Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 291
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Episode 291 – Room 204, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Cinema’ (14)
– Cha Jin-cheol
The moment the lightning struck me, a storm of light that seemed to set the whole world on fire filled the surroundings.
Nothing, nothing was visible. Just like a person hit by a flashbang, I just trembled and trembled in the violence of light that filled my entire vision.
I only realized one thing clearly. The fact that I am alive right now is not normal.
It is true that my body, strengthened by the blessing of courage, has durability that surpasses that of humans, but it clearly has its limits. At least it’s not like I can think sanely while being burned alive by lightning like this.
Something incomprehensible happened to my body.
The light slowly fades away. At the same time, my general senses began to return.
An acrid smell filled my nose, and my entire body was vibrating up and down. The half-burned body of the kurta was still clinging to life.
My body had turned pitch black. Something as black and hard as obsidian scales replaced the skin on the entire body. Changes also occurred in the eyes and ears.
As I climbed up to the head of the kurta in confusion, I heard a familiar voice.
‘…Who the hell are you? ‘Even though half of my body was on fire, you were fine and I ended up like this.’
“Is it a kurta?”
‘Then who do you think it is?’
“Man, you don’t know, but there’s another person talking to my head.”
‘…’
“I’ll end this tough life.”
‘Lord of the sky… .’
At the last moment, God’s hound died searching for its owner.
As soon as Kurta’s skull exploded, a bright blue light rose from the dog’s body toward the sky. Maybe someone in the sky took away the hunting dog’s soul.
Of course, anything more than that is none of my business.
“Waaah!”
A shout that shakes the heavens and earth!
The battlefield was filled with the thrilled voices of soldiers who were in despair as they were trampled by the shuddering incarnation of violence, Kurta.
How on earth should I express my feelings at this moment? pleasure? Is it rewarding? Joy?
I couldn’t possibly express it in one specific word! My heart was pounding like crazy, and a condensed emotion that I had never felt in my life tickled my throat.
“Aaaah!”
I roared like crazy without realizing it, and the soldiers followed suit and roared along with me. I probably won’t forget this moment for a long time.
However, one worry arose in my mind.
*
As I returned to the barracks of the Commander-in-Chief, General Patriot, my worries became reality.
The soldiers on the battlefield are tens to hundreds of meters away from me. They just shouted when they saw Kurta dead, thinking that I had performed a miracle.
This means that most of the time I did not see what state my body was in. Things changed when I entered the general’s barracks, where he could observe me much closer.
The generals who had been shouting as soon as I entered started to look at my strangely transformed body and started to look at me with their mouths half open, not knowing what to do.
How on earth should I explain this?
I kept thinking about it as I came, but I couldn’t come up with a clear answer. So she decided to just use the excuse of being dead.
“General Cha! What is that body… .”
“Kurta.”
“What?”
“Kurta put a curse on me. “I dared to hold you accountable for showing your teeth to the Sky God’s loyal dog.”
“Well, like that!”
I wondered if this bullshit would work even when I said it with my own mouth, but it did. The generals who were looking at me with a fearful expression soon approached me and began to comfort me, saying that there would be a way to fix things when I returned to the imperial capital.
The generals thought that the absurd monster named Kurta was a wolf the size of an elephant who wielded lightning. Even if it had the power to curse humans, it was worth doing.
As the atmosphere relaxed slightly, the Patriotic General smiled at me.
“General Cha, come here and have a drink. “Your body has changed, but you can still drink alcohol, right?”
… a glass of wine.
When I thought about that, my face turned slightly red without me realizing it. Of course, I felt like I was blushing, and I don’t know if my face, which was covered in what looked like black armor, was really red.
‘I’ll be back before the drink gets cold.’ rani!
What did you really say? I think I was too intoxicated with the atmosphere.
… But I have no regrets.
You only live once, how many times will you get a chance to say something like that?
“haha! Unfortunately, the alcohol must have gone cold. “If you had come a little earlier -”
“What do you mean? “You came back before the alcohol cooled down.”
The patriotic general had placed his drinking glass on the stove. At that moment, I was so impressed by the general’s sense that I clapped my hands without realizing it.
Soon, a banquet was held in all directions, with alcohol and meat enjoyed.
The excuse that I was cursed by Kurta had already spread throughout the military camp, and although the soldiers looked at me and flinched, they did not avoid me or act like they were facing a monster.
…
“hey.”
…
“Answer me. You can talk to me, right? “It seems like the ‘next scene’ will be just a little while, but what on earth have you done?”
Until the moment the scene ended, the being presumed to be a ‘witch’ did not say a word to me. What on earth is she thinking?
This is an issue that must be addressed at least once as soon as you go out.
*
As Cha Jin-cheol’s body grotesquely mutated, the audience at the theater fell into confusion.
“What, what? What on earth is that? Did Jincheol take the star? Oh, I guess not?”
Unlike Eunsol, who was embarrassed, Mukseong spoke in a calm manner.
“Isn’t this the plot of the movie? Did God at least give it to the main character?”
Ari showed a tilted reaction.
“suddenly? It’s so unexpected. “More than that, no matter how you look at that kind of change, it doesn’t seem like a sacred change.”
When Seung-yeop saw Cha Jin-cheol’s appearance covered in pitch-black scales, he was impressed in a different way.
“That looks exactly like the Black Panther I saw in the movie theater! “Is this a similar production?”
