Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 153
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Episode 153 – Room 201, Room of the Curse – ‘□ □□’ (2)
– Kim Ari
As I headed toward the third mansion, I relayed my reasoning through the chat window.
The space beyond the door in the mansion was twisted and even seemed to be constantly changing.
The number of mansions does not seem to be one.
It seemed necessary to conserve the type in the chat window, so I spoke less and entered the third mansion.
This time we entered through the back door.
The appearance of the mansion was not much different from its appearance in the past.
We couldn’t take our steps because we had witnessed Oliver’s disaster on the carpet earlier.
Eventually, Elizabeth began to give instructions.
“Let’s not spread out carelessly and check sequentially, starting with the rooms toward the parlor. Be as cautious as possible and be prepared to react immediately as monsters may attack. Then let’s go!”
The mansion wasn’t that big, so the search didn’t take long.
There were no problems with the carpets in the third house.
Soon we passed the reception room and headed toward the living room, where Cha Jin-cheol noticed something unusual for the first time.
“Cha Jin-cheol? Did you find anything strange?”
“Everyone, come here! “The TV is a little strange.”
As soon as I approached, I understood what he meant. The TV began to flicker and blink strangely.
Is the second mansion a carpet and the third a TV?
The moment everyone nervously picks up their guns thinking that a monster might come out –
The TV turned on.
— Squeak! Squeak! Pot!
“uh? Ugh! “It suddenly turned on!”
“What is it? Didn’t someone touch the remote control?”
Suddenly, the music of the pledge to the national flag that I had heard since elementary school began to play.
/tu—tu—tu tu tu! Too—too—too! In a moment, there will be an oath. All toys, please wait in an upright position./
toy? The moment the comment came out on TV, an incomprehensible force stopped all of our movements.
/Oath.
I am a slave.
Even though you have eyes, you cannot see the truth, so you are not qualified to open them.
Even though you have ears, you cannot hear distant sounds, so you are not qualified to hear them.
I will give my all to the Great One.
I swear, please cut out my arms and legs finely, fry them in half soy sauce and half fried food, and enjoy them!/
After the absurd content of the oath rang out, our mouths were forced to move and we read along.
/Everyone has pledged. Shall we fry half-and-half chicken according to our pledge? Ding dong dang!/
A cauldron of boiling oil appeared in the TV video along with the sound of a dog going crazy!
Suddenly, a black hand stretched out from the display, grabbed Elena, and started dragging her to the TV.
— Paaaa!
A star appeared in front of Jincheol. I can’t move, but can I summon stars?
But this is a mistake!
Jincheol himself is unable to move.
Of course, the star, which had no guidance function, stayed in front of Jincheol without being able to move, and the distance between us and the star was closer than the distance between the star and the TV.
Before the TV mutated, Songi’s skin next to me started to turn over, and I also began to feel the terrible sensation of my hair turning into flesh.
Jincheol, who belatedly realized the situation, immediately summoned Byul again.
Eventually, the arm that emerged from the TV began to drag Elena, who was unable to move, ‘inside the display’!
The huge cauldron prepared inside the TV is full of boiling oil and is boiling over.
It was so clear what was going to happen that everyone’s complexions turned white.
— Bang! bang!
The display exploded with a gunshot sound.
Immediately our bound bodies were released, and Elena, whose entire upper body had entered the display, bounced out.
When I turned my gaze, I saw a silent hand floating in the air.
The remote hand gloves could be operated even when the body was stopped!
Elizabeth fussed.
“Silence! Well done! “Something really terrible could have happened.”
My heart almost dropped too.
If Mukseong was unable to set off the TV by controlling the glove and shooting the gun, we would have seen Elena dragged inside the TV without being able to move –
…
Let’s stop imagining. Just thinking about it made me feel sick.
Jin-cheol later apologized for being embarrassed when he saw Song-i’s reddened skin, and Song-i was saying that there was nothing he could do because the situation was urgent.
There were tentacles in my hair too. Well, if you just leave, the hotel will get rid of it.
I hurriedly ran to Elena.
“are you okay? Elena?”
Elena, who was dragged inside the TV and then thrown out, said nothing.
“Elena?”
Elena looked back at me with a distraught expression.
Only then did the people around them gather.
“Elena? are you okay?”
“Elena sister?”
Elena’s mouth opened.
“saw… . saw… .”
“What do you mean you saw?”
“There was an eye inside the TV.”
“eye? What do you mean suddenly?”
“eye.”
“Elena? Are you okay?”
“Eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye eye.
Look at the eyes sparkling in the cracks. Look at the eyes looking down from the outside. Have you ever walked down a dark night street and felt someone watching you from behind? Have you ever been typing on your keyboard alone in your room when you suddenly feel someone else’s gaze on you? Young children can’t sleep because they think of a rolling doll looking at them. In the dawn sky, there is a disdain for people who go to work early in the morning. In the land of noon, there are eyes that quietly gaze upon a world full of vitality. iced coffee! The whole world is snow. I saw 3,000 eyes covering the horizon. The greatest eye captures everything from the abyss to the sky, and of course we are also in it.”
???
Suddenly, Elena stopped talking, opened her eyes and looked up at the ceiling.
“You are here too. No, you’re all over this place. Hello everyone!”
— Bang!
The moment everyone was shocked by Elena’s bizarre words suddenly pouring out like a crazy person, Elena immediately shot herself and committed suicide.
We were distraught, unable to accept the rapid change in circumstances.
