Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 232
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Episode 232 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (10)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 101
Current location: Tier 2, Room 202 – Curse Room ‘The Little Mermaid’
Sage advice: 1]
– Han Ga-in
It rained. A very salty, ocean-scented rain poured endlessly from the sky. At the same time, Elena and Riringanor began moaning endlessly.
“What the hell is going on?”
The doctor didn’t answer, but observed Elena’s body and Riringanor’s body with an urgent expression.
“scales!”
“yes?”
“A strange mutation is occurring in the bodies of the two people. Even my normal skin is turning into scales! That’s not all. A strange phenomenon also occurs in the teeth -”
“Hmm.”
Words slowly began to come out of Elena’s mouth.
“rain… . “Me and Li Linga can’t get caught in that rain.”
With those words, Elena fainted again.
Everyone could feel that the rain was unusual. However, even though everyone was caught in the rain as they rushed to the limousine, nothing happened. Does it only affect Elena and Riringanor? Could it be that the rain places a strange curse only on the fishman tribe?
“brother! Let’s go first. “Let’s keep those two inside the limousine from now on.”
Before I could finish speaking, the limousine started to rush out through the rain. Ari spoke quietly next to me.
“You can’t keep leaving it in the car.”
“…”
“Especially Elena. Since she woke up from the seal, she must have a role to play. “She must be taken to port.”
“Let’s put Elena in a hazmat suit. “Because it is hydrating and invulnerable, it will completely block rain.”
“Let’s do that.”
Next to me, Seungyeop spoke in an anxious voice.
“What about Riringanor?”
No one answered. There is only one protective suit.
— Squeak! thud!
Suddenly, something similar to a person jumped out from the middle of the road! The limousine swerved to the side, but could not avoid the collision.
“What is that crazy bastard-”
“Jincheol! “Just run!”
I don’t know if the thing that crashed into me is a person or a monster, but I don’t have time to care.
“What is it? “Did you see what it was?”
“saw. So run.”
My sister’s expression was extremely dark. It didn’t take long for us to understand the meaning of that expression.
*
On a dark night, in a limousine rushing through the pouring rain, I was thankful that it was night. At least I didn’t have to see with the naked eye what pain the talking fish lying on the bottom were going through!
The first life was conceived in the sea. This means that if you go back endlessly to the ancestors of mankind, marine life will eventually appear. And now the rain falling from the sky has begun to turn back the history of the stars.
scream. scream. scream.
The whole world is full of the pain of the fish people. The pain of having your limbs turned into fins while alive, and having your lungs turn into gills on land! All of the fish-men outside sang songs of despair, returning to the primordial form taken by the ancestors of mankind in ancient times.
It was already late, and the road was not even visible, but the fishmen started screaming and running from all directions, making driving difficult to hell itself. Jincheol ran down the road, avoiding the fishmen, almost as if he was performing a trick, but he had his limits.
In the midst of this confusion, the one who confused us even more was Elena. Elena’s body was damaged by the strong drugs, and she passed out and woke up again and again, and she relayed information little by little.
“Lee Soo-ho. They say that person was my lover. I don’t even know who Suho Lee is. He always wanted to share the pain I was going through. “He was sad and asked why I live my whole life suffering from nightmares that only you can’t understand.”
…
“One day, Lee Soo-ho found out one of the long-standing secrets of the fish people. Where on earth did you hear this? I still don’t know. “It’s a secret that only the daughters of the sea god know.”
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“The daughters of the sea god encounter the memories of their ancestors and leave records of what they see. According to a record left by the sea god’s daughter who came into contact with the first memory a long time ago, the first fish people were humans.”
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“The story that 800 years ago, a fish-man living in the sea took on a human form through the mercy of the sea god and advanced to the land is a complete lie. In fact, the first fishermen were fishermen who suffered from poverty.”
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“People who worked at sea for more than 12 hours a day, every day, to the point where their bodies were broken, but they never had a full meal. Salvation came to them one day. What exactly was salvation? I don’t know about that. Anyway, it is said that the fishermen encountered an indescribable being in the deep sea, in the dark abyss.”
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“The ocean god ‘adopted’ the fishermen. This gave birth to the first fish people. Suho Lee found out this fact right away. In other words, I learned that ‘humans can become fishmen.’”
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“He asked me to do it every day. I also want to become a fishman. I also want to become the sea god’s adopted son. “Don’t you have a way?”
…
“Sadly, there really was a way. I eventually accepted his request. Was it because I couldn’t overcome his request?”
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“iced coffee… . That would also be an excuse. Maybe I also hoped that Lee Soo-ho could sympathize with my pain. One day, as the daughter of the sea god, I bestowed the blessing of the ocean on Lee Soo-ho and turned him into a fishman.”
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“Lee Su-ho, who became a fisherman, started having nightmares like us. At first, both he and I were happy because we got our wish and found a lover who could sympathize with us. but… . “Something strange happened.”
