Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 249
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Episode 249 – No. 202, Room of the Curse – ‘The Little Mermaid’ (27)
– Eunsol Lee
A singing voice is heard.
The mysterious sound of music emanating from Cha Jin-cheol’s entire body tickled his ears as he stood in front of people with a water volume of 300.
How on earth does this sound come from the ‘body’ and not the mouth? Cha Jin-cheol himself didn’t seem to understand very well.
Even though a significant number of them moved to Sea God Island due to the grandfather’s scheme, the number of so-called new humans in the laboratory was not small. Now, all those people have turned into soldiers who follow Cha Jin-cheol.
Due to Cha Jin-cheol’s control, the ‘leap humans’ are moving to Seoul without any hesitation, taking their weapons and equipment and boarding the vehicle at the research institute. At times like these, I felt subtly envious of people who seemed to have no thoughts.
Because our hearts were anxious and complicated until this very moment.
The new plan is, quite simply, to relieve the sea god’s anger. It may be easy to say this, but in fact, there are a number of quite serious problems.
The first problem is whether Cha Jin-cheol can hold out. At the point where I gave up on releasing Elena’s seal because I didn’t have time to visit Sea God Island, Jincheol is the only one with a body that has the durability to withstand the erosion of Conductor Rudach. However, the erosion of Rudach occurs both mentally and physically.
As a result, from the time he was transplanted with Rudach to the present, Jincheol muttered that he could hear ‘voices’ endlessly. Songi is right next to me and uses the bracelet every time the cooldown expires, but how long can I last?
The second problem is whether the sea god can be satisfied. We who ‘act’ revenge do not have the ability to bring about the end of humanity like the Sea God, nor do we have the intention to do so. Taunting the management bureau means giving a huge blow to the headquarters and forcing them to give up the ‘project’, rather than exterminating the high-ranking officials from the very bottom.
Will the Sea God be satisfied with this level of revenge? Doesn’t the sea god think this is a ridiculously insufficient amount of revenge?
The third problem is the fact that we have to deal with the administration itself. At best, opening a research center on the coast is a completely different matter than going to the Korean branch of the management office in Seoul. Can you win?
The most worrisome entity is none other than unmanned weapons. Many of the abilities possessed by the Hotel Party are meaningless in the face of the Bureau’s unmanned weapons. Because you can’t be possessed or hallucinate.
It’s not that we don’t have our own answers to these problems.
The answer to the first question is simple; the time Jincheol has to endure is not very long. Due to the nature of the plan, Cha Jin-cheol, who will charge into the management bureau along with those who jumped, is scheduled to be oxidized anyway. All you have to do is hold out until you reach Seoul. Until then, Songi will help you as much as possible.
The answer to the second question is summarized as ‘The sea god himself seems to be hoping for the end.’ According to the story Gain heard in the first attempt and the story Elena heard in the second attempt, the sea god wants this room to end. Therefore, if we give the minimum amount of revenge, if we present an answer that the hotel can accept, wouldn’t the God of the Sea also accept it?
The biggest problem is the third. The answer to this did not come to mind easily. Is there a solution if the Bureau deploys hundreds or thousands of drones to kill us?
Ari and Ga-in left for another location to find an answer to this. In the end, it would be in their hands. If you fail there… .
“Should we all run away and play the flute when the sea god comes?”
“yes?”
“no.”
I decided to stop thinking about ominous things.
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[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 107
Current location: Tier 2, Room 202 – Curse Room ‘The Little Mermaid’
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
At this point, when all my colleagues are heading towards Seoul, why on earth am I hiking with Ari?
“what do you think about it?”
“what?”
“Eunsol’s plan.”
“I’m more curious about why we’re hiking than that.”
“I don’t know. What on earth is this ‘management bureau’s fault’ that Eunsol spoke of? Efforts to improve humanity biologically? “Could that be wrong?”
“No, where on earth is this?”
“It could end up being a failure. From what I can see, the management of Room 202 made a huge mistake. The biological characteristics of Rudach’s colony were not sufficiently taken into consideration. Since Jincheol only controls one powerful Rudach entity, he gains control over the entire new human race, right?”
“There is no road around? “Isn’t it not just a case of going off the hiking trail, it’s just a matter of distress?”
“But this is just the point at which we know the answer through round-the-clock play. It was a difficult problem for the management to understand until they experienced it. “These failed attempts pile up and eventually push people’s limits – watch your step!”
“Ahh! “What is this again?”
“There are originally snakes in the mountains. And listen to me.”
“You too, please listen to me!”
There was silence around for a moment. I sighed, but this time I decided to match Ari’s rhythm.
