Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 338
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Episode 338 – Re 203, Room of the Curse – ‘New Beginning’ (18)
– Kim Sang-hyun
— Looooo!
The sound of a flute is heard.
My clouded mind became clearer and I was able to think more calmly.
Funny enough, I was able to fight a little better because of that.
“Haaa!”
He tilted his head to the right to avoid the sharp energy emitted by the enemy, while extending his left hand and throwing out a sharp bone spear extending from his stomach.
An irritated voice was heard from the other party.
“Ugh! What kind of power did you get that makes a spear come out of your body? “Are you Wolverine?”
Instead of answering, she turned her body half a turn and struck the opponent’s upper body with her elbow, and at that moment, she used a strange falling technique and landed slowly backwards.
Ahri seemed to be slowing down her fall with her strange power, but then suddenly a red mist spewed out all over her body!
There is no choice but to step back and see the opportunity –
I realized there was no need for that.
If my current body were a natural human body, it would have been difficult to oppose such a supernatural power, no matter how much I practiced excellent fighting skills with the power of blessings.
But Adravita gave me the power of a half-god.
The moment I jumped into the blood fog, sharp needles formed from all directions and stabbed my whole body.
At that moment, my skin became as hard as stone and blocked the onslaught of old blood.
The other person’s voice burst out in confusion.
“What kind of power is this!”
I realized this through repeated battles. The power given to me by the Demon God and Ahri’s old blood. If both of us stick together with just these two, I win!
The next moment, a blue light flashed through the fog. As soon as I realized it, I had to immediately roll my whole body to the side.
…There was no flash of light.
That very force was prolonging this fight.
No matter how much pressure Ahri exerts with the strength of her strong body given by the Demon God, she can turn me into ashes with a single finger.
That’s why I had to step back again and again, even though I was on the verge of victory.
Of course, Ari’s situation was not comfortable at all. The moment the shot misses, Ari’s defeat is confirmed this time, and paradoxically, it is because he could not shoot easily.
“Kyaaaa!”
When a sharp scream was heard, Ari’s head immediately turned towards him.
Eunsol was rolling around to avoid the whip with sharp teeth.
Seung-yeop, wearing a protective suit, screamed and held on to the monster, but it seemed like he couldn’t hold on for long.
She picked up the flute again, bleeding from her leg.
Ari sighed in relief when he saw that.
As if that flute contained a clue to beating this room.
— Looooo!
The sound of a flute is heard.
I felt the strange sensation that the sound of the flute penetrating deep into my brain was revitalizing my rotten brain cells one by one.
I recalled a memory from long ago.
Memories of the time when the ‘family’ from Room 203 was still alive, before their bodies rotted away.
The face and voice of a woman I had forgotten a long time ago came to mind.
I vaguely remembered the children she gave birth to.
Was it a conversation you had with someone, not a conversation but a written conversation?
The other person seemed to have a very difficult time getting people’s words out with his mouth or ‘beak’.
*
‘teacher. Of course marriage and childbirth are things to celebrate, but I am worried. Please don’t forget that one day we will have to leave this room.’
‘□□-gun, we need power. Didn’t you explain what you were going to do?’
‘I’m worried about you.’
*
Huh!
I was in the middle of a battle when I made this mistake! If the other person had tried to cut off my head, he would have cut it 10 times!
“…Why didn’t you attack?”
“I think the Flute of Rest is effective.”
“effect?”
“What are you thinking? “It felt like I was lost in some kind of memory.”
I couldn’t answer.
It was definitely mine, but the memories I couldn’t remember came back and gradually confused my mind.
“Sanghyun, listen to me for a moment.”
“…”
“It was because of those people that the final blow that caused you to collapse mentally, right?”
Ari quietly stretched out his hand and pointed in all directions.
The field was filled with horrible monsters that looked like something an elementary school student had created by carelessly kneading the clay called flesh.
“The trigger that the evil spirit left behind for the primitive people has been activated. You probably thought that your efforts to resist Adravita were meaningless when you saw that… .”
“…”
“I don’t think so. “It’s not an emotional story, it has a logical basis.”
“Logical basis… .”
“First, the only ones causing problems are the soldiers who came here. Perhaps the prisoner’s power becomes particularly strong in this place. “People in the city are still fine.”
“…”
“If you think about it, you probably know this. I heard this happened 70 years ago? “When I returned to the city back then, the people in the city were fine, right?”
“I did.”
“Second, they can marry ‘humans’ and leave offspring. You know that best. What does it mean biologically to be able to leave offspring? “If we look broadly at the concept of the human species, it means that these people are included as well.”
“Miss Ari, are you serious about what you just said? Or are you just trying to convince me?”
“Is there a need to distinguish that? The important thing is that there is still a possibility of ‘resolution’. Because humanity’s new beginning, the City of Light, is still intact. the problem is… .”
Ari looked around for a moment and sighed.
Is it because the sound of the flute from earlier cleared my mind?
I felt like I knew what her concerns were.
