Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 322
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Episode 322 – Room 203, Room of the Curse – ‘New Beginning’ (2)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 683,615
Current Location: Tier 2, Room 203 – Chamber of Curse ‘New Beginning’
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
Assuming that the scenario had not changed, I came up with various possibilities.
Why did no one have any memory of the spaceship after the first attempt?
If it’s someone else, they’ve never woken up from cryosleep in the first place, so it’s natural that they don’t have any memories. But why don’t I have any memories too?
The first possibility that came to mind was amnesia. At the time, the status window was weakened, so he may have lost consciousness as soon as he saw Adravita, or he may have suffered amnesia due to the side effects of cryosleep that the AI mentioned several times.
However, when I looked closely at the status window, another possibility came to mind.
[Date: Day 683,615]
According to my rough calculations, 1870 years have passed since I woke up in the spaceship. Why didn’t I know about this ridiculous change before?
It cannot be said that this is simply because the status window is broken. At that time, the text was blurred with strange alien words appearing, but the ‘date’ was surprisingly legible.
When I entered, the number 118 was clearly visible, and by the time I left, the number 131 was visible. After escaping, it actually took 131 days.
In other words, the date calculation in the status window was done normally at that time. Therefore, those confusing numbers need to be understood in a different way.
I remembered what happened in room 103. During the process, Song-i spent a long time alone even after other people died in vain, but Sang Tae-chang did not calculate the time Song-i spent alone.
A similar thing happened in room 104. After my death, almost a month passed until Ari beat the judge and escaped, but the status window did not calculate the date after my death.
Maybe I wouldn’t have woken up in the spaceship at all on the first attempt. Could it be that the status window did not count the days because I did not participate normally at that time?
What about cryosleep afterward? Anyway, did you count it because you fell asleep again after participating in the scenario?
As I thought about this, another question came to mind. Why couldn’t he wake up on the first try, but only on this try?
If I think about who woke me up, the answer to this part comes out.
If you recall what the AI said on the spaceship, it is not natural for the crew to wake up during cryosleep.
When Adravita did something strange, the spaceship’s AI woke me up to resolve the situation. Looking at it the other way around, if Adravita doesn’t do anything, we won’t wake up.
In other words, the being who woke us up during the second attempt was Adravita. Unlike other ordinary NPCs in the Curse Room, he is a prisoner who is aware of the turn, so he changes his behavior when the turn changes.
Why did you change it?
Did something change your mind when you saw us at the time of our first attempt? Is there something we wish for now?
「□□□□□.」
When I think about these words again, I think it was ‘Remember.’
What do you want me to remember? Are you telling me not to forget what happened on the spaceship? Did you want to tell me the background of Room 203?
Thanks to waking up early, I was able to obtain a lot of information that was originally difficult to obtain.
The background of No. 203 began with a spaceship exploring an exoplanet. What resides in Ari’s body is the spaceship’s AI, and Adravita is a divine being who joined to help humanity colonize the planet.
This information itself seems very valuable, but I don’t know why the prisoner wanted to pass it on to me.
Also, that information is just a story from the past at this point. So what happened in this world during 1870?
The AI that treated me politely just 1870 ago is now calling us ‘traitors’ and trying to catch and kill us. Adravita is leisurely floating in the air, traveling and farming on the continent.
As my thoughts reached this point, my colleagues came to mind. Everyone is fine, right?
[Colleague location information (*)
Kim Muk-seong: 872km northwest]
As expected, it comes out like this.
The stage of Room 203 is a vast, primitive continent. Civilization has long since collapsed, there is no means of transportation, and there are no place names. So, I guess I have no choice but to let you know the location this way.
It means nothing. What should I do if I know that? Walk 872km northwest? Still, everyone is alive.
— Boom!
“You rookie! “Can I come in for a moment?”
“wait for a sec.”
[Date: Day 683,615 (Day 139)]
I added the date, excluding the frozen sleep time, with a pen to make it easier to read. Next time I meet an owl, I’ll ask him to skip some of his cryo-sleep time.
After a while, the tent opened and Old Wolf Claw entered.
“You rookie! “I have something to tell you.”
It’s probably a story about whether it’s teeth or claws that are twitching. It’s time to stop worrying and deal with the current problem.
As soon as he got out of the tent, he told the warriors that he would kill the wriggling teeth. Just like last time, the warriors stood up with their eyes shining.
— Crunch!
A terrible sound came from the western sky. As if he had been waiting, Scenario Understanding informed him to punish the wriggling teeth.
He reassured the fearful tribesmen and left the tent with the warriors.
“depart! “The rest of us should light a fire.”
*
It’s similar to before.
Those who survived the encounter with the wriggling teeth clumsily tried to convey information to me, and the old wolf claws moved around, forming a phalanx of warriors to protect me.
