Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 193



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Episode 193 – Party Time – Secret of the 2nd floor (2)

[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)

Date: Day 94

Current location: Hanbing Hell – Room of Resurrection

Sage Advice: 0]

– Han Ga-in

Despite the impressive first step we took, it didn’t take long before we returned to the first floor.

The second floor of a hotel where a huge snowstorm raged due to a hole in the ceiling. If you change your perspective, you will see that even though the ceiling was open, at least there were walls. The snowstorm outside the hotel, where even the walls had disappeared, was even more different from the second floor.

The degree of cold was similar, but the problem was the harsh wind. It is said that it was difficult to take even one step. I heard that’s the case. I honestly couldn’t feel it because I was wearing a protective suit.

An idea came up to drag Pero out, but Pero is always in Songi’s room, and no matter how many times Songi calls him through the chat window, he doesn’t respond. Perhaps everyone except Jincheol seemed to have fainted because they were too exhausted by the scented candle of rest.

However, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to go outside even after the hotel repairs were completed, so I couldn’t postpone the search until tomorrow. Who knows, after the repairs, we might even do some reinforcement work on the exterior walls so we can’t break them down? There must be a good reason why the owl gave unreasonable advice ‘today’.

In the end, like before, they tore down the hotel curtains, made a strong rope, and tied all four people together.

The search formation thus completed was as follows.

At the front line, I am wearing a protective suit and boasting a weight of 200kg or more. At the back, Ari and Grandpa are tightly dressed in winter clothing. At the last line is Jincheol, the only one among us who can withstand the extreme cold with his bare body.

I started exploring again.

*

— Whiiing!

The whole body lifted slightly and then fell due to the rushing wind. Considering that I now weigh over 200 kg, this is really not a normal wind.

One step. One step. Thanks to the accumulated snow, your feet often sink up to your knees, making it really difficult to walk.

Han Ga-in: Are you okay?

Ari Kim: The power to answer x

Cha Jin-cheol: Slowly.

It’s still slower than a child’s pace, but when told to go even slower, it has now started to move at a child’s crawling speed. Other people had a hard time even standing, so there was nothing they could do.

The more I looked around, the more I discovered that the scenery of this place was very strange. First of all, I couldn’t see anything other than the ‘mountain’. It is natural that visibility is blocked due to a snowstorm, but no matter how obstructed your vision is, you should at least be able to vaguely see the shape.

The shape of the mountain we were walking on was clearly visible as soon as we stepped outside the second floor of the hotel. However, there was no other scenery visible at all except the mountains. like… .

It’s as if there is no terrain at all except the mountains.

We decided to keep this possibility in mind as well. When you realize that the outside of the second floor is different from the first floor, you should not have a fixed idea. It may not be Earth, or it may be a special space like the basement of a hotel. For example, there is a strange place called the ‘hiking room’ in the basement of the hotel, and that place literally has no terrain other than a mountain for hiking.

…

After about 30 minutes, we finally realized we had reached a problem. I went outside the second floor of the hotel and walked around in a circle, and there were cliffs in every direction. The hotel seemed to be located between very steep terrain.

In reality, it would be absurd to build a hotel in a place like this. How can customers find the hotel if there is no road? This is a location where there could be a hotel that kidnaps customers at will.

Han Ga-in: Cliffs in every direction. The terrain is like an island floating in the air.

Cha Jin-cheol: There is no way out of the mountain.

The more you look at it, the more strange the terrain becomes. Could a landform like this be formed naturally?

Finally, after gathering opinions, we found a way. At the top of the steep terrain, I hold on like a weight based on a weight of over 200 kg, and the rest of the people go down holding on to the cloth.

Jincheol broke the ice on the wall to make a small groove in the section where we felt tired, and then we all took a short break and went down with difficulty.

Finally, I just went down, bumping into the terrain. I don’t know if I should say I went down or fell, but even though I was wearing a protective suit, my entire body was so shocked that I couldn’t move properly for a while.

After repeated searches in this extreme environment, they finally found a tree so large that it was invisible to the eye, and everyone gathered under it.

“I can still hear some words here.”

“I know. “The tree branches are so thick and strong that it feels like they block the wind.”

“What have you all been thinking? First of all, isn’t the scenery very strange? “Look over there.”

A pure white world appeared in the direction I was pointing. It was literally pure white. No matter how much of a snowstorm there is, at least a dark image is bound to be visible… .

Ari nodded.

“I guess there’s nothing else in this space other than the mountains. There’s something even weirder. “Has anyone discovered any living thing other than us while walking so far?”

Grandpa reacted immediately.

