Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 573
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EP.573 Episode 573 – The Management Bureau is an Elephant (3)
Episode 573 – The Management Bureau is an Elephant (3)
– Cha Jin-cheol
After the backseat became quiet, I recalled Jang Seo-jin’s sentimental words.
‘I’m touched. As expected, we, humans, are the most precious beings in the world?’
Humans are precious beings.
Humans are special beings.
This is a saying that has been used by many wise men and various religious groups since ancient times to emphasize the value of human life.
When I came in, I saw that the management also agreed with what I said.
However, the interpretation of why humans are precious and special is somewhat different.
At that moment, Jang Seo-jin’s voice was heard again from behind.
“Big agent.”
“…”
“Agent, you are driving.”
“why?”
“Why is it so bumpy? My butt hurts so much I can’t stand it.”
Kim Ji-ho, who was standing next to him, chuckled at those words.
“Oh, I apologize for that. That guy really sucks at driving.”
I was so shocked that I said something too.
“Jang Seo-jin, your house is the problem.”
“Suddenly?”
“If you have eyes, look outside. This isn’t some remote mountain village in Gangwon-do. Why are the roads around the houses of conglomerates in such a mess?”
This is what I wanted to say ever since I heard Kim Ji-ho say that he can’t drive.
Why are there so many rocks here and there on the road?
At that time, Jang Seo-jin answered calmly.
“It’s my work.”
“what?”
“Is there a rule that sculptures have to be in art galleries? Some children want to see the world, and some want to walk on the road….”
“…”
That was exactly the kind of thing a crazy artist would say, so I was speechless.
Instead, Kim Ji-ho asked incredulously.
“What kind of work is that? It just looks like a bunch of rocks thrown on the side of the road.”
“Because it’s just practice. If you keep going, you’ll end up with a successful piece.”
“A success?”
“Maybe around here?”
At that very moment.
— Kookung!
A giant rock hand appears, poking through the dirt on the side of the road!
“Ugh!”
“What the fuck is this!”
The moment I realized the hand reaching out, I realized my vision had already darkened.
A hand made of rock covered the entire car in an instant!
Time slows down.
Because I instinctively unleashed my powerful power, ‘Moment’.
What should I do?
“…”
The car is already being destroyed in real time.
When it comes to writing about other world’s stars, Jang Seo-jin and Kim Ji-ho are right behind.
You have to overcome it with strength!
“Uh-oh!”
The fingers of the rock hand that instantly crush the body of a car!
I clench my teeth and force my arms together to stop my fingers from moving forward.
He opened his eyes wide and poured all his strength into both arms as if he were Hercules.
“Ugh! That little Jang Seo-jin!”
In the past, a monster of this size could have been defeated with brute force.
But, did you say Patrick Biederman?
A situation where the former participant shared the blessing of courage.
Now that I’m weak, I feel like it’s impossible.
You must use ‘Fragment of a Star from Another World’.
For that to happen, I have to be the only one here!
“Kim Ji-ho! Get out! Get out!”
Instead of wasting time with meaningless words like, “Why?” or “I’ll help you!”, Kim Ji-ho immediately dragged Jang Seo-jin with him and twisted his body through the gap between my fingers while I was still holding on.
At that point, things were over.
The rock hand exposed to the star’s waves instantly lost its life and collapsed.
At that time, I saw the great secret held by Jang Seo-jin’s sculpture in the remains of the rock hand.
“…”
My heart became heavy.
It’s not because there was an unimaginable secret, but because it was an ‘expected secret’.
The administration also guesses this secret.
*
The moment I was about to push away the remains of the lifeless, collapsing rock hand and go outside, someone hurriedly came inside.
“Back, back! Back in!”
“Kim Ji-ho, what are you doing -”
“Look at the situation outside!”
The tremendous noise and vibration from the rock hand made me notice the outside world that I had not noticed before.
Seven bodyguards, each carrying an assault rifle, who knows where they got them.
The chairman shouting at them and Jang Seo-jin standing next to him.
It’s ridiculous.
— Bang! That’s right!
It seems like they are trying to kill us, as they even shoot guns into the crevices of the remains of the rock hand.
“…”
I roughly understand the situation.
Now that the management office knows about Jang Seo-jin’s existence and has sent an agent, there is no way for a Korean conglomerate like ‘them’ to resist.
However, the chairman, who dotes on his youngest son, came up with a clever plan after much thought.
“The Taesung Group gave their precious youngest son to the Management Bureau. However, during the move, an unidentified chaos entity attacked and killed not only the agent but also Jang Seo-jin. It’s not our responsibility. What kind of scenario is this?”
“Probably so. Maybe they’re going to kill us and bury us?”
“… Isn’t it too shabby?”
Chairman Jang Min-cheol, is this person a kindergarten student?
Even in the Joseon Dynasty, if a secret royal inspector died suddenly while on duty, the magistrate who was under his supervision would have been beheaded!
“Well, isn’t it a great example of fatherly love to make the chairman of a conglomerate suffer from dementia? He must love his son that much.”
— Bang! Tadahang!
Bullets fly one after another.
But no one was flustered at this point.
To begin with, Nana and this person are agents.
I wonder if he didn’t wear a bulletproof vest while bringing a grenade launcher in case he had to fight the shards?
