Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 586
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EP.586 Episode 586 – The Stolen World (1)
Episode 586 – The Stolen World (1)
– Lee Eun-sol
An incomprehensible force grabs my body and pulls me into the sky.
The situation where even Jincheol, who tried to stop my rapture, rises with me!
In this desperate situation, I almost couldn’t help but laugh.
Grandpa, you’re not doing some kind of skit, are you?
It was good that you pulled out the hourglass with alacrity.
But then you suddenly lose your balance and fall over, dropping the hourglass?
He approached the hourglass, startled and struggling, but this time the vase on the table fell, sending the hourglass flying further.
In a moment of misfortune upon misfortune that made you wonder if this was even possible – a lightning-like realization hit everyone in the head.
Park Seung-yeop: Good luck! Good luck!
When you try to stop the rapture with an hourglass, fortune immediately interferes with your grandfather?
It was not bad luck upon bad luck, it was good luck upon good luck!
Eunsol Lee: Stop! Stay still –
Kim Muk-seong: I understand!
At this moment, luck whispered to us.
It’s better to get caught!
Why? I don’t know.
Because luck is not a force that originally explains reasons!
As there was no resistance, the window shattered and four bodies flew into the air in an instant.
Was this situation hard to bear?
For a split second, Elena’s eyes lit up.
Is this an ominous fantasy?
Did your eye color change when you used that power?
What else are you trying to do?
What, are you going to summon a flying monster and follow me?
Miro: You don’t have to come! I can call you if I need you!
Can Maze call Elena?
Aha, Maze Time Zone. Looks like Elena is here?
If that’s the case, then Elena doesn’t need to follow Miro.
Miro’s words were his last communication with his companions on Earth.
Because the rapture is in progress and you are out of the range of the chat window.
“Ugh…!”
A situation where people on the ground already look like ants scurrying around.
Even though I don’t have a fear of heights, I feel dizzy and like I’m going to vomit.
I think my mind is still sane, thanks to the fact that I somehow managed to hold the flute with both hands and blow into it… .
The three comrades who were being dragged along with me have now moved far away and are no longer visible.
At this distance, it’s been a long time since I left the flute’s protective zone.
“Ugh… .”
Suddenly, I realized something the four people in the rapture had in common.
Eun-Sol Lee, Seung-Yeop Park, Miro, Jin-Cheol Cha.
These four are all people connected with the administration.
Is this a selection condition?
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 181st day
Current location: Delight Hotel, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
…!
The consciousness that was always hazy is now clearly awakened.
My body, which was heavy like wet cotton, moves freely!
“Participant Han Ga-in’s disciplinary action has been lifted!”
It was really fucking long!
In the end, no matter how you look at it, the owl is more than half responsible for suffering for so long!
You wanted me to stay still, but I was moving around too much, so you forced me to lie down, right?
If that’s the case, then just tell him to be quiet!
As I focused my consciousness and cursed inwardly, I finally began to understand the scenario normally.
“Scenario: The Stolen World
The end is coming.
This is a tragedy that stems from the original sin of all people.
Those who long for eternity created the ark with their earnest desire.
The Ark Awakened began the selection process, and four contestants were chosen.
You were not chosen.
Check the following information outside the hospital room!」
“…”
end.
The original sin of all.
The Ark and the Selection.
Four people were chosen, but I was not chosen.
Is this a keyword?
Let’s go outside first.
*
It wasn’t long before I was reunited with my confused colleagues.
“Mr. Gain!”
“Brother!”
“Hey! Are you finally awake?”
“I have a lot to talk about.”
A situation where four people were taken away: Eun-sol, Jin-cheol, Seung-yeop, and Miro.
Interestingly, it is said that luck interfered with the grandfather’s attempt to turn the hourglass.
Grandfather and Elena exchanged opinions.
“Is it beneficial to be dragged away?”
“I guess so. Is it because of the Dream Kingdom? If we, um, use the Dream Kingdom, we can meet our kidnapped comrades again?”
“That dream kingdom doesn’t exist now, though….”
