Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 196
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Episode 196 – Party Time – Secret of the 2nd Floor (5) Fin
– Han Ga-in
‘A Mysterious Craftsman’
Given the circumstances, it is unlikely to be a coincidence that the name given to this Lego and the name of the hidden NPC on the second floor heard from the merchant on the first floor are both ‘Mysterious Craftsman’. Just then, as if it had been waiting, the LEGO began to emit a soft light! At this point, there was no doubt that this Lego was a hidden NPC on the second floor.
But what should I do? Since Lego wasn’t suddenly talking to me, it was difficult for him to know what to do.
The conclusion was simple. If we don’t have a way to retrieve the Legos, we can just put them where we are. Fortunately, after examining the snow globe, I was able to open the top lid.
“Was it Kim Min-young? Sorry. “I have a lot of Legos, so I can take one, right?”
The moment I carefully opened the top lid of the snow globe and put the Legos in, they disappeared as if they had disappeared somewhere! The light that gave off softly until it disappeared! The moment I saw a supernatural phenomenon happening right in front of me, I felt it. This is it! I found the correct answer.
Now I feel a little relieved. As I opened the lid, one more thing to do came to mind. I picked up a small piece of paper, folded it like a bridge, and created a path to go up and down the mountain inside the snow globe.
I completed three tasks in a short period of time. The blizzard stopped, a path was created for easy walking up and down the mountain, and a mysterious craftsman was found. Isn’t there nothing more to do? I think I can go back in.
I closed the lid of the snow globe so that Minyoung wouldn’t get suspicious, took the same movements I did before borrowing my body as much as possible, and returned to my body.
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“haha! Did everyone see it? nice! I also found hidden NPC Legos -”
“Get out again!”
“to?”
“Get out quickly! Right Now! “Let’s talk later!”
Before I could brag about anything, everyone was making a fuss and telling me to go back out! When I looked into the sky where the group was pointing, I noticed a notification floating in front of everyone, including me.
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Today’s special event: Han Ga-in’s travel story – Exploring the land of giants!
Can Han Ga-in, who begins exploring the mysterious place on the second floor, find all the hidden elements?
1. Use the snow globe to stop the blizzard! (O)
2. Find the mysterious craftsman! (O)
3. ? (Proceeding)
*
???
No, what kind of event is this? It’s absurd that an event was held out of nowhere, but what’s even more absurd is that I, the main character of ‘Han Ga-in’s Travels’, didn’t even know that this notification had appeared!
Didn’t a notification pop up because the outside of the snow globe was outside the hotel? Then what is the reason for hiding something in a place where there are no notifications? Is it true that you hid this for me to find?
There are less than 20 minutes left until today’s date ends, so it’s a waste of time to get upset. I hurriedly went out again, repeated the process from before, and borrowed Minyoung’s body, which was tilting.
There is one more thing left hidden in this place.
I frantically searched through my room’s belongings, searching again and again to find what I could find. I pulled out all the Legos, threw the worksheets in the air, and emptied the bag, but like a ‘mysterious craftsman’, as soon as I saw it, it started to shine and I was the answer! There wasn’t a single thing that did it.
Next, I began to insert and remove small items that could fit inside the snow globe, one by one, just in case. As we already confirmed when putting in the ‘Mysterious Craftsman’ Lego, if it’s the right thing, wouldn’t it disappear the moment you put it in?
I tried inserting and removing the Yu Moreover, I kept slowing down my actions because I felt like my actions were a huge risk to my colleagues.
There is still one hidden element left. There are now 10 minutes left.
I frantically looked through everything from Legos to workbooks to my backpack and under the bed, but I couldn’t find anything special. Am I missing something? What on earth? There’s no way there’s a safe hidden in a child’s room, so where on earth is it?
I realized that there was one place left that I had left out.
Inside the snow globe, there is a hotel and companions. If I even touch it, something equivalent to an earthquake might occur inside. Because I was afraid of that, I became sluggish and cautious whenever I went near the snow globe.
In other words, the only place in this room that I haven’t properly explored is near the snow globe.
“I don’t know if you can hear me, but everyone, be careful.”
I looked around with the snow globe as carefully as I could, but I still couldn’t see anything. is not it?
…maybe.
It may be too small an item. For example, if the object inside the snow globe is small even by our standards, it would not be visible at all to my eyes, which are now possessed by the body of a boy in the outside world. Should I go back to my original body and search? no. Now, I don’t have time to search for something with my original body, which is smaller than a sesame seed.
An idea occurred to me.
Let’s look back at the phenomenon that occurred with LEGO earlier. Didn’t it emit light when my gaze was directed at it? That was probably a ‘hint’, right?
— Snap!
I turned off the light. A small light floating softly in the air appeared beneath the snow globe I was holding. Something smaller than a grain of grain and lighter than a feather is floating in the air.
