Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 464
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EP.464 Episode 464 – Day of Rest – Reflections on the Solution (3)
Episode 464 – Day of Rest – Reflections on the Solution (3)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 552
Current Location: Tier 1, Hallway
Wise Man’s Advice: 3]
– Han Ga-in
“Review of the Perfect Solution for the 2nd Issue No. 206”
… The reason it’s the second is because yesterday’s meeting is considered the first?
Despite the playfulness evident in the title Eunsol wrote on the whiteboard, her colleagues’ attitudes were extremely serious.
“The spaceship escape plan that Miro mentioned yesterday, I thought about it all night -”
It seems that Sang-Hyeon Hyung has been seriously thinking about how to build a spaceship, or more precisely a ‘space residence’, within 100 days.
It was such a technical story that only Ari could understand it, even if it was a bit awkward. We concluded that no matter how hard we tried, 100 days would be impossible.
“The Time Ruler has the ability to regress, so can’t he just go back to the point before the Demon King arrived on Earth?”
Songi’s seemingly plausible idea was refuted with a sad expression by Miro, who had gained the curator’s memories.
“I can’t go back that much… At most, a year?”
“omg!”
From ideas that would come to mind like the Romanian dictator’s idea of somehow buying time and then implementing a policy of ‘forced birth’ – which was rejected because no way to buy time could be found – to ideas that sound like something out of a science fiction movie like transferring the human mind onto a computer.
It was a feast of ideas that was admirable from the beginning.
However, many of the views were flawed if you thought about them a little.
That’s a given.
If there was a solution that could be easily thought of, it would have come from a combination of reason and reason.
At that moment, Seungyeop raised his hand with an expression full of determination, unlike usual.
“Over there, over there!”
“Seungyeop?”
“I have an amazing idea that came to me all night last night!”
Sorry, but the moment I heard the words, ‘I thought about it all night,’ my credibility was subtly reduced.
“People’s thoughts and beliefs influence the Demon King, right? So the solution that the Alliance tried to solve was to worship him as a divine being and prevent him from harming people!”
“yes.”
“Couldn’t it be that we believe in something other than God? So, um, a bulwark that protects the world? Or a huge shield? Or a great tool created by the organization?”
“…”
In an instant, the people around became quiet.
It’s not because it sounds absurd.
On the contrary, it sounded very plausible.
Rather than worshipping them as gods and submitting to the Demon King to entrust their fate to him, they spread the perception that they are tools or inanimate objects?
If it succeeds, the Demon King will not harm humans, and humans will not sacrifice their fate to the Demon King, so it is no different from the superior version of the ‘Demon King Worship Plan’.
“…”
But I had a strong feeling that this wasn’t the direction to go.
My colleagues, who, unlike me, did not feel this ‘intuition’, responded positively.
“Oh! Seungyeop, you, this seems plausible? What do you think, Sister?”
“It doesn’t have to be an inanimate object, right? The people of Room 206 worship the ancestors, so if you insist that they are spirits who made a contract with the ancestors -”
Unfortunately, this is not the direction.
However, I don’t know why not.
A situation where you intuitively know that the answer is wrong, but you cannot logically explain why it is wrong.
Suddenly, I wondered what Ari, who had been quiet all this time, was thinking.
“…”
I think while skimming through it.
Why did Ari try to enter the maze dream yesterday?
“…”
Aren’t you going to tell me?
It’s not for a trivial reason –
— Bam!
Ari raised her head with a light tap on the table.
“This is an idea that came to mind while talking to Miro yesterday.”
I had a gut feeling as I watched the trembling maze.
In the circumstances, the ‘maze’ that Ari is talking about is not the middle school girl in front of her, but another maze.
“I don’t know how to solve #206, but I’m worried about the Demon King himself.”
Worries about the Demon King himself?
The next story was very familiar.
“Why does the Demon King act like a god? Before that, why does he react to human imagination in the first place?”
This is the question that the ultimate leader of the group, Sang-Hyeon, asked, and it is also the question that he relayed to me.
I have my own answer to this.
“We analyzed this as a type of mimicry. It’s like a wolf putting on sheep’s clothing to hunt.”
A type of camouflage and essentially a hunting tool.
“Some snakes wiggle the tip of their tails to mimic small bugs or earthworms. They hunt prey that come close to eat them. Some fish create tiny lights in the deep sea to attract prey.”
Sang-Hyeon nodded as if he understood.
“The Demon King reacts to human imaginations in order to prey on humans, and sometimes acts like a god?”
“Rather than a human, it would be more accurate to say a small prey, a small intelligent being. According to the records of the organization, the Demon King is a being that flew in from space.”
The human race of No. 206 was unable to create a ‘means of planetary migration’ until the moment their alliance collapsed.
However, Athanasia of 103 and the future humans of 203 created a means to escape the stars.
The Demon King ‘evolved’ to prevent these prey from escaping.
If the prey find the Demon King mysterious or consider him an object of worship, they will flock to him rather than run away.
“If you think about it this way, it will be difficult for Seungyeop’s idea to succeed.”
“ah.”
“Still, Seungyeop, I’m surprised at how plausible this idea is.”
“… yes.”
The Demon King’s reaction to human imagination is merely a kind of hunting device.
Therefore, the ‘transformation’ of becoming a being in a ghost story and killing humans, or becoming a god and spiritually exploiting humans, is also accepted by the Demon King.
However, it is impossible for the Demon King to accept the appearance of serving humans purely.
“…”
This is a completely different analysis from mine.
If my hypothesis is based on a vague sense of ‘insight into the divine being’ while using the sacred sun, Ari’s hypothesis is a typical Management Bureau style.
