Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 233
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Episode 233 – Room 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (11)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 101
Current location: Tier 2, Room 202 – Curse Room ‘The Little Mermaid’
Sage Advice: 0]
– Han Ga-in
When I saw the message in the chat window, I felt momentarily relieved. Because it means that at least two people are alive. Elena, who sent the message, and the silent grandfather who maintains the chat window. Both are still alive.
dizzy! She didn’t have the presence of mind to respond to Elena’s chat window as she was holding on to her protective clothing as it was swept away by the rushing water from all directions. What should I do? The weight of the protective suit is well over 200kg!
I knew I had one means left. I wondered if it would work, but this is not the time to hesitate. I focused on the feather tattoo on her shoulder. When I came to my senses from the dizzy feeling of my belly button being pulled, I found myself inside a protective suit.
Han Ga-in: Success!
Elena: Yes?
Han Ga-in: No. Where?
Elena: Follow the yellow light in the water.
I was trying to move on naturally, but for a moment I felt a sense of discomfort. Don’t you usually use a ‘type saving’ style of speaking when using a chat window? Of course, Elena may be so distracted by her own situation that the sentences are coming out like a normal conversation.
Wearing a protective suit, I slowly followed the light. Unfortunately, the protective clothing did not have a function such as oxygen production, so I had to periodically get out of the water and refill my oxygen supply. There was so much chaos everywhere and there were so many strange marine creatures in the water that it was not easy to follow the light.
After moving around for about 15 minutes, which wasn’t that long, I found a strange door. Even in the chaos where the sea demon rose and the land turned into the sea, this door remained intact. This is because it was not a door attached to the entrance of a building on the ground. The place the light led to was none other than a cave under the sea, and the door was strangely attached to the cave.
A kind of air pocket was formed inside and air remained. There even seemed to be an unidentifiable ventilation facility.
“What the hell is this place… .”
“You’re here. “I’m glad you’re not late.”
“Elena?”
“Come over here.”
A voice is heard from the other side of the cave. The voice of the Elena I knew has changed a lot.
If you think about it, the reason we put Elena in a protective suit was because the rain that began to fall in the aftermath of Kadarudah’s rise damaged the fishmen’s bodies horribly. And now I am wearing the protective clothing that prevented that mutation.
What kind of condition is Elena in now? At least I guessed that her body was not normal.
…
Another fact also came to mind. This is none other than the characteristic of ‘Myeongkyung Index’. There are quite a few people in the hotel party who have the ability to protect their minds from madness.
With the power of the bracelet, Songi can have stronger mental defense than any of us for a limited time. Through the status window, I can have mental defense that is weaker than a bracelet but has no time restrictions. By consuming blood, Ahri can temporarily gain mental defense similar to mine.
So what type is Elena?
It is different from all three. This is because Myeongjyeongsu is not the ability to prevent madness in the first place, but the ability to restore the spirit that has collapsed due to madness. In other words, if Song, I, and Ari’s power is a shield that protects the spirit, Myeonggyeongsu acts like a cure for the broken spirit.
When Elena first came to her senses in the hospital, she had already taken the medicine called Myeonggyeongsu. Thanks to that, we returned to the ‘Hotel Elena’ we knew at the time… .
What kind of situation is it now?
I don’t know. I felt anxious and became afraid to move. Unfortunately, at this moment, there are not many pieces of advice left that I want to rely on. Once when the shark attacked, once to wake Elena up, and once to grab the hazmat suit. I used up all three pieces of advice.
…
— Snap!
“Mr. Gain? “I don’t have much time.”
I made a decision. Since I came this far in the first place, I have no other options. There is no way to escape by going back. For now, let’s hope that ‘that Elena’ is closer to the Elena I know.
“going.”
With each step, the headlamp of the hazmat suit illuminated a terrible sight that I did not want to see. There were bones everywhere. It was easy to tell what kind of creature the well-covered bones belonged to. Why are caves under the sea so full of human bones?
…
“Gain, can you hear me? Can you understand yet?”
“Sure.”
Elena’s pronunciation becomes a little strange. Are your vocal cords distorted?
“You probably have a hard time understanding why I led you to the port where the evil spirit awakens and why I summoned you to this cave.”
“Actually, yes.”
“Unfortunately, it was too late when I woke up. Just before I woke up, I heard Kadarudah’s voice. As the daughter of the Sea God, she has had nightmares for over 10 years, but this is something she has never experienced before. So I realized that Kadarudah’s awakening was imminent.”
“… We must have woken up Elena less than 24 hours after entering room 202?”
“is that so? Surprisingly, even one day seems too late by hotel standards.”
“I guess I’ll have to go outside and think through my plan. “It means we have to decide the winner before the day is over.”
“Anyway, Kadarudah’s awakening was already unstoppable. So how on earth are you supposed to escape when the evil spirit is resurrected? “This concern arose in my head.”
The point is that there is a way to escape. Without realizing it, I felt a little relieved.
