Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 155
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Episode 155 – Room 201, Room of the Curse – ‘□ □□’ (4)
– Kim Ari
Due to the power of the Nightmare Butterfly, the gorilla began to suffer from strong drowsiness and mental pain.
Mukseong and I rushed forward in a huff and poured our guns into the inside of the gorilla’s twisted skin.
— Bang!
Elizabeth again! With the sound of a gunshot, Mukseong grabbed her shoulder and stumbled.
Mukseong and I hurriedly moved the gorilla’s body to a position where we could use it as a shield.
Fortunately, the gorilla is now semi-neutralized. The invisible man is here too!
On one side of the pure white space, bullets were fired to suffocate the gorilla, and on the other side, a strange blood battle began between invisible people.
“What on earth is wrong with this bastard? Aren’t we swollen over 50 feet? “Are you still squirming?”
Mukseong endured the pain and stood up with a grim expression.
“I think he will probably die over time even in his current state. But it would be right to hit the final blow in the head.”
Mukseong went to the collapsed gorilla’s head, stuck the muzzle of the gun into its eyeball, and pulled the trigger.
Only then did the gorilla’s wriggling completely stop. Truly disgusting vitality!
As I sighed and turned my head, I realized that the fight between the invisible people was going on in a funnier way than I thought.
Elizabeth was unable to find Eunsol’s location, so she wasted bullet after bullet in the air, and Eunsol held on, taking deep breaths only when Elizabeth looked at the wrong angle.
On the other hand, Eunsol seemed to be able to use the power of her eyes to locate Elizabeth even though she had become invisible, but the fight was prolonged simply because she was not good at shooting guns.
This ambiguous balance will eventually end when colleagues join.
As Mukseong and I surrounded Elizabeth from a distance and narrowed the invisible man’s movement radius, Elizabeth suddenly appeared and took off her helmet –
— Bang!
The chaotic battle ended with a single gunshot.
“Tsk! “This shit-”
“Silence. “There are kids too.”
“Hmm. I suffered so much because of this crazy thing. “Jincheol must be disappointed again, right?”
Eunsol was checking the condition of Song and Seungyeop, who had collapsed.
When I hurriedly removed Songi’s body armor, I saw several blue-green bruises the size of an adult man’s palm on his upper body. Songi sighed and stood up.
Seung-yeop’s condition was even more serious when he took off his protective clothing and checked. No matter how protective the suit was, it could not completely block the impact of the gorilla’s overwhelming punch.
After panting for a while, almost without coming to my senses, I barely began to move slowly.
It is already impossible to solve the problem. Still, I have to escape.
At least I felt relieved when I thought about the escape button. If I have to, I’ll live with the escape button at least once.
Eunsol is back.
“Ari, you were right… . sorry.”
“Well, that’s okay. “Let’s turn on Elizabeth right away in the next episode.”
“Then let’s take the gun away first. “I couldn’t find out anything because he committed suicide right away.”
Looking around, I saw that this strange space had three exits, including the door I entered through.
Wouldn’t it be better for Seungyeop to choose this time too?
Eunsol said as if she was curious.
“This room is a mess, right?”
“okay. In other words, the room I had overlooked so far was surprisingly the right answer. “I thought it was the wrong answer because there was a monster every time, but compared to this room now, it was heaven.”
Songi approached with a tired expression.
“Ari! sorry… .”
“are you okay. “It was a confusing situation.”
Apart from everyone’s apologies, I thought about it for a moment. The group basically has a ‘conflict avoidance tendency’.
This tendency clearly contributed greatly to the party not splitting up, but isn’t it a factor that makes it hesitate at moments like the one before when it has to make a ‘strong decision’?
So they probably didn’t agree with my opinion, which they thought was extreme.
In the first place, my judgment was based on intuition, so I was unable to provide reasonable grounds.
Because there was a sense of understanding, there were no particular complaints from other colleagues.
but… .
— Perfect!
I patted the head of Mukseong, who was loitering next to me, and sent him a ‘personal chat.’
Kim Ari: You should have taken my side!
