Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 306
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Episode 306 – Room 204, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Cinema’ (28)
– theater
After the movie was interrupted by the angry roar of the dollyphant, the screen flickered opaquely again, indicating that the next person should enter.
The two people who still had a chance, Park Seung-yeop and Han Ga-in, looked at each other and sighed deeply. This is because they were secretly hoping that Kim Ari would play so well that their turn would not come.
In the quiet theater, Ga-in took a quick look around. Since Eunsol and Ari were both obsessed with horror movies, there weren’t many people who could lead the meeting.
“Let’s start with the villains. Happy Happy, a clown doll that chases after you while playing tag. Thomas, the train that travels around the mansion, laying down rails. Dollyphant, the crazy elephant at tea time. “There are three of us.”
Elena answered.
“As I watched, I felt that the three monsters were not cooperating with each other. “Thomas mercilessly kicked Happy Happy if he got in his way, and Dollyphant destroyed both Thomas and Happy Happy because he was angry.”
“I think inducing internal strife would be a useful response. From that perspective, it is necessary to compare the strengths of the three monsters. Dollyphant is the strongest, followed by Thomas. Happy Happy seems to be the weakest.”
Cha Jin-cheol nodded.
“How about going towards Dollyphant from the beginning? You seem obsessed with tea time? “If Thomas or Happy Happy intervene, they might stop the other two monsters, saying, ‘You’re interrupting tea time.’”
Gain pointed out the gap.
“The problem is that we don’t know the exact location of Doliphant. They say it’s on the second floor, but as the mansion twists, it becomes almost as big as the emperor’s palace in the movies, right? The second floor will also be incredibly spacious.”
“Happy Happy and Thomas will be chasing you, so it won’t be difficult to leisurely look for Dollyphant. “Ari couldn’t even breathe and was running away until he was attacked by Dollyphant.”
Kim Sang-hyun, who was thinking carefully, expressed his opinion.
“It will be a little easier to find if you go to the second floor from the beginning. But… . You should consider whether it is safe near Dollyphant. “Dollyphant will keep Thomas and Happy Happy in check, but Dollyphant himself is sure to do strange things.”
Ga-in immediately nodded. The general characteristics of Thomas and Happy Happy have been revealed, but information about Dollyphant is still lacking. Is that damn ‘tea time’ really normal tea time?
“Yes. “I’m sure Dollyphant will do strange things too.”
Elena took the whiteboard that Eunsol often used and started scribbling.
“Let’s summarize the characteristics of our dolls. Happy Happy is a game of tag, right? “They said touching the back is the rule, so if you hit Happy Happy’s back on the way in, something will work out.”
“…”
“…”
“Thomas is a train that lays down rails and runs on them. They get angry if you interrupt their progress. “Especially when he gets on the rails, he gets really angry – everyone, don’t you talk?”
Ga-in smiled awkwardly and approached.
“Elena, I will write it down.”
Songi spoke honestly.
“My sister’s handwriting… . Well, I think it’s very artistic. Was there an exquisite exchange between Arabic and Korean?”
“Huh? “Well, the teacher who taught me Korean said he was good at writing it, right?”
Cha Jin-cheol was confident that the teacher who taught Elena Korean was definitely a man. And he must have said that Elena wrote well even if she used Cyrillic characters instead of Korean.
I even wrote it down with the pen that Ga-in handed over to me.
“If anyone steps on the rails, Thomas gets very angry and immediately charges at them. “If the path has already been taken, it will run backwards, so you can use this habit depending on the situation.”
“Well, I was trying to write those words down.”
“The last one is Dollyphant… . “I don’t know, except that if you don’t get to Dollyphant by the time you shout ‘tea time’ three times, Dollyphant will come to kill Kevin.”
Everyone began to worry about the appropriate response. While Cha Jin-cheol moved towards Kim Sang-hyeon and talked about a few things, the two people who had to go in the front sat across from each other.
“… brother. “Who will go in first?”
After thinking for a moment, Ga-in opened his mouth honestly.
“Wouldn’t it be better for you to go first?”
Seungyeop nodded coolly.
“As expected, right? There’s still a lot we don’t know, so I think we’ll have better luck in this situation. and… .”
“…”
“Honestly, I think I’ll be too scared if I go in last… .”
Ga-in also understood that psychology. The most frightening situation in the hotel is because I am the last survivor and my death is the moment when everything ends.
“Seungyeop, listen carefully to my story from now on.”
“yes.”
Sang-Hyun Kim approached and began to tell Seung-Yeop the coping strategy he had discovered after a meeting with other colleagues. At that moment, Ga-in reflexively thought that he should stop Kim Sang-hyun.
‘Is it right to pass on this complicated knowledge to Seungyeop?’
However, not conveying it is just as strange. So, does this mean that Seungyeop should just go in without knowing anything about the dolls?
There is a significant amount of information that Ari has already gained by sacrificing his life? If you start to argue like this, does that mean you shouldn’t have seen the movie at all?
… Ga-in once again realized how tiring a skill ‘good luck’ was.
Just before Park Seung-yeop entered the screen, Ga-in caught him.
“brother?”
“You are both Cheonun and the original human, right?”
“yes. “You probably use both, right?”
“That’s right. But don’t humans from the beginning still know what their abilities are?”
“I’ve never written anything… .”
“okay… . I hope everything goes well.”
Cain prayed really earnestly. Because after Seungyeop, you are yourself.
— Beep!
Perot, who had been sleeping most of the time since entering the movie theater, made a sound for the first time in a long time. Seungyeop entered the screen, feeling that even the sound was ominous.
*
– Park Seung-yeop
“Whoop! Whoop!”
