Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 57
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Episode 57 – Room 106, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Land of Hope’ (4)
Episode 57 – Room 106, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Land of Hope’ (4)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 21
Current location: Tier 1, Room 106 (Mission Room – Hotel Land of Hope)
Sage Advice: 0]
…
I was embarrassed. ‘mom’.
I thought that this body looked a little different from Ari, but I never imagined that it was really a different person. I just thought that this was Ari’s original appearance, but her current appearance was like dyeing her hair.
When I touched other people’s pictures, I turned into that person, but why did I only turn into Ari’s mother when I touched Ari’s picture?
I decided to put my worries aside. Isn’t this something you can do later when you have more time?
Rather, the current situation is not bad. I don’t know what it is, but isn’t Ari quite trusting of ‘my current self’?
I calmed down my embarrassment and tried to imitate ‘Ari’s mom’ as best as I could.
So, spread your arms out, smile as wide as you can, and say, ‘Come here, my daughter~’?
I was left speechless with that feeling.
“Whew….”
Ari sighed, feeling greatly disappointed.
Was the acting awkward?
—-Clink!
I don’t think it was a failure. While I was worrying, Ari broke the glass and came across.
“That’s it! I took out two people with this. Now all I have to do is take out Jincheol and Elena. Ari, you go and rest next to me too.”
“…”
Next is Jincheol. Who would you rather transform into? Shall we go into mysticism again in the form of Ari?
For some reason, I started to enjoy it quite a bit.
The car went in front of the mirror leading towards Jincheol and imitated a somewhat sallow expression with his hands behind his waist –
—Pow!
A fist came flying.
“I don’t act like that.”
“Ugh! I was surprised. Didn’t you feel the same way?”
“Not at all.”
“Hyung. Not really at all.”
“Then, shall we try twisting the corners of our mouth a little to create a more mysterious atmosphere?”
“Is your goal now to rescue Jincheol oppa? Or is your goal to make fun of me?”
“…”
Let’s think about it more seriously. How can we rescue Jin-cheol?
I tried dancing in front of the mirror as Ari a few times.
Doing so only deepens Ari’s sigh.
Ari looked at it and just pushed me away and tried to do something himself.
However, Ari’s image was not reflected at all in the mirror.
Again, I went and tried various different poses and told him to come here.
Jincheol just looked at me with an expression as if he was wondering what the hell was going on, but didn’t even come close.
“Think about Jincheol oppa’s character and act it out.”
“character?”
“I just want to do it, but it seems like only the ‘first one to escape’ is qualified to rescue others, so I’ll tell you what I think. Transform into Elena’s form and look half-dead with blood on your mouth. “Jincheol oppa won’t be able to hold back.”
…
Pretending to be a dying Elena. It’s a feeling that will definitely get through to her older brother.
You’ve wasted a lot of time in just a short amount of time.
After touching Elena’s photo, according to Ari’s coach, he smeared the corner of his mouth with blood drawn with a syringe and deliberately cut himself to imitate the seriously injured Elena.
So I went in front of the mirror and started acting with all my might for about a minute.
—Clink!
In the end, the older brother, who was making an unbearable expression while looking at the dying Elena, broke the mirror and came out.
“…”
Strangely, he came out just like Ari and looked speechless as soon as he saw me.
“Your brother is over there too. Now all we have to do is rescue Elena one last time.”
“Um… were you imitating Elena?”
“Go over there and listen to the explanation.”
“… Good work.”
His expression looks like he wants to hit me rather than thank me, but looking at the situation, he seems to be holding back.
Is this somehow unfair?
If you think about it, I was the one who came out first and saved everyone, so why is no one thankful and everyone is so angry!
Finally, I went to the mirror on Elena’s side and thought.
Whose appearance will it be easier to persuade Elena?
Are you imitating Ari who came to rescue Elena in a mysterious way? Imitating the trustworthy Jincheol hyung? Transform into Seungyeop and act pitiful?
Surprisingly, nothing came to mind like this.
Wasn’t Elena always beautiful, kind, and gentle, but at the same time rarely revealed her true feelings? If you think about it, it’s the same for everyone who hides their true feelings even though they think they’ve become close friends.
I used to think that Elena had a wall in her heart even more.
I don’t know.
First, I transformed into Ari and asked him to jump over while making various movements.
It doesn’t even move. There is no reaction at all, and it seems that they regard it as no different from the monsters in other mirrors.
Next, let’s transform into Seungyeop and try something –
Elena was completely out of my field of vision in the mirror. Did you think it was the most dangerous mirror?
By leaving like this, as if refusing to communicate at all, the method disappeared.
As I was confused and didn’t know what to do, other people came to my side and started pulling my hair out.
“Is there no way to call you? Have you tried yelling?”
“Your voice cannot pass through the mirror.”
“Why not turn into Elena herself?”
“Regardless of what it turns into, it goes out of the mirror’s field of vision. You can’t see it at all.”
There are less than 10 minutes left.
There is no solution.
After Elena went out of the mirror’s field of vision, she didn’t even look at my reflection in the mirror. I saw Elena passing by from time to time, but no matter how I looked, it seemed like she was just endlessly exploring the maze.
When there are 5 minutes left. Elena says she discovered ‘a mirror in which she does not reflect herself’.
