Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 240
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Episode 240 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (18)
[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
— Snap!
The humid, salty air tickled my nose, and a muddy sound tickled my ears with every step I took.
— Tick!
My leg lightly hit the stone and the sound filled the wide space.
I followed Lee Soo-ho and entered the room in the desolate farm that the drone had found. The place that welcomed us beyond was none other than a cave on the coast. I didn’t even wonder how there could be a cave beyond the door of a home. More than that, I was concerned about the strangely loud ‘sounds coming from my body’.
“I… . “Everyone is nearby, right?”
Songi can be heard sounding anxious. At first glance, you may wonder what this means when no one has ever dispersed, but I understand that feeling. There was something strange about this cave, so I too was overcome with anxiety, thinking that I might be the only one left in the cave.
There was no light source, so it was dark everywhere. Ari, wearing a protective suit, must be nearby, and there must be light coming from the headlamp of the protective suit, but strangely, it feels like the light is coming towards us and then stopping.
“hmm. greatness. Sorry, but I will make noise periodically.”
After listening to the doctor’s words, I realized that everyone was feeling similar sensations. Small applause began to sound rhythmically.
— mate! match! match!
… The volume of the third and fourth clapping sounds is very different. A little while ago, the distance between me and the doctor suddenly widened.
At that very moment, the chat window responded.
Eunsol Lee: Stop! stop! Power off until I get there!
What on earth is going on?
*
I waited. Everyone stopped and waited for Eunsol to arrive. My sister held each person’s hand and brought them in. As she walked holding her sister’s hand, she finally realized the identity of the strange phenomenon she had felt earlier. Suddenly, my body seemed to turn to the left, soared upward, then seemed to turn downward, and then turned to the left again.
Is my sister, who is dragging me, walking confusedly?
no. In this case, my sister was going straight in the right direction, but it would be correct to say that my senses were confused. This cave confuses one’s senses.
After three minutes, all colleagues were so close that they could hear each other’s breathing and their skin was touching. Eunsol explained quickly as if she were giving a briefing.
“It seems like the cave is deceiving everyone’s senses. Especially visual. I thought they were nervous because everyone was shaking their bodies here and there as if they were dancing. But as we went on, it started moving in more and more strange directions, and suddenly everyone was heading in different directions.”
Grandpa made a quick decision.
“You are fine. It seems like this is possible because your eyes have good performance. You put on your protective clothing and take the lead. And let’s all stick together and let’s go.”
“If possible, let’s all make noise on purpose. “When we get nervous, we talk less loudly and only hear what’s going on around us, but doing things like that actually seems to distract our senses.”
In any case, there is no way Lee Su-ho would know that we came in, so there is no reason to move quietly. Soon the ranks were rearranged and everyone started talking and moving as if they were having a meeting at a hotel.
“Lee Su-ho created this phenomenon, right? What is the secret? “Magic from the sea god?”
“Probably so. But I don’t think it’s all that’s causing us to get lost.”
“I’m curious about something a little different. “Mukseong, did you contact Director Park about where to come?”
“no. I couldn’t do it because the drones found the location after contact was lost. But he will check the drone as soon as he arrives, so won’t he come to this place anyway?”
“That’s right.”
“The question is, can they find their way like we can? “In fact, the thing I’m more worried about than the strike team that won’t arrive until night is the Serenade.”
Since we were short on time, we entered on our own as soon as we arrived, but it is clear that Serenade and the fishmen will arrive soon as well. Will they be able to find the right path? Maybe the reinforcements will wander around in this cave and not be able to help.
Jincheol answered reassuringly.
“When did we ever proceed expecting great help from NPCs? “We handled it on our own anyway.”
Suddenly, I realized that I also had a question.
“Elena!”
“yes. “You can hear me even if you speak a little louder.”
“no. Whenever you say something, always say it loudly. That way, we can feel each other’s presence better.”
“Then you’d better speak louder.”
“You talked to Serenade earlier before waking Elena up? But Serenade tried to kill me.”
“that! Do you want me to scold you later?”
“… You don’t have to do that. Rather, I don’t know what kind of ability Serenade was trying to use. Is it in Elena’s memory?”
Since it’s information about ‘sister’s’ abilities, wouldn’t Elena know it? The prediction was half correct.
“Each of the Sea God’s daughters realized different abilities. Riringanor discovered the ability to control special animals in the sea, and Serenade gained the Eye of Petrification.”
The eyes of petrification.
“The eyes of petrification do not actually physically turn into stone. However, your entire body becomes paralyzed, as if you were turned to stone, and you cannot move.”
Ari asked, tilting his head.
“Full body paralysis? “Given Ga-in’s crisis alert was activated, it seems like she died immediately?”
“My heart also stopped. For reference, my ‘ominous imagination’ is also set to be an ability given by the Sea God in this scenario.”
