Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 667
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EP.667 Episode 667 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of Species’ (11)
Episode 667 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of the Species’ (11)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 5
Current Location: Tier 3, Observatory – 301
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
— Kookung!
After the solution party entered the room, a door leading to the observatory appeared in the air.
This time, everyone walked with a familiar feeling.
— Clank!
The door was locked as if it was a given.
What was the next step?
Oh, it was the process of focusing the telescope.
— Wheeing…!
Soon, the noise from the telescope stopped.
“Let’s get started right away.”
“This time, Ga-in first?”
“Let’s do that.”
While Sang-Hyeon was nodding, he looked back with a slightly anxious expression.
“Why is that?”
I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw Miro’s eyes wide open as if asking what was going on.
I feel this every time, but it’s really cute.
Behind him, Seungyeop was seen sitting at the table, summoning pizza.
Sang-Hyeon became silent for a moment as if he was speechless, then muttered as if he was sighing.
“There are only four people in the observatory.”
To my ears, these words sounded like this:
‘There are only two people in the observatory.’
“There are many people who got in instead! We just have to work hard among ourselves!”
Listening to Miro’s arrogant words, I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Okay. Let’s work hard. Okay, let’s start observing now.”
*
A phenomenon that starts as soon as you bring your eye to the eyepiece.
The feeling of consciousness leaving the body and going to a distant world.
I wasn’t surprised or flustered since it wasn’t my first time experiencing it, but it was still mysterious.
Soon, we arrived at a mysterious space filled with pure white.
The ever-higher upper realm.
The ultimate utopia, physically unattainable.
An intense conviction that cannot be explained logically flashes through my mind.
This place, accessible through the observatory’s telescope, is clearly an area that even the gods of the universe cannot easily approach!
– I immediately closed my eyes as I crossed the middle of the space that was shining pure white.
You’ve already experienced this during the ascension process, right?
Observing that line is extremely dangerous.
However, the owl’s answer to the question about the line came back to me so vividly that I could never forget it.
You said ‘all’, right?
“…”
Soon, an unidentified force pulled me towards a dark, murky line, and the dizzying, endless falling time continued.
When I came to, I was able to choose between two people’s perspectives.
It’s like there are two surveillance cameras in a dark room, and the observer can choose to view either camera.
“I can only choose Eunsol and Songi’s perspectives.”
The first time, only those two went in, but this time, Ari, Grandpa, Jincheol, and Elena also joined.
However, at that point, there were only two people to choose from: Lee Eun-sol and Yoo Song.
It feels like the ‘leading actors’ of Room 301 are just those two people.
Let’s check from Songi.
— Wheeing…!
The time is around 4:10 in the morning.
I saw Song-i rubbing her sleepy eyes on the bed and another girl poking her.
Ari has already written the Dream Kingdom and joined Songi.
‘…’
At this point, one question arose.
When did Room 301 actually start?
The clock in Songi’s room says 4:10 in the morning, so that’s when it started?
It’s a mistake.
It should not be missed that Ari has already joined Songi.
The Dream Kingdom can only be used when the user is asleep, and Ari can’t fall asleep instantly like me.
Considering the preparation time, Ari probably started around 3:30.
So, Room 301 started at 3:30 in the morning?
This is also wrong.
The correct answer is ‘Nobody knows.’
Observation begins from the moment when the main characters of Room 301, Song-i and Eun-sol, regain consciousness, so there is no way to know what happened before that.
While I was lost in these thoughts, I heard Songi and Ari’s conversation.
‘You’re trying to spy on my parents?’
‘…including this house. It could be a more special house and more special people than you think.’
‘Okay, let’s do that.’
Ari takes Songi’s attitude of accepting it obediently for granted.
Actually, it’s not a given.
This is because Songi considers the parents in room 301 as ‘real.’
Among the possibilities seen through insight was Songi’s appearance showing considerable displeasure at Ari’s somewhat harsh words.
So I told Songi in advance last night.
I felt like I needed to mentally prepare myself for the fact that my parents were under surveillance.
‘Let’s get started.’
At 4:25 a.m., Ari and Songi began to search inside the house.
I also checked the inside of the apartment with the two people.
Suddenly, the first part of the sentence on the ceiling of the guest room came to mind.
It was ‘You can’t see the whole thing from the inside’, right?
If we turn this around, it could be interpreted as ‘you can see the whole thing from the outside.’
Of course, logically the former and the latter are not equivalent.
Certainly, in terms of observation, we who are watching through telescopes have an advantage over those who are actually doing it.
This is because the point of view itself is a third-person observer.
The central axis was a pine tree, but it could rotate 360 ??degrees and view the surrounding area.
Since the person in question is a human, he or she can only see in front of him or her, so only we can see the sides and back.
Also, since the parties are directly experiencing the situation, they end up having various concerns.
For example, Songi would be thinking all sorts of things like, ‘When will my parents wake up? What will I do when the sun rises? Do I have to go to school after the weekend?’
This means that, like us, we cannot focus solely on observation.
