Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 268
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Episode 268 – ???Ho, Room of the Curse – ‘????’ (6)
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– Han Ga-in
Four days have passed since I met Jincheol.
On the first day, after a meeting, we decided that my brother and I should join forces and go to the mountains. It may be a sudden conclusion, but the time given to participants in the cursed room is not long. If you wait recklessly, there are many times when death strikes you because it is ‘too late’.
Of course, the tribesmen knelt down and begged me to change my mind, and Old Wolf Tooth even held my leg and cried. However, Jincheol and I insisted that we both had ‘precognitive dreams from our ancestors.’
There’s an old saying that if three people lie and insist, they can create a tiger that doesn’t exist, right? I decided to add a new typo here.
Two Gods, Human Seongjo (二神人成祖): When two gods tell lies and insist, they create ancestors who do not exist.
There is no need for evidence. There is no need for a logical explanation. After all, they aren’t people who will understand if you talk about what’s going on with the hotel.
I just gritted my teeth and insisted. My brother and I had a precognitive dream, and there was a paradise for us in the mountains, and we had to go. If you won’t come along, I plan to go together.
In the end, the tribesmen were persuaded. Quite a few people started to wonder if we had really had a precognitive dream, and those who thought it was absurd also seemed to have no choice but to follow us because they had no confidence in wandering the wilderness on their own.
Four days passed like that.
“No matter how you look at it, I don’t think there are many people who would be able to force it like this.”
My brother has already told this similar story five times. There wouldn’t be many people in the hotel party who would be able to drag a tribesman to the mountains while threatening him.
“The power of the grimoire you have is a power that evokes extreme fear in the realm of the surreal, and the physical abilities and stars I have are intuitively powerful powers. “Because we are like this, these people just close their eyes and follow us.”
“I think even if a real devil were to come out of the mountains, we could kill it with just the two of us.”
“It’s similar. Another reason is that they don’t even dare to resist us. No matter how much we think about it, other people, such as Sister Eunsol, Grandpa Mukseong, and Brother Sanghyeon, can’t do it like us. “Is it possible for Elena or Ari?”
I think Elena can push things harder than we can. Of course, this is only possible if you remain sane. I think Ari can do it too.
The forced march continued for four days, but honestly, it wasn’t that difficult. So I was more worried.
“The speed is too slow. “Thanks to you, I feel comfortable.”
Jincheol has never seen even a single drop of sweat.
“Is it possible to speed up with so many old people, women, and children in the tribe?”
At that moment, a rather cold thought occurred to me. What about leaving the tribesmen behind?
If only Jincheol and I move, I am confident we can move three times faster than now. But in a world full of monsters, can these cavemen survive without the help of a new man? For the past four days, my brother and I had to fight against the ‘flashing bird’ and the ‘blood-drinking tree.’
At that time, my brother, who was looking at me closely, opened his mouth.
“Gain, don’t make up your mind hastily. “I can see what you’re thinking.”
“What are you thinking… .”
“I’m not taking them all just to be nice. “I think there must be some reason for the existence of the tribesmen.”
“It’s the reason for the existence of tribal people… .”
“I think tribal people will definitely have some role to play on stage.”
Is that really true? Or is that what you want to believe?
I had many thoughts, but I stopped. To be honest, I didn’t agree with what his brother said, but I didn’t think he would be persuaded if I told him to abandon everything and go to the mountains together.
And somewhere in my heart, there seemed to be a small part of me that didn’t want my followers to be eaten by monsters. The triangle rotated once a moment ago.
In the evening, the march stopped near a slightly murky puddle. While I was talking to my brother about what was beyond the mountains, someone opened the tent and came in without hesitation.
“Gain! “Isn’t it boring to be with the boar god all the time?”
‘Winter Flower’, the girl who came into my tent without hesitation the other day, is actually treated as my fiancé within the tribe. So even though I told the warriors not to let anyone into the tent, it had no effect at all. How can ‘just’ a warrior stop ‘God’s fiancée’!
“… Winter flowers, I’m busy right now -”
“You’re always busy, right? “You were busy yesterday, busy today, and busy tomorrow.”
Jincheol, who had listened up to this point, chuckled.
“It’s the girl I saw before. Miss, I’m sorry, but I think we’re going to talk about something really important today. “I will end the conversation early, so would you please leave for now?”
“sorry… .”
Unlike when he treated me, Winter Flower showed a fairly polite attitude in front of Jincheol and left the tent.
“Why is there such a thing as ‘setting up a lover’?”
Of course, I have no intention of living alone without dating for the rest of my life, but I also have no intention of forming a deep relationship with the beings I meet within the Chamber of Curse. This is because there is a 100% chance that they will break up and break up ‘forever’.
“Just thinking about it, there must have been a lover in the ‘original history’ of this scenario created by the hotel. Rather… . “Have you never thought about this?”
“What are you thinking?”
“Why don’t 10 naked women come into your tent every night?”
“Puetch!”
I was so shocked that I spit out the water I was drinking!
I raised my eyes and realized what kind of vulgar joke this was. There was not a trace of laughter in the corners of Jincheol’s eyes.
