Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 383
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EP.383 Episode 383 – Party Time, Worries About the Next Room and the Soul’s Harm
Episode 383 – Party Time, Worries About the Next Room, and the Soul’s Harm
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 223
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 – ‘Room of Rest’
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
The moment we arrived at room 105, a notification popped up before everyone’s eyes.
“Dear customers!
It seems like only yesterday that I was struggling when I first entered the hotel, and now I’ve already reached room 205!
Doesn’t time really fly?
I sincerely congratulate you on your resolution of issue 205.
We are also happy to see your achievements.
“Starting tomorrow, you will be given a total of 7 days of rest.”
“7 days? Was it always this long?”
“Oh~! Is it a little long this time?”
Then, as if it had been waiting, the next notification appeared.
“To all of you who are enjoying a long break!
We are happy, but unfortunately there is a reason for the long break.
Now there is only one cursed room left on the second floor, room 206!
Number 206 is ‘a little’ difficult.
You don’t want your long journey to end here.
For the remaining week, please think carefully about whether there are any rewards you may have missed.
Even if you pack everything you can, it might not be enough.
Surprise Event: Party Time! Starting tomorrow.」
“…”
The room became calm at the ominous warning.
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“Wow! It’s out, it’s out!”
“… Seungyeop.”
“Hotel! Are you listening? Give me some shrimp tempura too!”
“Seungyeop.”
“Sister Ari?”
“Put the fries on the right amount. There are already three plates.”
It’s been a while since I had a meal at a hotel.
Everyone was putting their hands under the table and taking them out, working hard to make the food they wanted to eat.
Room 205 wasn’t a place where you had to eat bugs as food like Room 203.
However, it is also true that quite a few of my colleagues did not have proper meals.
Among those, Seungyeop, who was the ‘Emperor’, was the one who ate the most.
During the meal, Eunsol asked Seungyeop and Songi a few questions.
“Did the hotel send you a notification after Room 205 ended?”
“yes.”
“what?”
“uh….”
When Seungyeop looked at Songi, Songi also had a puzzled expression.
“Oh, oh… . You worked hard to support the empire that was on the verge of collapse? What did you think when you saw the three masters, each with their own perspectives?”
“Aside from such ceremonial talk, let’s talk about the evaluative part.”
“Oh, there were some bad words. I wish you had paid a little more attention to the hint that superior force was needed?”
“Hmm… I guess that wasn’t the ideal development the hotel had in mind… No tickets?”
“yes.”
The hotel’s rating seemed to be ‘average’.
There was one part that I had a guess about.
“Don’t you think that Lee Ja-seong became too strong in the second half?”
The teacher nodded as if he had sensed something.
“I’m saying this now that it’s all over… Lee Ja-seong was a unique character in many ways. This is the first time I’ve seen such an NPC while progressing through the hotel. You could say he’s a growth-type NPC?”
“That’s right. From the beginning, there was a connection with ‘Sim-ma’, and the style is to become stronger by solving it. Somehow, Lee Ja-seong realized the very existence of the hotel and….”
For a moment, no words came to mind, but my grandfather answered immediately.
“I gained a thousand-year-old enlightenment. In the final moments, I think I may not have been as strong as a prisoner, but I think I was close to the limits of a human being.”
“Yes. As a result, I tried to split the entire false world apart. In the process, the prisoner was almost released.”
If it weren’t for the restrictions placed on the prisoner, everything would have been ruined at that point.
After concluding the story about room 205, we moved on to the story about rest.
“Party time for 7 days! It’s really freaking long!”
A week in a hotel is a really long time.
Although it was good news, everyone’s expressions were tense.
“There is a reason for the long break….”
Ari muttered with an ominous expression.
“Do you all remember? According to the sponsor, the cursed room at the end of each floor is particularly difficult.”
“… The story about rooms 104 and 206.”
Honestly, I’ve never felt that the Cursed Room was easy, but when they warned me with such scary words, I couldn’t breathe.
