Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 270
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Episode 270 – ???Ho, the cursed room – ‘????’ (8)
[±úÁü : Ttuenhem{ongjan*
Jiang: 126 zuori
Cheembeoldangkkang: Jyanengjjuoli-lamnyeorangdant
Pyeongtibyeonbegwon: X]
– Han Ga-in
The presence of the ‘army’ approaching in the sky, we remained silent in front of it and made one decision. In any case, we decided to gather everyone’s strength to deal with Elena!
It’s not easy. This was because, just looking at the number of monsters, it seemed like there was no answer. Even if Cha Jin-cheol was fine, it is not a number worth trying to do anything with force. However, if Elena is unable to use the Mysterious Index due to the blessing disappearing, I don’t think there will be any way to resist my ‘Magic Book’.
However, the memory of possessing Elena, who had been turned back by the zero-dimensional eyes in the past, held me back. If you possess someone who has been consumed by madness beyond the degree, that madness will also affect the possessed person. In the end, thinking that possession was a last resort, I approached Elena.
Elena’s condition was truly strange.
*
“I missed you all!”
Elena, who flew through the sky, casually came up to us and hugged us once. She had never been hugged by such a beautiful woman in her life, so her face would have turned red from embarrassment, but cold sweat broke out due to nervousness rather than embarrassment.
The Elena I knew wasn’t the type to hug someone so eagerly just to see her, and the insect wings wriggling on her back strongly stimulated a sense of strangeness. What made the situation even more serious was the approximately 300 bizarre moths waiting in the back.
“… nice to meet you.”
“Elena, you must have had a hard time.”
After exchanging general greetings, we started chatting about various things as if we were ‘as usual’. Of course, we had no choice but to focus on Elena’s story rather than our own.
“When I first woke up, I was so shocked! The fact that the whole world was a writhing mass of flesh! Can you believe it? “The sky was even purple and I was on my tongue.”
“Purple sky… . Flesh writhing in… . “You mean?”
“yes. “Aren’t you surprised, Mr. Gain?”
“No, I was surprised. “If you’re not surprised by something like that, you’re not human.”
“Miss Elena! Does the ground still look like writhing flesh? The land is-”
“Jincheol, you’re fine now. Because my ‘fairies’ purified them all. However, when I saw it from a distance before I arrived, it was squirming.”
“Elena! I’m misunderstanding something! The floor is made of intact dirt and stones, and the sky is blue. “We are in a normal world!”
“hmm. is that so?”
The atmosphere just got a little colder. Elena didn’t really refute Cha Jin-cheol’s words, but suddenly continued speaking in a childlike tone.
“Cain! That guy seems a little crazy, so be careful. Because this world is somehow dangerous. “It’s a place where it’s not strange even if people go crazy.”
“…Elena, no. I’m okay. Tell me more. What else happened?”
“Octopus~! There are dozens of wriggling octopuses sticking out, right? I was scared and tried to run away, but they chased me and I was so scared… . I was crying and begging and begging for someone to come and help me. “Then why didn’t you help me?”
Suddenly the atmosphere changed and the moth behind me lifted me into the air. Now, Elena said she was ‘seriously’ asking me why I didn’t help her when she was in crisis.
I can feel the buzzing atmosphere.
I thought as I looked at Jincheol, who was panicking and wondering if he should attack, Sanghyun, who seemed to be paying close attention to Elena’s words, and Grandfather, whose hand was slowly moving towards the gun.
Strangely enough, I felt like I knew the answer I needed right now.
“Sorry. “I was also avoiding octopuses, so I didn’t think about saving anyone.”
Let’s just shut up and say we’re sorry.
It’s a vast primordial continent. We don’t even know where you are, so how do we know you’re in crisis? And even if we know, how can we find you and help you?
— Tuk!
Funny enough, the answer seemed to be liked so it was released. The conversation continued again.
“Don’t make that mistake next time! But I’ll take a look at it. Because while I was alone, I figured out how to make a fairy. look! “It’s really pretty, isn’t it?”
