Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 289
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Episode 289 – Room 204, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Cinema’ (12)
– theater
The moment Murtanier’s head fell from the screen, the theater was filled with silence. The audience watching the movie was immersed in the movie without even breathing loudly.
Except for one boy who gets irritated.
“ah! Stop covering your eyes! “Why are you doing this?”
“Yekki! “Seungyeop, you, you, can’t sleep at night when you see something like that and you pee?”
“Mukseong. Just get your hands off me. Seung-yeop, won’t you be able to sleep now that you’re seeing a dead body?”
“under! Seriously, this damn hotel is the worst place for kids to grow up. Why do we have to see so many corpses? Do you think children will grow up normally like this? “I just have to grow up to be a crazy psychopath.”
“Mukseong. “I was born here.”
“…”
“oh! That’s why Ari is so crazy-”
“Eight!”
Ari kicked Ga-in once again. Eunsol, who was listening to this childish conversation that wasn’t even funny, got a little annoyed.
“Be quiet! It’s so much fun. This is a total hero movie. “I didn’t know Jincheol was this strong!”
Cain agreed.
“Iknow, right. Was your brother always this strong? I think I’m a lot stronger than when I fought the monkey on the first day at the hotel. “If it were my brother now, wouldn’t he have killed all the monkeys in 10 seconds?”
Eunsol muttered as if she felt regretful.
“I guess the blessing has grown. Why on earth is my blessing still like this? . The cooldown time for the Hand of Greed is full. “It’s hard to write because it’s not party time.”
On the screen, an old man called the Great General of the Patriots appeared and was praising Cha Jin-cheol’s performance while putting down his stylish scimitar sword and armor. While watching the generals around him praising Jincheol repeatedly in the conference room, Ari had an ominous thought.
‘There is nothing wrong with being strong. But the flow of thoughts is a bit disturbing. Fighting like that on the battlefield is refreshing and fun… .’
*
– Cha Jin-cheol
At the point when I killed Murtanier, the victory of the war was in favor of our allies. It is clear from the fact that not only the commander-in-chief, but also the other generals are all in an uproar, saying that the victory was greatly credited to me, and that His Majesty will give me a huge reward.
Around that time, I started to feel anxious as I remembered the movie showing time.
The fighting on the battlefield was so chaotic that I don’t know exactly how much time passed. But it’s clear that there’s still more than an hour left until the movie ends. What does this mean?
This is the end of the large army occupying the grassland! It means there is no point. I’m sure something unimaginable is waiting to torment me.
The ominous feeling began to materialize when the delegation sent from the plains arrived at the military camp.
“I inform you, the descendants of the emperor. “The sky god’s wrath has filled the plains-”
Among the delegation was a woman so old that it was a wonder she was still alive, and she was said to be the head of the grassland shaman. When the shaman came and started talking nonsense that didn’t work, one of the generals got angry.
“Hello! “Why are you doing anything other than slitting that old woman’s head right now?”
“Uh-huh! “Even if there is a war, there is no way to cut down a Shinigami!”
“May the God of heaven send down faithful hounds to the earth… . His wrath will come upon the earth with his thunderbolts… .”
It is said that if the army is not defeated immediately, the wrath of the Sky God will descend upon the earth. If you think about it ‘common sense’, you can just ignore it, but if you think of it ‘movie-wise’, you start to feel it.
Isn’t this the ‘second crisis’?
Cold sweat runs down my back. As I unconsciously grabbed the colorful scimitar sword next to me, the general sitting next to me reacted with curiosity.
“General Cha?”
“I don’t have a good feeling.”
“What do you mean?”
“General Baek, are the shamans of the grassland famous? “Is there a rumor about someone summoning some kind of demon?”
“haha! General Cha, are you kidding? “The demon-inhabited being they summoned was Murtani, and didn’t the general cut it down?”
Murtanye’s true identity was a being imbued with a demon summoned by shamans. So, will the next crisis be of a similar type?
Soon the delegation from the steppe returned.
At the strategy meeting, a decision was made to advance after relieving the soldiers’ fatigue for two weeks. It was also said that Murtaniera would distribute alcohol and meat to his soldiers as they crossed the great barrier.
It’s a reasonable decision. Even during war, when there is time to spare, the morale of soldiers must be raised. The only thing I regret is that I, who played the biggest role in obtaining the alcohol and meat, did not get to try it.
Just like in a movie, I blink once and two weeks have passed.
Honestly, this moment really sucked. No, is it such a waste to give me a piece of meat and a sip of alcohol? Does it make sense to enter the battlefield again 3 minutes after the meeting ends?
I don’t know if I should be thankful for this, but the injuries I sustained while fighting Murtanier have completely disappeared. I think it’s because two weeks passed in the movie, unlike how I felt.
