Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 342
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Episode 342 – Party Time – Meeting after a long time (1)
– Han Ga-in
I had a dream so long that I couldn’t tell its beginning and end.
In my dream, I became a bird, and it was so fun to flap my wings and fly across the blue sky that I didn’t worry about whether I was a bird or not.
When I suddenly woke up and thought, surprisingly, I was a human.
I couldn’t tell whether a person dreamed and became a bird, or a bird dreamed and became a person.
Of course, humans and birds are clearly different creatures and there is a distinction.
But isn’t it me who is thinking in either case?
Then there is no need to be obsessed with the shape of the body, and this is a great principle.
It felt like I could grasp it.
Something so great that I could not dare to describe it in words was almost within my reach.
One step.
If he took just one step, he could definitely soar to the highest level.
therefore… .
“Enough of that.”
…
“There is a right time for everything. “Excess is as bad as not enough.”
Someone’s voice broke the silence.
I vaguely saw the shape of a huge bird.
It sinks.
My consciousness, which had been soaring endlessly, began to sink into a small body again.
Although it was disappointing, I felt fortunate.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 683,628
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 – ‘Room of Rest’
Sage Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
“ah.”
I woke up on the bed.
As soon as I woke up, an unbearable headache hit my head, so I couldn’t get up for a long time.
When the headache finally subsided, I realized that I had come out of room 203, where I had been in pain.
What happened to me in room 203?
Starting from a tribe, I defeated monsters and joined my comrades.
After moving to the location of the maze, I obtained various information from the mysterious laboratory.
Finally, they decided to escape on a spaceship and took the core to the spaceship in the mountains.
And on the spaceship… .
My memories after this are blurry. Did he die as soon as he arrived on the spaceship?
If I had died, I should have remembered how I died, but I had no memory of how I actually died.
Well, I guess it’s good. Because it came out somehow.
But why did I wake up in bed instead of outside the room?
I think I should first go out and ask my colleagues about the situation.
*
“oh! Gainaaah! “It’s out, it’s out!”
As soon as I came out, Miro, who was loitering at the entrance to room 105, opened his eyes wide and grabbed my arm.
It’s surprising, but this guy looks just like Ari, but his behavior is so different that it’s hard to believe.
“Cain! great job.”
“huh?”
“Was it too hard?”
“I’m not sure what you’re talking about?”
“Follow me.”
When I listened to it while being dragged through the maze, it was a bit absurd.
Room 203 has been resolved, but they say I stumbled and fainted as soon as I left the room.
As I moved towards the refreshment table, my colleagues were there.
“oh! “Is Cain awake?”
“Are you okay? “I was shocked because I suddenly fainted!”
“I’m a little dizzy, but it’s okay. What about Elena and Songi? “Can’t you see your grandfather?”
“Hanging out in the basement.”
The rest of the people were relaxing at the table, eating and drinking snacks and drinks.
I was happy and a little sad to be reunited with everyone in a peaceful place after a long time.
This is because my colleagues were already enjoying their leisure time in a calm atmosphere.
Originally, when they just came out of the cursed room, they would jump and cheer as a group.
At that time, I used to join in and shout along, but from the looks of it, the moment of joy had already passed.
Suddenly, Ari tapped me and told me to sit next to him.
I wondered why he did this because it was something he didn’t usually do, but there was no need to go to another seat, so he sat next to Ari.
“what’s the matter?”
“I have to ask you something. “How much do you remember about what happened in room 203?”
I briefly told him what I remembered.
“Hmm… . I guess I only have memories from before I was hit by the anesthetic gas. What do you remember about entering Perot’s body after that?”
“Did I borrow Pero’s body?”
Instead of answering, Ari suddenly looked at the doctor in front of her with a strange expression.
I followed Ari and looked at the doctor, and the teacher’s behavior was quite funny.
This is because I was deeply savoring the aroma of the coffee as if I were drinking a rare and unique beverage in the world.
“Sanghyun.”
“Whoa… .”
“Sanghyun.”
“What is this scent? Whoa! This is the miracle of civilization – ugh! “What’s happening all of a sudden?”
The teacher seemed to frown as soon as he was kicked by Ari, but his expression relaxed again when he saw me next to him.
“Ohh! Gain, are you awake?”
“yes.”
“Sanghyun, I don’t think he has any memory of coming out of the spaceship.”
“okay?”
