Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 335
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Episode 335 – Re No. 203, Room of the Curse – ‘New Beginning’ (15)
– Park Seung-yeop
It’s dark and stuffy.
The space itself was not narrow, but there were many complicated machines everywhere that impeded movement, and since I was wearing a protective suit, it became much larger.
— Rumble!
“oh!”
“be careful. “Just stay still.”
“Yes… .”
Ari, who was reunited after hundreds of years, was no different from before. She’s been sleeping since she was her older sister in the first place, so she’s changed a lot, but she doesn’t do that anymore.
Finally, a strange metallic sound came from the machine my sister was operating, and images began to appear on the wall. It must have been some kind of beam projector-like machine.
The beginning of the video was like this.
“I think about the moment of destruction.
Since the subject of thought is not human, the word regeneration would be more appropriate than thought.
…
…
…」
After the video ended, my older sister was quiet and lost in thought.
“sister.”
“…”
“Sister Ari. “I have a question.”
“I’m sorry, but let me ask first. “It’s because I need to organize my thoughts.”
“yes.”
“From what I heard, you woke up from cryosleep and 322 years had passed?”
“This is my first time hearing the number 322. “Has it been that long?”
“If the AI’s records are accurate, then yes. After awakening, I joined the city-state founded by Sanghyeon and returned to the mountains with help. “Tell me again from there.”
“As soon as we entered the mountains, robots appeared! “The moment a cannonball larger than my head was pointed at me, my instinct to sense danger was -”
“You used your luck, right?”
“… yes.”
“Just skip that part. “It wouldn’t be funny anyway.”
“The shell fell behind me and was blown away by the shock wave. “We repeated this similar thing about three times and arrived at the spaceship.”
“It’s even more amazing than I thought. Anyway, your luck ended when you arrived at the spaceship? “Tell me from there.”
“Once we got inside, the robots stopped firing shells.”
“It would have been because if I fired something like that and the spaceship was damaged, I would either die or wake up.”
“At some point Perrault suddenly led me. I think I probably felt my sister’s position. Then she discovered a crack leading underground.”
“Tell me more.”
“As I was moving, Pero suddenly stopped behind a huge wall. at that time! “My instincts told me that my sister was behind this.”
“How did you get over that wall?”
“I tried punching with the power of the protective clothing, but it didn’t work at all. “So I couldn’t figure out what to do, but I heard a strange noise.”
“Sound strange?”
“The sound of metal shaking and rubbing? Squeaking sound? “As I got closer, there was that trace.”
I stretched out my hand and pointed to the hole in the wall through which I came. My sister looked at that part carefully.
“After that, when I came in, there was something like a capsule with my sister asleep.”
“great job. And good job.”
Suddenly my sister lightly hugged my head.
“Aaaah!”
“Are you surprised that I barely gave you a hug and I’m not even an elementary school student?”
“no! You hug me while I’m wearing a protective suit! Wait a minute, I’ll take it off again -”
“Stop talking nonsense and sit back down.”
“… yes.”
After that, my sister continued to pace around as if she was lost in thought. Her heart raced as she thought about the teacher waiting for her outside.
“sister! Wouldn’t it be better to leave now? “The teacher will be waiting outside!”
“If you’ve waited over 300 years, what’s the big deal about waiting an hour or two more?”
“…”
Wow, that was just too much!
For a moment, I almost understood Ga-in’s feelings about how he often wanted to body-butt Ari.
“More than anything, there are many records left by AI in this place. “It’s a difficult place to re-enter, so we have to check everything.”
“… Please say that from the beginning.”
Suddenly my sister looked at me closely.
“sister?”
“I don’t think it’s him.”
“yes?”
“no. “I heard you have something to ask me more than that?”
“Oh, I was watching the video left by the AI earlier, and I didn’t understand the last part. “I heard that the AI found a logical loophole in the Demon God’s proposal and left a rebellion. What do you mean?”
“This record itself.”
“yes?”
“The record itself that everything in this room was created under Adravita’s design from beginning to end is rebellion.”
“W-what do you mean?”
“The prisoner commanded the AI, ‘Forget today’s events and never remember them.’ The AI separated the records of that day from the database and processed them so that the AI itself could not access them.”
