Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 44
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Episode 44 – No. 104, Room of the Curse – ‘Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam’ (4)
Episode 44 – Room 104, Room of the Curse – ‘Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam’ (4) [User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 18
Current location: Tier 1, Room 104 (Curse Room – Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam)
Sage Advice: 3]
Day 3.
When I looked at the timetable, there was a PE class.
When I first saw it, I didn’t think much of it. Just playing ball, right?
Rather, I was worried about how to prepare for the test after class today, and was relieved when the teacher who came in mid-class said that there would be no test today. The teachers are still suspicious of Eunsol, and exams are being halted until a solution is found.
So today, we were chatting in the chat window about taking a break and thinking about escaping.
The triathlon race has begun.
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“Physical strength is national strength! Do you guys think that if you just sit at your desk and read books, your grades will go up? It’s an illusion. Entrance exams are war! Where do you think the motivation for war comes from? It’s physical strength. The best exercises to build physical strength are swimming, cycling, and marathons.”
The ‘fake’ Cha Jin-cheol, who was in front of the podium, spoke very passionately and emphasized the importance of physical strength.
“I mean, I want to completely change your stamina. But I also understand. You can’t just exercise all day. Still, my theory is that doing it properly at least once a week will help with long-term entrance exams. “All the other great teachers agreed.”
Where on earth are the ‘great teachers’ in this crazy school?
“First of all, gym class is only one hour, so I just warm up with a light run. After class, gather at the playground! Everyone heard it, right? Something a little unpleasant happened yesterday. I made a mistake in that part, so I would like to apologize to everyone in advance. So there is no exam today. Instead of taking an exam, you will have time to build your physical strength with three mini ironman races specially prepared by the teacher. “This is it.”
After that, there was nothing special about what the fake Cha Jin-cheol muttered.
The idea is to shorten the swimming, cycling, and marathon triathlons by only shortening the length of the individual courses.
A sigh comes out automatically. Why on earth are you trying so hard to be creative? What happens after that is also obvious. Some students who come in late will be sent to the ‘old teacher’ again.
I thought about the student member who remained still.
Me, Songi, Elena, Ari.
I don’t intend to praise myself, but I don’t think my physical strength is below the average for high school seniors. Elena is an aspiring actress, so she seems to have good physical strength among women, and Ari doesn’t feel like she’ll fail no matter what she does.
The problem is, of course, Song. Just by looking at him, he doesn’t look like he has any physical strength. Legacy has no meaning in this ignorant physical battle. No matter who you try to fool, there are more than 100 people gathered at the playground to keep records, so what’s the point of fooling one person with a miscarriage?
Songi’s thoughts seem to be no different.
Yoo Song-i (Student): Preparing my mind.
Eunsol Lee (teacher): Do you think it will be difficult?
Yoo Song-i (Student): ㅇㅇ. I will save my stamina and be eliminated. Not bad. I decided that it was possible to collect information in a different context from Jincheol oppa.
Information collection.
Of course, if I had to go to the old school anyway, I would have to gather information, but as the number of people decreases one by one, I cannot hide my ominous feeling. How many people will succeed in escaping this time? I really hate situations where I am left alone at the end, like in the Mansion of Horror.
Amid all these worries, I was ignoring the class, thinking that I wasn’t going to take the test anyway, and the class time passed by in an instant.
*
…
The first start of triathlon.
As soon as swimming time started, the playground became quiet.
In fact, regardless of whether they are NPCs or not, they are no different from ordinary high school students!
It’s not the first time I’ve seen boys shaking while watching Elena or Ari. Song-i has a funny kid who openly brings her coffee from the cafeteria every break, so I was looking forward to when the guy who would confess would come out. At least, while Song-i looked like someone who would be in high school ‘according to common sense’, Elena and Ari are from a completely different world.
It was such a different world that the miracle of Moses occurred in the classroom every time Elena and Ari walked by. Thanks to this, the ‘Operation Meeting’ was very comfortable. Just go to any place and the path will open, and if you sit down, the surrounding area will be empty.
But the swimming pool. swimsuit.
To be honest, this might be too irritating. I thought I was used to it because I saw it rolling around so many times in the hotel, but seeing it in a swimsuit was something that struck me. Not only the male students but also the female students were mesmerized as a group.