This bastard doesn’t listen to me, even when he’s out there, he’s been saved by my intuition more than once or twice?
If this person is the only one who takes my side, does everyone else do the same? I would have followed along!
Mukseong was all laughing at the old subject.
“But, there is a rather scary story.”
“This is already a scary enough situation, but tell me more.”
“This gorilla had a ‘master’ of sorts.”
“…”
“You said that since your affinity has been strengthened, you have become able to read the minds of chaos entities a little bit, right?”
“I don’t think the gorilla is friendly to you.”
“I told you. There was an owner. It even seemed like it was very scared of its owner. When the gorilla collapsed from butterflies, it reminded me strongly of a certain person and I was scared that I would be scolded. “A scary master like that would have ordered everyone who came in to be killed.”
It was a scary and really tiring story.
Even these overwhelming monsters are treated as servants.
It’s probably an opponent. Where on earth does he live and what does he do?
At this point, shouldn’t you at least show your face?
I sighed and turned my head.
Seung-yeop, who had suffered much worse injuries than Song-i, was still out of breath and unable to stand up properly on his own.
I thought I needed to rest a little more to recover –
Letters appeared on the walls on all sides.
MOVE!
Should I follow that? When I looked around, my colleagues seemed to be unsure.
Songi asked as if she couldn’t bear it anymore.
“Who on earth is writing those letters? At first, it felt like a hotel notification, so it seemed like everyone naturally followed suit, but in reality, I don’t think a hotel would issue a notification in a place like this.”
Surprisingly, Mukseong, who at first showed that he did not want to be played into the hands of the enemy, stood up obediently.
“Well, even if it’s not those letters, it would be better to move now. “We should move while our guide can at least guide us before he completely faints.”
Our guide.
No matter how you look at it, Seungyeop is not in a state where he will get better just by resting.
If you leave it alone without proper treatment, you may not get better and may die.
Even if you don’t die but just lose consciousness, it’s a big problem in this situation.
As the silent saying goes, if Seung-yeop faints, there will be no guide for us.
Seungyeop waved his hand, which wasn’t working well, in the air, and then threw a coin.
— Ting! Clink, clink.
The coin, which had been rolling for a while, hit the door on one wall.
We started moving again, this time with Mukseong wearing a protective suit and carrying Seungyeop on his back.
*
We conquered the fifth and sixth mansions in succession in a short period of time.
In the process, they successively destroyed a toaster that vomited out living bread and a closet where the killer was hiding.
Once we established a countermeasure to the mimicry room where the monster was hiding, we were able to break it without much difficulty.
However, even if I woke up, another mansion would just appear.
Eventually, at some point, we got tired and collapsed after destroying the moving clock in the seventh mansion.
Seungyeop seemed to have reached his limit and fell asleep as if he fainted.
“What on earth should I do?”
“It seems like there is no end if it continues like this. It’s already the seventh time. “If we move on, it will be the eighth, and then the ninth.”
A conversation between an exhausted Songi and Eunsol.
In the midst of all this, I thought about ‘luck’.
A power that is more difficult to explain than any other blessing.
According to Seungyeop, did he say that the sponsor was a childlike god?
Luck has many characteristics, but there is one important keyword.
It is ‘faith’.
Luck can be used more actively by those with strong self-confidence.
Paradoxically, a blessing that is harder to believe than any other blessing is also luck.
This is because you just choose based on feel, without any logic.
If Seung-yeop makes a mistake just once or twice, he begins to doubt himself, and when he begins to doubt, his luck becomes powerless.
Another problem is that the person concerned does not know whether the blessing has now worked.
I thought about what I experienced in the Gate Room and Jekyll and Hyde game.
Was it the second time? Was it the third time? At some point, Seungyeop felt burdened and did not choose Hyde.
He himself recognized that he ‘didn’t choose it,’ and we thought the same.
However, when I think about it again after some time has passed, even that ‘not choosing’ was a choice.
Since Seung-yeop was Hyde himself, he could not choose someone from outside.
But how can we at that time understand choices made in this way?
If you look at it from a future perspective where you know all the results, Aha! It was a lucky choice this time too! Could.
