Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 691
Only Krnovel
EP.691 Episode 691 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of Species’ (29)
Episode 691 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of the Species’ (29)
– Observatory
‘Do you get it now?’
The situation where the King of Iss finally reveals his identity in front of Eunsol.
Cain tried to follow the conversation between the two with all his concentration.
‘You definitely have a weakness. There’s no way you don’t have one. This is a hotel. You definitely have a weakness, and it’s very fatal. If you exploit that, you won’t be able to move! ‘
Ga-in deeply sympathized with the words that Eun-sol forcibly opened her trembling mouth and uttered.
The King of Iss has a fatal weakness, and it must be there.
Because otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to solve Room 301.
But I don’t know what the weakness is!
“…”
Suddenly, a rather absurd thought occurred to Cain about the prisoner’s weakness.
It was also a hypothesis that could easily explain some of the enigmatic actions the King of Iss had shown so far.
Unfortunately, Cain didn’t have time to concretize his vague thoughts.
Because the situation in Room 301 was changing rapidly from moment to moment.
‘Those who have power are not qualified, and those who are qualified are not powerful. I wanted to overcome that contradiction.’
To Cain, the meaning of the above sentence was clear.
Those who have power are prisoners, and those who are qualified are participants.
So, it seemed that the King of Is wanted to become a ‘prisoner who has earned the right to participate’.
“…”
Depending on your perspective, it’s similar to week 104.
He too attempted to escape by sending out a cloned version of himself.
From another perspective, the goals of the King and the Lord of Is are completely different.
In particular, there is a difference in whether the ‘power of the prisoner’ can be maintained.
Another self created by the Lord of the 104th, the Divine Sun, is extremely insignificant compared to the power of the original Lord.
It is a gap greater than that between the sun and the moon, the sea and the lake.
On the other hand, if the King of Iss swallows Eunsol now…!
It seemed likely that the King would retain his ‘power as a prisoner’ even after gaining the qualifications of a contestant.
but!
“so?”
“Gain Ang?”
Cain found the king of Is difficult to understand.
Because I couldn’t guess what exactly I was going to do by gaining the qualifications of a participant while preserving the power of a prisoner.
At the point when I was about to continue my worries, the situation in room 301 began to change rapidly again.
‘I will personally see the one who cries for the three thousand worlds. I will speak in front of him. Heaven…!’
To Cain, the ‘one who cries for the three thousand worlds’ seemed to be referring to Buddha.
The word ‘howling’ may sound a bit provocative, but in context it was definitely Buddha.
By the way, what does ‘I’ll see for myself’ mean?
A moment of confusion where Cain still doesn’t understand the situation.
— Gooooo…!
A loud noise that shook the heavens and the earth began to be felt.
As if waiting, the hotel party repeated the notification they had seen once before.
“The solution has failed. Therefore, the ‘post-apocalyptic world’ begins!”
A resolution failure notification appeared in front of all participants in the observatory!
“Uh, uh!”
“Oh! What’s going on?”
“Eww! Hyung Ga-in, are both Eun-sol and Song-i dead? All of a sudden?”
A situation where Miro, Sang-hyeon, and Seung-yeop are surprised and shout.
However, Gain, who had to explain the situation to her colleagues, was in some ways more confused than the others.
“no…”
“Gain Ang?”
“Brother? Brother!”
Sang-Hyeon, who saw Ga-In with her mouth half open, felt like he could hardly breathe due to tension.
What happened in room 301 that suddenly caused a resolution failure notification to appear?
What did Gain see at the end that made her look like that?
“Gain, calm down -”
The next moment, Gain burst into laughter and said.
“I wondered what he meant when he said he wanted to see for himself! What Songi said was true!”
“Gen. Cain?”
Memories of the past flashed through Gain’s head.
A conversation between Song-i and Ga-in after the first attempt at Room 301.
‘Oppa, this is what I felt the first time I entered room 301. Both of your parents were real.’
‘What do you mean everything is real? Your real parents showed up in room 301?’
‘…’
‘Or is the entire world called 301 the world you, Songi, have lived in?’
At the time, Ga-in thought it would be difficult to fully accept Song-i’s opinion.
First, Songi failed to logically explain the basis for her argument.
Second, Eunsol, who was on equal footing with Songi, never said anything about whether it was real or fake.
Gain now knew that there was some truth, or at least part of the truth, in Songi’s words.
If the first and second floors are a simulation of a hotel reproducing the moment just before the end of the world, the third floor is actually that time and space in the past.
So, the King of Iss can do ‘that kind of thing’!
—Whoosh…! Kookung!
The entire observatory shook with a sound.
“Eww!”
“Ouch! What is it?”
“Wh, what’s going on?”
— Clang!
The sound of the locked door at the entrance to the observatory opening.
