Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 245
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Episode 245 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (23)
– Elena
The place Serenade guided us to was at the end of a passage directly connected to Imelda’s residence. And it was only when he stood in front of the door that we realized that we had made a pretty big mistake earlier.
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“Sister, I think you shouldn’t have killed Imelda earlier.”
Serenade did not respond.
The door to the place where the final card prepared by the Management Bureau was hidden required the biometric information of none other than the ‘living’ Imelda. If you think about it, isn’t it quite common for a security system to request biometric information from high-ranking officials?
After a while, Serenade brought in a man with a frightened expression. Fortunately, it seems that there was someone other than Imelda who could open the door.
The man, who held an unusually high position as deputy director, was in a position to develop the so-called new human race, but he was actually an ordinary human being, and so he was fine from the strange propagation.
The man was sweating profusely and begged them not to kill him. It seemed like I had seen Serenade mercilessly killing Imelda from afar.
Of course, he promised not to kill neither Imelda nor Serenade, who had no vengeance on this insignificant fat man.
There was a fairly large water tank in the center of the facility.
“What’s this? Super large Rudach?”
Wasn’t the Rudach I’ve seen so far just a large snail? It was smaller than a child’s fist. On the other hand, the Rudach in front of me was almost as big as a human head.
“What on earth is this? Sister, didn’t I just say ‘things’ that I know well? Rudach is not a thing -”
“I heard it was definitely a flute? “It’s my first time seeing it with my own eyes.”
“The flute is correct. The thing is right too. “Both daughters of the Sea God, please look up.”
The deputy director pressed the button on the wall as if he had been waiting. At the same time, when I looked around in surprise at the light coming from the ceiling, I was speechless.
water tank.
An uncountable number of water tanks are installed entangled in unknown wires hanging from the ceiling. Inside every tank, there was ‘something’ similar to a person.
The deputy director’s voice, full of excitement and enthusiasm, was heard.
“Pipe! Did you call that thing the flute of rest? The flute is truly a magical object. Do you understand exactly what the flute’s supernormal ability is?”
“… weakens the nightmare.”
This is the story that Seungyeop heard from Riringanor during the first attempt.
“haha! It’s the correct answer, but at the same time it’s nothing. Isn’t ‘how’ missing? How on earth does a flute stop a nightmare?”
Time is urgent. Fortunately, the deputy director didn’t seem to have any intention of playing Zen questions with us.
“I guess I have to tell you a nonsense story here. I don’t know either. No, no one knows. There is no one in this world who can understand the principles of the flute! Because the flute is divine. How can an insignificant human being understand the principles of divine beings? Can a domestic cat understand quantum mechanics? Likewise, we cannot understand the power of God.”
“What on earth are you talking about-”
“But it’s not like we haven’t found out anything. At least we found out that the flute weakens the Sea God’s power! “The cessation of nightmares is none other than the result of the weakening of the Sea God’s power.”
The flute weakens the power of the sea god. As soon as I heard this explanation, I thought it was a little strange.
“The sea god is the one who blew the flute?”
“That’s right. The sea god gave humans a divine object that weakened his own power. This is the biggest mystery of the flute. Well, let’s stop talking about this. Because we don’t have enough time. Look at the ceiling again! “What do you see?”
“People trapped in a water tank… .”
“people? people? no! What kind of people are ‘those like that’? Don’t be obsessed with shapes. Those are just ‘living flutes’. It’s the greatest tool we’ve ever created! The material of your original flute was a material found nowhere else on Earth. Because of this, mass production was a difficult problem.”
“no way… .”
“research! More budget! More time! It took more than 10 years to discover that the human body could replace the flute. It was a time of hardship and great pain. But we succeeded. It’s a leap! “It’s a great leap forward.”
When the deputy director pressed the button again, the ‘living flutes’ woke up in the tank and began to flutter.
“Ouch!”
…I felt nauseous for the first time. At the same time, a strong urge arose to explode the head of the deputy director who was boasting about this ‘work’.
As if to stop the meaningless thoughts, the living flutes that came out of the water tank began to flounder. I don’t think I have normal intelligence. We need some way to control those beings.
Only then did I realize the reason for the existence of the giant Rudach in the center of the facility.
“Are you using this to control those ‘flutes’? how?”
The deputy director spoke calmly.
“You must study that method from now on.”
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what?
Unlike me, who was shaking in panic, the serenade did not hold back!
“This pig is real! “She listened to me say crazy things and-”
“Huh! Pin it! This means that the ‘wind band’ is still unfinished!”
“Sister, just stay still. So, where is it unfinished?”
“We created a ‘conductor’ to control the living flutes, but there was no way to actually control the conductor.”
“… The story is like you made a remote control to control a machine, but you can’t actually control the remote control.”
“You have excellent understanding.”