Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 159
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Episode 159 – Room 201, Room of the Curse – ‘The Cube’ (8)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 82
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105, Room of Rest
Sage advice: 1]
– Han Ga-in
For a while, I’ve been gathering ideas on how to safely enter the ‘research lab route’.
Sister Eunsol suggested that she would go while turning invisible with the power of the badge, and brother Jincheol suggested that he would close his eyes and run like crazy.
In addition, there were opinions such as Songi, who was confident that the bracelet’s mental protection would work, and Ahri, who thought she would be able to endure even though it would consume a large amount of blood.
Some unusual ideas included wearing white coats like researchers, or even going as far as to remove the eyeballs from the inside.
There were many different opinions, but in the end we came to one conclusion.
There is no way to know whether it will work or not until you actually try it.
This is inevitable because we do not really know what the source of madness is in the first place.
When the conversation reached this point, Eunsol expressed a completely different point of view.
“Let’s just split the party.”
“yes? “What is that-”
“You said this before. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Diversification is essential when doing extremely risky work where death awaits you if you fail. What if we all go into the TV together and none of the methods we came up with work? “At that moment, we were killed.”
After hearing it, it made sense. In fact, there is no need for everyone to go to the route where the risk of ‘instant death in case of failure’ is waiting.
“So, some of you will proceed with the TV lab route, and the rest will follow the original plan?”
Songi asked with a fierce expression.
“Did we have an original plan?”
“We haven’t decided on anything in particular, but our plan is to secure an escape route first. If I were to summarize what I’ve heard so far, it would be like this. While proceeding through several rooms inside the cube, when a room from which you can escape appears, stop without proceeding any further. If you stop and wait, a notification saying ‘Move!’ will appear on a mirror somewhere. “The place behind the mirror is both an escape route and a place where the devil girl is waiting.”
The grandfather who was listening came to a conclusion.
“Let’s conserve as much power as possible, get to that location, and then engage in a fight with the devil. “While we were stuck, one person escaped.”
Jincheol answered nervously.
“Wouldn’t you eventually have to fight that demon to secure an escape route? “Don’t you feel uneasy about splitting up your forces and having someone go the laboratory route, saying you have to fight?”
Eunsol’s older sister responded in a somewhat bitter tone.
“Well, it’s a problem where someone with low combat skills can go to the research lab. Honestly, would I be of much help in front of the devil girl coming out of the mirror? I don’t think butterflies have much meaning either. “It’s an arsenal with clear weaknesses to begin with.”
Songi was curious.
“Did you have a weakness for butterflies? “I was impressed when I saw the scene where he knocked down the gorilla in one go.”
My sister laughed and opened the brooch to summon a butterfly.
“Whoa!”
When the older sister blew air with her mouth, the butterfly lost its balance, as if it had been caught in a typhoon.
“Did you see it? After all, it’s just an insect. Even if you just blow with your mouth, you can’t get close. “At that time, I guess I had an unusual sensitivity for a gorilla, so I stretched out my hand slowly, and that’s why I got hurt.”
Grandfather Mukseong also expressed similar feelings.
“To agree. “At the point where guns are treated like BB bullets in the first place, I have no reason to go against that girl.”
Jincheol with stars, Ari with old blood, Songi with bracelets, and Elena with justice seem to be able to fight against the devil.
It would be difficult for Seungyeop to participate in the battle, but he seemed like he would be perfect for securing an escape while the four above were fighting.
We have ‘Lab Party (Lee Eun-sol, Kim Muk-seong)’, which enters the TV in the middle of the party, and ‘Escape Party (Kim Ari, Park Seung-yeop, Elena, Yoo Song-i, Cha Jin-cheol), which goes further in Cube and fights the demon girl while securing escape. )’.
I felt like the party heading towards the lab that was related to my unsealing was very poor.
It was also disappointing that Songi and Ahri, who had resistance to madness, were not present.
But there was nothing else to do. Since it was a matter of life, his colleagues placed greater emphasis on securing escape. I also understood that feeling.
In the end, a rough discussion about how to proceed with the second attempt was concluded.
“Does anyone have anything else to say?”
… Actually, there is.
Starting yesterday, I heard from a third-party perspective how my colleagues proceeded.
Is it because I heard it from a step away? As I listened, I kept thinking, ‘This isn’t right.’ There was a point I wanted to make.
Although it was due to the sealing of the hotel, I was uncomfortable pointing out various things to people who returned from fighting to the death while not being able to function properly, so I just skipped it yesterday.
But isn’t this a life-threatening job?
In the end, I felt like I had to say what I had to say.
However, we should consider the advice Ari gave us in the past.
“I have something to tell you. Previously… . Seungyeop?”
“yes?”
“I’m sorry, but could you please go outside for a moment? “I plan to tell you a story about your blessing.”
If possible, Seung-yeop should not know about the story about luck.
Seungyeop knew that too, so he left without a second thought.
Everyone’s curious eyes focused on me.
“I guess those of you who were facilitating the event didn’t notice it, but I was not participating at all and there was a problem that I noticed while listening to your reports.”
Eunsol noona already seemed to be having fun.
“This feels good. “There is a problem that you have to take one step away to see.”
“thank you. Aren’t you all relying too much on ‘luck’? For example, the rooms we have figured out so far are the ‘mimetic room’, ‘bang’, and ‘escape room’, right? How to distinguish these rooms? “It definitely exists.”
“I’m sure there is. “So Elizabeth led us into the wrong room.”
“But, rather than finding a way to differentiate the rooms, it seemed like you just told Seung-yeop to look and take pictures. So, weren’t you easily fooled by Elizabeth’s fishing?”
Jincheol answered as if making excuses.
