Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 257
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Episode 257 – Party Time – Sanctuary of Blessing, Search (3)
– Park Seung-yeop
As if to give me time to understand, the sponsor paused and touched the crystal.
“I understand? A story about inevitability?”
“yes.”
“Then let me ask the first question again. What is the essence of luck? “Don’t think about things like quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle, just focus on what I said.”
I reflected on the stories my sponsor told me. From the perspective of the transcendent, there may be no true coincidence in the world.
A man who won the lottery yesterday probably believes he was lucky when he bought the ticket. However, in the view of the omniscient, isn’t the man’s fate of winning the lottery decided at the moment heaven and earth were created?
In that case, the essence of the ‘luck’ we talk about is ultimately ‘not knowing.’ In a world where everything is decided, ‘luck’ is a word created by people who do not know what will happen next because they do not know what has been decided.
“do not know? ignorance?”
“That’s right! In a deterministic world, luck is ignorance. We call the gap in knowledge about beginning and end, cause and effect, luck. If the ‘unforeseen result’ resulting from this ignorance is favorable to you, it is good luck, and if it is unfavorable, it is bad luck.”
Little by little, my head started to hurt.
— Perfect!
The boy snapped his fingers. The scenery in all directions instantly transformed into a pristine Earth.
“Once there was darkness in the world. To the primates who first began to burn the fire of intelligence in the ancient land, all things were incomprehensible. “Because nothing was known, anything could happen.”
I see a world full of darkness. This darkness did not come from the absence of sunlight, but from the absence of knowledge.
I do not know.
I do not know.
I do not know.
I don’t know why the sun rises and sets. Why does the moon rise at night? Why is that huge creature so strong? Why do people die if they eat this plant? Why is this stone shiny and why is this water salty?
nothing. don’t know anything Since I didn’t know anything, I just hoped for luck.
I prayed that the sun would rise tomorrow. I prayed that the weather would not be too hot or too cold. I prayed that the plant I was putting into my mouth was not poisonous. I hoped there was something shiny inside the stone hitting the floor.
“This is the essence of the blessings and ‘luck’ you have earned. Believe it. Just believe it. Just hope that the unpredictable future you will experience under the veil of ignorance, where you cannot know anything, will be to your advantage. Don’t tell me. The essence of luck is ignorance… .”
With one breath, 100 or 1,000 years pass. I closed and opened my eyes a few times, and before I knew it, there were decent-looking buildings and people walking around in soft clothes.
“There was a leap. There was a great sage. As early as 1643, perhaps the greatest man in human history was born in England, and everyone called him Isaac Newton.”
There was a huge brick building, and a man walking in front of it.
“The light stretched out. The light filled with ‘knowledge’ stretched out towards the whole world. The shadow of incomprehensibility that had filled the world began to disappear. This was certainly a great blessing to mankind, but as a result, the power that came from ignorance lost its strength.”
There was a boy. No, is it a boy?
I saw countless shadows on the person standing in front of me.
Some shadows resembled shamans who walked the ancient land. Some shadows resembled priests admonishing the size of the overflowing Yellow River amid heavy rain. Some shadows resembled alchemists who walked the streets avoiding crosses in the Middle Ages.
“Do you understand now? What power do you wield? If the purification of the knowledge that humans have accumulated over tens of thousands of years is the light that illuminates the cave called the world… . Luck is that gap of light. “The power to guide the ‘unknown events’ that occur in the abyss of the cave to your advantage.”
“Mo, I don’t know. “I’ve been seeing too many confusing scenes since a while ago.”
“Go back to the beginning. If you accept My power, you will lose all light and return to darkness. Walk through the world in a veil of ignorance. Of course, no one can know what you will do if you just ‘go back’. So, before you go back, give yourself an order. “A command that cannot be refused even if the sky falls and the earth splits!”
The space began to shake. When she realized that the time had come to part ways with her benefactor, she urgently cried out:
“So what kind of power is it? “I have no idea -”
“I explained everything. If you try it, you’ll know right away. FYI, if possible, try to use it when your colleagues are not around. Give ‘orders’ as clearly as possible.”
“yes?”
“You said strong reinforcement would increase ‘predictability,’ right? “The key is ‘order,’ so pay as much attention as possible to this part!”
“what?”
“See you next time~! “It will take a very long time!”
“hey! hey! “Please explain further!”
The spirit descends. I thought before losing consciousness.
It seems like my patron is definitely a god, but he must be a god with a strange mind!
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[Park Seung-yeop (Lucky) -> Obtained ‘The Beginning of Man’.]
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– Kim Ari
“You’ve taken great care of your form.”
“yes?”
“A guy like this always makes a big fuss with a kid like him.”
“yes?”
“no. “I didn’t say anything to you, so let’s continue what we were saying.”
The sponsor of ‘Secret’, a blessing I met after a long time, was dressed like a neat office worker this time. Are the gears and clocks turning everywhere his favorite?
“I’m glad it worked out well.”
“Are you talking about room 202?”
“It was fine there, but the part I’m talking about goes back further. “I was worried that the master of wisdom would find out what you were hiding and that you would suffer.”
“…”
“If there had been more lies, we would have both become tired, but it was good to take a straightforward approach by telling people what to say appropriately. “Anyway, your biggest crisis has passed.”
“thank you.”
“By the way, I honestly thought you would be eliminated right away.”
“…”
“You are an outstanding individual, but there seemed to be a high possibility that the party would split. Also, my blessings were somewhat distorted due to the four winds.”
