Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 26
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Episode 26 Elevator search, entering room 103. (edited)
Episode 26 Elevator search, entering room 103.
[User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom) Date: Day 9
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105
Sage Advice: 3]
As always, at 7 a.m., as soon as everyone gathered in the hotel room for dinner, the display came on.
/Today is the hotel’s closed day. Meals are provided./
“What does this mean all of a sudden?”
“Today is a holiday? They say I’m taking a break and they give me another meal? “What does this mean?”
“Hmm… I guess I can tell you about that.”
Everyone’s eyes turned to Ari at the clear voice.
“Do you know something?”
“According to the information we have gathered, hotels give these ‘safe days’ periodically. To put it simply, today is a day where there is no penalty event even if you don’t enter the cursed room.”
“In short, relax today?”
“That’s it. I understand. I had a hard time getting through two rooms. Take a break today. “This is it.”
Indeed, everyone’s expressions brightened at the rare good news from the hotel.
A perfect holiday without any terrible events!
After that, it was all smooth sailing.
Everyone was filled with anticipation, so they finished their meal in an instant, and like the day before when there was an accident at the swimming pool, everyone dispersed to the convenience facilities on the first basement floor.
The women left, saying that they should go to a bar or go swimming as a group, and my older brother and grandfather, who had been fighting until yesterday, headed to the gym, saying they were working out for the first time in a while.
Seung-yeop, who seemed to want to follow Ari in some way, became quickly disappointed when the atmosphere became a place where women played together, and disappeared somewhere.
I am…
When everyone else gets off the elevator and leaves somewhere on the basement level,
I was left alone in the elevator.
Anyway, I didn’t have a clear idea of what I wanted to do to rest, and the elevator was said to be broken from the first day.
I have a strong feeling that something is hidden.
‘It’s broken.’
What function is broken? First of all, I know that I can’t go to the 2nd or 3rd floor.
Could there be something more?
Look carefully from top to bottom.
At first glance, it is not much different from an ordinary elevator. At the top is a small display showing the floor number,
The dashboard on the right shows the 1st to 3rd basement floors, but the lights on the 2nd and 3rd floors do not come on.
And… the red button that says ‘Escape’ at the bottom of the instrument panel.
Escape button?
Normally, the button attached to the bottom of the elevator instrument panel is used when the elevator stops due to an accident.
Isn’t it like an intercom to let people inside know that I’m trapped?
When I saw the word ‘escape’, I immediately became interested.
Should I press it? I slowly placed my hand on his while keeping an eye on the status window just in case.
If there is any danger, it will warn you.
As no notification appeared even before I pressed it, I finally pressed the button.
Take it!
The next moment, the bottom of the red button suddenly flipped over and a display appeared!
Window for entering ‘number’. There is a warning written in clear letters next to it.
/Enter your password while wearing protective clothing/
Hazmat clothing? What is that? And what number should I enter?
Keeping an eye on the status window, first place your finger on the number –
[If the password for escape is incorrect, it will be incinerated]
I immediately withdrew my hand after seeing the terrifyingly bloody words. ‘incineration’.
This damn hotel really has devices to kill people everywhere.
I was dumbfounded, but at the same time, I gained insight.
This is ‘real’. I somehow managed to get something called a ‘hazardous suit’ and put it on,
If you know the ‘password’, it is a device that allows you to escape!
With this, I found another route to escape the hotel.
[My understanding of hotels has slightly increased.]
After a long time, I was happily thinking about discussing it with my colleagues, when I saw something engraved next to the small newly appeared dashboard.
It takes my breath away for a moment. Without realizing it, my heart started beating violently.
What does this mean? Who wrote it? And why are you telling me not to tell others?
While I was standing there in a daze, filled with various thoughts, the dashboard disappeared again, perhaps because a certain amount of time had passed without being touched.
What should I do?
If you think about it, it’s only been about a week since we met.
Nevertheless, because we went through such hardships together in such a short period of time, we developed a great friendship.
It is natural to trust these people and share everything you find out.
But… suddenly this thought occurred to me.
If only one person could use that escape route.
So, if there is a warning not to tell others.
Wouldn’t making that known itself be a seed of division?
First of all, I decided to bury it in a corner of my mind and left the elevator.
As I was walking down the hallway on the first basement floor with a distraught mind, someone came walking from the other side.
“You said you were looking for something, did you find anything?”
