Chapter 11
Yunho's phone clattered to the ground and his tears ran down his cheeks as he looked at the monitor. Mingi's head is low to his chest and the 3 doctors held their breath and they let out a relief breath when Mingi moves slowly, tilting his head back up and looking at the gun, breathing heavily.
Yunho's phone rings again and Yunho shakily picks it up and answers it. "There is no time limit for your precious boyfriend, but he can also die in a minute, or not." Minjun said as he laughed evilly. "W-what do you mean by that?!" Yunho hissed albeit shakily.
"As you can see at the heartbeat monitor, the gun will pick up Mingi's heart rate and when his heartbeat goes up from the normal range, the gun will slowly turn and fire at him. Oh! I also put a bomb there around his stomach! The gun won't shoot him in the heart or anything, I adjust it to align to the bomb instead! This is kind of a punishment for you Yunho ah! Because you forgot about me! Tick tock tick tock!!" Minjun ends the call before Yunho can retaliate.
Yunho was about to shout into his phone when he was hit by a sudden pain in his head. He gasped and pressed a hand to his head, clenching his eyes shut as the pain intensified.
"Yunho ah! You lost so you'll be the villain and I'll be the cops!"
"Okay! I'll go hide first and after 5 minutes you can come and find me!"
"Okay! Bang bang Yunho ah! You better hide properly 'cause I'll find you with my gun!"
Yunho blinks in pain. "I w-was p-playing cops w-with him.." Yunho stuttered as Hongjoong and Yeosang went to him but before they could do anything, Yunho glanced at the monitor and suddenly his chest tightened and his throat closed up.
"Pup!" Yeosang and Hongjoong shout as Yunho falls to his knees, clutching his shirt on his chest and wheezing. "Fuck! I think his backpack is still in his office! I'll go get it!" Yeosang said as he rushed to Yunho's office while Honjoong had kneel down next to Yunho, running his hand on Yunho's back.
Yeosang came rushing in with an inhaler in his hand a few moments later and gave the inhaler to Hongjoong which the head doctor brought to Yunho's mouth. After a few puffs, Yunho coughs weakly and takes a few short breaths before he takes a long one. "I n-need to save h-him hyung..I c-can't lose h-him.." Yunho said as he began to cry quietly.
"We will save him pup. I'll call Hwa and the others." Hongjoong said as he pull out his phone. Yeosang help Yunho get up from the floor and push him down onto the seat, running his hand gently on Yunho's back as Yunho slumped on the table, crossing his arms on it and buried his face there, crying.
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"Pup? I think this is from Minjun." Seonghwa said bringing a box in as he, Jongho, San and Wooyoung walked into the meeting room. Yunho perks up and goes to Seonghwa as Seonghwa puts the box on the table. Yunho opened the box and inside it was a watch with its back had a little tiny needle on it.
Yunho frowns at the familiar watch as his phone rings.
"Ah, the package arrived right?"
"What is this?" Yunho asked and Minjun laughed.
"That, is a device that could help your boyfriend to stay alive."
"What can a watch do?" Yunho hissed and Minjun tsked.
"If you put that on, the device will recognize your pulse! If you can't save your boyfriend, you can die instead! If your pulse stops, all the devices surrounding Mingi will also stop. Ah, don't try to mess the device up, it might look messy but I assure you that it worked. If you toggle it it will make the gun shoot the bomb faster."
Yunho blinks and before he can change his mind, he pulled up his sleeve and reach for the watch which Hongjoong stopped him. "Pup! Who knew what that watch had touched and all!?" Hongjoong said and Yunho gritted his teeth. "I can handle it! This is the only thing that can save Mingi for now!"
"Fuck no! You just had an attack!!" Hongjoong yelled and Yunho growls and shove Hongjoong aside and grab the watch, putting it on his wrist with the needle prodded and stabbed his skin making him wince and he blinks when he can't read any memories of it.
