Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 576
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EP.576 Episode 576 – Everyone’s Interpretation (1)
Episode 576 – Everyone’s Interpretation (1)
– Kim Ari
My mind was at ease.
Because Gain is out of the realm of my dreams.
At this point, I think I’ve done everything I can.
As for the rest, well, won’t your colleagues do a good job?
—Whoosh!
The sound of the dream realm collapsing.
I see the hand of punishment reaching out from beyond space and time.
The ‘Kingdom of Dreams’ that protected me and Gain until the end has disappeared somewhere, so it seems like it’s really over now.
“…”
Suddenly, this thought occurred to me.
Did I betray the Administration by siding with my colleagues?
At least, ‘Stone Tablet’ seemed to think so.
So this is a fuss about punishing me.
“…”
I don’t think so.
Management and hotel party.
Thoughts, beliefs, perceptions of problems and solutions – everything is different between the two groups, but the most important thing is the same.
‘We’ all want a happy ending.
So ‘we’ can be both the management and the hotel party.
The process will not be smooth.
There will be many fights, and some people on either side may die.
But in the end, somehow they all arrive at a happy ending together!
At least I believe so.
“Ugh… .”
My whole body hurts.
It hurts so much that the approaching death feels more like a liberation than a fear.
To Gain, he confidently said, “Let’s meet in the next world!”
But will there really be a ‘next’ for me?
…
I don’t know.
The Bureau has the means to destroy even the immortality of its agents, killing them permanently.
Now that I am being punished by the stone tablet that recognizes me as a traitor, it may be different from a normal death… .
“…”
are you okay.
I’m not afraid of death.
Isn’t it natural for everyone to die when the time comes?
I knew better than anyone else that one day I would die permanently.
It’s been a long time since I finished preparing myself mentally.
At that point, I lay down on the floor with a calm mind.
— Ss …
A dazzling light appeared before me.
The 2nd floor breakthrough reward given when escaping from the hotel is a ‘dream’!
When I escaped, I didn’t have any immediate wishes, so I left it as a last resort, but now it’s coming out!
“ah?”
I was momentarily surprised by the rare experience of seeing a ‘dream’ in the dream world, but then I heard a cold voice in my mind.
Ariya, are you really not afraid of death?
Are you sure you’re mentally prepared?
It is the law of the world that we die when the time comes –
I jumped up and shouted.
“What the hell! What the heck is this!”
What is the real law of nature?
In a crazy world where the moon turned into a demon and dived into the Earth, where is there such a thing as order?
Well, I just had a mental victory because I had no other way to survive!
I thought it was the end, so I had a nice breakup with Gain.
I still had one more chance!
—Whoosh!
I see a mad force approaching, destroying my mental world.
This is the punishment of the stone slab that was brought down to punish the ‘traitor’ Kim Ari!
“Yeah~! I have a dream in my hand!”
What are you, Stone Tablet?
What, an ancient Ooparts inherited from the ancient administration bureau?
After the first betrayal, an insurance policy created to ensure that the same thing never happens again?
Wow~ Amazing!
But are you stronger than the hotel Buddha? Are you stronger?
“I love you, Buddha!”
I smiled ecstatically and made a wish.
The eighth dream shines.
I felt the brush in the greatest hand approaching.
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 112th day
Current location: #205, Singil Apartment, Seocho 3-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
“It’s been 112 days.”
“Is it like that already?”
In just one more week it will be four months since I escaped from the hotel.
There wasn’t much time left until the hotel announced that it would be 6 months since the escape.
A lot has happened in the meantime.
After escaping, I went to a strange world at Eunsol’s hotel.
Next, we board Elena’s cruise ship and experience some strange mask-related events, and Eun-sol meets our first former contestant – Patrick Biderman.
As the show was ending, I went to a place called ‘The Unremembered World’ with Grandpa Mukseong and even had a huge fight with former contestant Ryan Reynolds.
In the process, the sun became empty, and I ended up having to create something that bordered on cult and corporate for solar charging with my friends.
“Ugh….”
“Why are you doing that?”
“Come to think of it, I feel like I’ve been living an incredibly busy life.”
“Hmm, I felt the same way when I heard Ga-in’s story. I’ve been living comfortably until recently.”
I’m sure it wasn’t the teacher’s intention, but I felt like something was bothering me.
“Didn’t they tell you to just rest at the hotel for at least six months?”
“… That’s right.”
“A lot of what happened to Mr. Gain, well, I don’t think would have happened if he had just been lying in bed and watching movies.”
Let’s admit it.
Quite a few events are more like I went to the event rather than the event coming to me.
Because I and my colleagues were aware of this, we all spent the nearly two months quietly.
Then everything started to go back to normal without any major incidents.
The Delight Hotel has been restored on a larger scale, and the Esper is once again floating in the Pacific.
However, one thing has changed.
Sang-Hyeon Hyung moved into Singil Apartment.
“If that’s the case, sir – isn’t it unusual for your brother to move here?”
“Mr. Gain, even ordinary people do things like moving in their lives.”
“…”
“No matter how much I think about it, it seems like something is going to happen in Korea where you are, so it’s right for me to be there. My wife and children are doing well in the United States.”
The reason my brother, who had been worrying, came to Korea was two months ago.
Ariga, you came to my dream, gave me a lot of incomprehensible information, and then disappeared.
“Is Ari Yang’s condition the same?”
Now that we’re on the subject, I took a look.
“Colleague location information (*)
Kim Ari: Searching… .”
“It’s the same.”
“That’s strange. He seems to be alive, but his location has been under search for two months now?”
“I have one hypothesis.”
The ability to search for colleague location information in the status window is more powerful than you might think.
It is not for nothing that this power was created to strengthen blessings.
Not only location, but also survival and death can be indirectly determined.
