Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 622
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EP.621 Episode 621 – The Oldest Wish (2)
Episode 621 – The Oldest Wish (2)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 232
Current location: Northern Territory, Australia
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
7 am.
All major forces gathered in the Australian desert.
Even though it was a time when the sunlight should be dazzling, it was dark all around.
Because the size of the marauders that showed up in reality was so huge that it was beyond imagination.
“devil”
A conversation between Songi and Elena can be heard from behind.
“Wow…! The Internet is going crazy!”
“What is it like?”
“First contact? I see that word a lot!”
“First contact?”
“Sister, I guess people in the world think those are, um, alien spaceships.”
“The Fallen One”
Alien spaceship?
That’s not entirely wrong.
“wizard”
“The management office is publishing tons of articles saying it’s not a big deal.”
“Does it make sense? I don’t think anyone will believe it.”
“of course.”
“enemy”
Even after everything is over, the clean-up is likely to be noisy.
It’s none of my business.
Honestly, I don’t think the management will be interested in any follow-up measures.
“The Arrogant One”
Anyway, if we don’t win the moon this time, there’s no need to consider ‘next time’.
“betrayer!”
“Ugh!”
“Hey! Mr. Gain, are you okay?”
“Brother!”
We are currently near the moon sealing facility in the Australian desert.
This is the place in the world closest to the moon – if not physically.
The moon has not yet awakened.
However, the area was already filled with the curses and anger that the moon was spewing out.
“I think it’s too dangerous to keep hearing the moon’s curse.”
“That’s right! It seems like Gain oppa just likes being next to Eunsol unnie.”
“it’s okay.”
When under the protection of the flute, the voice of the moon cannot be heard.
So I endured some pain and tried to listen to what the moon had to say.
Because I thought it would be a little helpful in my strategy if I understood what he was thinking right now.
For example, like now.
“What is this golden doll?”
“Not a doll, but life”
“There is no biological response whatsoever.”
“I might have used powerful magic….”
“No magic under the heavens can create this phenomenon.”
“It’s a hotel! It’s a hotel!”
The voices of multiple entities heard simultaneously.
As I keep listening, even the way he speaks feels different.
They are all confused.
What does the moon, who lost his memories before turning back time, think the inner maze is?
A super magical phenomenon that is completely incomprehensible?
At around 10 a.m., Ari showed up with a nervous expression.
“It’ll start soon.”
“soon?”
“now!”
Immediately afterwards, the entire world from heaven to earth began to shake violently.
The plunderers of the sky and the management of the earth suppress the moon with as much force as they can!
The voice of the moon mixed with curses that had been ringing ceaselessly gradually grew smaller and smaller, and changed into an unintelligible sound.
The last voice was as follows:
“I’m preparing hell for you.”
*
If we compare what is currently going on to a siege, the role of the raiders and the management is to break through the outer wall of the castle.
Breaking through the outer wall is the first step in the plan and, depending on your perspective, the most important.
Anyway, we have to break through the wall a little bit to get the internal infiltration team to come into play – that is, us!
4pm.
The atmosphere of the wisdom of the ancestors that had appeared after a long time was not bright.
It’s a bit new, but after seeing this ‘existence’ several times, I’m starting to vaguely feel emotions and thoughts.
“Negative opinions are already coming out from the union side.”
“How many hours have passed and this is already chaos?”
“Our calculations show that at the current rate, it would take approximately 23 years and 182 days to drill a small hole in the outer wall.”
“…”
“Time is on the moon’s side. Twenty-three years is more than enough time for all the plates to explode. You, haven’t you figured out an easy way to get inside the moon before time turns back?”
There is no record of how to break through the outer wall of the moon in the records I left behind from the time I was gone.
At that time, it seemed likely that the moon itself opened the door and invited Miro out.
This time, I wasn’t invited, so it was difficult to force my way in.
“Didn’t you say that one of your colleagues was inside?”
“I haven’t woken up yet.”