The reality of that mirror is simply a mirror where a monster is hiding. Can Elena understand that?
could not understand. Elena smashed the mirror with joy, as if she had finally found her safe mirror… .
Let’s forget about the next scene. Because it was quite a shock to everyone. The scene of a colleague being brutally killed in front of your eyes is not something you get used to even if you see it multiple times.
The good news is that Since the House of Mirrors was not a particularly physically difficult section, it feels like Ari and Jincheol, who were weakened in the gyro drop, have recovered to some extent.
Survivor to date.
Han Ga-in, Cha Jin-cheol, Kim Ari, Park Seung-yeop.
*
/Mission 4. Really? FALSE? Mirror room success! congratulations. Would you like to proceed to the next mission?/
*
/Mission 5. Blue Dragon Train departing from space.
Congratulations to the participants who reached Mission 5! Our train is scheduled to depart from space. Before that, you’ll be flying into space on a rocket, so make sure you’re in the right spot.
Starts in 30 seconds!/
What kind of crazy talk are you talking about again? Starting from space? Meanwhile, there is a word that catches my eye.
‘Take your seat in the correct position.’, starts after 30 seconds.
I got it once from a gyro drop, so I understand now. This means that location selection itself is important.
The space shook again.
And at some point I found myself in a spaceship.
*
30!
“What? What? What? Where should we go???”
“Please be quiet! But where do you really have to go?”
27!
A wide open space. 4 people. When I look out the window, I see a facility that literally shoots spaceships.
25!
“Don’t you have to move somewhere first? I don’t think you can stay still.”
“There are some doors over there!”
23!
“There are four doors? Where do they go?”
“Let’s split up!”
“Spreading out?”
“I don’t know which place is right, so if everyone disperses, someone will live there. I’ll go here!”
19!
In a moment, everyone entered the small rooms. There is no time to worry about each other.
I am… . Let’s think about it a little more.
16!
This is a spaceship. How does the spaceship fly? In the first place, if you’re in a spaceship, doesn’t that mean you’re going to space? Why shouldn’t there be certain places?
14!
Realized.
13!
I immediately went to the room next door and took Seungyeop out. Without any time to say anything, I just threw it straight into the large space in the middle where it originally was.
“brother???”
“Stay still! Just stay there!”
8!
Next, Ari went into the room across from him. As expected, I tried to pull it out with force, but it came out obediently.
“What did you notice?”
“It’s in the middle!”
5!
It’s a big deal. I can’t pull Jincheol out with force.
“Brother, come out no matter what! It’s not there!”
“what?”
“Shut up and come out now!”
2!
With 2 seconds left, everyone returned to their original space. Everyone looked at me with a puzzled expression.
launch!
The spaceship was launched. At the same time, the doors leading to the small room were locked.
Has it been about a minute since launch? There was a rumbling sound in the small rooms, and then they all separated from the spaceship.
It’s natural. After the spacecraft departs, all the propellants responsible for propulsion of the spacecraft are separated.
Because of this, we didn’t need to move in the first place. Because we were in the right place from the start.
*
“So, all I had to do was stay where I was in the first place?”
“That’s right. All the small rooms on the outside were traps. They were all rooms that led to propellant.”
“So start and get into the correct position, and you’ve got 30 seconds. What is this?”
“Isn’t this a trap?”
“I’m really getting more and more tired. I thought that if we all dispersed together, at least one or two of us would survive. We all almost died.”
“Strangely enough, Ga-in seems to be smarter than usual since he came here.”
“More than usual?”
“…”
“No. Ga-in was probably smart to begin with.”
“Is there really a need to add ‘probably’?”
“Anyway, good job. Is this the end?”
“Isn’t this the beginning, let alone the end? The name of the mission is the Blue Dragon Train departing from space, but we haven’t even boarded the train yet. We just set off into space.”
“Ha. Let’s get some rest. I’m really dying.”
*
After a while of moving through space, we arrived at the train stop.
“Now, if I get on this, does that damn Blue Dragon train start?”
“It was a crisis just to get here, what do you think will happen if you get on the train?”
“Everyone, let’s come to our senses.”
I looked around. Before we knew it, everyone looked exhausted.
Fortunately, the mirror room was not a particularly physically difficult place, so I recovered my stamina in my own way. The problem is other people.
To recover with only an hour of rest, Ari had already lost a lot of blood. Jincheol still trembles every time he takes a step.
The situation has slowly reached its limit. I feel like today’s day will be harder than ever.
The Blue Dragon train was prepared inside the station.
“Before you leave, let’s at least roughly predict what will happen. You need to prepare your mind.”
“There are risk factors that are immediately visible.”
“Sister Ari? What seems dangerous?”
“It’s a blue dragon train, like the Galaxy Express running through space, but it’s open to the outside. Even if I think about it, I don’t know how to breathe.”
“Wow! If we’re exposed to outer space, won’t we explode and die?”
“How old are you and are you still talking about stories from classic movies like Total Recall? Even if you go into space, you don’t explode and you don’t freeze to death unless you stay there for an extremely long time. Before that, you die because you can’t breathe.”
“Yes? Why-”
“Okay, okay! Enough about the scientific knowledge. I guess that’s it. How to breathe seems to be a problem. The train has already started making noises, so let’s hurry up and get on it.”