Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 229
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Episode 229 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (7)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 100
Current location: Tier 2, Room 202 – Curse Room ‘The Little Mermaid’
Sage Advice: 0]
– Han Ga-in
After leaving the cave and going up to the government office, we returned to the limo for another meeting.
“Oh shhh, really! “Sir, is your arm in good condition?”
… And I realized that Jincheol had greater patience for pain than I thought. No matter how much regenerative power I had gained through strengthening my blessing, I wondered if that would happen because I stuck my arm on the floor like I was sticking it to clay, but as expected, the regeneration did not end on the spot. I just endured the pain because I didn’t want to show weakness because the ‘enemy’ was in front of me.
“The skin, bones, and nerves all seem to have been roughly attached. “The problem was ‘roughly’ fixed.”
“what do you mean? Ugh… .”
“Once recovery is completed, the length of both arms will be different. I heard your arm was cut off by a monster? “Would you have cut the monster cleanly so that it would be easier to put it back together?”
“doggish… .”
“All I can say is to be patient. “Anyway, if you leave this room, the hotel will fix it up.”
We were lost in thought while the doctor examined my brother’s arm again and trimmed the affected area. My sister said with a tired expression.
“I feel like I figured out a lot, but I don’t know. “She won’t know where Elena is again.”
I also asked what I was curious about.
“Actually, I was curious about one thing from earlier. “What exactly is the curse of Room 202?”
Everyone was in trouble.
“Unbelievably, Mr. Lee Soo-ho was assassinated by someone. “I wouldn’t call this a curse.”
“According to my experience, the curse in ‘Room of the Curse’ was usually something that threatened the entire human civilization. “If one or two people die, it wouldn’t be something a hotel would call a curse.”
“So I don’t understand. “Who on earth is threatening the world on this stage?”
Grandfather intervened.
“Well, something that threatens the world may not have awakened yet. “Have you already found out the name of the transcendent being?”
“Do you mean Kadarudah?”
Songi turned her gaze towards Ari.
“You said you knew the Fishman alphabet, right? “Do you know anything?”
“at all. The fishman I know and the fishman on this stage are so different. The real-life fish people I knew were just intelligent fish. “You have to hit it well to resemble a manatee, not a human with scales like the fishmen on stage now.”
“I heard the texts are the same?”
“Hotels usually just reorganize characters and languages at will. “For convenience, I may have used characters I know.”
“is it… .”
There was silence in the limo for a moment. I don’t know. I’ve gathered a lot of information and have come up with various hypotheses, but I don’t know anything about the key elements of the room.
What is the curse of Room 202? Daughter of the Sea God, furthermore, what is the secret hidden by the Sea God? What is happening now in the first place? Where is Elena?
…
At that moment when they started to feel tired, everyone jumped up.
Park Seung-yeop: Can you hear me? Should I go closer?
Seungyeop, who should be in Busan right now, has come into the range of the chat window!
*
– Park Seung-yeop
In the chaos of Busan, where everything was swept away by a tsunami, I didn’t know what to say when I heard Riringanor calmly ask me to bring him a flute from across the waves!
“Can I just bring the flute stuck in that tire?”
“that’s right!”
“wait. “Bring it soon.”
Oh, I don’t know! I said I would just give it a try. If you believe in heavenly luck and jump in, wouldn’t there be a turtle under the water as if waiting for you?
Just as I was about to turn around and jump into the water to meet the girl’s expectant gaze, I realized a tragic truth.
The blessings of the universe that had been in my body are leaving. The feeling of elation that had filled my heart faded away like a match going out.
Heaven’s fortune is over!
Thanks to this, I was in shock and screamed inside. Why now? Oooh! I even said I would bring it with confidence, but here we are? If I had just 5 more seconds, I would have done something!
“…”
“…”
“…”
“Master? Shouldn’t you run quickly? “The car is moving further away.”
A desperate crisis! There is only one person you can trust in this situation! He held the grotesque’s neck tightly and whispered into his ear.
“Do you see the flute? Bring it, bring it, bring it, bring it, bring it-”
— You idiot!
Did I hear it wrong? Is it so different from your usual chirping sound? Probably not?
In the end, the grotesque made an annoyed noise and pushed us into a nearby building, then transformed into a ‘parrot’ and flew towards the flute beyond the obstacle.
Riringanor’s eyes widened as he saw the amazing scene of a huge bird the size of a car transforming into a parrot before his eyes.
“I! I! I! I’ve never seen such an amazing bird! “Is this a bird raised by the management bureau?”
“Probably not.”
“Is this a bird that has been passed down from generation to generation in your clan? “The legend of the divine bird?”
“That’s not real.”
In addition to her status as the daughter of the sea god, she actually looks older than me, but I felt like I needed to speak informally, so I felt comfortable calling her that. Riringanor also took it for granted.
“I’m sorry about earlier.”
???
“What on earth do you have to be sorry about-”
“Now that I think about it, Master Gosu must have used a series of empty-space techniques and must have exhausted a lot of his Taoist power by using mysterious birds, but he couldn’t have used the technique of one-widow-dang-gang (一葦渡江)! Fortunately, that mysterious bird is bringing a flute.”
