Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 59
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Episode 59 – No. 106, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Land of Hope’ (6) Fin
Episode 59 – No. 106, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Land of Hope’ (6)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 21
Current location: Tier 1, Room 106 (Mission Room – Hotel Land of Hope)
Sage Advice: 0]
6. Practice! haunted house
It’s a haunted house from its name, and it’s an old mansion with a truly gloomy atmosphere.
After sighing, I looked at my brother and I’s legs one by one.
Ari’s blood, which was said to be a ‘reinforced version of what replenishes stamina’, was definitely effective in its own way.
It wasn’t the level of a great stamina potion, but the black-and-white bruises and pain had diminished and I had recovered to the point where I could barely endure it and walk.
There really is no place to retreat now. You must clear the remaining missions and see the end.
Just before entering, my brother spoke to me.
“Gain.”
“yes?”
“Be sure to know. I may die for you, but you must not think about dying for me. You must go to the end, even if it means sacrificing me.”
“…”
“If you go to the end, you can use Kangrim if the situation arises. Perhaps with that power, you will be able to pass through any situation. If we can send you until the last moment, we can somehow overcome the three crises.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
“Let’s prepare mentally. It’s been so long since I’ve been to an amusement park like this. What kind of monsters come out of haunted houses?”
“It’s the same for me. The things that come to mind are, as the name suggests, ghosts? Zombies? Werewolves? Vampires? Things like that come to mind.”
“I think we can somehow kill him with a fist, but the ghost is probably the biggest problem. Let’s go in.”
*
—Kkii Iik.
As I opened the door to the old mansion and entered, a thick stench bothered my nose. A foul odor that seems to be a random mixture of rotten meat, excrement, mold, etc.
Although he held the dagger in his hand and held it firmly. I don’t know. What can I do about a monster that could come out of a place like this?
Just before entering, the status window was transformed into filter mode, blocking the entire field of view. Wouldn’t this be an effective measure against ghost-like beings?
—Tap —Tap
The sound of two men’s footsteps echoes through the mansion.
I’m starting to wonder if activating the status window was a mistake. After learning how to use the filter mode status window, I started using it quite usefully, but there is one inevitable drawback.
Since the entire field of vision is blocked by the opaque window, it is difficult to see clearly, as if a person who has worn glasses his entire life has taken them off. The degree to which you have to concentrate to distinguish people with difficulty.
I walked down the hallway for a while.
I walked and walked, passing a picture whose contents were invisible, a fairly large full-length mirror, a candle holder hanging on the wall, and a strange taxidermy, but I couldn’t see anything.
Suddenly I felt something grabbing my clothes.
“brother?”
“good.”
“yes?”
“Are you sure you have that filter mode on?”
“yes.”
“I’ll come out and tell you, so just go. I think I’ll break this easily.”
What on earth is this story?
Why is my brother suddenly holding on to my clothes so tightly that it doesn’t suit me?
I don’t know anything, but did you notice something?
I walked and walked through the mansion for almost 30 minutes. The mansion is already dark and only illuminated by fire from candles hanging here and there, but as I walk with the filter mode turned on, there are no blind people.
Thanks to this, a wall appeared right in front of my nose and I collided with it.
30 minutes? 40 minutes? After about that much time had passed, I left the mansion.
??? What on earth is this?
“What is this? I just walked away and there was nothing? I just came out?”
“Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk! It was so funny from the middle that I almost couldn’t stand it.”
?
“yes?”
“It’s not that it wasn’t there, there were all sorts of things going on. The portrait in the painting kept looking at us, and in the mirror, we saw ourselves distorted like the hall of mirrors last time, coming out and threatening us with a knife.
There were stuffed human heads on the walls, and even their eyes were blinking at us. I couldn’t last even a minute and I got goosebumps and almost screamed.
But since you didn’t react so much, even a stone statue that looked like a gargoyle came out and blocked the road. “Did you even know what that was?”
“… I thought I just hit the wall because I couldn’t see it.”
