The Forgotten Tunnel
In the mountainous borderlands near Paektu Mountain, whispered tales tell of an abandoned railway tunnel—the Mugeogui Gwang , or “Tunnel of Silence.” Official maps omit its existence, and locals refer to it only with uneasy glances and quiet mutterings. Back in the 1980s, engineers began constructing an underground transport route for classified military missions. But during the excavation, the team vanished. No bodies. No distress calls. Just their equipment, strewn about as though dropped mid-motion. Authorities sealed the tunnel entrance with reinforced steel and erased it from records. Years later, a defector named Jae-Hwa returned to document evidence of government disappearances. Guided by cryptic rumors and an old railway blueprint, she unearthed the hidden entrance. The air inside was stale—thick with decay and something... older. As she ventured deeper, the flicker of her flashlight revealed murals etched into the walls—faces screaming in silence, hands reaching upward, eye...