Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 451
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EP.451 Episode 451 – Rest Day – ‘Kingdom of Dreams’ (1)
Episode 451 – Rest Day – ‘Kingdom of Dreams’ (1)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 479
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 – Rest Room
Wise Man’s Advice: 0]
– Han Ga-in
Perhaps, the maze could resist the time distortion that appeared repeatedly in Room 206.
This fact came as quite a shock to everyone.
Soon, Eunsol approached the whiteboard.
1. How Cain found Ari in the depths of paradise.
2. The relationship between the Demon King’s cult and the Demon King.
3. The hidden power of the poem.
4. The reason the maze was sealed.
“You can resist regression or time dilation without changing! I got a clear answer for number 4. Anyone else have an answer for the other question?”
The teacher answered.
“I don’t think anyone can answer questions 2 and 3 right now.”
In the second case, the sect members found out in the previous round that I was a fake prophet, so they had to kill me all.
Next time, it looks like we’ll have to dig up a bit more information before killing him.
Number 3 is something Songi should be more concerned about than me.
There is only one question left.
My colleagues’ eyes naturally turned to me, and I resumed the explanation I had been trying to give earlier.
— Flutter!
“Do you remember this painting? It’s the ‘Kingdom of Dreams’ that I received as a reward for discovering the artist.”
My colleagues nodded.
“I’ll explain in detail. I’m not sure of the exact date, but it was a few days ago, when I was inside room 206. Songi and I were in deep trouble on the ground.”
Songi nodded and agreed.
“Eun-sol, Seung-yeop, Jin-cheol, and even Ari. They all went down to the deep-sea area and haven’t heard from us for months, and no one has come up. The people who stayed up there were really worried.”
“I would have thought they were dead, but according to the comrade information in the status window, they were all alive, so it was even more confusing.”
It was quite a shock to us on the surface, who were unaware of the time distortion in the depths.
“We’ve had several meetings. Since Songi has to rule the city, she can’t leave, so we even talked about going down there with Elena, Mr. Sang-hyun, and me.”
The following words were received by the teacher.
“We rejected it at the end of the meeting. I didn’t expect it to be this long, but it was clear that something strange was happening in the depths. Wouldn’t it be a big deal if there were more missing people?”
Ari tilted her head.
“So the people who stayed above didn’t know about the situation in the depths, so they fell into confusion? Are you saying that they decided not to go down because they thought it would be a big deal if more people went missing? Are you trying to find a way to escape from above?”
“that’s right.”
After hearing this, Ari expressed reasonable doubts.
“Then why did you come down?”
“It’s because I used the picture unintentionally. I was so lost in thought all night that I couldn’t sleep.”
Once again, everyone’s eyes turned to the dream kingdom for a moment and then back to me.
A situation where everyone is waiting for my explanation.
“Hmm….”
“…”
“So how do we use this picture…?”
“…”
“It is definitely a mysterious object….”
“…”
“There are many secrets hidden in the kingdom of dreams -”
— Boom!
My grandfather flicked my forehead with his finger as if he found it ridiculous.
“Are you kidding me? If you steam it this long, there will be scorched rice in the rice cooker!”
“Sigh, in simple terms!”
“To put it simply.”
“If certain conditions are met, you can teleport to your comrade’s location?”
“What are the conditions?”
“Both the user and the person at the destination must be asleep?”
Everyone was momentarily dumbfounded by those words.
“what?”
“For example, if I want to move to Ari, both Ari and I have to be asleep.”
“It’s strange that you’d move while you were sleeping, but wasn’t I sleeping when you showed up in the first place? Oh, did you go looking for Miro instead of me?”
“I don’t think so. The maze is sealed.”
Wouldn’t it be against the hotel’s rules to appear in front of a participant who has been sealed by supernatural means as if teleporting?
Ari, who was confused, found the answer on her own.
“Then, if I enter the mind of the director, is it considered sleep? Because I can’t control my body and my mind is unconscious?”