I finally understand. Since the AI itself cannot access the data, it is unable to forget the events of that day and remember them forever as instructed.
But that doesn’t mean the data is gone!
“The data has not disappeared. AI cannot access it, but people with higher authority than AI can of course access it. like me.”
After saying those words, my sister became quiet again. The silence this time was very long.
“excuse me… .”
“Seungyeop.”
“yes?”
“Shall we escape after this?”
“Yeah? “Suddenly what!”
Can you escape right now?
“What do you think the conditions for escape from Room 203 are? “Reflect on the first and second escapes.”
“The first escape was when Eunsol and Songi, who had moved far in the opposite direction of the mountain range, suddenly, for reasons unknown to themselves, -”
“The timing is similar to the time when the people who went to the mountain range fought fiercely against the AI that borrowed my body, right?”
“Yes, but… .”
“The second escape occurred as soon as Miro killed me, who had summoned me to the time zone. Even everyone escaped. What do they have in common? “You gave a critical hit to the AI both times, right?”
“Yes?”
“What is the direct threat to us in this room? The prisoner who designed this hellhole? no. “Prisoners have been subject to various restrictions since we woke up.”
“AI is a direct threat in this room? “If you think about it, it was AI that put us into cryo-sleep.”
“okay. Either inflict a huge blow to the AI and increase the distance, or suddenly destroy the body that the AI resides in without being able to prepare in advance. In the end, inflicting a critical hit on the AI is the condition for escape. and… .”
My sister silently raised her finger and pointed at the screen. There was a small notification on the screen.
“Captain Ari Kim, would you like to stop all functions of the Pride of Humanity?”
“If you press enter once here, the AI will stop forever.”
If you do that, you will escape room 203.
“Escape is a bit… .”
“Are you sad? “Sang-hyeon has suffered so much for hundreds of years, so why not just end it by escaping?”
“Am I too immature…?” .”
“no. “I feel the same way.”
“Your sister too?”
Ari walked around for a moment, then opened her mouth again.
“Escape. Let’s hold on a little longer for a solution. What is right? There is a reason to escape immediately. “We are already in a big crisis.”
“Big crisis?”
“I found out while looking at the AI’s central control system that three of them, Han Ga-in, Cha Jin-cheol, and Elena, are already dead. “They say Adravita’s family invaded and destroyed the frozen sleep facility.”
“Ahh!”
“Quiet.”
“Oh, why are you dying? Even a prisoner killed him? “If we die, won’t this room disappear?”
“That’s what happens when everyone dies.”
“yes?”
“Think of it from Adravita’s perspective. As you say, we should never all die. But is there really a need to keep them all alive?”
“uh… .”
“As long as we are alive, we also have a chance. Do you know what will happen if you hold on for hundreds or thousands of years? “You were the only one who escaped due to the force of the earthquake.”
“That’s heavenly luck -”
“Heavenly luck caused an earthquake? Isn’t it strange? “You’ve used Heaven’s Luck many times, but you’ve never used it to that level of power, right?”
“Yes, of course. So I was also amazed.”
“Think simply. Couldn’t the earthquake have occurred unrelated to the blessing? You may ask how an earthquake can happen by chance, but if it has been in a certain area for hundreds of years, it can happen of course.”
“That’s right. “They say there is no earthquake-safe zone.”
After listening to this point, I thought I knew why I woke up so late.
This is because even with the power of heavenly luck, the timing of the earthquake could not be brought forward.
Could it be that heavenly luck did not cause the earthquake, but rather made it possible for me to wake up safely from a naturally occurring earthquake?
“The fact that we are alive like this is itself a variable. “You are the proof.”
“Yes.”
“Let’s go back to the prisoner’s perspective. To Adravita, we cannot all be killed, but if we keep all of us alive, there will definitely be a problem.”
“So the ‘dangerous participant’ was killed. Since Ari is the captain, you had no choice but to save her to control the spaceship in case of emergency?”
Ga-in, Jin-cheol, and Elena.
The prisoner believed that these three people were too dangerous to keep alive, so he sent his subordinates to kill them in cryo-sleep.
“… I lived because I was weak in the eyes of a prisoner. In his own way, he also wrote about the beginning of man!”
