Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 608
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EP.608 Episode 608 – The Stolen World (23)
Episode 608 – The Stolen World (23)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 235th day
Current location: 1 Uisadang-daero, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
— Doo doo doo doo…!
The wisdom of the past appeared with a violent vibration that shook the atmosphere.
In the hand of the demigod, which shone like jade, was a spear made of light, and I knew it the moment I saw it.
As soon as that window is swung, all the buildings in the area will disappear without a trace.
I looked up at the wisdom of my ancestors in silence.
The wisdom of the past also looked down on me without saying a word.
My opponent can kill me with one wave of his hand.
But I knew the wisdom of my ancestors would not do that.
It’s time to break the silence.
“It’s been a while.”
“you.”
He spoke with his eyes shining as if he was going to fight at any moment.
“I think you’re going to die today. What do you think?”
It’s a bizarre story, even to me.
“This story is going to be long… ”
The wisdom of the past did not refute my crazy words.
It was as if he had also kept in mind that ‘I could die today.’
— Ting!
The moment the clear sound of the bell rang, the surrounding scenery suddenly began to change.
I didn’t resist because I knew it wasn’t an attack.
Because confidential conversations should be held in a safe place.
*
“Current location: Searching….”
What came into view was a vast plain filled with golden wheat fields.
It was so beautiful that I couldn’t help but think it was heaven.
At that moment, someone’s voice was heard.
The wisdom of the past was no longer the jade-colored half-body, but had turned into a middle-aged man wearing ordinary clothes.
“Isn’t it beautiful?”
A Caucasian male who appears to be in his late 40s to early 50s.
Judging by its appearance, it seems to have originated from the Anatolian Peninsula.
“It looks like heaven.”
“It’s not like that… .”
“Is this your real appearance?”
“yes.”
After a moment of silence, the old wisdom asked pointedly.
“Did the owl tell you much about me?”
“As you know, direct questions are prohibited.”
“Isn’t it enough to ask around in a roundabout way? I always feel that the bird is the one who studies the tricks to bypass hotel rules the most diligently.”
I couldn’t help but laugh because I secretly agreed with those words.
“Yes.”
“How did you know I would come to reality today? Did you even ask questions like, ‘How long does it take for a half-body to recover after having 30% of its body evaporated by the moon?’”
“I asked in a roundabout way.”
Although it was tiring for both of us to ask indirectly, what the owl eventually told us was true.
“So you’re saying you told me in the end? What a shameless bird.”
“Well, as you were asking, I was thinking, you must have gotten quite a bit of information about me this way, too.”
“I admit it. He gave a pretty specific answer to the question, ‘How can humans win the favor of the moon?’”
“What a disloyal bird.”
“But isn’t that why you and I are talking now?”
“Wow~! Indeed! The one who is the master of wisdom is the greatest god.”
“Let me answer your question earlier. I said I thought I was going to die today, right?”
“Isn’t it?”
“… I think that’s a possibility too.”
A story of the bizarre kind.
Some might feel like this is a conversation between crazy people, but my partner and I know.
This is a very logical conversation, and both people are making choices to achieve their own goals.
A conversation that can be established because both parties are wise.
“Let me speak first. Since I’m young.”
“Are you young?”
“Better than you.”
“Okay, go ahead.”
“As you may know, I have a special power now. It is the power that causes people other than my colleagues to periodically lose information about me.”
“…”
“It doesn’t work on you at all.”
“yes.”
“Also, your power is too strong. I see the strongest blessing physically as ‘justice’, but even the Virgin Mary, who has justice and two or more legacies, is just a waste of time in front of you.”
“…”
“Lastly, it seems like you don’t appear in reality very often. It doesn’t seem like you’re being attacked by the stone tablet.”
Dreams that don’t come true.
Excessive force.
It doesn’t easily manifest in reality.
The answer that penetrates all the riddles of the wisdom of the ages.
“You are the ark, aren’t you?”
The completed ark becomes something independent from the loop.
Therefore, we can ignore dreams that are only effective for ‘one loop’.
Another characteristic of the ark after its completion is that it has a terrifyingly strong force and is difficult to manifest in reality.
“Let’s just say it’s half-baked.”
“Half?”
“There is no mirror. Many years ago, I fought a small ark and destroyed its mirror.”
“If you fight the Ark and win, can you become one with it? Like you are now?”
“Let’s say it’s because of my heritage. I don’t think there’s any need to answer here.”
This time, the wisdom of the past opened the door.
“You got one, now it’s my turn.”
“I just confirmed something I already knew, so it’s a bit much to say that I gained something….”
“I just want to confirm what I already know.”
“…Please speak.”
“As I was recovering from my wounds, I kept thinking to myself, what on earth was I thinking that caused this mess?”
