Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 161
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Episode 161 – Room 201, Room of the Curse – ‘The Cube’ (10)
– Second attempt, Kim Ari
As soon as they heard the words ‘Chief Researcher Han Ga-in’, everyone paused for a moment.
You said you were sealed, but did you have a role in the scenario?
Oliver continued his explanation.
“Actually, I don’t really know the story about the Arizona team because I only heard it before.”
“Stop talking nonsense, just explain.”
“All right. Beatrix was discovered near North Carolina in approximately the 1990s. “It had unique, bizarre abilities from the moment it was discovered.”
“What ability is it?”
“I don’t know exactly because it’s confidential, but I heard it has the ability to create monsters. However, I heard that at the time of discovery, there were many flaws in Beatrix’s abilities, so the Bureau tried to eliminate Beatrix rather than use her.”
“let’s do it?”
“They said they couldn’t control the monster.”
understood. If you create a monster but cannot control it, it is no different from a natural disaster. Rather than being used as a weapon, it is an ability that should be a top priority for elimination.
Mukseong asked as if he was interested.
“It looks like that shortcoming has been fixed, right?”
“I heard that this was the achievement of Chief Researcher Ga-in Han. It is said that through some method, Beatrix was able to control the monsters she created. but… . Looking at the situation, it appears that serious problems still remain.”
“You succeeded in making Beatrix control the monster, but you yourself were unable to control Beatrix.”
“I think so.”
Songi, who was worried, asked.
“Is Beatrix’s power limited to creating monsters? “Do you not have the strength to rip out a person’s head with your bare hands or the durability to treat a bullet like a BB gun?”
“yes? As far as I know, Beatrix is just a human girl, except for her superpowers to create monsters.”
?
weird. The Beatrix we fought was such an absurd being that I doubted whether ‘creating monsters’ was a secondary ability.
The physical strength of the man who ripped off my head with his bare hands and treated the barrage of bullets from an assault rifle like a cool shower gave us goosebumps.
Eunsol answered that it was no big deal.
“I guess they’ve strengthened their abilities. “I heard that our chief researcher, Han Ga-in, worked hard on her research.”
“Oh, indeed. What on earth did Ga-in do? “You make your enemies stronger!”
While the two were joking, Seungyeop asked seriously.
“Did Ga-in make Beatrix stronger? Before entering the hotel?”
I sighed naturally and Seungyeop punched me in the back of the head.
“You please be quiet. “Oliver, do you know anything else?”
“sorry.”
“Then let’s proceed now. I guess I’ll have to go to the TV room first. “Also, let’s look into the rules of the room.”
We all decided to stand up and look around the room.
Exactly 5 seconds later, an accident occurred.
“Aaaah!”
Before we could stop him, Oliver opened the refrigerator, saying he was thirsty after talking a lot.
Instead of storing food, the living refrigerator decided to store Oliver.
I hurriedly destroyed the refrigerator, but in that moment, Oliver turned into a well-aged frozen sausage in the refrigerator.
“…”
“…”
Songi was helpless.
“Even though he’s an NPC, I hoped he wouldn’t die because he gave me a lot of information… .”
“This guy is a bit careless. “We couldn’t find the monster in this room.”
“…Oliver died on the first attempt, right? “At the time, I thought Elizabeth had led me into her trap.”
Mukseong sighed and put it all together.
“One way or another, I can’t be a friend who will live for a long time.”
Eunsol shook her head and said.
“You’re the one who chose the wrong job. I think people who make a lot of mistakes should never work in the management department. Anyway, we’re busy. Let’s quickly find out the rules of the room. Ga-in has a point when she says she feels insecure about Seung-yeop relying solely on taking pictures.”
“This is what I said last time, but how about destroying the mansion?”
“You decided to fight Beatrix properly this time. “It will take quite a while to completely destroy the mansion, so is there any need to make your physical condition worse in advance?”
“Umm… . “I’ll have to think of another way.”
*
– Kim Ari
I only realized this after searching the mansion for about 10 minutes.
I have no idea. Isn’t there at least a way to search the inside of the mansion and find out where the front door, back door, and basement door are connected?
From experience, it seems like a message will pop up telling me to move sooner or later. I wonder what might happen if I ignore it… .
Eunsol, who was sitting next to me, suddenly opened her mouth.
“Perhaps we can find out by analyzing the relationship between incoming and outgoing doors?”
Entry door. exit door. It’s a story I’ve never thought about.
Eunsol and I carefully looked back on our memories from our first attempt and wrote them down on paper, step by step.
In the first mansion, I went down to the basement after hearing “Go down.”
Next, I entered the main gate of the second mansion.
In the second mansion, there was a monster hiding in the carpet. Elizabeth tried to take us to the back door, but Seungyeop chose to go back to the front door of the second mansion.
Next, I entered the back door of the third mansion.
The third mansion was the TV room. After Elena committed suicide in the TV room, Seungyeop chose to return to the back door of the third mansion.
Next, I entered the main gate of the fourth mansion. The trees were strange here.
At this point, Seungyeop completely lost confidence. Elizabeth took us to the back gate of the fourth mansion and had us collide with the gorilla.
!!!
I discovered two rules!
At least you can distinguish between rooms with weak monsters and rooms with super monsters like gorillas –
— Tu Kwa Bang!
what?
“Hahaha! As expected, this was correct! “Everyone come this way!”
“Kya! “Boar, I liked this guy!”
I was so surprised that I ran towards the sound with Eunsol.
After Cha Jin-cheol took off the protective suit from Seung-yeop, he grabbed the protective suit and swung it around the mansion, destroying the outer wall.
Perhaps the hotel that provided the protective suit could not have predicted that Cha Jin-cheol would use the protective suit like a ‘hammer that never breaks.’
