Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 678
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EP.677 Episode 677 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of Species’ (21)
Episode 677 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of the Species’ (21)
– Lee Eun-sol
“Eunsol-ah.”
Eww!
For a moment, I lost my mind and started to back away!
What is it? What is it? What is it?
My, my mother is not human?
An alien god so high that it’s mind-boggling, not to mention inhuman?
Then what am I!
Could it be that I am also of the Iss race?
The moment when terrible thoughts fill your head and your reason becomes paralyzed!
Thanks to the tremendous experience I had accumulated at the hotel, a cold voice came from somewhere in my heart.
Ari, a veteran agent, never once suspected that I wasn’t human.
Even Songi, who can seduce chaos entities with the power of affinity, has never been bewitched by me!
Then what am I?
A human being, yet a human being touched by the hands of a prisoner?
I don’t know… I don’t know!
At the moment when I was trying to calm my seething mind, I heard the calm voice of my ‘mother’.
She was looking at her father, not me.
“You ended up using up all three chances.”
As the fairy tale caused by the butterfly dream was resolved, my mind was separated from my father’s, and my father had also long since regained consciousness.
Of course, I only regained consciousness, but my father was no longer of sound mind.
“Ugh! Gasp! Ah, ah…! Oh, how did this happen… .”
Look at the expression on my father’s face, who has lost his mind.
At that moment, I truly felt compassion for my father.
My wife is an unidentified demon, and my children are incomprehensible beings created by that demon.
Everything you believed to be true love is nothing more than an illusion created by the cosmic devil.
My father in the past could not accept the truth above, so he chose to forget.
Now the oblivion was lifted, and the devil appeared before the father once again.
“You must now pay the final price.”
“Ahh… . Please… . Please… !”
My father didn’t even ask what the price was.
I have already lost my mind, and I am just despairing and despairing, suffering from a distant fate.
‘Mother’s’ next words were more like a pronouncement of fate than an expression of any emotion.
“The most precious thing I have given you will be crushed….”
The most valuable thing a mother can give to a father!
The moment I heard that, I knew what the final price my father would have to pay.
It’s me. It’s us.
Me and my brothers and sisters!
The next moment, an incomprehensible force began to tighten around my neck like a rough chain.
“100 million…!”
I can’t resist.
Neither a butterfly dream, nor an inheritance, nor a blessing – no power could save me from where I am now.
Would it have been different if I had a colleague?
No way! Rather, I should be thankful that I am the only one here.
The moment when I think like this and am about to face my imminent death.
A calm voice was heard.
“Try to calm down.”
“…”
“Don’t think like a mortal. Don’t you have another chance?”
“…”
“Your throat might be a little sore, but you’ll have time to think.”
I felt something strange in the attitude of my ‘mother’, as if she was giving me advice.
The reason I’m dying right now is probably my mother…!
The first thought that came to mind in the midst of suffering was, Prisoner.
In the cursed cell, prisoners are rarely able to move freely.
If that were possible, normal progress would be impossible in the first place.
The reasons vary from room to room, but prisoners are generally restrained.
However, prisoners are intelligent beings that far surpass humans.
Therefore, there are many times when we try to overcome the above limitations.
The 104th week prepared a strategy of ‘Solve it. If you get the inheritance, that will be my victory.’
Adravita of Room 203 prepared a strategy of ‘If the death of a participant means the end of the room, I will never kill anyone.’
So what is the mother’s strategy?
…
This is the situation itself.
Why am I dying?
My mother is not killing me ‘right now’.
Think of the almost curse words your father heard when he first met the King of Is, long ago.
‘Be silent. Forget. Obey. I will give you three chances.’
This arrangement is currently in effect, after my father broke his promise three times.
Once the room of curses begins, the prisoners cannot act rashly either.
So, mother laid the mines long before the game started.
Maybe my very existence is the other person’s design.
Designed for a game where your arrangements fit perfectly into the place you want, at the time you want.
“Do you think you know something?”
I feel eyes looking down on me from above.
At that moment, funny enough, I also realized something.
I don’t know my mother’s name.
I don’t even know what my mother looked like.
Even though we’re making eye contact right now, I can’t recognize it.
If you look at it while using the flute, will you see its true identity?
Well, it might be more dangerous if you look at it.
I opened my mouth with great force in the midst of pain and muttered softly.
“… no matter how great you are, you are on the palm of Buddha’s hand.”
Words filled with despair, dizziness, and a hint of rebellion.
The answer was simple.
“I know that too.”
“…”
“He who cries for the three thousand worlds clings to the most vain dreams. However, he is truly the most supreme being in the universe.”
“…”
“What else do you want to say?”
I found it difficult to even open my mouth, so I forced myself to open it.
“What happens from now on?”
I didn’t expect an answer.
But, surprisingly, a reply came back.
“Descent, not ascent.”
descent?
The final realization that came from a distant consciousness.
The strange emotion contained in my mother’s ‘expression’ – I don’t know how I perceive it!
sorrow.
It’s a pity.
Disappointment.
“This situation is not what you wanted….”
This was my will.
*
— Chijijik!
The observation of Eunsol was forcibly stopped as if the power had been cut off.
Observations toward Songi have long since ceased in the underground ruins of Gangwon-do.
Finally, Cain sighed and looked up from his telescope.
“For now, there is no one to observe.”
Miro, with an urgent expression, immediately opened his mouth.
“If you wait any longer! Mukseong will probably turn back time! Then-”
“Then, will the observations begin again when Song-i and Eun-sol are resurrected? That could be possible. In any case, not now.”
“…”
“Let’s wait and see. I think when time goes back, the telescope will make a focusing sound.”
