Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 168
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Episode 168 – Room 201, Room of the Curse – ‘The Cube’ (17)
– Kim Ari
After securing Patrick, it was a solid road up to the 3rd floor.
We had already destroyed most of the military units in the headquarters, and Beatrix, who was supposed to be the only barrier, arrived later than expected.
Could it be that Beatrix is using a different route than the TV route we used? You never know.
Patrick’s condition became increasingly strange. Rather than simply feeling like my mind is clouded… .
“iced coffee… . Chief. Was this your arrangement up to this point? “How far is your plan?”
“…”
“I was always curious. What on earth are you thinking? Are you really doing it for humanity?”
“…”
It’s so strange.
Spreading such mind-boggling nonsense has nothing to do with my insinuation.
The companions also seemed to become increasingly anxious.
Songi couldn’t help but ask.
“Ariya… .”
“why?”
“Why is this guy like this?”
I don’t know either.
Finally arrived at the 3rd floor. Eunsol took a moment to jog her memory, trying to guide her where to go, but it wasn’t necessary.
Because Patrick took the lead and began to lead and guide us!
It felt ominous, but it was also strange to stop it. We are good at doing what we are told to do, so is there any reason to stop it?
After about 10 minutes, a complicated mechanical device that was difficult to understand appeared in front of us.
A huge facility that looks like something used in a nuclear fusion power plant to condense energy into one point.
In the center of the facility, inside the glass tube, a reddish polyhedron of a strange shape was mysteriously floating in the air.
And behind it –
I saw the fish tank that everyone had been looking for.
As soon as they saw it, the group’s eyes widened and they ran over!
— Boom!
Cha Jin-cheol, who was flying towards the water tank in three or four steps, collided with something.
“What is this again?”
Elena said with her hands stretched out in the air.
“Is there some kind of wall in the air?”
An infinitely tired voice answered.
“It is a spatial disconnection created by a scalene polyhedron. It may seem like it’s right in front of you, but in reality it’s completely different. There is no use in swinging your fists, so save your strength for a fight.”
…
As everyone’s puzzled eyes turned to Patrick, I couldn’t help but ask.
“These machines seem to be devices for manipulating scalene polyhedra, right?”
“okay. In fact, it is the reason for the existence of this headquarters.”
“Patrick, you seemed to be in your right mind earlier -”
— Rumble!
The floor shook like a vibrating trampoline, and sharp shapes bounced up!
“Ahh! “Ahh!”
“Oh! “What is this-”
Finally, the entity we feared the most has appeared!
At the same time as Beatrix arrived, as if the timing was right, the remaining military units and researchers appeared from all directions and surrounded us.
In an instant, a sharp tension filled the room.
Strangely enough, the girl who appeared, piercing the floor like jelly, didn’t even look at us.
The object of his crazy vision, as if he would have cut a person into five pieces long ago if he could put will into his eyes, was Patrick.
“Patry profit! What is this? “Don’t even give me the ridiculous excuse of being brainwashed!”
“Beatrix… .”
“What are you doing!!!”
“It just occurred to me. They entered the headquarters as if it were their own home, as if they knew all the information about the facility. “It means that all of our information has already been leaked to the management bureau.”
“…”
“How long can you last? What difference will it make if you kill them all? “Next time, there will be five times as many troops.”
“joy! You have to send about 5 times as much! -”
“If you kill them all, then it will be 25 times more.”
“…”
“Now the limit has come. “It’s a game that ends when you get caught.”
“under! So, are you going to wake the chief again and bow down and pray? Are you going to ask the administration to accept it again? Do you think I’ll forgive you then?”
“…You still don’t know anything.”
“what?”
“Hasn’t it been more than 10 years since you were released from the laboratory? “That would have been enough time to find out for myself what Seok Seok was and why he was the savior of the world but still the devil.”
“how… . “What on earth are you talking about-”
“Do you know why Chief Seok raised you? “You’re not really believing this ridiculous excuse that you created the monster to use it as a weapon, are you?”
Was it an excuse? Didn’t Beatrix raise the monster she created to use it as a weapon?
Not only we were shocked by the sudden revelation, but even Beatrix opened her eyes in surprise!
Seeing that scene, Patrick looked tired in a different way.
“What kind of group of idiots would use the power of creating uncontrollable monsters with a 95% chance as a weapon? “If we just transfer the money and manpower to research it into tanks, helicopters, drones, and walking weapons, we will protect our country three times!”
He turned back and walked towards the equipment that manipulated the floating polyhedron.
The next moment, a complicated situation occurred.
Beatrix flew towards Patrick at a speed that was hard to see, stretched out her hand and did ‘something’.
The golden wave and vibrating scales that burst from Elena’s body threw Beatrix away, and the two flew through the laboratory, tangled in a random mess.
Tongues began to protrude from Patrick’s neck and hands began to protrude from his back.
Shocked, Eunsol Lee and I ran towards Patrick.