Outside the collapsed mansion’s outer wall was an opaque wall, through which I could vaguely see the situation in another room connected by a passage.
“nice! Isn’t this an idea recommended by your grandfather? “Is that feeling something you accumulated while working in the management bureau?”
“If you pretend, you pretend. Isn’t it obvious?”
Cha Jin-cheol and Kim Muk-seong wondered when they had become so close, praising each other to the point of embarrassment and admiring their excellent judgment.
Eunsol, who was next to me, folded the paper she had been scribbling on with a helpless expression and flew it away.
*
– Eunsol Lee
— Toukwaang! Rumble!
“Not this way. What is that? “Sister, what is that?”
“…It looks like a huge snake. “Maybe he’s a gorilla friend?”
— Rumbling!
“oh! This way. “Everyone, come!”
It’s comfortable.
I remembered earlier when Ari and I were analyzing the rules of the cube and wrapping our heads around each other.
After considering the locations of the incoming and outgoing doors and Seungyeop and Elizabeth’s choices, we were able to discover several rules.
When I think about it again, it was a waste of time.
It’s much easier and safer to just knock down the wall and look directly into the next room.
Oh, of course it’s not easy for me. It’s easy for Jincheol.
I saw the movie ‘Cube’ when I was young.
At that time, I vaguely remember the characters having a fierce battle of brains with each other and studying the rules of the room related to the law of prime numbers.
Now that I think about it again, the problem was that everyone was weak.
You could just break the wall with your fist and get out, but because you couldn’t do that, everyone died. It’s a shame.
After moving around like this four times, we arrived at the TV room.
“for a moment! We arrived. “Jincheol, come here for a moment before you destroy the wall.”
“Oh, have you arrived?”
“okay. “I’m not sure because you just broke the wall without even checking.”
The TV will work when you get closer. I don’t think there’s any need to approach.
Soon, only my grandfather’s gloves flew up and I grabbed the remote control near the TV.
After that, we all went near the TV, and it turned on as if we had been waiting.
/line-/
As soon as the ‘seon’ sound came out, the grandfather pressed the mute button with his glove.
The display started to flicker. Now it’s time to split the party.
“As planned, my grandfather and I will move to the TV.”
“sister! go for it!”
This is kind of cute. Song strokes her head once and goes to the display with her grandfather-
“Wait a minute, wait a minute.”
Ari held me down.
“what’s the matter?”
“I have something to think about. No matter how much I thought about it, there was something strange about the answer Elizabeth gave earlier.”
Elizabeth’s answer? Didn’t she say that all you had to do was close your eyes and walk in a straight line for a while past the display?
I’m not sure what’s strange. But Ari has a sharp side. Everyone waited for Ari to open his mouth.
After a while, Ari suddenly took out a syringe and started drawing blood.
“Ari?”
Instead of answering, Ari held out a syringe filled with blood to me and my grandfather.
As I was about to ask again out of curiosity, my grandfather grabbed my arm.
“I guess it’s better if we don’t know, right?”
“that’s right. I got a feeling. But, it’s better for you not to know.”
What can you do when you say that? He had no choice but to share some Ari blood with his grandfather, hoping for an explanation later.
The taste of Ari’s blood, the famous medicine that Ga-in was rumored to drink regularly, was fishy and bitter.
*
– Kim Ari
In front of us, Eunsol and Mukseong entered the TV display and disappeared.
The two people who were in charge of the ‘adults’ among us left.
I need to have faith… . I don’t feel completely at ease because it feels like I’ve just sent a child to the beach.
What was surprising was that Mukseong was more childlike and anxious than Eunsol.
“Ariyaaa… .”
“What?”
“Why did you suddenly give blood to these two people?”
“It reminds me of my conversation with Elizabeth.”
“You said earlier that the conversation was strange, right? “But what’s strange?”
I think other people are curious too.
I looked at the ceiling for a moment and reminisced.
“You said it yourself at the beginning of the conversation, right? ‘I don’t know what you’re wondering when there is no danger beyond the TV.’”
“Is that so?”
“I did. That answer was strange. It’s not just our guess that there’s danger beyond TV. This is a fact that was already confirmed through Elena who came out once. By the way, Elizabeth said she was in no danger and she wasn’t lying.”
“That’s strange.”
“What’s even weirder is what happened next. He said there was no danger and explained that when entering the TV, he ‘passes through the screen with his eyes closed.’ This action is a kind of safety rule, a precaution. “They say there is no danger, but they take action to respond to the danger.”
“Is this really strange? “Beyond the level of misunderstanding, is there a contradiction between your own knowledge?”
“So I was just guessing. Perhaps ‘not knowing the risk itself’ is not a means of avoiding risk.”
“Should we not know that there is a risk? So you did something to the blood?”
“It’s a guess. “Let’s ask later after we leave the room.”
— Boom! Rumble!
While I was talking to Songi, I heard the sound of a wall collapsing.
“Cha Jin-cheol!”
“hmm?”
“From now on, destroy it a little more slowly.”
“do not worry. “I’m taking good care of my physical strength.”
“No, it’s not because of your physical strength. From now on, you have to break the mirror. “Now that we’ve sent people beyond the TV, we have to find the room where Beatrix is.”
“Oh, that’s right!”
Oh, that’s right! rani… .
I was momentarily dumbfounded by the words that seemed to have completely forgotten the plan.
Well, if you are strong enough, you can rest your head for a bit.
Afterwards, take a break and use Move! in the mirror somewhere in the mansion. After waiting for the to appear, proceeded by breaking the mirror.
When I arrived at the seventh mansion, a ‘different message’ appeared on the mirror.
Did you find me?
under! So this is the beginning?
Come out.
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