Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 244
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Episode 244 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (22)
– Park Seung-yeop
The parrot flew in out of nowhere, breaking the window, and instantly transformed into a monster and crushed two restaurant employees near the wall.
“Aaaah!”
When I stepped back in shock, something strange happened. Guns stuck out from the waists of employees at the restaurant! No. Do restaurant employees even carry guns these days?
When I looked across the table in panic, the manager, who had a calm expression despite the chaotic situation, pulled out a gun from his pocket and pointed it at me. I watched blankly as the trigger of the pistol was about to be pulled, as if in slow motion.
— Boom!
The body flew into the sky. In a split second, I realized that Grotesque had kicked me away with a headbutt.
The manager’s expression distorted, and the restaurant employees all pointed their guns at the grotesque. Unlike my completely lost mind, my hands were quite smart. Thanks to the experience of fighting with Perot, which I have already experienced several times, my hands naturally covered my ears!
— Crara la la la!
A roar that shakes the building!
Even though I mentally prepared myself and covered my ears, I suddenly became violently excited and kicked the table with my legs. She barely got herself together and turned around to run outside.
It’s the enemy. I don’t know why, but the Bureau is my enemy now!
Why? How can this happen? I couldn’t understand it at all. Feeling like a rabbit running away from a wolf, I frantically left the room I was in with the manager and ran towards the store’s hall.
— Rumble!
The door I passed earlier is about to open. already? How did you come to your senses so quickly after being swept away by Pero’s roar? How to? How to? how –
— Wow!
“Oh, it’s hot! “Fuck, fuck, fuck, why is it so hot!”
“Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
“sorry!”
I wasn’t sorry at all, but I instinctively said I was sorry!
Just then, there was a pot of boiling seafood in front of me. She grabbed it with her bare hand and threw it, and it felt like her hand would melt in an instant. Of course, the manager, who was covered in an earthen pot, fell to the floor and rolled around.
I ran like crazy. She ran and ran towards the store door, pushing away the chairs and tables that were overflowing all around her. First, after leaving the store, go to a place with a lot of people –
— Bang!
ah… .
Is this how a person feels when struck by lightning? It felt like a very hot iron skewer had been torn through my body.
It seems like the main characters in the movies wrap themselves in bandages and do all sorts of actions even after getting hit by one or two pistol shots, but I guess I’m not the main character. I think I was hit in the shoulder, but my entire body, including my legs, lost all strength and I fell to the slippery floor.
— Shoot!
Rain was falling from the sky. I heard footsteps coming from the restaurant.
sick. It hurts so much. At this moment, the pain felt much greater than the fear that everything might end the moment I die. Please, please, I desperately prayed for this pain to end… .
“mom… .”
“…”
“mom… . mom… . Hmm… .”
“I’m sorry. “I’ll make it easy for you soon.”
At that time, the street lights went out. Are my eyes, which are close to death, no longer able to see the light?
The next moment, the streetlight across the street went off again. Then all the light sources around disappeared. In an ominously deserted, remote alley, darkness fell everywhere.
— Again!
In the dark night sky, the sound of footsteps can be heard through the sound of pouring rain and wind. Strangely enough, at this moment, even the pain that seemed to hit her whole body like lightning felt the presence of ‘someone’ approaching without holding her breath.
“What another strange thing -”
The manager’s body, which was taking a step towards me while tilting his head, became as hard as a stone.
Someone is approaching. His body size is at most similar to mine. Is the attire a raincoat? My steps aren’t that fast either. At best, I think she’s a small girl.
“hello?”
“…”
I didn’t have the energy to answer. The girl who emerged from her darkness looked at her manager who was as hard as stone.
“ah! mister. Last night, I saw it in a dream. “Suho oppa was quite scared of you.”
The girl’s gaze turned slightly upward. A strange noise began to be heard from the rain-soaked restaurant sign above the manager.
“mister. I always thought of this when I saw these shabby restaurant signs. What if the sign suddenly falls down? It’s not absurd, is it? “Every year in Korea, people get hurt by falling icicles.”
— Squeak!
weird. I’m sure there were management staff inside the restaurant, and I’m sure they were stationed around here as well… . None of them came close. Is it because the ‘disturbing imagination’ coming out of the girl covered the dark streets?
The store’s old sign began to shake little by little. The manager couldn’t move a single finger. The girl who saw that slowly walked over and moved the manager’s face, which was as hard as stone, ‘upwards’.
“Take a good look. “You don’t feel frustrated if you know what’s going to happen when you go, right?”
Slowly, until the moment when the leaning sign finally fell and chopped the manager into a piece of meat – the manager could not move even a single step.
— Again!
“hi!”
“…”
“Don’t you have the energy to talk? Seungyeop… . hmm. It will be difficult to survive. That’s too bad. “If he had gone to the hospital right away, he might have lived.”
