Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 179
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Episode 179 – Party Time – The Most Sinister One (6)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 90
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 – Room of Rest
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
Elena hurriedly disappeared into the safari and a moment later, Ari appeared.
“What are you thinking?”
“Oh, Elena just told me something meaningful.”
“hmm. “He said something strange to me too.”
“I guess we’ve already met?”
“Wait a minute. “The sponsor said something strange.”
“What story?”
“Issues related to the cold are not Elena’s business. He said he heard something like this. and… . I heard other stories about you too. “He even asked me that.”
After saying those words, Ari looked at me with a sigh.
“What do you mean?”
“Nothing.”
“Why not? “You obviously have something to talk about.”
“Not really.”
I feel like I’m being teased more and more! For some reason, I felt like body-butting again, so I got into position and Ari made a bewildered expression. Fortunately, before she could take action, her colleagues came to the table one after another.
“good morning!”
“Good morning?”
Breakfast started with a light greeting.
*
The first topic of conversation was definitely Elena. My sister asked curiously.
“So, Elena, Ga-in said something meaningful to you this morning and then left for a safari?”
“yes. It looks like you’re going to create ‘something that’s evil yet communicative’? “I don’t know what monster to make.”
Ari responded that it was no big deal.
“You will make it well. After all, the place is Safari, right? I heard that Pero can’t enter the safari, so isn’t the same thing true for the monster that Elena created? “I don’t think you need to worry too much.”
“What are you talking about?”
“The story is that even if Elena creates a strange monster or a failure on the safari, that failure will likely not be able to leave the safari. “It feels like the outside and inside of the safari are on a different world level, and only our hotel participants can go in and out.”
Songi was puzzled by those words.
“So, even if you make a successful work, you can’t bring it out?”
“Hmm… . Elena must have thought that much too. “Isn’t there something I can do?”
There are some parts where I can guess a little.
“They say that once you create a successful work, you can keep that feeling and make it outside of it?”
Now that I say it, I’m curious. This is because even Beatrix, who was skilled in her abilities, did not seem to be able to produce successful works one after another.
Of course, the ability itself seems to have changed subtly by the hotel, and since the users are different, it cannot be concluded that the logic applied to Beatrix also applies to Elena.
The story about Elena’s ability development has been roughly concluded. The topic of conversation shifted to everyone’s greatest concern: preparing for hotels that are getting colder. My sister briefly summarized the information she found out yesterday.
“In the end, as soon as the party time is over, I guess I have to go to an unusual place called ‘Hard Ice Hell’ and do something to get the situation under control?”
“That’s right. “Shall we write some advice about hell?”
“Let’s talk more among ourselves. “I thought about it carefully at night, and the notification I saw yesterday was unusual.”
My sister stood up for a moment and wrote a notice on the whiteboard.
/Do you want to open the door to the cold ice hell? Party time ends as soon as the door opens./
“Yesterday, we only focused on the previous word, ‘Hanbing Hell,’ right? But when I thought about it a little more, I realized that the latter part, ‘Party time is over,’ was unusual. “What do you think this means?”
“I guess it’s still party time.”
“okay. We’re already freezing to death, and the second floor has already become a hell that surpasses the polar region, but the hotel says it’s ‘still party time’. In other words… .”
The grandfather who had heard this far spoke as if he were lamenting.
“You’re saying that after the party time is over, you’re going to start fighting in earnest. “It’s still just a warm-up by hotel standards!”
“Everyone, think calmly. Party time isn’t over yet, right? Right now, at least on the first floor, it’s a little unpleasant. “Like this, for example.”
With the words ‘like this’, my sister picked up a mysterious pork cutlet with only the frozen meat inside.
Ari said with a somewhat anxious expression.
“A rather scary scenario came to mind. “It’s because of past experiences.”
“experience?”
“Now only the second floor has become a hell with no answers, and the first floor is mostly fine, right? “After all, if the hotel really wants to harass us, wouldn’t they make the first floor a freezer?”
Seungyeop answered in a gloomy mood.
“Why are you bothering me in the first place!”
“That’s a good point. I’ll definitely ask you about that later while holding the owl by the collar. Any other questions?”
“Of course, I have to ask about that damn ‘freezing hell.’”
In a moment, questions piled up. I decided to ask right away.
First question, ‘Does the first floor become strange once party time is over?’
[Advice: 3 -> 2]
[When severe cold hits the first floor, most of the hotel’s systems stop. There are benefits and losses.]
Having already guessed the answer, I asked for confirmation, and the answer came out uncharacteristically clear. However, as soon as I heard the content, I started swearing.
“Oh shit, it’s real!”
“What is real?”
“Most of the hotel systems are shut down. Of course, No. 105 seems to taste good, right?”
“This is really -”
For a moment, several people cursed. Even though I guessed it in my mind, I couldn’t avoid feeling angry once I found out.
Aside from being angry, something came to mind when I heard the last sentence, ‘There are also benefits.’
“Now, listen to me for a moment. They say it is in our interest to have the hotel system shut down. “To me, this also sounds very clear.”
My sister reacted immediately.
“The cursed room also stops?”
“That’s it. Of course, the Cursed Room is the one that benefits us when the hotel system stops working.”
