Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 593
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EP.593 Episode 593 – The Stolen World (8)
Episode 593 – The Stolen World (8)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 225th day
Current location: Northern Territory, Australia
Wise Man’s Advice: 0”
– Han Ga-in
There has been no further news since the information that there was a ‘mirror’ on the ark.
All you can tell from the status window is that none of your comrades on the Ark are dead.
Has the Ark party already been subdued by the Administration?
I’m not sure about this.
…
When we came back to reality, the trader advised us to stay quiet for the first six months and then get active.
Later, when there was a clash with Ryan’s group, the previous wisdom also told a similar story.
As it turned out, six months meant ‘the point at which the ark began to be built.’
Both the hotel and the Sundae Wisdom were told to remain quiet until the management began building the ark.
Why?
The answer is written in ‘Scenario Understanding’, which has been in operation for a long time.
“Scenario: The Stolen World
The Ark, the choice of the Administration for Salvation.
The Bureau’s efforts to complete the ark were largely exhausted.
To put it another way, now is the time for those with a third purpose.
Please check the following contents in ‘Seal of the Moon’.
“…”
This is the moment in human history when the Administration is most helpless.
A significant portion of the leadership, including the silent ones, have left for the ark, or are leaving.
It is said that even a significant number of them have already entered a state of hibernation.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world has long been in chaos.
Not only the general public, but even the lower-level management who realized that they were not chosen have already lost their appetite.
The Administration can no longer control the world.
We didn’t have enough power to stop them from infiltrating Australia’s underground.
*
— Gulp!
The suppression near Uluru, the famous rock in Australia, which I saw for the first time this time, ended with a huge explosion in the Australian desert.
The small force that the Administration had left behind was neutralized.
Unfortunately for the Administration, the battle was extremely one-sided.
As I was shaking off my clothes on the rock, Ryan approached me.
“Wow~ I felt it the other day too, isn’t it amazing?”
“…”
“Flying at an invisible speed and going whoosh, whoosh! The soldiers couldn’t do anything and they all died. What a feat! It’s truly admirable.”
“What did you come to say?”
“That beautiful lady is justice, right?”
Now we both know that much.
“Yes, but.”
“Wouldn’t it be better for that girl to wait outside?”
Songi, who is not suitable for extreme combat, and Grandfather Mukseong were placed in the rear, but Elena and Sanghyun are with me.
Ryan suggests that Elena be left out of this.
“Do you remember? Your senior, Lady Jihye, told you. If Miss Jeong-ui dies, things will get weird. I heard that she is still not at full strength.”
Elena, who was nearby, got angry.
“But I can’t just send Mr. Gain -”
“it’s okay.”
When I lightly tapped the air with my finger, Ryan immediately backed away as if he understood.
The one who really didn’t understand my actions was Elena.
“Oh, are you okay? I was actually worried too.”
“I asked for advice by writing it down.”
“Ah! What did you say?”
“… I feel better having Elena by my side.”
In the morning, the moment I got this answer, 3 stacks of advice were consumed at once.
That means it’s not an ordinary answer!
“Found it!”
The voice of a soldier.
A group of private soldiers who participated in suppressing the remaining forces of the Management Bureau, and were a force controlled by the previous wisdom.
As I looked at the location mentioned, I saw a facility that looked like an alien elevator.
“Your colleague probably took that elevator to the basement.”
“we are?”
“It’s already broken. The enemy already destroyed it before we could do anything. The easy way out is gone.”
“…”
“The elevator is broken, but the passageway it used to move through remains. Let’s go.”
*
They started to descend into the basement, tied together with strong wire.
As soon as we started to descend into the basement, Elena asked a question in a poking tone.
“Why are those soldiers following you?”
“What do you mean?”
“The Administration can no longer control the world, so it’s a wonder those soldiers follow your orders.”
“That’s because we promised them salvation.”
“… Will you make room for me in the ark?”
“You’re smart.”
“That’s not a lie. It’s like you have no intention of making it -”
Patrick, behind him, answered for Ryan, and he looked quite uncomfortable.