“…”
“You must not be a fool, so why did you awaken the demon called the moon, which no one can handle?”
“…”
“At first I really thought I was possessed by the moon.”
“Not now?”
“No. I realized this after thinking it over carefully. What you’re doing now is something I often did in the past at hotels.”
“…”
“I don’t know, so I’ll just destroy everything. Then everyone will reveal a hidden trick.”
“…”
“You can do that at the hotel. Why? Because the participants have a ‘next chance.’”
“…”
“You have another chance, right? Can you turn back time?”
Should I try to trick you?
I started doing it and then stopped.
When the other person already knows everything and is asking, telling a shallow lie is just ugly behavior.
“Yes, it’s my turn again.”
“Tell me.”
Each of them knew the other’s big secret.
To be exact, I came here already knowing it.
“Your purpose, sir.”
“…”
“For a while, I thought it was just a normal looter’s victory. But then, a few days ago, something strange happened.”
“…”
“The third floor of the Pioneer Hotel has begun to be built. When I asked Owl about the conditions for the third floor, he said that it would be built when we looked worthy of challenging the third floor.”
“…”
“We thought, ‘Is this it?’ But the hotel says we have potential.”
“Ugh… .”
As if she couldn’t stand it anymore, Seondae Jihye revealed her complicated feelings.
“Then I remembered what I had heard from the Silent One a while ago. It was his evaluation of you.”
“…What did you say?”
“I was one of the silent ones. I was a loser. I failed the exam and couldn’t appear in reality.”
“her!”
“It may not be all true, but at least one thing seemed accurate.”
“What?”
“You already consider the whole reality to be futile.”
The wisdom of the past is the one who, after endlessly repeating the loop, came to regard the entire reality as a vain dream.
“Why would you side with the plunderers? For the sake of humanity’s survival?”
“…”
“That can’t be. Your goal is one thing. To return to the hotel! Isn’t that right?”
The absurd reality is like a giant prison.
The wisdom of the past wants to get out of prison and return to the hotel!
I recently experienced the other person’s heart firsthand and came to understand it.
“You figured out the conditions for the formation of the third floor by some means. Did the owl tell you?”
“…”
“What qualifies a contestant to challenge the 3rd floor? That is, to solve a real-world problem.”
The hotel treats even reality as a grand scenario.
The only thing that applies here is that the rules are slightly different from those in the cursed rooms on the first and second floors.
Therefore, the ongoing construction at Delight Hotel will not end with the mere passage of time.
It will only end when we successfully solve real-world problems!
“After understanding this far and seeing your actions, I understand many things.”
“…”
“Why did you side with the plunderers? Because that’s the only way you can stop the moon.”
The 30 point answer I recently figured out is to raid the moon with raiders.
Wouldn’t it be stranger if our ancestors took eons to figure out the answer we figured out in less than a year?
The wisdom of the past was ‘attacking’ the trials of reality.
“Wow… You’ve really found out a lot about me.”
The wise man continued speaking with a sigh.
“I’m asking to confirm. I want to compare my answer with yours. The answer you found is also the victory of the plunderers, right?”
“I haven’t found a better answer yet.”
“The Plunderer must win. The Administration is powerless against the Moon, and a Moon victory would mean the end of humanity. There is no other alternative.”
At least for now, I’ve come to a similar conclusion.
“I… have been creating this structure for a much longer period of time than you can imagine.”
“…”
“Originally, the raider arks beyond the border were busy fighting among themselves.”
The plunderers are a group that is ultimately destined to split.
They may even have been enemies, having aimed for each other’s world.
“I made them into one force.”
“…”
“I convinced him that he should put aside his past grudges and face the moon first.”
“…”
“Was it easy?”
“No way.”
If it were easy, the whole world would have stopped fighting long ago and worked together for the glory of humanity.
“Do you really think the Bureau has figured out all the measures to slow down the moon’s growth?”
“…”
“As soon as the young ark was born, he instinctively tried to block the moon? It was all a lie I made up.”
The ancestors lamented and lamented without ceasing.
Maybe it’s because I met the only person who can understand my pain.
What he wanted to say was simple.
That I tried so hard to solve real-world problems.
The person who designed the board you are looking at now is me.
but.
“Why?”
“…”
“Why didn’t the third floor show up for me?”
“…”
“Was all this effort woefully inadequate? Was it not enough to overcome the terrible despair that is the moon?”
“…”
“That may be so. A person who sheds tears for the three thousand worlds, a seeker who wanders in search of a single heaven in eternity! To such a being, my efforts may indeed seem insignificant. So, I will accept that I am inadequate.”
Over the eons, the wisdom of the past generations accepted one sad fact.
The hotel seems to think my efforts are woefully inadequate.
