Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 329
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Episode 329 – Re 203, Room of the Curse – ‘New Beginning’ (9)
– maze
I feel dizzy. I don’t have any strength left in my whole body, so I can’t even lift a finger.
Because I have been starving for several days. I remembered what happened a few days ago, when I first entered the room.
The hatchery where new creatures are born, a nest of disgusting abnormalities filled with writhing flesh, is my starting point in Room 203.
Why am I the only one starting in this horrible place? You never know.
Anyway, since the starting point was so uncertain, I also had to choose a colleague based on whether or not he could let me out.
The first was, of course, Yu Song. Maybe you can use the hatchery wasp to get me out. He was the first person that everyone thought of during the meeting.
The second was Cha Jin-cheol, and he suggested that he could just tear off the hatchery wall with force, and if the wasps showed an aggressive reaction in the process, he could kill them by beating them.
Actually, I wanted to borrow Ga-in’s time.
However, according to Ga-in, even if he were possessed by a wasp, he would not be able to move his four wings properly, let alone fly in the sky, so he gave up.
The third is Ari with no choice. Because the fastest and easiest escape method currently confirmed is Ari’s death.
After entering room 203, Songi was called out as soon as it started.
*
“Look at this! “Isn’t this kid surprisingly cute?”
“that’s interesting. “Can you really control such a monster?”
“Don’t think it’s a monster, just believe it’s cute. Why, aren’t bees actually secretly cute? It’s fluffy and round. “If you look closely, this one looks similar to a bee.”
“If a bee grows a million times bigger, it won’t be cute at all. “It’s good, so take me out!”
“… Who on earth taught you to have such a rude personality? Was he born?”
“hurry!”
*
Although Songi complained, she summoned wasps and took me out of the hatchery. He thought things were going well up to this point.
The moment I stuck my head outside the hatchery, Songi and I were both entranced.
*
“Aaaah!”
“Ugh!”
“Keeeeeeek!”
“No, Kong, why are you screaming?”
“Ko, Kongi?”
“His name-”
“Stop talking nonsense and save me! “What are all these monsters?”
“M-Miro, stay still! “Because you’re struggling, Kong’s legs are about to fall off!”
“Aaaah!”
“Can’t you stay still? You stupid middle school student! “Don’t just look like Ari, act a little like her!”
*
When a memory from the past came to mind, I smiled involuntarily.
It’s funny even thinking about it again. No, why did the wasp that was carrying us scream together? Crowd mentality?
There were at least five giant monsters outside the hatchery. Thanks to that, the moment I left, I screamed in disbelief, thinking I was dead.
However, surprisingly, the monsters just looked at us with blank eyes and did not show any reaction.
At first, I was impressed by how friendly Songi was. .
*
“So, Songi is really amazing!”
“huh?”
“Are you possessed by these many monsters? I wish I had a blessing as powerful as Songi… .”
Songi made a bewildered expression for a moment.
“What is my blessing? strong? “That can’t be possible.”
“what?”
“Can’t you see? They are like the guardians of this hatchery. “If wasps are workers, then they are security guards.”
“ah… .”
“I’m not attacking you because I’m with Kong. “My affinity cannot possess that many monsters at once.”
“Well, I see.”
“Miro, you need to be a little more attentive.”
At first, he screamed with me and showed off his pride!
… But since you’re helping me now, I have to endure it.
“Hey, look over there!”
“hmm?”
Songi soon changed direction by giving instructions to the monster wasp, ‘Kongi’.
The building I found was very neat and did not fit in at all with the hatchery, which was full of hideous, unrecognizable monsters and writhing flesh.
I recognized it as soon as I saw it because it was like a clean laboratory. That’s the place the ‘whale’ showed at the end of the second attempt!
There was some sort of security device in front of the building, and when I put my hand into it, my fingers felt a tingling sensation and I heard a mechanical sound.
“Your identity has been confirmed. Captain Ari Kim, welcome to the Southern Pioneer Branch.”
And then 3 days, 5 days, 7 days passed.