Sister Eunsol mentioned another sentence.
“You want me to check if there are any missed rewards?”
“There are quite a few. The Sanctuary of Blessing, Sister’s Hand of Greed, the Soul Chest that Seungyeop obtained, etc.”
The teacher who was listening shook his head.
“Mr. Gain, that sentence doesn’t seem to mean what it says.”
“Oh, I see.”
Check out the Sanctuary of Blessings, the Hand of Greed, and your newly acquired heritage.
This is something you’ve always done, it’s not something you have to do specifically for 206, and it’s not a ‘missed’ reward.
“If there’s a reward for missing out, it’s the wing boots?”
As soon as the word wing boots came out, my sister nodded.
“It’s already the second half of the second floor, why isn’t it out yet?”
The three materials for wing boots.
The wing feathers of a bird flying through a typhoon.
A fighter’s hair that can withstand even the force of a wall.
The eye of one who observes all things from the top.
“The hair of the fighter came from Jincheol’s hair pulled out in room 204.”
“Coolook!”
“I got the observation eye by plucking out my eyeball that went into space in Room 203. But the feather? No matter how I look at it, it’s not this one. This guy, this thing!”
— Beep!
“Pero, no matter how I look at it, it’s your feather.”
— Beep!
I sneaked in.
“I really need to pluck this feather out now – ugh!”
This was the limit of the patience of the temperamental parrot.
Ferro overturned the galbijjim in front of me and flew away.
“That one, that one! I guess I have to pluck the hair!”
“Brother, even if you choose, you have to choose from a place with a ‘typhoon’.”
“Hmm….”
— Bam!
“Attention, please.”
Everyone’s eyes were focused on Ari.
“I’ll tell you two things. First, tomorrow, Ga-in, pluck the parrot’s feathers. If the typhoon is a problem, go out to the snowfield and pluck them.”
“okay.”
“Everyone is too much for Pero….”
“I’ll just pick half, just half.”
“That much?”
Ariga answered, ignoring Songi’s words.
“Second, there’s one more thing besides the wing boots.”
“uh?”
Ari moved to the whiteboard and scribbled.
“Hotel Secret! 2nd Floor
1. Hidden Room
1) Hall of Mirrors
2) Resurrection Room
2. Hidden NPC
1) Mysterious Craftsman
2) ???
」
“You said you saw a sign that looked something like this? By the way, the first floor was the same. The hidden room was the Sanctuary of Blessing, the souvenir shop, and the hidden NPCs were a doctor and a merchant.”
“There are still question marks on the second floor.”
“There are still hidden NPCs left.”
Sister Eunsol had a tired expression on her face.
“Looks like we have to explore again. By the way, is there still a place to search in this hotel?”
“underground.”
“… Does that make sense? That place is honestly infinite!”
I’ve been looking for a hotel more than once.
So I couldn’t believe that there would be anything more on the first and second floors.
If there is one, it is underground, but the underground is a place close to infinity to begin with.
“There is no answer, there is no answer.”
At that moment, the doctor began to organize the agenda.
“Let’s take care of them one by one. I think this is enough for this party time.”
1. Get Strength from the Sanctuary of Blessing
2. Find the wing boots and the last NPC.
3. Concerns about the soul’s burden
4. Select the next room
I looked at the list and gave my opinion.
“You can do number 1 tomorrow morning… You can do number 2 when you have free time. Let’s just finish numbers 3 and 4 today.”
“Are we already talking about the next room?”
“Usually we’d decide on the last day, but now it’s obvious. There are only two cursed rooms left, 104 and 206.”
Ari looked at me as if she was curious.
“Where do you think we should go?”
“Room 206.”
“You wanted to clean up room 104 when things were this ambiguous, right? I thought you’d do the same this time.”
“That was before I heard the secret.”
“A leak of secrets?”
