Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 222
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Episode 222 – Confirm reward, enter room 202
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 99
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
The cooking competition, which was extremely confusing, has ended. Naturally, everyone’s interest turned to the rewards of the cooking competition, the glass bottle that Ari won and the hat that his older sister won.
There was tiny writing written on the glass bottle.
‘Freshing Thermos: Please store food ingredients where freshness is important!’
I knew what kind of tool it was as soon as I saw the description. It is a bottle that maintains the freshness of the material stored inside and prevents it from spoiling. Songi tilted her head for a moment and asked a question.
“What tool is it used for? Store drinks? Among the cursed rooms, are there any where it is difficult to find water? Should I pack food in advance for that room?”
I don’t think so.
“It’s too small to be used for storing food. It’s just the size of a thermos, right? “No matter how high-calorie the food is, it would be difficult for our group to eat even one meal.”
Other people also had some ideas. Jincheol suggested that there might be a scenario somewhere in the Curse Room where we need to store a specific liquid. Although plausible, it seems unlikely that the tools for that particular room would have come from a special event at the hotel.
Since I have to enter the cursed room tomorrow, I felt the need to quickly learn how to use the tools, so I wrote this advice.
[Advice: 3 -> 2]
[Food ingredients are usually living things. Humans are also living creatures.]
After hearing the advice, Ari half-opened her mouth and made an expression of realization.
“The meaning of the words ‘freshness’ and ‘food ingredients’ seems to be more comprehensive than we think?”
“what?”
“It seems to go beyond the concept of food freshness that simply prevents bacterial growth, and prevents the magical power contained in the liquid from disappearing! The advice sounded like, ‘Put your blood in it.’”
Upon hearing those words, his colleagues instantly understood Ari’s idea.
“Are you planning on putting your blood in a bottle?”
“When my blood leaves my body, it instantly loses its legacy power. But it might be different with this disease.”
With those words, Ari took out a syringe and slowly began to draw blood. As expected from a hotel, even the tools used to store food ingredients have bloody uses.
Jincheol looked at the scene with an interesting expression.
“Then can we put Ari’s blood in that bottle and use it like a potion?”
The results of the experiment were somewhat different from Jincheol’s hopes. In general, hotel tools with a designated owner can only exhibit supernatural properties when used by the owner, and the same was true for glass bottles. Ari’s blood in the bottle maintained the power of old blood for a long time while the bottle was in Ari’s hands, but once the bottle passed into our hands, it quickly became ordinary blood.
At this point we understood what this bottle was for. Providing an additional 500mL of blood to Ari, who could only use the blood in her own body!
Old Blood consumes actual blood each time you use Legacy. Because of this characteristic, the amount of blood that can be used directly affects the power of old blood.
This is the principle that allowed Ari to use overwhelmingly stronger power than usual when he was decapitated in ‘The Cube’ and after committing suicide in ‘Hotel High Game 2’. This power was possible because he used all the blood in his body in a situation where death was inevitable anyway. Considering this, that bottle is quite a useful tool for Ari.
Unlike the glass bottle, which came to an easy conclusion, the cap was more difficult than expected.
“There’s no instructions on the hat, right?”
“I knew one of the effects.”
Everyone knows one of the characteristics of the chef hat that my older sister acquired. While writing, my sister cannot say what she does not want, and pours out her true feelings ‘a little harshly’.
…
What effect does this have? Is this an advantage? In the end, my older sister couldn’t bear it anymore and spewed out angry anger.
“hey! what’s this? Is it just that I become a curmudgeon girl and all that performance is? What did you give me to use this for? This dog xxx-”
“Noona, first take off your hat and talk.”
“… I’m sorry everyone. Strangely enough, whenever I wear this hat, swearing comes out of my mouth. “What on earth was it made for?”
When you wear a hat, you have to tell only the truth, and your words are often mixed with swear words. This itself is a fairly useful effect if it occurs ‘to the enemy.’ The use of profanity may be absurd, but it will have the effect of embarrassing the other person, and the effect of forcing someone to tell only the truth is a very useful function in situations such as interrogations.
The problem is that, due to the nature of hotel tools, they are ineffective when used by someone other than the owner. When we wore the hat instead of my sister, all of the aforementioned effects did not occur. It just turned into an ordinary white hat. At this point, my sister started swearing little by little even without her hat on.
Fortunately, today was a rest day, and the cooking competition ended around lunch, so I had plenty of time left and nothing to do. The remaining two pieces of advice were generously shared.
By evening, we finally understood the true nature of this strange hat.
“It’s an interesting hat. “There will definitely be situations where it will be useful.”
Eunsol no longer complained about the hat.
— Shake it off!
A boy who had not been seen since lunchtime ‘escaped’ from room 105.
“Salvive, alive! “I really lived!”
“Seungyeop? Did you really eat all that chicken? “I thought I’d never be able to eat it.”
