Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 599
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EP.599 Episode 599 – The Stolen World (14)
Episode 599 – The Stolen World (14)
– Cha Jin-cheol
Seocho Blue Damian Apartment, Building 8, Room 203.
I heard that it is a luxury apartment that is well known even in Seoul, a city famous for its expensive housing prices.
— Ring!
Despite all that, the phone call didn’t go through very well.
Well, it’s not so much a problem with apartments as it is a problem with the world.
“Oh, someone kept ringing and calling me internationally. It’s a new car!”
“It’s been a while. I worked with you in Busan a while ago, right? I was going to contact you after that -”
“Enough greetings, enough! What is it? Can I ask you something?”
A brief conversation, the other person’s tone of voice makes you feel relaxed.
It’s a sight that’s hard to find in today’s world.
Wasn’t this the time when the ark suddenly appeared in the sky and caused the rapture?
The whole world has been in turmoil for a long time, as anyone can see that it is the realization of an apocalypse that was only seen in creative works.
But my conversation partner is an agent and a regressor like me.
He was not afraid because he believed that there was a ‘next life’, whether the world was destroyed or not, whether he got on the ark or not.
“Senior, did you see the text I sent you?”
“Oh! Isn’t that the address of a regular person living in Texas?”
“Please kill all those people today.”
“…”
After a moment of silence, the other person asked back.
“It’s not that difficult… Can I ask why?”
“Did you know that someone who was silent recently came out of the Korean branch?”
“There are rumors that he went missing -”
“You’re back. Do you know that I have a close relationship with ‘him’?”
“… Is this ‘his’ order? I understand. What else do you want to say?”
“This is personal advice. As soon as you finish your work, you should commit suicide too.”
“… I don’t know what it is, but thank you.”
“no.”
— Tick!
The call was disconnected.
“Huh!”
Oh my, isn’t it a bit funny how Ari is talking about ‘that person’?
The person you spoke to earlier was Agent Lee Seok-Hyeon, one of the many agents you met while working at the Management Bureau.
To be honest, we’re not that close.
I just called because he’s the only agent I know who’s currently in the US.
It’s funny that I suddenly call that person and ask him to kill someone, but the person who immediately listens to me is also not bad.
I don’t think we can trust rookie agent Cha Jin-cheol.
You probably thought it was an order from ‘Kim Ari, the Silent One’, who is known to be my friend?
At times like these, I really feel that Ari is a very noble person.
Anyway, it seems like we’ve succeeded in ‘evacuating’ Brother Sang-Hyeon and Agent Muk-Seong’s family.
I’ve finished most of what I had to do outside, so I should go back now –
— Chijijik!
Hmm? I didn’t even touch the remote control, but the TV suddenly –
“Emergency disaster alert!
…
Other guidelines to follow are –
— Chijijik!
“Emergency disaster alert!
…
Other guidelines to follow are –
“…”
The moment I saw the unidentified alarms bursting out without warning, I realized.
The full-scale apocalypse event has begun!
“Why is there chaos at this timing?”
Didn’t Gain say that soon the moon will begin its work of engulfing the souls of the world?
This is it.
The remaining forces of the Management Bureau, sensing the change, are issuing warnings in their own way, but isn’t that a situation where the moon has contaminated something?
When you go outside, isn’t it like the moon in the sky shakes the minds of ordinary people?
“Inma! I too, this much is just a show! Do you think I’ll get fooled and leave?”
I spoke confidently to someone I didn’t even know where they were, but my head was already spinning.
What if I don’t go out?
Am I trapped alone in this noisy apartment?
Why did this shit happen when I was away from my colleagues?
Well, it’s a lot better than being brainwashed when something happens while you’re out.
It’s not very lucky, but let’s consider it lucky considering the unlucky situation.
Anyway, I sat down on the sticky bed, all my strength drained.
— Squeak!
“Oh, right. Since apartments are expensive, you should buy a good bed. Sorry. I don’t really care.”
