Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 237
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Episode 237 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (15)
– Park Seung-yeop
“weird? “I think it said here?”
“…”
In the second attempt, the mission that the doctor and I took on was to find Riringanor, who had been exiled by Serenade and was staying in Busan. However, it was not as easy as she thought to find the ‘house where she usually stayed’, which she had heard about during her conversation with Li Linganor.
Honestly, it’s not my responsibility. This is because Riringanor did not provide any detailed address in the first place. While traveling on a giant lugworm called ‘Kongi’, I thought, ‘That’s a building!’ He just pointed to the ruined building.
It was not easy to find the buildings I saw in the city devastated by the tsunami in Busan, which were still intact. At that time, the doctor next to me spoke.
“Seungyeop! “Isn’t it that villa?”
“yes?”
When I saw the villa the teacher pointed to, my knees automatically sank. Is it here? Is it there? As she said this, her vague memories became bright in an instant.
“How did you find it? “I was confused when I heard it myself.”
The reason was simpler than I thought.
“It’s broad daylight, but everything from the veranda to the windows is closed, making it look like a dark room. “I think they probably thought they shouldn’t be seen by the outside world because they’re a fishman, but that behavior made them more noticeable.”
“aha!”
Still, I’m glad I found it quickly.
*
– Eunsol Lee
“huh. huh. good job!”
A report came to Seungyeop. Looks like it ended soon.
“You say you found the third daughter?”
“yes. “I found it quickly, and it looks like I’ve finished persuading you to go to Sea God Island.”
“Can you convince me so quickly? “I thought she would be stubborn and say she won’t go back because her sister kicked her out.”
“They convinced me that there was a huge crisis on the island.”
“It’s not wrong. “Then this is the problem now.”
If Sang-hyeon and Seung-yeop’s role is to find and recruit Riringanor, my grandfather’s role is to monitor the situation at the Cheongseong Group and come up with a way to find Lee Soo-ho.
How on earth should we find Lee Su-ho? 9 people scouring an island bigger than Jeju Island for half a day? impossible. Even Serenade, the island’s ruler, was unable to find Lee Su-ho in the first place. There is also a significant possibility that Lee Soo-ho used supernatural means to hide.
So the idea we came up with was simple. Requesting support from the administration!
If we use more people or use satellites for exploration, there might be a way to find it. However, Ari and Grandpa, who know the management the most, said that it would not be easy. Anyway, as the plan has been made, the grandfather has been repeatedly talking to the person in charge of the management office since earlier.
“Are you saying it’s difficult this time too?”
“Uneasy. The reason is the same. “They say there is insufficient evidence.”
We already learned through the first attempt that if we don’t find Lee Soo-ho today, Kadarudah will descend and cause a great disaster.
But how on earth can we explain this to the people inside the scenario? This is the basis, we are actually from the outside world~! It’s impossible to do.
The Bureau is an organization with human and material resources that are incomparable to most groups in the world. That in no way means that the management bureau has surplus resources.
This is because they are also a group that must protect the entire star. Therefore, resources are always in short supply and requests for additional support require a basis.
At the moment when my grandfather and I were lamenting that our second attempt was doomed because we could not find Lee Su-ho, help came from an unexpected direction. Suddenly, his grandfather received a phone call. The person who made the call was a man named Park Jin-seong, who was in charge of the Busan branch of the management bureau.
“So, you are saying that it is possible to support 22 search drones and 1 strike team?”
“Agent Kim Muk-seong, that’s right. “It may not be enough, but this is my best.”
“I would rather say thank you. It wouldn’t have been easy to extract this amount of resources… . “When is the point?”
“Drones can be dispatched immediately, but the strike force will only be able to enter Sea God Island in the evening. And I’m going too.”
“hmm?”
I, who was listening from the side, was also taken aback. Is the manager himself coming to Sea God Island? I don’t think you have the status to play on the field.
“Agent Kim Mook-seong, in fact, your request for assistance has very weak basis. “It’s just an appropriate amount of fleshing out of my intuition and guesses.”
“… I admit it.”
Can not help it. The information we obtained through our first attempt, in the eyes of the NPCs inside the scenario, is nothing more than a scenario concocted by their imagination.
“But I also had a similar intuition before.”
?
“In your request for support, you said, ‘There is a possibility that Lee Su-ho is alive,’ right?”
“Yes, but… .”
“I have met Lee Su-ho about four times over the past few years. “At that time, I would feel embarrassed to tell others.”
“impulse?”
“Agent, I am a person who prides myself on having a bright eye for people.”
I guess so. So, in an organization like a management bureau, each person is probably a manager.
“I felt the urge to kill Lee Soo-ho at least 15 times. As I endured it and endured it, one day, a report suddenly came in that he had died. I was relieved, but at the same time, I felt a chill on the back of my neck. No matter how much I thought about it, it didn’t seem like a seed that would die easily like this. “I feel a chill on the back of my neck again after hearing the agent’s report a moment ago.”
With those words, Director Park Jin-seong promised support and cut off contact.
“Grandfather, what is this story?”
“He’s trying to resurrect the evil god, so he must have been around somewhere for a long time.”
