Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 70
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Episode 70 – No. 101, Room of the Curse – ‘Media that Changes Common Sense’ (4)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 23
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 3]
After everyone finished breakfast, everyone gathered in front of room 101 with a determined look on their faces.
Already the fourth attempt.
It’s time to finally finish. From the fifth time on, ‘it gets weird.’ I’m curious about the meaning, but there’s no need to risk my life to find out.
Don’t you all think it’s better to end it this time?
Jincheol also keeps checking the red pills in his pocket, and it seems like he plans to take the pills and wake up if he has to.
*
fourth attempt
*
– Han Ga-in
Now that I’m used to it, as soon as I start, I cover it with a filter and use the excuse of registering for classes to lock myself in my room.
I immediately started searching on my computer. Shinsegae Hospital, Hyukjin Lee, Sangmin Kim.
What happened?
…
Has about 40 minutes passed?
I understood the tragedy to be somewhat heartbreaking. The background that colored the entire stage into a nightmare surprisingly started with a small sadness that can be found anywhere in the world.
I don’t understand everything. However, I think I know who the ‘villain’ is.
Everyone will be waiting.
I spent more time than I expected looking for information and figuring out the scenario, and unlike people who go by teleportation, I plan to take my family and take a taxi.
I guess I’ll arrive quite late. Let’s go. There is a lot to convey to everyone.
*
– Eunsol Lee
Information roughly found. It’s more cliché than I thought.
I don’t know how they ruined the world, but I have a rough idea of ’who’ ruined it. Let’s leave quickly.
I remembered the meeting that took place last night. Teleportation.
Isn’t this really an unimaginable method? Surely, that way, I could go to the broadcasting station, ignoring all the dangers of this annoyingly large house.
However, there is no perfect plan. The problems we found in the ‘Teleportation Plan’.
After being infected with the curse, ‘another me’ changes the schedule.
To prevent this, I busily created a detailed ‘broadcasting station schedule’ on my smartphone from the morning and informed the secretary and directors.
It feels like the curse is being spread even through a simple KakaoTalk message on a smartphone. It’s truly vicious.
I think this is enough. I made my ‘broadcasting station visit schedule’ official by informing my secretary, directors, family, and other people about my schedule.
Is this enough? Now, let’s pray that my future self can go to the broadcasting station on his own.
I opened the door. People approached from across the street.
…I feel my consciousness becoming blurred.
…
“Director!”
*
– Cha Jin-cheol
After lightly pushing my mother, I kept my distance and told her that I had an interview scheduled at a broadcasting station.
Is this roughly enough? Now that you are infected with the curse, you will go to the broadcasting station for an interview, right?
Just in case, I also sent it to the dojo director via text message.
Where will this go to so many people? Since I said that, even after being infected with the curse, I will most likely follow suit.
I approached my fake mother.
…I feel my consciousness becoming blurred.
…
“Jincheol!”
*
– Elena
…
dark. I can barely hear any sound.
This is natural since the third attempt starts with Song-i’s ‘sensory block’.
Thanks to this, my reason is still holding on even though my sister is touching me right next to me.
Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to find any information.
Since she is next to her sister from the beginning, she has no choice but to start by blocking off her senses with Songi’s help. I can’t see, so I can’t use a computer or smartphone.
I took out my clothes from the closet and started changing.
…
This is difficult. Choosing and changing clothes just by touch without being seen. It’s harder than I thought.
I told my sister that I would soon be leaving with ABS. She couldn’t hear her sister’s answer. Anyway, I go to broadcasting stations quite often! A plan like this will proceed naturally.
Gradually, sight and hearing return. I started to see ahead.
I saw my sister eating something ‘bizarre’.
…I feel my consciousness becoming blurred.
.
.
.
I came to my senses.
Flash! When I looked around in surprise, someone tapped my shoulder.
“Are you awake?”
“Grandpa?”
“I was waiting for you. You came quite early.”
“Did anyone else come too?”
“Miss Songi will be arriving soon. Judging by the fact that she has started using the chat window, she is almost there.”
“Then all you have to do is Ga-in, Jin-cheol, and Eun-sol come!”
“Gain will probably take quite a while. He decided to take his younger brother and take a taxi. Eunsol… she probably won’t be able to come.”
“yes?”
“Turn on your smartphone and check the news. It’s crazy right now in the world of ‘this stage.’”
Surprised, I turned on my smartphone and saw a number of top news articles about the death of the chairman of Daeyang Group during a human hunt.
…Human hunting?
If you’re a chairman who does that, you’re dead.
Although we didn’t say anything openly, we knew each other roughly.
I also heard that your sister is the daughter of the chairman of Daeyang Group.
I can’t come in this situation. No matter what schedule you have, everything will be canceled.
—Tongue
The sound of something heavy hitting the ground.
When I turned my head in that direction, Mr. Jincheol ‘appeared’.
…
I think we’re screwed.
Mr. Jincheol did not come alone.
The moment I saw the elderly woman next to Jincheol, probably the ‘mother’ I often referred to, my breath caught.
Grandfather Mukseong also let out a sigh and covered his head.
“That stupid wild boar! What did you do to bring your mother with you!”
What do we do? If Jincheol’s family stays by his side like that, the curse will not be lifted.
The situation became increasingly serious.
The two mothers naturally started coming toward the waiting room.
What should I do with this? If this were to happen, we would all lose our senses because of that lady!
“Elena! Stick to the wall! Let’s keep as much distance from those idiots as possible. Songi will come soon. If Songi uses her hallucinations well, she will be able to separate those two.”
