Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 72
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Episode 72 – No. 101, Room of the Curse – ‘Media that Changes Common Sense’ (6)
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fourth attempt
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[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 23
Current location: Tier 1, Room 101 (Curse Room – Common Sense Change Media)
Sage Advice: 3]
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—bang!
Navigating upstairs was much easier than navigating underground.
—bang!
It can’t be this comfortable because you just shoot and kill everyone. I received a gun from Songi and started shooting it myself. As I continued shooting, I felt like my shooting skills were getting better.
Sit down for a moment and recharge your blood.
What I learned from this incident is that there is no need to draw blood to refill the pistol’s magazine. Anyway, the entire broadcasting station is full of corpses and there is a lot of blood.
“Oh my! Myeonghu-”
—bang!
“…”
“Ele-”
—bang!
“…”
Since the location was a broadcasting station, there seemed to be someone Elena knew. However, they are not real people anyway, and it is more dangerous if they recognize Elena and approach her.
They had no choice but to shoot at everyone as they passed by and Elena was only shocked but did not stop them.
If we are to shoot and kill everyone in sight, where on earth should we search?
“Miss Elena, do you have any idea where ABS should search?
“Rather than my knowledge of the broadcasting station, I think there is a hint in the information Ga-in found.”
“The information I found?”
“Didn’t you find a ‘note’ in the security room in the basement? I think there’s a similar item upstairs.”
‘caution’. Is it upstairs too?
… Now that I think about it, who on earth came up with something like ‘cautions’?
I moved to the second floor and headed toward the office. When a major accident occurred on the first floor, did most people come down and die? There was no one in the office.
When I entered the office, I found coated paper with ‘Caution’ written on it attached to the wall.
1. You must press the elevator to only one floor at a time.
2. There are no empty floors between the 4th and 5th floors. Do not enter the strange floor, but go down.
3. Always knock before entering the bathroom on the 6th floor.
4. You must never go to the rooftop.
“There are real precautions upstairs too. Let’s check them one by one, just like I did when I searched.”
When I was about to turn around, Songi grabbed my arm.
“Oppa Gain.”
“huh?”
“Do we need to do it ourselves? You said a monster appeared when you turned around on the stairs? I think there will be a similar danger this time.”
I understand what you mean. I was alone when I searched the basement, but there were many staff members upstairs besides us.
Is there a need for us to do such dangerous work ourselves?
Elena responded.
“I think Song is right! There are a lot of cameras here. We ask the staff to ‘favor’ us and proceed while filming with the cameras. We check with the tablet linked to the camera.”
… Elena, who had been shocked when I shot the broadcasting station employees earlier, has disappeared somewhere.
The only people left are those who want to attach cameras to employees and have them kill us instead.
But it seems like a good idea.
I spent about 30 minutes messing around to link the tablet and cameras in my office.
Now, we just need to find someone to go to dangerous places for us.
“What should I do? If I threaten you with a gun, will you listen?”
“Oppa. In a world where people laugh even when they die, would you be threatened with your life?”
“Let me give it a try.”
With Elena’s guidance, we all moved to the 4th floor together. Certainly, unlike Nana Songi, Elena, who has been to ABS a few times, shows no hesitation in her movements.
Did the chaos on the first floor not spread to the fourth floor? As soon as I went to the 4th floor, there were a lot of people. Is it okay to just shoot? Who should I ask to do the work?
“Mr. Gain, shoot not the people I designate. You can shoot everyone you see right now.”
I shot about four people.
Now, it seems like a new thing, but instead of running away, a person is being shot and killed next to these employees, and they are just looking on with an amused look on their faces.
At that time, Elena grabbed my arm.
“Please don’t shoot anyone coming out now. Is it Song?”
“yes?”
“Now, put that mental protection on me.”
The bracelet sparkled, and Elena stepped forward and started a conversation with the man who came out from inside.
I knew it just 3 seconds after we started talking.
That man, judging by the content of the conversation, that employee was Elena… .
Let’s leave it at this. Everyone has an impossible love at least once.
I don’t know what Elena said, but the employee followed us out without hiding his flushed expression.
Out into the hallway, Elena set up the camera we had prepared for him.
“Then, Mr. Jinwook! Could you please take the elevator?”
“Of course. But Elena? May I ask what you have prepared?”
“Oh my! Wouldn’t it be fun to know that in advance?”
Could it be that what Elena has prepared is an express train to hell?
“Uh-huh! I guess I’m a little short-thinking.”
After the employee entered the elevator alone, we decided to check among the precautions on the upper floor: ‘You must press elevator number 1 for only one floor at a time.’
“Mr. Jinwook! Then, could you press the 3rd and 4th floors together?”
The moment Elena said those words.
The employee froze.
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“Mr. Jinwook?”
“What on earth didn’t you hear what the teacher said? Never in the elevator—–”
Suddenly, I couldn’t breathe and spoke. ‘teacher’?
The man who was talking frantically stopped talking, took a breath, and continued speaking slowly.
“Now that I think about it, Miss Elena, I don’t think you know much about the broadcasting station’s precautions. In the elevator, you should never press the buttons for two floors at once. The teacher strictly forbids this.”