In short, numbers that are invisible to the players during the game are obvious to the coach.
Just like right now!
What are Songi and Ari both doing now?
The outer wall connected to the veranda is shaking ominously!
Why are you just looking at the back of the TV for no reason!
I immediately concentrated all my attention.
“…!”
I wonder if Songi and Eunsol can understand what I’m feeling right now?
If I had to describe it in words, it felt like a giant shaking a dollhouse with his little finger.
Any delicate manipulation or specific message delivery is impossible.
During the meeting, Eunsol didn’t understand this feeling, so she said something like, ‘Can’t you tell me with the number of vibrations? If it shakes once, stop. If it shakes twice, do more.’
In reality, it is simply impossible.
This is because what is felt internally as one vibration is not actually one time.
As someone who causes poltergeists, I shook the dollhouse more than 10 times, and only then did someone inside say, “Huh? A book fell?”
It was difficult to explain without experiencing it firsthand.
Anyway, as several books fell one after another, the people inside reacted belatedly.
Ari immediately activated the Girl Without Presence and disappeared outside the cognitive area, while Songi took Pero out of the cage and pressed against the wall.
‘Wow, there was a door like this!’
Songi’s voice is flustered.
A door? It may look like that, but it doesn’t feel like a door to me when I first discovered it.
It’s more like a passageway to hell has appeared in an otherwise good wall.
Soon, a whitish fog began to creep in from beyond the swaying outer walls.
It was a horrifying sight that surpassed any horror movie, and I think a normal person would have collapsed and screamed at this point.
Fortunately, my colleagues were not ordinary people.
Songi calmly stepped back and moved towards the kitchen, while Ari stood between Songi and the fog, ready to fight if necessary.
However, these preparations were of little significance.
The whitish fog didn’t even come close to the mushrooms, let alone target them.
It wasn’t that they came here to target people in the first place.
The goal is the animals scattered all over Songi’s house’s veranda and living room!
The fog moved around the veranda and the living room, brushing past the animals here and there before disappearing behind the wall again.
‘… what?’
‘It doesn’t seem like they’re targeting us.’
Ari appears with a puzzled expression as the fog clears and Songi looks puzzled.
‘Is this some kind of sorcery used by the Iss race?’
‘…’
‘Take a human soul and put it into an animal?’
‘I don’t know. Is it true that the Is species caused this phenomenon in the first place?’
A conversation between two people that is like whispering.
I too was curious about the identity of the fog, but at the same time, another thought came to mind.
The cause of Pero’s aggressive reaction in the first round was that fog!
At the time, Songi didn’t feel uncomfortable even though she noticed Pero’s aggressive reaction.
I thought of it as just an expression of the frustration of being locked in a cage with stupid beasts.
Songi has telepathy, so if she had tried to talk to Pero by sticking to him, wouldn’t she have found out something?
Well, it’s not a problem to blame Songi for being dull.
Because no one, including me who was observing, noticed it.
At times like this, it’s frustrating that Pero is a mute parrot.
…
As the day dawned, Ari disappeared into the dream kingdom, presumably rejoining Grandfather Mukseong.
At this point, Songi’s situation has come to a close.
The current time is 5:30 am.
Eunsol will wake up in 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes, so we should switch jobs in the meantime.
*
“Huhhh…!”
As soon as I took my eyes off the telescope, I felt a dizzying sense of fatigue.
It had only been a little over an hour, but my head was already splitting.
In my experience, just observing doesn’t tire you out this quickly.
The pain you are experiencing now is caused by a poltergeist.
“Thank you for your hard work. Next is me -”
“Wait, wait a minute.”
I roughly summarized and relayed the facts I found out through observation.
While he was listening to me carefully, Sang-Hyeon reacted with surprise.
“I feel this way often, but Ga-in, you are surprisingly sharp.”
“yes?”
“I’m worried about the starting point of Room 301. As soon as the observation started, you saw Ari Yang already attached to Songi Yang and immediately thought of it… .”
“…”
“Hearing this, I also think the same thing. The observation will begin after Eunsol and Songi regain consciousness. However, Room 301 is in progress even before that.”
“Just like the fog covered Pero while Songi was sleeping.”
“I think this problem will occur frequently in the future. I mean, things that happened before the solution party regained consciousness.”
After a meaningful glance, Sang-Hyeon added a word.
“It’s similar to what happened in Room 203. It was a secret before the start. And… .”
“and?”
“The last thing you said about Pero. The part where you saw the strange fog but didn’t actively tell Songi.”
“yes.”
“When I first heard it, I felt frustrated because I thought it was an animal after all… .”
“Yes, it was.”
“The more I think about it, this thought occurs to me. Wasn’t Pero born in a hotel?”
“…”
“The standards for what is ideal and normal are different from ours. From our perspective, we might think, ‘Why don’t you actively report something unusual when you’ve discovered it?’, but Pero might think, ‘Why is something like fog appearing through a wall unusual?’”
It’s a reasonable analysis.
“Now I will observe. I will check on Ms. Eunsol.”