Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 561
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EP.561 Episode 561 – The Great Escape, Voice Phishing
Episode 561 – The Great Escape, Voice Phishing
– Lee Eun-sol
“It was done.”
Immediately after hearing the sound of thunder, ‘Woo-rung!’, the opponent’s expression turned pale.
Unlike me, he seemed to know what this sound was.
“This is… How on earth did you summon it!”
I guess I just summoned something.
are you okay.
I’m safe, you worry about me!
—Whoosh!
Again, I heard a second cry that seemed to shake the world.
An indescribable, mountain-like presence began to weigh down on all directions!
“The ark is coming! How dare you take such an extreme step…!”
The next moment, the person who had been making such a ridiculous threat waved his hand and returned the scroll, as if he could no longer hesitate.
ark?
What is that?
And on top of that, it was an emergency and you returned the scroll and the inheritance?
Is this not a legacy for escaping a crisis, like my flute or my pine bracelet?
It was not the time to leisurely analyze the situation.
Because the body of the man whose scroll disappeared began to change strangely!
A physique that becomes more massive.
A flesh that mutates into something that emits a dark blue sheen!
The other person started running towards me without hesitation, as if there was no need for any more pretense.
To be exact, I took a step forward to run.
—Whoosh!
As if waiting, a third cry burst out.
And then, with such a tremendous impact, my entire body flew into the air.
“Eww!”
The place we were just a moment ago is gone!
It’s a whirlpool, a whirlpool.
A giant whirlpool suddenly appeared in the dark sea and crushed the rotting ghost ship!
“Ugh!”
The whole body floats in the air.
A huge shock wave swept across the sky, sending me flying aimlessly as if I were a helium balloon.
What if we end up colliding with the remains of an abandoned ship?
Isn’t this the transformation from ‘Lee Eun-sol’ to ‘the piece of meat that was Lee Eun-sol’?
“Ugh… .”
You have to believe it.
The price of greed’s hand never comes to me!
— Beep!
I feel like my eardrums are going to burst.
The sound was loud, so loud that I couldn’t understand what was being said.
A whitish mass of light appeared in the center of the vortex.
My head hurts.
I feel like my brain is melting.
“Kuaaaah!”
A faint scream can be heard.
A guy who keeps making ridiculous threats.
Scroll, seeing as you’re the owner of an unidentified relic, you must be the one who escaped from the hotel before me, right?
His screams sound like a sweet lullaby.
This is it.
This is it.
If I’m going to do it, I might as well just die here!
“…”
It’s not easy to stay conscious.
It was like that from the moment the mass of light appeared.
— Shhhh!
I blew air forcefully into the flute of rest.
There was no proper sound because of the whirlpools that filled the whole place.
But the Flute of Rest embraced me with warm strength, as if this was enough.
The flute of rest.
My precious heritage.
Old blood can’t perform all kinds of miracles.
It doesn’t have the same devastating power as the divine sun.
You can’t turn back time like One More Chance, or bring NPCs back to reality like Soul Chest.
Just the power to bring a moment of ‘peace’ to a world full of chaos.
There’s only one thing I can do.
This is the one thing they do best in the universe.
“… ah.”
A distant gaze fell on me.
I, we are an entity that cannot be reached even if we obtain the ultimate blessing and inherit three or four things.
A being that can treat all our efforts as nothing more than ‘the tantrums of a bug’.
A being who can instill humility even in agents who have acquired arrogance by obtaining infinity.
A god or a devil, or to use a more familiar word, a ‘prisoner’ level being.
As expected, even when returning to reality, such a ridiculous monster exists.
Hey, wait a minute!
Haven’t I ever seen something similar to ‘this’?
If my memory serves me right –
I heard a voice.
“I envy you… .”
This was my last memory of being dropped into this strange world.
*
“…”
I woke up in a soft bed.
– Bubbling!
The sound of the pot boiling and the savory smell of chicken porridge stimulated my appetite.
I got up blankly and leaned against the wall, and a familiar face appeared.
“You’re awake?”
“…”
“I made some chicken porridge because there were ingredients in the fridge. Do you want some?”
smart.
The moment I saw her, I started to laugh.
“Foot!”
“what’s the matter?”
“I passed out and woke up to the smell of chicken porridge… Ah, what are you talking about?”
“Should I give you a waking kiss?”