In cases like #203 where the background is primitive and there is no ‘place name’, it tells you the direction and distance from your location.
It works fine in the cursed room, and it works fine in reality too.
Even if you fall into an unidentified other world in reality, it somehow finds your location.
“Hypothesis?”
“As I said before, the status window will tell you Ari’s location even if she’s in space or another world.”
“I heard. Even if you die and go to the afterlife, it seems like you’ll be told that your current location is the underworld.”
“But, if you are in another world in reality, it takes time to find your location.”
The word that appears then is ‘searching’.
“Are you saying you haven’t found it for two months?”
“No, I’m just saying that Ari’s position seems to keep changing.”
“Oh?”
“This is a possibility that the advice suggests.”
“That makes sense.”
Ari’s location is not real and is constantly changing.
like….
“It seems like you’re running away from something.”
I remember the moment I broke up with Ari.
A powerful force has crossed the border and engulfed the realm of dreams. Could it be that Ari is running away from it?
“Anyway, I’m glad you’re alive. But more than that… .”
“More than that?”
“This is the information that Ga-in heard from Ari Yang.”
I’ve had several discussions with my colleagues about what happened that day.
I actively wrote down advice, and by putting everyone’s heads together, there were many more ‘interpretations’ than I had thought of at the time.
“There were three main reasons. First, there are demons similar to the Demon King in reality. Second, the convenient devices that are often ignored in works based on the theme of regression are causing problems in reality. Third, the mysterious picture.”
The first one has been interpreted the most.
“The moon is suspicious….”
I also became lost in thought as I watched Sang-Hyeon touch his beard with an interesting expression.
The mystery of the moon.
In the world I remember, there was definitely a moon in the sky, but my colleagues did not.
Some of my colleagues say they only saw the moon in history books.
Other colleagues had actually seen the moon, but their memories of it were very different from mine.
“As far as I can remember, the moon has been an object of fear since long ago. On days when the moon was full, everyone was afraid to go outside.”
“…”
It’s a story that I can’t get used to at all.
The moon I remember was literally just a satellite of the Earth.
“I have never actually seen Miss Ari, but I have seen Miss Gain. I think she is the real moon.”
“Let’s say there is a Demon King in reality, and his identity is the moon. Where is the Demon King, um?”
Sang-Hyeon Hyung confidently pointed his finger ‘down’.
This part is also one of the interpretations that my colleagues agreed on.
“Ari-yang mentioned the Demon King of reality and gave Room 206 as an example. Where was the Demon King? He was underground.”
“… the moon demon is underground on Earth, and like 206, all of humanity is suppressing it?”
“Haven’t we agreed on everything up to this point?”
“I think it sounds pretty plausible.”
No, no matter how fantasy the world is, there has to be a limit. Does this make sense?
Is there a moon inside the Earth?
Is this physically possible?
“It’s amazing that someone who is both a doctor and a former NASA astronaut is saying something like that.”
“Mr. Gain, don’t you know yet? In this world, science is a fraud.”
“… If the Demon King of reality is the moon, then what is the moon’s true identity?”
Unfortunately, there was no agreement on this point.
“I see myself as a living disaster that fell from space, a kind of alien creature, like the Demon King of Room 206.”
“The moon is not an alien, it is a satellite of the Earth -”
“That’s the Administration deceiving the whole world.”
“…”
This is a total conspiracy theory!
But isn’t reality itself a conspiracy theory?
“My grandfather said that it was a chaotic entity created by the negative imaginations of mankind that have continued since the beginning of time.”
“That hypothesis makes sense.”
“Sister Eunsol said that aliens built an invasion base on the moon.”
“Persuasive.”
From alien life forms to chaos of humanity’s nightmares to an alien invasion base – just about every imaginable scenario is being put forth.
Of course, there are many more than that.
I asked the question, laughing out loud without realizing it.
“Advice: 3 -> 2”
‘Is our hypothesis correct?’
“I’ve answered several times. Some of it is true.”
An attitude of blatantly avoiding a definitive answer.
I’ve asked the same question many times, and the answers are always the same.
Anyway, as the owl admitted that some of the absurd hypotheses were true, his colleagues began to come up with even more absurd hypotheses.
“Let’s move on to the next story. The convenient elements that are overlooked in creative regression.”
This part also has a somewhat agreed upon interpretation.
“Actually, there are so many that it’s hard to choose just one. However, Eunsol Yang focused on the case of room 203.”
No. 203, A New Beginning.
“If you think about it, the room of curses itself is a regression.”
“Yes.”
“What did we learn in Room 203? The starting point of our regression was different from the point of our awakening.”
The repetition of the world, the loop, has a beginning and an end.
In creative works, the point from the protagonist’s awakening to his death is usually the beginning and end of the loop.
That wasn’t the case in Room 203, the Cursed Room.
“Humanity, who arrived on the stage of room 203 by spaceship, engages in a science fiction-like fight with the prisoner Adravita and is subdued. We were the only crew members who survived this process.”
History had already begun ‘before’ the protagonist’s awakening.
“What happens after that? If all the participants die, the scenario ends and the cursed room is reset. However, Adravita remembered all of this and promised to do it again.”
There was something more after the protagonist’s death.
“In short, it’s a problem before the protagonist becomes aware of the loop and after the protagonist dies. Most creative works tend to lightly pass over this part….”
“…”
Let’s compare reality to a creative work based on regression.
Unlike typical regressions, there are multiple regressors, so the loop starts when the ‘first agent to awaken wakes up’.
The end of the loop could be seen as ‘the moment when the last agent to die dies’.
Therefore, two missing links are created.
What happened in the world before the first agent awakened.
What happens to the world after the last agent dies.
There is something here.
The secret permeates all of reality.
“Lastly, let’s talk about the painting.”