“Is the blessing distorted?”
“Didn’t you feel it? Reflect on the effectiveness of the ‘secret’ you have gained. It is of almost no use within the Chamber of Curse, and is a power optimized only for exploring the secrets of the hotel. “It’s an added bonus that it has a feature to keep colleagues in check, which doesn’t really mean anything anymore.”
“I sometimes thought that performance was ambiguous… .”
“Because you hoped for your mother’s resurrection, it gave you the strength to find hidden elements. Also, because I was concerned about disputes with my colleagues, I gained the power to keep them in check. Well, this also has its own advantages.”
Its own advantages?
“I’ll give you some fun powers. “I have prepared an ability that suits your personality quite well and will be quite useful even inside the Chamber of Curse.”
“thank you. however… .”
“however?”
“Maybe we’ll go into room 203 next time?”
“…”
“But think about it. Actually, the order in which you enter the rooms in a hotel doesn’t matter, except for the last room, the gateway room, right? “There is no problem whether you go to room 204 or room 205.”
“…”
“The unidentified voice that Seung-yeop heard in room 201 and Seung-yeop’s sponsor both warned of the dangers of room 203. It looks like this room could be quite dangerous for Seung-yeop… . Of course, maybe not.”
“As you know, I cannot answer questions about progress.”
“Then let’s just say it’s just me talking to myself. I’m thinking of suggesting that we skip room 203 altogether. Is it really necessary to go to a room that is said to be dangerous? Rooms 204, 205, and 206! “Room 207 seems to be the gateway room again, so even if we exclude it, there are three more rooms -”
“First floor.”
“yes?”
“Let’s talk about the first floor.”
“…”
“What was the layout of the first floor like? Room 105 is a space for relaxation. “Room 106 was the mission room, right?”
“I did.”
“It wasn’t all the curse room.”
“Yes.”
“Room 104 was the last of the cursed rooms, right?”
“yes.”
“Wasn’t it a bit difficult? Compared to other rooms?”
“It was difficult. The prisoner was a bit cunning. So we only gave up room 104 on the first floor.”
“okay. It seems like the last question was a bit difficult. This is the end of the story. “Just go downstairs.”
The patron slammed the cup on the table. I thought as I felt my eyes slowly closing.
I learned two things.
First, among the remaining rooms on the second floor, there is one that is not a cursed room.
Second, the final cursed room is particularly difficult.
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[Ari Kim (Secret) -> Obtained ‘Girl with no presence’.]
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[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 109
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
“Still, I’m glad you woke up right away.”
Jincheol immediately woke up in the sanctuary. I immediately understood the situation because something similar had happened several times. It seems like no contribution was used to strengthen it.
“강력한 강화를 준다는데, 어떤 능력인지 벌써 궁금하다! 허 참, 후원자인지 뭔지 하는 놈이 설명을 애매하게 해서 말이지.”
“어우~! 형이 늦게 깨어났으면, 남은 사람들끼리 기절한 사람을 옮겨야 하잖아요? 승엽이나 아리야 쉽지만 형은….”
“이 자식이! 인마! 나는 널 세 번이나 옮겼어!”
웃고 떠들며 강화를 위해 기절한 승엽이와 아리를 105호로 옮긴 후, 나머지 사람은 다 함께 로비로 모였다. 누나가 제법 즐거운 표정으로 말했다.
“이제 뭘 해야 할지 알지? 대충 놀고먹으면서 틈틈이 탐색도 해봐. 탐색이 꽤 중요하긴 하지만 휴식도 잊지 말고.”
물론이다. 호텔에서 해야 할 일은 언제나 넘쳐나지만, 그 일만 하다간 언제 쉬겠는가? 인간은 심지어 전쟁터에서조차 쉴 때는 쉬어야 하는 생물이다.
… 그리고 1시간이 흘렀다.
분명히 오전에 동료들과 헤어질 때만 해도 충분히 쉰 후에 탐색에 나설 생각이었는데, 막상 헤어지고 보니 별로 할 일이 없었다. 자연스럽게 2층으로 올라와서 호텔을 뒤지고 있는 나 자신을 발견했다.
2층 복도, 사방에 걸린 그림을 뒤적이다 보니 뒤에서 나를 부르는 소리가 들렸다.
“그림 뒤에 무언가 숨어있을 것 같으십니까?”
제법 공손한 존대, 하지만 이 말투의 주인은 죽어있던 기간은 빼더라도 나보다 20살 가까이 많은 사람이다.
“호텔이니까 뭔가 있을 것 같아서요. 참, 의사 선생님. 너무 부담스럽게 말하지 않으셔도 -”
“제게는 이게 편합니다. 더군다나 생명의 은인 아니십니까.”
본인이 더 편하다니 더 할 말이 없었다.
“거울의 방. ‘거울’이라는 단어로 미뤄보면 어딘가 투명한 것 뒤편에 있지 않을까 싶긴 하죠?”
“축복의 성소가 정문을 통해 연결되었던 것처럼 비슷한 방식이 아닐까 생각 중이에요.”
“It is possible. “Let’s look at the pictures together.”
Soon a clanking sound was heard from the side.
“Ari is the best at finding things like this, but she’s passed out right now.”
“Is it because of the blessing ‘secret’?”
“yes. Ari also found the sanctuary of blessing. “At the time, I thought it was a coincidence, but now that I think about it, it must have been a blessing in disguise.”