Let’s say the solution condition for room 203 is ‘a new beginning for humanity,’ like the room’s title. The city that will serve as the foundation for the start has already been created.
The problem is that the world is full of monsters that threaten young civilizations that have not developed sufficiently, and the source of those monsters, the hatchery, remains.
According to the original plan, the plan was to push out the hatchery with the power of the army that had been brought here and the power of the remaining hotel party, but the army collapsed due to the power of the evil spirit, and the plan went awry.
How on earth are we supposed to destroy the hatchery?
— Looooo!
The sound of a flute is heard.
I remembered a long time ago again.
Cha Jin-cheol, who was fighting to save everyone on the spaceship, died.
I despaired and despaired as I saw the monsters coming around me.
I couldn’t get over it.
There was no way I could deal with those monsters alone.
I, too, will fall into cryosleep and become a frozen body, rotting and falling apart for eons… .
The moment I gave up everything, a miracle happened. The miracle came in the form of a bird.
“It reminds me of something from a long time ago.”
“Did something come to mind?”
“This is the story of the time when Jincheol and I were fighting to save you all. “I didn’t realize it a little while ago, but in fact, we achieved the results we had hoped for at the time.”
“result?”
“I told you earlier that in order to depart, the spaceship had dismantled and absorbed many of its security units, right?”
“okay.”
“But why couldn’t we set off?”
Ari’s mouth was half open.
“ah?”
“You didn’t think about this part, right? It’s no big deal. “Jincheol and I separated the spaceship’s core again.”
“core. Come to think of it, the core was able to move on its own, right? “Where are you?”
— Looooo!
The sound of a flute is heard.
The incomprehensible melody finally brought out the most painful memories of 300 years.
I… . Memories of the moment I collapsed.
Tears flowed.
“Miss Ari, this room is a painful place. “You can’t even imagine how many, truly terrible things I have been through.”
“…”
“But it was able to last for about 200 years. Do you know why?”
“…”
“Because I was not alone.”
Even after Cha Jin-cheol disappeared, I still had one more colleague.
There was a person who could endure eons even after losing his body.
“Do you know? Even if a person were to enter the body of a bird, he would not be able to fly. This is because the human brain does not have the software for flight. However, this is not necessarily the case after ‘a very long time’ has passed.”
“…”
“I remember flying training with a bird that had human intelligence. It was a more fun and enjoyable moment than I could have imagined. so… .”
“so?”
“The day his intelligence collapsed, I also collapsed.”
A clear sound of a flute was heard.
The screams of mutated humans coming from all directions stopped.
There was a bird in the sky.
There was a book in front of the bird.
*
– ???
The sound of a flute is heard. She felt the end of a long nightmare.
I learned that the irreversible destruction that came as a result of abusing the grimoire while losing the ‘Status Window’ had been nullified by the power of another miracle.
I think, who am I?
What is the race of someone who was born as a human and lived for 20 years, then turned into a bird and lived for 300 years?
I look at a book.
A realization that threw me out of my mortal frame passed through my little head.
Am I human? Is it a bird? Such concerns are worthless and useless.
If you have truly accepted great wisdom, the body is nothing more than clothes.
Can something like clothes that can be changed as needed define my essence?
As I turned my head, I saw that the boy standing among the monsters, hardened to stone by the power of the Avatar, was looking at me with a mesmerized expression.
“That book! “No way!”
The woman holding the flute also looked at me with wide eyes.
When she tapped the flute with her beak, she belatedly came to her senses and started singing again.
It flew up.
I soared endlessly upward, feeling the cool breeze.
The endlessly high sky, a secret place not yet permitted to those who walk the earth.
Those who can fly do not have intelligence, and those who have intelligence cannot fly.
Therefore, this place is the safest place in the world.
That’s why we hid a huge power in this very place.
So that judgment can be made at the last moment!
There was a sun in the sky.
At the moment of creation, there was not the real sun created by the great universe, but another sun created by humans.
There was a sun that could purify the polluted land created by a false creator in a single moment.
My body slowly began to burn as I flew toward the core.
It’s natural. The core is a machine that endlessly radiates heat.
No problem. Because this is my last flight.
The strength I needed was enough to press the button once with my whole body.
— Beep!
*
– Kim Ari
The temperature of the atmosphere began to rise.
Because the ‘core’ that was higher than the aurora that covered the sky began to fall to the surface!
People, monsters that were people just a moment ago, monsters that were monsters from the beginning –
I was completely lost and looked at the sun coming down from the sky.
At that time, the voice of an extremely tired man was heard.
“Shoot now.”
“what?”
“That thing won’t explode even if you drop it on the floor. Adravita installed Aurora to prevent that and even created a buffer zone.”
“Have you tried dropping it? already?”
“Do you know how long 300 years is? “You have no idea how many moves I and ‘we’ have tried during that time.”
“…”
“We had a bomb but no trigger.”
He raised his hand and spoke a sentence that might be the last in this room.
“I am now death, the destroyer of worlds.”
A flash of light pierced the sun coming down from the sky.