I grumbled for a moment as I looked at the vast prairie that suddenly reappeared, and then I was taken aback when I realized I was on a horse. Fortunately, because the horse was such a great horse, it knew how to keep up with its surroundings, so the general did not suffer the disgrace of falling from his horse.
A magnificent sight of thousands of troops marching across the vast prairie. At the end –
The god of thunder descended on the earth.
*
The god of thunderbolts was named Kurta. The nomads of the grasslands call it that, so it’s probably correct. It was clearly a creature that looked similar to a wolf. Except that it is bigger than an elephant and wields lightning.
“Ugh!”
“M-stop it!”
“Retreat behind the wall! retreat!”
“Come on, general!”
Has it been 10 minutes since the kurta started acting crazy? In that short period of time, the imperial army was busy running away like a herd of wild boars that encountered a tiger.
Just by moving the kurta, lightning struck everywhere and the soldiers were burned black. When he lightly swung his front foot, two soldiers were crushed at once, and when he jumped lightly, he immediately narrowed the distance to over 10 meters and collapsed a barracks.
It was such a shocking sight that I didn’t even have the energy left to get angry. That being, an ordinary human army, is not an enemy that can be defeated even if thousands of people gather together. Even if the number is large, it will only increase the number of crispy roasted human meat.
You’ll hear it outside of my lines anyway, right?
“The guide, you fucking bastard! “Are you telling me to catch that?”
*
The moment the lightning-wielding wolf appeared, the theater went crazy.
“and! Are you really crazy? Beat that? Isn’t the guide going to kick this bastard? “Where are you hiding?”
“This is serious! Even Murtanie is still a human, so what on earth is that monster?”
Ari, who was looking at the screen with a mesmerized expression next to Mukseong and Songi’s shouting, asked Ga-in.
“Gain… .”
“…”
“Do you think you will win if you go? For your information, I will never win.”
“As long as possession works, it’s one shot.”
“They say it’s God’s hound? Aren’t you half god? “I think the level is extremely high.”
“Then you won’t be able to win. “It’s a bit awkward to use Kangrim.”
“Aren’t you speaking too easily?”
“No, I’m not saying it easily… . Just looking at something like that doesn’t mean he was sent out to fight, right?”
Ari sighed and nodded.
This is because not only Cain but also himself thought alike. As I have already experienced many times in the hotel, the hotel sometimes sends out enemies that cannot be defeated even if you die or wake up, or that require you to make a huge sacrifice.
Usually in such cases, the correct answer is ‘not to fight’.
“Perhaps we should prevent the summoning itself, or disrupt the summoning process and make it appear in a much weaker state.”
Let’s think about it logically.
If such a monster could be summoned for nothing, why would the forces of the steppes foolishly wait until Murtanye died and the war was on the verge of defeat?
It is clear that a huge price has been paid.
Shamans may have committed suicide en masse, royal family members may have personally sacrificed their lives, or they may have consumed extremely rare materials that could never be used again. Or maybe he paid the price for it all.
Naturally, this magical process takes quite a long time. Eunsol asked, looking at Ari.
“The delegation from the grassland earlier. “After they went back, the Great Patriotic War told us to rest for two weeks, right?”
“yes.”
“Was that a mistake? “I think I summoned that wolf in the meantime.”
“That’s what I think.”
“The person who enters next will have to actively voice their opinions at the strategy meeting after the grassland delegation returns. “I guess I should say let’s rush it right now.”
“If it was a meeting after the delegation returned, it would be when the main character killed Murtanie, right? It’s a time when the main character has a very strong voice. “If you say let’s rush it right away, the meeting will go that way.”
Ga-in sighed as he looked at his colleagues who were naturally talking about ‘Daum’. Everyone concluded that it was a failure when that overwhelming monster appeared.
What if the entire hotel party came in?
It looks like they can win if Song-i twists the wolf’s senses, Elena supports him with her ominous imagination, and Jin-cheol sticks Byeol in his snout. However, the only person in the movie now is Cha Jin-cheol, who has no inheritance and only one blessing.
Even in Ga-in’s opinion, this was a failure. I just sighed because most likely the next person to enter was myself.
*
– Cha Jin-cheol
… It felt natural.
The eyes of people around me slowly focus on me. Not only the soldiers, but even the generals looked at me, shaking. Even the old man, the commander-in-chief, who had the grandiose title of General of the Patriots, was no exception.
If there’s anyone in this world who can take down such an incredible being, it’s me. It has to be me.
A person who is in a position that ordinary people cannot reach.
A person who fights against an enemy that humans cannot defeat.
A person who can reassure the weak and fearful.
Because that is a hero, and the protagonist is a hero. That’s why I smiled and opened my mouth.
“General.”
“… General Cha.”
“Would you please pour me a drink?”
The general suddenly looked as if he was wondering what he was talking about, but filled his glass as requested. I said something I had always wanted to say at least once in my life, something I couldn’t say except at times like this.
“I’ll be back before the drink gets cold.”