Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 65
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Episode 65 – No. 101, Room of the Curse – ‘Strange Family’ Re (3)
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third attempt
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[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 22
Current Location: Tier 1, Room 101 (Curse Room – Strange Family)
Sage Advice: 3]
Let’s combine the facts and guesses.
After examining the Internet, the state of various media contents is clearly not normal. Where is media content created?
It is basically a broadcasting station.
Of course, these days, a lot of content is created through personal broadcasts and other media.
But if you take that into consideration, there is no limit. For now, let’s consider the broadcasting station as a possible candidate. If not, just find another candidate.
Should I go to the broadcasting station?
A few questions came to mind.
1. There is more than one broadcasting station. Where should I go?
Even if we only look at terrestrial broadcasters, there are more than one or two. If you count general programming channels, news channels, and cable broadcasters, there are likely to be dozens.
2. How on earth do we get there?
If you leave the house and run for about 10 minutes while keeping some distance from your strange family, an escape message will appear. Originally, this escape was our lifeline, but if we think that we have to move to a different location to solve the problem, like now, the escape decision is hindered. The escape message will pop up and end before you even get to the broadcasting station.
3. What should people do who cannot leave the starting point?
If you can only proceed by leaving your starting point and going to a specific location such as a broadcasting station, what does Ari do when she can’t escape in the first place? Is it impossible to proceed as long as the hotel is the starting point?
I don’t think so. The hotel is an unreasonable, cruel, and incomprehensible place, but it didn’t expose us to an ‘impossible ordeal’ by sending out absurd monsters right from the start and annihilating us in three seconds.
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It was difficult to judge. But if you just think like this, there is no answer. Rather than just standing still and worrying until all the questions were resolved, I decided to take action and make a decision.
Let’s find the answers in order. First, I decided to decide which broadcasting station I should go to.
After thinking about it for a while, I sat down in front of the computer again and started looking through old articles.
“Gain! Are you almost finished? When you’re done, come out and help me with the laundry!”
Slowly, the strange family ‘interference’ began. There is no choice but to take as much time as possible.
“There’s something I need to find out about at school! I’ll be leaving soon!”
Unlike the video, there was fortunately no pressure to look through the articles that only listed text. If you look closely at the contents of the article, it is full of nonsense, but compared to actual people or much more vivid images, the ‘degree of infecting with the curse’ feels much weaker.
I kept changing the date and started looking for the ‘place where something went wrong’ on this stage.
Only after rotating the dates for about 8 months did we find the expected candidate.
ABS.
It was probably a relatively recently established public broadcaster, right? Approximately 30 articles were pouring out strong criticism of ABS’s extremely provocative broadcasts. Dozens of critical articles poured in in just one to two days.
And in just one or two days, the curse seemed to have spread to the world or to the entire Republic of Korea, and there were no more critical articles after that. It seems like the broadcasting stations all went crazy after that.
First, I decided to go to ABS.
Next question.
How on earth should I get there?
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A very simple method came to mind.
Why does an escape message appear in the first place? Isn’t this because they widened the physical distance while recognizing the anomaly of ‘The Strange Family’?
You don’t have to spread the distance. I guess I can go to the broadcasting station with my family.
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My thoughts were blocked.
Just passing by my family or briefly talking to them would trigger the curse and give me an intense headache. Even this is possible with the help of filters. Without a filter, there is no way to survive other than closing your eyes and blocking your ears.
Even more so, can you survive while traveling for a long time with your family?
I sighed and searched the internet and found this.
Articles talking about coronavirus treatment.
ah. Corona is a serious problem even on this ‘stage’. It’s a stage created from the start based on reality, so it’s only natural.
The moment I saw it, a solution came to mind.
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“Ah! Are you really that stupid? Why would you make an appointment for a coronavirus treatment at a hospital so far away!”
“what?”
“Ah! You idiot, put away your earplugs or something. Why are your eyes fluttering open earlier?”
“Oh! You! You shouldn’t come close. Didn’t your brother tell me earlier that he was in a strange state?”
—Hwiik! puck!
My younger brother threw the ‘hatchet’ near my head.
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When I meet my real-life sister again in the future, I have to treat her better. She was annoyed, seeing her sister throwing away her hatchet that she didn’t know where the hell she got it made her miss her real sister.
Has roughly half a year passed since the coronavirus spread around the world?
The Type 3 treatment, said to have been developed by the Administration, began to calm the world’s confusion with its groundbreaking performance. Naturally, in a situation where the entire planet is demanding a cure, it is extremely difficult for even the managing country to supply it sufficiently.
Thanks to this, reserving a treatment has become as difficult as picking a star from the sky.
I set off with my brother this morning, insisting that I was not feeling well and that I had booked treatment at a hospital near the broadcasting station.
Even though my younger brother was annoyed, he decided to go to the hospital with his ‘sick older brother.’ Up to this point, he seems like a really grateful younger brother. Except that he keeps throwing blades at me periodically.
We set off while maintaining a distance of about 10m.
I’m worried that you too might catch coronavirus, so don’t get too close to me. But please go to the hospital with me.
