Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 328
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Episode 328 – Re 203, Room of the Curse – ‘New Beginning’ (8)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 683,622
Current Location: Tier 2, Room 203 – Chamber of Curse ‘New Beginning’
Sage advice: 1]
– Han Ga-in
Humanity has longed for a blue sky for a long time.
In many myths, the great gods always look down on the earth from heaven above the clouds, and their messengers always descend from the sky, flapping their wings.
What about the legend of Icarus, who faced tragedy when his wax wings melted in the heat of the sun while trying to fly through his lack of talent?
Paradoxically, this content proves the fact that humans have longed for the sky since ancient times.
And now, I am looking down from heaven to earth!
“Hey… . “Would the Wright brothers have been moved by this view?”
Jincheol, who was running busily hundreds of meters below, looked like a small ant. Eunsol, who was riding on top of Grotesque, raised her head at just the right moment and waved her hand at me.
“Hello – ugh!”
Suddenly, the body of the ‘cutter’ twitched and stumbled. Since my body was tied to the monster’s hard shell with strong strings, it was not easy for me to fall off, but in an instant, my whole body shook and I almost vomited.
“Song! “Drive well!”
“brother! Just shut up! What kind of Wright brothers are the Wright brothers? “Are you saying he’s hungry now?”
“…”
When I heard Song-i’s frustration, my sentimental mood immediately disappeared. A huge beetle slowly descended towards the ground.
*
As soon as I landed on the ground after 30 minutes, Songi once again broke my sentimental mood.
“Uweeeek! Eweeeek!”
Eunsol’s sister lightly patted Songi’s back. As she watched the scene, she looked back at Jincheol.
“Brother, are you okay?”
“…”
“brother?”
“Huh! Hee, it’s hard. Gain, how much distance is left?”
“uh… . At this rate, I think we will arrive at the maze’s location around tomorrow morning.”
“It came in 4, 4 days? “It’s fast.”
“If you grit your teeth and move a little more, you can arrive tonight -”
“hey! Do you want to talk nonsense while doing the most comfortable thing? “I can’t even move a single step anymore!”
People cannot travel endlessly like a car, just filling up the gas tank. The arduous march that has continued for several days is exhausting not only Jincheol but also the monster flying with us.
The sun is slowly setting.
“I guess it will be difficult to move any more today.”
With those words, Jin-cheol lay down on his side and Song-i began to move with the cutter to the lake she had seen from the sky.
I, the only one with any remaining stamina, looked back on the past few days of marching.
The morning we entered Room 203 for the third time, the conclusion we all came to was simple.
We need a means of transportation. Finally, ‘some monsters’ decided that it would be appropriate to move with us on board.
There were two candidates, one was a very large bull around Eunsol’s sister, and the other was a flying insect called ‘Cutter’, which was said to be near Songi.
I thought that having a being that could fly would have an advantage in scouting, etc., so I decided to tame the cutter, but I was quite anxious. If you fail to tame Songi, everything will fall apart.
Fortunately, that didn’t happen. When my brother and I arrived at Songi’s location after traveling for 3 days and 2 nights, Songi had already tamed the cutter and had even brought Eunsol, who was nearby.
“Gain, take a sip too.”
“yes. “Are you okay now?”
“well… . I drank water because the place was near the lake, but hunger was the problem. “I’ve been eating pieces of fruit from trees for several days.”
“That’s a real problem.”
“It seems like there is a lot of mental stress.”
“Stress?”
“I hear that sometimes I still don’t know if it’s right to abandon all the tribesmen and set off.”
Of course, this enormous march could not be undertaken with primitive people.
“After all, aren’t you human? “Your brother is also very delicate.”
Eunsol looked at me with a subtle expression.
“You look a bit like Ari when you look like this.”
“…”
There were also problems that arose because a cutter was chosen instead of an ox. It wasn’t as big as a house like a bull, and it was a flying monster, so it didn’t have the strength to move for a long period of time with all of us on board.
In the end, Jincheol decided to just run, and Eunsol had to ride the Grotesque.
“It’s really hard now. “If you think about it, I was just riding on a pero, but my legs were so shaky that it was hard to even stand.”
“Iknow, right.”
“You have a good stomach. Are you okay with riding for hours on top of bugs that aren’t even airplanes? “Once I tried it, I thought I couldn’t ride it.”