Afterwards, the expressions on everyone’s faces as they listened intently to Elena’s strange, cruel fairy tale-like story became increasingly dark. This is because I understood that the identity of the ‘swarm of wriggling octopuses’ was none other than ‘primitive people’ and that the fairy purified the swarm of octopuses.
Eventually, the grandfather, who understood the flow of the conversation, was about to take out the gun and open fire, but the doctor stopped him and joined the conversation, laughing.
“Miss Elena. “Can I borrow Ga-in for a moment?”
“yes? Sure! But is this something I shouldn’t hear?”
“haha! “Can I say it’s a personal story?”
The doctor left Elena’s ‘care’ to two other people and then started dragging me around.
“What were you thinking during the conversation?”
“I’m out of my mind. “I feel like I’ve completely come back.”
“The conversation earlier was okay. “You talk in a way that you just accept Elena’s words rather than refute them. Are you used to conversations like this?”
“That can’t be right.”
“Well done. He is suffering from extreme delusional disorder and seems to have created his own world, so if you try to destroy his world, he will react aggressively. “Do it like you do now.”
“Are you telling me to tell you?”
“I don’t think the elder or Jincheol will be able to calm Elena down and induce her to behave appropriately. “Gain is the right candidate.”
I don’t know what to say, but I felt one thing. Now, the doctor’s expression was not dark at all. On the contrary, she was quite bright.
“I thought it was a completely hellish situation, but it’s amazing to see the teacher’s expression light up.”
“The situation is much better than before, so is there any reason to be dark? “Although our mind is a little strange, a powerful comrade has appeared who can recognize us and resist the robots in the mountains.”
*
[±úÁü : Ttuenhem{ongjan*
Jiang: 129 zuori
Cheembeoldangkkang: Jyanengjjuoli-lamnyeorangdant
Pyeongtibyeonbegwon: X]
Three days have passed.
Over the past three days, 80% of my job has been to hold on to Elena, who has wandered off, and to set her up. Other people felt uncomfortable even being close to Elena, and only the doctor occasionally came over to check on the situation and took care of the remaining 20%.
Of course, this does not mean that other people played. My grandfather and Jincheol were busy training the tribesmen to move in and out of the border area so that they could attract the robot’s attention as planned.
As training began, Elena made our expressions dark as she strongly expressed her desire to ‘purify’ the tribesmen. Luckily, after me, she and Elena were on good terms. When the doctor said that these ‘octopuses’ are smart octopuses that have been trained to listen to us, she backed off as if she understood.
“Mr. Gain. “I have a simple request.”
“What is it?”
“I think the fairies are really hungry these days… . Look at this. “It’s all just bones, right?”
“Is that so? “Moths, or rather fairies, all have chubby bellies.”
“There are so many ‘octopus’, can’t you just give some to the fairies? “About 300?”
“Absolutely not.”
“No, even though there are that many, you can’t even give 300? “My fairy is much more capable!”
“Didn’t I say never? “All those octopuses have a role to play.”
“What is your role?”
“…Emergency food to eat when climbing a mountain? “If you eat that in advance, you won’t have anything to eat when you climb the mountain.”
“aha! Ga-in had everything in mind, right?”
“of course.”
“okay. “I’ll tell the fairies to be patient.”
Elena left the tent, perhaps intending to tell the fairies to be patient. As soon as she left, the gray-haired boy sitting across from her exclaimed.
“and! If the tribesmen hear it, they will be really surprised. “I want to record the conversation now and play it to you.”
“It’s okay because there is no such thing as a tape recorder in this world. By the way, Seungyeop, are you okay these days?”
“sure.”
“… It’s really okay, right?”
“If it’s not okay, can you return it to its original state?”
“It’s too much for me, but maybe the hotel will fix it if I go out.”
“So I decided to just think it was okay.”
I couldn’t think of anything more to say.
The boy sitting next to me, a rock boy with a strange appearance that looked as if stones had replaced his skin, showed a surprisingly resolute attitude. No matter what happens, I still have faith that if I just escape, the hotel will take care of everything.
The memory of reuniting with Seungyeop two days ago is still vivid in my memory.
