Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 610
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EP.610 Episode 610 – The Stolen World (25)
Episode 610 – The Stolen World (25)
– Maze
There was something I was curious about when I heard that Ga-in and the two of them were going to the moon together.
The Administration Ark looked like an incredibly large ship.
A place like, um, a church boat, full of people kneeling and praying?
What is the inside of the moon like?
*
I fainted twice during the fall!
I realized this as my vision slowly brightened.
Now we have finally arrived at a stable place.
“Miro, are you okay now?”
“Uh, yeah. I think I’ve come to my senses now… .”
I barely managed to get up and look around, and saw a neat bedroom.
I woke up in my bedroom feeling really weird.
“Hey, is this the inside of the moon?”
“that’s right.”
“It looks like some kind of luxury hotel.”
“This is a place prepared by the Virgin Mary. She told us to be comfortable while we stay here.”
This is the home that the Virgin Mary has prepared for us.
It looks a lot like a hotel.
I came out of the hotel and entered the moon, and then I was in another hotel!
Is it because the Virgin Mary also came from a hotel?
No, Our Lady said she graduated from some school before the hotel.
I think they gave us this place out of consideration.
“Miro, are you hungry?”
“little….”
“Is there anything you want to eat?”
“waffle?”
“Come this way.”
After Gain moved to the bedroom door, she stopped for a moment, holding the doorknob.
“What are you doing?”
“no.”
— Bam!
Beyond the door was a warm atmosphere reminiscent of the 105 restaurant, with waffles and coffee on the central table.
“Wow! How come there are just waffles?”
“Just think of it as a hotel. This restaurant always has the food you want.”
That’s amazing!
It’s like a real hotel, right?
While we were having coffee and waffles, Gain handed us a map of the inside of the house.
“Here’s a map of the mansion. Aidia gave it to you, so familiarize yourself with it.”
“huh.”
“Miro, don’t go out of the house when I’m not there.”
“Okay. What about the mirror?”
“When I woke up, the mirror was already gone.”
The moon took it!
“It was something I was going to offer in the first place.”
“…”
“According to the Virgin Mary, a great war will break out soon.”
“The plunderer and the moon?”
“That’s right. The outcome is obvious.”
Even if we leave it alone, it’s a fight the moon will win if it goes all the way, but we’ve given the moon a powerful weapon.
The moon will win more easily and faster.
“What do we do now?”
“First of all, I plan to go to work soon.”
“ah?”
Isn’t going to work supposed to be at work?
“What kind of person works in a place like this?”
“there is.”
“Then what should I do?”
“Stay here until I get back. And then….”
“and?”
Gain seemed to be thinking for a moment, then said something strange.
“If another guest comes besides me -”
“Hey, are there any other guests coming? Maybe the Virgin Mary?”
“There are many. There are very many.”
Someone other than Cain and Seongmo.
It was so creepy that I can’t explain it.
“When other people come, treat them normally.”
“Normal? Like my usual self?”
“Act like a normal middle school girl.”
You want me to stop acting like I usually do and start acting like a normal middle school girl?
That’s too difficult!
As if reading my confusion, Gain suddenly patted my head and said.
“Don’t think too deeply about it. Why would I bring you here?”
The reason Gain brought me here.
Okay! I’ll admit it.
I don’t think I’m as incredibly smart as Ariana Gain.
Although I am much more creative than either of you!
Anyway, if you were expecting me to act logically and sophisticatedly, you wouldn’t have brought me here.
“You brought me here so I could just act without thinking too much?”
“That’s right. This is a place I’m not sure about either.”
“Then, I’ll do whatever I want!”
At that moment, Gain had a truly anxious expression on her face.
“… Try to act with at least some common sense. You know, like a normal middle school girl?”
At the end of the meal, Gain stood up and said she was going to work.
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 240th day
You are currently: Searching… .
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
I never thought that saying “do whatever you want” would sound so unsettling… .
Did I say something stupid a little while ago?
“…”
no.
The more you think about this place, the more dangerous it becomes.
In some ways, it’s the most dangerous for people like me.
“after….”
The interior of the moon is so different from what I expected.
I thought it would be a spaceship-like environment, like the Management Bureau’s Ark.
I thought that if I explored the interior and made contact with the moon, I would get the information I wanted… .
It’s a much more abstract and bizarre place.
