Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 52
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Episode 52 – A day at the campsite, meeting a strange merchant. (2)
Episode 52 – A day at the campsite, meeting a strange merchant. (2)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 20
Current Location: Tier Basement, Campground
Sage Advice: 3]
A deal to get a weapon in exchange for two limbs. Are you really thinking about doing this crazy deal?
Immediately I opened my mouth.
“you. I don’t know what you’re thinking, but don’t forget that we have over 10 hours to get out of here. “If you rip off your limbs and stay here for that long, you’ll die before you can go to room 105 and call a doctor.”
“…”
“Ari. Since I came here, I have never stopped your wishes. This time I’m worried too. “Do you have to go through so much trouble to get a weapon?”
weird.
The nuance of the silent elder’s words is different from mine. ‘The atmosphere is one that ends with suffering, not death.’
“We have never had proper weapons since we came here. Although Songi has acquired a powerful legacy, it is not an item suitable for simple, ignorant fighting. “Now is the time to get a weapon.”
Everyone was speechless. Everyone looked at Ari with their eyes wide open.
“Still, I’m a little scared of being in pain. It’s Song. “Are you going to help me?”
“Uh, huh. However, sensory blockade against other people’s bodies is not perfect. “It will hurt again in about 10 minutes.”
It’s been a while since I’ve seen Songi, and her stuttering, introverted tone of speech. After she left the ‘ranch’, she changed like a completely different person. Songi, who had turned into a cynical and sharp young lady, turned into a timid high school girl again like she did on her first day.
“That’s enough.”
Ari calmly ‘ripped off’ his left arm and left leg with an unknown force.
Not a single drop of blood falls. As if the arm of a doll had been taken off.
Everyone was speechless at the horrifying sight.
Cheerful laughter erupted.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! Today, my team wasn’t as fierce as it seemed? We are delighted to have you as our guest. If so, here is the ‘Elementary Weapon Box’. I don’t even know what’s in the box! For your reference, we recommend that you go to room 105 and open the box. “Sometimes there are ‘violent weapons.’”
Immediately, Songi ran over and used the power of the bracelet, and with the support of the elder Mukseong, Ari took the box and sat down again. Before long, Ari was sweating profusely and fainted.
Time passed and no one knew what to do. Even at this moment, the crazy merchant’s ‘presentation’ did not stop.
“Here’s the next one! Since everyone is looking for ‘cheap items’, this is the last item. Too bad!
Second product! This is ‘The Secret of the Hotel’. What kind of secret is it? I don’t know either. But I guarantee you that these secrets will greatly help you survive and escape!
The price is really cheap. Five fingers are enough!”
Five fingers for cheap.
I was speechless, but considering that the cost of ‘expensive items’ is a person’s life or two limbs, five fingers are cheap.
I can hear Jincheol’s trembling voice.
“Okay… . done. You just go. “Get out of here!”
“Hmm… . “Do other people think the same way?”
“finger. Does one person have to cut them all?”
“sister! “Why are you like this all of a sudden?”
“Be quiet. Does one person have to cut them all?”
“haha! Unfortunately, it is. Of course, from the customer’s perspective, the risk can be reduced if each of the five people cuts off each finger. But think about it from another perspective. In that case, wouldn’t I have to tell the secret to all five of you? “The more a secret is shared, the less valuable it becomes.”
“Is it meaningful? “We’re all going to share the hotel’s confidential information between us anyway, right?”
“You can decide after listening to it. Unfortunately, my suggestion is firm. “Just one person please cut off all five fingers.”
…
“I’ll do it.”
“sister!”
“Miss, please sit down. “I think it’s right for old people to do ugly things.”
“Why are you like this again, old man?”
“Just listen. Cut off your finger. The only problem is the pain, but if you go to room 105, they will at least attach a finger. The secret of the hotel. Don’t you think we know too much about hotels?
There is nothing to be gained if you are afraid of sacrifice. Life is a price that cannot be paid, but it is as much as a finger… . “I’m going to put it back on anyway, so is there any problem?”
“of course! Even if I take your finger, aren’t your fingers just a lump of flesh that sticks to you when you wake up after a night’s sleep? This is why I don’t have any cost savings while doing business.”
“You please be quiet.”
“I also agree with Ms. Eunsol’s opinion. Even if it means enduring the pain, the secret is worth getting. But, is there really a need for the young lady to bell? As I said, it seems right for me to do the ugly work.”
“There is no need to act out of a sense of justice. Cutting off my finger isn’t really a great sacrifice.
Look at it rationally. Can you guarantee that after completing this ‘deal’ there will be no risk until the end of the day? Do you know what other monsters will appear?
Ari was the only one who could survive cutting off a limb like that, so no one else could do it, but cutting a finger is something anyone can do. It should be the person with the ‘lowest value’.
Jincheol and the elder are the best fighters among us. Songi has the bracelet, Ari has already laid down, Elena can also fight with the blessing of justice, and Gain is the final card.
“My fingers are the least valuable.”
“Okay, then sister. “Actually, there’s nothing I can do, so I-”
“I’m sorry, little one, let’s stay quiet. Seungyeop, sit there.”
There was silence in the hall.
I felt it again. This sister is truly not an ordinary person. She is the daughter of a wealthy family, so I think that her birth is not a problem, and even if she had been born normally, she would have lived an unusual life.
