Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 468
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EP.468 Episode 468 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (27)
Episode 468 – Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’ Re (27)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 555th day
Current Location: Room 206, The Cursed Room – ‘The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days’
Wise Man’s Advice: 1]
– Han Ga-in
“… I wish we had at least fought.”
Is it because I’m tired of the endless forced march?
Ominous words came out of my mouth.
“…”
The space is overall in pink tones.
It has the feel of an office without furniture and is endlessly spacious.
The floor is carpeted with a subtly unpleasant texture, and the ceiling is covered with fluorescent lights that buzz incessantly.
At first glance, this space looked like an ordinary city office, but it had one terrible feature.
It’s wide.
Endlessly wide.
Infinitely wide.
Search the space and open a door to find another office, then search that office and open a door to find yet another office.
“…”
I thought there would be a fierce battle with the clones who had both immense legacies and blessings, but no.
Not only was there no fierce fighting, but even the enemy’s location was unknown.
— Hwarurur!
He once again summoned the divine sun and surveyed his surroundings with his transcendent cognitive abilities.
“Not this time either.”
Despite the overwhelming extrasensory data collected from the surrounding space, which could not be classified as sight or hearing, pouring into the brain, there was absolutely no meaningful information.
In the first place, this isn’t the first time the sun has been summoned to search the surroundings.
However, one bizarre fact was discovered long ago.
“It seems like you’re creating space every time?”
At first glance, it seemed like I had fallen into an infinitely vast space, but the extrasensory perception provided by the divine sun gave me completely different information.
At this moment, the only space that exists is this place where I am now.
When you open the door, it doesn’t connect to another office that originally existed.
A space that did not exist before appears beyond the door.
…
Noticing this didn’t make a difference.
“What should I do – stop talking to myself.”
I felt uncomfortable because of the strange monologue habit I developed thanks to the grimoire.
— Clang!
As I opened the door again, a familiar office scene greeted me.
“This isn’t it.”
In the end, I used the one remaining piece of advice.
[Advice: 1 -> 0]
‘How can I get out of this situation?’
[If you play on the board prepared by your opponent, victory is bound to be far away]
“…because it was prepared by the opponent.”
As always, a wise answer.
They say that even a dog in a village can recite poetry after three years of study, and a thought came to mind when I saw this sentence that was just catching clouds.
We must not be absorbed in the strange phenomenon that we are seeing before our eyes.
This place is a place where clones have created using their heritage and blessings, and is essentially just a part of the trials sent down by the Demon King.
What is the opponent’s objective?
Avoiding fights and wasting my resources.
The essence of the Demon King is a collection of beasts, disasters, and impulses.
However, the Demon King, who has ’embodied God’ in response to the religious beliefs of the sect, has something similar to intelligence that allows him to communicate with the believers.
The Demon King incarnated as a god thinks I am too strong right now.
If the Demon King himself steps forward, it may be fine, but if some pathetic clones step forward, it will be difficult to last even a minute.
So instead of competing with force, they chose to confine themselves in this labyrinthine place.
“…”
I could guess who my opponent was and what abilities he used.
As far as I know, there is only one legacy that can create such a strange phenomenon: ‘ominous imagination’.
Even other heritages, such as the sacred sun, could not create such an absurd phenomenon.
The user must be a clone of Ari.
Could this be implementing one of the horrific phenomena I’ve experienced while working as an agent?
I understand up to this point, but… .
So what’s the solution?
“…”
It feels like I’ve entered a ‘real cursed room’ for the first time.
The previous matches against ‘Luck, Bracelet Sang-Hyeon’ and ‘Justice, Star Piece Maze’ were impressive, but they were fundamentally just fights.
A truly cursed room, as created by a hotel, is never like that.
Because the proportion of fighting or power struggles is not as high as you might think.
I stood in front of the door again.
If you open it, another office will appear.
Let’s change the method this time.
— Hwarurur!
After summoning the sun, instead of opening the door, he punched the wall.
The soft flesh made of protein collided with the hard concrete, and a strange phenomenon occurred in which the concrete wall burst apart in an instant.
For the first time, a change occurred in this strange place.
“… What is this place?”
Ankle-deep water, green plants everywhere, and a blue swimming pool visible beyond the wall.
It’s completely different from the place I was in before.
When you open the door, it’s an office, and when you break down the wall, it’s a swimming pool?
“It depends on the method of movement?”
If I break the ceiling, there’s another place? If I break the floor?
If we study these various ways of moving, will we find a way to get to ‘where Ari is’?
It’s like solving a puzzle or escaping a room.
—Slap!
As Charangi walked on water, he concluded that this direction was not right either.
Let’s go back to the original idea.
Why did the Demon King give us such a tiring ordeal in the first place?
Since the clones can’t stop me with force, I’m just stalling for time by trapping them in a labyrinth.
It’s not a matter of solving a puzzle to find the answer.
Because wasting time solving puzzles is the Demon King’s intention.
We have to find another way.
A direction that the Demon King had not prepared.
Something prepared without any relation to the Demon King.
The power of the hotel.
— Flutter!
‘Kingdom of Dreams’
There’s no clock, but the status window date hasn’t changed yet, so not even a day has passed.
Considering you came in at dawn, it must be evening now.
“…Please, someone stay asleep.”
It felt like a trick, but that’s why I like it.
*
[User: The greatest genius of all time
Date: What’s important?
Current location: This is a really weird place
Wise Man’s Advice: < — This doesn't seem to help much]
A chaotic world seething like bubbles.
A dream world created by my colleagues.
Fortunately, I found the colleague I wanted in that gap.