“It’s a haunted house, so if a participant inside sees a monster and walks away without showing any signs of it, they’ll just ignore it. If they scream or something, they’ll run at me, or something like that. Maybe if I screamed, they’ll run at me. That’s the feeling. “I came right away, closed my eyes, grabbed your clothes, and left.”
“No, even after waking up, it’s absurd. Isn’t this just something you get for nothing if you’re blind?
“If you’re blind, you probably won’t be able to find your way, and if you close your eyes, you’ll easily wake up. That’s ridiculous.”
“Are you done with this? Will you get a notification soon?”
“Is this some kind of backyard? I can see the back door over there. I think I’ll wake up if I go over there.”
I was both dumbfounded and happy. I have received help from filter mode several times in the past, but this is the first time it has been of such absolute help. From a distance, a rather large and handsome Siberian Husky approached us, wagging his tail.
Jincheol cheerfully stretched out his hand and pointed towards the dog’s head.
No, what is he doing? Are you all relaxed now? There can be no ordinary dog in such a strange place!
When the dog came closer and opened its mouth, a piece of a human skull popped out of it.
“Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss–ts”
ruined. Everything was destroyed and an accident occurred.
Immediately, a large figure appeared that swelled up like a dog bursting open and made anyone who saw it say, ‘I’m a werewolf!’
A fight is already unavoidable. I immediately put away the meaningless filter mode and ran.
At that moment, my brother’s shout echoed throughout the hall.
“Go! Cain! You bastard! Just go! Can’t you see the door? Just run!”
…
right. A situation where you were caught off guard by a werewolf.
No matter how strong the older brother is, the werewolf bites him first, and you can see blood flowing all over his body. In that case, even if you win, it is impossible to proceed further.
I have to go alone.
I closed my eyes, turned around, and ran like crazy towards the back door.
The moment I passed the door, a notification popped up.
/Mission 6. Real combat! Haunted house success! Would you like to proceed to the last mission?/
For the first time since I came to the hotel, I felt a little angry at my brother.
It’s not that I was pushed out while fighting a monster that I couldn’t defeat, but I realized what the danger was and passed almost all of it, so I actually broke through it, but I got caught because I was relaxed?
…
no.
It’s not a question of who to blame. People are inherently bound to make mistakes.
Without the help of filter mode, my brother’s mental strength is extraordinary just by maintaining his senses and responding correctly while seeing monsters from the beginning of the mansion.
Just one moment of letting down your guard. The only problem is this crazy place where one mistake can take your life.
This is a problem that I just need to pass until the end. I made up my mind.
…
Now, I’m left alone.
*
/Final mission. A nostalgic Ferris wheel!
Starts in 30 seconds. Please read the instructions carefully.
1. You must not sleep on the Ferris wheel.
2. Please pay attention to the scenery outside the Ferris wheel.
3. It is dangerous to go outside the Ferris wheel./
I racked my brain for the entire 30 seconds and interpreted this notice ‘in a hotel style.’
You must not sleep. : You will fall asleep, and if you sleep, you will die.
Pay attention to the scenery outside. : If you look inside, you will die.
Going outside is dangerous. : I will make you go outside.
I engraved the meaning of the notice in my head.
The space shook and a Ferris wheel appeared in front of me.
*
“Yesterday Jisoo told me that the trend these days is -”
“I heard the weather is chilly these days. Ga-in is dressed well too-”
“What are you upset about? Why are you staring out the window? You can’t talk to your family like this-”
…
…
I hear something talking next to me. Judging by their voices, they are probably imitating my family.
I didn’t even pretend to listen and put my face out the window. I think we’ll often encounter monsters that try to attract our attention like this in the future, so when we go out, I’ll have to ask Eunsol to buy some earplugs and take them with us.
I heard my brother’s voice and something touched my clothes. A ploy to somehow divert attention to the inside of the Ferris wheel.
I immediately slapped my hand away. Unlike his younger brother’s hand, it felt like hard scales, which made him even more certain that he should not turn his head.
—Chi Ik.