For some reason, I became glum. My older sister felt that and laughed.
“Are you sad to be alive?”
Of course not.
“Anyway, the survivors are you and me, Sanghyun outside, and Mukseong and Eunsol who are asleep. There are five like this. “Since our power is less than half, the further progress itself is very dangerous.”
“Then would it be better to escape?”
“There is also evidence that it is better to try more.”
“What is it?”
“First, after you escape, you usually gather information and reorganize your strategy before returning, right?”
“Yes.”
“It won’t be in this room. Are you sure. “The way I see it, if we escape like this, we will never return to room 203 again.”
“Why?”
“It turns out that escaping into space on a spaceship is a prisoner’s trap. What is the real solution? “Wouldn’t it be like making a ‘new beginning’ with primitive people like Sanghyeon is doing now?”
“I think so.”
“Who wants to do that hard work next time?”
“…”
If the real solution is to take primitive people like the doctor and create civilization… . Who on earth would want to do this difficult work?
In my opinion, the answer is to never return to this crazy room again.
“There are more serious problems. As we progress, so do prisoners. “Because the prisoner in room 203 is as crazy as ‘Ju’ in room 104.”
Yes.
Adravita, similar to ‘Ju’, is a being who actively designs rooms. If you escape and come back like this, the contents of the room may be strangely distorted.
“So this escape is not like taking one step back to take two steps forward. “You’re just giving up the rewards you can get from Room 203 forever.”
“Yes.”
“Second, surprisingly, I think we’re almost done with solving this problem.”
“Because the doctor has already created civilization?”
“That’s it. Sanghyun worked hard like crazy to overcome the most difficult section. “I think all that’s left now is finishing work.”
“Finishing work?”
“We are pushing the obstacles in the way of a new beginning for humanity. “I’ll tell you more about this when I meet Sanghyun later.”
“yes.”
My sister fell silent again, and I tried to summarize what I heard from her.
Currently, Ari is able to get the entire hotel party to escape by stopping all functions of the spaceship with captain’s authority and destroying the AI.
If you go out and proceed further with the goal of solving the problem rather than escaping, you are giving up this convenient escape. It would be difficult to destroy AI from the outside.
What is the basis for escaping?
Ga-in, Jin-cheol, and Elena died in cryo-sleep, so the remaining power in the party is weak.
Any reason to try more?
If we escape like this, we are giving up the legacy of Room 203, and according to my sister, we are already close to solving the problem.
Because the doctor has already taken care of the most difficult part.
Ari, who had been silent, suddenly turned towards me.
“Make your decision.”
“yes?”
“Ignorance!”
“yes?”
“Don’t think, just choose! “Pick it with faith in the energy of the universe!”
“Eight! “Do more!”
I didn’t think about it.
Will I be able to find an answer to a difficult problem that even my sister, who is 10 times smarter than me, can’t come to a conclusion by thinking about it with my head?
I chose with my heart, not my head. On a human level, the doctor suffered for 300 years!
Finishing this incredibly difficult tower by ‘barely escaping’?
That’s not true.
Ari smiled and looked at the ceiling.
“okay. Let’s do more. Let’s finish this damn room and eat the paranoid whale raw.”
My sister’s hand turned to the sky.
“Actually, there was a third reason to do more.”
“yes?”
“I think I know what one of this room’s two legacies is.”
“A miscarriage?”
At that moment, my sister’s voice spread out, containing rhyme, almost like a song.
“The final flash will purify everything. “I am now death, the destroyer of worlds.”
And light arose.
A flash of light from my sister’s fingertips pierced the sky.
The outer walls of spaceships that flew across space, and the rocks of the Crimson Mountains that have endured like water for eons… .
Nothing could stop the flash.
Finally, all the landmarks broke through and the blue sky was revealed. Eventually, the flash of light even evaporated the clouds in the sky.
My heart feels grand.
The shock of pure power, destruction, and power came as a kind of emotion. I looked at my sister with a feeling like I was going to cry –
“In the name of love and justice! “I will not forgive the whale!”
“… What line is that?”
“ah? Don’t you know this? “It’s a cartoon that was popular back in the day -”
“Body headbutt!”
“Aaaah!”
Today, I understood why Ga-in sometimes body-butts Ari.