“But, can you help stop the bleeding?”
“…I am a person who has been through countless battlefields in my life… .”
“hey! So, how are you going to give away that secret? “Are you going to whisper something?”
“ha ha ha! “There are probably some people here with hearing loss, so is it possible to keep a secret like that?”
“I have no intention of hiding anything?”
“Oh, well, that’s something you can decide for yourself after hearing the secret. Don’t worry about security. “I will give it to you appropriately so that only you know.”
“Gain. You always have a dagger with you, right? “Bring it.”
What should I do? Do I really need to give him a dagger?
While I didn’t know what to do, my older sister walked over to me and grabbed a dagger.
“I’m not confident about cutting it myself. “Elderly?”
“…”
“And, Song. Please do me a favor too. I think even 10 minutes of pain relief would help.”
……
I don’t want to remember the scene that followed. It would be better for everyone if we just forgot.
*
After completing the transaction, the unpleasant merchant mumbled that he hoped there would be another good transaction next time, and when Jincheol threw him away, he disappeared.
And in the fire, a girl with a severed arm and a leg and a young lady with a missing finger remained.
It is truly an ugly atmosphere that is difficult to see even in the middle of a battlefield.
No one even thought about touching the meat, so they walked around the two women who were moaning, and waited and waited, doing whatever they could to change the wet towel.
I hope we can return to room 105 after the hotel’s major repairs.
Fortunately, there was no further danger until the terrible day was over and the door reappeared.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 21
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 105 (Room of Rest)
Sage Advice: 3]
As soon as it was breakfast time, we hurried to the restaurant.
Did everyone have the same thoughts as me? In less than 10 seconds, everyone gathered in the restaurant. As soon as we got together, we looked at each other’s faces. Who is Eunsol? What about Ari?
Surprisingly, there were both!
“sister! “Are you okay?”
“Haha~ Everyone was worried, right? Look at this.”
My sister held out both hands as if nothing had happened. As if it were obvious, all ten fingers were fine.
Naturally, everyone’s heads turned to Ari. Four limbs attached as expected.
“I don’t have to shake it, right?”
The tension was relieved.
Really, my fingers, my arms, and my legs didn’t fall off, but I couldn’t sleep at all last night.
It seems like other people felt the same way.
Elena’s eyes turned red as she held Eunsol’s hand, and Songi played with Ari’s arm in silence and then suddenly hugged her.
“Oh! “Sister, if I do this, my arm might hurt?”
“Don’t play around!”
Men are not particularly different.
Once again, I don’t want to hug anyone, so I’m just watching. I, too, felt relieved and filled with joy that was hard to explain, and the same thing happened when you look at everyone’s expressions.
A little question.
How on earth can a person rip off a limb and not a drop of blood flow?
But no one said that in this situation. In front of a person who cut off a limb to obtain a weapon for the party to use, ‘Do you still have hidden abilities?’ There is no one to argue with anymore.
After everyone has let go of the mental and physical worries caused by yesterday’s pain.
While enjoying the meal, the conversation about the ‘product’ began.
*
“By the way, you both came out in one day? I remember a day ago when a whole day was deleted, so I thought it would be difficult to meet today. Especially Ari.”
“I’m ‘just a finger.’ If you’re a god of medicine who can heal even a crushed internal organ in a day, wouldn’t he be able to glue your fingers together in 10 minutes? Actually, I don’t know. “Unlike you, I haven’t had any conversations with the doctor.”
“My limbs are different from ordinary people’s. Perhaps it would have been relatively easy to attach? Of course, like Ga-in, I don’t remember having any conversation with the doctor, so I don’t know.”
The atmosphere changed a little in just one day.
Ari says it’s no big deal and says that my body is different from a normal person’s, and we don’t pursue that fact any further. The same goes for the sharpest bunch.
Let’s leave it at this.
You can’t find out everything in this hotel anyway. All you have to do is find out as much as you need. The same goes for colleagues.
“So, what is the secret? Oh, of course, if you don’t want to reveal it-”
“Oh please! What kind of merchant are you imitating? “I brought the letter as is because I was afraid you might think it was strange.”
“Is it a letter?”
“Absurdly, when I woke up, a letter fell from above, waking me up. There was a secret written there. “Just read it”
My sister threw the letter away as if it was no big deal. Only two sentences are written on the paper, which is more like a small note than a letter.
1. Escape route 2 is to jump out of the main gate wearing ‘wing boots’.
2. ‘Wing Boots’ can be obtained by solving the mysterious craftsman’s quest hidden somewhere in Tier 2.
“Escape route. “The main gate we saw before was the real escape route.”
“Honestly, the first sentence means nothing. Someone wrote it next to that door in the first place. Still, the second sentence makes some sense. “It means that if a ‘mysterious craftsman’ somewhere on the second floor makes shoes called ‘wing boots’, you can wear them and go out.”
“Wing boots. Just hearing the name gives me a feeling. “These must be flying shoes, right?”
“I guess so.”
“hmm. sister. “This is useful information, but it’s not immediately useful.”
“That’s right. It has no meaning right now as we are struggling on the first floor. Still, let’s remember this. Because someday I will go to the second floor. Look for ‘Mysterious Artisan’ there. ruler! “My product introduction is over!”
My sister slammed the desk! After typing, I put the letter away.
This time Ari brought a box.
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