After a while, Cha Jin-cheol mentioned the ‘curse of the kurta’ and his colleagues fell into confusion again. This is because, from the outside, they could not see a single scene of Kurta cursing.
At that point, Ga-in, who was paying attention to the development of the movie itself rather than Cha Jin-cheol’s changes, became very irritated.
“Oh really! I thought it was coming to an end, but then again! Are these hotel bastards drugged by the deployment!”
*
— Rumble!
It is the sound made by a steel cart hitting a rock.
— Clap!
It is the sound of the narrow cart moving with difficulty and my body repeatedly hitting the metal around me.
…
What on earth happened to me?
It is simple to summarize the developments in the movie that were just a whirlwind. When the banquet was about to break, I closed my eyes and opened them, and after a considerable amount of time, a servant of the emperor wearing a scarlet long robe appeared in front of me and began to shout.
“Sinner, Cha Jin-cheol, follow your commands! Oh my gosh! It has been revealed to the whole world that you deceived all the people and conspired with the bandits of the plains. Your wickedness has finally been revealed in the flesh, unable to hide its depravity -”
Roughly speaking, it is simple to summarize the sound. They say that I brought a crisis to the empire by conspiring with the nomads of the grasslands. With those words, the emperor’s subjects began to move toward the capital, leading the soldiers who had brought me in and imprisoned me in a mobile prison.
I don’t think even the emperor would have been able to use such raw nonsense under normal circumstances.
the problem is… .
I turned my head slightly and reflected my image on the metal of the ceiling. A strange being that no one could tell was a person came into view. His appearance resembles a villain from special effects films that I often saw when I was young.
“It’s cool in its own way.”
It’s real.
It looked cool in its own way to my eyes. But what does it look like in the eyes of people in this world?
After thinking about it for a little while, the answer came to mind. In my current state, it makes no sense for the emperor to just talk nonsense and blame me. My body itself will be the evidence.
The generals who fought with me on the battlefield had so much faith in me, or even worshiped me, that they believed my excuse about the curse of the kurta.
Will the emperor and his subjects in the capital, who do not share that experience, believe me?
In the first place, I am a ‘war hero’ now, so there are probably a lot of people who want to keep me in check for even trivial reasons, but since this ‘proper justification’ has been created, there is no way they will tolerate it.
I didn’t know what to do in this situation.
“short break!”
…
When the procession stopped, the rocking steel cart also stopped. At that time, a loud noise started coming from outside!
“Waaah!”
What on earth is going on?
Since I was locked in a mobile prison, I couldn’t see what was going on outside. All I could hear was the sound of countless soldiers clashing their spears and swords and fighting!
What is this? Isn’t the person being transported to me a subject of the emperor? Attacking the emperor’s subjects openly on the highway leading to the capital? I may not know much about history, but I know that something like this is absolutely treasonous!
Should I just break out of jail and get out?
To be honest, I am confident that I can easily break down a prison like this with just one arm. This is why I have been able to think about various things leisurely.
Because you can go out whenever you want.
However, before I could open the prison door, another person came in.
“Oh, what!”
“What are you so surprised about?”
He is a familiar old man, the patriotic general.
“No, am I not guilty of high treason now? “Can I just open the door and come in like this?”
“Are you surprised that I barely opened the door? “Can’t you see this?”
The old man chuckled and rolled the round object towards me. This is the neck of the person sent by the emperor who was talking nonsense earlier.
“Now, tell me honestly. “You could break the iron bars and get out whenever you wanted, right?”
“…”
“I’ve seen you fight a few times, but I don’t know. The idiots who came down from the capital are under the illusion that you are really trapped. So I was watching to see when you would come out, but since you never showed up, I came myself.”
“…”
“Why on earth were you sitting there like an idiot? “Is she going to stay like this?”
“Then what should I do?”
“I have to do whatever it takes. Well, if you have so much loyalty in your heart that you want to die quietly, I won’t bother to stop you.”
“…”
“I’m going to tell you something you don’t know.”
“What I don’t know is… .”
“There have been three poisoning attempts in your barracks in the last few months, right?”
“Isn’t it twice?”
“Three times. One time, your servants found it while you were away. Anyway, who do you think is behind it?”
“I’m curious about that too -”
“Hey friend! Why am I so clueless? Did they really think they were the villains of the plains? They were so on the defensive that 80 members of the royal family jumped into boiling oil to summon wolves. “How could they so easily tamper with the meals of the empire’s generals?”
I felt like my head was clear.
An empire on the brink of war, a war hero who rose up in difficult times. Isn’t this the beef bone that has been brewed hundreds of times in countless movies? What is the key ingredient that is always added to the beef bone?
‘The Emperor’s Check’
There’s no way this doesn’t exist!
“This ancestral bastard really is!”
“ancestor?”
“… no. General, thank you for letting us know. “But why are you giving me this help?”
The old man muttered with a somewhat distant expression.
“I have given my all to protect the wall for half my life. In the summer, we stopped the bandits who came to rob the crops and in the winter, to kidnap people. However, the person sitting on the throne is busy mixing interesting things into his rice, as long as a skilled general appears.”
When I heard the story behind the story that the emperor poisoned every time a plausible general was mentioned, I was momentarily speechless. This kid is three times older than his ancestors.
At this point, my head finally became clear.
In the first movie, just as Song-i at some point realized the ending she would reach, I also realized the ending I had to reach.
… Just because the person sitting on the throne is my ancestor, I don’t have to become Yi Sun-sin.
I’m sorry, but from now on, we are retreating from Wihwa Island.