“Do I sound strange? Does that sound too obvious to me? What kind of being do you think you are? To these tribesmen, you are a descendant of God, a king, and an emperor. “Your spouse will be the empress, and your successor will be a prince or princess.”
“…Yes.”
“In a situation like this, don’t you think it’s normal for tribal girls to jump into your bed every night to try and fix things?”
“…”
“But that doesn’t happen and that girl just hangs around you. “Why don’t other people covet the seat next to you?”
Only then did I feel a little curious.
“It’s simple. “This is because new people are not born but descended.”
“yes?”
My brother spoke again, pointing to himself and me.
“Rookie, the role we have in this room. What kind of person is a rookie? “I was curious about that, so I inquired and got some interesting information.”
It’s an interesting story.
“First of all, all newcomers who wield mystical powers, including you and me, are not born into the tribe.”
“yes?”
“You didn’t know? Have you ever thought that a new person is born through pregnancy and childbirth like an ordinary human being? Surprisingly no. “Every rookie just falls from the sky when the time is right.”
I was momentarily speechless. A rookie falls from the sky?
“To be exact, it is said that one day, when the tribesmen woke up, a child they did not know inside suddenly arrived, radiating divine energy. “The child has no memory of his past, and the tribesmen worship him with reverence.”
“…”
“That doesn’t mean that a rookie’s marriage is meaningless. In any case, a godman gains a sacred status in the tribe while he is alive, so those who marry a godman are treated accordingly, and the children of the godman are also considered precious. But those children are not deities. God-men are only beings who come down from heaven.”
After the conversation, I checked with Old Wolf Claw and found out that everything was true. Rather, the old man seemed somewhat shocked that I had forgotten this obvious fact.
A new person is a being that comes down from the sky. You can marry a human and have children, but the heir born is not a deity, but just a human. God-men come only from heaven.
What kind of person is the new person in this mysterious room of the curse?
If a god-man came down from the sky, ‘who’ and ‘why’ are they creating a god-man and scattering them on earth?
My mind became confused as many questions swirled around me.
… Five more days passed and on the 9th day, we finally arrived near the mountain range. I met two colleagues I had missed.
*
– Elena
It’s getting more and more taesan. There really is no word better suited than this expression. How does the cursed room become more horrendous the further you go?
Even in room 202, I had the crazy experience of suddenly becoming a fish-man princess and turning into a fish, but this room was even worse.
When I first came to my senses, I screamed incessantly like a crazy person. That’s because the sight I saw as soon as I woke up was so terrible!
The whole world was full of writhing flesh. The floor was covered with lumps of flesh that resembled lips that were fluttering as if breathing, the sky was purple, and the place where I was lying was like a giant tongue.
If you don’t scream when you see this, you’re not human.
As I screamed, dozens of octopus-like creatures with wriggling tentacles appeared and surrounded me, and I was on the verge of losing my mind.
“It’s really scary. “What would have happened if it weren’t for you?”
“Beep?”
“no! “I’m saying this because I’m grateful.”
Are you saying that humans only grow when they are in crisis?
At a moment of desperation, ‘Happy Imagination’ created beautifully shining creatures like fireflies, with eyes filled with starlight and wings resembling green leaves.
Was he reacting to my fears?
The fairies soon began to use their mysterious powers to purify the monsters. As the fairies wrapped around the body of the writhing creature that was feared to appear in nightmares, the madness soon disappeared and its beauty increased.
Yes. The fairies are increasing!
Gradually, the ugliness in the world fades away. A shining creature like the embodiment of beauty that bloomed in my hands returned brightness to the murky world.
“Still, I felt a little lonely. Fairies don’t know how to talk. That’s why Seungyeop is so happy to meet you.”
“Gulp!”
Strangely, Seungyeop’s hiccups increased after meeting me.
“Are you okay?”
“yes! “It’s okay!”
“Seungyeop, it doesn’t hurt a lot, does it?”
“sister! “I’m really fine.”
I’ve been thinking about this lately, but the human body is really weak and uncomfortable. It is weak and not strong. First of all, you can’t fly, right? Weaknesses must be overcome!
“what do you think about it?”
“yes?”
“Don’t you think your body is too weak?”
“Gulp!”
When I gently touched Seungyeop’s skin while he was hiccoughing, it was as soft as expected. Of course, this soft skin is not bad, but if you have skin as hard as a beetle –
“Ahh!”
“hmm?”
Strangely enough, the part of Seungyeop’s skin that my fingers touched became hard. And Seungyeop fainted.
I quietly stood up and looked outside. At this rate, we will reach the mountain range the day after tomorrow. When you reach the mountain range, you will definitely meet your friends!
This information is certain. According to information obtained from the wriggling octopus a few days ago before making it ‘beautiful’, the grandfather ‘abandoned them’ and moved to the mountains. Of course, I don’t know why the octopuses felt such a strong sense of betrayal from their grandfather.
As I turned my head for a moment and looked at Seungyeop who had fainted, the thought from earlier came to mind again. This child is too weak. Shouldn’t I help a little more ‘actively’?