Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 339
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Episode 339 – Re No. 203, Room of the Curse – ‘New Beginning’ (19) Fin
– Eunsol Lee
The moment a flash of light split the air, my vision was colored with light.
As I looked at the sight of the entire world being destroyed by a huge heat wave that seemed to burn my retinas, I wondered if it could be possible.
No, right?
I guess we all woke up, but we all got caught up in this explosion and died, so it’s a failure, right?
Ah~! That’s not it!
At that time, someone’s voice was heard.
“At least your ending won’t be so vain.”
When I felt a ray of light shining on me from the sky, everything that made up me, including my body, mind, and soul, headed towards the infinitely high sky.
It was high, so high that it was impossible to tell whether this place was the sky or space.
And in front of me was Adravita.
“Ah ah ah ah ah… .”
An unholy presence fills my gaze.
A time when a presence that no human being could endure suddenly weighed down my soul and the urge to rip out my eyeballs arose.
Suddenly a notification appeared.
[You have acquired the ‘eyes of one who contemplates all things from the peak’!]
Thanks to you, I came to my senses.
“It would have been better to just turn around. Now I have to go sober and gouge out my eyeballs… .”
I stabbed my eyes with my hand.
“Aaaah!”
Everything, again!
“Aaaah!”
again!
“Eight!”
“What on earth are you doing?”
“… pulling out eyeballs.”
“why?”
“Because I have to.”
The next moment, a tentacle flew out of nowhere and stabbed my eye.
Then, like an egg popping out of a glass jar, the eyeball popped out and disappeared somewhere.
“…”
Suddenly, this thought occurred to me.
What were the conditions for acquiring the ‘eyes of one who contemplates all things from the apex’ that I acquired a little while ago?
After the scenario begins in earnest, won’t I end up in outer space or a very high sky?
However, I did not come to outer space on my own.
I don’t know why, but Adravita suddenly brought me back.
Did the hotel really anticipate that the prisoner would do something unexpected and create such conditions? If not… .
“Why are you so lost in your thoughts?”
“perhaps… . Wasn’t the hotel’s intention for us to escape this planet on a spaceship? “If it had proceeded that way, the eyeballs would have naturally been pulled out.”
“Why on earth did I have to gouge out your eyes?”
Escape to the stars in a spaceship.
I thought it was just a prisoner’s trap, but was that really a solution?
You never know. This is why the cursed room is always difficult. Because there is not one answer.
“I heard what you said just fine. Probably because issue 203 is resolved and everything comes to an end. “Why did you bother to call me here?”
“… What have you done to me?”
“Nothing was done. Because the flute has no offensive power. “Maybe it’s the power to turn back a twisted mind?”
I wasn’t sure. Like other inheritance owners, I do not understand and write about the principles of inheritance.
“It brought back memories from a long time ago.”
“…”
“very… . “It was an old memory.”
“…”
“Have you ever built a sand castle? Have you ever worked hard all day to build a castle, only to have the day’s hard work go to waste when the waves lightly pass by?”
“There is no one who doesn’t have that experience. “It’s not uncommon for a project you’ve worked hard on for months to turn into a mountain of debt before you close your eyes.”
“What was your experience of seeing the castle you worked so hard on for 1,800 years disappear?”
“I don’t have that.”
“It was futile. It was neither anger nor sadness. It was just empty. “I thought I did my best to build a decent castle.”
“…”
“How can I protect the castle? After thinking about it, I started making several moves.”
“…”
“But it didn’t work out well. To those who live in sand castles, children on the beach may seem like gods, but they are helpless in the face of crashing waves.”
“So this time you used numbers very harshly?”
“And yet it ended in failure.”
As the end of Issue 203 approaches, the emotions that Demon God Adravita feels are not anger toward us or sadness as she contemplates the world being destroyed.
He felt empty again. The waves that crashed in relentlessly destroyed the sand castle.
“Thanks to you, I realized one funny fact.”
Even in this futility, did he realize something?
“My first goal was to build a beautiful sand castle.”
“Was it to help humanity on this planet get a fresh start?”
“When I came to my senses, I realized that I was only focused on maintaining the sand castle.”
It’s common.
Why, isn’t it a script that often appears in dramas?
He wanted to earn money for his loved ones, and was faithful to his work to earn money.
As a result, I lost love because I did not look back on the person I loved.
Maybe something similar happens to God.
With those words, Adravita began to fly towards the distant skies.
Around that time, the space slowly began to collapse.
/You succeeded!
A primordial world with no traces of civilization, a primordial land full of barbarism and ignorance!
Who knew that the most primitive worlds were actually the seeds of the most advanced civilizations?
What you see isn’t everything.
This is something we always want to inform participants.
Gather information in unknown lands and reach conclusions through rational reasoning.
But what if that very information was manipulated?
The conclusion has no choice but to go to the mountains.
If I say that, you probably feel like I have no conscience, right?
There was a little accident in this room.
It seems that the behavior of the ‘guest’ staying in the room was a bit excessive.
This definitely crossed the line a bit.
We promise you this separately from compensation.
Nothing similar will happen in the next room you enter.
Also, congratulations on the liberation of the newly born young civilization from the rule of evil spirits!
We also promise additional rewards for a happy ending.
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Final solution occurs among colleagues! congratulations. A final solution occurs and all members return safely.
The time of choice begins soon!/
This is a little different from usual.
‘There was a little accident in this room.’ ‘The behavior of the guest staying in the room was excessive.’ Phrases like this stood out.
Also, the promise that ‘something similar will not happen in the next room you enter’ was also noticeable.
In many ways, it seemed necessary to talk about it with my colleagues.
