Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 388
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EP.388 Episode 388 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4)
Episode 388 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4)
– Park Seung-yeop
Monsters suddenly started popping out from all directions!
Fortunately, Room 105 was nearby and they were able to escape in a hurry, but the crisis was not over.
As time passed, it seemed as if the entire room was vibrating, and then Room 105 itself collapsed.
Thanks to this, colleagues who were catching their breath in ‘Each of Our 105’ started appearing here and there.
“Ew, eww! What’s going on all of a sudden?”
Grandfather shouted with a serious expression.
“The monsters outside destroyed the hotel!”
When Ga-in Hyung accepted the descent, when Pero got excited and tore off the door, Room 105 collapsed.
If the hotel itself is destroyed to a certain degree, even Room 105 won’t be able to hold out.
— CLANG!
The door seemed to twist, and then a giant covered in shiny scales tried to break the door down.
“It was a ghost before, but now it’s a troll!”
The grandfather quickly moved towards the door, then pulled the trigger of his pistol repeatedly while blocking the giant’s intrusion with his strong arms.
When Sister Elena saw that sight, she immediately knelt down and fell into ominous thoughts.
I am….
“Eight! Aksha’s -”
“Seungyeop! Stop talking nonsense and check Songi’s condition! Right now!”
“… yes.”
Sister Songi couldn’t get up from her bed properly, and it seemed like her bones had been broken by a rock falling from the ceiling.
“Seungyeop… .”
“Sister!”
“Take me to the door.”
A moment later, the bracelet flashed and the monster running wild in front of the door disappeared.
My sister muttered in a weak voice.
“It’s just a little bit of time-waster. I don’t have enough strength….”
Grandfather looked around hurriedly.
“Ari? Miro? Where did you both go?”
“105 collapsed, but the two people didn’t show up. That means -”
“You two weren’t in room 105! What happened when there’s a monster world outside?”
“Could it be that it didn’t come in?”
“this!”
— Kookung!
This time, a tentacle covered in shiny green mucus burst through the wall!
“What the heck is this kid!”
I deeply sympathized with my grandfather’s screams.
Last time it was a ghost, then a black scale giant, and this time it had green tentacles.
It looks like every monster in the hotel is about to burst out.
The moment the wall collapsed, the scenery outside was revealed and we were completely lost in thought.
On the desk side, a giant plant is wriggling and spreading its roots all over the place.
On the fountain side, a fleshy mass with red rice-like eyes tightly attached to it was rolling around.
The ghosts that had first appeared were still flying through the sky, and the entity that had now destroyed the wall of Room 105 was a large green starfish-like monster.
“What the… . What the heck… .”
“…”
It’s a hell that can’t be described in words.
While we were catching our breath in room 105, chaos was unfolding outside.
— Kruk!
The snail that had broken down the wall looked towards us, its whole body writhing.
Did I see it right?
I don’t know much about this part because I don’t have eyeballs.
The moment the writhing flesh was about to engulf us –
“I am now death, the destroyer of worlds.”
A single flash of light pierced the entire hallway.
“teacher!”
“Sang-Hyeon? No, I clearly went outside the hotel earlier -”
“Time is here! Maze!”
Sure enough, across the hallway were Ari, Miro, and the teacher.
Grandpa quickly picked up Songi and started running, and Elena and I followed behind.
“This way!”
While Ari noona was waving at us, Miro waved again, sending the teacher away and calling out to Jincheol hyung.
“The current situation is -”
When Hyung realized that there were monsters everywhere, instead of asking questions, he grabbed the snout of a giant wolf that was rushing at him from the side with both hands and ripped it off.
“- What a mess!”
At that moment, Elena, whose ‘charging’ had finally finished, got up.
“Let everything burn!”
In an instant, the flames began to engulf the first floor.
In the midst of the chaos, even the monsters were busy running away from the flames.
and –
“Eww! Btw, the fire is coming this way!”
Sister Elena answered calmly.
“There’s nothing we can do, fire has no eyes.”
Grandpa shouted in astonishment.
“But why did you set it on fire!”
“Looking at the ruined hotel, the great fire naturally came to mind….”
Sister Ari shouted urgently.
