Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 274
Only Krnovel
Episode 274 – Meeting (1)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 131
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
Around evening, the meeting began. Elena, who had been in the room without eating, also came back, having recovered a little. Naturally, as Songi held on to her Elena’s hand, her older sister, who had been scribbling something in her notebook, opened her mouth.
“I wrote down the things to check in today’s meeting, so everyone check the whiteboard.”
The following was written on the whiteboard:
1. Combining the information collected by each person.
2. Proceed to the next round.
3. Exploring the identity of the trashy hourglass.
… Everyone smiled bitterly when they saw item 3, which was the only one containing any emotion. It’s surprising, but what on earth does that damn hourglass do? Be sure to check again before today passes.
After scanning the whiteboard, the doctor took up the pen and added ‘4’.
“Let’s talk about this too.”
4. How about trying another room?
“good! Let’s talk about that too. However, I think it would be better to proceed in order, starting from number 1. In that sense, number 1! Since this is a room where everyone is divided, let’s gather some information. First, tell me about ‘Mountain Party’. I roughly heard it. “I heard you found a place similar to the ruins of some ancient civilization that was destroyed?”
The doctor, my grandfather, and I explained about the robots we saw while crossing the mountain range, the basin we discovered after breaking through the robots, and the traces of a fallen civilization. There was a story about Ari, who was being controlled by an incomprehensible force and attacking us.
Ari, who was listening with an interested expression, asked a question.
“So, 203 is some kind of post-apocalyptic world? A long time ago, human civilization flourished, but humanity was destroyed by an incomprehensible force? “Are the primitive people outside the descendants of a fallen civilization?”
This is also the hypothesis that Jincheol came up with first. However, I heard quite a few words that were unusual to just summarize.
“When I possessed you, I heard strange words. “The unknown being inside you calls us ‘descendants of traitors’?”
“They are descendants of traitors… . Are you saying that the human race outside is descended from traitors? Then, when the city was in good condition, humans rebelled for some reason and escaped, and their descendants are primitive people?”
“Let’s think about it a little more.”
I feel like I missed something. There was something I heard before I was possessed… .
“Non-human beings have no right to life, only the right to die. The same goes for traitors and their descendants.”
“huh?”
“I think you said something similar to this.”
“It’s a very crazy sentence.”
While there was silence in the hall for a moment, Eunsol tilted her head.
“Isn’t it a bit of a strange sentence? “It’s as if there was a non-human being there.”
“It’s a non-human being… . Sanghyun, do you have anything to say?”
Suddenly, the grandfather pointed to the doctor.
“I thought you said cavemen were a bit strange when you first met me?”
The doctor, who was thinking hard, opened his mouth.
“I’m not sure, but I often felt a strange feeling while treating the tribesmen. Their body structure is subtly different from that of humans. The problem is, as you all know, my ‘treatment’ method is more like magic than medicine. “As the hand penetrates the human body, the inside can only be perceived through the senses of my fingers.”
“In short, I felt something strange as I touched this and that, but it’s hard to say for sure since I didn’t see it with my own eyes, right?”
“you’re right. Why is this bone in a place like this? There are no blood vessels here? There are no muscles in this area, so how do the legs move? “I’ve had this kind of experience several times, but I’m not sure because I haven’t actually cut open a human body and dissected it.”
Gradually, talk began to emerge that ‘primitive man’ might not be human at all. Upon hearing that, Jincheol also added a word.
“Gain and I had a similar story. Everyone, do you know that the group called ‘new people’ are just as strange as the primitive people? God-men are not born among primitive people.”
“I heard it too. They say that when you wake up, a new child suddenly appears among the tribesmen. It’s not like some kind of stork brings it to you… .”
I realized this while listening, and I think that was the reason why Seung-yeop’s tribe tried to burn him to death. Why can the lineage of a miracle-working god be killed? If you kill him, a new rookie will be sent down from the sky!
I also expressed my opinion.
“It seems that primitive people are not humans. There seem to be many hidden secrets in the word ‘rookie’. Given the circumstances, I think he was referring to the new person who was the ‘descendant of the traitor’ mentioned by ‘Ari the Adversary’. Let’s go back in and check the rest. “Next time, if the doctor wants to, why don’t we do an autopsy to find out for sure?”
When the word ‘dissection’ came out, people instantly flinched. However, I think it is a necessary procedure. The doctor also nodded with a determined expression.
“I will definitely give it a try if I get the chance.”
“Also, there is something everyone must not forget. You all encountered strange monsters in the beginning, right? “I don’t think Seungyeop encountered the monster because the entire tribe was wandering around looking for food, but the rest of us must have experienced it.”
Everyone nodded.
“Those monsters had strange tentacles sticking out of them. This was confirmed through possession, and the monster’s body and tentacles are completely separate creatures. “I thought the tentacles were created by some evil entity and scattered throughout the world.”
“I felt like it was a separate creature as I was tearing it apart, but I thought it was a world overflowing with all kinds of disgusting things.”
As Jincheol nodded, Ari, who was listening, expressed an opinion.
“Was it the civilization inside the mountain range that created those tentacles?”
“well… . “Can a civilization that has already fallen have the capacity to create such tentacles?”
“It may have been a long time since it was created.”
The doctor shook his head.
“I don’t think so. Anyone who has directly observed the traces left by civilization in the mountains will understand, but there is something different about those tentacles.”
Same idea.
“I think so too. There was something very familiar about the ancient civilization that remained in the mountains. Even the robots felt familiar. “It is clearly a trace left by a human civilization that is more advanced than that of the 21st century Earth.”
“On the other hand, those tentacles are not like that at all. “This is clearly the product of some occult force.”
Eunsol’s older sister intervened.
“So are the tentacles a trace left by something that destroyed the civilization of the mountains?”
