Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 71
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Episode 71 – No. 101, Room of the Curse – ‘Media that Changes Common Sense’ (5)
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fourth attempt
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– Cha Jin-cheol
I was so surprised that I turned around. Suddenly the broadcasting station disappeared.
Huge cliffs. A line connecting those cliffs. I’m holding on precariously on that line.
There was a female student across from me.
…I think I understand. That girl. That monster is the cause of all these strange phenomena. Just kill that thing!
He kicked the rope with his foot and jumped up. About 5 seconds? It wasn’t long before we reached the female student.
Looking closely, the girl looks quite cute. Wouldn’t he be pretty popular at school?
However, the expression on his face was a bit creepy. It’s like a mannequin, glaring at me without any expression.
I guess it’s good. That’s right, it’s a monster. One shot is enough!
I slammed my fist down.
…
The world collapsed again.
Suddenly a jungle appeared. Monkeys attacked me from all directions.
They threw the monkeys away with all their might. It exploded its head with a single blow, grabbed one of its legs, and slammed it to the floor. I grabbed both of them with both hands and exploded them at the same time.
Let’s kill fifteen monkeys in this way.
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Everything collapsed again.
This time, the whole world was filled with stone mountains. Rocks filled all over the front, left, and right. I thought as I waved my arms and legs around and destroyed the surroundings.
You can never win this way. I have fallen into an inexhaustible hell from which I can never escape.
Is it that girl from earlier? How on earth does she use this power?
—bang! —bang!
…I lowered my head.
I felt intense pain in my chest.
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Consciousness becomes blurred.
In the nightmare, I vaguely feel myself waking up.
What on earth is this? So now I –
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– Elena
I wiped away the tears that were flowing and looked at the broadcasting station.
A landscape that resembles a battlefield.
More than 10 broadcasting station employees were crushed to death, and my grandfather was left groaning with his legs shattered.
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—bang!
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Song Yi is walking around with a gun and is ‘confirming the kill.’
I thought back on what happened earlier.
Jin-cheol, who couldn’t come to his senses until the end, half-killed Muk-seong’s grandfather, and I belatedly tried to kill ‘mother’ with a gun, but failed.
In the end, I’m dead now too.
I thought so.
Songi, who arrived late, took care of the situation.
He clapped his hand behind Jincheol and suddenly Jincheol turned and ran in the wrong direction, fell alone, hit the wall and ran wild.
Many broadcasting station employees and security guards rushed to stop Jincheol, but they were beaten to death as a group.
At that moment, it felt like a gorilla was throwing a person, not a person.
Song-i, who was watching the chaos as if King Kong was destroying New York from afar, approached with a gun and fired a few shots at Jin-cheol, ending the situation.
Jin-cheol’s mother died long ago in the chaos, but it was inevitable because there was no sign of the curse being lifted as Jin-cheol started fighting with the broadcasting station employees.
After that, Song Yi picked up a gun and started killing employees.
While I was standing there in a daze, half out of my mind, a camera and microphone suddenly approached me.
“Hello! Miss Elena Ivanov? My name is PD Cha. We have just received numerous reports that an interesting event occurred at the broadcasting station during the live broadcast.
What-”
—bang!
—bang!
uh! uh! uh! While they were doing it, Song Yi shot and killed everyone from the producer to the cameraman.
Rather, if it were reality, it would be difficult to kill them all like this no matter how many guns you have.
At least I can run away.
However, due to a curse, it is an abnormal situation where a person’s death is considered a fun event or show.
People didn’t even run away. He died smiling even as the person right next to him died.
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It’s surprising, but why is Jincheol, infected with the curse, so angry?
In this strange world, what big deal is it that I killed my mother?
If we were to follow the ‘common sense’ here, we would probably just laugh it off, but it seems he was overly dutiful.
“Sister. Be careful.”
“…Ah, thank you.”
Songi approached Grandpa Mukseong.
My grandfather had already administered first aid in his own way.
“Is it worth holding on?”
“I managed to manage one side, but the other side is completely unworkable. I need help.”
“Please rest. I will sort things out.”
After that, Songi proceeded to confirm and kill the corpses around her by filling them with blood.
The old man who saw this said something.
“There is one of the best junior agents here too? Is this normal for young people these days? The senior is worried about everything.”
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Someone entered the broadcasting station.
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– Han Ga-in
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 23
Current location: Tier 1, Room 101 (Curse Room – Common Sense Change Media)
Sage Advice: 3]
It may be new, but I feel like I really do everything in this room!
I feel like I’ve gathered all the information, and I’ve done the most research, right?
Isn’t this when I get an inheritance?
When you go to the next blessed sanctuary and meet that damn owl, let’s hold out the inheritance and shout out, “Look at this, you bastard.”
I’m already happy. And didn’t I find out a lot more on this fourth attempt?
I don’t know what power the ‘villain’ has, but I have a rough idea of who the ‘villain’ is and what the general scenario is.
As I was thinking such happy thoughts, the painful time in the taxi passed quickly.
Lots of information to take away from everyone.
I arrived at the broadcasting station with a big smile on my face, feeling like I was the head of a family who earned my salary to buy pizza or chicken.
?
??
???
What is it? Why on earth did the broadcasting station become a battlefield?
I was so embarrassed that I lost my mind.
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What on earth is going on?
When I belatedly heard the explanation from my colleagues at the broadcasting station, I was speechless.
therefore… .
Jincheol’s mother came along. When my brother was still in his right mind, he planned to go to the broadcasting station alone, but when he lost his temper, his mother insisted that he come along.
