Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 446
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EP.446 Episode 446 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (11)
Episode 446 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (11)
– Lee Eun-sol
As you walk along the tracks, the city becomes more and more like a living nightmare.
The seething monsters, the ceaseless groans coming from somewhere, and the buildings with their lights on suggested many things.
– Small and weak.
At what point was it?
We naturally discovered the underground city’s greatest secret.
In the depths of paradise, time flows differently than on the surface.
If you think like this, all your questions will be easily answered.
Why is there flesh left on a corpse?
Why are paper route maps still in good shape?
Why did a ghost story from hundreds of years ago emerge so late?
It’s just that not much time has passed underground.
The problem of ‘date confirmation’ that Cheon Ki-nu-seol warned about was not only due to the market’s regression.
– They are lowly and insect-like.
Another question was also easily resolved.
This is a story about Pero, who is currently fluttering his soft feathers on my shoulder.
Am I like a mother because I don’t have a son?
If you think about me in general, it’s subtly unpleasant.
The reason why this cute and smart bird couldn’t explain ‘his location’ is also simple.
Since everyone only learned of the existence of the ‘Paradise Depths’ after re-entering Room 206, even Pero didn’t know his own location.
– A miserable life.
Let’s leave aside the small talk and focus on the important parts.
First, ridiculously enough, the underground city has not been destroyed ‘yet’ and its destruction is currently in progress.
Second, my mind is becoming increasingly sick.
*
— Hot!
An unpleasant noise made by flapping wings.
This is the sound that the ‘Silent Butchers’, the strange creatures that have been flying around the area since a while ago, make as they communicate with each other.
According to Ari’s urgent explanation, it is a monster that has no eyesight and uses extremely keen hearing to find prey.
I wish you had told me before that monster ripped my arm off.
Of course, it’s not Ari’s fault since it came like a bolt from the sky.
If it weren’t for Jincheol, I would have ripped off his head instead of his arm.
Thanks to Yumi’s thankful first aid, not only the bleeding but also the pain disappeared, but at the cost of excessive magic use, she disappeared.
Also, because of those monsters, I had to look through the city without being able to use my flute.
Is that why?
For a while now, I’ve been seeing strange letters on the corner of my eye.
– An impossible ideal.
Pfft pfft.
Ari asks with her mouth shape, ‘How many are there?’
It’s such a shame that Grandpa collapsed and the chat window disappeared.
Index finger, middle finger, ring finger. Pizza Ari nodded with these three fingers.
— Hot!
In the meantime, one of them stretched out its little finger.
Should I say that I’m lucky?
There was no need to turn off the headlights since they were blind.
I poked my head out through a gap in the half-collapsed outer wall of the tracks to look outside.
A huge building that emits a faint light and strange vibrations.
Strangely enough, no one but me could see this ‘light’.
According to the route map, it says ‘Research Institute’.
This is our final destination.
Right then!
— Gooooo!
I felt an indescribable, powerful impulse, along with a distant cry that shook the heavens and the earth.
– Failed dream.
Despair, pain, sadness, regret, anxiety, fear, confusion, anger, worry, skepticism, dread, disgust, hatred, futility, misery, depression.
A conglomerate of all the negative emotions the human brain can produce hits my brain like a bomb.
I want to die.
Unrewarded effort, a lowly life, a weak –
It’s going to be difficult.
I can’t stand this level of urge without the help of a flute.
If there’s just one problem… .
The flute makes a sound.
So I laughed.
“Ahahahaha!”
Because now that the decision has been made, there is no need to remain silent any longer.
Seungyeop and Jincheol were on the verge of fainting with their eyes rolled back, while Ari was the only one who understood the situation.
– Inevitable death.
“I know, I know!”
I picked up the flute again.
— Laaaaah!
This is it for me.
*
– Kim Ari
— Gulp!
A thunderous roar shook the sky.
Eunsol, who was captured by the Silent Butcher in return for making noise by blowing the flute, detonated a grenade in mid-air.
It’s a scene that could come out of any movie.
“Kiya~! Sister, you’re going so cool!”
For a moment, I was confused by Cha Jin-cheol’s crazy words and wondered if he had lost his mind.
From some point on, Cha Jin-cheol has been showing a strange obsession with ‘battles’, but even so, what he said just now really sounded like a crazy person.
Could it be the influence of sponsors who emphasize the fighting spirit?
Or is it the true nature revealed in the hotel?
Either way, there is no need to discuss this again.
Because it’s a million times better than having a monster tremble behind your back because it’s scary.
“Let’s run!”
Of course, we were all running together before I said that.
This is because it wouldn’t have been easy to run if it weren’t for the timing where Eunsol died and drew the monsters’ attention.
“Hey! Ariya!”
Cha Jin-cheol spoke while holding Seung-yeop on his waist.
“Just now! I’ve been thinking about this ever since you mentioned that the underground time is strange! The underground thing!”
What about underground work?
“Speed is of the essence! We don’t have time to fight monsters like we do now!”
“I know, too.”
“Next time you come!”
“Let’s talk about it next time when we go out.”
I also know what Cha Jin-cheol is trying to say.
If the time in the underground city is different from that above ground, work underground must be completed ‘as quickly as possible’.
This means that instead of fighting the monsters one by one, you should ignore them and quickly head to your destination.
Even if I knew this, what could I do now?
Not only Eun-sol and Seung-yeop, who lack mobility, but even Jin-cheol Cha, who walks on the ground, cannot avoid getting entangled in various terrain features and fighting monsters that openly block his path.
