Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 490
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EP.490 Episode 490 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The First Trial ‘Eternal Life and Resurrection’ (8)
Episode 490 – Room 207, The Gate Room – The First Trial ‘Eternal Life and Resurrection’ (8)
– Yoo Song-i
I’m confused.
What’s happening in the first trial?
What on earth are the monsters that I, we, saw?
The moment Malkab’s roar echoed throughout Memphis, an unimaginable truth was revealed.
…
What should I do now?
*
“Reptilian. This is probably the identity of the Pharaoh clan.”
After saying these words, the teacher closed his mouth.
Well, the reptilian thing was just a ‘conspiracy theory’ in the first place?
There are many credible sources to study in libraries for things like ancient Egyptian history, but not for reptilians.
There is no one who knows it properly, and the same goes for the teacher.
There are stories I’ve heard here and there.
Its appearance is that of a bipedal reptile.
It is said that he has a powerful transformation ability, allowing him to imitate humans, and that he used that power to infiltrate the upper echelons of society.
That’s all.
“…”
As I reflected on my experiences during my first ordeal, a few more things came to mind.
After her identity was revealed, Aidyah was in shock and trembled all over.
She didn’t seem to know that she and her Pharaoh clan were reptilian.
Did Menes hide the truth from his descendants?
Perhaps it had something to do with his entry into the sarcophagus of immortality.
The biggest question regarding Menes has been answered on its own.
Even if a person from the future were to travel through time and land in ancient times,
Even if that future person is a genius of the century at the level of a senior researcher, he cannot create a robot like this by himself.
So everyone was confused, but the answer was simple.
Menes is not a human from the future, but an alien from space.
Of course, there would be a spaceship, and the robots would have been made using the spaceship’s internal facilities.
Alternatively, the spaceship itself may be structured to transform into a robot upon arrival at the ‘colony’.
Because the interstellar spaceship built by future humans in Room 203 also felt that way.
“…”
After the reptilian truth was revealed, we hastily left Memphis.
Even though the speed of escape was slow due to the nature of the members, Menes did not send a pursuit party.
“I thought you would at least pretend to send a few human soldiers, but you didn’t even do that.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Menes believes that we are priests of the unidentified god, Horus.
Could it be that they were worried that Horus would take revenge if they killed us?
Even though Gain oppa wasn’t a member of the first trial, he was very helpful in many ways.
“I thought about it carefully, and I don’t think I’ll send it again.”
“…”
“It is the primeval age now. Most of the Earth has no proper civilization. In other words, it is empty.”
“…”
“By not sending a pursuit party, you are sending us a message. Just go somewhere else and establish your own civilization that serves Horus. Aren’t there more habitable places?”
I understand.
Even if I were Menes, I would probably tell them to just go their separate ways rather than fight us.
It’s a burden to both sides, but is there any reason to risk your life fighting in Egypt, which is so tiny compared to the entire planet?
Of course, this is just Menes’s idea.
“…”
I think and think again.
Hotels often leave hints in places that are easy to overlook at first glance.
A good example is the one that started out of nowhere on a train.
It was already decided who would go to each trial.
If that’s the case, why did we start on the train instead of just throwing ourselves into the ordeal?
“…”
The train moves steadily from the first station to the second station, and from the second station to the third station.
There is an order, and all stations are merely waypoints on a single route.
All four trials are in one world.
We are the oldest, and our colleagues follow us through the Middle Ages, modern times, and present times.
It’s probably around 3000 BC.
Compared to the Middle Ages, which was the next period, there is a difference of about 3,500 to 4,000 years.
Therefore, the temporal gap of the first ordeal is the widest.
What does this mean?
“…”
There is a saying called the butterfly effect.
As of now, the only reptilians are a very small number of Pharaoh clan members, including Menes and Aedia.
What will happen if 4000 years pass without us dealing with them?
“I have to go back.”
“…”
“We must go back and kill Menes, no, the entire Pharaoh’s family!”
“…”
“If we don’t kill all the reptilians, then 3,000 or 4,000 years will pass by like that…!”
“The entire ruling class of humanity may have become reptilian. Or, humans themselves may become livestock raised on ranches.”
“therefore -”
“It is now.”
“yes?”
“It’s time to check the second piece of paper.”
With those words, the teacher took out a piece of paper with the number ‘2’ written on it from his bosom.
“2. If possible, please leave the maze until later.”
“hmm?”
“You want me to leave the maze?”
“Huh? Huh? Is this my story? Gain wrote my story?”
“How – no, the sarcophagus of immortality?”
For a moment, my breath was taken away.
The time when Gain oppa wrote this letter was before he even entered room 207!
You foresaw the existence of the Immortal Sarcophagus before you even started the trials?
Is this really a human ability?
Unless you are really an angel descending from heaven!
“No. Insight is the power to read specific possibilities from small evidence. Before we came in, there was no evidence to predict the existence of the sarcophagus.”
“Well, then?”
“In the first place, there is no word like ‘sarcophagus’ in this sentence. I did not predict the existence of a sarcophagus. I just thought there would be something.”
“anything?”
“A means of inviting one of your colleagues to join you at the back.”
“…”
“What could be the basis for this? I don’t know about this.”
It’s strange.
For some reason, the teacher today seemed different from usual.
He’s like an ancient priest interpreting the will of a god who speaks words that seem vague and yet understandable.
“Aha, is this the midnight maze?”
The midnight maze.
“She, in her own words, was expected to be active in Room 207. The hotel had assigned Ms. Miro to the first trial… but, Gain-kun, this is not the time.”
In Gain Oppa’s opinion, the timing for the Midnight Maze to be active is not now, but thousands of years in the future.