“so so… .”
Am I resistant to motion sickness?
Eunsol’s sister muttered as if she was worried.
“Are other people okay?”
When I heard that, I remembered my plan again.
On the second attempt, we were forced to escape without much success, but fortunately I was able to find out the distance between me and my colleague through the status window before that.
Considering the Red Mountains, which are a kind of landmark that everyone can see, we were able to estimate everyone’s approximate location.
As a result, four people joined together: me, who can track the location of the maze through the status window, Eunsol, who can find distant traces with strong eyesight, Jincheol, who can run like a car with his bare body, and Songi, who can tame monsters. After doing this, it was concluded that it was reasonable to move toward the maze.
The process for the remaining four was somewhat difficult.
My grandfather and the doctor were located far from the maze, but it was too far, and the mountains were closer. So, I decided to just move towards the mountain range, my final destination, and explore.
On the other hand, Elena and Seungyeop were much faster in moving towards the maze immediately without having to join us. the problem is… .
“Gain, can Seungyeop accurately track the location of the maze?”
Eunsol did not ask about Elena, who would be with her. Because she doesn’t have that kind of power.
“Judging by the location information of my colleagues, it seems like they are tracking well. Seungyeop and Elena will also be able to meet within a day or two.”
After a moment of silence passed, my sister asked me.
“Did you find out anything? “It’s almost like I’m talking to an owl these days.”
What’s there to do while flying around on a beetle that’s been bobbing around all day?
Of course, I wrote down any remaining advice I had every day. That said, my questions these days have always been similar.
“We are discussing Adravita’s intentions.”
“The very phrase ‘sharing opinions’ is kind of funny. “Isn’t the owl supposed to tell you in the first place?”
“I’m sure now, but it seems like even the sponsor can’t read the prisoner’s plan. Actually, I had a similar feeling in room 104… .”
No. 104, this is a thought that came to mind when I was on the verge of destruction by ‘Lord’. If the owl had figured out the full extent of the Lord’s plan, wouldn’t it have been able to warn him more clearly in advance?
The ambiguous answers back then and the equally ambiguous answers now.
Even if he is a supremacist benefactor, isn’t he unable to understand all of the inhuman convict’s plans?
Eunsol asked with a slightly hopeful attitude.
“Surprisingly, wouldn’t my first thought be correct?”
“First thought?”
“Adravita is tired now. “I’m so sick of being in a cursed room that has been repeated for tens of thousands of years that I just want to die.”
“If you look at the conversation you had with Songi, it didn’t seem like he particularly wanted to die.”
“Whoa… . That’s right. So, did you find out anything?”
“The owl.”
“What about the owl?”
“Adravita said she seemed very immersed in this room.”
“You were very deeply immersed in Room 203?”
My sister, who was listening to that with interest, soon told an interesting story.
“Have you ever heard of Zhuangzi’s Phalaenopsis dream?”
“I was a butterfly in a dream, but when I woke up, I was a human. “I didn’t know if I was a butterfly or a person.”
“I know. I think about this sometimes, but Adravita’s situation felt exactly like this. Maybe this place, room 203, is another true world for him… .”
What does it feel like for prisoners trapped in the cursed room to experience inside? A meaningless puppet show that repeats itself infinitely?
Surprisingly, this may not be the case. Because the beings inside the Curse Chamber are no different from real people, whether in intelligence or behavior.
In addition, because the beings who perceive the external world called ‘participants’ and ‘prisoners’ each time create a butterfly effect internally, the beings inside the curse room also show completely different behavior every time.
This is why there are cases where people, like Jincheol and Eunsol, regard the beings inside as just people.
Sister Eunsol continued speaking.
“The teacher in Room 103 felt joy in killing the Athanasias inside. It means she felt real feelings of ‘hatred’ towards the NPC inside her. The sea god in room 202 hoped for salvation for his descendants. “This is also a story about her true love for her descendants.”
“That’s convincing. As you said, Adravita had been in this room for so long that she became deeply immersed in the scenario of Room 203 like some other prisoners. “Then what is the goal?”
“… Here our conversation stops again.”
“…”
“You can think about it like this. “What happened after that damn spaceship arrived on this planet?”
An incalculable amount of time has passed since the Pride of Man arrived on this planet.