“maybe?”
“What is maybe? Maybe. Tell me for sure.”
“I guess I’ll have to use it more to find out.”
Since I have only used it once, I am not sure about many things.
I think I need to use it a few more times.
If possible, tonight would be best.
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*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 480th day
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 – Rest Room
Wise Man’s Advice: 333]
– Han Ga-in
“…”
I woke up.
Maybe not?
[Wise Man’s Advice: 333]
Let’s focus our minds, the number of advices has increased absurdly.
Has my greatness finally begun to overwhelm the owl!
“…”
Because it’s just a dream.
After a quick meeting with my colleagues, I once again tried my best to have a lucid dream.
Now that I’ve had success, I can say that ‘having a lucid dream’ is harder than you think.
First of all, dreams are not something you can always dream of if you want to.
Second, even if you succeed in dreaming, waking up from it is not easy.
The first one is somewhat luck, and the second one requires what is called an RC check.
Realizing that reality is a dream by attempting and succeeding at something that is impossible in reality.
Some people say to bend your fingers backwards, some say to spin a top, but I have a much easier way.
[User: Hotel God
Date: I will decide the date.
Current location: Heaven
[Advice from the wise: Who dares to advise me?]
This is it.
“…”
Let’s stop this nonsense.
I got up and looked at the picture I had put up next to my bed yesterday.
“… Phew”
It’s a completely different picture than what you see outside, in reality.
A little more dreamy, a little more cosmic and above all… .
It’s huge.
Even when I thought of this picture as ‘big’, it grew bigger before my eyes.
At some point, I realized that the painting had grown to be much larger than the entire room.
Does it make sense for a painting on a wall to be larger than the entire room, including the wall?
Of course that doesn’t make sense.
So this is a dream.
“Open… Open Sesame!”
—Whoosh!
As if it had been waiting, the gates of the kingdom opened.
*
Beyond the door – I see five worlds.
Five worlds that are as changeable as a storm, swaying like a reed, and collapsing like foam.
Each world created by the young Creator’s hands was like a crude model garden, but it showed the potential for greater greatness.
— Gooooo!
I feel like someone is watching everything from somewhere.
An unidentified being that lives in our dreams.
Perhaps, that is the greatest danger that exists in the kingdom of dreams.
“Whew… Let’s go.”
I pushed my complicated thoughts to a corner of my mind.
To put it rationally, those worlds are the dreams of my colleagues, and right now there are five of them dreaming.
First things first.
— Clank!
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“high school?”
The first dream of ‘Ari’ that I visited was, strangely enough, high school.
Before I knew it, I was wearing my school uniform, and Ari, who was nearby, was also wearing her school uniform and had her head on the desk.
“No, he likes school so much that he goes to school even in his dreams.”
It’s different from when I first went to see Ari’s dream a few days ago.
At that time, I was caught up in an incomprehensible whirlpool and suddenly woke up near Ari… .
Is this a real dream this time, and is it because it was a fake dream where Ari entered the director’s psyche?
— Bam!
“wake up.”
“…”
“Ariya, wake up.”
Ariga raised her head blankly.
“Isn’t it strange? How did I get into your dream! Haha, this is exactly -”
— Crack!
Suddenly the floor came into view.
Ari rushed in like lightning and struck my neck, breaking it –
“Eureeeeeeeeeep!”
Rice, it’s nothing!
This is a dream, so you’re not actually going to die!
Because I don’t feel any pain –
“Even if you break his neck, he won’t die. As expected, with a gun -”
“Eww! You, you, why on earth did you bring a gun to school!”
— Bang!
“Eww!”
— Bang! That’s right!
“Just stay still. You keep killing other people.”
“Don’t shoot!”
Only after dying three more times was Ari able to wake up.
“Oh~! So this is the power of the Dream Kingdom? You can enter your comrades’ dreams… When you wake up from that state, you wake up around your comrades’ location, right?”