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“He began to tell me old memories that no daughter of the Sea God could ever reach. A distant memory that did not appear in any record I had ever seen. A memory from more than 300 or 400 years ago, really 800 years ago, when the first fishman was born. Even beyond that, a primordial memory from thousands of years ago.”
After that, Elena did not wake up until she arrived at the port. As she listened to Elena’s explanation, she felt uneasy.
Who on earth is the being explaining to us now? Is this the ‘Hotel Elena’ we know? If not, is she the daughter of the sea god? When I first started explaining, I think I said I didn’t even know who Lee Soo-ho was… .
Everyone’s thoughts became complicated. Everyone was busy reflecting on the story they heard from Elena.
Suho Lee learned through some kind of route that the first fish people were humans. Through this, he realized that there was a way for humans to become fishmen, and he asked Elena, the sea god’s daughter and his lover, to become a fishman.
The problem is next. Lee Soo-ho, who became a fishman, began to accept the memories of his ancestors like other fishmen, but the memories were older than the memories accepted by the daughters of the sea god.
A memory from 800 years ago, when the first fishman was born. What kind of memory is that?
What kind of memories were accumulated before the first fishman was even born in the first place? Does this mean there was something before the Fishman? What on earth did he see that drove him into such madness that he turned the entire island into hell?
I learned a lot. However, there were still many blank areas in the information. Where should I get the missing information? If the information from the sea god’s daughter isn’t enough… . There is only one being who may know more about the secrets of the fishman race.
Among the daughters of the sea god, Serenade is the saint of the deep sea who was once again chosen.
But now we have to go to port. Therefore, I thought that I should somehow include Serenade in the next episode.
“The port is soon. According to the navigation, there are about 4 minutes left.”
As my brother spoke, tension slowly began to build inside the limousine. Ari carefully woke Elena up.
“Can you move?”
“… huh. “Do I still have to wear the protective clothing?”
“You can’t even take a step outside without it. “You must wear it.”
*
Humidity is high. The ridiculously high humidity made me feel salty even when I opened my mouth. Even after just walking a few steps, moisture formed on my skin.
There was no other way to describe the scenery of the port we arrived in other than the word ‘in-oe-magyeong’. Heavy rain with incomprehensible force did not fall on the port. Because there was no need for that.
The port had already turned into a soggy space due to the extreme humidity that made it feel like the space itself was a mixture of land and sea.
Those fish people, who on earth were those fish? Are they port workers? At this late hour? You never know. There were a lot of fish the size of people jumping everywhere.
One thing was fortunate. Fish that had already lost their vocal cords could no longer emit loud screams.
In the midst of this confusion, the scenario was updated. Fortunately, there wasn’t much content, so it didn’t take much time to read.
/Scenario: Curse Room – ‘The Little Mermaid’
Kadarudah is waking up. The return to ancient times has begun. Let’s find a way to escape./
“I’m screwed so get ready to explode. Is this all? If this is going to happen, at least tell me how to escape!”
Even though I was annoyed, the status window didn’t tell me how to escape. Instead, strange crying sounds were heard throughout the harbor. At the same time, I knew what ‘return to ancient times’ meant.
The land collapses.
The solid support that those who stand on their own two feet believe and rely on collapses like a sand castle. After arriving at the port, the colleagues who were panicking and did not know what to do were busy running in all directions and climbing on top of the structures that were still holding on as the ground began to collapse.
It was no different for me. I climbed onto the car, then onto the truck, then onto the streetlight, and then onto the warehouse again.
It collapses. It collapses. The land disintegrated and returned to the sea, and the sea covered the world.
So, has salvation come to the fish people who were turning into fish? For fish suffering on land, what could be happier than the sea covering the land?
However, I realized that this was too short-term thinking. Now that the sea has covered the land, the creatures of the sea have also made the land their territory.
The children of the sea, who had been waiting for their turn in the darkness of the deep blue sea, came to land. They moved as if they were plucking at the sticky earth like a tidal flat, and swallowed up the weak people who had just turned from fishmen into fish in one bite.
A tragedy occurred. I had no idea what to do in this chaos.
Why did we come to the port in the first place? That’s because Elena, the one among us who knew the most about the room’s secrets, led us to the port. So why did Elena lead us to the port?
— Douuuuu!
A heavy cry echoes throughout the port. The earth, which had barely maintained its shape, collapsed like a sand castle in an instant. Colleagues who were barely holding on to buildings and cars began to be swept into the sea.
And finally – the ocean god stood up with his back to the moon.
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The time has come. The time of the great cycle has come.
[Advice: 1 -> 0]
[Extend your arm to the right as far as possible.]
The moment I stretched out my arm as instructed, half-fazed, I caught a very heavy object. The object was swept away by water pouring in from all directions at high speed. It was only after floating together for a while that I realized the identity of the object.
It’s a protective suit.
If the hazmat suit is here, what happened to Elena who was wearing it?
Elena: Mr. Gain, can you hear me?
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