“What on earth are you trying to do by stopping the room of curses?”
“Let me ask you a second question.”
Second question, ‘Tell me about the Cold Ice Hell.’
Instead of an answer, a notification appeared.
[This question requires all 3 pieces of advice. Since you have already consumed one, you cannot ask.]
“… In addition to the question related to No. 104, there was another case where all three pieces of advice were used.”
“to? Do I have to use all three? “Then you can’t answer me now?”
“That’s right. I think this is also a kind of ‘question that crosses the line’ decision. Let’s each think about other questions until lunch. “I have to use up the remaining two before today is over.”
The morning meeting ended with everyone feeling a little lethargic. The only thing I learned from the morning meeting was the ominous warning that the first floor would be gone once the party time was over.
*
– Elena
— Woooooo!
A loud howling sound is heard from far away, so loud that the vibration of the ground can be felt throughout the body. What exactly is the creature that makes this sound? Have creatures like this ever existed on Earth?
According to the notification that appeared as soon as you entered Safari, it was 330 million years ago, probably the Permian or Carboniferous period.
— Buzzz! Shiriririk!
As I turned my head in a daze, a huge dragonfly-like insect the size of my head flew nearby. Before I experienced the hotel, wouldn’t I have screamed and fallen asleep just by seeing an insect of that size?
But the hotel has long since made me a completely different person. Several months have already passed since I started seeing all kinds of corpses and monsters every day. Now, to be honest, I can easily eat food next to most monsters, but the time for screaming at a big dragonfly is over.
“Aaaah!!!”
damn! A cockroach the size of a dog crossed the line! Strictly speaking, it is a tremendous ancestor of cockroaches! I was so shocked that I only calmed down after running 30 meters.
While I was leaning against a tree or something and taking a deep breath, I felt something tickling my back. I just rubbed it against the tree and dropped it. She decided not to bother checking what it was.
Should I say I am fortunate? Except for something that makes a huge noise that can be heard from afar, most creatures are just large insects. That alone is very gross, but it is an insect after all, and at most it is the size of a pet dog. I didn’t see any monsters big enough to eat me.
After walking for about 10 minutes, the lake finally appeared. This is the place I was looking for.
“Is it going to be okay? “What do you think, Ga-in?”
Of course, there is no one in this place who can answer me.
The lake was not very clean. Strange creatures float here and there. In the past, wouldn’t you have hated even looking at me?
Take off the coat you were wearing, take off your shoes, and put down your skirt… . He dipped half his body into the lake, wearing only a light negligee.
“It’s just the beginning.”
The jar is tilted. The ominous energy that filled my soul spread like wildfire in all directions. In an instant, silence fell on the world. The water bugs in the lake, the dragonflies in the air, and the centipedes crawling on the ground all ran away from me in a hurry.
— Cheap!
*
What kind of power is ‘ominous imagination’?
Based on the memories of the chief researcher, Mr. Ga-in explained that it is the power that makes the moment-to-moment anxiety we feel in our daily lives a reality. Additionally, the sponsor also warned that if you use this power properly, you could easily go crazy.
Aside from this superficial information, what on earth is a ‘sinister imagination’? I think about it, feeling the power boiling inside me like an active volcano.
This power is the power to bring trauma into reality!
The reason why Beatrix’s abilities evolved to strangely transform objects around her or to create monsters that were grotesquely enhanced versions of real animals is because she awakened to her powers when she was a child.
Do you remember your childhood when you were afraid every night?
When you lie down in bed with the lights off, it strangely feels like a doll is looking at you, and every time the window rattles due to the wind, it feels like someone is going to attack you from outside the window.
All of this disturbing imagination became the source of Beatrix’s power.
But I’m different from her when I was young. My trauma is different from that of young Beatrix, which was created by vague fears about all kinds of things in reality… .
It is based on ‘actual experience.’
aha!
Now I realize the warning my sponsor gave me. I keenly felt why ominous imaginations were inherently like mental illness.
I felt the presence of a man in a black suit chasing me endlessly behind me.
I heard the grandmother who sold turnips in the morning informing me and my family.
The moment I got up from the bed and walked out into the living room, I saw a vision of my father bleeding from the corner of his mouth.
The hell I had created for myself filled my mind and at the moment when I was about to go out of my mind, the materialization of all evil rose from the surface.
The being resembled a man in a suit who followed his family when he was young.
The being smiled warmly and resembled the grandmother in the market who had snitched on us.
The being resembled the friendly housekeeper who had put poison in my father’s teacup.
Beyond all these nightmares – that being resembled a girl who laughed when I attacked her with all my might, crushing her body and splitting her head, treating even her exploded head as a joke.
“hi?”
— Phew!
A hand rose from the surface and pierced my stomach in a single moment. I couldn’t even scream because of the intense pain that couldn’t be expressed in words.
As my body cooled, the monster’s body also began to collapse. The monster made a bizarre sound without even understanding why it was collapsing.
You can’t resist the urge and kill the person in front of you?
…
You are a failure. You’re a bad kid.
are you okay… . are you okay… . It’s no big deal. I’ll make it again.
I will make it again and again and again.
Until a good child who listens to me comes along.
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