Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 172
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Episode 172 – Happy Evening, What on Earth Was Room 201? (One)
– Han Ga-in
I can’t believe that Elena’s supernatural power, the ominous imagination, was such a tiring ability!
I covered Elena’s mouth to prevent her from saying any more strange sounds.
Should I say I’m glad? The cry of a wolf was an unusual situation for anyone to hear, so even those who were ahead felt strange and returned to us who had fallen behind.
“Cain! What kind of situation is this? “There used to be no such thing as a wolf, right?”
“It looks like Elena made it!”
“what?”
“I’ll come down and explain. “Let’s go down first!”
The role was quickly decided.
Eunsol, who was wearing a protective suit, was the first to run, holding Elena with one hand, while Jincheol took a position behind to watch out for wolf attacks.
…
The wolf attack did not occur. In reality, something even more absurd happened.
— Ding! dong!
“Everyone come in! First, go to the elevator – no, is it Song? “What is that?”
“Sister, isn’t she cute? “I named it Snow.”
“No, it’s Song! “You’re crazy Snow, you’re a monster wolf!”
“Sister, let’s go in first.”
Fortunately, the hotel elevator worked fine even with all of us and the monster wolf on board.
A huge wolf that ignores its creator, Elena, and eagerly licks the hand of Song-i, who has an affinity for it.
The wolf’s body was made of eyes, not protein.
Shortly after arriving at the first floor, I heard a scream.
…
“to? Eh? Snow? “Why on earth is this happening?”
“…I’m not sure why it’s like this, but it’s just melting because it’s a wolf made of snow.”
“Elena sister? “What can’t you do?”
Elena turned her head awkwardly.
Soon the wolf disappeared, and Song-i became rapidly depressed.
Pero tried hard to rub his beak, but he couldn’t fill the gap left by Snow’s disappearance.
I’m just thinking about it again, but Songi seems like a really unique high school girl.
Meanwhile, Ari asked Elena.
“Can you make other monsters? For example, Snow 2!”
“Don’t try to replace Snow!”
“After all, Elena just made it with snow? “I guess we can make Snow 3 and Snow 4 as well?”
“Eight!”
“oh! “Don’t kick me~!”
Elena, who had been silent all this while, sighed.
“I am understanding ‘Ominous Imagination’ in real time, but it is a bit different from the power Beatrix used in the Cube. For example, the monster Beatrix created existed forever, but the monster I create disappears on its own over time.”
“Isn’t that an advantage rather than a disadvantage?”
“is it so?”
Elena’s expression brightened slightly as she stared at something that looked like a picture frame in the hallway –
“Eight!”
“Eek! “Go, Mr. Gain?”
He tore off a piece of blanket that was used to make a similar winter suit and covered Elena’s eyes.
Seeing that, Eunsol sensefully grabbed Elena’s hand and started dragging her away.
“good job. “Elena, let’s stop thinking strange thoughts and go to room 105 and sleep.”
Something that had been trying to ‘pop out’ of the frame just before disappeared again.
Ari and I opened our mouths at the same time.
“You’re going to be really tired for a while… .”
“This is going to be really fun for a while!”
Ari’s expression was very bright. I also wanted to kick myself.
*
As always, everyone’s expressions suddenly brightened when they saw the table filled with amazing food.
“sister? “What about Elena?”
“I’m so tired I’m just going to sleep.”
During a fun meal, the topic of conversation that everyone was curious about was room 201.
Eunsol, who took a bite of garlic bread, was the first to ask a question.
“Gain, please explain now. How did you solve it? “I vaguely heard it on the way, but it was hard to understand what was being said.”
“hmm… . “I will briefly explain the facts and share opinions on parts that are difficult to understand.”
“good.”
“In the 1980s, a zero-dimensional eye appeared in the world and began causing great damage. The Bureau believed that this entity could not be defeated by force. At this time, the lead researcher came up with an idea. The 0-dimensional eye was a being that enjoyed seeing humans suffer cruelly, so it wanted to create a small hell where that cruel suffering would repeat itself endlessly and give it as a gift. “There was a lot of opposition, but it was implemented, and surprisingly, it worked.”
“It worked?”
“According to my memory, the zero-dimensional eye was trapped inside a small hell, or cube.”
Ari nudged.
“Don’t stop, next. next.”
“However, the operation of that hell gradually reached its limits. Naturally, there were people internally who thought, ‘Isn’t this crossing a line?’ The representative is Patrick. Externally, the 0-dimensional eyes appeared to be slowly moving outward. “The chief judged this to be ‘tired of zero-dimensional eyes.’”
Jincheol, who looked bored, asked.
“Is that where that damn Beatrix came from?”
“Yes. Beatrix herself seems to have been created separately from the 0-dimensional eye and the cube, but the chief researcher regarded Beatrix as a being who could solve the cube’s problem. What did you say earlier about Cube’s problem?”
Ari answered.
“There were two. First, there were skeptics from the management who said that this had crossed the line. Second, the audience responded that this alone was already boring.”
“The lead researcher believed that Beatrix was the answer to both problems. First, if the monsters created by Beatrix replace the murder facilities inside the Cube, the number of people involved in running the Cube will be significantly reduced. Second, since you can kill people in a variety of ways that are almost unimaginable, the satisfaction felt by zero-dimensional eyes increases. “Well, this is the concept.”
My colleagues, who were listening blankly, seemed to be completely entranced. Jincheol couldn’t bear it anymore and said.
“I’ve never heard such a crazy story in my life.”
“So do i.”
“No, grandpa. Please talk to me. “Has the Bureau really done this?”
Grandfather Silence looked puzzled for a while before answering.