“Well, just wait a little bit in the room and then Move!” “I didn’t have time to really look for anything because I was rushing around with the popping up.”
Ari also opened his mouth.
“I took a quick look. But I couldn’t see the difference. But as you said, there must be a way to tell them apart. “So Elizabeth could have deceived us.”
I expressed a slightly more proactive opinion.
“Besides that, there are quite a few things that are puzzling. For example, is it true that there is a clear distinction between rooms you can escape from and rooms you cannot escape from? Didn’t you say that the word ‘Move!’ also appears in the first room? Maybe in the first room, if you break the mirror with that letter on it, there might be an escape route behind it. However, the reason why everyone takes it for granted that there are only a limited number of rooms from which to escape is -”
“It’s because Seungyeop passed out while guiding us for a while.”
“Yes. Is Seungyeop the sixth? Is he the seventh? He got there and fainted, and believing that even fainting was a choice, Ari looked in the mirror and found an escape route. But isn’t this kind of interpretation too consequential? “Maybe there was an escape route behind the mirror from the first room.”
Everyone seemed to be thinking for a moment. I opened my mouth a little more.
“The interpretation of luck is too consequential. If even fainting was a lucky choice, then Seungyeop’s failure to choose a room sooner before Elizabeth could choose a room on her own can also be seen as a choice. But no one considers that part to be a lucky choice.”
Ari, who had listened up to this point, answered.
“I know what you mean. In other words, you are labeling all things that had good results as ‘lucky choices’ and interpreting things that had bad results as ‘choices that had nothing to do with luck,’ right?”
“that’s right. “As we interpret only good outcomes as having been designed by luck, we come to regard luck as an omnipotent ability, and our dependence on luck has become increasingly severe.”
Grandfather Mukseong, who had been listening for a while, also nodded.
“As I listened, one thing also came to mind. It was only after we escaped that we found out through Elena’s memories that there was a lab behind the TV. “If luck is truly an omnipotent ability, shouldn’t Seung-yeop have acted like there was something ‘inside the TV’ when deciding where to go next?”
Songi responded with a headache-inducing expression.
“But it’s true that when Seung-yeop chose, he avoided ‘slamming rooms’ with ridiculous monsters like gorillas.”
“Of course, luck must have played a part in that. “I’m not trying to say that luck is meaningless.”
“Please speak a little easier.”
“So to speak, this is the story. When you throw a dice, the probability of getting a 6 is usually 1/6, right? But when Seungyeop was showing off in front of us, he threw 10 times and got a 6 almost 7 times. This is clearly a supernatural phenomenon and an incredible ability. But it’s never 100%. “Because different numbers came up more than three times.”
“There are many times when luck malfunctions, making it too difficult to blindly trust and follow it, right?”
“It may have malfunctioned, or it may not have worked.”
Ari, who had heard this far, sighed heavily and summed it up.
“I also thought about this in Cube, but the interpretation of luck is really tiring. Depending on your perspective, it may seem like a reality-manipulating ability so powerful that its limits are unknown, but to a skeptical person like you, it may seem like a broken machine that malfunctions from time to time.”
“…”
“It’s a bit of a different story, but I understand why luck wasn’t given to you… . This is a skill that is truly unsuited to analytical people. Don’t ever convey the contents of this meeting to Seungyeop. “Just passing along the analysis of a skeptical person like you is harmful to Seungyeop.”
“Am I some kind of radioactivity?”
Unlike Ari, who seemed to subtly disagree with what I said, Eunsol took my side.
“Gain has a point. On your second attempt, don’t just rely on Seung-yeop’s shots to choose the next room; instead, find a way to distinguish between rooms. I think in the end, if we keep beating up Elizabeth, something will come out. Because at least she seemed to be able to tell her room apart.”
Eunsol’s sister made a simple conclusion to the long discussion about luck.
‘Let’s grab Elizabeth and beat her properly.’
My older sister was extremely shocked by the gorilla, and seemed to be very angry at Elizabeth for leading everyone to the gorilla room.
After the morning meeting, Eunsol organized the plan on the whiteboard.
1. After entering the cube, interrogate Elizabeth to find out the information.
2. Proceed until you reach the TV room. In the TV room, the laboratory party enters the TV and explores the laboratory.
3. The escape party proceeds to the escape room. In the escape room, Seung-yeop escapes and the others fight the demon girl.
“There’s nothing more to say now, right?”
I thought about what to ask as my last piece of advice for the day.
How to distinguish between missing rooms in a cube? Any tips for unsealing me? There are so many things I want to ask, it’s hard to choose.
Unlike me, who had many questions, it was clear what my colleagues were curious about.
“Mr. Gain.”
“Oh, Elena?”
“Is there any advice left? “Ask me if I have any tips for dealing with the devil.”
Everyone nodded and looked at me.
It may be new, but people who have experienced it firsthand are definitely different from those who have only heard about it.
Since yesterday, I could feel the fear and wariness of the gorilla and the demon girl from my colleagues’ attitudes.
I was vaguely reassured that since Elena was a human being, there would be no problem if she used justice… .
Are you thinking that there is a possibility that you will be pushed out even if you use the definition?
“Sure.”
[Advice: 1 -> 0]
‘Please give me advice on dealing with the demon girl behind the mirror.’
[Perseverance month]
“…”
“What is it?”
“You’re repeating the old idiom you said earlier. ‘Perseverance Month’.”
“Don’t look at the part, look at the essence?”
“That’s roughly what it means.”
After talking about the last piece of advice, we set off toward room 201 once again.
Seeing everyone nervous makes me nervous too.
Will it be okay? This is my first time cheering like this.
After sending everyone off with a strange feeling, as if I were a parent sending my child to the CSAT test site, the second attempt began.
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