“Just because he’s a strange person, the high-ranking officials of the management bureau are worried about whether or not to kill him?”
“Umm… . Actually, this is an intuition I have felt several times in my life. That kid is sure to have an accident someday. But I’m embarrassed that the manager himself is coming. “Isn’t there some personal grudge?”
It is said that experienced detectives can feel the ‘feel’ of a criminal just by looking at the steps of a person walking down the street. The intuition of an expert in the field like this is probably closer to a momentary judgment about various circumstantial evidence that is difficult to enumerate one by one, rather than a simple feeling.
Did Manager Park have a similar intuition? Or, as his grandfather speculated, there may be ‘personal reasons’.
At least I knew one thing. Lee Su-ho seems to have been a person with a sense of madness even before he became the saint of the sea god.
Anyway, I feel like our job is done with this. Sang-hyeon and Seung-yeop succeeded in finding and capturing Riringanor. We also succeeded in exploring the Qingcheng group and gaining support from the administration. Now only those of us with the most important roles remain.
Han Ga-in, Cha Jin-cheol, Kim Ari, Yoo Song-i. Can they persuade Serenade and unseal Elena?
My grandfather was next to me, picking me up.
“It looks like Sanghyun came to the building over there. Now let’s set off for Sea God Island. “The limousine was put on standby.”
In order to escape for real this time, Seung-yeop is moving to the Bureau branch in Seoul under the pretext of reporting the information he obtained from Riringanor. Because that place is what we think is ‘the safest place in Korea.’
But is it a safe place even when an evil god is resurrected? It’s impossible to know.
*
– Han Ga-in
“I just got a security text message from my sister.”
Ari, who was next to him, pricked up his ears.
“what?”
“리링가노르는 찾아서 의사 선생님이 데려오고 있어. 청성 그룹에 대한 탐색도 대충은 한 모양이고, 무엇보다 관리국에서 탐색용 드론들과 특수부대를 투입해주겠다고 했대.”
그 사이에 아리도 이미 핸드폰을 꺼내서 누나가 보낸 문자를 확인했다.
“용케 탐색용 드론까지 얻어냈네. 한국 전체에 200대 미만인 물건인데.”
“보통 드론과 다른 거지? 겨우 20대 정도로 반나절 만에 해신 섬을 뒤질 수 있을까 싶어서.”
“충분하고도 남아. 다만 이수호가 어마무시한 은신 마법이라도 썼으면 그건 또 다른 문제긴 하지….”
다른 사람들은 이미 임무를 끝낸 모양이지만, 우린 아직 시작도 하지 않았다. 애초에 아직 해신 섬에 도착하지 않은 상태다. 리무진은 이제 막 해신 섬으로 향하는 해상도로로 들어섰다.
앞좌석을 툭툭 쳤다.
“형, 조심하세요.”
“알고 있다.”
곧 해상도로 중앙쯤에서 리무진이 멈췄다. 예전처럼 도로 중앙까지 불길한 안개가 쭉 뻗었다가 사라졌다.
“이건 대체 누가 부린 수작일까? 이수호? 세레나데?”
“글쎄…. 그것도 알아봐야겠지.”
곧 리무진이 다시 해상도로를 달리기 시작했다. 뒷좌석의 사람들은 침묵에 잠겼다. 어떻게 설득할지 대략적인 계획은 짜두긴 했지만 가능할까? 솔직히 내가 생각해도 믿기 힘든 이야기들인데.
내 표정이 불안해 보였는지 옆에서 아리가 한 마디 얹었다.
“자신감 있게 행동해. 원래 이런 일은 자신감이 반이니까.”
“나머지 반은?”
“운이지. 그래서 승엽이를 우리 쪽에 넣어서 데려가고 싶었는데.”
점심 무렵, 첫 번째 시도 때보다 훨씬 이른 시간에 해신 섬에 도착했다.
*
“뭍에서 오신 관리국 분들, 환영합니다.”
“안녕하십니까? 심해의 성녀를 뵙습니다.”
“그냥 도지사라고 불러주시길. 그게 저의 대외적 직함입니다.”
Up to this point, it’s the same conversation we had before. But, it starts now.
“Governor, you may have felt that our visit was sudden.”
“… Actually, yes. I set a time for the interview, but he insisted so strongly that we had to meet right away, so I had no choice but to cancel the previous schedule. I hope there is a good reason for that.”
As I silently take a step closer, my gaze slightly shifts between the ceiling and the window! I created an atmosphere that seemed as meaningful as possible. This is my personal base that I developed at the hotel.
Pero, who saw my movements, flew over to me as if he had been waiting and climbed on my shoulder, even making the expression of a parrot filled with laughter. At about the same time, Jincheol moved back and slammed the door to the room.
“What are you trying to say -”
“Governor, please keep my words in mind from now on. Now we are meeting for the second time. I used a special tool that the management bureau had to turn back time. In the lost timeline, Sea God Island was destroyed by Lee Soo-ho.”
Serenade’s eyes widen.
“And Serenade entrusted the future of the island to us and promised the future.”
See next episode