I think about this every time I hear it, but even though I’m 20 years old and he’s 16, I don’t think we talk too naturally whenever we’re alone…
However, I don’t want to fight over such a problem in this difficult hotel.
“I do not know. To what extent did you reconfirm what you originally knew? “The lights on the second and third floors are still not on.”
“Well, you probably have to go through a certain room on the first floor to get there.”
“A specific room?”
“We used to call it ‘the gateway room.’ You can enter if you achieve a certain level of success in all rooms except that room.
“A room that allows you to enter and go up to the next floor when you pass.”
“What does consistent performance mean?”
“It’s different every time. Sometimes just escaping all the other rooms is enough, but other times it requires a complete solution of one to three rooms.”
“Complete solution…”
“We’ve only made it through two rooms, but so far this party’s only goal has been to escape alive.
But… if you want to leave the hotel, you’ll have to find at least a few rooms that eventually lead to the ‘annihilation of the source of the curse’.
Only then will the ‘treasures’ that the hotel emphasizes begin to emerge, and only by using those treasures will the subsequent stages become possible.”
“It’s a mountain beyond a mountain. But in terms of the Mansion of Terror, does eliminating the source of the curse mean that you have to catch and kill the monster?
“After seeing and feeling the memories you showed me yesterday, I couldn’t believe that a ‘human’ could do anything.”
“I don’t know either. You can really ask that far, or you can think about it more comfortably.”
“Do you feel comfortable?”
“Strictly speaking, in the Mansion of Terror, our main enemy is the Great Demon of the Underworld?
Rather, in terms of the scenario, the Great Devil was just buried in the ground, and the main enemy was an old man, right?
“It might even go to the extent of destroying the elderly…”
“Then it might be a little better, but in the end, it’s something you have to try to find out.”
As we discussed our future plans, we realized that we had been talking alone for quite some time.
“Now that you think about it, didn’t you say that all women go to the bar and then to the swimming pool? “Why did you come out?”
“How can a minor drink alcohol? And I don’t really like swimming either.”
“Seungyeop must be looking for you a lot.”
“And I’ve been avoiding it well since a while ago.”
I was at a loss for words. How can you say that you are avoiding it so calmly?
Apparently, there is a boy who wants to be Romeo, but Juliet doesn’t seem to have any ideas at all.
We naturally broke up, and only then did I do the things I wanted to do on my own.
I went to the zoo that Songi mentioned, saw some strange animals, and went to a bar to drink some amazing cocktails.
We all had a great time laughing and chatting together in room 105 during meal time.
And just like that, today’s holiday is over.
By the time dinner was over, everyone had a somewhat gloomy look on their faces.
Everyone knows.
Starting tomorrow, we have to start the forced march again.
[User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom) Date: Day 10
Current location: Tier 1, Room 103 (Curse Room – Animal Farm)
Sage Advice: 3]
Mmmmmmm~~~~
What on earth is this? Is this really what comes out of my mouth?
The day after the holiday, we all entered room 103 together in a somewhat familiar atmosphere, and when we woke up after losing consciousness for a while,
I became a black cow.
I thought I had experienced all kinds of strange things, but now that something unimaginable has happened again, I’m on the verge of losing my mind.
Fortunately, a message arrived.
Silence: Wow! It’s a really sick hotel, right? Everyone, please report your status quickly!
Eunsol: I think it’s a snake…
Songi: It’s a goose…
Elena: I look like a golden retriever.
Ari Kim: Cat. Maybe a Norwegian forest?
Park Seung-yeop: Wolf! It’s so cool!
Han Ga-in: Mmmmmmmmm
Cha Jin-cheol: I am a pig… a wild boar.
Silence: You are just the way you are.
Pig: Let’s not argue about this. Oh, you changed it recently, you really are a senile old man.
Smart Snake: First, let’s figure out each of our positions and situations and talk later. They say the amount of conversation isn’t enough.
Rat King: Yes, I’ve already written more than half of it. Let’s each figure out the situation and talk about it in about two hours.
Pig: You sound like the King of Rats, it’s really crazy.
Ah… what kind of ordeal have I prepared for you this time?
I feel like I’m losing my mind already. I lost consciousness in a dizzying feeling.
A word from the author (author review)
During the transfer, it was accidentally registered temporarily. I uploaded it right away, but if you saw it right away, you can read the parts that were added later. Thank you for always.