Is the problem not the bed but my weight being too heavy?
I sighed and slowly thought about what would happen next.
That moment.
— Boom!
“…”
— Thump thump thump thump thump!
A frantic knock on the door.
“Who is it!”
Confusing voices that sound as if they had been waiting.
“Haha! Mister 203! Come out!”
“What are these people doing inside, feeling so stuffy?”
“Didn’t you hear the emergency disaster warning telling you to come out?”
It’s been less than 10 minutes since the disaster warning, and everyone’s already gone crazy?
— Thump thump thump!
“Room 203! Room 203! Come out!”
“What a bunch of stuffy people! Everyone else came out in no time!”
“Who lived in room 203?”
“Well, they’re a doctor couple and their high school daughter -”
“I’m a vet, not a doctor!”
“But, was the vet’s voice that deep?”
It was incredibly noisy and there were so many different voices that it seemed like there were at least ten people gathered outside the door.
— Chijijik!
Just then, the TV lights came on again.
“What? I even pulled out the code -”
As if it were a wealthy neighborhood, a news desk appeared on a TV screen boasting a whopping 100 inches in size, and in the center was an announcer with an eerie look in his eyes.
“Seocho Blue Damian Apartment, Building 8, Room 203.”
“Hey, you know the address too? That’s great.”
“I’m saying this for you. Come out. Come out and accept salvation -”
The announcer who had been talking nonsense suddenly flinched and shut his mouth.
“what’s the matter?”
It was clearly like something out of a ghost story, but it just kept silent and rolled its eyes around.
“What weren’t you trying to say?”
“…”
“Oh, the inside of the house is a bit dirty? It was originally clean.”
“…”
— Boom! Crunch!
A loud noise is heard from the door.
It looks like they brought a hammer or a blunt object and smashed the door to pieces?
“No, why are those guys so serious about dragging me out?”
Why is it that these days you don’t even know who lives next door? This is a city landscape.
I felt dumbfounded and went towards the door, and there really was a big hole in it.
“Hahaha! Room 203, room 203! I’m coming in soon!”
“I told you not to stay cooped up in there?”
“we -”
— Ring!
So I just opened the door.
The person who was tearing off the door with a strange tool looked flustered, as if he had not expected the door to suddenly open.
“Uh, uh -”
“Come in. It looks like you really want to see the house.”
People coming in with puzzled expressions.
As the door opened, I heard noises outside, and what was happening in room 203 was happening throughout the apartment.
In simple terms, it means that possessed people are forcibly dragging out people who are not possessed.
“So, how’s the house?”
“Uh, uh, uh, uh, this is…!”
The people who had been making crazy noises just a moment ago all look back at the scenery of room 203 as if they have lost their minds.
“Oh, is that because there are some dead bodies on the floor?”
Seocho Blue Damian Apartment, Building 8, Room 203.
The address of Songi’s house that I heard before.
The corpses lying on the floor are Songi’s parents.
After I evacuated Seungyeop’s parents first, I also sent Songi’s parents to a safe place.
To someone who doesn’t know the situation, I probably look like a serial killer.
But, I realized this while listening to Gain’s explanation earlier.
iced coffee…!
As the sun sets and the moon rises, the standards of right and wrong are reversed.
The safest place in the world is the afterlife, and killing is salvation.
“Ugh!”
“No, why are you so surprised? Is this your first time seeing a dead body? People can kill people, so why are you so surprised by something like that?”
“T-That’s murder!”
“murder?”
“Oh, a crazy killer killed the 203 vet couple -”
— Bang!
The head of the man in the front exploded.
“Ha, what kind of guns are there in Korea -”
“My job is a bit unusual.”
— Bang! Bang!
The heads of the people behind them also exploded one after another.
Soon, the number of corpses in room 203 increased to seven.
“…”
My heart pounded wildly as I felt an instinctive sense of guilt.
Meanwhile, my head constantly whispered the cold truth.
I’m not killing people, I’m just sending them to a safe place.