Where should I go to get the information I want?
Library? Lab?
“…”
I imagined it while holding the doorknob.
The place I want to go, and the places I have to go through to get there!
— Bam!
A dark passageway resembling an apartment hallway appeared.
I walk down the hallway and think.
There is no such thing as a ‘fixed reality’ here.
The reason Miro woke up in a place that looked like a hotel bed was because, in Miro’s opinion, bed 105 was a ‘symbol of rest’.
A place where reality and unreality meet, where imagination and reality are intertwined.
The most similar concept is dream.
As with many other hotels or apartments, there was an elevator at the end of the hallway.
*
— Ding!
As the door opened, a familiar face appeared.
“hello?”
“hello.”
“Saint, can you hear me?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Can’t you hear the prince’s laughter? His voice is full of joy, filling the whole world!”
I couldn’t hear anything.
“…”
Suddenly, this thought occurred to me.
Right now, Virgin Mary and I are together in a small space called an elevator, but aren’t we actually in completely different realms?
In the realm of the Virgin’s cognition, the moon may really be sending down angels to sing a song of victory.
“I can barely hear it.”
“It is all thanks to the saint.”
“… Thank you.”
— Ding!
The elevator arrived at the first floor.
As I was about to go out, the Virgin Mary suddenly pulled at my clothes.
“It’s dangerous.”
“yes?”
“Come out of the house and go to the apartment hallway. At the end of the hallway is the elevator. Operate the control panel to go to the first floor.”
I am listing the areas or imaginations I have experienced so far.
“If this is the way it is, outside the elevator is the first floor of the apartment, right? If you go out the front door, it’s outdoors?”
“Yes.”
“Are you thinking of going to your destination through the outdoors?”
“you’re right.”
“It’s very dangerous.”
“… I will listen to your teachings.”
This place is a dream world created by the moon.
I don’t know exactly what behavior is dangerous.
This is a situation where even insight cannot find a meaningful solution because it is a field that I have never been to before.
“There is ‘outdoor’ in the middle. What does ‘outdoor’ mean?”
“…”
“An endlessly vast space with no boundaries. You can’t fill it with your imagination.”
“Can’t I fill it all with my imagination?”
“Other people’s imaginations will creep in and fill in the gaps.”
I vaguely understood.
In the dream world, vast areas such as ‘outdoors’, ‘forest’, and ‘sea’ are extremely dangerous.
Because it is so vast that my imagination cannot fully fill it, and there is no boundary separating the inside and the outside.
“…”
What happens when someone else’s imagination creeps in to fill the blank space?
At least it won’t be fun.
“What should I do? You can probably guess after hearing this explanation, right? You’re a smart person.”
“Think of a narrow space with boundaries?”
“Specifically! What should I do now?”
If it’s a narrow space with boundaries, it’s a place like the inside of a building.
“How about pressing B2 and imagining a ‘parking lot’?”
“What next? It’s dangerous once we get out of the parking lot.”
“… in the car.”
“In the car?”
“There is an article.”
“What article?”
A dangerous situation in the realm of the moon is one where someone else’s dream invades my realm.
We need to think of an area that has boundaries that cannot be invaded.
Also, no one other than my colleagues should exist in my imagination.
“Autonomous driving driver. Not a human, but an AI.”
“and?”
“I’ll only think about the inside of the car. The car has boundaries. If I close my eyes like that and open them, I’ll wake up in the parking lot of my destination.”
“As expected, you’re smart.”
Upon hearing this, the Virgin Mary smiled brightly and reached out her hand to press ‘B2’.
“I don’t think I need to help you anymore. As you know, I’m busy now.”
“…”
“Then that’s it -”
“Aidia.”
“yes?”
“The souls that the ‘Prince’ swallowed.”
“yes.”
“Are we all living in a dream realm? Like we are now?”
“Yes. Everyone lives the life they want! It is the grace and salvation that the Prince bestows upon everyone.”
“…”
“Of course, there are some caveats.”
I thought as I watched the Virgin Mary disappear with a bashful smile.
She thinks this realm might be a kind of heaven created by the moon.
Because we believe that if the moon wins, the heaven within the lunar realm will become a reality.
*
– Arrived at destination.
The clear voice of the autonomous driving AI announced that we had arrived at our destination.
I held the doorknob and tried again to think of ‘the place I want to go’.
