Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 140
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Episode 140 – No. 107, The Gateway Room – ‘Perfect Life’ (31)
– Han Ga-in
How can I wake Elena up?
The biggest problem is that Elena is too successful on this stage.
He had already become a star enough to be cast as the lead in various dramas and movies.
It was difficult for ordinary people to approach, and even if they did, there were always bodyguards around.
This is why you can’t use forced methods like you did to wake me up.
If you do something like that, you will be shot by the bodyguard and killed.
But there were also factors that worked in our favor.
Ari, who was the first to wake up and started to wake us up, gave his opinion.
“There are two main things we can take advantage of. First, what Elena will feel the moment she sees us. She’s already experienced it among us, right? Even when we’re caught up in ‘Perfect Life’ and can’t come to our senses, we feel strong emotions the moment we meet. “I guess the same goes for Elena.”
“I guess I’ll have to get into Elena’s sight somehow.”
“It’s also quite difficult. But if you research the method, it will definitely be there. Second, Elena has forgotten us, but we know her. “If we can somehow have a conversation with Elena, we can stimulate interest by bringing up stories from her past that we have already heard from her.”
“A few things come to mind, but most of them are fragmentary stories that Elena told in passing.”
“That alone is enough to make Elena feel amazing. “For her part, people who see her for the first time know the stories of her childhood.”
“In the end, the point is simple. “To somehow get into Elena’s field of vision, make her conscious of us, and give us a chance to talk.”
Songi, who had been listening silently, opened her mouth.
“Listen to me for a moment. I’m the only person who talked to Elena a lot on a regular basis. “She has her own ideas about how to get Elena’s attention and how to communicate with her.”
After taking Songi’s opinion into consideration, we talked for a while about how we could approach Elena and wake her up.
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– Elena
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I had a deep dream. A strange, unknown place.
A bizarre hotel where infinitely scary and terrible things happen.
Colleagues who are with me in that place.
In a long flashback, only one scene was engraved in my mind.
A young man who resembles an angel with a shining halo.
What on earth is this dream?
“Elena! Elena!”
“ah.”
“ah. No. “You need to wake up now.”
“Manager, thank you. “How long is left until the filming location?”
“about 30 minutes? “I’ll show you today’s schedule again.”
The manager next to me took out a tablet and showed the evening filming schedule and night broadcast schedule again.
Ah, it definitely feels like a long-time dream has come true, but it’s incredibly difficult once it’s actually been achieved.
But this is the life of a star! I have to overcome it.
It is early evening and it is starting to get dark. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked out the window.
Perhaps because today’s drama filming took place in a location with great scenery, the surrounding scenery was already full of green trees, a gentle breeze, and the fragrant scent of pine trees that tickled your nose.
On one side of the road where the car was driving, there was a tree so huge that one wondered about its species, and on its branches was a bird with an incomprehensible beauty that had never been seen anywhere else in the world.
???
What is that?
“What is that?”
Suddenly the car slowed down and everyone in the car looked up at the tree in surprise.
The fluttering light purple feathers, the curved beak, and the tail feathers were as splendid as a peacock’s tail.
The surreal bird, reminiscent of a fairy that descended from the sky, looked at us with a radiance from its entire body that softly brightened the night sky.
Is it because everyone, including me, is familiar with cameras?
Everyone took out their cameras as if they were fascinated and frantically took pictures of the birds.
The bird, which somehow resembled a parrot, seemed to remain silent in a mysterious manner, and then suddenly looked at me.
“E-re-na.”
I was literally blown away by my name suddenly coming out.
While his mouth was open, the bird flew away and disappeared somewhere.
Everyone started looking at me in surprise.
A mystery that will make your heart tremble!
A strange sense of euphoria filled my mind, filled with the fullness of an incredible experience.
Because of this excitement, today’s filming required quite a bit of nagging.
*
“It’s Song. Does this nonsense really work? If you attach a mini LED lamp to Pero’s back, you can charm Elena… .”
“brother! “Just do as I tell you.”
“No, I was trying to tie the lamp to my back earlier and it turned out really bright.”
“I know because I’ve talked to Elena a lot. I heard that Elena has a tendency to be secretly obsessed with the occult? She has a huge weakness for pretty and mysterious things. And she says, “There is no creature as pretty and magical as Perrault.”
“Gain. Stop complaining and tie it up. Because Songi is busy decorating me. Pero did look a bit strange. But since he is a parrot, why can’t he talk like this? ‘Think of me. ‘Elena’ Is this one sentence that difficult?”
“If I have to, I guess I’ll just have to tell Elena to talk. “I guess Pero is dumber than I thought.”
— Beep!
“Oh really! Stop biting! “Songi came up with the idea to tie a lamp to your back!”
*
– Elena
We barely finished filming.
Even the cinematographer and senior actors who usually always complimented me nagged me a little today.
I also had to apologize several times.
Oh~! I wasn’t the type to make a lot of mistakes while acting like this.
But I couldn’t help it today.
A mysterious creature I saw on the set!
Others said that it might just be a type of parrot, but I did not agree at all.
Where in the world is there such a mysterious-looking parrot?