Even in my view, this is a contradictory and absurd statement. Even my distraught younger brother was shocked, but when I promised to give him 100,000 won in pocket money, he started following me.
Who cares? It’s fake world money anyway. I can even give you 1 million won.
I came out of the house and immediately caught a taxi.
If you want to get to the broadcasting station while avoiding contact with people infected with the curse as much as possible, a taxi would be the way to go.
But, do taxis travel normally in this strange world?
I boarded a taxi.
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“So, these days, the xx party is the problem. I just can’t understand it. What on earth are the Yeouido people thinking? I know that people act ‘freely’ these days and there are a lot of casualties, but that doesn’t mean they ban battle royale. “You’re going to do it? How helpful is Battle Royale in developing the mental strength of today’s students?”
Why on earth do taxi drivers talk so much even in this crazy world?
“As I’m talking, it reminds me of when I was in college. Actually, ha! I really don’t like saying this, but I’m from Y University! When new students enter Y University, they just play Russian roulette all the time, right? Guts “You’re filtering out the friends you don’t have enough. Then, I’ll say that about 130 people died this year, but what’s wrong with that? The country has a large population.”
Even though he’s just saying crazy things, it feels like my brain is melting. Even though I covered my ears, the sound continued to seep in.
The biggest problem with taxis. I can’t increase the distance.
No matter how close I was to the wall, with my younger brother next to me and the knight in front of me, I felt the ‘curse’ constantly encroaching on me. If it weren’t for the status window filter, I would have gone crazy a long time ago.
Even though there is a filter, I feel like I will pass out.
“I really don’t understand these bastards. The population of the Earth is 7 billion. There are 50 million people living in this palm-sized country. Isn’t that too many? We need to thin them out. 3 billion, 20 million. That’s enough. Wouldn’t you like it?”
Please commit suicide first. After I got out of the taxi, of course.
“But the xx party says that’s the problem, that we need to regulate something, and that legislation is needed to protect the general public. It’s shocking. It’s shocking. They haven’t even heard of the principle of survival of the fittest. In the capitalist world, only the fittest survive. Isn’t that right? They are pure commies.”
I lasted like this for 30 minutes.
Afterwards, I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I picked my ears with my fingers until they bled, making them deaf.
—Kkiik. widely.
As soon as I got out of the taxi, I distanced myself a bit, and it was only then that I felt a little more comfortable. While I was out of breath. The sound of something being stabbed was heard.
“Hahaha! Thank you. The girl is very brave, isn’t she?”
I looked back blankly and saw my younger brother slashing the taxi driver’s stomach with a hatchet, and the taxi driver saying thank you.
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Let’s just go. There is no room to be surprised anymore. I hope you don’t throw that at me.
As I was trudging along, my younger brother followed me.
“Oppa? Isn’t this the way to the hospital?”
“I’m going to take a quick look at the ABS before I go to the hospital.”
“Why are you going there suddenly?”
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“brother?”
I thought of an excuse.
“I looked on my phone earlier and saw that ABS is filming ‘Black Hole Princess’ right now. Don’t you like that?”
“Eh! Really? Why didn’t I see it?”
That’s why I didn’t see it.
I thought that if I waited any longer, he would actually turn on his phone and check it, so I ran towards the broadcasting station.
If you’ve come this far anyway, you’re almost there.
I arrived at the broadcasting station after running for about 5 more minutes with my younger brother.
When I think about the difficult process, I literally want to praise myself.
I can’t believe I even thought of ‘bringing’ my family out of this hell all the way to the broadcasting station!
When I approached the broadcasting station with a sigh –
Someone tapped my shoulder.
I got goosebumps.
A kind of ability I gained after entering Room 101. Whenever a person infected with the curse approaches me, the curse weakened by the filter causes headaches and tinnitus. Thanks to this, I can now tell when someone is approaching me even with my eyes closed.
just now. There was no feeling whatsoever.
The moment when you turn your head in extreme tension.
A familiar face appeared.
—bang!
My brother’s head exploded.
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“So, you came all the way here ‘with your family’?”
“That’s right.”
“Isn’t this really amazing? I also had that thought, but I never thought there would be someone who would actually put that ignorant method into practice!”
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“Wasn’t it a bit strange? That method is something that no one can replicate except you with the filter and Ms. Songi with the bracelet.
None of us can stay rational while being around our families for such a long time. If Ari does that, his blood will dry up and he will die.
“I don’t think the hotel would have separated everyone into ‘individual play’ and set a ‘strategy’ that only one or two people could use.”
“I thought something was strange, too.”
“I thought it was strange, but it seems like you tried it because it was a possible method for you. I would like to praise you for your good behavior. Regardless of the method, you arrived at the broadcasting station. I am also fortunate. Honestly, no one but me can come to the broadcasting station. “I was wondering if I should do it alone. I wonder if at least one person came.”
“But… how on earth did the old man in silence come to the broadcasting station? He doesn’t have a filter like me or a bracelet like Songi, so how did he bring his family with him?”
“I used an easier method than you. It’s a method that everyone can follow if they just learn it.”
“What on earth is that?”
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