*
“…”
It’s safe here.
The horrible monsters that abound outside gnash their teeth as they look at me beyond the transparent door, but that’s it. I know very well that they don’t lift a finger on the building.
There are no monster attacks in this place, and it is neither cold nor hot. In addition, there are things like beds that are comfortable to lie down on, as well as a modern bathroom that is unbecoming of a primitive era.
It was a perfect place except for one problem.
“My stomach… . “I’m hungry.”
There was no food in this building. I could drink water from the bathroom, but there was no way to get food, not even a piece of cookie.
Every night, as I fell asleep, exhausted from hunger, I thought about it countless times. Why not just call Ari and ask him to commit suicide?
It didn’t seem like a bad idea to escape like this. Because I have already found out so much information!
This place is a facility established by humans for colonization when they arrived on this planet 1,800 years ago.
The reason why the truly great astronauts, unlike their fallen descendants, moved the spacecraft’s main power source, the ‘core’, to this location was to colonize the planet.
Also, the miserable records of why they were destroyed also lay dormant. If you somehow get out there, I have a lot to tell you.
So wouldn’t it be okay to end it right here?
… I held on and held on.
Because it was already the third time. If you leave here and come back, it is the 4th time, so it is actually the last time. After the 5th session?
Honestly, I think everyone will just give up on room 203 after the 5th episode. Because it’s not like there’s only one room.
“Do you understand my situation now? It’s really hard to even say this… .”
“I understand.”
Ari sat next to me with a complicated expression and held out a thermos.
“… Isn’t this Ari blood?”
“that’s right. Surprisingly, blood also has its own calories. Also, my blood is a mysterious medicine with many benefits.”
I don’t know if it’s a great medicine, but I felt revitalized when I drank Ari’s blood.
“thank you.”
“It’s a temporary solution. “There are limits to this.”
After hearing about my situation, Ari said while looking at the monsters waiting outside the building door.
“Did you say you borrowed time from so-and-so?”
“Yoo Song-i, Cha Jin-cheol and you.”
“What about Han Ga-in?”
“Not this time. as you know -”
“Oh, I remember. I thought it wouldn’t be of much use at the hatchery, so I passed… . It’s a shame. “It would have been most useful in the current situation.”
“Gain?”
“Should we summon Cha Jin-cheol and break through? No. “There are too many numbers, so this is impossible.”
“…”
“Songi has already been summoned from the hatchery once, right?”
“huh.”
“How much time do you have left that you borrowed from Songi?”
“About 40 minutes. “The building is near the hatchery, so Songi didn’t spend that much time.”
“Is it better to trust in friendship and go out?”
Is it because he drank Ari’s blood a little while ago? Feeling a little energized, I joined in.
“Can’t I summon Cha Jin-cheol and defeat just one or two of them before summoning Song-i?”
Ari shook his head and explained the nature of affinity.
“Friendship only allows the Chaos to feel quite close to Songi, and is not some kind of mind control or brainwashing. “Under orders from a more powerful entity or when very strong hostility arises, there are limits to friendliness.”
“After the collision, the monsters will become angry and ignore Songi’s friendliness?”
“There is a high probability yes. “Cha Jin-cheol won’t be able to kill all of those monsters anyway, so it would be better not to summon him.”
In the end, I felt like I would have to summon Songi and pray that the power of Chinhwa would be able to block the attacks of those monsters.
I finally asked Ari, who was looking at me with a worried expression.
“… How about summoning the maze of the past?”
Ari’s expression became extremely dark.
I don’t think it’s time to use the last resort. It’s just ‘my crisis’ right now, but most of my colleagues will be fine.
You’re fine, right?
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 683,623
Current Location: Tier 2, Room 203 – Chamber of Curse ‘New Beginning’
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
“… Let’s leave now.”
Jincheol’s expression was dark as he buried Songi’s body in the pit.
Of course, since it is death in the cursed room, we can meet again if we leave… .
Even so, death is death. You can never accept it comfortably.