“Mr. Jinwook, who exactly do you mean by ‘teacher’?”
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Instead of answering, the man started shaking all over.
He suddenly tore his clothes and burst out of the elevator in a frenzy.
—bang!
I think I touched something that shouldn’t have been touched.
There was silence between us for a moment.
“Elena. Is there anyone else who can draw something similar?”
“There are a lot. However, I think there is some kind of prohibition so that employees can never break the ‘precautions’.”
“Just bring one more person. I’ll try to trick you this time.”
Another man was brought in through a similar process.
… How many employees of this broadcasting station has Elena possessed? They say she’s an aspiring actress, and judging by her vibe, it seems like she would have appeared right away if she were in real life.
This time, I didn’t say anything like disobeying the precautions.
We just pushed one of the elevator buttons in advance and put the employee in, and the employee who was fooled by the bracelet pressed another button without hesitation.
As soon as the elevator doors closed, we quickly watched on the tablet.
… The inside of the elevator was pitch black.
Did you notice the situation? The employee suddenly fell down and started crying.
“Sorry, sorry, sorry! Teacher! Director! I’m sorry. I made a mistake. This idiot made a mistake!”
Suddenly, the employee frantically slammed his entire body against the elevator wall.
The camera was broken in an instant. Just before the connection was lost. We saw a number of white shapes appear near the elevator doors. saw.
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“Shall we try again?”
“Let’s bring someone else in. Let’s change the camera position.”
After that, I continued to follow the precautions in order to see what would happen.
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no. 1. You must press the elevator to only one floor at a time.
“Anyway, it seems like we’re stopping at a place full of nurse monsters, right?”
“If you look at the video, you can see other rooms in the distance. It feels like the monster is dragging the employee somewhere rather than killing him right away.”
“What are you doing by dragging me away?”
“…”
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No.2. There are no empty floors between the 4th and 5th floors. Do not enter the strange floor, but go down.
“This place is really strange. When you go down or go up, it seems like nothing happens.”
“I repeat going down and up a couple of times, and suddenly there’s an empty floor in the middle.”
“What on earth is this empty floor? Do you know anything, Miss Elena?”
“I’m sure there are no strange floors like this in the broadcasting station.”
“Is this also a ‘hospital’ somewhere?”
“It’s a strange space. There’s nothing there and it’s very spacious. The staff is on their knees crying, wondering why they’re so sorry.”
“What is that? Right corner!”
“That’s a huge eyeball.”
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A huge eyeball is looking at us. Eyes watching the camera, not the staff.
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I was so displeased that I immediately disconnected from the camera.
“… things are getting more and more terrible.”
“Let’s go next, brother.”
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number 3. Always knock before entering the 6th floor bathroom.
“Oh, shit! Oh, I’m sorry. I was startled for a moment.”
“You’re tearing off your arm and eating it?”
“Miss Elena, you can see that terrible thing well.”
“When I watch it on a tablet, it just looks like a movie.”
“If you go into the bathroom after knocking, someone will just appear and leave, but if you go in without knocking, a man-eating monster will come out. Just remember that, brother. Check the last precautions.”
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Number 4. You should never go to the rooftop.
“Is it Song?”
“Wait.”
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“Isn’t it going well?”
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weird. So far, Song-i has been controlling people’s movements with a bracelet quite easily, but since he decides to send his employee to the rooftop, it doesn’t work out.
No matter what Songi did, the employees with cameras hovered near the door leading from the top floor to the rooftop and never opened it.
“Weird.”
“How does it feel exactly?”
“The feeling of never recognizing the door leading to the rooftop. This feeling is familiar…”
“be used to?”
“When I used the bracelet on my sister in the past, no matter what I did, I couldn’t move my sister, who was controlled by Athanasia, the way I wanted. That’s exactly how I felt at that time.”
“What did you end up doing to me then?”
“…”
Songi did not answer. Why does Elena ask that again?
“I roughly understand what the situation is. Just as Athanasia controlled us with a stronger power than Songi back then, isn’t there something stronger now preventing us from going to the rooftop?”
“What should I do?”
“If we hide it this much, we have to go even more. Let’s go ourselves.”
In the end, after killing the employee, we decided to go to the rooftop ourselves.
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All three stopped in front of the rooftop door.
Although they didn’t say anything, they guessed each other.
What happened when you violated the ‘precautions’ above?
An employee who pressed the elevator to two floors at the same time was dragged away by a monster nurse in a hellish hospital.
The monster that entered the floor between the 4th and 5th floors collapsed after encountering an enormous eyeball.
An employee who entered the 6th floor bathroom without knocking was caught.
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There must be a terrible place on the rooftop too. And now you’re going into that place yourself?
“Mr. Gain.”
“yes.”
“Go in, if you feel like you’re going to die now….”
“… I’ll make it easy for you. If possible, I’d rather all three of us get shot.”
“Please do me a favor too.”
“Okay. If I keep saying things like this, I won’t be able to go in. Let’s go in now.”
After encouraging each other to die by being shot if possible,
entered the rooftop.
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