This time she was strolling along the beach at a shabby harbor.
“Ariya!”
“…”
“Don’t pull out your gun, don’t hit me, just listen to me -”
“I understand the situation, so stop talking nonsense.”
“You woke up right away this time?”
The last dream I had was set in a school, and I had to be shot three times before I woke up.
Is it because it was the first time and now it isn't?
“Yeah, what’s going on with someone who entered the sanctuary?”
I slowly explained the situation to Ari.
“Hmm. My clone who writes sinister fantasies is the culprit?”
"that's right."
“Did you implement Far Room…?”
Par room?
As expected, Ari knows what that place is!
“Ah! So Ari, you were the problem.”
“…”
“Okay, what’s the solution?”
If you know where it is, you'll know the solution, right?
“…”
“What are you talking about?”
“I don’t know.”
For a moment, I was speechless.
“Don’t look at me like that. Just because we’re the management doesn’t mean we know everything about real-world problems.”
“Isn’t this a phenomenon you’ve experienced?”
“I experienced it.”
“Then wouldn’t he have escaped? How -”
“… I used a one-time escape device. It wasn’t a tool that even the Bureau had many of, and only I could use it.”
“It doesn’t seem like you went in alone. Is there anyone else besides you?”
Ari's expression darkened immediately, so I could tell without even hearing the answer.
In the end, it means that even the management agency has not figured out how to escape from the Par Room.
Only Agent Ari escaped with a special one-time escape tool.
“I’m confused. What was the advice? Don’t play on the enemy’s board?”
"that's right."
Ari was somewhat flustered and threw out all the information she knew, wondering if it was true that she was flustered.
“It may seem like there are several rooms in a row, but in reality there is only one -”
“Every time you open a door, a new room appears. When you enter that room, the previous room disappears.”
“Oh, oh? You already know?”
“Tell me more.”
“It’s not like all existing rooms will disappear unconditionally. To be exact, it seems like only ‘rooms without people’ will disappear. Also, you can create multiple rooms at the same time -”
Create multiple rooms at the same time.
“That part!”
"uh?"
“How do I create multiple rooms at the same time?”
“He probably moved while opening the door -”
“I even tried to break down the wall.”
“Then you’ve figured it all out. When you open the door, you can see the room on the other side, right? Don’t go through that way, but instead break the wall in the existing room. Then you’ll see another room on the other side of the wall. Again, don’t go through -”
“OK. I understand.”
Basically, it disappears except in rooms with people in them, but if you open a door and break a wall, ceiling, etc. without leaving the room, multiple rooms will appear at the same time.
therefore….
"I get it."
I figured out how to get out of it.
Ari looked genuinely shocked when she heard me say, 'Okay.'
“You got it? You got the idea of how to escape from the Par Room? Over the past 60 years, over 125,000 people have died according to the Bureau’s estimates -”
“No, that’s not the escape route from Par Room.”
I found out how to escape.
However, this is not the escape route from Par Room.
“Han Ga-in! I don’t know what you’re talking about -”
“I’ll explain later. I don’t have time.”
I woke up from a dream.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 555th day
Current Location: Room 206, The Cursed Room – 'The Demon King Resurrects After 100 Days'
Wise Man's Advice: 0]
Back to reality, a space similar to the swimming pool in Par Room.
I stood still for a moment and thought.
“This is how to escape from Par Room….”
Sorry, but I don't know how to escape from the 'real par room' that exists in reality.
However, this place is not a real par room.
The copy of Ari that exists somewhere is just a fake created by ominous imagination!
— Hwarurur!
The sacred sun burned.
Once again, sparks danced from my fingertips as I transformed into an angel of light.
As the door opened, a pink office that I had seen countless times appeared.
A huge hole opened in the wall, revealing another pool on the other side.
When the ceiling collapsed, a room full of dolls was revealed.
The floor was bursting open, and the stale air of the old, abandoned factory stung my nose.
In a split second, five rooms were created.
“It’s just the beginning.”
When I move to a newly formed room, all locations except that room disappear.
That is, all rooms will not disappear unless you move.
“Come out.”
He stood still and called out 'Taeyang Gain'.
Of course, there was no need to explain it in detail.
Because he knew what to do from the moment he showed up.
— Gulp! Urrrr!
Only at a noisy construction site can the loud, loud noise pierce your ears.
Because while I was still, Taeyang Gain moved to another room and repeated the same actions I had done.
Just about 20 seconds.
One room grows into five, and five rooms grow into 25.
Next is 125, then 625!
The being that embodies all of this space.
I spoke to Ari's clone, who was obviously watching me from somewhere.
“Just give it a try. I’m curious to see how many rooms you can implement!”
…
…
…
A total of 272.
This was the limit to the number of rooms Ari's clones could create.
Soon after, all the spaces we had created suddenly began to break and shatter like glass.
The black-haired girl who suddenly appeared was unconscious and bleeding from her eyes, nose, mouth, and other places.
It looked like he was in a lot of pain, so I lightly tightened his neck to give him some rest.
I thought about it in a space that was collapsing in real time.
It is said that outside, in reality, there is a 'real par room', not a crude imitation like this.
Of course, the escape method I just wrote won't work there.
“…”
Suddenly, this thought occurred to me.
If I ever go out into reality, I'm sure I'll experience the real Par Room.
It's an ominous fantasy.
— Hwaaaat!
Suddenly the surroundings became bright.
Soon, a cheerful voice was heard.
“Wow~! You came all the way here in one day? You’re really amazing!”
Finally, the first Demon King worshipper, the leader of the sect, the Ultimate, appeared.