Let’s calm down! Let’s calm down, Park Seung-yeop! The bravest middle school student in the world, let it go!
I finally calmed down and went into the coffee shop. As expected, I heard that it was a little late and that the stories of Park Soo-mi and Han Yu-ri had already been confirmed.
After a while, Cha Eun-pyo started talking.
“This is a story from when I was young… .”
*
– Home alone
“Kevin!”
The first section is the same as what Ari did. Kevin’s parents left after talking to me for a while, but before they did, I asked them one thing.
“mom!”
“hmm? “Do you have anything to ask?”
“Are you going to lock your house?”
If you think about it, this house itself is strange. Isn’t it strange that it suddenly grows so huge? Can’t I just get out of the house? Ari also tried to leave the house, but failed.
Instead of answering, Kevin’s mom smiled slightly and hugged me – no, you lady, answer!
“Are you going to lock it?”
“Mom, I’m afraid Kevin might leave by mistake.”
“Can’t you leave it open because it’s never going out?”
“Why should I leave it open if I’m not going out?”
Those words left me speechless for a moment. Kevin’s mom smiled lightly as if she thought I was cute.
“Kevin, I always say this, but it’s very dangerous to go out alone. There was something on TV a while ago about a carnivorous deer and an infectious spore butterfly -”
“Honey, don’t say such scary things to Kevin, let’s just leave.”
With those words, the couple locked the house and left.
In this world, deer eat people and butterflies spread strange spores. Because of this, parents will have no choice but to lock the house inside and out when they go out.
I’m busy from now on. I began to move quickly, recalling the words the doctor had told me in order.
‘Let’s go to Dollyphant quickly. As long as you meet them, Dollyphant will stop Thomas or Happy Happy. The problem is that I don’t know the exact location of the pink elephant, but I’m sure it’s on the second floor. Let’s go to the second floor as soon as we start.’
‘Wouldn’t Dollyphant kill me?’
‘That’s possible. Let Seung-yeop figure it out.’
‘…’
I ran right away and moved to the second floor.
I walked around and tried to memorize the structure of the second floor, but honestly, I don’t know if it makes any sense. In any case, the mansion will become enormous and new rooms and decorations that do not exist now will be added.
‘Thomas is a train. He doesn’t jump or fly. Also, the rails are not spread out in the air. If his feet don’t touch the floor, Thomas will think Seung-yeop isn’t interfering with the rail construction. Of course, I’m not saying you should fly around.’
I looked around for a moment and checked the locations of tables and wall hangings. The table in the center of the room was moved so that it could be moved ‘over the furniture’ as much as possible.
I already feel exhausted trying to do this with the body of a 12-year-old kid who is younger than me.
‘Stay with Suzy. I feel sorry for the cute dog, but Seungyeop has to live. He was quite loyal. I can stop Happy Happy once.’
“… Suzy, I’m sorry, but stay next to me.”
“bruise!”
“Are you going to fight for me?”
“bruise?”
“no.”
“Kevin! Let’s start a New Year’s party for you!”
By then, the whole house started shaking with shouts announcing the start of the party.
A suffocating tension overtook me. Without realizing it, I hugged the golden retriever tightly and squeezed myself into the gap in the furniture to hold on.
*
“From now on, it’s a game of tag! “The rule is touch on the back!”
As if I had teleported, Happy Happy suddenly appeared behind me.
“Now~ let’s start! Kevin, wouldn’t it be better to run away quickly? “Run now!”
“month! month!”
As I stopped Suzy from barking loudly, I remembered what the teacher said about Happy Happy.
‘Happy Happy is trying to touch your back somehow, right? It’s a good idea to face each other like Ari did, but I actually thought of a better way. Perhaps Miss Ari was so distracted that she couldn’t remember it.’
Instead of running, he moved towards the wall and started walking sideways with his back against the wall. Happy Happy saw me like that and frowned.
“…Are you being a bit cowardly?”
“You’re saying you’re good at it, right?”
In an instant, Happy Happy’s expression distorted and his hands began to stretch like rubber bands.
Ari had difficulty choosing a position because of Happy Happy’s stretched out arms. However, if you place your back against the wall, it doesn’t matter whether Happy Happy’s arms extend or not!
‘What if Happy Happy forces me off the wall?’
‘If that were possible, would there have been a reason for Happy Happy to stop when Miss Ari was staring straight ahead? All you have to do is rush in and use force to turn it around. ‘Isn’t it a violation of the rules of tag to forcefully expose one’s back?’
The only scary possibility was if Happy Happy grabbed my body and forced me to turn. Fortunately, Happy Happy didn’t act that way. Up to this point, it was just as the doctor predicted.
“Dolly dolly!” It’s tea time!”
I heard Doliphant’s cry from afar. Go out of the room you are in and go to the right? I knew the direction, but the distance seemed quite far.
He moved out of the room, clinging to the wall and walking sideways. Happy Happy just looked at me with a menacing look on her face, and she didn’t make any attacks.
At that very moment, a horn was heard from somewhere.
“Thomas is leaving! “We need to lay rails, so please make way!”
*
– theater
“Ohh! So far, everything is going well? “Happy Happy has come up with a clear response.”
Ga-in nodded to Sang-hyeon’s voice of joy. She was anxious because she wanted to tell Seung-yeop a complicated story, but it was worth telling.
If we can respond appropriately and get to Dollyphant, wouldn’t we at least be able to escape the threat of Happy Happy and Thomas?
The next problem would be Dollyphant, who couldn’t figure out a countermeasure at all… .
‘I can use both Heavenly Luck and the original human, so it’ll work out somehow!’
Cain decided to believe that.