Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 73
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Episode 73 – No. 101, Room of the Curse – ‘Media that Changes Common Sense’ (7)
* Fourth attempt
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 23
Current location: Tier 1, Room 101 (Curse Room – Common Sense Change Media)
Sage Advice: 3]
Ding – Dong!
A cheerful ringtone rang.
When we opened the door to the rooftop and entered, we arrived at the entrance to a completely different place.
Proper cleaning had not been done for quite a long time, so the surrounding area was dirty and the air was thick.
It wasn’t difficult to figure out where this place was.
A place that everyone has visited dozens or hundreds of times in their lifetime.
It’s a hospital.
If there was just one problem, it was the type of nurse.
… The twisted nurses I had already seen several times were standing at the front desk as if they were imitating ordinary nurses.
“Kweeheklaarak”
What on earth are you talking about? If I were to be honest, wouldn’t it have been something like ‘hello’?
It’s definitely not a hostile atmosphere. If you look at their actions, they even nod and say hello.
As I looked at the twisted nurses, my hand reflexively went to the gun on my waist.
Songi grabbed my arm.
“Oppa. I don’t think there’s any need to provoke you.”
right. Let’s be patient. I think I roughly understand the situation.
Now we have entered the ‘entrance of the hospital’. So it seems to be a kind of ‘guest treatment’.
Let’s take a look without provoking it.
I slowly began to wander around the inside of the hospital under the twisted gaze of the nurses.
Is there a hospital like this in the world?
As we entered the hospital, rooms began to appear.
The scene inside the hospital room was familiar to me as I had already seen it once. Strange places that appeared when you opened the car window in the basement of the broadcasting station.
That place was the hospital room. Each hospital room is filled with steel beds, and patients who are mentally unstable are chained to those beds.
Patients were constantly moaning. Sometimes, a nurse entered the room.
… I don’t want to imagine what’s going on anymore.
As we wandered around the hospital, a nurse approached us.
We were very confused, but the nurse approached us appropriately, stopped, and made another strange noise.
Let’s think calmly.
They’ve been treating me like a ‘guest’ so far, so there’s no way they’ll suddenly attack me.
Think of it like an ordinary hospital. What will the visiting nurse say because the guests who come into the hospital are wandering around?
Perhaps, “Are you looking for someone?” Isn’t that about the same amount?
I shouted unconditionally as I continued to sing.
“Kim Sang-min! I’m looking for student Kim Sang-min.”
Please understand.
The twisted nurse nodded and, as if she understood something, turned around and walked away.
Naturally, we formed a triangle with me with the filter and Songi with the bracelet taking the lead, and Elena standing behind, so we followed the nurse.
After that, it was rather comfortable. Once the nurse guiding us appeared, the other nurses did not approach us, and we followed the guiding nurse for about 15 minutes while maintaining an appropriate distance.
As I slowly observed the hospital, I realized that the strange places that had appeared when the broadcasting station’s ‘precautions’ had been violated were part of the hospital.
After walking down the 4th floor hallway of the hospital for a while, the nurse stopped.
A huge hospital room in the direction indicated by a hand gesture.
… Is it that place?
The goal we have been searching for since yesterday while going through all this trouble.
Just before entering, I was desperately hoping for some ‘advice’.
‘What should I do?’
[Please hand the gun to Songi.]
… What this advice means. I think I understand. He wordlessly handed the gun to Songi.
We made a decision together with everyone.
“Is everyone ready? It’s Song. I’ve filled all the bullets in that gun.”
“Confirmed. You can use the bracelet right away.”
“If it’s a person… I wish it was a person. So I can use blessings too.”
We entered ‘Kim Sang-min’s’ hospital room.
*
What on earth is here?
I have seen countless cruel and terrible scenes… .
This place is different from any place I have ever seen.
A completely different world. Regardless of whether it is cruel or not, it is a place that is fundamentally different from ‘Earth’.
A landscape resembling a cave on an alien planet.
Huge, translucent stones like unidentified crystals rise everywhere.
There was no light source visible anywhere, but the entire space was bright. It seems as if there are glowing microorganisms mixed in the air.
and –
The power of the curse has become overwhelmingly stronger.
A headache that feels like splitting your head, even though no entity appears.
Strange ‘common knowledge’ that I could not stop was seeping into my head.
I forced my head to turn. The only thing that looks fine is Songi, who put on a bracelet as soon as she came in.
Elena was already sitting down.
…
The bunches look quite appetizing. Come to think of it, doesn’t the name sound pretty appetizing?
Matsutake. I really like pine mushrooms.
Pine mushrooms are expensive and not easy to find. If you get it, how will you eat it?
The better the food ingredients are, the more difficult it is to add various seasonings or spices carelessly.
If you are lucky enough to find good quality pine mushrooms, the best way to eat them is to lightly shake off the dirt, roast them in the oven, and dip them in salt.
In the past, I heard that a certain celebrity was criticized for eating those expensive pine mushrooms in ramen, and honestly, I’m very jealous.
A mouth-watering bite of the best ramen, with a generous amount of expensive ingredients poured into the ramen! Isn’t that really a romance?
In Japan, it is said that they usually put it in a kettle and eat it in the form of dobinmushi (teapot steamed rice), which is why it is said to be such a delicacy. It’s one of the dishes I’ve always wanted to try after seeing it on TV.
Songi would be similar, right? The name sounds delicious!
However, when I thought about it, the bunch was too big to fit into the kettle. Should I buy a larger kettle? Or make the bunches smaller –
—bang!
…consciousness becomes blurred.
This place is too difficult to filter.
I guessed it, but the meaning of the advice to give the gun to Songi was simple.
‘No matter what you try, there is no answer here.’