*
– Kim Ari
— Clap! Clap! Buuu!
When I came to, I was on an unknown train.
“Miss Ari, please come here.”
Kim Sang-hyeon had already taken a seat and was sitting down. In his hand was a small booklet.
“What situation are we in now? Is it time to choose?”
“That’s right.”
“I shot the core with the final flash. A huge explosion occurred and the contaminated land was instantly blown away. and.”
“We were swept away by the shock wave and flew away together. Perhaps Ari lost her mind in the process. Unfortunately, considering that it was just the two of us, Eunsol and Seungyeop might have been swept away and died in the explosion.”
“I see.”
“If you had lost your mind, you wouldn’t have seen the notification regarding the solution, right?”
“okay.”
“Let’s go out and talk. “There was a lot of meaningful content.”
This is meaningful content.
I shook my head lightly. As he said, it’s time to go out and talk about it.
“Choose quickly. And let’s go out.”
“…”
“I have shame too. Anyway, it’s a bit awkward for me to inherit this room’s legacy.”
“It’s not that simple.”
“Are you really going to give up your inheritance to me? I will be grateful if you give it to me, but -”
“Please read this first.”
“The title is unique. Two choices… .”
Sanghyun Kim handed me the small catalog he was reading. Did he wake up earlier than me and already figure something out?
According to the content of the booklet, we have two types of choices to make in this time of choice.
The first choice, as always, is to choose legacy.
“The final flash, I expected this one, but the second one was unexpected. Unknown cells?”
“But now you know what it is, right?”
“Is this the power given to you by Adravita?”
“It is the power given to me and the power that turned the beasts of the continent into monsters.”
I thought about the power Sanghyun wielded.
The first thing that came to mind was strengthening my physical abilities to a high level that could overwhelm my movements, which were strengthened by the power of old blood.
Also, judging from the fact that it pulls out bone knives from various parts of its body, it seems that it also has the ability to mutate its body itself.
If I had to choose between the two, it would be Final Flash without hesitation.
I was curious about how strong the body would be if it were double-reinforced with old blood and unknown cells, but that’s because it only results in a fast and strong body.
No matter how you strengthen your body, which is made of protein, there are limits. As proof, every time I loaded the final flash, Kim Sang-hyun, who was using the unknown cell, was busy rolling on the floor.
However, Sanghyun Kim seemed likely to choose an unknown cell.
In Room 203, he seems to have trained himself to a high level of martial arts while living as a caveman chief for hundreds of years, and his fighting skills and unknown cells have synergy.
Also, my expertise as a ‘doctor’ will help me transform my body.
In fact, apart from this synergy, there is another reason that is most important.
“Sanghyun, congratulations on gaining immortality!”
“…”
The unknown cell offers its owner immortal life.
For most humans, this alone would be worth choosing over other inheritances.
Instead of answering, Sanghyun Kim turned the page of the catalog to the next page.
“Look at the second choice.”
The contents of the second choice were as follows.
‘Remembrance or forgetting, which would you choose?’
“This is not a problem for me to fuss about.”
“…”
— Clap! Clap!
The train ran through the field in silence.
The scenery outside looked like an African grassland, but there were no people in sight. I don’t think it’s room 203.
“Why did they give me this choice? “Don’t hotels inherently treat psychological trauma as well?”
“…”
“If I think about it, I think I understand. “When psychological damage goes too far, the only appropriate treatment is forgetting.”
“It’s the same in the management bureau. For memories that are more severe than a certain level, forgetting is the best treatment. In room 201, Elena lost all of her memories after one night after going out of her mind.”
“But right now, I have too many memories to erase. and.”
“and?”
Instead of answering, Kim Sang-hyun lightly rubbed his fingers. At that moment, a spark appeared at his fingertips.
“… What is that?”
“Do you know how difficult it was to make a fire in primitive times? You can’t imagine it. “One day, when I came to my senses, I could just snap my fingers and it would catch fire.”
I laughed out loud. It was a strange and unique talent, but I wondered if it was actually necessary if you had a lighter.
“I know what you’re trying to say. “After being in Room 203 for hundreds of years, you have developed various talents. Are you afraid that you will lose those talents if you lose your memories?”
“We won’t lose it completely. It’s hard to explain, but I just know. The abilities gained through the power of blessing and sincerity can be used even if you lose your memory. but… .”
“but?”
“You will forget the process of acquiring that ability, and you will forget the memory of using it after obtaining it.”
I slowly understood the situation.
Even if Sang-hyeon chooses oblivion, the mysterious ability he gained in Room 203 does not disappear.
However, since you lose the memory of using the ability, your proficiency disappears.
“From the perspective of strength, you should go out with memories.”
I saved what I said afterward. Because it’s a story we all know.
Could a human who established a small kingdom after 300 years of creating a family and leaving behind descendants be able to go out and climb the hotel again with those memories intact?
So I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut. It is a matter for the parties concerned to decide.
— Sigh!
At that time, the train stopped for a moment.
…
Another person boarded the train.
He had no right to interfere with the ‘first choice’.
This is because the participant had already lost his or her qualifications at the moment of resolution.
however… .
I had the right to intervene in the ‘second choice’.
“…”
He was human. No, it was a bird. Or it wasn’t anything.
He didn’t open his mouth for so long that he seemed to have forgotten what people were saying.
I think about this as I look at the young man manipulating the human body with an expression of incomprehension.
If he could use the grimoire, why was he trapped in the body of a bird? Couldn’t it have been possible to borrow the body of a primitive man?
Was there a reason why he had to be locked up?
If he really lived in the body of a bird for 300 years, what kind of condition would he be in now?
The train got a little cooler.