“In my name, well, my name is not a big deal, but I have never heard of a case this extreme.”
Ari started to look somewhat confused.
My sister tapped me again.
“Now, even if there was, it’s not a matter to be discussed here now. “Gain, tell me more.”
“There was one major mistake in the chief’s big picture. “What Seok’s unique way of thinking ‘treats all humans as tools’ misses is that Beatrix was not a devil who only created monsters, but a girl who wanted freedom and happiness in her own way.”
“… I never thought of her as such an ordinary girl.”
“The story goes that there was that aspect as well. Of course, there must have been a cruel side. Anyway, Beatrix had no intention of becoming a slave who only created monsters in the cube. Recognizing this, the chief placed Beatrix in a sealed area, leaving only her brain behind.”
At about that point, Songi spat out the meat she was eating.
“The stories keep coming out like I’m going to vomit more and more. “I don’t think it was something to talk about while eating.”
Eunsol listened intently and then asked.
“But do you think the rebellion was successful in the end?”
“It was. It was impossible for Beatrix to rebel alone, but the problem grew as Patrick cooperated. The chief also anticipated Beatrix’s rebellion and planned a response, but Patrick is a long-time confidant. He never thought it would be enough to cause a revolt. In the end, the sealed area of the 0-dimensional eye fell into the hands of Beatrix and Patrick, and some time after that point, we entered room 201.”
“I understand the intermediate progress. Because we did it in the first place. To summarize briefly, while wandering around the cube, I found a TV connected to the headquarters research lab, and went over to the research lab and played the game to wake the chief up again. “What happened after that?”
“It’s no big deal. It’s a kind of counterinsurgency. We killed most of the rebels, and most of the remnants died when the Eye of Dimension 0 descended. “When the Chief woke up again, this time he locked Beatrix’s brain in a box with no door to the outside, inside the cube, to prevent her from even thinking about rebelling.”
“In that box, Beatrix is endlessly creating monsters? “Is the bureau pouring in people?”
“It’s similar.”
Ari, who had been listening quietly for a while, opened her mouth.
“It may sound strange, but if you take away the provocative parts, it’s a relatively easy story.”
This time, the eyes of his colleagues were focused on Ari.
“What kind of murder trap is this? They feed humans to monsters. Think about it plainly, without these provocative elements. “The sealing facility that trapped the evil spirits had fallen into the hands of the rebels, but this was resolved when it returned to the hands of the Management Bureau.”
It’s a very rough summary, but it makes sense.
Songi, who had already stopped eating, asked while squinting.
“therefore… . What was the ‘curse’ in Room 201? At first, I thought it was a cube, but it turned out that the cube was actually a sealing facility, and the solution was solved by making the cube perfect again, right?”
Ari answered simply.
“The source of the curse is the 0-dimensional eye, and isn’t the problem that we had to solve the situation where the cube that sealed the 0-dimensional eye fell into the hands of the rebels?”
Should I interpret it that way? Looking at the revealed circumstances, it doesn’t seem like an especially wrong interpretation, but there was something about it that didn’t make sense.
While everyone was worrying, Eunsol, who had been thinking for a while, opened her mouth.
“I think I was interpreting room 201 too much from the perspective of a ‘senior researcher.’ While we’re at it, think about another point. “The lead researcher admitted to himself that his correct answer was an incomplete solution by hotel standards, right?”
I explained that part in detail.
“yes. I thought it was a 30 point solution out of 100 based on hotel standards. “It was my idea, but it was mixed with more than half of the previous chief at that time, so it can be seen as the chief’s idea.”
“Why such a low score?”
Jincheol hyung responded in a tone of bewilderment.
“Do you call that a question? Wouldn’t it be weirder if the solution to endlessly tossing people as devil food has a high score? “I find it even more surprising that such a method was evaluated as a ‘solution.’”
“No, think about it a little more carefully. The subject of evaluation is the hotel. Do you think this damn hotel is a place that values human life that much?”
…
Everyone became quiet as I felt like I had been hit in the back of the head with a hammer.
“In my life, I have never seen a place that treats people’s lives with as much contempt as this hotel. But is feeding hundreds of ‘barely human’ people as devil food something that a hotel should take very seriously?”
…
“Also, there was a strange part from earlier. According to what the chief said, the zero-dimensional eye is a being that enjoys seeing people die painfully. If it really is that kind of being, then why did it satisfy itself by entering a cube or something? It’s hard for me to understand the psychology of such a psycho god, but wouldn’t it be more fun to see 8 billion people suffering on the entire planet than to see only a few hundred people die in a narrow cube?”
…
“This was difficult for me to understand. Maybe I’m not used to the ‘occult’ way of thinking of the government, and I’m thinking too ‘business-like’… .”
Ari summarized.
“So this is what you’re saying. first. There is no place that looks down on people’s lives like a hotel. If Seok saves the Earth, he may change some people, so why give him such a low score for something like that? Second, why does an evil god who enjoys the suffering of mankind just look at one cube without thinking about playing with the entire Earth? “What is this?”
“okay.”
Song Yi bowed her head.
“This conversation… . “It’s hard to follow.”
On the other hand, Eunsol and Ari seem to be becoming increasingly absorbed in their conversation.
“I came up with a logic that could solve these questions.”
Ari asked with a very curious expression.
“Really what? “I’ve been feeling it for a while now. When you leave the hotel, I hope you’ll stop doing boring things like Daeyang Group and come join us.”
“… Let’s think about it then. I believe that the strange behavior of zero-dimensional eyes can be interpreted surprisingly simply if you understand it from a ‘business perspective’. Rather, because the interpretation was too ‘occult’, the chief fell into a trap. So the hotel gave us a certain number of points.”
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