In the city's dark sewers, I saw glowing eyes in the darkness. Coming out of the shadows, three large rats stood in front of me. The rats were the size of a person. How bizarre.
I stood still and didn't make any sudden movements; anything could make them devour me. They then dove into the sewage water and disappeared from my sight.I continued walking through the sewers and found a pipe sticking out of the wall. I used my hands to pull the pipe out.It was very dusty, but it was all I had.
I continued through the sewers and found a ladder that led to the surface. I climbed the ladder and opened the metal manhole cover above.
I returned to the surface and saw a statue a little way from where I was. It was the statue of King Sejong. It was located in Gwanghwamun Square, where I was now.I came up to the surface and saw that the statue was missing pieces. The statue is made of bronze, so it makes sense that it would last so long.
"Wait a minute, could this world have some connection to my old one?"
I put my finger to my chin and began to think about it more deeply.
"If so, I must be in an alternate reality to my old world, but then, what happened for it to have become like this? The most likely thing is that it was an apocalypse but... it's still too early to speculate, or maybe I've come to the future?"
I laughed at myself.
"No, for God's sake, that idea is ridiculous. Time travel doesn't exist, and even if it did, it wouldn't be by transmigration."
I walked through Gwanghwamun Square looking for food, and all I found were dead parts of those monsters. I took out my phone and started playing whatever I could to distract myself from hunger for a while.The moment came when I couldn't resist any longer, and I picked up the corpses of those monsters.
I gathered some branches and scraps of rags I found around the square and made a shelter and also a fire to roast the meat.It took me over half an hour for it to cook. It got to a point where I thought the meat was good enough. I took it off the part that held it over the fire and chewed it slowly.
"Wow... the meat is good. And to think that a disgusting creature like that could turn into a meal like this."
After eating, I went inside the shack and lay down to sleep.Before that, I looked at my phone for a while and saw the photo gallery.
The photos were of moments with my ex-girlfriend; we went to several places together, but the relationship came down to sex. I turned off the phone and just tried to forget what I had remembered from those photos.