“I was pretty clear about the 104th one: ‘Empty the enemy’s magazine.’”
“Descent!”
“There’s still one step left, so we should use it somewhere else and then go back to room 104.”
My colleagues who heard this understood what I meant and their expressions brightened.
“Aha, so you’re definitely going to use Gangrim in room 206?”
“That’s it!”
The most difficult room the hotel warned me about and the strongest power saved for this!
Wow~!
This is what I mean when I say that I saved my descent for this very moment!
I’m really amazed at my own skill at drawing big pictures!
What is this, even the owls cry from above?
Sponsor! Honestly, are you tired? Are you tired?
If anything, there is still a chance of a fight between the prisoners and the descent.
The expressions of my colleagues, who had been oppressed by Room 206, began to brighten little by little.
Grandpa spoke honestly.
“This time I really believe you.”
The corners of the teacher’s mouth also slightly curved.
“I have never distrusted Cain.”
Ariga smiled and cleaned up.
“Yeah, well, if it’s your descent, you’ll at least be able to escape no matter how hopeless the situation is. Let’s believe that and try to hit 206. Next is the Soul Box?”
Seungyeop looked at me with a curious expression.
“I heard you have a candidate in mind?”
“The candidate that Gain thought of?”
Which NPCs will you place in your Soul Chest?
There are two candidates I can think of.
First, ‘Arima’.
Some people nodded, as if they had guessed vaguely.
Ariga gave her opinion.
“I think it might be that witch. From what I remember from meeting her once… . She might be cooperative with you at least.”
Sister Eunsol also spoke in a similar tone.
“He had a personality with extreme curiosity and a strong desire to explore. However, the Arima that is currently possessed by Jincheol is probably a bit different from the one we remember.”
“That’s better. Because we don’t have any ‘grudges’.”
“That’s true too.”
“Besides, Iza- Ahem! Unlike other NPCs, since she’s a witch, she won’t be affected by the presence or absence of a body.”
Everyone reacted positively to Arima.
From what I’ve already experienced, her disposition is definitely not good.
However, it was far from being a mad, reckless, phantom-like being.
Besides, since the grudges of the past have disappeared, there is no reason for Arima to be hostile towards us, right?
Ari nodded and asked me.
“Who’s the second?”
This time I took my time.
I thought there would be more negative reactions than Arima.
“Oh, Lord.”
As soon as the answer came out, everyone looked speechless.
“Who, who? Lord? The Lord I know? The crazy god from Room 104?”
“Rather than saying he’s crazy, he’s a reasonable being in his own way.”
“you….”
While Ari was speechless, her older sister asked in embarrassment.
“They weren’t NPCs in the first place. Putting prisoners in your inheritance? It’s not like putting the Pacific Ocean in soy sauce paper -”
“Sister, your plan was included in the inheritance from the beginning.”
“Uh, uh? That’s….”
While my older sister was panicking, the teacher, who was slowly drinking tea after finishing his meal, answered.
“Come to think of it, your plan isn’t to escape the main body.”
“It is the escape of the ‘small state’ that shares the identity with the main body. The sacred sun is also a legacy. If it can be contained in the sacred sun, it can also be contained in the ‘soul box’.”
“I understand why you think it’s possible, but… what does that mean? No matter how compactly compressed they are, they’re still prisoners.”
“Yes.”
“It’s different from NPCs, but it’s too different. It’s a crude metaphor, but no matter how small it is, the subject is still a pistol, while NPCs are just stone age fist axes.”
Ari also pointed out.
“In the first place, the Holy Sun was a compressed version of the prisoner, so it was too dangerous, so Room 104 was buried as an escape route. What’s the difference if it’s contained in the Soul Box instead of the Holy Sun?”
I shared my thoughts on this.
…
…
…
My colleagues had somewhat puzzled expressions on their faces.
Some people understand, while others find it difficult to agree.
At that moment, the mouth of the person with the final decision-making power opened.