Did you set something on fire? Suddenly, the Ferris wheel became warm, and the seats and backrests of the Ferris wheel, which were supposed to be hard, became soft.
Ah, is this just a ploy to put him to sleep?
I immediately bit my tongue slightly. You’re not trying to make him sleep in something that’s barely warm and soft, are you? It is clear that they will try to put him to sleep through supernatural means.
Let’s hold on. You just have to endure it. It doesn’t feel like a place to physically fight.
“Gain? What’s wrong with your tongue? Where are you?”
He grabbed my clothes strongly and started shaking them.
I pushed him away strongly with my arm. It’s okay if I don’t look at it, right?
Should I close my eyes? no. Falling asleep is a risk factor, but keeping your eyes closed is also dangerous.
…
A dizzying number of wild horses are coming. It’s not even a state of lack of sleep, but a clearly abnormal desire for sleep. He bit his fangs so hard that his tongue bled. I came to my senses when I started feeling stabbing pain, a cold sensation, and a fishy smell.
The effect didn’t last long. After a while, even the pain subsided, as if I had been anesthetized. A feeling of something endlessly pulling my consciousness into the deep sea.
Is there some other way? Simple pain is not enough.
He reached into his pocket and took out a dagger. Self-harm? no. There’s a better way.
Without hesitation, he turned his head out the window and stretched his hand backwards, swinging the dagger at random.
“Aaaah! Oppaaaaa! This is-”
“Ugh! Gain, what on earth are you doing-”
Abominable voices. I can feel that it is clearly a monster just by touch, but it still borrows the voice of my family.
As I suspected, when I stopped looking at them, they were unable to exert power directly over me. In the first place, if that were possible, they would have forcibly grabbed my head and turned it.
At best, all you have to do is hold on to your clothes and shake them.
Screams filled the interior of the Ferris wheel. The scary process of a knife stabbing something, bouncing back, and then extending and stabbing again. During this terrible experience, my nerves were sharpened like the tip of a spear, and my mind was awakened again.
…
The surroundings became quiet.
The atmosphere outside suddenly changed to resemble a warm spring day.
A slowly moving Ferris wheel. Vague memories of my childhood come to mind.
Everyone has a first love.
When was I? I think it was probably when I was in middle school.
Perhaps an English academy. At first, she whined a lot and said she didn’t want to go to the academy.
The academy I was forced to go to.
On the first day, when I met a girl across from me with brown hair flowing around her waist, I no longer hated the academy.
What was it like after that? There is no need to go on about boring stories.
We naturally met often, and I think we became close friends.
I went to the English academy 30 minutes before class time and sat down in advance.
I also remember thinking about how to make Gayoung sit naturally near me and studying the miracle positioning.
Then, whenever Gayoung sat far away from the girls she was close to, I spent an hour alone wondering if she was mad at me.
Of course, my English skills did not improve at all. Of course, apart from his English skills, his son’s insight has improved threefold, so wasn’t it a bad investment for his parents?
I remember consulting with my friends. How should I confess to make it work?
I remember everyone giggling like crazy, making fun of me and hitting me on the back, and then all of a sudden, with all the seriousness in the world, we were discussing the most perfect way to confess.
Of course, there were limits to the confession method that could come out of a middle school student’s head.
In the end, if I were to choose the worst confession, I ended up making a confession worthy of being photographed, such as ‘No. 1 Ugly Confession.jpg’, which is a mix of a text confession that is said to be in the top 3 and an April Fool’s Day drip.
The result… .
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The result… .
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No shibaaaal! In the meantime, are you reminiscing about my first love?
When I came to, I was about to open the window and jump out as I saw Gayoung’s face glimmering outside!
Isn’t this really a very cowardly measure? Better send a monster!
I don’t know how I came to my senses.
I was so angry at the moment, and thanks to that, I was able to maintain my sanity for quite a long time.
As time passes and the anger subsides.
The long struggle has come to an end.
*
/Final mission. A nostalgic Ferris wheel success! Congratulations on clearing the mission room!/
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