Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 325
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Episode 325 – Re 203, Room of the Curse – ‘New Beginning’ (5)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 683,615
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
After taking some time to exchange information, everyone split up and spent some time on their own. This is because so much information was suddenly thrown at me, so I needed time to organize my thoughts.
In the evening, when everyone gathered, my sister wrote in large letters on the whiteboard.
1. Why were they forced to escape?
“Tell me what important issues you each think are important. For your information, this is what I think is important.”
Everyone nodded as it was clearly an important issue.
Next, Jincheol approached and wrote number 2.
2. What is the prisoner’s purpose?
“I talked to Songi briefly earlier, and I want to talk about this part.”
This is what I said as soon as I left the room. What is the purpose of the suspiciously cooperative Adravita?
Next, Ari wrote down number 3.
3. Gods and primitives, and what are we?
“I felt this part was important while talking with Miro.”
This was also a problem I was concerned about. Since Ari had already written it down, I didn’t need to add anything else.
Naturally, we began to gather opinions in order.
First, why were they forced to escape?
The first person to speak up was Eunsol, who wrote about the topic.
“Unlike the solution where the room disappears, escape is usually a decision made by each individual, right? Even if Jincheol meets the conditions for escape and leaves the room, that doesn’t mean I’m going to go out with him.”
“It was the prisoner in Room 104 who tried to use that mechanism of escape.”
“Gain even hit you with the escape button. Anyway, why did they all come out at the same time this time?”
A similar thing happened once before.
“Was it room 102 before? Didn’t everyone escape because ‘Lee Se-hyun’ suddenly committed suicide in front of us at the Mansion of Horror? “It seems like a similar situation to back then.”
“It’s similar to back then… . At that time, the enemy felt threatened by us and hid before we could do anything, right? So did we meet the conditions for escape at the same time?”
“I guess so?”
“Then what are the conditions for escape from Room 203?”
Naturally, everyone’s attention was focused on Miro and Ari. Because everyone had similar thoughts.
If the entity summoned by Time Rental dies, the main body also dies. It is said that Ari, who was summoned by the maze in the second attempt, died while fighting to protect the maze.
Ari’s body would have also died at that point, but in issue 203, Ari’s body is under the control of AI.
“Isn’t Ari’s death in the mountains a condition for escape?”
“I guess so. “I can’t think of any other possibilities other than that.”
If the Ari summoned here in the timeline dies, the Ari in the mountains also dies and everyone escapes at that moment.
This in itself is a pretty big achievement. Because we have discovered the perfect way to escape from Room 203 at any time.
My sister finished her cup of coffee and opened her mouth again.
“I’m sure everyone guessed why I escaped. Because I had a hunch as soon as I heard Miro’s story. But why is it an escape rather than a solution?”
“Because there’s something more?”
“okay. I wanted to talk about that. I still haven’t figured out the entire scenario of Room 203, but I’ve figured out at least one thing. Even if you kill Ahri of the Mountains, Room 203 is not the end. “There’s something more.”
Moving on to the second topic.
Why is the prisoner in room 203 helping us? What is his purpose?
Jincheol expressed his opinion first.
“This is not the first time a prisoner has been cooperative. Didn’t the teacher in Room 103 openly help Song-i and wipe out Athanasia?”
Grandfather nodded.
“Didn’t you say that Ga-in helped him at the end of the drama about the purpose of Seong-woon in Room 102? “The Sea God in Room 202 felt a bit like that.”
My sister tilted her head for a moment.
“The teacher in No. 103 and the Nebula Dragon in No. 102 are like that, but isn’t the Sea God in No. 202 ambiguous?”
It is difficult to say that the sea god in room 202 took our side. In the first attempt, everyone was almost killed as soon as the Sea God was resurrected.
Rather than taking our side, we should say that he used us to get the outcome he wanted.
In fact, in that context, the purpose of No. 102’s nebula is a bit ambiguous.
“I think the purpose of the nebula is ambiguous. I don’t know if you remember, but the hotel criticized the progress of issue 102 quite harshly, right? “It’s almost like we forced our way through a scenario that actually failed after making several mistakes with the power of Advent.”
“Oh, I remember!”
“If the hotel had proceeded as intended, the Nebula Dragon would never have appeared in the first place. So it’s a bit ambiguous to say whose side I am or not.”
As if the conversation was gradually turning into a story about a prisoner in another room, my brother cleared his throat to get my attention.
“Hmm! Let’s focus on the story in room 203. “It is clear that Adravita from Room 203 is our most cooperative prisoner since the teacher from Room 103.”
As soon as it started, Adravita woke me up and informed me that the start of No. 203 was a ‘planetary exploration spaceship.’
In addition, when Ari of the Mountains suddenly died due to time rental and was forced to escape without any gain, he showed Miro an ‘unidentified mechanical device’.