“I’ll start with the conclusion. Ga-in, you should become Fish-in.”
I immediately took two steps back.
“This may sound crazy. But please calm down and listen. Now Kadarudah has risen up, fueled by hatred for humans. In other words, if you become a fishman, you will deviate from his goals.”
He responded by taking three more steps back.
“What are you talking about! “I’ve seen fishmen die painfully countless times along the way.”
“Because they are descendants of sinners. The first Fishmen committed an unpardonable sin, and Kadarudach is asking his descendants to pay for that sin. But you are not a descendant of sinners. If you become a Fishman, Kadarudach will consider you as his adopted son. Like Lee Su-ho.”
weird. That woman is not the ‘Elena’ I know. It’s definitely true. The sea god’s daughter’s ego must have already taken over that body.
A variety of disturbing imaginations arose in my head. Serenade controlled the beings who failed to awaken as fishmen in the basement of the government office. The sea god’s daughter can control the fishmen. Isn’t that woman trying to control me by turning me into a fishman?
Outside, a tragedy is occurring that is killing all the fishmen on the island, and the woman on the other side of the cave has supernatural powers that allow her to control the fishmen. In this situation, are you asking me to become a fishman? Make sense! No matter how you look at it, this is not it. Immediately go out of the cave and –
“Gain, do you remember what happened in the gateway room before?”
“…”
“The first room, was it a doppelganger train? “Even now, when I think of that memory, I smile without even realizing it.”
“…”
“no! I’m traveling safely on the train, but suddenly people around me come and say they’re going to kill me, right? At that moment, my hair turned white. What should I do? I wanted to. “I was reminded of scenes from dramas I’ve always liked.”
“…”
“In dramas, it’s perfect when you feel like something is ambiguous or lacks impact! There is a scene that comes out. It’s a slap in the face. Is there no tension in the scenario? “The best thing is when the mother-in-law slaps the heroine in the face.”
“You said you ran away for nearly 10 years, when did you see something like that again?”
“Even though I ran away, I still had my cell phone. Plus, there were TVs everywhere we went. By the way, there is a scene that I saw that was very impressive when I came to Korea. Hitting the cheek with a hand is a global code, so we’ve seen it in many dramas, but hitting the cheek with kimchi is -”
“Ahh! “Where on earth have you seen something like that?”
“I never thought there would be a drama in the world where people get hit in the face with cabbage while living.”
“stop! Oh no! “I trust you, so I’ll leave it at that.”
“For your information, Korean dramas also use soybean paste, kimbap, seaweed, and pasta to beat the crap out of people.”
It was a ridiculous conversation, but I understood what Elena’s intention was. This kind of conversation seems like something that a ‘daughter of the sea god’ cannot have. Elena said to me, ‘I’m the Elena from the hotel you know.’
… By the way, why are K-dramas so serious about being slapped in the face?
As I walked across the cave for a while, something that looked like pure white octopus legs appeared, dividing the space.
“You don’t have to come any more.”
I can guess. Now, Elena’s appearance must have deviated greatly from that of a human. Could it be that she doesn’t want to be seen like that?
At the end of the approaching octopus leg was a strange, unknown creature. What on earth is this? Is it a large snail? slug? Is the wriggling flesh tentacle? This is a creature I have never seen before. It seemed to subtly resemble a snail, but I knew it was definitely not a snail.
“This is ‘Rudach.’”
“Rudach?”
“The creature that started everything. “Descendants of God discovered in the deep sea by fishermen, who became the first fishmen, 800 years ago.”
With those words, the tentacle slowly approached me. I took off my protective clothing and waited for ‘something’.
…
afraid. It’s disgusting. I want to step on that snail and kill it right now. An approaching tentacle, an unidentified creature riding on the tip. What on earth will happen to my body?
I thought I had become quite accustomed to the supernatural after experiencing all kinds of things at the hotel, but I couldn’t bear the physiological disgust I was feeling now.
In the end, I closed my eyes.
“It will hurt a little. Please be patient.”
This was a lie. Because the pain was never ‘a little’.
*
Would this be what it would feel like if your body was fried alive? What happened? I even realized that a tentacle had pierced my torso. Immediately afterwards, something stirred inside my body.
I felt a change. I felt my body gradually deviating from its human form. In this moment, what I felt was not pain or anger.
It’s disgusting!
I am turning into a strange being that I cannot understand. An unbearable feeling of disgust overtook my heart. but… .
If I could just get out of this horrible room 202 in this way, all the pain would disappear like a bubble. The end of suffering, freedom from disgust. The one word that can give all this salvation.
‘escape’
I waited and endured and endured just that.
The hand disappeared. The leg is gone. My lungs are gone. no. Nothing has disappeared, it has just taken on a ‘different form’. I didn’t have the courage to look at my body with my own eyes.
Just before I lost consciousness – I saw a huge eye light.
‘You, the one from outside.’
“…”
‘End the pain.’
That was the last memory I had.
/You escaped!/
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