Seungyeop sensed this with his keen senses and looked at Gain with his eyes wide open.
“At last, the King of Is said, ‘I will see the Buddha myself.’”
“Brother! What, what does that mean!”
“Mr. Gain, I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
“… I meant it literally.”
“yes?”
“I really said I wanted to see it for myself.”
Sang-Hyeon opened his mouth wide at the thought, ‘No way.’
The statement that he would see for himself was not a rhetorical or figurative expression.
In the loop where Songi lived,
By causing a phenomenon called ‘grace’ that mimics ascension,
Open the path to ‘heaven’,
Go beyond the veil with Eunsol’s qualifications as a participant!
He really said that he would come to the hotel and meet Buddha!
“The King of Is is coming here now.”
— Urrrr…!
*
– ???
Everything has a beginning.
Even the largest building has its first brick, and the universe has its Big Bang moment.
God and the devil also have a beginning.
Me – Someone also calls me the ‘King of Is’.
…
I remember the first moment.
I remember the moment when my mind was awakened after the primordial chaos had coalesced and mixed.
When I woke up in the boiling bubble, I discovered that I had two natures.
The first is love, the second is fate.
I knew that one day I would give birth to countless children.
I knew that I would love those kids very much.
I knew that those children would be called the ‘Great Race of Iss’.
How could it not be fate that I felt such great love for children who were not even born yet!
…
The first child was born in a bubbling bubble.
I whispered to the child who hatched from the egg and had a question about everything.
I am your origin.
Soon that child also showed his love to me, and I was very happy.
It wouldn’t be wrong to say that it was the happiest moment in my entire life.
…
After eons of time, the power of fate that sees through cause and effect whispered to me.
This universe is a fundamentally twisted place, a fishbowl destined for catastrophe.
It was only then that I realized the harsh truth hidden beyond the boundary of the universe – the veil.
This is such an obvious truth when you think about the laws of the universe that endlessly cycle.
However, it was also a truth that was difficult to imagine before realizing it.
There were many others like me who realized the harsh truth.
Whether great or not, they are mortal races.
The choices of those who realized the truth were largely divided into two.
Either give up or run away, thinking there is no answer.
For example, a good example would be the human race, which was the first to achieve a high level of civilization.
They wanted to avoid the impending doom by building the ‘first ark’.
Unfortunately, human technology was not enough to save them even at the height of their civilization.
The first ark was shipwrecked before it even reached its destination.
One funny thing is that the shipwreck that was created for salvation started to lead humans to the abyss.
Afterwards, humanity fell into a state of decline that made it impossible to rebuild its first glorious civilization.
…
Human attempts end in failure, but even in failure there are lessons to be learned.
Think about it!
Why might the option of escape exist?
Isn’t it true that you run away because you have a place to run to?
It means that somewhere in the universe there exists a safe place where one can escape destruction!
iced coffee…!
In that sense, he who cries for the three thousand worlds is truly the savior of the universe.
It was the Maitreya Buddha who appeared at the last moment, at the end of time, and led all living beings in the universe to liberation!
…
I believe in Buddha.
I respect you utmost and look up to you endlessly.
Some people consider me great, but not all great people are created equal.
Maitreya Buddha was truly a god worthy of my worship.
Also, I cursed him.
I hated him endlessly and despaired endlessly.
Because I knew that there was a blind spot in Maitreya’s salvation.
…
For eons I have read and reread the fate of my children.
I wish I could have seen nothing at all…
I have seen and seen again a terrible fate for my children that I can never accept.
There is no salvation for the race of Is.
No one, including children already born or those yet to be born, can be saved.
Maitreya Buddha who will save all things from great destruction.
The heaven he is preparing for the weak and young beings.
There was room in heaven for countless people, but there was no place for my children.
Therefore, today, I would like to ask the God of gods.
Why me, why my children…
Did you throw it away?
*
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 16th day
Current Location: Tier 3, Lobby
Wise Man’s Advice: 3”
– Han Ga-in
—Whoosh!
A violent vibration that reverberates throughout the entire third floor without stopping!
I came out of the observatory feeling a breathtaking tension.
What on earth is going on from now on?
“Cain… Cain…”
Miro kept calling my name over and over again in fear, but even I couldn’t come up with a good idea!
“Hey, hey! Hyung!”
At that moment, Seungyeop’s surprised voice was heard.
“Oh, it looks like the sign has changed!”
As Seungyeop said, the signboard as big as a door in the lobby on the third floor had changed slightly.
? Observatory
? Rooms
? Heaven – Under construction.
“…heaven.”
—Whoosh!
No matter how you look at it, if there’s a moment when we need the help of sponsors, it’s now.
“Advice: 3 -> 0”
‘Please, tell me something that will help me. If you use idioms, Zen questions, or beat around the bush, I will bite my tongue and kill myself.’