"I w-was right.. T-this is Mingi's.. I c-can't read any memories of i-it.." Yunho said as he began to cry again.
"Ooh, I got your pulse. Good luck Yunho ah! I'm tired and I want to rest right now~" Minjun said and ends the call.
Yunho huffed in irritation. He looked at the watch on his wrist as blood trickled down from his wrist to the table.
"For now, pup, I know you won't stay here so you can go with Seonghwa and Jongho to try and find Mingi while me and Yeosang will do a background check about this Lee Minjun. We know nothing at all about him. Sani? Woo? What will you guys do?" Hongjoong said.
"We'll try and trace the phone and his whereabouts." San said and Hongjoong nod his head. "Pup, be careful and bring your inhaler." Hongjoong said and Yunho wipes his tears away and nods. "But we really don't have anything right now.. It's impossible to search like this.." Yunho said and sadly look at the monitor where Mingi is trying to even out his breath as he look around the place.
Yunho bit his lips before he called the number that Minjun had used.
"Need something Yunho ah?" Minjun said, his voice lacing with amusement, making Yunho grit his teeth. "Give me a hint." Yunho said, swallowing his pride and Minjun laughed. "You sound so weak right now!"
"I don't care how I sound right now. Give me a hint. It's not fair you know? You know everything about me but I don't. It's not even my fault that I've lost my memories so you can't use that as excuses. Give me the hint."
"You really love him, don't you? I'm jealous~~"
"JUST GIVE ME THE FUCKING HINT!" Yunho shouts, his hand clutching at his sweater.
"Fine. Don't shout again. My ears will bleed. Round Elephant. That's the only hint I can give you. Bye~" Minjun said and he ended the call. Yunho huffed and started to think about the hint.
"Pup? We can try to search around the area first. Let's go." Seonghwa said and Yunho nods.
Before he left, Yunho took something from one of the shelves where they put medications in the pharmacy lab.
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"We found Mingi's car in the middle of the road right after Joongie called me and we went there first but found nothing.. Except this.. I know this is a bad time, but I think you should hold it first.." Seonghwa said as Jongho gave Yunho a paper bag. Yunho opened the paper bag and there was a gift box in it, which Yunho opened and found a beautiful light purple scarf in it.
Yunho's lips wobble as he knows it is for him because his favourite colour is light purple. "T-thank you Mingi ah.. I'll save you.. I promise.." Yunho said quietly as Seonghwa started driving.
"Hyung, let's go to Minjun's house. He won't be there but maybe there will be hints there." Yunho said and Seonghwa nodded his head. Yunho's phone rings and he answers it.
"Pup, I've linked the monitor to your phone so you can see Mingi. I'll try to trace it and hope I can find where he is being kept." Yeosang said. "Alright, thank you Sangie." Yunho said and he opened the link Yeosang had given him and watched Mingi, still the same. "Stay calm baby. I'll come and save you." Yunho said quietly.
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"His father is Lee Jungmin and his mother is Park Yeona. The mother died in a fire of H apartment in Incheon and the father is nowhere to be found after the funeral.." Yeosang said and Hongjoong widen his eyes. "Wait. H apartment in Incheon? That was where Yunho lived before. So Minjun must've been his neighbour. The father is missing?" Hongjoong said and Yeosang nod his head.
"Yeah, no one found him after the funeral, so Minjun was taken to a care home before he was sent to the hospital because he tried to burn down the care home." Yeosang explained as he looked into the database.
"What did his father do?" Hongjoong asked. "He graduated from KAIST and worked as a senior researcher in science and chemistry in Y company." Yeosang answered. "Ah, I found the information about Minjun from the hospital he was in." Yeosang said. "Hospitalized because of arson in his care home in Gangnam. Was being cooperative while in the hospital so that's why they let him out and never set foot or having any records for arson afterwards."
"That's all?"
"Unfortunately.. Yes, that's all.." Yeosang said and both of the doctors sigh.
