Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 33
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Episode 33 – Room 103, Room of Curse – ‘Athanasia’s Human Ranch’ (2)
Episode 33 – Room 103, Room of Curse – ‘Athanasia’s Human Ranch’ (2)
[User: Mmmmmm
Date: ㅁㅁ1st
Current location: Tier 1, Room 103 (Curse Room – Athanasia’s Human Ranch)
Sage Advice: 3]
I stand blankly and watch people.
Pure white structures so huge that you can’t see them at a glance.
Between the structures, beings we thought of as ‘goblins’ walk around, revealing their true form as white giants with multiple tentacles.
Lots of incomprehensible machines.
Some look like giant smartphones, and some even have fluid shapes.
One thing in common.
Everyone was wearing a silver bracelet on one of their tentacles.
Every time a strange holy light flashes on the silver bracelet, a change occurs in people.
Is it a tool to control humans?
In the space created by the structure, people can be seen living in their own fantasies, all wearing objects similar to restraints around their necks.
Perhaps, at first, you will be given a ‘human role’ and live in a fantasy.
Then, as their souls are gradually sucked away, at some point they will be trapped in the body of an animal, and in the end, they will be consumed, given only the role of a being whose intellect has disappeared.
I truly see a world where humans have become resources.
The last day of Animal Farm, which I can barely remember anymore.
Everything fell apart, and our little rebellion disappeared with a single gesture from the giants.
What if I had died back then?
At least I wouldn’t have to endure a life of pain like now.
Cows, pigs, cats, dogs, snakes, wolves, and mice, all are crushed in an instant.
The moment when I was assigned a ‘new role’
Only the goose escaped the cursed cycle of reincarnation.
The being that pulled me out was a pure white giant.
It was only after quite some time that I learned that he was called ‘Theodus’ by his colleagues.
Theodus reset the ‘ranch’ and pulled out only me.
Why?
Since I couldn’t ask the giant who couldn’t have any conversation or communication, I thought countless times alone.
‘friendship’.
A blessing I received from the hotel.
The blessing of ‘Friendship’ stopped the strange monkeys from attacking me on the first day, and this time it made the monster that sucks out human souls favor me.
Perhaps that’s what the giant had in mind…
Isn’t this the mentality of a person running a poultry farm who happens to see a particularly cute-looking chicken and chooses one to become a pet?
People eat chickens constantly, and send hundreds of thousands of chicks to the grinder every day, but at the same time, many people raise pet chickens.
If even humans are creatures with such complex aspects, then beings that appear to clearly surpass humans cannot be simple.
This is the only category of metaphor I can understand.
Should I say I’m glad?
Theodus did not particularly abuse or harass me.
Rather, to be more specific, they would touch its head every time they passed by, as if they were treating it like a cute pet, and before I knew it, some of the other giants started doing similar things.
Neither water nor meals were provided in a particularly humiliating manner, just plain-tasting energy bars and cups of water were always provided.
According to the article below, if my guess is correct, I am probably a pet.
There aren’t many people in the world who would abuse their pets even if they rescued them from a poultry farm.
If all of this is because of the blessings the hotel gave me, then I am truly blessed.
———-Beep
A beeping sound echoes throughout the building.
Now, I know what that sound means.
The silver bracelets of the giants moving around the structure emit a pure white brilliance.
Countless humans, lost in their own worlds and their own illusions, walk out.
Even the moment I walk out like this –
They were still in a fantasy.
The mind is still immersed in endless fantasy, but the body moves on its own and waits for its turn to be ‘harvested’.
As time passed, a gray giant with a bizarre shape appeared.
If other giants have a similar overall shape to a humanoid but have multiple tentacles instead of arms,
That being doesn’t even have legs, just a shape with numerous tentacles.
It looks like a spider starfish magnified a million times, with only tentacles on its body.
What is it?
Why is that being so different from other giants?
‘Teacher’ didn’t know either. Actually, the situation of the ‘teacher’ is fundamentally not that different from mine.
It’s just that he’s been locked up in this facility for an incomparably long time, so he knows more facts than I do.
Tentacles stretched out and pierced people’s heads.
At first I almost cried when I saw it, but now I’m just amazed.
Why on earth doesn’t a single drop of blood come out when you pierce a person’s head?
And there is nothing inside a person’s head other than the brain.
How do those tentacles pull ‘things like that’ out of the head?
Something like that.
A whitish lump.
At first glance, it looks like a small cloud,
In another way, it looks like a shining stone that radiates brilliance.