Elena even seems to enjoy the attention of those around her, perhaps because she’s an aspiring actress, and Ari is a girl you can’t imagine being shy or nervous in the first place.
Thanks to this, the atmosphere of the swimming pool became completely like that of ordinary people who came to the place where the actors were taking pictures.
In the meantime, the funny thing is that ‘fake Cha Jin-cheol’, who is supposed to be running the triathlon, is also looking at Elena with fascination. No, actually, Cha Jin-cheol was shaking in front of Elena…
Wouldn’t it be more productive if we all spent time watching Elena and Ari together like this before returning to the dormitory?
In fact, wouldn’t it be better to keep your eyes clear rather than doing triathlons, which are useless for entrance exams?
Unfortunately, ‘fake Cha Jin-cheol’ came to his senses.
“Hmm hmm. The atmosphere is excited again. you! I know the atmosphere was exciting after coming to the pool, but we didn’t come to have fun. ruler! In order, join class 1!”
The triathlon race has begun.
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The excited and happy atmosphere at the swimming pool. When the eye-cleansing time, which was 10 times more productive than the meaningless triathlon, ends, all that remains is hell.
Is there anything in this world like ‘If you fall behind, you will be dragged to the old teacher and killed’?
I waved my arms as if I was really dying.
Why on earth do high school seniors at this shitty school have such good physical strength? I wish the hotel would conduct a more thorough investigation into the reality of this. K High school senior’s physical strength is low quality itself!
I frantically did two laps around the pool and looked around as I left the pool.
What is my rank? Wow… it’s not even halfway!
What kind of kids are so good at swimming even though they say they are famous for entrance exams?
I didn’t even have the stamina to swear.
I ran to my bike, trying to catch my breath.
*
I was honestly looking forward to the bike.
What kind of country is Korea? To be honest, it is not a good country for cycling. Perhaps many of the K high school seniors in reality are not good at riding bicycles?
There was one problem: the high school seniors at the hotel were very different from the K high school seniors.
*
I’m out of breath. The marathon hasn’t even started yet. I had no intention of coming first or second in this meaningless triathlon, and even though my goal was to be average, I never imagined it would be this good.
It’s already the last lap, but no matter how you look at it, it’s closer to the bottom than the middle.
No, a senior in high school has this much physical strength? Does this make sense, hotel bastards!
?
Songi is in front of me.
what?
I was so embarrassed for a moment. Could it be that I was doing this not because I was a high school senior at the hotel, but because I had such poor stamina that I had worse stamina than a high school girl?
ah. I realized this as I was passing by. Swimsuit still dripping with water.
He didn’t stand in front of me because he was faster than me.
She was so much slower than me that she arrived at the bike now. Considering that the girls started first and the boys started a little later, Songi…
I really have no intention of passing.
At that time, Songi just put her bike away and went outside the stadium.
To put it bluntly, I have no intention of doing anything more and it is up to you whether you send me to the old school or not.
If I see myself panting like this, even though I have good physical strength, there is no chance that Songi will survive among the high school seniors in this hotel who are physically strong anyway. If you’re going to fail anyway, it makes sense to save your stamina.
*
In the end, I managed to complete the triathlon by walking rather than running. Fortunately, I was in the bottom half of the race until the end of the cycle, but even though I barely walked the second half of the marathon, I made up for the parts I forgot earlier and made it roughly halfway through. At this rate, I can live for now.
In the meantime, what was amazing was that even considering that men and women were measured separately, Ari was almost the first to enter. Even an aspiring actor who has better physical strength than the general public is at the top of the list of high school seniors at a hotel high school with unusually good physical strength, barely able to rank among the top female students.
From what I heard from Hagi Knight and Songi, isn’t she a girl who ‘looks like she can fly’? I think it’s even weirder if you lose to an ordinary person with good physical strength in something like triathlon.
After the hellish triathlon, the time for ‘reporting’ has returned.
*
Yoo Song-i (Student): Mental protection possible. Therefore, I will not protest and will just observe.
*
The core of Songi’s plan. Unlike Jin-cheol-hyung, Song-i has no intention of rebelling from the beginning. I’m just trying to keep my sanity by writing about my legacy periodically, and just trying to understand what’s going on at the old school.