*
The second shocking accident that occurred in an instant, Elena committed suicide in the midst of madness.
It has been common for colleagues to die since entering the hotel. I have experienced many times where someone dies and then goes out and meets them again.
Song and Seung-yeop, who had seemed delicate for some time, had long since adapted to the death of their colleagues.
but… .
This death is so ‘grotesque’ that it ranks among the deaths of colleagues I have witnessed at the hotel.
Seungyeop’s mentality began to shake.
“You obviously chose the room through luck, didn’t you? Then there should be a safe room! Why in the room I chose-”
How dare you openly bring up blessings in front of Elizabeth!
She was embarrassed, but fortunately, she seemed to be busy looking around the smashed TV.
At this point, I thought Seungyeop was going to cry, so I quickly went over and patted his head.
“Wake. Of course, there are times when things don’t go well. Originally an active skill, from now on I’ll call it ‘Heaven’s Luck’. “Anyway, I didn’t use heaven’s luck, I just guessed it.”
In his own way, he comforted me with small words. Seungyeop was still shaking.
Jincheol also came and added.
“It’s not your fault Seungyeop. “If someone else had chosen, wouldn’t there have been risk?”
Eunsol approached.
“Everyone, hold on tight! I think you know more than that, right? As you move through the door, a new mansion appears. Although other elements of the new mansion are the same, there is only one thing that has changed. There’s a monster in that thing. Right?”
“And it also gives us some time before the monster attacks. “It never hit me right away.”
Songi, who was listening, answered.
“Is this some kind of ‘spot the difference?’ Find the difference in the picture within the time limit?
He muttered as if he was disappointed in his silence.
“This time, I found the wrong picture correctly. I think one mistake I made was not shooting the TV as soon as I found it. “I just hit the display with a pistol and the monster disappeared immediately, didn’t it?”
“In the next mansion, let’s shoot right away as soon as we find the mistake.”
Songi expressed a radical opinion.
“Rather than searching for them one by one, how about just destroying everything around you with a rifle as soon as you enter the mansion?”
Mukseong immediately refuted.
“Song, what you have in your hand is a rifle, not a missile. Shooting and destroying every object in the mansion one by one takes longer than expected, and there is a critical shortage of bullets. However, the idea of destroying everything at random is okay. “I have an unpleasant feeling that we are playing on the enemy’s intentions.”
I agree with the idea of destroying the mansion, but I am talking about using means other than rifles.
Elizabeth has been wandering around somewhere since a while ago. Cha Jin-cheol, who confirmed this, quickly approached.
“Let’s destroy everything around us. “Or knock that woman unconscious.”
“Does it look like it’s okay to just leave it alone? Even if you see Mukseong using the remote control, you don’t really question him. I think they think we’re psychic. “Isn’t there a time limit on the stars?”
“Time limit? Ah, if I use it for a long time, I might not be able to endure it myself. But I think this mansion will collapse before my body.”
Songi answered nervously.
“There is not just one mansion. What if I still have a mansion after I leave?”
Mukseong answered as if he had been waiting.
“If you move through the passageways provided in the mansion, such as the front door, back door, and basement door, you will find another mansion. However, if you destroy the mansion and ‘create a door’ to get out, will another mansion come out? I don’t think so. “I think we will be able to get out of this stage prepared by our enemies.”
From the looks of it, Mukseong and Jincheol are of the opinion that they should destroy the mansion with the power of the stars. I also understood the logic.
Moving through the passage prepared within the mansion itself is playing into the hands of the enemy, so let’s destroy the mansion and move outside of the intended location.
However, they are overlooking one fact.
“There is an adversary in the cursed room. Normally you had to fight the entity and get rid of it. Right now, that opponent hasn’t even appeared. “If an adversary appears after Cha Jin-cheol has used the time-limited star for destruction of property in a situation where the adversary does not appear, we may be annihilated for nothing.”
Eunsol also joined in.
“agreement. Don’t forget that Ga-in, who Kang-rim is with, is gone now. Byul and Jincheol account for 90% of our strength in the field of fighting. I think it’s dangerous to use all your energy to destroy property. And this is my opinion.”
Eunsol turned her head for a moment to check Elizabeth’s location and spoke.
“If the problem could have been solved by destroying the mansion, Jincheol would have been sealed in the first place, not Gain. “Isn’t the fact that Jincheol wasn’t sealed proof that the solution can’t be solved just by randomly destroying things?”
There was silence for a moment.
There was a situation where some people suggested destroying the mansion and others said it wasn’t a good idea.
Cha Jin-cheol, who almost always follows Eunsol’s opinion, changed his opinion.
“Let’s do as you think. However, let’s talk again after we escape somehow.”
Cha Jin-cheol didn’t seem to be really persuaded.
It’s just that Eunsol, who has a strong voice among us, expressed her opinion in a dangerous place, so it seems like she doesn’t want to openly oppose Eunsol’s opinion right now.
I strongly suggested that we go out and talk again.
by the way… . Didn’t Elizabeth seem a little strange earlier?
Songi was also puzzled.
“What are you doing alone? “It feels like they are considerate of us and give us time to talk comfortably.”
I had a different idea.
What if that woman isn’t just looking out for us, but has plans of her own?
From Elizabeth’s point of view, it would be a situation where we are being considerate of ourselves and talking amongst ourselves.
My head is getting more and more complicated. There are more factors to consider. I once again missed that sloppy guy.
See next episode