The teacher’s expression suddenly showed a wealth of emotion.
It seemed like he was sad somewhere, but he also seemed happy.
“Gain, thank you for your hard work.”
“yes… .”
Honestly, if you haven’t noticed anything by this point, you’re an idiot, and I don’t think I’m an idiot.
From the looks of it, I seem to have made a big contribution in my own way by borrowing Perot’s body in the latter half of issue 203.
But why did I lose my memory?
“We already finished it ourselves, but I think I need to explain it to Ga-in again. Seungyeop, please help me.”
“…”
“Sanghyun, his name is Cha Jincheol, not Park Seungyeop.”
“Oh, did you?”
“Haha! I guess you’re still confused about our names. Sanghyeon seems to have vague memories of the past… .”
“After a day or two, you won’t make any more mistakes.”
Before a full-fledged conversation began, I felt it through a brief question and answer session.
The doctor seemed to be starting to feel comfortable speaking to some of his colleagues, especially Ari.
From the beginning, it wasn’t awkward because the teacher was considerably older than everyone else except Ari and Grandpa.
People like Jincheol used to find it awkward when the teacher spoke cautiously.
Also, for some reason, they got our names mixed up.
“Teacher, please speak to me comfortably now.”
“no.”
“yes?”
“I don’t think I will ever be able to treat Ga-in comfortably. Now listen to me for a moment.”
…
It was a long story. It was also a very shocking story.
Of course, the way issue 203 was resolved and the long suffering the teacher went through were shocking, but in the end, the most surprising story to me is what happened to me.
“… I lived in Pero’s body for hundreds of years?”
“That’s right. In fact, some suggested that we should hide this information from Gain.”
“Are you afraid I’ll be too shocked?”
“It’s similar. But Miss Ari said it didn’t mean anything.”
Ari, who was next to him, answered simply.
“Now we’ve decided not to lie to each other.”
“Ari, you still lie a lot.”
“that’s right!”
When Miro contradicted me, Ari made a bewildered expression.
“… It’s better not to tell lies you can’t hide.”
It was said that it was okay to lie if you could hide it, but for some reason, Miro flinched.
“I see. “There were more than one person who saw that I was possessed by Pero, so I guess I couldn’t hide it.”
Also, even if my colleagues hid this information, I think the owl would have let me know in some way.
When the story about me came out, my colleagues all started to react emotionally.
Elena suddenly appeared and held my hand tightly without saying a word, while Miro and Seungyeop sobbed.
Teacher Arina looked at me as if she was worried.
The grandfather who came up from the basement asked me to tell him if I needed mental counseling.
Jincheol even said that he was very impressed by my unwavering will, with an expression that looked like the main character of a boy’s cartoon.
Honestly, it was very awkward.
Let’s say I woke up one morning and there were reporters lined up outside my house.
It turned out that I had been fighting against the devil and saving the Earth for the past month, but the aftereffects of defeating the devil had made me forget all memories of that heroic struggle.
How would you feel in this situation? That’s how I feel right now.
At that time, the doctor who was observing me summarized briefly.
“Gain. If you’re confused, you can just let it go.”
“…”
“It’s the room we passed by anyway. There is no need to try to recall the past. Just the joy of today and the feeling that I turned out to be a hero is enough.”
At that time, Elena asked a question.
“In hindsight, I’m curious. So what exactly were the conditions for escape and resolution of Room 203?”
The teacher answered the question.
“The maze – indeed, Elena. As with the Curse Room, if you think about it in a complicated way, it’s complicated, but if you think of it simply, it’s a simple problem. “We need to take the prisoner away and think.”
“Removing the prisoner? “It was the room where the prisoner made his presence known the most since Room 104.”
“Eunsol told you about the contents of the notification after the solution, right? “It must be said that Adravita’s intervention, which was close to a runaway, was beyond the hotel’s expectations.”
This part was also interesting.
According to the resolution notice that appeared when the room was resolved, the hotel apologized to us, saying that the ‘guest’s’ behavior was excessive.
He also promised that something like this would not happen again in the next room.
“Nothing similar will happen in the next room you enter. Isn’t this sentence funny? “It seems like there is a lot of room for interpretation.”
Ari nodded at the teacher’s words.
“Let’s talk again next time we decide which room to go into. And speaking of the scenario prepared by the hotel, wasn’t it actually centered around AI?”
Elena looked interested.