It is not enough to endure for a long time and create a force that can deal with the moon.
That’s why it was even more unbearable.
The fact that the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Hotel is currently under construction!
“after….”
Emotions revealed so clearly once again.
It was a whirlwind of emotions, a mixture of joy and despair, longing and jealousy.
It was the sum total of the longings of our ancestors that had accumulated over eons of time.
“I envy you guys.”
“…”
“How could I not be jealous of the fact that you have achieved more in just a year than I have in all these years?”
“So, are you planning to kill me?”
Suddenly, the wisdom of the past suddenly seemed old.
As expected of an immortal being, his body is still that of a person in his late 40s, but his mind may have broken.
“What would change if I killed you? Would they make a third floor for me in the hotel? It comes to mind, but back then it wasn’t a hotel, it was a ‘school.’”
“Is that so?”
“All sorts of thoughts came to my mind. I even had childish thoughts like, ‘Is the god of the universe favoring you?’”
The old man slowly shook his head from side to side.
As if trying to shake off the boiling emotions and make a rational decision.
“What a ridiculous thought. In the eyes of those who shed tears for the three thousand worlds, we are nothing more or less than insignificant creatures…”
“…”
“Is there any reason to show favoritism or not?”
“…”
“It’s just that, looking at the ant’s shack, I thought that it would be fine even after 10 million years, but since you’ve only been around for 200 days, I thought that if time passes, I might be able to do something.”
At this moment, I was purely amazed.
You’ve worked for tens of thousands of years to achieve your goal, and now you think someone who only worked for a little over half a year is better than you?
I didn’t have the confidence to accept this judgment.
Even if the subject of judgment is the one and only god in the universe!
“What do you think the reason might be?”
“I thought about that part endlessly.”
“…”
“If you had come up with a completely different methodology than mine, I would have said, ‘Oh, I was wrong.’”
“…”
“But, looking at what you’re doing, it seems like you’re taking a similar approach to me.”
A similar conclusion reached by me and my predecessors.
To stop the moon, the power of the Marauders is essential.
“But why am I wrong and you are right?”
“…”
“There is an important difference between you and me.”
“…”
“There is a gap that I can never close, no matter how long I try.”
“…”
“What do you think the difference is?”
I know the answer.
Also, the other person knows the answer too.
We knew we each had the answer.
“It’s my relationship with the moon.”
“The moon spares you. It is only natural that you freed yourself the first time, and you will free yourself again this time. No matter how much time passes, it is impossible for me.”
This is the absolute difference between me and the wisdom of my ancestors.
So, was the moon an unsolvable problem for the ancient wisdom who could not obtain the love of the moon?
I don’t think so.
If I have a weapon called ‘Love of the Moon’, then the wisdom of the past had a weapon called ‘It started much earlier’.
There may have been methodologies that were only possible for the wisdom of our ancestors.
A very long time ago.
The wisdom of the past missed that opportunity.
The methodology that is possible at this point is impossible for my predecessors and only possible for me.
In other words, the wisdom of the ancestors can never reach the third floor by itself.
“From now on, you have to see just one more thing and turn back time.”
“I guess.”
“Go and see the moon. You will discover the greatest secret the Crimson Monarch has hidden.”
The old man’s hands began to glow blue-green.
“There are two problems for you who must find out the final secret.”
“…”
“First, my relationship with the moon was ruined while fighting the Virgin Mary. Second, my insight was torn in half.”
“…”
“I think everything can be solved with my death.”
“…”
“Tell the moon. It wanted to kill me as soon as it got the mirror. It was thought that the Virgin Mary would object, so it locked me up.”
“…”
“Wouldn’t you forgive me if I took the head of one of the looters? I even cared about you to begin with.”
“… You wrote it in the status window, right? The realization you just gained, even after turning back time -”
“Let’s stop spewing elementary criticism at each other.”
“Thank you.”
“Why should I be thankful? I just wanted to go to the third floor….”
The moment the eerie glowing power aimed at the ancestor himself, he asked one last time.
“This is really a trivial question.”
“…”
“The other day, you tried to kill me on the ark. Did you really see it as an insight? That I should be killed?”
“Huh!”
“ah?”
“Do you still believe that lie?”
“… Then why are you trying to kill me -”
“You bastard, you’re so arrogant, you punk!”
—Whoosh!
The realm of ancestral wisdom, which was like heaven, is collapsing.
I thought about today’s conversation while shaking my body that was drifting aimlessly.
I knew what the wisdom of the past would think.
The wisdom of the past knew what I was thinking.
The bizarre ending, the suicide of the previous wisdom, which was reached because they perfectly understood each other’s thoughts.
…
There is only one wisdom left under heaven.
Once again, my consciousness extends into a realm beyond human beings!