“Hey! Ask that question to your colleague next to you! Your ‘cult’ of young wisdom is still holding meetings in Seoul. Is there any way to save them?”
Elena became quiet, and I answered for her.
“Yes.”
“what?”
“So let’s shut up and get moving. Someone who still has no legs has a lot to say.”
Patrick still hasn’t fully regenerated the leg he lost after being beaten by Eunsol.
Could it be that your regenerative powers have weakened because you shared the blessing of courage with Jincheol hyung?
“This kid -”
“Come on, come on, Patrick. Let’s not get excited unnecessarily.”
It is not a lie to say that there is a way to save you.
Because my ultimate goal is to prevent the apocalypse itself.
What salvation can be more certain than this?
*
The story of the first five minutes or so of a subtle war of nerves.
As time passed, everyone became quieter.
Others seemed to be crushed by an overwhelming sense of depression that they could not express in words.
“…I feel suffocated.”
“It feels like a monster is writhing beneath my feet.”
As Elena and Sang-Hyeon said their respective words, Patrick and Ryan added similar words.
“It brings back old memories… . Back in the day, I think it was room 105? The setting was a desert.”
“The first day I lost my son, I felt exactly like this from the morning of that day… .”
Stories that will make you depressed just by hearing them.
…
I feel it.
There was a constant sense of something hideous writhing beneath our feet.
At some point, Sang-Hyeon, who had been sweating profusely, muttered.
“This is… the moon.”
“…”
“If it were up to me, I would pour my strength into the underground.”
An impulsive remark about wanting to shoot the last flash at the moon.
Before I could answer, Ryan, who was nearby, chimed in in surprise.
“Oh my! Hey, if you can’t handle the pressure, then you better go up! If that monster wakes up here, we’ll all die without even being able to breathe.”
“Of course I’m joking.”
“Such a boring joke….”
— Boom!
Suddenly Patrick slammed his fist into the wall.
Because of that, the wire swayed and everyone almost lost their balance for a moment, but when Sang-Hyeon made a face, Ryan apologized on his behalf.
“Ugh! Sorry, sorry. Hey Patrick! Calm down!”
“… I made a mistake. I apologize to everyone.”
Looking at Patrick’s expression, it was already not normal.
Soon, problems began to arise on our side as well.
— Clang!
“I can still vividly remember what you said!”
“Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, doctor -”
“What? You want me to cooperate obediently to save Baram and Jinsol? You -”
When I first met Ryan, I shook Hyung Sang’s heart because he had a family. Did those feelings still remain?
Even if that were true, it is not an issue to be discussed here and now.
“Brother, calm down.”
“This kid -”
For a moment, I wondered if I should just knock Sang-Hyeon out here as he grabbed me by the collar with his eyes burning bright red.
“Brother Sang-Hyeon, I’m leaving.”
“… this.”
“Are you okay?”
“Gain, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I kept having strange thoughts… Ryan, you too -”
“Okay. I wanted to kill you too many times – I’m sorry.”
He turned around and spoke in an earnest voice.
“Let’s just all move without saying anything.”
“…”
Elena had been completely silent since earlier, and this attitude made me even more anxious.
Because it was difficult to guess what he was thinking inside.
Ryan, Patrick, Kim Sang-hyun, Elena.
Although none of them are particularly skilled at mental resistance like the Fourth or the Flute of Rest, they are still hotel escapees.
These people have mental strength that is incomparable to that of ordinary people, yet they find it so hard to endure?
It’s not that they’re weak, it’s that the demonic presence of the moon is so strong.
“Did you say Ari? Do you really have to go through all this trouble to save that girl?”
Patrick’s complaint.
As he said, the reason we’re struggling underground in Australia right now is to save Ari.
“Patrick, this is also the wise old man’s order. If you have that girl’s mark, you can easily subdue the ark -”
I guessed it, but it’s true.
Ari is our comrade, but also the silent one, and the silent one strictly adheres to the majority principle.
That is, if you get Ari’s ‘mark’, you may be able to subdue the ark more easily than you think.
The opponent is aiming for this and is cooperating to save Ari.
“- Be quiet, Patrick. Please.”