The observatory became quiet for a moment at Cain’s words.
Soon, Sang-Hyeon, who had been standing around silently, muttered.
“It’s shocking.”
“…”
“I can’t remember the last time I was so surprised. I thought I wouldn’t bat an eye at anything serious after all the things I’ve experienced at hotels… .”
“…”
“Isn’t Ms. Eunsol not human? A being conceived by a prisoner? A member of the Iss race?”
“I don’t know. Even Eunsol seemed unsure.”
“You don’t know?”
“First of all, the Iss race is a being that is not bound by flesh.”
“Then, Eunsol Yang’s body itself is human. What about her soul?”
“Think back to the first attempt. Didn’t the blessing of affinity work on the race of Iss who stole human bodies?”
“There has never been any circumstance where the blessing of friendship was effective on Eunsol Yang, has there?”
“If it was there, Songi would have known.”
“Hmm….”
A confusing situation that cannot be determined.
Soon, Cain brought up another story.
“Just before the observation was cut off, my sister told me an interesting story.”
“Interesting story?”
“This situation is not what you wanted…,” he said.
“Huh?”
At that time, Seungyeop, who was looking at the notes that Gain had organized at each shift, said.
“Here, here! Brother Gain, look at this!”
The following sentence was written in the place Seungyeop pointed out.
“The opportunity has finally come.”
“It’s a shame that he wasn’t the first child I prepared for, but this too is fate.”
“With this, everyone will achieve a glorious ending.”
“That’s what Songi muttered just before observation was cut off.”
“In the circumstances, Song-i repeated what she heard from the prisoner. Of course, she must have told us to listen.”
Gain was lost in thought for a moment, but then she made a face as if she found it amusing.
“The story that Song-i heard, the story that Eun-sol heard. When you combine the two stories, you can see the outline.”
At those words, the gazes of the other three people were focused on Gain.
“Why did the situation deviate from the King of Iss’s intention? It’s because Song-i, not Eun-sol, went underground in Gangwon-do.”
“Hmm!”
“Let’s think about it from the prisoner’s perspective. You’ve arranged the chairman’s past memories as the basis for leading the participants underground in Gangwon-do, right?”
Naturally, no one refuted Ga-in’s words that the chairman’s past memories were also ‘the prisoner’s arrangement’.
“That chairman happens to be Eun-sol’s father. In other words, he placed the appropriate evidence right next to Eun-sol.”
At this point, Sang-Hyeon nodded.
“So you were planning to lead Eunsol to Gangwon-do underground.”
“However, our actual progress was different. When Eun-sol learned that there was a part of the chairman’s memory that was sealed, she decided not to leave the chairman.”
“Instead, Ms. Songi went underground in Gangwon-do.”
“Even if she was a prisoner, she couldn’t calculate this far. Why? Because there was another participant involved who didn’t even know about the arrangement. This is her limit.”
Prisoner’s arrangement, prisoner’s limitations.
At those words, Miro opened his mouth with a slightly blank expression.
“The King of Iss’s limits….”
“There are still many questions about Room 301, but at least we know what the ‘prisoner’s desired development’ is, so it’s a big gain. The King of Iss wants Eun-sol to come to Gangwon-do Underground. Song-i going? She shows an unpleasant attitude and starts something, though!”
“I guess it will fail.”
“It failed. Probably, by the time I spoke to Eunsol, it had already failed.”
After finishing the explanation up to this point, Gain added the last sentence.
“But we all need to keep in mind. The above scenarios are all the endings that the King of Iss wants. Whether that is a positive ending for us as well, well, we’ll have to wait and see.”
As Ga-in’s explanation came to an end, Sang-hyeon opened his mouth slightly without realizing it, and soon realized that Miro next to him had a similar reaction.
The person speaking didn’t seem to be particularly conscious of it, but… .
To Sang-hyeon and Miro, Ga-in’s attitude of discussing the limitations of the prisoners as if it were natural was, in a way, another kind of dizzying feeling.
“Anyway, let’s wait and see. As you know, the room of curses is still in progress.”
*
– Kim Muk-seong
— Boohoo!
I thought about this as I ran around downtown Seoul without thinking.
I think it’ll be difficult to meet Eunsol.
“after….”
Songi and Ari lost contact underground in Gangwon-do.
When they ran away from that place, Elena also left.
I can’t contact Eunsol anymore either.
Jincheol, who was with us until the end, also got out of the car about 10 minutes ago to respond to an unidentified attack.
Under the circumstances, I was the only one left to run away.
— Gooooooo…!
Once again, a strange noise echoes throughout the world!
“…”
This time it was different than before.
It was not just a burst of sound, but a wave that felt like it was touching the skin that swept through the area.
Soon, absurd things started happening all around.
— Boom! Urrrrr! Whoa!
Cars that were driving on the road normally suddenly crash into each other, run over the sidewalk, and hit people.
I even saw a bus blatantly crashing into a building.
This is a city where the real hell of Abiguihwan unfolds!
“I guess this is it?”
I habitually opened my mouth and then realized belatedly that there was no one around.
Anyway, I think now is the time.
At this point, wouldn’t people watching from the outside have found out a lot of things?
With that thought, he spread out his left hand.
“…”
A coin that emits a mysterious light – One More Chance.
If you click ‘click!’ you can start the second attempt again.
However, one fear struck me.
“…the master of reversing the tide.”
How will the price of reverse celestial power be revealed in the room of curses?
I don’t know.
But, we have to accept it.
— Ting!
Let there be light.
With this, a second chance was given to all things in the universe.
*
“Kim Muk-seong (communication) -> Kim Seong (communication)”