Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 693
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EP.693 Episode 693 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of Species’ (31)
Episode 693 – Room 301, The Cursed Room – ‘The Origin of the Species’ (31)
“User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: 16th day
Current Location: Tier 3, Lobby
Wise Man’s Advice: 0”
– Han Ga-in
‘You’ve always resented me, and that hatred has driven you to where you are today.’
The voice of ‘someone’ as if this moment was not the first.
It was difficult to understand what was being said, but there was no one to explain it to me.
— Boom!
The gates of heaven were closed and the ruler disappeared without a trace.
All that was left were us in confusion and the King of Iss in unspeakable grief.
Soon, the King of Iss looked at me with a somewhat empty expression.
In the midst of the unknown gaze, I was strangely able to understand the other person’s intentions.
Rather than saying that I ‘dared’ to see into the prisoner, it would be more appropriate to say that the other person allowed me to see into it.
The king’s will was clear.
+ Finish it. +
What happens if you kill the king?
Since the prisoners have disappeared, problem 301 has been solved?
Could this situation be seen as the extinction of the prisoner?
“…”
No, no.
The resolution failure notification has already popped up, saying, “The resolution has failed. Therefore, the ‘post-apocalyptic world’ begins!”
The owl also hinted at the next episode with the words, “Know that opportunities are not limited to one.”
Now that we’ve come this far, it means that no matter what we do from now on, we can’t solve Room 301.
The reason is also clear.
301, because the past loop has already been destroyed.
The moment ‘Grace’ begins, 301 should be considered as the end.
Therefore, in the next attempt, the very beginning of grace must be prevented.
He cautiously took a step toward the king and spoke to him.
“I think you want to end it here.”
“…”
“But this is not the end for us. Maybe it is not the end for you either.”
The other person remained silent, but continued talking.
“I have figured out your two biggest secrets. Or maybe you could say your weaknesses.”
“…”
“First, the question is how the prisoners can run wild like this.”
“…”
“The answer was simpler than I thought. It turns out that most of the time we were in a ‘very long bad ending.’”
In the Cursed Room, prisoners are subject to many restrictions, and this principle applies ‘even in Room 301’.
Room 301 was no exception!
The hint was the difference between the first and second attempts.
Looking back, the King of Ys didn’t even appear in the first attempt!
If the prisoners were really free to act as they pleased from the start, why didn’t they intervene then?
Because you can’t act as you please.
There are very limited situations in which a prisoner can wake up in the Cursed Room, and the most representative case is the ‘bad ending’.
When the board explodes after the contestants have chosen a devastating choice, the prisoner wakes up and passes a stern judgment.
“… The moment Eun-sol looked into the chairman’s memories, the game was already over.”
Looking into the Chairman’s memories was the bad ending trigger for Room 301.
Why didn’t the King of Iss intervene on the first attempt?
Because I didn’t forcefully open the chairman’s memories.
Therefore, unless the Chairman’s memories are forcibly opened in the next round, the prisoners will not be able to act as they please this time.
The King of Iss will have to watch the situation from his imprisonment underground in Gangwon Province, just as he did in the first attempt.
This is the opponent’s weakness!
At that moment, an ominous thought occurred to me.
Is it true that the ‘Bad Ending Foreshadowing’ laid by the King of Ys is only ‘The Chairman’s Memories’? Aren’t there about 3,000 more?
We started our third attempt, laughing and chatting that we knew where mine number 128 was, so we just had to avoid it. But as soon as we started, an ominous vision of mine number 1732 exploding flashed through my mind.
…
Let’s stop thinking like this because it’s pointless.
“Second, your current situation. The process was so bizarre that it was hard to understand, but there was another prisoner who reached a similar result.”
“…”
“The real King of Ys is probably still underground in Gangwon-do. The current you is… so to speak, a copy of the original spirit. The copied spirit must have been inherent in Eun-sol from the beginning.”
The king did not respond, but, strangely enough, the maze behind him screamed in surprise.
“Whoa!”
This is the current state of the King of Is.
From the very beginning, from the moment Eunsol was born!
Deep within her mind was a ‘malicious program’ that replicated the king’s mind.
The opponent awakened the program, transferred most of his power, and arrived at the 3rd floor of the hotel – the celestial realm – through a grace ritual simulating ascension.
At this point, I vaguely realized.
Issue 301 will probably be resolved eventually, if not in this episode, then in the next episode or the one after that.
However, from the moment Eunsol was born, the innate ‘malicious program’…
There is no way to solve it.
At the moment when I was feeling dizzy, a calm voice was heard.
“So, do you think the current me is fake?”