“Why are you helping us like this? “The disappearance of the room would be the disappearance of the person himself.”
Songi received the message.
“This is the conclusion I came to while talking with Jincheol oppa earlier, and we think Adravita wishes for death.”
I think I know what you mean. This is a story I had with my brother inside the room.
“You spent so much time in the Chamber of Curses that you want to end it all?”
“Jincheol and I came to that conclusion.”
The surroundings became quiet for a moment.
If Adravita really suffers from some kind of depression and wants to die, we can guess why. Isn’t the reason displayed in my status window?
[Day 683,615]
In room 203, time passes closer to 1872 each time the room begins. We just don’t feel it because we’re in cryosleep. Since we have already entered room 203 twice, from Adravita’s perspective, nearly 3750 years have already passed.
Is this all there is?
no. There were participants who worked on hotels before us, and among them, there must have been some who took on the challenge of scenario No. 203.
If they also spent 1872 years each time they entered, it is scary to even think about how many years Adravita spent in the cursed room. He must have truly lived for close to eons.
When I turned my head to see what the people in the management bureau thought, my grandfather gave a somewhat ambiguous response.
“I don’t know. I know that among divine beings, there are those who have spent billions of years. “I don’t think a being like that would want to die just because they spent ‘only’ 1872 years in a row.”
Ari simply answered.
“Just ask. “Your owl knows better than me and Grandpa.”
Will you answer if I ask about the prisoner’s condition? Let’s ask first.
[Advice: 3 -> 2]
‘Does Adravita really wish for death?’
[Great people also have aspects similar to mortals within them, so their hearts can become sick.]
It’s an ambiguous answer. When I told the story, Ari burst out laughing.
“The answer is that it could be possible. “Don’t you know much about owls?”
“Maybe… .”
If the question is about the mental state of a divine being, even if you are an owl, you may not know.
At that time, Eunsol’s older sister showed an expectant response.
“It can make you sick! “Do you feel something about this?”
“How do you feel?”
“The prisoner is a god with a sick mind? “Wouldn’t there come a time when my flute would come into play?”
Come to think of it, my sister’s legacy, the Flute of Rest, was an item that could influence even divine beings.
Songi expressed a somewhat cold opinion.
“Let’s say Adravita spent too much time in room 203 and got depressed. “Maybe we can fix that with the Flute of Rest.”
“That’s what I said!”
“Do you need to fix it?”
“uh?”
“If the reason he’s helping us is because he wants to die, then there’s no need for us to get rid of that desire to die.”
“… I see.”
If the prisoner is crazy and is helping us, there is no need to treat his insanity. It’s a cynical attitude, but it’s true.
While her sister was somewhat disappointed, Ari began to mention the third topic.
“The gods, the primitives, and who we are! Have you all thought about it? “I felt something of my own when I combined the information Ga-in obtained from the spaceship and the information Miro obtained from the hatchery.”
With those words, Ari began a long explanation.
“First of all, the identity of the rookie. According to the information Ga-in obtained from the spaceship, there are crew members on the spaceship. What is their role? “At least it’s not spaceship control.”
The crew members are all in cryo-sleep while the spaceship is flying, so their role cannot be controlling the spaceship. That is the role of AI.
I had an idea, so I expressed my opinion.
“They are probably beings who wake up and colonize the planet after arriving at their destination. “The reason they are all reinforced humans is to make pioneering easier.”
Ari nodded.
“I think the ‘rookies’ are enhanced people like flight attendants.”
“He’s a reinforced human… . “Are the superpowers that rookies have because they are enhanced humans by nature?”
“I guess so. Also, if you look at it this way, you can clearly see the cocoon that Miro discovered and the identity of the hatchery.”
Grandfather tapped his knee.
“Human culture kit!”
“That’s it. “It must have been an artificial womb used to create enhanced humans.”
When the difficult-to-understand sci-fi story began, Elena asked a question.
“We’re rookies too, right? that… . Was it made from a culture kit?”
“That’s a good question, and I think Adravita gave the correct answer to that.”
I opened my mouth because I thought I knew what he meant.
“Are we the crew itself?”
“That’s it. That’s who we are in room 203. “We are the crew that arrived on this planet in a spaceship 1872 ago.”
With those words, Ari wrote down his opinions on the whiteboard.
Rookie: An enhanced human created with a human cultivation kit.
Our Identity: The crew members who arrived on an alien planet in 1872.
We’ll have to wait and see if it’s real or not, but it seems like a plausible hypothesis. But one important point was missing.
“And what on earth are cavemen?”
“I do not know.”
“uh?”
“I don’t know. Are you human in the first place? There seems to already be quite a bit of evidence suggesting that primitive people are not humans… .”
The doctor nodded and told me that their body structure was somewhat different from that of humans.
