Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 55
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Episode 55 – Room 106, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Land of Hope’ (2)
Episode 55 – Room 106, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Land of Hope’ (2)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 21
Current location: Tier 1, Room 106 (Mission Room – Hotel Land of Hope)
Sage Advice: 2]
2. Challenge Cannibal Horse!
The cost of losing focus while looking at Jincheol for a moment was high!
In an instant, I felt my jacket being pulled, and when I looked forward, a monster in the shape of a horse, with drool dripping from the corners of its mouth and hundreds of needle-like teeth sprouting from its mouth, grabbed a part of my jacket and started tearing it off.
After frantically pounding the horse’s head with his fist, he tore part of his clothes and took off. It’s a good thing. Due to the structure of the horse’s body, it is not a suitable creature to attack a being riding on its back with its head.
No matter how you look at it, this horse was not a normal horse, but it had the same problem of not being able to properly keep me in check on its back.
After holding on for about 30 seconds, I got the hang of it. There is no need to get into a war of nerves with this cursing idiot. It was enough to pull back as much as possible and go towards the horse’s rump. A horse’s head isn’t built to do anything to a creature sitting on its ass.
As I barely caught my breath and looked around, I saw people struggling in various ways.
I guessed it, but Songi was the most comfortable because she had already made a peace treaty with the horse, and the rest of the people seemed to have gone through a similar process as me, leaning their bodies towards the horse’s butt and holding on.
Jincheol hyung… .
ah. The horse died because its head was pulled out. Jincheol’s words just disappeared. Fortunately, the wooden horse disappeared, but the pillar that moved the horse remained, and my brother was just holding on to the pillar with his strength.
It’ll be okay. Wouldn’t a superhuman like that be able to hold onto a pole and hold on for an hour?
Just when I thought that this level of difficulty was much easier than the bumper car in front of me.
Stage 2 has begun.
*
Suddenly, the rotating plate shrunk and the distance between the horses drastically decreased.
what? What the heck – I realized the meaning of change!
As the gap between the horses began to narrow, the head of the horse behind opened its eyes and began glaring at me. In front is the head of the horse I am riding, and in the back is the head of the horse behind me. It’s truly a dilemma.
What on earth should I do with this? You can’t go forward, and you can’t go backward. At this rate, you either die from being bitten by a horse somewhere, or you die from falling.
“Ugh! “Thank you, brother!”
In the meantime, I turned my head for a moment to wonder what he meant by thanking me, and I saw Jincheol, who had been holding on to the pillar with his handmade elbows, and as if he had some extra strength, he jumped to the pillar behind him and lifted Seungyeop up with one arm.
We’ll survive there somehow. No matter how I look at it, it’s not a situation for me to worry about.
In the midst of my confusion, I finally came up with a solution.
The most reliable weapon that I always carry in my pocket since the Mansion of Terror. I took out the spray and sprayed it on the head of the horse that was aiming at me from behind. Ultimately, it is the head of a creature. There is no way to avoid the pain that capsaicin causes.
Immediately, the head of the horse that was aiming at me began to glow. This works!
“Everyone take out the spray and spray it!”
In the midst of the confusion, I could see Eunsol and Elena taking out Juseomjuseom spray and spraying it. How many times have you survived using this spray?
I didn’t feel the need to check the rest. Ariya will take care of it, and Songi will probably talk and communicate. After a while, we might become close enough to even feed him carrots.
Is it done now? Surely there is a next step?
Stage 3 has begun.
*
Step 3 is complete.
Strangely enough, step 3 was the easiest. When the third stage began, the sharp thorns on the floor turned into grass, and the horse’s entire body turned into a living creature and began to attack us in earnest –
It took less than 5 minutes for Jincheol to kill them all. As soon as he got down on the ground, he threw about five nuclear punches in the mood to vent his anger. One of the horses died in almost five seconds, and upon seeing that, the other horses started to run away. Songi could only yawn as she watched the words she had become so friendly with die.
If he was planning to make it more difficult for us, it would have been better to somehow maintain the thorns on the floor and block Jincheol’s free movement, but he removed the thorns himself and made it easier for us.
It seems that the mission room does not adjust the difficulty level to suit our individual abilities, but rather moves according to how it will change in advance.
In fact, most of the time was spent with my brother chasing a runaway horse in a small space. I live and live and see man-eating monsters running away from people again.
I sat blankly on the floor, rested, and thought.
If the head is weak, isn’t the body suffering more than the body suffering if the body is weak?
A person who can kill a man-eating horse with just his fist does not seem to need great wisdom to subdue it.
As everyone sat on the floor and watched the horses being beaten to death, the next notification appeared.
/Mission 2. Challenge! Cannibal horse success! congratulations. Would you like to proceed to the next mission?/
Of course, no one is going to back down now.
*
When I came to, we were incredibly high in the sky.
/3. Gyro drop game
Starts in 30 seconds! Please take your seat in the correct position./
what? The instructions are different from the previous two missions. In the meantime, start with 1, 2, 3! It was 30 seconds this time? Correct location?
I looked around frantically. Literally a gyro drop. However, the height is probably 1,000 meters, so we can’t see the ground at all, and absurdly, there are no safety devices at all, so we’re just sitting on chairs fixed to the footrest.