Eunsol looked somewhat disappointed as she wiped her moist eyes.
“The cutter just flew away. “What do you want to do?”
“I’m glad it just flew away. “I was worried that the monster would try to kill us since Songi, who tamed him, died.”
“Isn’t it true that we have also developed a bond of our own?”
“I just put it on top and made it strong and ate it? Well, I guess it’s good. “We’re almost there anyway.”
Jincheol came up to me and asked.
“Exactly how many kilometers are left to the maze location?”
“I can’t see it anymore.”
“ah… .”
I don’t know anymore. This is because the location of the maze appears like this in the colleague’s location information display.
[Kim Miro: Death]
Thanks to this, when I woke up in the morning, I also realized why Songi had died silently, like a sleeping princess. For some reason, Miro summoned Songi to escape the crisis, but it seems he failed.
“No problem. “Maybe if we follow that, something will come out.”
My sister, who was riding on top of the grotesque, spoke briefly. My sister’s gaze was directed forward.
“Do you see something?”
“… I see something that looks like a huge shape. And is there anything that’s bothering you?”
“Are you twitching?”
“Let’s think about it as we go.”
After traveling for about an hour, my sister got off the grotesque with a dark expression and stopped everyone.
“The giant figure I mentioned earlier. “It’s a building.”
Jincheol hyung reacted in bewilderment.
“A building? “Did they pile up stones because it was the Stone Age?”
“no. “It’s clearly a modern building.”
“What do you mean?”
“It was probably founded by the spaceship forces that established the civilization of the mountains.”
“let’s go.”
“wait. “There are a lot of monsters nearby.”
“Are you like the cutter?”
“maybe. One, two, three. Uh… .”
“…”
“five? six? seven?”
“It’s terrible.”
Even when tied 1-1, there are seven threatening monsters?
Uneasy. There are three people on this side, but since Eunsol is not part of the fighting force, my brother and I will actually have to deal with the seven.
“Is it difficult?”
The three of us gathered together for a moment and put our heads together, but no clear number came to mind. Seeing so many monsters at the location where Miro was just before she died, I could guess why she died.
[Advice: 3 -> 2]
‘Is there a way to get through the monster and get to the building?’
[wait. The way will soon open.]
“Eh?”
“What? “What did you tell me?”
“You want me to wait?”
The ‘soon’ the owl said was really soon. It didn’t take more than 10 minutes for my sister’s gaze to shift and her expression to appear serious.
“let’s go.”
“sister?”
“I understand what it means to open the way.”
“yes?”
“Let’s just go.”
Strangely, Eunsol did not explain ‘why’ the road was opened.
However, I could tell that something unusual was happening because my sister’s expression was as hard as stone.
It was embarrassing to say that there was a monster, but there was no one to stop us until we arrived at the building and passed the security system.
Instead, there was a passenger inside the building who arrived before us.
“Mr. Gain! You’re here! There’s a sink over there, so you might want to do a light wash. By the way, you can enter by inserting your hand into the machine at the entrance to the building.”
Elena, whom I met after a long time, was even more beautiful than usual, so I smiled without knowing.
The older sister, who was smiling brightly and hugging Elena lightly, suddenly asked with a worried look.
“you… . Are you okay?”
“yes?”
“Would you like me to sing the flute?”
“…”
“I’ll just call you.”
“I’ll bring Seungyeop upstairs too.”
Jincheol, who could not stand the strange atmosphere, asked me.
“Why did you do that to me earlier? “Why are you suddenly playing the flute?”
I couldn’t answer because I was also very curious. However, one ominous thought occurred to me.
Given the circumstances, it seems that Elena and Seungyeop, who arrived before us, brought out the monster near the facility.
What on earth did they do and what did my sister see?
By evening, we were finally able to understand the tragedy that occurred 1,800 years ago in Room 203.
This is because a lot of data remained in this building, the ‘Southern Pioneer Branch’.
“… There was a reason why the AI tried to kill the crew?”
Everyone nodded at Jincheol’s words.