Serenade’s ability, Petrification Eyes, was absurdly threatening. Doesn’t that mean that if you just look at her with your own eyes, her whole body will stiffen, her heart will stop, and she will die?
Jincheol quickly asked a question.
“Isn’t there some sort of loophole? Can I use it on multiple people at once? “Is it worth it to overcome it with strength?”
“It’s hard to overcome it with strength. “It cannot be used by multiple people at once.”
Ari also put it on right away.
“Do I have to make eye contact with Serenade? Or could it be that Serenade can be activated just by looking at us?”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know about that part.”
I wasn’t yet convinced that Serenade was completely on our side. Her colleagues seemed to have similar thoughts and were contemplating on how to respond to her threatening supernatural power called ‘Petrified Eyes’ in case they had to fight her.
Uneasy. Possession? As I have experienced many times, it is not a master key. I have experienced several times that my possession does not work on high-ranking beings in the room of curses. Serenade and Lee Soo-ho certainly seem to fall into this category.
Avoid Serenade’s gaze? It’s impossible even for Cha Jin-cheol, the fastest among us. It is said that the hand is faster than the eye, but the movement of the entire body cannot be faster than the gaze movement.
However, if the trigger for activating abilities is ‘gaze’, there are people among us who specialize in that area.
“If I have to, I’ll wear a bracelet.”
It seems like a good solution to show Serenade a hallucination. I felt a little relieved.
At that very moment, a notification appeared again.
[Advice: 2 -> 1]
[Shout as loud as you can!]
“Aaaaaaaaa!”
I literally screamed at the top of my voice. As my colleagues were all startled by the sudden loud noise and turned to look in my direction, a strange voice caught up in my shout tickled their ears.
“La Cassit – how did you know?”
Immediately, the grandfather took a small object out of his pocket and threw it toward the ceiling. Soon, the surroundings became as bright as day. Flares? When did you get something like this again?
It was a huge, open cavity, and a man in stuffy-looking clothes was looking down at us from a small bridge on the other side of the cavity.
“haha! Wow, I never thought we would meet face to face like this. “Guests from the administration, welcome-”
“Shut up! As soon as this bastard sees him, he curses ‘again’?”
“Well, the old man who looks like he’s about to fall behind has a foul mouth. And what do you mean ‘again’?”
“Hey dude! “You did the curse on the bridge leading to the island, right?”
“I don’t know what you mean by that. Well, I guess it’s good. A relationship where you can laugh and talk to each other –
— Bang!
A loud gunshot from a doctor holding a pistol signaled the start of the fight. At the same time, a distant presence that filled the entire cave came upon us.
*
— Boom!
When I turned over once in the narrow cave, something next to me was crushed. Is this the third one? Suddenly he felt a slight pain in his head and this time he hit his head on the ceiling. Then a thick liquid exploded above his head.
Something bit into my side. The difference in size is similar to that of a cat biting an elephant! I laughed and rolled my body sideways, feeling the sensation of pressing a bug to death with my fingers.
ha ha ha! I never thought it would be such an easy fight.
The cave, which seemed so large that it was barely noticeable just a moment ago, now feels like a narrow ant cave. This is because the body of a sea serpent was taken so large that it could kill a human by crushing it with the tip of its tail!
“What a bitch!” Abratas! “What are you doing?”
When I heard Lee Soo-ho’s shout full of anger, I automatically felt better. Is there anything more pleasant to say than the sound someone makes when he or she is angry?
Since I got the grimoire, I haven’t had a happy moment like this very often! Because bringing a monster with only strong strength in front of me is essentially offering me a powerful weapon.
— Kwazijic!
The only problem was that I had never been a snake in my life, so it was a bit difficult to control my body. All I could do was wriggle with the sense of movement without using my arms and legs. And that alone was not enough to crush and kill all the other monsters summoned by Lee Su-ho.
Suho Lee must have felt that there was no answer and started running somewhere. As soon as that happened, he felt a second problem: he was not used to handling the snake’s body, so the chase was not easy. Should I break the possession?
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Unstable. Now that I have taken over this monster’s body, we have tremendous power, but if I return to my original body, we will have to deal with this monster, and that doesn’t seem to be easy.
The next moment, something popped up above my head.
“One~ go~ in!!! “Can you hear me?”
I can hear it, but I can’t answer. Because snakes cannot speak human language. He bobbed his head to make me feel understood.
“We’ll take care of you and chase after you, so you have to deal with this snake somehow! Don’t just let go of possession! “I refuse to wallow in a cave with monsters!”
With those words, his colleagues ran after Lee Su-ho.
… I was left alone for a while and fell into trouble. How on earth can I ‘commit suicide’ in the body of this monster snake? Should I try harder to hit my head? And if the cave collapses, all your colleagues will die?
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