“To the elevator!”
“elevator?”
“It’s safe there!”
Sure enough, as if by magic, the confusion subsided as the elevator doors closed.
“…”
“…”
Everyone sat on the floor of the elevator with dumbfounded expressions.
Sister Songi, who had been groaning since a while ago, closed her eyes as if she had fainted.
After sending Jincheol back, who had used up his time limit, Miro leaned on Ari’s shoulder.
Sister Elena, Grandfather and I were no different in being tired.
A moment of silence.
Soon, Grandfather muttered as if he had realized something.
“The entire first floor was destroyed and room 105 collapsed, but the elevator was safe.”
Sister Ari answered.
“The first and second floors of the hotel are like two different worlds, but the elevator connects the two places.”
“Is the elevator itself in some kind of gap in space-time?”
“I don’t know. I’m just glad it’s safe.”
I asked a question that everyone was curious about.
“Why on earth is this hotel in such a mess?”
Grandpa had a gloomy expression.
“I think I know. It’s probably Eunsol.”
“Is this your older sister Eunsol?”
“That child must have been caught up in a dream. A wish that could not be fulfilled in normal times, a wish that could only be wished for in dreams. That’s probably what he wished for.”
“…”
“They used their greedy hands to the max without any consideration for our circumstances.”
“That kind of thing… .”
Sister Ari sighed.
“Well, I guess it’s not my fault since I was half out of my mind. Let’s consider Eunsol as someone who has now joined the ‘Dark Hotel Party’.”
“A dark hotel party?”
“It’s like an inner circle that only some of us join… .”
“What the heck is that?”
“Only those who have killed or nearly killed a comrade can join. By the way, Songi is the first president.”
“…”
Grandfather sighed.
“Stop talking nonsense. What should we do now? The first floor is already a mess. The second floor too… It’s obviously not normal.”
“What should I do? I just have to hold on to the elevator. I don’t have any power left.”
“The question is how to end this dream. Once I end it, this confusing situation will disappear.”
“I guess so.”
“But, if you think about it, everyone who was going to wake up has woken up.”
“hmm….”
“Because Songi and I stopped by the Sanctuary of Blessing, Seungyeop didn’t drink alcohol and so he didn’t get caught up in the dream.”
“yes.”
“Elena and Miro also woke up after confessing something.”
Elena was greatly embarrassed by those words.
“I, I didn’t do it?”
Miro, with his dazed expression, quickly emphasized it.
“I kicked myself.”
“… Okay. Let’s say both of them. I woke Ari up.”
Sister Ari answered.
“I don’t know where she is, but Eunsol must have woken up by now. She must have gotten something by using her greedy hands.”
“That’s right. Jincheol is the problem, but I don’t think he’ll cause any major trouble because of his personality.”
“maybe.”
“So in the end, the issue of the eight people was resolved somehow.”
“…”
To summarize, it is as follows.
People who are not caught up in dreams: Kim Muk-seong, Yoo Song-i, Park Seung-yeop.
People who opened their hearts and broke their hearts: Elena, Miro.
The person who woke up by grandfather: Kim Ari
People who woke up in the circumstances: Lee Eun-sol, Cha Jin-cheol
In other words, the eight people remaining in the hotel are in a situation where the chaos is somehow ending.
The problem is the other two.
“The two people who went outside are the problem. Sang-Hyeon and Ga-In. We can’t wake these two up. What should we do?”
A heavy silence fell as no one was able to answer.
*
‘There’s nothing like this in the world!’
The old man in the suit, Kim Pil-ho, really thought so.
Four years ago, he was fired from his job in his late 50s.
Like many retirees in South Korea, he did not have enough savings to secure the rest of his life.
The little savings I had were swallowed up by my wife’s ovarian cancer, which came as if it had been waiting for her.
I didn’t feel resentful towards my wife anymore.
It’s not like he wanted to get cancer, and his wife has lived faithfully with him her whole life.
Instead, I felt resentful of the world.
I thought I had dedicated my life to my country and society, but this is the reward I got!
At that moment, when everything was falling apart, men in black suits extended a helping hand.
Salvation means a job where you get more than 6 million won deposited into your bank account every month.