I don’t know the meaning of the words you used earlier! What is empty space? Irido River? What was wrong with you earlier?
In the midst of the confusion, Pero brought out the flute and the girl smiled.
“If you were from the management bureau, you would have come to save people anyway, right? “Please help me!”
*
Afterwards, I spent almost half a day helping the girl and thinking.
Why on earth was my ‘Heavenly Luck’ used?
At first, I thought it was written because people were in danger of being eaten by midges, but now I’m riding on those earthworms to rescue people. In other words, the situation where the earthworms attacked was not a crisis.
Even if we hadn’t used Heaven’s Luck, Riringanor would have rescued us. Rather, it was closer to a situation where an unexpected crisis occurred when I climbed on top of ‘Kongi’ and Riringanore, who was startled, slipped on the lugworm.
It wasn’t an actual crisis, but it was written because I thought it was a crisis?
After thinking about it for a while, I put this possibility aside. When I write on my own, there are times when I am swayed by my own illusions, but when heavenly luck activates on its own, like before, it has nothing to do with my perception. Even when I first entered room 101 without any awareness of the blessing, it was heavenly luck that worked on its own.
…
I think I know one thing. This girl who is currently saving people with me, Riringanor, the third daughter of the sea god, firmly believes that I am a superhuman belonging to the Bureau.
In reality, the fortune of Heaven ended long ago, and it has been a long time since he showed any special abilities. But the fact that she had already seen the miracle of flying in the sky and flipping her body in the air before her eyes, and that her mysterious bird was helping her day, made her imagination run wild.
I still don’t know what the words she uses like ‘Bangrohandong’ and ‘Hwanggoltaltae’ mean, but I have a vague idea. Riringanor seems to be under the illusion that I am hiding my identity, or that I am using ‘sword power’ to manipulate Pero and cannot use other talents.
Anyway, a strange relationship developed, and we became quite close after helping Riringanor save people for half a day. In the end, I think the result of ‘Heaven’s Luck’ is this close relationship between the sea god’s daughter and me. How should I use this?
…
While I was thinking about it, the midge that had been working hard earlier seemed to be tired and went into the water. We also naturally started to rest in a tall building that seemed a little safer.
“I was curious earlier, but what is that flute? A sacred item given by the sea god?”
“It’s similar.”
“Can you control animals with that flute?”
“to… . “It doesn’t apply to just any animal, but only to special children of the sea who have received the grace of Kadarudach.”
“Like this midge?”
“yes. However, the original purpose of the flute had nothing to do with controlling animals. “This is more of a use that my sisters and I developed over the years of using the flute.”
“Original purpose?”
“The original purpose was to calm nightmares.”
nightmare. I thought it was an important word.
“Who has nightmares and needs a holy relic?”
Riringanor suddenly stopped speaking, looked around at the sea with a distant expression, and muttered.
“Everyone.”
“every?”
“Every fishman has nightmares every night. No one knows why we went through this hardship. Children and old people, men and women, high and low people. Regardless of age, gender, or status, all fishmen always suffer from nightmares. Even our God suffers from nightmares. “This is an ordeal we will have to endure forever.”
“Do you have nightmares too?”
“Last night, I had a dream that I was a fish, flopping around on land and dying. Of course, I couldn’t breathe and no matter how much I fluttered, I couldn’t get to the water. “In the end, I felt pain as if my lungs, or rather my gills, were bursting, and then I lost consciousness.”
The pain of drowning? Is it the other way around in this case? Anyway, the content is so terrible!
“Was it about three days ago? At that time, it was a nightmare of being eaten alive by a shark. “I ran away and ran away, but it worked in the end.”
“All fishmen have nightmares like that every day?”
She shook her head.
“Not everyone is like that. If that were the case, the fishmen would all have suffered from mental illness, right? Most people just feel that the content is vague and unpleasant. It won’t be much different from an ordinary person’s nightmare. Of course, even if it’s a nightmare like that, it’s quite a pain to go through every night.”
“Then why are you so vivid-”
“To be exact, it’s not me, but the ‘Daughters of the Sea God.’ “That is the condition of being the daughter of the Sea God.”
What do you mean?
Riringanor must have sensed my doubts and smiled slightly.
“Me too, Serenade and Elena-”
“Elena?”
“yes?”
“… no. A familiar name appeared. “Keep talking.”
“The daughter of the Sea God is not a position that is passed down through blood. “My parents were ordinary civil servants.”
“How do I succeed?”
“This endless nightmare that the fishman people experience, we interpret the identity of this nightmare as a memory experienced by our distant ancestors. “In reality, most nightmares are about the pain experienced by fish.”
Memories of ancestors.
“Most people accept only a small part of their ancestors’ memories and live with vague and vague nightmares. However, sometimes a fishman appears who recalls many of his ancient memories. Those who become closer to their ancestors receive various powers in return. And the fishman who gains that power gains the respect of the crowd.”
Riringanor, who had spoken up to this point, smiled lightly. The climate is gradually stabilizing, the tsunami is sinking, and the daughter of God is slowly drying up.
Riringanor looked incredibly mysterious under the sun, which pushed away the clouds as if signaling the end of the disaster.
“Are many of your questions answered now? The management bureau’s world-class expert? “Is this the price you pay for helping me?”
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