A bloody fight that no one expected.
Thanks to this, my older brother died, my grandfather lost his leg and it was difficult for him to move, and only me, Elena, and Songi were left.
The three gathered at the broadcasting station, which was almost a battlefield.
“…”
“…”
“What do you think I should do?”
“Isn’t it time to try one more time? That wild boar died, leaving a big hole in our power.”
Elena expressed concern.
“But, Grandpa, this is already my fourth attempt. It seems like the level of difficulty increases from the fifth.”
“Well, what can I do? I’ll just have to try harder.”
“Can you move?”
“…”
“I think you need to be honest.”
“It’s impossible if someone doesn’t keep supporting you.”
In the end, Songi represented what was in everyone’s hearts.
“Then, why don’t you just go outside the broadcasting station and escape? The reason your family isn’t judged as an escape even though they aren’t nearby is because they are inside the broadcasting station, so I think you can escape if you just leave the broadcasting station and move for about 10 minutes.”
“… Of course. It would be best not to disturb.”
“Go and rest first. I’ll find out as much information as I can, and if possible, I’ll even get your inheritance.”
“Try your best. Well, you’re going to go out and listen anyway, but did you find anything by searching?”
Am I the only one who searched correctly? Everyone’s eyes were on me.
“First of all, I don’t know ‘how’ he started spreading the curse. However, I do know ‘who’ and ‘why’ this happened.
There was a student named Kim Sang-min at Shindong High School. Based on the articles posted later, it appears that he suffered from quite severe school violence. There are 8 students who were mainly bullied.
When he was being bullied and couldn’t get help at school, he sought help outside of school, even filed a lawsuit, and his parents seemed to be eager to help.
However, I lost the trial at the time. Looking at the article, it seems that the conclusion was that the student made up violence that did not exist due to delusions due to mental illness, but looking at another article, isn’t the cause of the mental illness in the first place because he was subjected to extreme bullying? He said.
In short, there was a fight over whether he developed a mental illness because he was bullied, or whether he imagined the bullying because he had a mental illness, but at trial, the latter side sided and the victim was sent to the hospital.”
“Why did the broadcasting station appear in that story?”
“In the middle, the biggest reason the victim lost the trial was the news. An ABS reporter went to investigate and said that the victim was mentally ill and often caused trouble at school, but other students were the victims. He published several articles like this. “It was used as evidence in the trial.”
“I felt it while listening, but isn’t it possible that the trial could actually be correct? It seems like the kid named Sang-min was actually crazy, causing trouble at school, and may have been delusional that another student was bullying him.”
“Song is right. I don’t know the real truth, but the villain in this ‘scenario’ is like Kim Sang-min, so I’m just explaining it based on that friend. In the end, we have to understand where he’s hiding and what he’s doing.”
“Please explain further. I understand the broadcasting station, but where did ‘Shinsegae Hospital’ come from?”
“After Kim Sang-min lost the trial, he began receiving treatment at Shinsegae Hospital. And from then on, reports from different perspectives began to come out. In other words, did Kim Sang-min’s side emerge?
Shinsegae Hospital was a psychiatric hospital, and it is said that the hospital director personally treated Kim Sang-min. During the treatment process, I heard the patient’s circumstances, and it seems that I was partly persuaded by the patient’s words during the treatment process.
So on the patient’s side, ‘the perpetrators harshly tormented the patient and created mental illness.’ I brought up a story like this. When the director of a famous hospital said the exact opposite, reporters also poured out their reports.
Then the hospital suddenly disappeared, and just three days later, the world came to an end.”
“The hospital is disappearing?”
“Yes. It was an incident that made a huge splash three days before the world collapsed. The hospital literally disappeared. The entire building.”
“Did ‘Kim Sang-min’ gain some tremendous power at that point?”
“maybe?”
After finishing the rough explanation, everyone quietly began to think.
“So, do you think that the ‘culprit’ who committed this scandal is that kid called ‘Kim Sang-min’?”
“That’s right. It explains why the other students who were being tortured in the basement, starting from the hospital and even the broadcasting station, got involved.”
“Hmm. From his perspective, let’s say the underground students, the broadcasting station, and the entire world are targets of revenge.
But why were hospitals the first target? Isn’t the hospital actually a benefactor for ‘Kim Sang-min’? Why did they even make the hospital strange? From your perspective, it looks like the nurses and patients have all turned into monsters.”
“I’ll have to check that out further. It could just be that he’s crazy.”
“The scenario is cliché. So it doesn’t seem to have much meaning to say who the culprit is. What’s important is, at best, how a human high school student ruined the world.”
“Do you think there are other beasts with supernatural powers?”
“Well, that’s right. There may be another evil beast, and the kid may have gotten some treasure that he can’t handle.”
“Where do you think we should explore now?”
“I guess it’s upstairs from the broadcasting station?”
“What should I look for?”
“I’ll point it out to you. There’s only one thing you need to find now. That kid named Kim Sang-min, who is presumed to be the one who caused this scandal. We need to find him.
He must be somewhere in this broadcasting station, or in the ‘disappeared hospital’ that can be accessed through the broadcasting station. If possible, kill him, and if it seems difficult, next time, I think it will be over if we all come together and kill him.”
After finishing the conversation, Grandpa Mukseong sighed and walked out of the broadcasting station.
There are three people left.
We have to search the upstairs of the broadcasting station and search the ‘lost hospital’ that can be accessed through the broadcasting station to find the villain.
See next episode