Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 239
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Episode 239 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (17)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 102
Current location: Tier 2, Room 202 – Curse Room ‘The Little Mermaid’
Sage Advice: 2]
– Han Ga-in
The sea god was angry at the fishman’s sin, but the fishman did not know why the sea god was angry. This is truly a strange situation. Serenade denied Song-i’s opinion that it might be a problem of environmental destruction, but Ari asked her to confirm once again.
“When it comes to problems like this, the obvious answer is often the answer. It is difficult for modern civilization to be maintained without environmental destruction. “Are you sure?”
“no. Of course, we thought about that problem first and moved all factories and facilities that could cause problems to land 20 years ago.”
“… To land?”
“In other words, we can say that we have completed the outsourcing of environmental destruction.”
All facilities harmful to the environment were moved to land. It’s a clear answer. Of course, the location of the environmental destruction has only been moved, but it is unlikely that the Sea God will hold the Fishmen responsible for the environmental destruction of the entire Earth.
Isn’t the timing of anger important?
“You said you sensed the Sea God’s anger 20 years ago, right? I think it started at that point and continues to be repeated to this day… . “What happened during that time?”
“Of course I thought about that. But I really don’t know. That’s not to say that nothing happened 20 years ago. This island had a population of over 500,000 even then. Naturally, different things happen every day. “I don’t know which of them made God angry.”
The story seems to be going nowhere. What is the significance of sensing the Sea God’s anger 20 years ago in the first place? This means that the Daughters of the Sea God has been researching the cause for 20 years. We can’t figure out such a problem by talking among ourselves for 2 or 3 minutes.
Ari, who thought similarly, hung up.
“Let’s leave this matter to rest. God’s way of thinking is different from that of humans, so there are times when he says he will annihilate humanity for reasons that seem too trivial to humans, so it’s difficult for us to find out through meetings among ourselves. and… .”
“and?”
“no. In any case, the immediate problem is the unidentified ritual that Lee Soo-ho is carrying out on this island. “You’ve been chasing him for how many months?”
“yes. As you probably already know, Elena was swayed by her emotions of the moment and made a big mistake. After that, there are always at least five trained fishmen chasing him.”
“good. Can you show the already confirmed location on the map? “The Bureau’s drones will be searching the island and the surrounding area a little later, so we’ll need to save time.”
Serenade soon delivered some data. He brought up something important while Ari was reviewing the data.
“From now on, we are going to pick up Elena.”
“… You are so confident. To borrow your expression, it looks like you already met Elena before the time travel, right?”
“Yes. “I really need her.”
“Then let’s go together. You plan to leave right away, right? “I’ll meet you at the hospital.”
After exchanging information with Serenade, I left the provincial office building and started preparing to go to the hospital where Elena was.
“The identity of the Visana fish people 800 years ago and the ecology of Rudach. It all seems like interesting and valuable information, but I haven’t actually found out anything about the ongoing Kadarudah Advent crisis. We haven’t figured out why Kadarudach is angry, and we haven’t been able to guess Lee Su-ho’s location. “Should I use some advice?”
“Save it. Have you forgotten that you almost got killed instantly by Serenade earlier? “There will be many crises for us today.”
As soon as she entered the limousine, Songi asked cautiously.
“Ari. What did you want to talk about earlier? “You stopped talking about why Kadarudach was angry.”
“… This is my idea.”
“okay.”
“Isn’t this already an irreversible problem?”
“huh?”
“I just thought about it from the Sea God’s perspective. “The sea god mainly communicates with his daughter in the form of dreams, right?”
“yes.”
“Then is there really a need to use that dream to say, ‘I’m angry!’? “You could just give them a direct signal and say, ‘Something you’re doing makes me angry.’”
I didn’t think about it that way. The beings called ‘gods’ that I encountered after entering the hotel were just gods and nothing more than demons or monsters. But after listening to Ari, I understood.
Kadarudach is not an incomprehensible demon that does not communicate with mortals like the demons we have experienced so far. He communicates through dreams and, in Elena’s words, conveys strange stories that are ‘circular’ in a way that humans can understand.
Once you realize this, the next thought naturally comes to mind. With your excellent communication skills, why not just let them know why you’re angry?
Ari’s words were not finished.
“So I thought. “Maybe it’s because there’s no point in telling you.”
“It’s meaningless?”
“Something that cannot be undone happened 20 years ago. “The past 20 years were a time when Kadarudah gathered strength to vent his anger.”
It’s an ominous story. If this assumption is true, it is meaningless to analyze the reason for the anger. Because there is no turning back. My older brother, who was driving in front, expressed his opinion.
“Is there any need to think about it too complicated? No matter the reason for your anger, it’s enough to prevent you from descending. All we have to do is find Lee Soo-ho. “I feel relieved when I look at the sky.”
Sky out of nowhere?
Songi and I looked out the window to see what he was talking about. In the sky, grid-like blue lines stretched out as if the entire sky was made of a checkerboard.
“What is that? “Is it a bureau drone?”
Aren’t there about 20 drones flying around and searching the island? Ari answered as if it was no big deal.