The people of ‘the company’ asked only one thing of him.
Every morning, going to work in a lab full of gray walls and sitting still in a strange room.
That was really all there was to it.
Of course, there were some tricky requirements.
Same clothes and hairstyle every day.
Don’t leave your room for 8 hours a day.
Maintain a similar posture to the old man in the photo.
There were many other small requests as well.
After working on this for the past few years, the old man has realized a few more things.
In the workplace there was a family photo of an old couple, their daughter-in-law, and their grandchildren.
The old man in the photo looked remarkably similar to Kim Pil-ho, but with the clothes and a little makeup provided by the company, he was completely indistinguishable.
Also, when the old man went to work, an old woman who resembled the old woman in the photo was waiting, and when he left work, a person who resembled his daughter-in-law showed up.
That is, three people who looked similar to the people in the photo were taking turns guarding the photo 24 hours a day.
…
Upon realizing this, the old man realized the true identity of the ‘company’ that had employed him.
Because there is only one organization in the world that deals with such strange things.
‘I’ve been hired by the administration!’
One day, while I was spending my days peacefully like this.
There was an accident.
Even as an old man, I couldn’t figure out why.
Maybe it was because the spring sun was so warm.
The sudden onslaught of water clouded the old man’s consciousness.
— Beep!
At that moment, the camera monitoring the old man sounded an alarm.
“Ugh, huh! Did I, did I fall asleep?”
When the old man woke up and got up in a panic, Kim Pil-ho realized that the people in the photo were looking at him.
“What, what is this? What the heck is this -”
The moment when a terrified old man runs away from his workplace –
— Clang!
The door is locked.
*
“Kwaaaaah!”
A horrifying scream heard beyond the camera, and a video ten times more brutal.
There was no one in the room with enough sensitivity to be surprised by ‘just such a sight’.
Because things like this happen every single day.
The man in the white lab coat reported calmly.
“Area 26 quarantine failed! Request response!”
Soon, a signal was heard that a riot squad armed with bulletproof vests was on the way.
The man who submitted the report spoke to his colleague sitting next to him with a tired expression.
“This offering only lasted four years….”
“Well, Kim Pil-ho is old. It’s not a big deal. I’ve selected five candidates who can replace him, so send your staff.”
With those words, the man tapped on his keyboard and posted a ‘request for correction’.
“‘Happy Family Photo’
Serial Number: C-0362
Risk rating: D
A family photo discovered in a house in Busan in 2013.
When the family in the picture is nearby, he is docile, but when they are not, a twisted, abnormal being pops out and he displays violent behavior such as □□, □□□, and □□.
Management Procedure: Contain
Although his actual family is all dead, he becomes docile when surrounded by people with similar appearances.
However, if the offering does not assume a pose similar to that in the photo, a dangerous situation occurs.
In this case, if you sacrifice the offering, it will stabilize for about 72 hours.
“Request for correction: Prepare for the case where the sacrifice falls asleep. Administer a stimulant of grade B or higher.”
“Is this good enough…?”
At that moment, a loud noise echoed from the ceiling.
– Notice! A new chaos entity has been acquired! Please check the messenger immediately and familiarize yourself with the contents.
“also?”
“No, how can there be so many monsters in this tiny country?”
“Don’t be ridiculous. I caught the second coming Jesus five times.”
“Isn’t Muhammad here yet?”
“There was a self-proclaimed bodhisattva.”
The man clicked on the file sent via messenger with a bitter smile.
“‘College Graduated Parrot’
Serial Number: C-0237
Risk rating: D
They have high intelligence and can speak human language fluently.
He claims to be a K University student named ‘Han Ga-in’ and lists several people he knows.
As a result of the verification, ‘Han Ga-in’, her family, friends, etc. do not exist.
Threatening to escape by writing a ‘grimoire’.
It is not possible to confirm whether such a tool actually exists.
Management Procedure: Contain
It is enough to lock them in a cage with electricity running through them.
+ Keep in mind that this is a temporary file, so there is a lot of uncertain information!」
“Huh! Are you a talking parrot again?”
“Human, parrots speak the same way.”
As always, it was a quiet day at the Administration Office.