Keep in mind!
There’s a car, there’s a road outside, there’s other cars, there’s buildings – all these common sense ideas are wrong.
The only thing that exists in this place is me and the car.
The rest of the area is all empty, since I didn’t imagine it.
The car took about 30 minutes to arrive at the destination?
This kind of time has practically no meaning.
It just took 30 minutes because my subconscious thought that this was the amount of time it would take to get to work.
“…”
Outside is not the outdoors, and it is not a city.
It’s a narrow and dark parking lot.
A place where there is no one else but me.
There are just a few empty cars parked there.
— Squeak!
“after….”
success!
As I was walking inside the parking lot, I naturally came across an elevator again.
Actually, the expression ‘came out’ is not appropriate.
It would be more correct to say that I imagined an elevator and it came into existence.
If there’s something that’s closed but can take you to the desired location, it’s an elevator.
— Ding!
I stood still in the elevator and thought.
Which floor should I press?
The number of floors doesn’t matter.
The important thing is not which floor you are on, but where you should go.
If you press the 3rd floor and think of it as a coffee shop, a coffee shop will appear. If you press the 3rd floor and think of it as a dental clinic, a dental clinic will appear.
“… laboratory.”
If I were to choose a place that would have information about the moon and be related to my past, it would be a research lab rather than a library.
From the beginning, I came in with the image of the building I am currently in as a ‘research institute.’
“My personal laboratory.”
— Clang!
I thought it was obvious, but I asked one question just to be sure.
“Advice: 3 -> 2”
‘Is the moon watching my every action right now?’
“Of course, since it’s inside the moon.”
Yes, there is no way to avoid the moon’s gaze within the moon.
The fact that I have arrived at this place now means that the moon also knows.
The inside of the moon is so different from what you might imagine from the outside.
I thought it would be a place like a giant ship with a huge number of souls floating around, praising the moon, like the Ark of the Management Bureau… .
It’s as if I’ve become a mortal in a demon’s dream.
…
As the elevator door opened, a bright space came into view.
Books crammed full and documents scattered everywhere.
Do I really need to go through all these books and documents?
“…”
Even the moon knows I’ve arrived at this place, right?
Should I speak frankly?
“I believe that your Majesty is watching over me.”
In the quiet laboratory, only my voice resonates.
“You know, my memories of my first life are hazy. I know I freed the prince, but that’s all.”
Still no answer.
“I heard that I used to be a senior researcher at the Management Bureau. Are there any traces of me from back then?”
As an aside, I added the following sentence:
“If I regain my memories, I will be able to help you more, Prince.”
— Bam!
At that moment, a book fell from the bookshelf.
“thank you.”
“Considerations on the Soul Aggregation”
It’s a book with a curious title.
The content was even more out of the ordinary than the title.
“1. Origin
As T. Damond once pointed out, the nature of the so-called ‘God’ is simple.
– Cosmic inhomogeneity that has existed since the creation of heaven and earth
…
An endless amount of chaos gathers at one point and a god is born.
If we retrace this process, can’t we create great people with our own hands?
Since the purest and highest quality chaotic entity we could obtain was the soul, we had no choice but to use the human soul.
…
2. Definition
The soul conglomerate is a circuit that binds the human soul into a structured structure.
…
When the circuit is activated at the end of this process, it is called a soul cluster.
As of AS 4731, it is the most powerful of the seven types of artificially created chaos entities.
…
There are some who point out the inefficiency of the soul cluster production process.
Certainly, the difficulty of the soul conglomerate is noteworthy compared to the overwhelming cost-effectiveness of the ‘Nightmare Seed Embodiment’ or the convenience of the ‘Anisotropic Multidimensional Summoner’.
…
However, in terms of the pinnacle of finished products, no other type can ever match the soul conglomerate.
“The human casualties in the intermediate process are not a great cost compared to the excellence of the final result.”
As I read this far, I realized one thing.
The fact that there is not a single word about mirrors!
“…”
“3. Growth
The growth of a soul cluster occurs in three major stages.
At this point I realized why the moon had given me this book.
“You seem to have stopped growing somewhere. Have you been unable to find the answer on your own? Or have you found the answer but found it difficult to implement?”
Different dreams.
Looking at the same material, the moon wants to find the answer to growth, and I want to find the moon’s weakness.