Elena also said that at the time when she was going crazy and mutating primitive people, ‘Crazy Elena’ recognized the primitive people as non-human beings.
In addition to this, considering the fact that Song-i showed excessive friendliness in response to Song-i’s blessing and the mountain range’s AI that recognized primitive people as non-humans, the answer emerged.
They are most likely not human.
“Are primitive people a separate group from the humans who came on the spaceship in the first place?”
No one could answer that question. However, the doctor expressed skepticism.
“Don’t they look too similar to look like that? It doesn’t seem like an alien creature that evolved in a completely different environment… .”
“Then what is it?”
“I don’t know.”
Looks like I need to find out more. I wrote a second piece of advice just in case, but as expected, I got an ambiguous answer.
[Advice: 2 -> 1]
‘Are the primitive people in Room 203 human? If not, what is it?’
[It is a question of how to define humans.]
When the answer was given, everyone held their heads, and some complained.
“It would be nice if you could just say it easily! “Why is Ga-in’s sponsor so unfriendly?”
Miro’s question is a question I’ve had about 3,000 times.
“You probably have some kind of restrictions yourself. “I’m still a little annoyed.”
The doctor carefully expressed his opinion.
“I think I gave a meaningful answer in its own way. “If it were a being that imitated a human to the point where it only had human skin, I would have said it was not a human.”
Ari nodded.
“If we define humans very ‘broadly,’ it seems that there is something about primitive people that could be considered human, too?”
At the end of the general discussion on the three topics, Seung-yeop, who usually rarely participates in meetings, expressed his opinion actively for the first time in a long time.
“Just think about it a little bit more easily.”
“Easy, easy? “Scenario 203 itself is so difficult that it makes your head explode?”
“No, Ari-noona. What I mean is, don’t delve too much into the scenario. “Why not just think of it as a bit of a game?”
“Like a game?”
“When I play games, I skip the entire story.”
“…”
At that moment, everyone was speechless and looked at Seungyeop, wondering what he was talking about.
“ruler! Where should we finally go? It’s a mountain range, right? “Because Ari, who was sealed there, is there!”
Ari flinched at his unusually subtly forceful attitude.
“Is that so?”
“Why can’t I go to the mountains now? There are a lot of robots in the mountains and they are strong! “Right?”
This time, he looked at me and emphasized the dangers of robots. Actually, that’s a big problem.
Unlike the first attempt, blessings have returned and companions have increased, but the robots that fill the mountain range are still a big barrier. This is because many of our heritage and abilities are useless to robots.
The various perspectives of Seo and Songi in my incarnation are meaningless in front of robots.
“That’s right.”
“The mechanical device that the prisoner showed Miro at the end! “Isn’t that probably something similar to spaceship parts?”
Since the part had ‘Pride of Humanity’ written on it, it must have something to do with spaceships.
“ruler! “It’s concluded!”
“Has it been concluded?”
“A conclusion has been reached?”
Seungyeop shouted firmly.
“Let’s take the parts and charge into the mountains.”
“why?”
“Eight! Ari, why do you have that part? In a game sense, it’s like a key to safely enter the area where the final boss is!”
“Eh? why?”
“No~ It’s so frustrating! “The prisoner didn’t show it to me because it was an important item!”
“What are you talking about?”
…
When everyone was dumbfounded for a moment, Eunsol, who had been thinking for a while, burst out laughing.
“I thought about the idea that Seungyeop came up with, and it seems plausible in its own way. Think of it this way. “Maybe that part is a critical part of the spaceship, and the mountain range’s AI doesn’t want it destroyed.”
Only then did I start to understand.
“If I go to the mountain range with that, the robots in the mountain range won’t attack me?”
“yes. “If the robot attacks, the parts will be destroyed.”
After listening to my sister’s ‘interpretation’, I understood it a bit. I asked a question because I thought it was definitely a persuasive progress.
[Advice: 1 -> 0]
‘What do you think about the plan to gather parts and go to the mountains?’
[Think about how to get to that place.]
Afterwards, everyone expressed various opinions and made plans on how to proceed with the third attempt.
*
As the meeting ended and we all parted ways to work hard tomorrow, an inexplicable feeling of anxiety came over me.
I couldn’t easily explain where my anxiety came from.
…
It wasn’t until late at night, when I was lying in bed, that I realized the true nature of my anxiety.
Where did much of the key information on which we based our understanding and planning of the 203 scenario come from?
It’s Adravita.
There is much more information that Adravita stuffed into our mouths than what we found out by running around searching room 203 ourselves.
Maybe, aren’t we like Son Goku on top of Buddha?
Of course, if Adravita is a being that desires death, there is ample reason to help us. But what if our hypothesis that Adravita wishes for death was created as per his intention?
I felt frustrated. Even if that were the case, I didn’t know what to do. Thanks to this, I was able to sleep until late at night.