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"Do you think there are more in here pup?" Seonghwa asked as they stood in the middle of Minjun's room. Yunho huffed. "No, I don't think he will leave anything here on purpose.."
"I forgot to mention it to you, there is only one bullet in the gun Mingi ah, out of 6 slots. Since you had let it fire once, there are only 4 more empty shots." Minjun said as Jongho opened the monitor making Yunho and Seonghwa rush to Jongho.
They can see Mingi narrow his eyes. "What the fuck are you doing? Why are you doing this?" Mingi growls and Yunho pales. "No no don't get angry Min!" Yunho said in front of the monitor but he knew Mingi couldn't hear him. "Because this is a punishment for your baby for forgetting about me! His best friend when we're little!" Minjun said, making Mingi angrier and suddenly the gun fired once more.
Yunho flinched and he held his breath watching and he let out his breath when the shot was an empty one. Mingi closes his eyes and tries to calm his breathing down.
"Yunho ah, do you want to speak to Mingi? Grab the headset near the monitor~" Minjun said and Yunho quickly grabbed it with his sweater paws. "Min? Baby can you hear me?" Yunho said in the mic and Mingi widened his eyes. "Baby?!" Mingi said.
"Yes! Please hold on a bit Min! I'll come and save you! Please don't hear anything Minjun said and keep calm! Are you hurt anywhere?" Yunho said and Mingi nodded his head. "I'm fine baby. Please be careful and if you can get Minjun first then get him first!" Mingi said. "Fuck that! I'm going to save you first! You're my priority right now!" Yunho hissed. "Just be safe baby." Mingi said and before they could speak more, Minjun intervened.
"Urgh, you guys are so cheesy. I'm going to cut your conversation here. Tick tock tick tock Yunho!" Minjun said and he cut off the mic and turned off the monitor. Yunho grit his teeth and throw the headset to the wall, breathing heavily as he clutched his head in frustration.
"This bastard.. But what about a round elephant though.. I can't think of anything..No eyes and no nose.." Jongho said. "What did you just say Jongho?" Yunho said and Jongho tilted his head. "Hm?" Jongho said, confused and Yunho blinks as he quickly calls Hongjoong.
"Pup? Everything alright?"
"Hyung! What is a disease that distorts your cognitive perception or space perception? My mind is a mess right now so I can't think of anything.."
"That's too broad pup..Most of the disease that caused IQ to drop, distorts your perception.."
"Space perception, so you get to see an object as a squashed whole."
"Ah, then it's William's Syndrome."
"William's Syndrome.. The disease that is caused by gene loss?"
"Yup. The patients draw a square and when they talk, they say exactly where the windows or the wheels are. Wait. What was the hint he gave you, pup?"
"Round elephant."
"Ah, then it's the right disease. They perceive an elephant as a single circle."
"Find the patient that has this disease hyung! I don't think Mingi is the only victim! Fuck!"
"Will do pup."
Yunho ends the call and rubs his forehead. "What do you mean there is another victim pup?" Seonghwa said and Yunho sighs. "Because of the hint hyung.. Mingi doesn't have it so there must be another victim too.. And I hope that Mingi will be near them too.." Yunho huffed and took a deep breath.
"Let's go. There's nothing here." Seonghwa said and the other 2 nods.
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"Pup, we found the victim. He was in the same hospital as Minjun before."
"Address hyung!"
"On it!"
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"Cover the whole area! Where is the bomb squad?" Seonghwa said. "There'll be here in five, hyung." Wooyoung said. "It also might be a trap. So be careful!" Seonghwa said and Wooyoung and San nod their heads. "You guys too. We'll stay outside in case he's going to be here and wait for the bomb squad." San said and Seonghwa nodded his head before he rushed into the house with Jongho and Yunho in tow.