It was so small that I couldn’t recognize it, so I didn’t even dare to touch it with my fingers. After carefully moving the snow globe to its original position, he blew on the luminous object with his mouth and let it fall onto his palm. Finally, I carefully opened the top lid of the snow globe again and scooped something inside. Something shiny, like the Legos from before, disappeared as soon as it entered the inside of the snow globe.
“OMG… . It’s over now. “It’s over, right?”
3 minutes left. It was my first time out into the outside world since I entered the hotel, and I was so sad to just go back in that I took a quick look around without realizing it.
Familiar and peaceful – what is that?
There was a pigeon outside the window. However, can a bird that is larger than an eagle and has a beak full of serrated teeth simply be called a ‘pigeon’?
As I watched, out of breath, I realized something more strange. The inside of this room is an ordinary child’s room, but the outside is not. The window had iron bars installed outside the glass, as if it were a prison to prevent escape, and when a vicious pigeon peered into the house, a robot that looked like CCTV, as if waiting, emitted a laser and chased the pigeon away.
…
Really, really bizarre. This mansion’s crime prevention system is more interesting than that pigeon. Monsters appearing out of nowhere is not that surprising as I have experienced it several times in the Room of the Cursed, but what are the iron bars and what are things like laser turrets in an ordinary home?
A strange landscape, as if even an ordinary family home has adapted to a world overflowing with monsters.
A world ‘in a different phase’ from the world I lived in.
I returned to my original body with many questions in my mind.
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When I woke up inside the snow globe again, I realized the extent of the repercussions of my actions. As time was running out, objects were being frantically put in and out of the snow globe, creating craters here and there that were large enough for dozens of people to fit in, almost as if there had been a major earthquake. It was fortunate that the snowstorm had stopped.
Thinking it might be impossible, I checked the information on my colleagues in the recovered status window and fortunately found that everyone was alive, and I was able to breathe a sigh of relief.
Wearing a protective suit, I walked around the area for a while and found Ari, my grandfather, and Jincheol lying around.
“Is everyone okay?”
“…”
“…”
“that is… . “Time is running out and I need to find something, so I’m trying to put in everything.”
“You also lifted the snow globe, right?”
“huh.”
“That was really bad… . When she was young she sometimes fantasized about it. “I wondered what would happen if an extremely large giant lifted the entire Republic of Korea and shook it, but I never thought something similar would happen this time.”
“When was your childhood?”
“Eight!”
Seeing the stone fist coming straight at me, I don’t think it was serious enough to kill me. While I sat down on the floor for a moment to catch my breath, my brother, who had gone to check the barrier, came back.
“Gain, is it past the date?”
“yes.”
“hmm. It seems like I can’t go outside anymore. The barrier doesn’t move at all. “It doesn’t move even with the power of a star.”
“It didn’t seem like I would be connected to the outside world forever. It would be a bigger problem if it was continuously connected. If Coco gets upset and the snow globe falls on the floor, it’s over! “Isn’t an ending like this terrible?”
“That’s right. “Anyway, what was the last thing you found?”
“It was so small to my eyes that I couldn’t even see what it was. “Didn’t it show up in the notification?”
“Just as a reminder, since you started messing with the snow globe, the three of us were just flying around and hanging around so we didn’t see anything.”
“…”
“I didn’t even know what I put in it. Rather, where did the LEGO NPCs and shiny objects I put in go?”
Grandpa answered as if it was no big deal.
“I just had to put it in. The hotel won’t take away the items you find, so it must be somewhere. “Maybe he’s inside the hotel.”
“Maybe so.”
“Let’s go back first. “It’s really hard because I worked so hard all day today.”
The way back was much easier. At least the bridge I made with pieces of paper earlier was much easier to move than the frozen ice wall. After everyone returned to room 105 with expressions of exhaustion, as if they had just lost their temper, everyone fell asleep as if fainting.
The long and difficult exploration of the outside world on the second floor is over.
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— Tuk!
“Get up.”
“Ugh, who is it? It’s room 105, what the hell -”
As soon as I opened my eyes with a sense of excitement, I felt the gaze of an owl the size of a house.
“… Didn’t you say that it would be difficult to meet for quite some time?”
“Situations always change. Good job.”
“yes?”
“You did really well. “You did really well.”
“…Ahaha. thank you “I can’t get used to it because it’s suddenly like this.”
“It must have been really hard to find the third item! “I often feel that your agility has improved compared to a few months ago.”
The third item definitely made me wonder if it was the item I was asked to find. The hidden location under the snow globe was amazing, but what was even more absurd was that it was so small that it was invisible to the outside world. The snow globe cannot be moved in the original body, so it cannot be found, and in the possessed body, it is too small to be found. It was only after turning off the light that I realized its existence through a faint light.
Thinking about it again, I didn’t understand how they asked me to find this, and I sensed some kind of malicious intent.
But I found it!
…I realized something strange. The owl I had not seen in a long time was locked in a cage.
“I guess I look funny. It’s nothing. Rather, keep in mind what I’m about to say from now on and don’t miss a single word.”
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