Immediately, both of them were pressed against the wall of the waiting room.
Jincheol and his mother came into the waiting room. A friendly hat. I can hear people talking about interviews and getting a job.
Let’s hold on. Let’s hold on. Songi will come and do something.
…
My mother found me.
“Oh my! Oh my! Isn’t that the lady from Bixx Summit?”
ah. I’ve only been there about 4 times and you recognize me.
Normally I would have been grateful. Of course, a place like this. You recognize me in this situation.
My mother hurriedly took out a piece of paper and approached me.
…
You were even a fan. Oh my thank you. I probably have a few fans in the world, but surprisingly, Jincheol’s mother is one of them.
Thank you very much. Thanks to you, I think I’m going to go crazy soon.
I tried moving left and right against the wall, but the waiting room wasn’t any kind of playground, so there was no way I could avoid it.
I waited impatiently for the fate to come.
—click.
Everything in the waiting room stopped with a cold metallic sound.
When I looked at my grandfather in confusion, he took out a gun and was holding it. What are you going to do?
“Grandpa! Who are you trying to shoot?”
“I’m sorry, but I have to kill that wild boar’s mother now.”
“What if Jincheol gets excited? Right now, he’s probably thinking of that ‘fake mother’ as if he were his real mother!”
“We have to hold on. If we just shoot that mother, Jincheol will come to his senses soon since we are the only ones around. We just have to hold on for a few seconds.”
The grandfather’s expression was absolutely frozen.
Even if you have a gun, wouldn’t it be too difficult for a superhuman who can break a concrete wall with his fist to last ‘a few seconds’?
“Grandpa, why don’t you just shoot Jincheol with a gun?”
A fact that has been revealed several times over the years. Regardless of Jincheol’s strength, his body was not durable enough to deflect bullets.
“It’s hard to proceed after killing that guy, so we’ll have to try to somehow save him and bring him to his senses.”
…
My grandfather pointed the gun at my mother.
‘Mother’, who was approaching me, saw this and suddenly stood on her head.
—bang!
Blood spouted from ‘Mother’s’ shoulder dance.
…
“Aaaahhh!”
Jincheol’s roar echoed throughout the first floor of the broadcasting station.
Oh, I really messed up.
*
– Cha Jin-cheol
Is this a dream? Is it a nightmare? An interview to start a new life.
My mother also came along, saying she would support me. She tried hard to stop him, but she couldn’t help it. In the end, she told me to go eat something at the broadcasting station and then go.
I entered the broadcasting station and headed toward the waiting room.
There were about two people inside the waiting room, but for some reason they were pressed against the wall and I couldn’t see them well, so I decided not to pay any attention to them.
“Oh my! Oh my! Isn’t that the lady from Bixx Summit?”
“Huh? Who are you talking about?”
“That girl! Oh my! I need to get an autograph.”
The moment when the mother hurriedly approaches the young lady.
A stocky old man in a suit stepped forward. There was a pistol in the old man’s hand.
What on earth –
Before I could react, blood splattered from my mother’s shoulder.
…
Heat rises all over my head.
I leapt towards the old man with all the strength of my body. 10M in an instant? As I narrow the distance further, I hear swearing coming out of the old man’s mouth.
The gun was pointed at me. I got goosebumps for a moment. It ends like this?
…
“You little wild boar! Please come to your senses!”
The old man said something incomprehensible and put away his gun.
When my powerful fist was aimed at the old man, the old man took a stance and adjusted the timing to twist the trajectory of my punch with his palm.
No, ‘I tried to twist it.’
It’s pointless. With ‘barely this much strength’, I can’t bend the trajectory of my arm at all.
Meanwhile, the old man twisted his head and pinned my fist into the wall.
—bang!!!
The wall of the broadcasting station’s waiting room was severely damaged, accompanied by the sound of a hammer hitting the wall.
At the same time, the old man seemed to have given up and took out his gun again –
I have no intention of giving you a second chance.
He immediately kicked the old man and made him drop the gun. The old man’s leg was crushed by one kick. The old man collapsed on the floor and began to let out his moans.
done. Now that we’ve defeated this crazy old man, if we take her mother to the hospital-
–Talkak
The sound of the gun again. I raised my head in surprise.
…
The foreigner who came to the BXX conference that my mother mentioned earlier.
…I was momentarily lost.
She is an incredibly beautiful girl. foreigner? Is it a broadcasting station or a celebrity?
However, the young lady had a gun in her hand, as if she had picked it up.
The young lady pointed the gun at her ‘mother’.
What on earth? Why are everyone from crazy old men to celebrities suddenly trying to kill my mother?
—bang! —bang!
… It all went astray.
Apparently, unlike the old man from before, that young lady is not good at shooting a pistol. He couldn’t get near his mother and the bullets flew in the wrong direction.
Still, I guess I should at least take the gun away.
…
The young lady was crying.
Something – a strange sense that I had done something terribly wrong.
What on earth? Rather, my mother and I are the victims. Why do I feel this way?
—bang!
A bullet passed by me.
I’m really bad at shooting. However, if you go on like this and get hit by a blind bullet, it would be a big deal.
It kicked the ground again and flew away. Just as he was about to snatch the gun away with a single gesture and knock him unconscious with a light blow.
Someone came into the broadcasting station. female student? He is wearing a school uniform.
The student’s arm seemed to be flashing, and an unusual glow passed me by.
When I felt something – a dizzying force – come upon me.
Everything around me disappeared.
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