“Hmm… What are you going to do when you wake up?”
“…”
?Whew…! Is there still information left to hide? Yeah, I guess it’s okay. I believe there are still a few left.?
The wisdom of the past is mistaken in thinking that I have plans to do ‘something’ through the labyrinth inside the moon, and that I am hiding it.
Unfortunately, I don’t know exactly what that ‘something’ is.
I think my past self saw that ‘something’ as an insight and left the maze inside the moon, but I didn’t write anything related to it in the status window because I was in a hurry.
As I stared into space, I realized that the wisdom of my ancestors was thinking the same thing as I was.
“Did you give me advice?”
“Have you tried the advice?”
“I’m thinking of writing it now.”
“I plan to write it now.”
“…”
“…”
After a brief silence, the wise old man laughed out loud for the first time.
“Haha! Even owls are busy.”
‘We need help getting inside the moon.’
“Advice: 3 -> 3”
“…”
The number of advices remains the same and there are no replies.
As if the answer to this question had been given to ‘someone else’.
“What answer did you give me?”
“Nothing is achieved without sacrifice.”
“sacrifice?”
I didn’t understand what you were saying.
On the other hand, the jade colored half looked up at the sky, revealing complicated feelings.
Unlike me, he seemed to have realized something.
“When exactly will your colleague wake up?”
“Maybe tomorrow morning.”
“Tomorrow, I’ll empty out all my savings.”
Now I know.
It seems that the wisdom of the previous generations still has one trick left.
A consumable means that requires very heavy sacrifices.
The owl now ordered the ancestral wisdom to write it down.
“Instead, tell me what tools you have left that could be used in a siege.”
“… there is something called the final flash.”
*
Late at night, I met Sang-Hyeon hyung.
My brother was frantically learning how to operate an extremely complex machine – the Atlas System.
It is something that was sent to us by the plunderers when we relayed information about the ‘Last Flash’ through the wisdom of our ancestors.
“how is it?”
“Well, I’m still hesitant.”
Although his words were indifferent, his eyes were full of curiosity and he even seemed quite happy.
“I heard from the wisdom of the past that with the help of the Atlas System, the final flash will be significantly stronger.”
“Increased power through concentration, increased distance, increased accuracy. In theory, it all seems possible.”
“In theory? What about in practice?”
“You’ll have to try it to find out, but I can’t guarantee since I haven’t had a chance to practice.”
“…”
“It’s a shame. If all forces had cooperated from the beginning, we could have practiced these auxiliary devices in advance.”
“Everyone cooperates from the beginning. This will be impossible until the world is destroyed.”
“It’s all the more sad because it’s something that cannot be denied.”
Sang-Hyeon seemed to be busy with his research, such as entering numbers on the dashboard.
“Mr. Gain.”
“yes.”
“Cha Jin-cheol, that guy seems to be having some peculiar worries.”
It seems that he also conveyed his concerns about growth to Sang-Hyeon.
“He studied how to attain supreme enlightenment.”
“What did you say?”
“Well, listening to you, I had this thought.”
“Thinking like this?”
“Jincheol, don’t you think of growth as something like martial arts?”
“…”
“Getting struck by lightning in a snowy field during a blizzard and saying ‘Aha!’ is not growth. What I’m doing now is also growth.”
“What are you doing now, hyung?”
“I’m researching the Atlas system that can assist the final flash.”
Even if we assume that there is no way to improve the performance of the final flash itself.
This does not mean that there is no way to get assistance from outside.
With the powerful assistance of the Atlas System, the actual power of the Legacy is greatly enhanced.
“This is also what I do as a person, growing up. It’s not just about falling off a cliff and eating half-rotten books and damp, unsanitary mushrooms.”
If my grandfather heard this now, I think he would grab the back of his neck and fall over.
However, I understood what Sang-Hyeon was trying to say.
My brother thinks that ‘growth’ is a very broad concept.
“Did you just tell Jincheol hyung what you just said?”