The kingdom of dreams originally belonged to Ari, but Ari disappeared after coming to my dream.
“Isn’t it just a matter of saving Ari and reclaiming the Kingdom of Dreams?”
Sang-Hyeon answered after hearing Elena’s words.
“The comrades who were captured won’t die right away, right?”
“That’s right!”
I think similarly.
‘The Ark has begun its selection, and four contestants have been chosen.’
No matter how I looked at this sentence, it didn’t feel like the contestants were kidnapped with the intent to be killed!
Lastly, I wrote some advice to reassure my colleagues.
“Advice: 3 -> 2”
‘Are the kidnapped comrades safe?’
“It’s not an emergency, so act calmly.”
Is it because it’s been a while since I wrote that you’re so kind?
Well, I’m asking a question when I’m already half-sure of the answer through other evidence.
“Let’s all calm down. The sponsors aren’t in any big trouble either.”
Thanks to that, everyone felt relieved that no one was going to die right away.
After I shared the scenario with my colleagues, I asked them questions.
“Was the ark builder the Management Agency?”
“what?”
“If you think about it carefully, all of the kidnapped people are related to the Management Bureau.”
Jincheol, who is an agent, Eunsol, who is a nominal agent, and Miro, who is treated as an agent who has lost his memories.
Here, Seungyeop, who was in the maze from the beginning and was touched by the management office, is all connected to the management office.
Sang-Hyeon nodded.
“When the apocalypse came, the Administration built an ark and took four people they thought were ‘on the same side’ with them?”
“The crisis of the apocalypse. When you think of the apocalypse, two things come to mind.”
“Two? One is the moon demon at the center of the Earth, right?”
This is information Ari gave me.
“What’s the other one?”
“Brother, you forgot. Originally, when it came to reality, it was called ‘the light that calls for an end’, right?”
This is the biggest danger in reality that Ari and her grandfather have been talking about all along.
As revealed in Issue 207, the ‘Light that Calls to an End’ is deeply connected to mirrors.
“The demon of the moon, the light that calls for an end, the ark… so many things are tangled up and my head is spinning. It feels like there are a lot of fragments but I can’t find the connection.”
At that moment, my grandfather muttered as if sighing.
“Hearing this, I sigh.”
“grandfather?”
“If what you two are saying is true, then the Bureau built the ark to avoid the light that would bring about the end, or the demon of the moon… Why don’t I know this even though I’m an agent?”
It would have been information that an individual agent would not have been able to access with their security level.
Ari, who was promoted to the Silent One, knew about the Ark.
However, after listening to my grandfather, one question arose.
“I heard that Ari and Grandpa have experienced the light that originally called for the end several times.”
“I once, Ari more.”
“Wasn’t there a ‘rapture’ like this back then?”
“If there was, I would have told you.”
“…”
Is the past that Ari and her grandfather remember different from what happened?
As soon as this thought occurred to him, his colleagues’ eyes naturally glanced at each other.
“excuse me -”
“I guess -”
“It seems like we are the cause.”
“…”
After 10 contestants escaped from the hotel and intervened in the world for various reasons, did something change?
At that moment, Songi, who had been silently tapping away at her cell phone, opened her mouth.
“The internet is going crazy right now. They’re saying the end has begun, God is only taking good people, and things like that. It seems like the rapture has stopped for a while.”
“There was a pause… .”
“Don’t you think it’ll start again soon?”
“I feel the same way.”
The phenomenon of the ark taking the chosen people seems like it will continue longer than expected.
“I think it will last about six months to be exact.”
“The merchant said that he would start gathering information six months later and that there would be chaos a year later?”
“yes.”
Interpreting the information gathered so far leads to the following conclusions:
The end is near and the Authority has built an ark.
The Ark is currently selecting those who are qualified to be saved, and this process will be repeated periodically for the next six months.
At that very moment, the next part of the scenario comprehension appeared!
“Scenario: The Stolen World
The first selection is over.
The entire world, which had welcomed the true miracle, was seething with confusion.
Greedy bandits are approaching you!