They enter the house and Seonghwa instantly closes his eyes in frustration as Jongho frowns and Yunho gasps before rushing to a woman that collapsed near the sofa and felt her pulse. "FUCK!!" Yunho said as he went to a boy on the floor that was wrapped in a bubble wrap around his face, his wrists and his legs.
Yunho tried to rip the wrap but it was too thick so he went to his neck and searched for a pulse instead. Yunho flopped on the floor in frustration when he couldn't find one and he was about to scream when his phone rings. He huffed angrily and answered it.
"HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL??" Yunho shouted and Minjun laughed. "So you found them! Good job!" Minjun said. "Why did you kill them?" Yunho said angrily. "No reason? It was fun! You should try it too Yunho ah, we usually do the same thing before you know? You should try it too!" MInjun said and Yunho snarl.
"Like hell I will! I at least found them so don't do anything stupid to Mingi!" Yunho said, making Minjun laugh more. "But you didn't get to save them though so what's the point? Hurry Yunho ah! Before something happens to Mingi! Tick tock tick tock!" Minjun said and ended the call.
"We found a room in the basement!" San shouted, making Yunho, Seonghwa and Jongho rush out from the house.
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"Mingi ah!" Seonghwa entered first into the room and rushed to Mingi but when he touched him, a jolt of electricity went through him and he flinched. "What the fuck did the fucker do to you??" Seonghwa hissed as he looked over to Mingi.
Mingi widened his eyes when they came in and he locked his gaze on Yunho when Yunho came rushing in. He had no words. He missed Yunho so much and had been worried about him. The same goes for Yunho who shakily went to Mingi, his tears already pooling in his eyes. "I'm here. I'm here M-min." Yunho said.
Yunho was about to touch Mingi when suddenly Mingi winced and gritted his teeth as he fists his hand, squeezing his eyes shut because Minjun had electrified him. Yunho cries out Mingi's name before he shouts. "FUCKING STOP THIS MINJUN!"
"We have to deactivate the bomb! He purposely electrified Mingi so his heartbeat will go up and make the gun fire!" Jongho said and they quickly looked over to Mingi's stomach where the bomb was tightly secured around it. "Is there a way to disconnect this?" Seonghwa said and Yunho sobs as he speaks. "N-no.. T-this is too well m-made.."
"I don't think I can hold on anymore.. Get out.. Everyone go.. The bomb might explode.." Mingi said weakly. "LIKE HELL WE WOULD LEAVE YOU HERE" Yunho said and Mingi shook his head weakly. "We don't have time for this baby.." Mingi said.
"If Minjun electrifies him once more...."Seonghwa said and Yunho bit his lips. "There is one way.." Yunho said quietly as he stared at Mingi and Mingi frowns. "What is it?" Jongho said. "We should stop my pulse." Yunho said, making everyone widen their eyes. "WHAT?" They shout in unison. "No! You can't do that!" Mingi said. "Don't. Baby. Please... Please don't.." Mingi said, his own eyes begin to water as he stares at Yunho.
"It's going to be okay Min." Yunho said softly, giving Mingi a small smile before he turned around and pulled out a syringe from his backpack. He put the syringe in between his lips as he put down his backpack. "Lee Minjun. This is what you want right?" Yunho said as he looked over to the camera that was attached to the wall and before anyone could stop him, Yunho opened the cap of the syringe and pulled up his sweater until his chest and stabbed the syringe into his chest.
"NO! BABY!" Mingi shouts, his tears running down his cheeks as Yunho convulses and falls onto the floor where Seonghwa and Jongho panicked while watching what just happened in front of them. Seconds later, Yunho stops convulsing and his pulse gradually stops and when it stops, the bomb disconnects. Seonghwa quickly pulled the bomb away from Mingi as Mingi went to his knees, rushing to Yunho.
"Wake up baby! Please please wake up!" Mingi said as he sobs and does chest compression on Yunho without stopping.
"Please baby please." Mingi sobs as he does the chest compression.
"Don't leave me.. Please...."
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