“I didn’t know about the Atlas system at the time, so I didn’t use that example… Anyway, I was saying to interpret the concept of growth broadly.”
“…”
I understand Sang-Hyeon’s intentions.
However, I am curious as to how Jincheol Hyung would have taken these words.
“There is just one thing that is regrettable.”
“What part?”
“I don’t think I can directly participate in the final fight with the moon.”
“There’s no way around it. The Atlas System is a very delicate thing and needs to be in a special location.”
“I will only trust you.”
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 233rd day
You are currently: Searching… .
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
Day 233, the day the labyrinth inside the moon awakens.
If my past self had made some design, I should start seeing results soon.
In the morning, three Marauders floated across the desert sky, emitting a strange light.
We are viewing the earth through a screen from a position closer to space than from the sky.
“The location has changed to searching.”
Ari nodded with a serious expression.
“The sealed area is being eroded.”
I don’t know exactly what the previous wisdom will do, but it’s about forcibly drilling a hole into the outer wall of the moon.
It must be an attack of unimaginable power.
Do you just pour out this much power in real life?
It is no exaggeration to say that the entire Australian continent could become a ruin.
The wisdom of the past is that no one would care whether 10 million or 100 million civilians die.
However, if the sealing facility underground in Australia is destroyed in the aftermath of the attack, it will be the end.
Therefore, preliminary work is needed to ensure that the aftershock is handled by another world rather than reality.
As the erosion progressed, the sky turned purple, and strange silver storms that could not exist on Earth appeared in the desert.
At the center of the storm, the so-called eye of the typhoon, was something like a giant wormhole, beyond which the moon could be seen.
That moment when even the line between reality and nightmare becomes blurred!
The wisdom of the ancestors appeared in the sky.
He was radiating an incredible amount of light from his entire body, as if he were a blue star, and the aftereffects of his power were enough to distort the atmosphere.
“Was it originally that strong?”
“No way!”
Absolutely not.
Even though the wisdom of the previous generations was incredibly strong, it’s not like they’re at that level now!
The wisdom of our ancestors today is like…!
“Supernova!”
In its final moments, the star releases energy comparable to that of an entire galaxy for just two seconds before returning to the gas of space, a phenomenon called a supernova.
Just like a star on its deathbed, all the power contained in the ark, united with the wisdom of the past, is transformed into a single attack.
I understood what the ‘heavy sacrifice’ of the ancestral wisdom the owl spoke of!
Just one fatal blow.
All the lights on the airship went out.
The light went out and there was no sound.
A dimly blinking black and white instrument panel tells us that just moments ago an attack of literally ‘astronomical’ power occurred.
— Clank!
Soon after, loud metallic noises and engine noises could be heard here and there.
The sound of the airships prepared for the ‘Internal Infiltration’ taking off immediately so as not to miss the gap created by the wisdom of the ancestors!
*
After a short while, we stood on the ‘extremely thin’ lunar surface.
For a moment, I laughed out loud, wondering if it was scientifically possible to stand on the surface of the moon while being on Earth.
Of course, if you’re going to talk about science, it makes no sense to say that the moon is inside the Earth in the first place.
“Brother, what do we do now?”
A complex siege process that has been going on from yesterday to today.
It seems like Seungyeop gave up on understanding at some point.
It feels like I’m just thinking about what to do inside the moon.
“Just wait ten seconds. We arrived before the final flash.”
“10 seconds?”
“3 seconds.”
“Huh? Then, now -”
—Whoosh!
A bright flash of light struck the lunar surface through the hazy mist.
From the astronomical power of the attack that the previous wisdom sent sacrificing the ark to the final flash that was fired within a minute!
— Kwajik!
Finally, finally, now!
A gap appeared, emitting ominous energy.
“Run!”
Everyone in the hotel party, including Ryan and the Silent One, rushed towards the gap like crazy.
*
The inside of the gap was like a constantly writhing flesh, almost like a living creature.
“It’s blocked!”
“This way!”