I think I felt relieved seeing things like this before… . Now it’s a hindrance. After all, I know enough to know the other person’s characteristics, and the person I was then and the person I am now are different.
Now that the blessing is intact, I can protect my mind with the blessing and use the higher power of the grimoire, ‘Power of Avatar’.
“Don’t block the view, get out of the way.”
“Up, danger -”
“Just do as you are told. And you all gather together, and only Old Wolf Claws follow me.”
“All right.”
“If I fall, catch my body.”
“yes.”
I remembered my first battle with the wriggling teeth.
Rather than targeting humans who were gathered together, the monster preferred to attack those who deviated even slightly from the ranks, right? When I took advantage of that habit and went out of the ranks alone, the warriors looked at me with anxious expressions.
— Shhh!
The branches of the tree sway and the sound of heavy flesh moving through the leaves can be heard. I immediately summoned the grimoire and glared at the direction from which the sound was coming.
As soon as I became aware of the tentacles making eerie movements – my consciousness left my body.
My consciousness and soul floated into the air.
My mind was freed from the stuffy body. Then, a situation that could never be understood from a human perspective came into view.
In the dark forest, three unpleasantly writhing tentacles were squeezing between the trees, targeting us.
According to the information obtained during the first attempt, those tentacles are a type of parasite and a separate organism from the main body. Therefore, it will be possible to control them simultaneously through the power of incarnation.
As my will became clear, a pitch-black thread stretched out from the grimoire and entangled three tentacles.
‘Go back! ‘Desire your body!’
— Wiggle!
For a split second, the tentacles bobbed up and down as if they were resisting the power of the grimoire, but the resistance did not last long. They lack the intelligence and strength to resist the power of the grimoire.
Eventually, the tentacles began to retreat towards the wriggling main body of the tooth.
…
Even though my consciousness was out of my body, I was in a lot of pain. Since I’ve already given the order, it’s okay to withdraw my power, right?
The floating soul quickly returns to my body. Once again the shackles of the flesh held my soul.
“Ugh!”
When I returned to my body, my eyes were already bloodshot and blood was dripping from my nose.
“Gwae, are you okay?”
The old man holding my body became anxious. Instead of answering, I looked west.
— Kyaaaaa!
A cry was heard that was infinitely ominous, but full of pain.
“Did you kill it?”
“yes?”
“Just a few people go. “He might be dead.”
The warriors responded in complete disbelief.
What do they think happened? Could it be that I just stood there alone and collapsed with a nosebleed?
After a while, one of the warriors who bravely ran away came back completely dazed and reported that a mountain of meat, believed to be a wriggling blade, had been found.
The warriors who heard those words began to kneel in front of me with inexplicable, distant expressions.
“you are… . He is truly a heaven-sent person! The rookie really-”
“Stop, let’s stop and go back. “I’m a little tired.”
The power of incarnation is on a different level and more difficult than possession. Even though it seemed like I only used my actual strength for a few minutes, my entire body lost all strength.
At that time, the understanding of the scenario was updated and instructions were given to pay attention to the tribal song.
… Up to this point, it’s similar to before. How should we proceed from now on?
*
There was a time when endless glory was with the children of heaven.
I leaned against one side of the tent while listening to a familiar song.
They awaken in a primitive tribal society and defeat the monster that attacks the tribe. Up to this point, the progress is not much different from the first attempt.
What should I do from now on? One more time in the mountains like before? Or should we follow the owl’s advice and follow the traces of a supernatural being in the sky?
Now that I think about it, what are other people doing? Surely no one died in the meantime?
[Chajincheol: 282m east]
[Chajincheol: 218m east]
[Chajincheol: 174m east]
“uh?”
[Chajincheol: 42m east]
“Tongue, bro?”
— Craddangtang!
“You rookie! “A monster is coming from the plains -”
“rain! Turn it on! la!”
It became incredibly noisy outside with a roar that literally shook the heavens and earth.
— Flap!
The tent opened and Cha Jin-cheol, with his magnificent physique, came in. At the same time, the tribe’s warriors surrounded Cha Jin-cheol with spears and began to unleash a ferocious force.
“female!”
“…W, did you run all the way here?”
“Yeah dude. “If you think about it, your tribe and my tribe are related, right?”
“Yes.”
“When I came back in, I vaguely remembered the location. “If you go straight past the riverside, that’s you, right?”
Prisoners are not the only ones whose behavior changes as the episode changes. Didn’t we come up with a different strategy every time?
On the second attempt, Cha Jin-cheol ran to find me as soon as the scenario started, thanks to the blessing of courage.
Now that I think about it, there must be more colleagues who can do something similar?
Just like Adravita, I sensed that my colleagues would also act differently from the past.