The directions themselves are so different that it is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong.
Eun-sol and her grandfather petted and praised Seung-yeop, perhaps because they felt sorry for him.
“Usually you don’t say much during meetings, but you’ve been really active yesterday and today! You’ve even given your opinion three times. You’re a total hotel expert. You’re going to go out and be a hotel agent, right? Right, Grandpa?”
“Of course. Even now, you’re still much better than those juniors who are like fools!”
Seungyeop has already expressed his opinion three times?
Were you so distracted by the divine sun that you couldn’t feel it?
“What were the first two?”
Seungyeop answered my words awkwardly.
“Brother, the first two times I just spoke without thinking -”
“Without any worries? Roughly?”
“Well, I was trying to be quiet, but I felt like I was being noticed… .”
“You improvised because you had an idea?”
“Ouch! Tongue, bro. What’s wrong?”
Seungyeop stepped back in embarrassment, perhaps thinking that he was being nagged or scolded.
On the other hand, there were people who felt something strange in what I said.
“…I threw out the idea twice without thinking, spontaneously, roughly, and carelessly, and coincidentally, it turned out to be the same both times.”
Other people who heard Ari’s emphasis also began to feel something and opened their eyes wide.
“Seungyeop, what did you say yesterday?”
“Yes? Yes?”
Funnily enough, Seungyeop couldn’t even remember what he said.
Of course, it wasn’t anyone else.
“… I said I would kill everyone and then turn back time to bring them back to life.”
Kill all the people in a city, no, an entire planet, and then revive them.
It sounds absurd, but it is possible in room 206.
The organization has trapped all survivors in cities in order to control all of humanity with the push of a button, and they actually have a way to turn back time.
If you separate ‘killing everyone’ and ‘reviving everyone’ from the beginning, it is a phenomenon that already occurred in issue 206.
In the second and third rounds, we escaped by wiping out 2.34 billion survivors, and in the first round, the mayor used One More Chance to revive the dead in Paradise.
There is a major flaw in this approach.
“Huh? Huh? Am I confused? A person who has devoted himself to indomitable reason cannot be resurrected, right?”
It’s just as Songi said.
If you sacrifice a person to the Unbreakable Reason to suppress the Demon King, the person you sacrifice will not come back to life even if you turn back time inside the room.
Because the soul itself has disappeared.
Even if you are the master of time, this limitation remains the same.
Offer a person to the Indomitable Reason or Demon King, turn back time to revive them, and offer them again.
This kind of ‘infinite power human sacrifice’ is impossible.
Those who can be resurrected must at least have a sound soul.
At this point everyone stopped again.
It seems like you’ve just come up with a really unique idea, and it’s one that the lucky guy has highlighted twice!
So what should we do?
“What is this? What is this? Seungyeop, what is this?”
“…”
Seungyeop, who first brought up this idea, had an expression on his face like he had no idea what was going on.
When everyone was so confused.
“… I think something just occurred to me.”
Ariga raised her hand with a blank expression.
…
…
…
It was a strange story.
A strange solution created by mixing together the ‘consideration of the nature of the Demon King’ mentioned by the maze in the dream and the ‘resurrection through time travel’ that Seungyeop thought of.
A plan that is not perfect without any gaps, but rather has so many loopholes that it is hard to know how to refute any part.
On the positive side, it’s creative, on the negative side, you never know ‘how the Demon King will react’.
At least it seemed worth a try.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 552
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 – ‘Room of Rest’
Wise Man’s Advice: 0]
It’s late at night and everyone is tired from a long meeting.
I returned to room 105 for a moment and collapsed on the bed.
“I feel like my mind has cleared up since yesterday.”
I’m glad the weird thoughts about my colleagues have stopped.
“… In owl terms, is it because the black paint has increased?”
As the power of the Grimoire grew stronger, the sacred sun took a step back.
I feel like a shrimp, caught between the power struggles of two legacies.
Anyway, I realized one thing during this process.
“Is the book of magic a little more rational?”
The Grimoire essentially seeks to break free from the constraints of the flesh.
The body is nothing more than a slightly expensive piece of clothing that can be changed at any time.
However, most human desires depend on the body.
Not only appetite and the desire for sleep, but also sexual desire are impulses created by the body.
The book of grimoires itself does not specifically seek asceticism, but because it treats the flesh as insignificant, the desires that come from the flesh also become blurred.
This is why the closer you get to the Grimoire, the more super-rational you become.
The sacred sun does not face this direction.
Expanding the self by endlessly drinking in the prayers or longings of the believers.
Most of these prayers are of the form ‘I want this, I want that.’
How can a being that has grown strong by devouring desires be free from desires?
“… How is it? This is my realization.”
Suddenly, a laugh came out.
It’s like lying in bed alone, daydreaming, and talking to a secret friend who doesn’t exist.
This is exactly the kind of behavior a second-year middle school student would do.
However, I really did have a secret friend.
— Phagec!
Out of thin air – another me appeared.
“It is your enlightenment, but it is also my enlightenment.”
He was not a living organism made of protein.
It was something that could not be contained in the concepts of light and shadow, empty imagination, and matter.
If I was something closer to the Grimoire, he was something closer to the Divine Sun.
“Yesterday, we asked Miro for advice on the erosion of the sacred sun.”
“…”
“She gave me two answers.”
“…”
“Shouldn’t we try one of them?”
Flames appeared in the air.
My second legacy, the sacred sun, which was the beginning of all my problems.
A man who burns like a flame.
Another me laughed as if I found it funny.
“So, what do you think? Do you feel like worshipping me?”
“Hey, you need to work on your speech.”
“…”