But at this point, we don’t even know if luck worked.
The Trojan prophet from Greek and Roman mythology came to mind.
Cassandra, a prophetess who gained perfect precognitive abilities but was cursed to prevent anyone from believing her prophecies.
Luck has an uncanny resemblance to this very force.
A blessing that emphasizes faith more than any other blessing is, absurdly, a type of power that is harder to believe than any other blessing.
… As I continued to think like that, it suddenly occurred to me.
In fact, even now.
Isn’t this still a situation created by the power of luck?
Like in the Jekyll and Hyde game, isn’t even ‘passing out and not being able to choose the next room’ a choice?
Or is all of this just an illusion on my part?
He stood up to look around while looking at his colleagues who were bandaging him, saying he was taking care of Seung-yeop and Song-i.
*
– Park Seung-yeop
iced coffee… . hot.
My whole body is hot like fire.
It’s been a long time since I even thought about where or how it hurts.
At some point, my first thought was that I was tired and sleepy rather than sick.
Grandpa Mukseong took off the protective clothing and seemed to be touching my body here and there, and eventually put me back inside the protective clothing.
I forced my mouth to open.
“grandfather… .”
“Don’t open your mouth. “Drink this.”
The grandfather handed me a syringe filled with red liquid.
“Is this the blood of Ari, the best medicine of the century that Ga-in said he had found countless times?”
“… Looking at the talking tail, it looks like it’s still fine.”
“I think it would be best if you just leave me alone and take the hazmat suit back.”
It’s a waste for me, who can’t even move, to be wearing such a powerful tool.
“Don’t be like that, just have some confidence.”
“No, I can’t even move, so what-”
“Isn’t your heavenly fortune still not sending a signal? It didn’t even work in front of gorillas. “I think you have one more chance to be active.”
“…”
After telling me those words, my grandfather also placed the ‘escape button’ he had in my hand.
What is the source of this firm belief?
In the first place, wasn’t Heaven’s Luck activated every time I was in danger?
Honestly, it feels like Heaven’s Luck is activated when the sponsor wants to activate it.
Is it because I drank the best medicine of the century? For some reason, my vitality came back a little.
I heard that when Ari is fine, the healing power is not that strong, but I guess it’s still not effective.
Or maybe it’s a placebo effect.
As I lay there blankly, I felt like I could understand my grandfather’s psychological state.
In fact, we found ourselves in a pretty desperate situation.
We’ve lost most of our power, everyone is exhausted, and we have no idea how to escape.
In this situation, I think my grandfather’s last hope is my luck.
In other words, isn’t it a state of wanting to believe rather than believing?
There was a loud sound as if something was breaking somewhere.
The grandfather was startled and stood up.
For the first time in a very long time, a notification popped up by itself.
[Celestial Luck activated! The energy of the universe protects you.]
The name Cheonwoon was chosen by Ari on her own terms… .
Your grandfather also called you Cheonun, and now you, the sponsor, have decided to call him Cheonun too?
The comments also change every time. What 777 used to be! Like this, this time it was the energy of the universe.
Ah, I don’t know.
They say the energy of the universe will protect me, so something will work out!
I just closed my eyes comfortably.
I was jealous of Ga-in, who was already sleeping.
*
– Kim Ari
I continued my thoughts from before while looking around.
Let’s say that the state in which Seung-yeop fell was a kind of choice made.
Why didn’t Luck choose the next room?
…
Because this room is the answer!
I looked around, hoping for something to happen.
I touched each object around me and looked at the walls and the dining table.
I didn’t feel anything particularly unusual.
Is it really my imagination?
As time passed, a familiar text appeared again on the mirror near the sink.
Move!
Who on earth is sending this?
The group was already mentally and physically exhausted. Above all, Seung-yeop, who acts as a guide, is having a hard time coming to his senses.
I can no longer follow these instructions. I drew up old blood and wrote it down.
‘No!’
…
…
…
okay? Then come play with me!
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— Clink!
A hand rose from the mirror like a blade and pierced my body in a single moment.
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