“Hey, why are you bringing a gun to school?”
“To shoot.”
“… to whom?”
“Hmm, come here first.”
Ari gestured to me, came close to me, and pointed the gun at me.
“Eww!”
“It’s a dream, why am I so surprised?”
“Ah, but even so, since you’re pointing a gun -”
“Let’s go back to reality together.”
“Huh? No! Not yet.”
“Not yet? Aha. Are you trying to enter other girls’ dreams too?”
“Yes – no, why did you insist on using the word ‘girl’…?”
“Then Jincheol will enter the dream?”
“… Let’s go. We can create another door here.”
A moment later, the giant door swallowed up the classroom again.
Next up is Song.
*
— Agjak! Agjak!
“It’s delicious!”
“…”
“…”
— Crunch! Gulp!
“So sweet~!”
“…”
“…”
— Gulp! Choaah!
“Ugh, so refreshing!”
Songi was having a very animalistic time.
Macaroons piled up like mountains, potato chips laid out like a carpet, tomato penne ‘floating’ here and there, and even cola appearing every time you open your mouth.
“You look happy.”
“I know.”
In the meantime, Songi ate endless amounts of food that must have contained over 1,000 calories.
As I looked at Songi as if I had lost my mind, Ari spoke as if she was making excuses for me.
“You may not know this, but girls really have to endure a lot to maintain their slim bodies!”
“Oh, but is it really true that you can eat like this in your dreams?”
“That could be possible.”
“Do you often have dreams like this? Imagine eating endless steaks without worrying about gaining weight?”
“… Let’s wake him up around here.”
Songi’s first reaction when she came to her senses was aggressive.
“Eww! What are you two doing!”
“…What are you doing?”
“Oh, oh, oppa, don’t you have any concept of privacy?”
“Private life?”
“Where can you find a private space like a dream!”
When I heard it, it wasn’t a wrong statement.
“Songiya, Ari said to come here.”
Ariga was startled.
“What? What are you talking about all of a sudden -”
“Ari clearly said that we should go to ‘Girls’ Dream’.”
“Hey, Han Ga-in! Don’t lie -”
“Shut up and don’t turn it off!”
— Boom!
No kidding, a huge roar of cola came up and shook the world, sending me and Ari crashing into a wall of potato chips.
I never thought I would have an experience like this in my life.
Ari complained even during this time.
“Oh really! Songi got upset because you said something weird, Han Ga-in!”
“You’re upset? Songi just had a dream where she was a full pig instead of a hungry Socrates -”
“Both of you, get out!”
— Gulp!
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“Wow! I almost drowned in cola!”
“… What a fascinating experience. By the way, whose dream is this?”
“Elena.”
“You’re like a ghost, you only appear in girls’ dreams.”
“You told me to come in.”
“Stop lying.”
As I looked around, throwing out some silly words, I could see where the dream was set.
“Broadcasting station?”
“Elena seems to want to be a celebrity even in her dreams.”
“Okay, Ariya. Remember what I said earlier?”
“…”
“Elena is a bit… . caught up in dangerous thoughts. Considering the nature of the sacred sun, it’s a very serious matter.”
“…”
“I came with you because I thought you, as an agent of the management bureau, would be well-versed in these matters.”
“Do you know what another name for a genie is, a Bureau agent who grants wishes?”
“…”
Unlike Ari, Elena’s dreams were somewhat within the expected range.
Because I was drinking coffee on the first floor of the ABS broadcasting station that I saw in room 101.
As Ari and I approached Elena, Elena soon noticed us too.
She smiled at me.
“Ms. Gain, filming will start soon, so let’s go up!”
“yes?”
Suddenly start filming?
Why aren’t you surprised when Ari and I appear in your dreams?
At the moment when she was about to panic and not understand the situation, Ari opened her eyes wide.
“Eww! Oh, Elena, really!”
“What, what is it?”
Ari’s face turned slightly red.
It’s an expression I’m seeing for the first time.