No one could answer this question. After a moment of silence, Eunsol showed us her notebook.
“I summarized the stories that have come up so far and wrote down a few ‘problems that need to be solved in the future.’ First, analysis of the identity of primitive people and new people. There is a possibility that primitive people are not humans, so dissection is necessary. Second, analysis of the identity of the tentacles. “It may be a trace of something that destroyed the ancient civilization that remained in the mountains.”
“This is how much information the ‘Mountain Party’ has gathered.”
“oh!”
Seungyeop hurriedly raised his hand.
“I saw something very strange last time!”
“wonderment?”
“If you remember, I fell into the trap that Ari set up to cut off my leg -”
“Seungyeop. Ari, who is listening, is very uncomfortable, so please change the expression to ‘Ari, the adversary’… .”
“Ari cut my leg in half and I fell, and my grandfather threw me to the side, right? At that time, I was rolling on the floor and saw a building with a big hole in it. Probably when Ari shoots her laser and burns Elena to death-”
“It’s really so uncomfortable… .”
“I think the laser destroyed the building behind it when it was being burned to death. ‘Hazmat suits’ were seen inside the building.”
Hazmat clothing! It was only after hearing that that I remembered it. I was wondering who on earth had that protective suit in this episode, and it suddenly turned out to be in Basin City?
“But when I went in, it wasn’t a protective suit. It was a completely different item that looked like a protective suit. It was white, with complicated machinery and something resembling an oxygen tank. There were hundreds or thousands of such items all over the walls. “I was playing around with it because it was fascinating, but suddenly a bomb flew out from behind me and I died.”
Clothes that look similar to protective clothing and are equipped with complex machinery and oxygen tanks. There are a few pieces of equipment that come to mind. Examples include wetsuits and spacesuits. There were hundreds of them?
Eunsol’s older sister added a sentence to the whiteboard.
“Third, the identity of the clothing that resembles the numerous protective clothing found in the ruins of the destroyed city. Let’s figure this out too.”
“Sister, I think this is the information the mountain range party found out, but what did they find out?”
After looking at each other for a moment, Noona and Songi both looked equally confused.
“that… . Ga-in oppa. No, I feel a bit sorry for others, but honestly, I have no idea.”
“You don’t know?”
“I really don’t know. After about 10 days of chasing the shadow of a strange creature in the sky, a creature that was invisible to me and only Eunsol could see, I suddenly said, ‘I succeeded in escaping!’ “I left.”
“I do not know either… . “If I were to name one thing that I felt but you didn’t, it would be the weather.”
“What’s the weather?”
“It was getting abnormally cold. So I thought that the true identity of the ‘curse’ was the Ice Age. “I had no idea about the extinction of ancient humans beyond the mountains or anything like that.”
Ice age. I think this is also a new keyword.
“But sister, what is the identity of the being in the sky? “When I saw this incredible miracle that energized the entire world just by floating around, I thought it must be a ‘prisoner’, but it didn’t really talk to us or anything.”
“I don’t know. “If he is a prisoner, the reason he didn’t talk to us might be because of ‘restrictions’.”
Before the fifth attempt, strong restrictions are placed on the prisoners and they cannot easily intervene. Until then, the prisoners also behave as set, semi-like NPCs. The only being who felt that he deviated from that principle was the ‘Lord’ of No. 104.
At that time, Elena, who had not said anything since attending the meeting, muttered in a low voice.
“purification.”
“Elena?”
“First of all, I’m sorry everyone. “It looks like he went crazy and almost had an accident.”
“I said there’s no need to worry. It wasn’t intentional, but didn’t we all go crazy a few times since we got to the hotel anyway? What’s the big deal about going crazy and attacking other people? .”
Ari giggled.
“that’s right! I don’t apologize even if I burned Elena to death with a laser. “There is no need to apologize for something like that.”
“thank you. Then, let me tell you one thing I ‘realized’. Everyone, didn’t you think that the force I used in Room 203 was ridiculous?”
“It’s absurd?”
“It’s not enough to create one powerful moth monster; it has the power to turn hundreds or thousands of people into monsters! The power to mass-produce hundreds and thousands of monsters as if they were breathing. Do you really think this is purely the power of ‘sinister imagination’?”
I opened my mouth slightly because I had never thought about something like that before. Elena responded with a stern expression.
“It is a power that far exceeds the limits of sinister imagination. Think about it. Even No. 201’s ‘Beatrix’, who was not only more skilled than me but also more powerful than me, couldn’t take down a monster that easily.”
I think I know what you mean. Looking back at the cube in No. 201 where the monster was created, Beatrix’s method of creating the monster was close to being thoroughly ‘homemade’. On the other hand, Elena covered the sky with hundreds of monsters in a period of about ten days at most, as if she were creating monsters in some kind of factory.
“I can say this emphatically. The monsters I created were the first one, myself, and Seungyeop’s… . Even ‘remodeling’. “There are three units in total.”
The old man, who was listening blankly, expressed everyone’s doubts as if they were absurd.
“Then what is the rest?”
Elena actually couldn’t answer that question easily.
“I’m curious about that too. At that time, I was not creating monsters, but purifying the twisted world with the power of fairies. “I was thinking something like this.”
Slowly, my head started to hurt.
Quite a few keywords were gathered. Cavemen and newcomers, tentacles, equipment discovered by Seungyeop, the Ice Age, the reason why Elena was able to mass-produce monsters, etc.
The problem is that I feel like I can’t find the thread that can tie these keywords together.
“ruler! Let’s stop gathering information. This is roughly what we found out from each other. Now I have to go to number 2. Of course, there is also talk about changing rooms, but we will discuss that at the end… . Let’s say you’re going to room 203, how do you want to proceed next?”