“Did you really think that a drone would go around the island carrying a camera? Even if 2,000 vehicles were mobilized to search an island the size of Jeju Island, it would not be enough. “There are even many places where drones cannot enter.”
“then?”
“It’s roughly similar to taking an X-ray inside a person’s body. You don’t put a camera directly into your body. Well, I don’t even know the engineering principles.”
It’s spectacular. The 22 drones created a checkerboard made of blue lines in the sky, and the checkerboard began to move and move around the island as if scanning. Soon, the drones flew to an unseen location.
Songi muttered blankly.
“If it’s like that, won’t everything soon be overtaken?”
“Still, it’s tight. There’s so little time. “Everything will be over between dawn and morning tomorrow.”
“You’ll need some luck. “Lee Su-ho should be in the place where we start exploring first.”
Around that time, I received texts from other colleagues.
“They say they will arrive at the island soon. And then a tsunami hit Busan.”
“You mean the disaster Seungyeop mentioned?”
“yes. Busan was in chaos. Now… . It’s 2:30. Around 4 o’clock, you will hear strange crying sounds again and you will lose contact with the outside world. “They told me to come to the hospital.”
“I’m glad I contacted you before that.”
When we arrived at the hospital, strangely enough, we would have left first, but Serenade had already arrived. Is there a shortcut that only the daughter of the Sea God uses?
“You’re here. “Would you like to come in?”
Jincheol took a step forward.
“Our colleagues will arrive soon, so let’s go in together.”
After being released from the seal, Elena is in a very dangerous state until she is brought to her senses by the Myeongjing Index. She seemed better off waiting for another colleague than going in alone.
Our worries were meaningless.
*
Elena woke up peacefully, almost like waking up from a nap. As in the past, as soon as I woke up, my ominous imagination ran wild and there was no such thing as creating strange phenomena.
This is because Serenade, which we brought, and Riringanor, who our colleagues who came in from outside a little while ago brought, played the flute. This flute, given to the daughters of the sea god, is said to have the ability to suppress madness resulting from ancient memories.
However, this peaceful awakening was not necessarily positive. Elena woke up a second time without being able to obtain any additional information. Apparently, the power of the flute temporarily suppressed the connection between the sea god’s daughter and Kadarudah.
Elena muttered regretfully.
“Next time-”
Han Ga-in: Chat window. Next to it is Riringanor.
Elena: Next time, please wake me up without a flute.
It’s already ‘next time’… . So ominous?
“I have now received a call from Director Park. “They say the strike force won’t be able to deploy until 11pm?”
“Can’t it be sooner? As you know, at dawn -”
Grandpa sighed.
“That’s what I said, but to other people, saying that the world will fall apart at dawn tomorrow will only sound like a fuss.”
Ari answered.
“Let’s think that if the strike team comes, it’s good, but if it doesn’t come on time, there’s nothing we can do. “The drone has already arrived.”
Now, I feel like we’ve almost done everything we can do on our own. The most important task of finding Lee Su-ho is already out of our hands and up to the drones in the sky.
Eunsol, who arrived, spoke carefully.
“Shall we look for it together?”
Ari shook his head.
“If a doctor is in the middle of treatment and an outsider is helping, it will not help but rather be a hindrance. Just leave it to the drone. “After all, we are a group of people with superpowers, so it’s perfect for causing confusion to drones.”
In the end, we went to a nearby cafe and had some time to exchange the information we had gathered. By far the topic everyone was interested in was ‘the reason why Kadarudah was angry’, but no one could find a plausible answer.
At 4:20, crying was heard throughout the island and connection with the outside world was lost. He could no longer contact the man named Director Park.
At 6:40, the drone indicated the location where chaos was occurring with a probability of 94.3%.
The limousine carrying everyone headed to the ‘farm’ in the northwest of the island. Serenade also announced that she would bring the fishmen. Eunsol’s older sister was a bit taken aback.
“If you look at the map, this place is a tangerine farm? “What kind of ceremony is this in a place like this?”
“Isn’t he the saint of the sea god? The daughters of the sea god all have supernatural powers, so the saint must also have some strange power. “I think they hid it with that.”
“Then it doesn’t mean you can’t find it even if you go there, right?”
At 7:10, we finally arrived at the farm. As evening time approached, everyone started to get anxious. Are there at most eight hours left until the advent of Kadarudah?
As soon as we arrived at the farm, a strange-looking drone in the air guided us to the ‘door’.
“This… .”
A desolate farm with no people. Plants growing randomly everywhere and a small house falling down between them. The drone pointed to the door leading to the ‘living room’ inside the house.
Everyone looked at the door in silence. Now, I could bet my finger on the fact that behind that door, there was an unidentified space other than a ‘living room’ or something like that.
Grandpa sighed.
“Why is it like this… . If he was a guy who depended on a physical facility, he was going to ask Serenade if he couldn’t blow it up with a bomb. What a strange space. “Isn’t it obvious that there is a hellish space behind there?”
Surprisingly, the person who stepped forward with confidence was the doctor.
“There are times in life when you have to go into a trap even if you know it’s a trap. I guess that’s it now. Let’s go in. “Isn’t time running out?”
— Squeak!
The sound of the door opening sounded strangely ominous.
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