You don’t know when you’ll have a chance, so it’s not a situation where you can hide your abilities.
The cunning Ryan opened the way by suddenly detonating the legacy, ‘Noble Guardian’, with his face reddening.
A black-haired woman of unknown Chinese descent suddenly pulled out a dagger, and as the jewel-encrusted dagger cut through the air, blue flames appeared.
Here, a strange creature that was confusingly human or robot was firing a bomb from its right arm, it was truly spectacular!
“Hey…! Are all the superhumans who are trying to exert some strength gathered here right now?”
“This is not the time to be amazed! The gap keeps getting blocked!”
As Ari said with an urgent expression, the wriggling flesh was constantly filling the empty space.
If we compare the moon to a giant creature, this would be the process of regenerating wounds.
According to this parable, what are we?
It feels like an insect trying to cut into the skin of a giant creature and enter its internal organs through the gap!
“Young Wisdom! Are you sure we’ve already arrived? Are we inside the moon?”
The unknown strong man sent by the plunderers asked me with a worried expression.
“Not yet. If we compare it to a living organism, it’s still like a skin layer -”
“Kwaaaaak!”
“Oh my, I guess there are white blood cells there too.”
“It makes me laugh!”
I didn’t mean to make you laugh.
I was so shocked that I couldn’t help but laugh.
How much effort did it take to create this tiny passage?
The result is a combination of the Marauders and the Administration, as well as the near-suicide of the wisdom of the past and the final flash!
After all this crap, I still only have ‘skin’!
There’s still something left to go before you can get inside.
“Young wisdom! If you have something, take it out right now!”
“I’m waiting.”
“What are you waiting for!”
“It’s ‘something.’”
“What is something!”
“I don’t know either.”
Even I thought it was a crazy answer, and the expressions on everyone’s faces turned pale.
An expression that says, ‘I trusted you and came here, and yet you gave such an irresponsible answer!’
I don’t know from here either.
If these people came in believing in me, then I came in believing in my ‘past self.’
The past me, at the last moment, turned the hourglass and left the maze under the moon!
Cain of the past, you left the maze behind while thinking about something, right?
We all did our best, but it seems like this is the limit?
I believe!
“Let us pray.”
“This crazy kid!”
“Who doesn’t have the ability to do something? A wish-granting -”
At that moment.
“Colleague location information (*)”
The status window notified that a maze was nearby.
“You will surely bring everyone to despair -”
“Get out of the way! Everyone! Here, roughly below this location, get through!”
I immediately summoned the sacred sun and shot a ray of heat.
Ryan, without asking or questioning, inserted the third and final sphere into the gap and detonated it, and Ari immediately summoned the isomorphic polyhedron.
A transparent membrane was finally revealed.
“Something came out!”
“If you just tear that thing apart, isn’t it the inside of the moon?”
“Get out of the way!”
The old man who had been cursing at me until just a moment ago suddenly took out something like a huge awl from his back and stabbed the curtain while emitting a strange light.
“Ugh!”
“It won’t break through?”
“Hasbach’s ‘Spear of Destruction’ is powerful enough to pierce through a concrete building in one blow!”
“Isn’t there anything stronger?”
— Wiggle!
As if laughing at everyone, the surrounding space gradually narrows.
The scars of the moon are regenerating!
“Youthful wisdom, huh!”
“Stop calling me that, you punk!”
Please, something come out!
The point where everyone is suffocating and about to die.
A ‘maze’ appeared beyond the transparent membrane.
When a beautiful girl appeared in this hellish place, everyone’s eyes widened, and even the people on the other side of the maze looked surprised.
She took the tool out of her bosom as if she had been ‘explained to by someone’.
— Click!
Ari, who had been next to me until just now, disappeared.
Soon, the camera began to shake and spew out a ‘photo containing Ari’!
“under…!”
This was it!
This is the last way to get inside the moon!
It’s me after all.
At a critical moment, I was impressed by my past self who had figured out and prepared this method!