“AI-centric? “Isn’t the prisoner the center?”
“An extinct civilization, an AI that is hostile to the survivors for some reason. “Escape would be possible if you killed the AI or inflicted a major blow on it in some way, and escaping the star by persuading or subduing the AI would have been the solution.”
The teacher added one word.
“In the end, it doesn’t mean much. Adravita overturned it at will.”
With this, the story of No. 203 slowly came to an end.
The finale was the doctor’s ‘magic show’.
— Tick!
“wow! “It’s like a super power.”
“Brother, that would be great for smoking cigarettes.”
“I actually used it a lot for that purpose.”
The teacher performed tricks such as creating a spark every time he snapped his fingers, or moving a cake knife at an invisible speed to slice the table.
Creating a spark wasn’t as great an ability as I thought.
This is because it did not have the ability to create a huge flame, but had just enough fire power to light a cigarette.
Rather, it seemed like the ability to use cold weapons or excellent martial arts skills would be more helpful.
Of course, the power that would be most helpful would be ‘Final Flash’.
… I also wanted to try shooting a laser.
“By the way, it’s party time starting tomorrow, right?”
My grandfather answered my question.
“yes. “I looked at the notification earlier and it said they gave me 5 days this time.”
“It’s pretty cool. “Have you decided on a schedule?”
“First of all, we have to go to the Sanctuary of Blessing tomorrow morning. That’s the top priority. I think quite a few people will have fun this time too… .”
Ari, who was yawning next to me, also helped out.
“There was talk about exploration, but let’s just rest this time. “It was so hard in room 203.”
Everyone nodded.
According to what Ari said before, the hidden elements that appear upon arriving on the second floor are two hidden rooms and two hidden NPCs.
I found the Resurrection Room, the Mirror Room, and the Mysterious Craftsman, so I found all the rooms, and there was only one NPC left.
Even so, everyone’s enthusiasm for exploration seemed to have largely disappeared.
As Ari said, room 203 was so hard that I needed a break.
“Eunsol noona! “Shouldn’t we use the Hand of Greed this time?”
Suddenly, I realized that my sister hadn’t said a single word during the rather long conversation.
Aren’t you usually the most talkative among us?
“… ah. That’s how it should be. Even if it’s not like that, I said it earlier. “I plan to write it as soon as I get back from the sanctuary.”
My sister seemed to be deeply troubled about something.
“Now that I think about it, where is Songi?”
Ari smiled awkwardly.
“He’s probably healing Perrault’s heart in the botanical garden.”
“Healing the heart?”
“…”
As the conversation at the refreshment table came to an end, I began to feel quite tired again.
He said he would rest a little longer and stood up.
*
After Ga-in left, Ari looked at Eunsol with a look of confusion.
“what’s the matter? “You’re suddenly all alone and not saying a word?”
“…”
“sister? Are you okay?”
“light.”
“yes?”
“Hasn’t the lighting gotten a little darker?”
At Eunsol’s words, her colleagues looked up at the ceiling.
No one noticed any special changes, but Ari responded with a subtle expression.
“I had a similar feeling on the train.”
“train?”
“This time of choice was held in a place similar to a train.”
“Did the lights dim there too when Ga-in appeared?”
“I got that feeling.”
With those words, Eunsol fell into silence again.
At that time, Sanghyeon, who was drinking coffee, asked Eunsol.
“Miss Eunsol. How does Cain appear in your eyes?”
“…Nothing much. “I’m just Gain.”
Sensing a moment of silence and an awkward attitude, Sang-hyeon realized that Eun-sol had lied.
At the same time, he realized that Eunsol wanted to hide something he had seen.
Sanghyeon understood Eunsol’s attitude.
If the change is irreversible, making a fuss and overstimulating everyone’s sense of discomfort will only cause conflict.
As if trying to lighten the mood, Cha Jin-cheol spoke in a light tone.
“Who can strengthen the sanctuary this time?”
Sanghyun answered as if he had been waiting.
“Jincheol collected contributions to strengthen himself last time, so it will definitely be possible this time.”
“haha! “Anyone but me?”
“I think it has my name on it too.”
Ari also agreed. It would be even more strange if the names of Cha Jin-cheol, who collected contributions, and Kim Sang-hyeon, the biggest contributor to No. 203, were not mentioned.
It seemed like there was more to it.
Especially for those who have been strengthened for a long time, it is time for their turn to return.