The spaceship was left alone in a mountain range, with only its power source removed and transported hundreds of kilometers away. The AI called the crew traitors and went out of their way to capture and kill them on sight.
The semi-godly beings who boarded the spaceship to help humanity pioneer are wandering aimlessly in the sky and touring the continent, while beings whose descendants of humanity are unknown have lost civilization and are living as cavemen of the Stone Age.
“This is also a story I heard after asking an owl.”
“say it.”
“It’s clear that the crew collided with the AI, right?”
“It must be like that when you see people calling you traitors and traitors.”
“Maybe that conflict wasn’t everyone’s mutual destruction? “The spaceship has lost its power source and is half-disassembled, unable to leave the mountain range, and the forces that may be descendants of the crew have lost their civilization.”
“I guess so.”
“What role did Adravita play in that conflict?”
“well… . I wonder if we can find out what its power source is. “I thought of another more disgusting hypothesis.”
“What is it?”
“Isn’t there a lot of monsters in this world? “I think I see one almost every day.”
“Yes.”
“It is an environment that humans without civilization cannot survive. “The power of a god coming down from the sky is essential.”
“I guess so.”
“In other words, intelligent primitive people have no choice but to earnestly worship ‘some being’ who sends down gods.”
“…”
“…”
“You said you could meet the maze tomorrow morning, right? Oh, did you say Seungyeop and Elena are nearby too?”
“yes. There is less than 40km left in distance. It will take off in no time. “Seungyeop’s side has also come nearby.”
“It feels like the calm before the storm.”
The next morning, Song-i died.
*
– Elena
“young master! Please listen to me!”
I turned my head as I heard the now familiar appeal. As expected, several elderly people gathered around and knelt down in front of Seung-yeop, pleading earnestly.
They would never be able to understand the current situation.
The hellish forced march continues endlessly for no apparent reason. I don’t know my destination or why I’m moving. I just walk and walk endlessly in the field because the godman orders me to do so.
There is a shortage of food and a shortage of water. The lack of food and water is not enough for even the few strong warriors, including the godmen, so the weak are left to die in the fields.
However, this world is full of monsters as they run away from the new man who reigns like a tyrant. It is said that when a rookie dies, the next rookie comes down within a few months, but it is not strange if the tribe is wiped out in the meantime.
They think there is only one way out. Convincing a tyrant.
“young master!”
“…”
“Please, yesterday too, more than 30 people fell behind. “Where on earth are you going?”
“You will not be able to get past today.”
“yes?”
An ominous word resounds softly.
The primitive people around him trembled and took a step back. The old man who had been told his fate trembled without even being able to raise his head.
The author dies today, tomorrow morning at the latest. This has already been repeated several times.
Feeling an eerie feeling, I approached Seungyeop, no, the ‘human from the beginning’.
“… I always wonder, how on earth do you do it?”
“what?”
“How do you kill it? “In one word?”
“I’ve never killed anyone.”
“Lord, you killed him, right? “You sound anxious. How many times have you seen people die one after another?”
“You sound strange.”
The boy, who seemed to have gathered all the darkness of the world, looked at me as if I was strange and pointed to his surroundings. No matter where you looked across the vast plains, there were corpses of primitive people who could not overcome hunger and thirst.
“look. “Did you see them fall down while they were walking?”
“…”
“Originally people die. “I just told them that that person would die too.”
It’s ominous. This boy is sinister.
… I felt skeptical about myself for thinking like this.
Primitive people trembled with fear just by looking at Seungyeop, the original human. At the same time, the person you go to when things get tough is Seungyeop, not me.
because… .
At least Seungyeop doesn’t turn people into monsters.
— Kyai-ing!
I turned my head while hearing a sound that sounded cute, at least to my ears. I saw a mysterious scene where ‘fairies’ were flying around smiling brightly.
Now I know too. I know that I am the only being on this plain who finds that existence beautiful.
“Elena.”
“huh?”
“We’re almost there now.”
“Did you tell fortunes with the turtle shell again?”
“huh. “Look at this.”
I remembered a few days ago, when I hurried to visit Seungyeop, worried that he was suffering. There was no boy I already knew.
What remained was an unholy shaman walking through the ancient world.
“how… . “I don’t know what command you put in there.”
“huh?”
“no.”
I just prayed that this time would pass quickly.