“If it weren’t for this letter, the Midnight Maze would have been wasted in the fight against Menes.”
The fixed fate, the midnight maze, is consumed in the first ordeal.
“Miss Miro, do you understand?”
“…”
“You must not die now. You must not use the Midnight Maze. You must endure until the end, even if we are all annihilated, and then enter the sarcophagus and sleep.”
“… okay.”
Insight changed his fate.
The Midnight Maze does not appear in the first trial.
“After three days, the final flash will recharge.”
“…”
“Let’s attack Memphis then.”
*
– Aidia
He is human.
Not human.
He is human.
Not human.
I am….
It’s a monster.
It’s a lizard with pale blood.
A reptile with scales hidden under its soft skin.
I was out of breath.
Because it was painful, because my heart felt like it was going to break… .
I really didn’t want to live.
“I’m sorry.”
The great ancestor, or the most terrible monster, spoke to me.
“Thinking back now, it must have been Malkab’s trick, but in the past, I was suffering from an unknown disease. I had to hurriedly enter the sarcophagus to survive. So I didn’t know that something like this would happen.”
Pharaoh’s bloodline, we were not human, but monsters disguised as humans.
…
It’s such a perfect imitation.
If you transform into a woman, even the child you give birth to will be born in human form!
Thanks to our absurd ability to transform, we even forget that we are not human.
“I clearly told my children… I don’t know at what point you lost ‘our’ culture. Did Malkab intervene?”
“iced coffee….”
“I am awake, so there is no problem. From now on, accept your fate. The primitive mammals that fill this planet were born to serve us.”
I look to my great ancestor who tells me to accept my fate in a daze.
A being that simply refers to humans as ‘primitive mammals born to serve us.’
A cold-blooded lizard king who was not human from birth.
That’s why he’s completely different from me.
…
I returned to my residence and lived as if I were dead.
Because I am a person who has lost the will to live, no, I am a lizard.
Even the stifling hot air of Egypt was not enough to soothe my freezing heart at every moment.
It slowly rotted away.
It’s like they’re frozen into a plant, not a person – they weren’t to begin with.
I wish everything would just stop like this.
If I was having a nightmare right now, I wanted to wake up as soon as possible.
— Bam!
“Aidia!”
“…”
“Aidia! This is not the time!”
Taio, my long-time confidant and friend.
A man who did not hesitate to do the rough work of bringing Egyptian children for me.
Does he know?
That I am nothing but a monster, not a human being –
“Lady Aidia! Please come to your senses! Look outside!”
When I went outside, unable to resist Taio’s earnest pleas, I saw an unbelievable sight.
Memphis on fire, poles stuck everywhere.
Hanging above it were my brothers and relatives, so familiar to me!
The great Pharaoh’s bloodline is being annihilated.
The sight of this incredible sight made my gloomy mind brighten up!
“What the heck is going on!”
“There is a rebellion! Suddenly, hundreds and thousands of people are slaughtering Omar’s bloodline.”
A rebellion broke out? Suddenly?
“That, that! It may sound strange, but it’s like someone was controlling a crowd of thousands of people -”
Controls thousands of people with charisma.
The moment I heard that, someone who resembled a god more than a human came to mind.
“You’re all crazy! Talking nonsense -”
The ‘nonsense’ that Taio was talking about soon began to reach my ears.
“Kill all the disgusting lizards!”
“Kill all of the fallen Pharaoh bloodline!”
My breath stopped again.
When I raised my head, half out of my mind –
I saw a flash of light that seemed to split the world apart.
— Gulp!
*
– Cha Jin-cheol
“Are those the robots? It looks like 80% of them were blown away in a single flash just now! Haha!”
They were all reduced to rubble, but according to Sang-Hyeon, they were more amazing robots than expected.
Didn’t the skeleton and bone that was Malkab or something not even move a hand!
Of course, there was no such thing before the final flash.
Of course, that’s only natural, since even the skeleton bones couldn’t withstand the flash.
“You’re lucky. If the robots were scattered all over Egypt like before, there would be no way to kill them one by one.”
Songi chimed in.
“Perhaps they placed the robot near the palace to appease the people. But it’s too late now.”
Seungyeop spoke in a hopeful voice.
“By any chance, Menes might have died from the blow just now!”
That wasn’t it.
“Inma, how come you’ve been here the whole time and you’re still talking like that? You said that if Pharaoh gets killed, the robots will stop? Look over there.”
The Pharaoh statue writhed and made strange noises, perhaps avoiding a direct hit as it was outside the range of the final flash.
It looks like we’ll have to deliver the final blow ourselves.
“It seems Menes is still alive.”
Memphis, the burning capital of ancient Egypt.
The final flash of light shattered the robots near the palace, like an angry god crushing his alien servants.
Was that why?
More and more maddening cries filled all of Memphis.
“Burn all the lizard pharaohs to death!”
A mob of angry humans cannot threaten the superhuman, or rather, super-lizard Menes.
Unless you are a foolish reptilian descendant who has been living thinking that you are human!
“Let’s go in. It looks like we’ll have to cut off Menes’ lizard head to finish it off!”
“… Jincheol, be careful.”
Brother Sang-Hyeon looked somewhat anxious.
I guess it’s because if I lose my blessing, I won’t be able to use my inheritance properly.
If you summon a star fragment from another world without regeneration, your whole body will twist in just a few seconds.
So it seems that Miro summoned Gain or Ari rather than me… .
They said that they had no choice but to summon me because they had used up almost all of their time.
“Brother, when have we ever fought in such a relaxed manner?”
“Huh, Jincheol is better than me. That’s right. Let’s go kill the Lizard King.”
Now it’s time to complete the first trial.