“…”
I wasn’t particularly angry.
Ari is our colleague, not their colleague, so it’s natural that they have their own way of calculating.
But that doesn’t mean it’s something worth talking about openly.
Ryan’s mental state is also not good due to the pressure of the moon, so his inner feelings are pouring out as they are.
Ryan, who was coming down the rock, felt embarrassed by his mistake just now and said to me.
“Young man, you -”
“Let’s go quietly.”
“- You’re really fine. It’s amazing.”
“…”
As he said, I was relatively fine.
Considering that the other four are half-mad, I guess I should be considered unusual.
Is it because I have such strong mental strength that I can’t compare to other people?
no.
I may be stronger than others, but the reason I’m okay now has nothing to do with my strength.
I’m not being attacked in the first place.
“…”
The mind is at ease and the air is refreshing.
It was more comfortable being closer to the moon than being outside.
I continued to feel the endless ‘affection’ that this immense being was sending me.
The moon welcomes me.
“Ahh…! This road forks in several directions? Hey, teacher! Don’t you know anything?”
“You know… how do I find my way?”
“This is near the moon. I heard you were an astronaut?”
“…near the moon, but not in space – were you kidding me?”
Ryan and Sang-hyun went down the wire and looked around, and Patrick, as a participant who had been blessed with courage, tried to push away a rock with his brute strength… .
There was no way to know which way was right.
“Mr. Gain, do you have any advice?”
The remainder of the advice was 0, but it seemed like it could have been done without the advice.
“No advice, just ask for directions.”
“yes?”
“Who do you ask if you don’t have any advice?”
My colleagues were confused, as if they couldn’t understand.
I spoke, conscious of the gazes I had been feeling since the moment I came down to the basement.
“I want to know the location of the stone tablet. Can you tell me?”
“Who are you talking to now?”
—Whoosh!
As if waiting, a loud noise was heard from one of the passageways we had discovered.
Ryan looked anxious.
“Hey, is it okay to go this way? Young friend, just in case, you’re not possessed by the moon, are you?”
“I will be better than you.”
“…”
“Let’s go.”
One step at a time.
Every time I go down, I feel dizzy.
I feel like the fragmented information I’ve been gathering is slowly coming together.
…
Yesterday, when I found out there was a mirror in the ark… .
I finally understood the principle of the ark in the shock that felt like a thunderbolt.
To put it in an easy-to-understand metaphor, the ark is the combination of the divine sun and a mirror.
Why is it possible for the ark to do what is impossible for the divine sun, which is a pseudo-ark?
Because the divine sun itself does not have the power of a mirror.
…
The sun is a tool to gather mortal souls and become gods.
The principle of the sun alone can only bring human souls together, and cannot divide them normally.
It is natural because it is not a principle for dividing, but a principle for combining to become God.
To become human again, we need the power to share.
In Room 207, the mirror split ‘me’ into pieces and scattered them across the world.
…
By gathering together the countless souls of the common people who cannot endure the loop, he creates a great being like a god.
Everyone becomes part of the great one and endures the loop.
Finally, a series of events where the Great One is split into pieces by the power of the mirror and returned to human form.
The administration calls this the ‘ark’.
…
We understand the principles of the ark, but many of its secrets still remain.
For example, what process does the ‘light that calls for an end’ that Grandpa Arina spoke of come about?
Also, let’s think about the ancient information obtained from Jeju Island.
People who built an ark to escape the apocalypse.
The usurpers who drove out those people and took the ark.
And the last survivor who escaped the usurpers.
I still don’t quite understand this story.
However, when I connected it with the next story, something vaguely came to mind.
According to the information I received through the status window, I released an unknown entity that the Administration had quarantined long ago, and it caused all the disasters.
“You came!”
“You’re back?”
“You’re finally here!”
As I take each step underground, I hear a voice welcoming me.
When the stone slab finally began to appear in the distance… .
I asked the ‘moon’ a question.
“What is your relationship with me? Who do you know me to be?”
“teacher”
“wizard”
“researcher”
“betrayer”
“a self-righteous person”
“The incomprehensible person”