Moreover, it even radiated light from its body, and more than anything, it called my name.
It was clearly a fairy-like creature possessed by some mysterious fate.
My heart started pounding at the thought that something mysterious might happen in my life again.
yet again? Has something similar happened before?
After tilting my head for a moment, I leaned back in my chair again and began to doze off.
There are still night broadcast schedules left, so if you don’t take a nap, you won’t have time to sleep well.
…
“Elena! Elena~!”
“to?”
“Wake up quickly! “Look ahead.”
I woke up rubbing my eyes at the manager’s urgent shout. The car stopped again.
It is now dark enough to make it difficult to see clearly in the evening.
When I looked out the window, the bird I saw when I came to the filming site was looking down at us with an even more mysterious look.
I also heard people getting out of their cars and clicking noises.
How can there be a bird like that? I was so amazed that I stared blankly for a while.
…
“El-le-na.”
The sound of ‘calling me’ is clearer than before.
The bird moved slowly towards the forest, as if telling it to follow.
I followed the bird in a daze, feeling hypnotized.
“Elena! Hiking at night is dangerous! Please come!”
I hear a voice calling me from behind.
The voices of grateful people who always care about our security.
But now, I can’t help it now.
Fortunately, there was no need to go deep into the mountain.
As soon as I entered, a small clearing appeared, and a bird was sitting quietly on a tree.
The moment when only the two birds remain in a mysterious clearing!
The fairy revealed its true form.
Suddenly, the parrot’s body swells as if it will explode.
The soft, light purple feathers that were like heavenly fluff turned into black scales as hard as steel.
The beak, which was curved like a child’s cute fist, transformed into a beak with enough power to crush a person’s head with a single bite.
The cute wings that seemed to belong to the back of a baby angel were transformed into something mysterious, like a mass of tentacles from an alien creature.
In an instant, I sat down in complete disbelief in front of a strange monster that appeared before me and radiated an overwhelming sense of intimidation.
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…
Surprisingly, the monster didn’t do anything and just stared at me.
At that time, a being with a mystery comparable to that of a bird appeared in one corner of the forest.
The dreary dawn night sky was captured in the hair that was flowing like a waterfall.
Among the cardigans swaying in the wind, various occult symbols of unknown origin were visible.
Blood-red liquid overflowed from the small perfume bottle, and the shaking candlestick and sparkling dagger caught the eye.
I felt a strange sense of déjà vu from the scale attached to my left chest, and it was difficult to come to my senses.
What was more mysterious than anything else were the eyes.
The moment those red eyes, full of the red blood that Jesus shed when he was crucified, looked right at me, I was completely overwhelmed and stopped.
The girl, who looked like a witch from another world, lightly petted the bird that had become a monster and then approached me.
“Don’t you know me?”
I’m out of breath. I, I love this girl… .
know!
My heart just cried out. I know this girl!
From the moment I first saw him, I felt a sense of intimacy that cannot be expressed in words.
She seemed to want to say something more to me.
The next moment, a loud noise came from behind me.
“Elena! “Didn’t I tell you that hiking at night is dangerous?”
The sound of someone roughly breaking a tree and stepping on the grass.
In an instant, the tranquility of the forest was shattered, and the heartless hooves of shoes trampled on the surreal and called out reality.
“ah… .”
“It’s too much to say more today.”
The girl looked somewhat regretful and held out a photo to me.
“You’ll find it soon. “Next time, I hope you come by yourself.”
With those words, she disappeared like the wind along with the bird.
— Again!
“Ah, why are there so many tree branches here? Elena? Are you okay? “Why are you sitting there alone?”
“Why did you come so quickly?”
“yes?”
I spoke sharply without realizing it.
An incredible experience that I thought I would never experience again in my life was in progress, and I felt like it had been interrupted.
But the bodyguards were just there to protect me.
“sorry. “I had some complicated thoughts for a moment.”
“it’s okay. “Let’s go back to the car.”
As I walked back to the car, I looked at the photo I was holding in one hand. A photo of a cafe with a view of the beach.
Didn’t you say, ‘Come find me alone’?
*
“Isn’t it a waste just now? Elena clearly felt like she was waking up. “How about trying a little more?”
“If I had gone on a little longer and the security guards had come in, I don’t know what would have happened. “Maybe I won’t even be able to go near Elena from now on?”
“What if Perrault just took a picture of Elena with his beak?”
“…I think Elena will definitely be hurt if she finds out that Ga-in oppa expressed such an opinion.”
“And what if Elena suddenly summons a bodyguard with an assault rifle, just like you summoned oil?”
“is it?”
“Elena is the one who changed this stage more than any of us. I am the most deeply immersed in my dreams, and I am using the power to make my wishes come true the most powerfully. It is too dangerous to use coercive measures against Elena like this. If we go to the extreme, even if we explode Elena’s head, we might forget that it was all just a bad dream and we might all die.”
“okay. “Let Elena guide her to wake up on her own somehow.”
“Now, let’s do the final preparations at the cafe. Ga-in oppa, you’re ready, right?”
“I wonder what else I can do. I’ve almost done everything to prepare. “It feels like it’s almost over.”
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