Far from feeling any confusion about values, he seemed indifferent.
From the beginning, it seems like the other person knows their situation well.
“No. I know that it is useless to talk about whether something is real or fake for a being like you. You have the same spirit as the original, and almost the same power, so there is no need to distinguish between the real and the fake. However…”
I wondered if I could tell the following story.
But, if not now, it seemed like an opportunity like this would never come again.
“I think you here have given up your anger towards the hotel and Buddha through a process I cannot understand.”
“…”
“But, the other you in Gangwon-do underground doesn’t know this fact. There’s no way you could know.”
So next time we have to fight this horrible prisoner again.
Because the ‘other King of Is’ underground in Gangwon-do doesn’t know what happened in heaven!
The other person muttered with a somewhat empty expression.
“It looks like you have a favor to ask before we finish.”
“Can I take one of your ‘children’ with me? So I can, um, convince you for the next round?”
“…”
Instead of answering, the king simply stretched out his arms.
It seemed like he didn’t care what I did, so just do whatever you want.
The King of Iss seemed to have truly lost all motivation.
At that moment, Sang-Hyeon, who understood what I meant belatedly, came to me and started whispering.
It seemed like he was speaking quietly so that only I could hear, but since the other person was a prisoner, I couldn’t help but laugh bitterly because it was a meaningless action.
“So, are you trying to put one of the Iss races into this timeline? And do that to convince the next king?”
That’s correct.
No matter how much we explained what happened in heaven, it seemed like the next king wouldn’t even listen.
It seemed as though I would have to repeat the painful tug-of-war with the prisoner that had continued throughout the second attempt.
But what if it were the words of a child you cherish so much?
If you were the Duke of Is, wouldn’t you be able to say this to the King?
‘Your Majesty, your dreams of achieving them in heaven are in vain. So please, let them go.’
This is the basic outline of the next episode.
After hearing the explanation, Miro approached the king with a frightened expression and his eyes covered.
Soon, one of the small creatures floating around the king – a being that seemed somehow familiar, as if it had been seen before – approached Miro.
“Lend me an hour of your time!”
The peacock was so small that he couldn’t hear the answer, but he probably said, “Okay.”
It must be true, because Miro pointed to the time machine and said, ‘It’s in it.’
Now it’s really time to finish the second attempt.
…
Normally, it would be hard to imagine that a participant could kill a prisoner with their own power.
Of course, these are not normal times.
Why did the King of Iss take over the body of ‘Lee Eun-sol’ after endless planning?
Because ‘qualifications for participation’ were required.
Why? Because even if you are a prisoner, you cannot endure Heaven – Level 3 without being qualified as a participant.
So, all you have to do is destroy Eunsol’s body.
It is quite possible if the opponent does not resist.
“…”
At that moment, I felt a cursed curiosity that I could not bear.
I thought that this curiosity might be one of the essences of ‘wisdom’.
Of course, it could just be my excuse.
I was curious.
I was really crazy curious.
Why doesn’t the supreme being who wants to save all things in the universe save the Is species?
Why did the King of Iss, who just a few minutes ago seemed like he was going to destroy the hotel, give up everything and step down?
More than anything, I was curious about what the manager meant!
I know the real identity of this guy called the manager.
It itself is nothing more than a robot, more like a microphone for the being behind it to speak into.
The being behind it changes every time, but just a moment ago it was definitely ‘The One Who Sheds Tears for the Three Thousand Worlds’!
I opened my mouth, even though I thought that perhaps the next question might be taboo.
“you are…”
“…”
“Didn’t you come to the hotel hoping that your children would be saved? Why are you sitting here like this?”
“…”
“What did you see beyond the gates of heaven? I saw nothing, nothing. You -”
“Hey kid.”
At that moment, I saw another emotion beyond the king’s eyes that I had never been able to read before.
“My children are saved, are being saved, and will be saved.”
“yes?”
A completely different answer from the one shouting, “Why did you abandon your own children?”
A strange story of being saved from every moment of the past, present, and future.
“What is that -”
The next moment, an incomprehensible vision flashed through my mind.
+ 1. This means a cycle that continues endlessly. +
+ 2 appeared. 3 appeared. 4 appeared. The cycle of 1 ended, so those who reached the subsequent numbers believed they had transcended the cycle. +
+ I knew that I had always come to ‘this moment’. Therefore, I knew that this moment was the end of my kalpa… +
Soon, the king burst his own head open with a sad laugh.
This was the end of the second attempt, which was full of chaos.
“You have successfully escaped!
…
You have escaped the curse.
But I still feel that the source of the curse remains.
…
“One of my colleagues has successfully escaped!”