Next time you come to the basement –
“You have to be able to fly!”
“I told you, you know?”
A person who can fly in the sky must come.
A person who can fly and avoid complex terrain and most monsters!
“You can fly!”
Cain after being charged with the divine sun.
Elena, who created the flying monster.
And I can handle wing boots skillfully.
I can still fly.
“Can’t you see that there are monsters in the sky too?”
“My sister killed several people by detonating a grenade.”
“There are still many left.”
However, I just don’t have the confidence to fight while flying.
For a split second, Cha Jin-cheol made a complicated expression.
Something came to mind, but I wasn’t sure about it.
— Kwakwang! Woorung!
“Yohoho! Today is a festival!”
As if he had been waiting, the skeleton captain appeared, breaking through the outer wall.
In the captain’s hand was a huge scimitar that could cut through even a concrete building in one fell swoop.
“Hello, my little chick friends!”
Again! Again! Again!
With the flow of time already distorted, you’re already busy, but a monster is blocking your path.
How on earth do I –
“I can’t do it. I’m not sure, but let’s just do it.”
Suddenly, Cha Jin-cheol smiled bitterly and pushed Seung-yeop towards me.
“What? What the -”
“Seungyeop, take it and fly together.”
“…”
“Is it too much for two people with wing boots output?”
“It’s originally a one-person escape tool, but Seungyeop and I are light, so if we go together like this, we might be able to pull it off somehow.”
“Thank goodness. I’ll throw it to you. Seungyeop. Hang on to Ari.”
“Huh? Huh? Are you okay, unnie?”
“Pero, you just go too.”
— Beep!
After making Seungyeop, who was flustered, hang on to his back, he looks at Jincheol Cha.
“Yohoho! Chicks! You can’t ignore the captain so openly!”
Cha Jin-cheol lifted Seung-yeop Lee up in a pose similar to that of a shot put athlete –
“Iryaaaap-!”
It flew!
Regardless of the wing boots, he was able to rise almost 20 meters with the pure power of Cha Jin-cheol!
The surprised skeleton captain tried to stretch out his sword, but Cha Jin-cheol soon rushed in.
“Eww!”
Seungyeop’s screams are piercing my ears.
“Good luck!”
“Eww!”
The momentary acceleration was so strong that Seungyeop half lost consciousness.
Since fate is a force that works on its own when needed, doesn’t it matter?
I believed that and flew.
— Kkieeeek!
The monsters in the sky that rushed at me while screaming were just ignored.
I’m equipped with the ‘Humanoid Lucky Shield’ so I guess it’ll work out somehow!
*
— Crash!
The chaotic flight ended in a crash.
I felt it again, but wing boots were a one-person escape tool.
Even if Seungyeop and I were light, it would have been an extremely difficult task for the two of us to use it together.
The evidence is now behind you.
“Ugh!”
— Clang!
As I struggled to catch my breath and got up, I heard a cold metallic sound.
“Who are you? Identify yourself!”
In an underground world where time flows differently, destruction is not a thing of the past, but something that is currently in progress.
So when we got to the heart of the city, there were still soldiers there.
“Hey, what’s that corpse behind you!”
“…”
After a difficult journey, he placed the body of his dead comrade on the ground.
— Beep!
Pero, who had flown in together, cried sadly and pulled out a strand of Seungyeop’s hair.
What should I say to get them to let me into the lab?
“Airavata.”
Airavata is the name used in the past by the founder or warrior who now goes by the name May.
Her true identity is that of a member of the Order of Reason who protected the world before the end of the world.
“I am the successor of Airavata.”
“The evidence is -”
Before the soldier could finish speaking, a red vortex extended from his fingertips and enveloped the surroundings like smoke.
Superpowers are sometimes the most reliable form of identification.
“… Come in.”
*
“Enact lockdown procedures for Area 23! Implement!”
“Area 17 containment failed!”
“Demon King infection confirmed in Zone 4!”
Screaming voices are heard from all directions.
Lockdown, quarantine failure, confirmed infection.
I can feel it just by hearing the word.
This institute is heading towards destruction.
While hundreds of years had passed outside due to the extremely distorted flow of time, something incredible was happening underground.
The soldiers led me into a huge room in the center of the laboratory.
There, I finally met someone I had wanted to see for a long time.
“… mom.”
“what?”
She doesn’t recognize me.
Is it because the seal hasn’t been released yet, so the personality in the scenario remains?
“No. Are you in charge here?”
‘Miro’ nodded.
“That’s right. I’m rank 9 of the Order of the Decisive, a Magas (high-ranking official). Call me Major General. And you? Did Airabata give you everything?”
In the brief Q&A, an important word came up: ‘Did you pass it on?’
As if Airavata thought he might be dead by now.
“…the flow of time is different here and on the ground.”
“I know. How much time has passed on Earth now? Roughly 150 years?”
“How could this happen?”
Miro chuckled.
“That’s why.”
In the direction she was pointing, there was a golden mass shining pure white.
It resembled a ‘coin’.
“… One more chance?”
“One more chance? Is that what they call it outside? They give you one more chance… . It’s a fitting name.”
The director looked confident.
“The things outside are just poorly made copies of the originals. Aren’t the ranges severely limited?”
The time frame for turning it around is at most one month.
The spatial scope is within paradise.
“This is real. And….”
She said with an unwavering gaze.
“We can save the world. For sure.”
“…”
I know the curator’s faith will fail.