But we couldn’t figure out anything other than that.

It’s as if someone had guided me at the moment and I finally saw it.

It was the letters behind the numbers.

So the first letter after the number 1 is e, the next letter after is 4, etc.

And so here’s the answer:

e s c a p e n o w

escapenow… Escape Now.

I was devastated.

My friend still didn’t come back.

Is it because he wasn’t able to escape before the 10 minute time limit?

I no longer thought that this was a prank.

When I looked at the clock, it was exactly 1:10.

I had no time!

I had to escape….

I ran towards the front door.

But the moment I touched the handle, I paused.

What if the murderer was right behind the door?…

Anyway, I’m still going to die.

I gathered all my wits and opened the door.

Thankfully, no one was there.

It’s not too late!

I didn’t lock the door and just ran outside.

I ran down the stairs and started going towards the nearest convenience store. 

I felt that I would be safe there.

In the small neighborhood, my footsteps echoed.

I can escape.

I’m safe.

When I was but a corner away from the convenience store, a text came.

Could it be from my friend?

Did he send a text message because I didn’t answer my phone?

I opened my cell phone.

The number was same number from 10 minutes ago.

It was written like this.

G A M E O V E R

Then from the back, someone grabbed my shoulder.

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This morning, two corpses were found. One had his right arm torn form his shoulder, and another was discovered without his head in his apartment’s front door.

The two were gripping their cellphones tightly, and had the same message from the same number…]

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the guy in the picture reminds me of Chanyeol. okay.