This is because Elena took me in front of a huge cocoon, saying I would show her ‘someone I know well’. When the cocoon burst and Seungyeop, transformed into a rock boy, came out, I almost screamed.
“What on earth happened to you?”
“Brother, tonight won’t be enough if I start to properly unravel what I’ve been through. Is this room really amazing? “Even before I met Elena, it was just hell.”
“It seemed like it. As soon as I realized the state of the room, I was most anxious about you. Plus, hearing Elena keep saying that she ‘saved’ you made me even more anxious.”
The gray stone boy chuckled and answered simply.
“But, surprisingly, that statement is true.”
“What?”
“It’s true that Elena saved me. She said that if Elena hadn’t come to that point, she might have died a much more horrendous death. “Compared to that, it’s not a big deal that her skin has become a little harder now.”
I paused in surprise. Was it true that Elena ‘saved me’? Come to think of it, didn’t she say that Elena was hanging on her pole when she found herself with Seung-yeop hanging on her pole?
“What on earth happened to you?”
“Go out. Go out and talk. I really have a lot to say. However, looking at the atmosphere, it looks like we will enter the mountain range tomorrow. By the way, who else are there besides us? “I wonder if Eunsol, Songi, and Ari are doing well.”
“I have a feeling I’ll go out and see it.”
*
The doctor’s analysis that the situation had improved with Elena’s arrival proved to be true, despite everyone’s anxiety as they watched Elena flying in the sky.
First of all, the biggest thing is that there is now someone capable of dealing with robots. In the past three days, I did my best to inform Elena that there was an enemy threatening us on that mountain, and she accepted this and strengthened her fighting spirit.
Additionally, the ‘religiosity’ of the tribesmen also deepened.
This is because the doctor deceived the tribesmen by saying that Elena was ‘an angel sent down by our ancestors.’ The tribesmen, who had no idea about the fact that the angel had tried to ‘purify’ them or the identity of the moths flying across the plains, believed the lie without a single doubt.
Stronger military power, rational planning, and higher morale.
I feel like every situation is smiling at us. We all decided together that we would climb the mountain range tomorrow morning. Elena, who usually only says crazy things, said ‘Good luck!’ at that time. She smiled happily.
At that time, Seungyeop told an ominous story.
“This feels somehow cheap. “When things seem to be going well like this, they usually end up failing.”
“Ah-oh! Seungyeop, why are you saying something like that? “I really need to squeeze it, but my head has become so hard that I can’t even squeeze it!”
Everyone laughed happily while listening to the grandfather’s scolding. Meanwhile, the doctor looked at Elena and whispered in her ear.
“By the way, Gain.”
“yes?”
“Would you like to give a brief speech early tomorrow morning?”
“A speech?”
“After all, aren’t more than half of the tribe’s people serving Lord Cain? It seems like Ga-in’s words are going to work well. One way or another, the fact that they had to perform ‘strange rituals’ around the ‘Crimson Mountains’ seemed to frighten them.”
“Let’s give it a try.”
*
“Listen! Our ancestors gave a revelation last night. “We announce that the march of suffering has finally ended and the time of glory has arrived!”
“Waaah!”
“There were difficult years after being driven out of paradise. 1000 years of hunger! 1000 years of being chased by monsters! 1,000 years of falling asleep exhausted from fear every night! How long has it been? rejoice You will escape despair!”
There were people who watched and admired the shouts of the tribesmen that made heaven and earth go away.
“wow! Ga-in, your speech is really good, right?”
“Except the whole thing is bullshit.”
“Isn’t that even more amazing? “How can you say such bullshit about a precognitive dream given by ancestors so naturally in that situation?”
Cha Jin-cheol quickly moved his hand and covered Park Seung-yeop’s mouth. Of course, Cha Jin-cheol agreed that that speech was nothing but bullshit, but since Elena was next to him, who was moved to tears by the bullshit, there seemed no need to provoke him.
The old man chuckled and informed everyone.
“done. “By the way, that guy is definitely not normal.”
“Isn’t it strange that ‘normal’ can be maintained in a place like this?”
“That’s what you said, Sanghyun. “Let’s go now.”