“…”
If you are careful and move around mainly within the apartment complex, you should be able to avoid being possessed by the moon.
— Squeak!
“Huh? Who -”
— Bang!
From now on, let’s save bullets.
I am evacuating civilians to the absolute safe zone that even the moon cannot approach – the underworld.
eight.
nine.
heat.
At some point, I stopped counting.
…
Mental protection abilities are essential to roaming the world under the ravages of the moon’s madness.
The remaining colleagues in Delight have Sister Eunsol’s flute, and there’s a status window, constancy, and a clear index, so there shouldn’t be any problems, right?
I’m having a hard time leaving this apartment complex right now.
What should I do?
— Squeak!
I returned to room 203 and moved towards the still brightly lit screen.
The strange announcer looked at me with tired eyes.
“Hey, are there more people in the apartment?”
“…”
“You can go inside and outside the TV, right? Send them all to me.”
“…”
“Don’t you hear me? You little punk! Do I have to go to where you are and order you around? Do you think I can’t hit you if you look like a woman?”
Like this, I was having a peaceful conversation with the ghost story announcer on the other side of the TV.
“This devil – yikes!”
“Huh, huh? What is it?”
Something strange happened again!
“What is this -”
Announcer, is the Moon’s servant being attacked by something?
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 227
Current location: Delight Hotel, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
The world is starting to go completely crazy.
The excited voices of people who have taken over the streets, captivated by the madness of the moon, can be heard from all directions.
“Salvation has come! Salvation has come!”
“Maitreya has come to save us!”
Currently, I am alone on the rooftop of the Delight Hotel.
A dark night sky, a faintly glowing crimson light source.
The moon has not yet fully descended.
“…”
I’m looking at the moon with my view obscured by the status window, and it feels like looking at the sun through polarizing film.
Just as film cannot block all sunlight, the status window cannot block all of the moon’s magic.
Well, that’s what I was aiming for.
I hear the voice I heard a while ago again.
“teacher”
“researcher”
“wizard”
The moon is talking to me.
“coward”
This time, a word that had never been there before was added.
“Coward? Why?”
“I know. You’re really in the building.”
I am a summoned being called here by Miro.
When you feel like it’s too hard to bear, just type ‘!’ in the status window and the maze will be summoned immediately.
“I’ll admit it. I’m a bit of a coward. But even so, you can tell it’s a summon at first glance, right?”
“betrayer”
“The Arrogant One”
I had felt it vaguely before, but I was convinced when I heard it again.
The voice coming from the moon is not just one.
Countless voices were mixed together haphazardly, creating a chaotic sound.
Moreover, quite a few of the voices sounded like those of immature children.
Consciousness is not properly integrated?
“teacher”
“…”
A story told by Miro.
Long ago, a ‘researcher’ liberated a certain chaos entity that had been isolated in the management bureau.
It is said that this chaos became the seed of all disasters.
…
Isn’t this voice perhaps the thing I trust the most?
“I don’t really understand what you’re talking about.”
I tried my best to appear as fitting as possible with the image associated with the word ‘teacher’.
“Teacher, there were many who doubted you… but I always believed in you.”
This is the first concrete story I’ve heard.
“Thank you. Could you tell me more, if possible?”
“teacher….”
“If you have something to say to me, say it all -”
“It’s coming.”
“what?”
“Just like before, the looters are coming again!”
“Hey, a looter, what the -”
“Ahh… Here they come! We took the world back from the hands of the thieves, but another thief is coming!”
The tone of speech has changed.
Also, the voice coming down from the moon has become incredibly stronger!
The moon is excited!
“I am the eldest son of this world. No one can take what is mine. I will never have the world stolen from me again!”
In the midst of intense pain that felt like my brain was melting, I absentmindedly scribbled on the status screen.
At that moment, a sentence I had long forgotten came into my view.
The title of the ordeal that was shown from the beginning of understanding the scenario!
‘The Stolen World’
「!」
The summoning began immediately and my body became blurry.
This was my last memory.