Considering each person’s strength, it’s not a huge crisis.
And yet, that’s why we’re still hanging around here.
“What are you going to do about the aftermath?”
“What do you usually do?”
“Oh, how could you possibly spare a civilian who points a gun at an agent? This is serious obstruction of official duties.”
“… Let’s kill the bodyguard.”
“Save the chairman?”
“If I’m going to use that guy Jang Seo-jin… ”
“Yes, yes. The chairman raised a good son, so let’s give him a break.”
“Let’s go out.”
“No, you stay here and watch.”
“hmm?”
“I showed a lot of my skills today, so I should show my skills to my ‘senior’ as well!”
*
It didn’t take long for the outside situation to settle down.
A body that moves back and forth, using the remains of a broken rock hand as a barricade.
A skill that blows up the heads of all seven bodyguards with marksmanship that is almost divine!
This is because Kim Ji-ho fought like a 007 agent we only see in movies, without any exaggeration.
At first, the chairman’s face turned pale as he shouted confidently, and by the time all the bodyguards were dead, he had turned pensive.
On the other hand, confidence emerged from Kim Ji-ho’s expression.
“Ah, our chairman. Why do you make work so tiring?”
“…”
“Jang Seo-jin. You too. Did you really think we would die from such a stone toy?”
“I’m impressed. You two are really good at fighting. Is this the standard for an agent?”
Kim Ji-ho slightly frowned at the way she spoke as if it were someone else’s business.
Honestly, isn’t this too presumptuous?
“… You have so much free time.”
“Why should I be afraid? There are plenty of other pieces, and above all, even if the worst happens, I won’t die!”
As the story goes, there are many other pieces, and the ground begins to shake violently, and hideous giants begin to rise from all directions.
Suddenly, I remembered the strangely shaped rocks scattered throughout Chairman Jang Min-cheol’s residence.
Were they all just a bunch of pieces?
Moreover, the number of fragments is much greater than the management’s prediction.
It seems that the awakening of the ability occurred earlier than expected.
What does this mean?
He spoke in a voice that only Kim Ji-ho could hear.
“… I saw the inside of the rock hand while breaking it earlier -”
“I know. You know.”
“…”
“Don’t worry about it. Just beat up that cheeky brat and take him away, and we’ll be done.”
This seems to be one side of the elephant in the room, the Administration, making sacrifices for the greater good.
It may be the most murky bottom.
“…”
Suddenly, I felt Kim Ji-ho’s voice trembling subtly and thought.
Isn’t it true that not only the management office is an elephant, but this person, Kim Ji-ho, is also an elephant-like person?
If so, this must be a moment of worry for him too.
*
– Kim Ari
After a long and tedious time, we finally arrived at a huge, unidentified place.
It was a huge laboratory-like place filled with gray walls, and I never imagined that something like this would exist underground in the Australian desert.
As I walked down the hallway with my companion, my thoughts drifted back to the shocking experience of just a moment ago.
The identity of the giant sphere recognized in the elevator is none other than the ‘moon’.
“…”
Didn’t I tell Gain a long time ago that there is no moon in reality?
I guess I lied unintentionally.
Still, in this case there is an excuse.
Who would have thought that the moon was underground on the Earth!
In the first place, does it make physical sense for the moon to be underground on the Earth?
Of course, in this world, such common sense has no meaning.
“…”
The moon was the moon, but it wasn’t the moon.
The identity of the miracle that even the management bureau could no longer reproduce was none other than the moon’s ‘seal’.
And, I already know the principle of sealing the moon.
“I’ve seen something similar.”
“hmm?”
“A structure that seals the moon. I saw something similar at the hotel.”
“Huh… If the secrets of the world were revealed to that extent, then it was the latter half of the second floor?”
“that’s right.”
It’s easy to talk because we both know about the hotel.
“What number was it? 204? 205?”
“Room 206.”
The other person nodded and then blurted out the surprising fact that I had just realized.
“In Room 206, which you experienced, it seems that the Management Bureau suppressed the demon with the spiritual mass of all humanity?”
“… similar.”
The moon must be sealed.
There is only one power that can seal such an absurd ‘ugly thing’: the spiritual mass of all humanity.
“Congratulations. Today you have learned something amazing. But know that this is only the beginning.”
“…”
As I walked down the hallway, I saw a huge door.
“There are other silent ones behind me. They are the ones who will spend eternity with you.”
“I don’t really want to do that.”
“It’s not like we want to be together in particular, but we’re together.”
“…”
“Before that, I want to ask you just one thing.”
“huh?”
A sudden question?
The hooded man took a small piece of paper out of his pocket.
“Can you see it?”
“Isn’t it just a white piece of paper?”
“That’s not the case now.”
“Originally?”
“It was originally a photo. That was until about two months ago.”
“…”
It’s time for me to return to the reality of hotel parties.
“That’s strange. The photo turned into a blank sheet of paper just as you came back?”
“… I don’t know.”
“There was originally a person in this photo.”
A person.
“I don’t know who it is. I used to know it, but now I don’t. It’s as if the great Buddha has erased the memories in my head.”
“…”
“Do you know who the person in the photo is?”
“…”
“He is a traitor to humanity. I have killed him countless times in a repetitive loop.”
It’s a strange story.
It was a really strange story.