“Okay, okay. As you said, the management bureau must have had thoughts as well. I often thought about this while having a hard time at the hotel. “This world is overflowing with monsters, but humans are truly such weak creatures.”
“It’s a long-standing concern of the management bureau. Regardless of faction.”
“I understand the effort and intention to overcome it. In the process, snails were used indiscriminately for experimental purposes. I understand that too. Because we eat cows and pigs for every meal. I also heard that cows and pigs are smart animals in their own way. However, I think the fundamental direction is strange.”
“Fundamental direction?”
“Sorcery, sorcery, or association with supernatural creatures. Wouldn’t it be better to focus on the path of ‘science’ rather than these things?”
“I know what you mean. Certainly, that is one of the fundamental differences between the containment faction and the control faction. However, it is actually a vague distinction as to how much is science and how much is magic. “The beginning of astronomy was astrology.”
I understand this.
In a world where gods and demons, magic and supernatural powers live and breathe, is it meaningful to distinguish between magic and science? Depending on one’s perspective, the part of the forces that make up the universe that we can understand may be called science, and the part that we cannot understand may be called magic.
As I thought about the current conversation and yesterday’s meeting, a new question arose.
“Ari, it looks like you still don’t like your sister’s plans.”
“that’s right.”
“Then why did you decide to do it? In fact, if it weren’t for you, my sister’s plans would have been buried.”
Last night, when my sister brought up the plan to ‘attack the Bureau’, many of us opposed it. Regardless of the issue of values, I had no confidence in defeating the Management Bureau.
To be more precise, I was not confident that I could overcome the ‘unmanned weapons army’.
So, surprisingly, it was because of Ari that my sister’s plan, which was almost immediately buried, came true. If Ari suddenly limited himself to the Korean branch, he was saying that there was a way to bring down the management bureau.
Ari, who was silent for a moment, muttered with an expression filled with complicated thoughts.
“The answer the student wants and the answer the test taker wants may be different.”
This is the answer the test taker wants… . The answer the hotel wants?
“The answer Eunsol came up with is an answer that deviates from the human framework. And the being who created the hotel was at least not human.”
“…”
“It’s an answer I don’t agree with, but I thought it was an answer the hotel would like.”
Funny enough, the moment I heard this, I felt a strong sense of kinship. Isn’t this something that Korean academy teachers like to say?
Understand the author’s intention!
People taking a test sometimes have to write down the answer the test taker likes rather than the answer they want. I think Ari had that exact mentality.
“Let me add a little something to that.”
“What if we do more?”
“It’s time to finish this room. “It feels like it’s worth ending.”
At about that time, Ari suddenly stopped.
“Here it is.”
I couldn’t see anything with my eyes. Is there something that only Ari feels? Suddenly, Ari grabbed my hand and made me stand next to him.
“Can’t you feel something?”
“… It’s frustrating.”
“stuffy? “It’s not refreshing or cool, but it’s stuffy?”
“It feels like something very heavy is pressing on me.”
Ari’s expression, which had not hidden his mischievous expression the whole time climbing the mountain, darkened slightly for the first time.
“okay… .”
“Did I feel something strange?”
“no.”
Ari muttered something strange and touched the air. The next moment, an opaque door suddenly appeared in the air!
Strange. On the other side of the door was a place that looked like a small house made of small, unknown trees. I saw a dark passage behind the house.
There was no handle on the door. It looked like a door that couldn’t be opened from the direction we were in, but could only be opened from the other side.
“What kind of magic is this? What is that shrine? “I think there’s someone inside?”
Instead of answering the question, Ari continued to mutter strange things.
…
Is it slowly over? Ari suddenly becomes quiet and looks at me.
“Do you remember what my grandfather and I said before? “The reason I came to the hotel.”
“You said your goal was to find the power to stabilize reality.”
“Have you ever thought about that?”
“I just thought it was something I couldn’t understand, so I passed it on.”
“The need for something to stabilize reality means that the reality we live in is not stable.”
That’s what I heard.
“I’ll tell you what it means. Can you see the person on the other side of the door?”
As he said, near the wooden building on the other side of the door, there was a person standing as still as a stone. Relatively small in stature, not female. Anything beyond that was difficult to find out because the door was opaque.
“Possess that person and open the door. “Then it’s over.”
As I was approaching the door as instructed, Ari said something.
“Never cross the tunnel.”
“hmm?”
“Do you see the house beyond the door? Never cross the tunnel behind that house. “If you cross over, in many ways everything will end.”
Slowly, my consciousness floats into the air. I guess I’ll just be doing the same thing again that I’ve already done dozens of times… . This possession was subtly different from usual. Strangely enough, I had the illusion that I was possessed by a body that was far away, very far away.
When I came to, I woke up on the other side of the door.
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