The military unit pointed rifles at us, and Cha Jin-cheol tried to fight back by summoning stars.
At the same time, researchers next to the military unit screamed in shock.
“please! Please everyone calm down! “Please, for the sake of the world!”
When I came to my senses, Elena and Beatrix destroyed the building and disappeared somewhere, the military unit and Cha Jin-cheol began to confront each other in a somewhat awkward atmosphere, and we didn’t know what to do next to Patrick.
“Ari! Ari! Ari! “Ari!”
“Eunsol, please be quiet.”
“What should I do? “Gain won’t be able to solve his problem without this person’s help!”
“Well, there’s nothing that can’t be solved. “There is plan D.”
“I told you it was dangerous!”
In that moment, Patrick transformed into a grotesque figure that could not be considered Homo sapiens, with a tongue sprouting from his neck and hands sprouting from his back.
In the end, Kim Muk-seong, who came next to him, aimed his gun at Patrick’s twisted head.
“What should I do with this? Should I kill this guy?”
At a moment when everyone was confused, Patrick left behind what was probably his last words.
“Beatrix… . You didn’t even think about finding out about the principal or yourself, but you only manipulated my body in front of you. The field of view is short, short… . Why is your way of thinking so infantile? .”
With those words, Patrick’s features collapsed and the moment the monster came out, a gunshot rang out and Patrick’s body sank.
“Using this guy to break the seal ended up being a failure. “I thought it would be like this.”
“I guess silence would be difficult?”
“Ari, didn’t you think the same thing? “When Eunsol suggested brainwashing Patrick, she said five times that it wouldn’t work or that it wouldn’t work.”
“…”
“Eunsol seems smart, but she also acts like an ordinary person. “Can we say that we don’t take too much into account supernatural variables when making plans?”
“… Mukseong, Eunsol is next to you.”
“I feel sorry for feeling like an ordinary person. And if your plans seem that strange, I wish you had told me in advance?”
No matter how old a person gets, the childishness remains the same.
I took a sigh without realizing it and looked around.
Patrick is dead, Beatrix and Elena are gone, and Cha Jin-cheol is still confronting them in an awkward atmosphere. I can feel a shaking vibration on the floor.
…
Rattling vibration???
“Eun, Eunsol!”
“Ari?”
“What is this vibration?”
Only then did Eunsol come to her senses, felt the vibration of the floor, and her expression became pale!
“Is this it? “The monsters that are said to be underground in the facility are coming up, right?”
There was no need to hear an answer.
As the tremors gradually grew, not only us, but also the soldiers and researchers in the room all lost their expressions!
Cha Jin-cheol ran towards us.
“In the end, let’s go to Plan D like I said. Are you saying that if we use the power of the stars to destroy the equipment that controls this machine, the trapezoid or something, Ga-in will be freed?”
“…”
While we were quiet, the researcher who heard us from across the room shouted, almost crying.
“please! please! Calm down. Please. I am not saying that I should live alone. Think of the world outside. “Out there, there is a peaceful world where people who worked hard all day can go home and enjoy dinner with their beloved wives and children.”
… and! We look like complete villains!
Either way, the vibrations on the floor gradually became stronger. If this continues, we will all die.
Cha Jin-cheol laughed. He has already made up his mind.
“Well, where is this place? Room 201. This place is one level more difficult than the difficult first floor. You have no choice but to take risks. In any case, isn’t this the entity that the chief researcher once sealed? “Something will have to be done.”
The researcher sensed an unusual atmosphere and cried out.
“What on earth are you talking about?”
“Dear hotel colleagues, please prepare your hearts and make all the preparations you can. Especially Songya?”
If something goes wrong, he’s the only one among us who can survive.
Song Yi nodded with a nervous expression. Her escape button was in her hand.
An ominous wave burst out from Cha Jin-cheol’s hand and filled the entire laboratory.
And, the world was ruined.
*
It collapses.
The lab collapses.
The city collapses.
The country collapses.
Soon I heard the world collapsing.
The great eye that looked down on all things filled the world.
I captured the stars in one breath, and the universe in two.
iced coffee –
A vision that was blasphemous for even my humble eyes to meet was staring down at me.
‘I took a look at it once, but have you come here to die one more time?’
So what should I do? If you stay still, you’ll be killed by a monster coming up from below!
In front of the overwhelming view, my body, mind, and soul are scattered like a sand castle on a white sand beach hit by a wave.
Only when the old blood dries up in an instant and you accept that inevitable death has arrived –
I could see ‘it’ behind my eyes.
I finally found out. I learned the true nature of the eyes that exist in all things and the identity of the zero-dimensional eyes.
Sadness, joy, fear, joy, joy, despair, anger – a stimulating realization that transcended them all struck my mind.
I think in my clouded consciousness. One very sad fact.
I guess I won’t remember this knowledge I just realized. This is knowledge that has crossed the line too far.
I thought in my clouded consciousness.
Even if I go, I will say hello and leave!
“Everyone, do you find our story interesting?”
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