What if the gyro drop starts like this?
I’m going to fly into the sky.
“Uh, uh, uh, what should I do!!!”
Songi’s scream rang out. What should I do? This is the first time that 30 seconds felt so short.
I heard a harsh crashing sound and looked to the side to see Jincheol holding on to the chair with his legs and holding on to Seungyeop and Elena, who happened to be on either side of him, with each arm.
therefore… .
As you fall from the gyro drop at an incredibly high height, you and Seung-yeop, soaring into the sky, plan to support Elena’s weight by holding on to the chair with your legs.
I laughed out loud and at the same time I felt like it would somehow work out. As expected, I feel comfortable because I am strong.
“I’m sorry to the rest of you!! “I only have two arms!”
“It’s okay, so hold on tight, you two! See you later!”
Eunsol’s voice sounded somewhat comfortable, as if she had given up. Actually, I understand that psychology now.
Do you feel at ease when you die soon?
People in the outside world may not understand what kind of crazy nonsense this is.
There is something I realized while staying in the hotel.
The scariest and scariest moment here is not when I die first. Surprisingly, the moment when I die alone is not as scary as I thought. This is not the end, and I have faith that my colleagues who held on until the end will save me.
The most difficult moment to bear is ‘the moment when I am left alone’.
Everyone except me has already died trusting me to save them, and what I’m most afraid of is when I’m left alone and put in a situation where I have to save everyone. If you look at it in that context.
Still, isn’t it a good thing that three people besides me will survive? I felt at ease.
Those three will save me.
The gyro drop has begun to fall.
*
Less than 5 seconds after the start of my fall, I rose into the sky.
Just in case, I imitated Jincheol and used both my legs and hands to hold the chair, but honestly, if I had the strength to hold on, I would have caught a horse earlier.
I didn’t have any expectations from the beginning. She just stretched out her entire body and experienced what it felt like to skydive for the first time in her life. Jincheol hyung! Seungyeop! Elena! ari! Trust me, I’m going to rest first!
*
At what KM did the fall start? It seems like I’ve been falling for quite some time, but I still can’t see the bottom clearly.
[Stretch your right hand behind your back as far as possible!]
‘Advice’ that appeared out of nowhere. I don’t know what it means, but I did as I was told.
and –
The rate at which my body fell began to slow.
?
A small, warm hand held my hand tightly and slowed my body’s fall.
“I thought about it, but I chose you. “The distance was vague, but you happened to reach out your hand.”
“Ari, you… .”
How are you flying? I swallowed those words. I already heard it from Songi a while ago. Ari says he can fly.
“This is really hard for me too. Blood is being used in real time. Fortunately, it wasn’t flying, but was falling slowly, so you caught it. In this situation, I was worried about who to pick since I could only lift one person. As expected, it seems like the right choice to save you with ‘Advent’.”
“…thank you.”
“I have nothing to be thankful for because I expect you to save everyone until the end.”
“…”
The time of free fall that felt like an eternity is over.
In the midst of slow free fall, I suddenly realized something.
Ari… Actually, I think he can escape on his own right now. Wouldn’t it be okay to use this ability while running from the front gate?
When they reached the ground, five people survived.
Jincheol succeeded in holding on to Seungyeop and Elena until the end with the strength of his legs, but it seemed that his legs were in poor condition. The entire leg is stained blue, and it seems as though the bones are holding up, perhaps thanks to the blessing’s power, but half of the skin has peeled off and I’m shaking.
What happened to Songi and Eunsol? No one bothered to mention it.
Only 3 missions have been passed, there are only 4 remaining, and there are only 5 survivors.
Everyone was waiting in silence for the next notification –
Ari stumbled and fell.
When I grabbed it in shock, its skin was as white as a sheet of paper and it started shaking without being able to speak.
The conversation we had earlier. ‘Because blood is being used in real time’
Could it be that they lost too much blood by slowly falling to the ground while holding me?
It’s a big deal. I felt sorry for going through all this trouble to save myself, but the problem was much more serious than that.
Jincheolhyung’s legs are not normal and Ari’s legs are not normal due to lack of blood.
The remaining power is now too weak.
Just as my head was about to explode with all the worries, I realized the ‘solution’ to this much-referred Gyro Drop.
They were given 30 seconds and told to go to the ‘right location’. In other words, it meant that there was a ‘position that could be easily broken’.
The chair is fixed on the footrest. If you think about it, isn’t the chair itself no different from a safety bar?
Wouldn’t it have been easier to just get under the chair, get between the chair and the footrest, and use the chair as a safety bar to get down?
While I was lamenting myself for thinking of a ‘solution’ only after everyone who was going to die had died, a notification popped up.
/Mission 3. Gyrodrop success, a game of wit! congratulations. Would you like to proceed to the next mission?/
*
/Mission 4. Really? FALSE? Hall of mirrors.
One! 2! 3! start!/
After the fluctuations of space stopped, I found myself trapped in a world full of mirrors. A huge maze filled with walls made of mirrors everywhere!
Can I find a way out of here?
Following the traditional solution to a maze, I decided to place my hand on one wall and follow it.
The moment I put my hand on one mirror wall.
The mouth of ‘me in the mirror’ was torn open and attacked me!