“…”
“I had a dream last night. very… . A very old dream. I heard a voice. I heard the screams of my compatriots all over the world. And I got new ears.”
“…”
“It’s strange. As soon as I woke up from the dream, I realized that my ears were useless. Because I didn’t hear anything I really needed to hear. Why didn’t I know such an obvious fact until now? So I ripped off my useless ears. now… . I can finally hear it now. Seungyeop, can you hear your voice too?”
Only then did I realize that both of the girl’s ears had been torn off.
“father! my father Can you hear our prayers? I finally hear your voice. Please show me grace. “Please show grace to me as you did to Suho Lee.”
With those words, the girl’s hands went to her eyes. I stopped and closed my eyes. Soon a terrible sound was heard.
Riringanor ripped off his ears to hear ‘unheard sounds’. Have we now plucked out our eyes to see ‘something we couldn’t see’?
The sound of footsteps is moving away from me. Around that time, all sounds began to gradually become quieter. She felt that the end was coming for me too… .
…
What on earth is it? The final trial in this room? The Sea God’s final hand in preparation for Lee Soo-ho’s failure? I don’t know.
At the same time, I felt a little betrayed. You may not remember Linganor, but we became quite close to her during our first attempt, saving the people of Busan who were in danger… . Was it all just an act?
Or, before Suho Lee failed, he himself may not have known his role. Of course, this may just be my vain hope.
I stopped thinking about this. All predictions are meaningful only when we have the next opportunity. In my fading consciousness, I desperately hoped that there would be a ‘next’ for me and for us.
*
– Elena
Early in the morning, someone suddenly shook me and woke me up in a dazed state, when I heard shocking news. The fact that Director Park Jin-seong, the actual head of the research institute, died in an absurd manner!
“to… . “So what did you do when you died?”
“During the mission, a restaurant sign fell and he died.”
I was speechless for a moment.
Of course, when people die, they die by pretending to eat, or by tripping over a rock while walking down the street. However, I had no idea that a high-ranking official in the management bureau would die so vainly.
As I was observing the situation and sharing my feelings of absurdity with Serenade in a chaotic atmosphere, I realized that a really unusual change had begun.
“Rudach is emitting strange radio waves! “Your daughters need to take action quickly!”
In response to the urgent cries of the staff who approached in a hurry, I, Serenade, and Imelda, the daughters of the lab’s three sea gods, approached the tank where the snails were trapped without even changing their clothes.
Indeed, the Rudachs were writhing as a group, emitting strange sound waves, and those sound waves caused intense pain to the ‘advanced humans’ who filled the laboratory.
What’s even stranger is that our control over Rudach has become useless. Even Imelda, the most skilled among us at controlling Rudach, could not stop it from spewing out strange waves.
Rather than stopping, the strange radio waves began to affect us as well. When I got to the point where I felt a terrible sensation as if something was about to break out of the skin beneath my skin.
I finally realized that the moment of destruction had arrived.
If you think about it, it’s natural. Even though the descent of the sea god stopped with the death of Lee Soo-ho, why was there no solution or escape?
The sea god still had one bullet left. It is clear that there must have been more left behind for Advent, some unknown means. I realized that that one bullet had now pierced the entire world.
It is also clear why Rudach is out of our control. Something with stronger control must be controlling them.
…
So, what I’m saying is that there’s no need to worry anymore.
“Why on earth is this so disobedient?”
“Imelda. Do you have anything in case of an emergency? “I wonder if you didn’t prepare at least one last resort while conducting all kinds of experiments with these suspicious supernatural creatures?”
“Of course there is. However, that was due to a meeting between the research institute directors -”
“Elena, I know roughly what the means are.”
Serenade cut off Imelda’s words and looked at me. Over the past few days, I thought I was the only one exploring this lab, but was Serenade also doing something?
Serenade’s meaningful gaze turned towards me. I also felt like something was interesting.
“Suddenly what-”
The next moment, Imelda stiffened as if she had turned into stone.
“Imelda, why is someone who showed great determination and communicated with the Bureau so lax? Have you become a fool by staying in the safe lab for too long?”
Is there any remnants of the time when the Bureau was raided and brought unconscious? Serenade trampled Imelda’s feet.
— Bang!
One gunshot. The ending of the former saintess, who suffered from nightmares for a long time and hoped for a peaceful and safe life, was more vain than she thought.
“Elena, if you see the ‘final card’ prepared in this lab, it will be funny because it is surprisingly familiar, right?”
“Familiar object?”
“huh. This is something you know well. The management bureau simply ‘improved’ the product. “I am amazed at the creativity of these people.”
Screams are heard from all directions.
In the strange radio waves that filled the entire laboratory, all the beings who claimed to be ‘advanced humans’, ‘the future of humanity’, and ‘hope for Homo sapiens’ were rolling around on the floor like bugs.
I sensed that the second attempt was also coming to an end. Maybe I’ll be the last survivor. Can you escape?
This is the last session registered.