On the outside, it’s something strange that seems to have the properties of liquid, solid, and gas all mixed together.
‘Fragments of reason’ ‘The joint between soul and body’
The teacher expressed it that way.
To put it complicatedly, it is infinitely complicated, but to put it simply, the more it is pulled out, the more human intelligence is strained and the closer it gets to the intelligence of tiny creatures.
That is said to be the reason why the giants of this world, ‘Athanasia’, breed people.
In fact, it is said that there are several breeding grounds where intelligent beings other than humans are squeezed out, but I have never been there.
Because I always go back and forth between the human kennel and the basement (I named it the basement on my own terms).
If I were alone, I would have no way of knowing what that was.
Because I had no idea until the ‘teacher’ told me.
For humans who still have high intelligence, reason can be extracted,
I watched in a dazed way as humans, whose intelligence was slowly declining like those of animals and whose productivity was low, were ‘disposed of’.
How long do I have to keep seeing this?
Time passes endlessly.
It is not clear how many days have passed. I think it counts up to 10 days…
This white desert where everything is colored with white light, the hell of an emotionless person.
Even counting the days was painful, so I gave up.
——Wheeiiiing
A humming mechanical sound. Now I’m used to it because I’ve heard it a lot.
When that sound is heard, Theodus always appears.
Oh, thank goodness.
The only reason I can still hold on to my spirit in this hell.
The only thing I can communicate with.
It’s time to go see the ‘teacher’.
Every time I go underground, I have questions.
Of course, I don’t know if the place I’m going to is underground, but let’s say it’s underground, how on earth do ‘Athanasia’ move?
When the silver bracelet at the tip of ‘Theodus’ tentacle flashed, my location had already shifted.
From what I have observed so far, the function of that silver bracelet is to warp the minds of intelligent beings such as humans.
In other words, Theodus temporarily puts my mind to sleep every time and moves on.
So, if you think about it, there is no way to know where it is going, but the reason I call it underground is because the place it moves to is always dark.
A huge space with nothing but a blurry light source.
At least 20 Athanasias are operating gigantic devices that I cannot understand.
The thing in the middle of the room is a huge fish tank-like object.
Inside…
There is something so overwhelmingly large that it makes even the white giants look the size of a finger.
If the white giant is roughly 6 to 8 meters tall, wouldn’t that be 50 meters tall?
In fact, it is impossible to guess the size with the naked eye.
beautiful.
I always feel that ‘teacher’ is an incredibly beautiful creature.
The identity of the dim light source that illuminates this huge room.
That happens in the teacher’s body.
It’s like – a huge whale with countless crystals rising up,
Glittering powder endlessly floats between the crystals.
On the outskirts of the body, something resembling an unidentified creature constantly arises.
Immediately repeat the absorption again.
Rather than a single living thing, it is a microcosm.
A cycle of reincarnation that repeats endless birth and death.
There is no way I can describe it with my limited descriptive skills.
It was just beautiful.
I feel like that being is the most beautiful creature in the world.
For about 30 seconds, take a close look at the only brilliance that exists in this painful world.
I heard a ‘voice’.
Hey… you came to see me today too.
yes. teacher. I came to see you today too.
Did you swim in pain today too?
Even today, I saw endless people withering away and dying.
The pain won’t last forever. Be patient and patient. The time will come when you wait without them finding out that your intelligence has been restored.
Recovery of intelligence. Strictly speaking, it would be correct to say that the extraction of intelligence has stopped.
I realized it only after meeting the teacher, but it was just a coincidence that the ‘extraction’ of my intellect stopped in the first place.
When I was a goose on a farm, the extraction of my intellect stopped after the restraint around my neck was slightly damaged for some reason, probably on the day the farmer was trying to pluck my fur.
But if this is a poultry farm, the chickens suddenly stopped laying eggs, so why wasn’t I disposed of? I still don’t know about that part.
More than that… When will the ‘time’ come when the pain will end?
When, when will that time come? I always think about it. Aren’t these beings gods or demons?
Will I be able to escape from these beings who play with people’s hearts with a single wave of their hand and imprison them in an illusory prison from which they can never escape?
In the eyes of a chick, an eagle is like a god, and in the eyes of a puppy, people are like gods. Your salvation is not far away. For now, just sleep peacefully.
————–ah
As soon as I heard those words, my eyes suddenly became heavy.
I prayed while falling asleep. Please, may the only hope I have left come true.
So, I hope that the day will come when we can escape this farm of pain and meet everyone…