“Okay. And thank you.”
After a few sips of the soup, Ari slowly explained the situation.
As soon as the Esper arrived at the port, it began to be investigated by the administration.
A report came in that Eunsol Lee was missing, and Ari herself used the ‘Kingdom of Dreams’ to find me sleeping in a strange world.
“Eunsol, where the hell have you been? If it weren’t for the Kingdom of Dreams, it wouldn’t have been easy to find you or bring you out.”
Ariga is asking the question I wanted to ask.
“You can speak comfortably. Just in case, there is no surveillance from the management office in this place.”
Ari’s boast that there is no surveillance from the administration.
It’s a believable answer, since you’re an agent, but at the same time, it’s meaningless.
Because Ari herself is an agent of the Management Bureau.
Can I tell Ari what I found out?
Something left me speechless.
The man I met earlier was definitely from the management office.
He even knew that I was a hotel escapee.
Did Ari give me some information?
“what’s the matter?”
Let’s just ask.
“Ariya. Did you report me to the administration? How far did you report it?”
Now, I don’t want to engage in any painful psychological warfare.
I didn’t have the energy to do that, and I didn’t want to do that with my colleagues.
Ari also answered immediately.
“No. I barely told you.”
“…”
“I said that I escaped in the midst of the chaos and that I don’t know how many people got out. I also made the excuse that I was attacked by an unknown force and my memory wasn’t perfect.”
Soon, an excuse was added, as if to make a statement.
“Well, I reported just a little bit. Things like the labyrinth, which would have been discovered anyway, or the gender or approximate age range… However, I didn’t convey any key information like the inheritance or blessing.”
I feel relieved.
If you think about it rationally, you should start with the possibility that this is a lie and then conduct all kinds of doubts and psychological warfare… .
I decided not to doubt it.
I think we can have this level of relationship.
I’m hungry, so why did you make me chicken porridge?
Oh, this is such a stupid idea.
He answered with a smile.
“No, Ariya, you accepted my report even though I gave it to you in such a vague manner?”
Ari also smiled.
“That’s right. I thought I’d be taken away and interrogated. But I believed it. Maybe…”
“perhaps?”
“You might think that it’s useless to question me. Instead of questioning me, there are strange rumors going around.”
“Strange rumors?”
“I think I’ll get promoted soon. I might become a member of the ‘Silent Ones’.”
It’s a fascinating story.
There seems to be quite a bit of twists and turns here, but Ari herself doesn’t seem to know why.
“I’ll tell you what happened to me.”
I told three main stories one by one.
First, we met someone who was believed to be the previous hotel escapee.
“He looks like a tall man. I couldn’t recognize his features. His legacy is a rolled-up scroll, but it doesn’t seem to be a battle-ready legacy. He was summoned in times of crisis.”
Ari concentrates with all her mind.
“Blessing?”
“I don’t know. He had some weird shape-shifting ability.”
“Former contestant, tall, with a scroll heritage and non-combat use. Has shapeshifting abilities. Okay, who’s next?”
Second, they knew I was a hotel escapee and tried to recruit me using threats.
“You knew about me. I don’t know how you knew, but -”
“I didn’t report in detail.”
“I know. Well, if he’s the head of the management bureau, he probably has a lot of means. Anyway, he asked me to join him.”
“You refused?”
“… To be honest, if it had been a peaceful atmosphere, if you had come to Hotel Delight outright, I think I would have tried to talk to you.”
“Aha, you’ve locked me in that hideous otherworld and approached me in a threatening manner, so I’ve lost the will to talk to you?”
“That’s right. Why on earth are you doing that? You’re just starting to develop feelings of resentment that weren’t there before!”
Thinking back, it’s still absurd.
I still don’t think the Administration is our enemy.
Because it was the place where Ari and her grandfather worked, and apart from that, I felt a lot at the hotel how important the role of the management office was.
However, if you approach me in a threatening manner like this, I cannot respond peacefully.
“…Can I make an excuse?”
Ari tries to defend the attitude of the unidentified man.
I understand.
Ari is my colleague, but she is also an agent of the Administration.
The man could be Ari’s boss or colleague at work.
“Try it.”
“The management basically judged the risk of escapees from the hotel to be quite high.”
“…”
“It is very possible that he survived through betrayal, collusion, fraud and backstabbing -”
“Like your mother?”