It may be information that is not helpful for escaping right away, but the information you have gathered will be important in order to come back and ‘solve’ it at some point.
*
Yoo Song-i (Student): Similar to what I heard. singing voice, radiance
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Yoo Song-i (Student): Strangely pretty-
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Yoo Song-i (Student): I almost lost my mind. Almost like an angel or fairy. I will call you ‘the leader’.
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Yoo Song-i (Student): Come down to the basement. There are so many people. The ‘leader’ is in an atmosphere of reverence.
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Yoo Song-i (Student): …
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Yoo Song-i (Student): People here are teachers/students at the school. This seems to be the ‘original’ one.
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Yoo Song-i (student): Leader’s strange speech.
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Yoo Song-i (Student): The world is a painful place. There is no need to have regrets. Ascension approaches. The Lord looks down on us, salvation is coming. Take off your skin. A foolish attachment to the world, a weak heart, and wrong thoughts. Put it all away and return to purity. The Lord has prepared paradise.
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Yoo Song-i (student): Slowly feeling the limit
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Yoo Song-i (Student): Final report. They call the ‘fake’ sent to school from the old teacher ‘skin’. A very important procedure in their ‘religious view’, not simply to deceive anyone. Giving up one’s faults in order to be saved. Now the limit. I will fight the ‘Guide’ once.
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The report is over.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Wisdom) Date: Day 18
Current location: Tier 1, Room 104 (Curse Room – Prestigious Hotel High School for Entrance Exam)
Sage Advice: 3
Colleague location information (*)
Yoo Song-i: Death]
Songi also died in the end. Let’s summarize it step by step. It certainly provided more ‘useful information’.
1. The reality of old history
-> It was a place occupied by a truly strange religious group.
2. Why there are so many people that killing five people is meaningless.
-> This is because most of the people in the school have already been ‘replaced’. Since it is a school with hundreds of students, of course there are at least hundreds of students in the old building!
3. Reasons for ‘replacing’ people and sending fake ones.
-> According to their ‘religious view’, it is a process of salvation. Before being chosen by the Lord and going to paradise, we must shed our ‘skin’ as a human being. That ‘flaw’ is the real face of the fake we encountered. So what happens to the real thing that sheds its ‘skin’? I don’t know much about this. Where are you really going to paradise? Also, if the skin is shed, does the ‘original’ lose its body? Speaking of which, Jincheol-hyung met Seung-yeop in the original? I don’t know.
4. What exactly is a ‘guide’?
-> I don’t know. It is an extremely beautiful being and has supernatural powers.
I learned a lot.
But I felt it vaguely. I don’t think this information can be used right now.
The priority goal is escape. This is information that will be used later to come back and solve the problem.
Eunsol Lee (teacher): Strange. Shedding one’s skin for enlightenment. It’s like Buddhism.
Kim Muk-seong (teacher): I will go out and do a detailed analysis. A powerful car, with a legacy. Both died. Couldn’t solve it. Escape is the goal.
Eunsol Lee (teacher): First of all, we need to escape from school.
Han Ga-in (student): There is a lot of security and strict surveillance.
Eunsol Lee (teacher): The target of level monitoring is students. Teachers can move freely.
Mukseong Kim (Teacher): How about I drive the car and the student hide in the car and go out?
Eunsol Lee (teacher): Do you have a car?
Kim Muk-seong (teacher): I twisted the manager’s car keys earlier.
Eunsol Lee (teacher): It seems like you have lived a very sincere life.
Kim Muk-seong (teacher): Talkative
Ari Kim (Student): Stop. When will it be ready?
Kim Muk-seong (teacher): Ox horns are also sweet. Tonight.
*
The first escape plan was made.
Since someone’s car keys were stolen, the teacher team drove the car to avoid the janitor’s eyes, and the student team decided to hide in the back of the car.
At first glance, there seem to be no gaps. There’s no way the janitor was searching the teacher’s car in detail, right?
I’m worried. A large part of the party’s power has already collapsed.
Jin Cheol-hyung’s power is gone, and it’s painful that Song-i and ‘diverse perspectives’ are gone.
Should we rely on Ari’s unidentified strength, which seems to have yet to bottom out?
*
That night, we saw the most ‘overwhelming power’ since we arrived at the hotel.
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