Instead of answering, Seungyeop hugged Pero and kissed him frantically. The parrot was very annoyed, and after picking at Seung-yeop with its beak, it flew away.
“Pero ate it for me!”
Fortunately, we were able to avoid a situation where Seungyeop was unable to come out of room 105 just before entering the cursed room. Late at night, we decided to enter room 202 tomorrow.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 100
Current location: Tier 2, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
“to… . “It’s not something to say in this environment, but according to the status window, today is the 100th day since I entered the hotel.”
As it was just before entering the cursed room, everyone felt tense. Ari answered.
“It doesn’t mean much, does it? Because everyone had different times anyway. “Your status window no longer counts time after you die in your room.”
“That’s right. “I just tried it.”
Elena asked worriedly.
“Who will be sealed this time? Mr. Gain again?”
“Maybe so. “There was no talk of the same person not being sealed twice.”
Grandpa looked slightly skeptical.
“Well, that’s fine. I think it’s someone else this time. Of course, it’s just a feeling.”
My older sister, who became quite happy after discovering the power of the hat yesterday, spoke in a cheerful manner.
“Now~ Now! Now let’s go in. Did you take all the necessary tools? Are you ready mentally?”
There is nothing good about taking more time. It is also a hotel that holds strange events if you want to kill time because it looks boring. The door to room 202 opened.
*
– Elena
I felt anger boiling inside my heart.
High above the earth, the immeasurable malice of the bipedal savages!
In the past, our ancestors showed grace to them, but the kindness they showed to the ungrateful beasts was returned with bitter blood and tears.
Memories of the immeasurable suffering that my compatriots had endured pounded my head relentlessly.
…
My head hurts. Memories that are not mine, and eons of resentment that the human mind cannot handle, are digging deep into my head.
[You are sealed! The skill ‘Myunggyeongsu’ does not work. Please wait for help from your colleagues.]
‘Elena Ivanova’s’ consciousness sinks into the depths. Just before I lost consciousness, the best I could do was give everyone a cheer.
“Going everyone!”
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 100
Current location: Tier 2, Room 202 – Curse Room ‘The Little Mermaid’
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
“Director, have you read the material sent by Cheongseong Group?”
“I read it, but what kind of argument are you trying to make?”
“It seems that the external opinion and the actual position are somewhat different.”
“So, aren’t we going directly to see the waiting table of that damn president? Huh, that guy is-”
“Manager, please be careful in the Cheongseong Group. “No matter what, the chairman’s son has suffered a disaster.”
— Beep!
I came to my senses with a notification ringing throughout my head. At the same time, the mind-boggling amount of information left us all in silence.
…
“Ji, Jincheol! Stop the car first!”
After stopping the car, we started assessing the current situation.
“There are all the rest, but there is only one person missing. “Elena has been sealed.”
“What does it mean? “They said that the person with the essential ability to solve that room would be sealed.”
“well… . Since the opponent is a villain, the power of justice may be needed. “Let’s all sort things out first.”
I looked around. Everyone except Elena was in a luxurious limousine. We were wearing rather stylish uniforms, and our clothes had old-fashioned badges on them as if advertising them to the whole world.
‘Chaos Disaster Management Bureau’
The fact that the stylish livery was advertised to the whole world as ‘Our bureau!’ and the fact that it was using a limousine as an official car that everyone on the road would look at at least once suggested two facts.
First, we are agents of the Management Bureau. Second, the bureau in this arena is ‘much more’ openly active.
Information came to mind sequentially. Perhaps because he is old and is actually an agent of the Management Bureau, my grandfather is leading us with the title of ‘Director’. We have been dispatched to the Cheongseong Group with the mission to ‘reveal the truth.’
According to reports received by the management bureau, the fishmen living on ‘Haesin Island’ off the coast of Busan killed many high-ranking members of the Cheongseong Group. One of the high-ranking officials was even the eldest son of the group chairman. Of course, the Fishmen strongly denied the murder charges. We must reveal the truth and resolve the situation.
“What the hell is this?”
My colleagues, who understood the general scenario at a similar time as me, all gaped! What are you talking about?
What is in the sea off Busan? ‘Sea God Island’? A non-human race is openly living in Korea? Even get into a dispute with a conglomerate? Obviously, when you look at what Busan is saying, the setting is South Korea, but completely incomprehensible content came out like a stream, leaving everyone speechless.
Meanwhile, the grandfather suddenly took out his cell phone.
“Uh~! I am Manager Kim. How is the Chairman? It’s just that we’re probably about an hour late. “Please tell the chairman well.”
Everyone’s eyes turned to the grandfather. His grandfather noticed Ari.
“Do I do it?”
“I’m not very good at talking.”
“good. I think I need to explain the ‘background’ of the scenario. That’s why silence bought time.”
Fortunately, there were two people who understood the situation in their own way.
“Have you guys heard about the ‘factions’ of the Management Bureau?”
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