“…”
Oh my, oh my!
That was too harsh just now!
“sorry -”
“Yes. Like a maze from the past.”
Ari admitted honestly.
“So, I guess I was thinking of putting you in chains while I was meeting you one-on-one.”
“…”
“But, I can guarantee this part.”
“What part?”
“That person’s thoughts are not the thoughts of the entire administration. There may be those who want to approach it peacefully.”
That man doesn’t represent the entire administration.
I understand this part.
202. As revealed in The Little Mermaid, there are various factions within the Bureau.
“I guess we’ll get back to each other soon.”
“Maybe. Is that all you have to say?”
“No, there is a third one.”
Third, the god of the other world appears when you use your greedy hand to escape.
“It was incredibly strong. It just took over the world as soon as it showed up.”
“Feel like a prisoner?”
“Almost at that level.”
Ari, who had been thinking deeply, smiled as if she found it funny.
“So, Eunsol, you’re saying that when you used the Hand of Greed at full power, some ridiculous god appeared and took care of the situation? And then you passed out and woke up and here you are?”
“huh.”
“I’m just curious. The appearance of the god of the other world and my rescue of you. Was it all caused by your greed?”
“maybe….”
“Wow! This is really great! What on earth is your sponsor? He said it was a blessing and gave me internet shopping, so I was wondering what he was thinking, but he waited for this moment?”
“…”
Is that really true?
If so, my sponsor is truly amazing in so many ways.
“Ariya, more than that.”
“huh?”
“I have seen a being similar to a god from another world.”
“uh?”
For the first time, Ari opened her rabbit eyes.
“At the hotel?”
“huh.”
“How… is that possible? It’s normal for prisoners to stay inside the hotel.”
“No, I can’t believe it even if I think about it again. They were so similar. I just felt it.”
“…what was it similar to?”
As soon as I saw the god of the other world, I had a vague feeling.
Perhaps it was because of the protection of the flute that I was able to face ‘it’ for quite some time.
“main.”
It is a being very similar to prisoner number 104, ‘Lord’.
Although they may not be the same being, they are Gods composed of ‘similar principles’!
*
After hearing my answer, Ari thought hard and came to a conclusion.
“I should call Gain. Do you have her number?”
“I know, but… you still don’t know.”
“what?”
“I heard from Gain that the sponsor said, ‘Don’t approach the management office first.’”
“…Is that what you said to Gain?”
“what?”
“Gain was the first to come forward and tell us not to contact the management office. On the other hand, it wouldn’t be a problem if I contacted them.”
Is that how it is?
If you think about it, it’s not entirely wrong.
“Give me your phone number.”
Soon, Ari and Gain’s first phone call began.
“Hello, it’s been a while. Mr. Exorcist, how have you been -”
“Who are you?”
what?
“… Play around a little. Management Office -”
“Ah~ What kind of management office is this! Hey! I, uh! I heard it all on the news! Do you think I don’t know that it’s voice phishing?”
— Click!
The call was disconnected.
Ari’s eyebrows began to twitch.
“…”
— Ring ring!
“If you fool around one more time -”
“You, can’t you work diligently without thinking of committing fraud?”
— Click!
At this point I couldn’t hold it in any longer and just exploded!
It seems that Gain thinks it is not yet time to contact the management office.
Even so, I thought they would treat Ari as a voice phishing criminal!
Did Gain respond in her own way ‘like a normal person’?
Well, if an ordinary person suddenly hears a phone call saying, “I’m a prosecutor,” they would usually suspect voice phishing!
“Oh my gosh, kekeke! Oh my! It’s really hot!”
“…”
“Ariya, I told you to work hard and not do things like voice phishing -”
“I’m going to freeze all of Han Ga-in’s assets.”
“Calm down, okay -”
“I’m an agent. If I have to do it, I will do it.”
I couldn’t hold back my laughter, so I left Ari trembling and went out to the living room.
“Hah! Kick! Ah~! These guys are really great!”
While I was laughing hysterically, a forgotten memory came to mind.
“…”
I am an empty wish in the hands of greed.
I forgot about it because it was so empty and then some other world god showed up and there was chaos.
The first was an escape, the second was –
“I asked Hotel Delight to become the number one hotel in Korea.”
I’m anxious.
I suddenly feel really anxious!