The following information will be disclosed ‘after negotiation’.
“A greedy thief?”
“Brother?”
Just when I was wondering if someone was coming to mind, someone appeared out of thin air with a “pop!”
“Hey! Young friend, it’s been a while.”
“… Ryan.”
Songi and Elena were startled, and even Sang-Hyeon had a hardened expression and stretched out his hand, ready to fire a flash at any moment.
Grandfather also put his hand into his bosom with a serious expression.
“Haha~! Calm down, everyone. If you think about it, I’m your senior, right? I’m not asking you to respect me, but can we at least talk to each other?”
“…”
“Hey, did you say silence? I apologize for what happened the other day.”
“Shut up.”
“Don’t be so hard on yourself. If you think about it, that scary girl butchered my body, so the damage I suffered was much greater.”
Since we had only run into each other once, it wasn’t easy to exchange friendly words.
“Ryan, let’s get to the point.”
“Friend, when we parted ways, the ‘old man’ said, ‘Let’s meet again in five months.’ That’s now.”
“If you have something to say, say it now.”
As the conversation began, Elena hid behind her grandfather, her eyes shining as she secretly activated her lie detector, and Ryan opened his mouth.
“Okay. Let’s get straight to the point. Do you guys know what’s going on right now?”
“The Administration is building an ark to avoid the apocalypse.”
Ryan looked slightly embarrassed.
“Uh… . Ahem, you already knew the most important thing. Then, do you know why we build the ark?”
“To get through the end?”
“Don’t forget? Agents have a next life even without an ark.”
I remembered a conversation I had with my grandfather a long time ago.
“It will be difficult to rebuild the Administration if only the agents survive.”
Even if you gathered 1,000 agents in one place, would they be able to build one car?
Even this assumption assumes that the agents wake up at the same time, which is even more impossible in reality since they wake up at different time periods.
“You already know quite a bit, don’t you? Thanks to you, it’s easy to talk. As you said, we can’t rebuild the Administration with just agents. We need a lot more equipment and specialists to survive.”
“…”
“For this purpose, the Administration has several otherworldly realms for the purpose of information preservation… but most of them are extremely imperfect. The Ark is the perfect answer for this.”
A few agents and a few books hidden away in another world are not enough.
The sustainability of the Administration requires the preservation of countless people and massive factory-level facilities.
The ark exists for this purpose.
“If the construction of the ark fails for some reason, we will lose most of the civilization of the old era. In the worst case scenario, after the loop, when humanity arrives in the 21st century, it may still be in the Middle Ages.”
“Did that actually happen?”
“Yes. How many times has it happened? Because of that, the current civilization has declined significantly compared to its peak?”
“…”
I got a lot of useful information about the ark.
However, apart from the above information, I don’t know why this person came to us.
“I understand the story of the ark, but there’s one thing I’m curious about. Ryan, why did you come to us?”
“Let me get straight to the point. Friends! We’re abandoned. You know that, right?”
The script told me, ‘You were not chosen.’
“What does it matter? We could have maintained self-consciousness without the ark in the first place.”
“You and I, the people in this place, are like that.”
“then -”
And Ryan Reynolds shook the hearts of his colleagues.
“Let me ask you something. Is there anyone here who revived their family through a dream?”
In the silence of everyone, Ryan whispered again.
“Just call them. You know what? If you’re lucky, you might get chosen for the ark. But… what if you’re unlucky? The end is already right around the corner.”
“…”
“Hey, doctor friend! I heard you have a wife and a son, right?”
“…”
“Communication junior! I apologize again for what happened a while ago. By the way, are your son and daughter-in-law and grandchildren doing well now?”
“…”
“Hey, cute girl! Did you contact your parents?”
I finally understood why Ryan came to us!
“I will tell you what you cannot say. I intend to save my son, daughter-in-law, and grandson.”
“…”
“For that, we need to secure a place on the ark.”
If there is no room, we will kick out someone else!
“That’s right! If you don’t mind dying for a fake family made of dreams, then you can get out.”
None of my colleagues answered.