“I felt that too. No matter how snowy the mountain is, isn’t it normal to have at least one rabbit and one fox? How is it that there isn’t even a rat on this huge mountain? There isn’t even grass on the floor. “We are the only living creatures.”

“Strictly speaking, there is a tree here.”

Immediately, I heard Jincheol say something that sounded like he was embarrassed.

“What on earth is this tree? “Everyone, come!”

As we stood close to the wooden pillar wondering what he was saying, we understood what he was saying.

“This isn’t a real tree, is it?”

It took a long time for me to notice because it was an environment where I couldn’t see anything very well. Surprisingly, the tree we relied on to shelter us from the wind was not a real tree. It looked like it was made of some kind of plastic, or it felt like it was mixed with metal, but what was certain was that it was a model and not the real thing.

It’s becoming more and more unknown. Even this tree is not a living thing, and we are really the only living things in this space.

… It got a little creepy. The fact that there were no living things in Mother Nature, which should be full of life, made us feel chilled.

“If you’ve caught your breath, let’s get going. “Anyway, it would be well past dinner time by now.”

“do not worry. I roughly wrote down on the table that I was going to explore, so people who come out to eat will understand. “There’s something else I’m more worried about.”

“How on earth are we going to get back to work?”

“That’s what I said. “There was a time limit on the search, so I ended up going down the steep terrain near the hotel, but how do I get up there later?”

Ari responded as if asking what he was worried about.

“If there is no other way, Ga-in can come and move us, and that’s it!”

Jincheol chuckled.

“Honestly, I came down thinking that too. Are you going to move it well?”

“… If there is no other way, we have to do it that way.”

It may be surprising, but ‘Descent’ is always the last resort for our group. No matter how difficult or unanswerable a problem you face, as long as you have Advent, it will all be solved. And in reality, I have the ability to solve almost every problem we encounter at the hotel.

What on earth is the ‘Lord’ who gave us such absurd abilities as a gift?

Jincheol added a word as if to reassure him.

“I didn’t really come down believing in Kangrim, and I also have my own thoughts. “Can we call it a so-called road-building operation?”

“No way, I can climb up the cliff by using the stars to dig a mole burrow that points upward. Is that so?”

“Don’t you think it will work?”

It seemed like it would work out unexpectedly, so I was a little relieved.

“Let’s go!”

After briefly thinking about heading to Room 104, I took another step toward the pure white hell.

*

I walked, walked, and walked across the pure white fields. I really walked endlessly. It felt like 4 or 5 hours had passed. However, in these situations, it was difficult to be sure as there were many cases where surprisingly little time had passed. First of all, the status window tells me that the date has not passed yet.

After coming down the steep terrain near the hotel, there was no change in the terrain, just an endless plain, so we walked without saying a word to each other.

And then something appeared.

— Boom!

“What on earth is this? Ah, can you hear me now?”

“yes. It’s less windy here. This… . “What wall is it?”

I saw the grandfather tilting his head and hitting me with a couple of fists.

“wall? It looks more like some sort of crystal than a wall, doesn’t it? Are you going to try breaking it?”

“Let’s think about it a little more.”

Finally, we reached the end of the snowy area where the second floor of the hotel was. At the end of it was an extremely tall, opaque barrier that made it impossible to see how high it was.

Only then did I realize the answer to some of the discomfort I had been feeling.

Why is it that no matter where I look, except for the mountains, I can’t even see any dark shapes, only pure white scenery?

This is because there was really no terrain other than the mountains, and the entire space was blocked by an opaque barrier.

At this point, pure curiosity filled my head before the question of what reward would await me at the end of this quest.

Where on earth is this place? How can there be such an incomprehensible space?

Ari, who had been quiet for quite some time, muttered while wondering what on earth this was.

“This place… . “I think I know where it is.”

Everyone’s eyes gathered. My brother asked curiously.

“Where is it?”

“…”

“say it. “Where is it?”

“how. How can there be a hotel in a place like this? How on earth! No, am I mistaken? Everyone turn around, look at the scenery, and look at this barrier again. Isn’t this a very familiar scene? “It’s something we’ve all seen at least once or twice in our lives!”

weird. Ari’s reaction seemed as if this strange scenery was a familiar place to us.

I turned around and looked around, recalling the features I had discovered so far in my mind one by one.

First, there is snow and wind everywhere.

Second, the only significant terrain or buildings are the mountain in the center and the hotel on the mountainside.

Third, there is not a single living thing, not even a mouse or a single blade of grass. There is only one huge wooden model.

Fourth, when you come down from the mountain and walk on the plains, you will see an opaque barrier high enough to reach the sky.

… I realized the identity of this place.

We are inside a giant snow globe.

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