*
– Yoosongi
—bang! —bang!
…
I couldn’t help it.
I don’t know if it was the people in the hotel who were under the curse, but my colleagues really didn’t want to shoot them.
Why do I keep playing this role ‘only I’?
But what should I do?
Ga-in suddenly came up to me and stroked my head.
What was it all of a sudden at first? I was embarrassed. however… .
‘If I just take off the head, wouldn’t I be able to put it in the kettle?’
I shot after hearing this.
Elena suddenly grabbed my leg and stretched it out.
‘Cook this part slowly and mix it with beef -‘
I shot after hearing this.
… I don’t know why they both thought of eating me.
The power of the curse is truly enormous.
Even though my sister and Ga-in oppa have a filter, they never seem to be able to survive in here.
I honestly don’t know. I didn’t really feel any change.
Perhaps the power of the bracelet is a power higher than almost all the mental attacks that exist in this hotel.
But, if everyone but me collapses like this, what should I do next time?
… I don’t know. If you go out and talk, trust that other people will come up with intelligent opinions.
I just have to go to the end, even if it’s just me.
…
It didn’t take long. 3 minutes? When we reached the end of the cave, we saw something that resembled a huge lump of flesh.
What is it? Is this the cause of all this? It just looks like a giant wriggling heart?
Next time, while I protect Jincheol’s mind, can he just blow this thing up with his fist?
I guess I picked up the gun anyway, should I shoot it?
bang! bang! bang!
After firing about three shots in succession, there was finally a reaction.
‘it hurts! it hurts! it hurts! it hurts! You are hurting me too.
A voice that pierces my head.
I hear the sound of something running. When I turned around, I saw the nurses running.
Ah, it’s this guy after all. I think we can destroy this somehow.
At this rate, I guess I’ve done everything I can, right?
I’m scared to do more now.
But before we go, let me say something.
“It will be much less than the nuisance you brought to the world, right?”
And, leaving only one shot for suicide, he fired all the remaining bullets into that lump of flesh.
-bang! bang! bang! bang! bang!
‘Ahhh! teacher! Where are you in now! Another kid came to bully me. teacher!’
teacher? I also know one teacher. Sangmin, who is your teacher again?
Nurses started rushing in.
… Let’s leave it at this.
—bang!
…consciousness becomes blurred.
*
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 23
Current location: Tier 1, hallway
Sage Advice: 2]
– Han Ga-in
thud! I woke up in the hallway with the feeling of falling to the floor more roughly than usual.
As I looked around, wiping my head, I saw that everyone was standing up with tired expressions.
The time is roughly evening time. Since I started in the morning, I’ve used up almost the whole day.
As soon as everyone comes to their senses –
Many people’s eyes naturally focused on one person.
The biggest man among us lowered his head, looking almost dead.
*
That often happens when you work with a group of people.
When someone makes a small mistake, everyone criticizes them, makes fun of them, and disciplines them.
However, if you make a big mistake, there are times when it is difficult to say such a thing.
In such cases, there are many cases in which people are too busy trying to clean things up without having time to scold someone, and unless the person involved is quite shameless, they often shrink from a huge sense of self-reproach, making it difficult to criticize them.
This phenomenon becomes especially worse in relationships where people must continue to work together in the future.
If you yourself are suffering, will the situation get better if you add a few words to it?
It’s more productive for everyone to console and think about what’s next.
That’s exactly what we are doing now.
*
“Hey! Hey! If anyone sees it, they’ll think we’re all behind. What are we doing if we’re not eating?”
“…”
“Why are you hiding so much when you have shown some filial piety? I was on the rest team and the give up team from the beginning, so I was really relaxed because I had fun playing with my mom~”
Ari, I think you can feel a little sorry.
“Hey! I held a funeral for my fake father and got into a fight with my family, and then I got buried. It’s not a joke, I really got buried. But why are you so cringe-worthy?”
Buried in death? sister? What is your family relationship like?
“Oppa! You still have the red pill, right? That’s it. I watched it until the end, and I think it will be resolved as long as you take the pill and burst the flesh.
By the way, what on earth was Ga-in thinking at the end?”
Suddenly the ball was passed to me. Since leaving Room 101, Song-i has asked me three times what ‘kettle’ is about.
…
Rather than explaining the story of Japanese kettle-steamed pine mushrooms, I think it would be easier to pretend to have amnesia.
“I really don’t know. I lost my memory as soon as I opened the door to the hospital room.”
“Hmm….”
It looks like he doesn’t believe it at all. I have to maintain social distancing with Song today.
This is how the chaotic dinner ended.
*
“Now, it’s time for the final strategy meeting. Of course, I can’t guarantee whether it will be the final or not, but I think this is the last. I knew who the target was, I knew where it was, and I knew roughly what kind of power it had. If we drag it out any longer, we’re incompetent. “I guess.”
“Eunsol noona. This is our fifth time….”
“Yes. That’s the biggest problem. If I had saved even just one attempt and this was my 4th attempt, I probably would have passed 100% without any problems. But it’s my 5th time. Ari. By any chance, do you remember anything about ‘how’ things change? ”
“I’m sorry. The first time at Hotel was a time when I was really young mentally. I don’t remember much of it.”
Ari was born in a hotel. In other words, I must have been a really young child during the first episode, so I probably don’t have many clear memories.
“So, the first item on the agenda for today’s strategy meeting is this.
1. Will you continue to challenge No. 101?
Depending on what you think, the answer might be to skip issue 101, which is likely to be more difficult, and proceed with issue 102 or 104, and then return to issue 101 after we are stronger.
Of course, you can see it from a different perspective. Would it be easy to move to another room?
Fundamentally, our ‘specification improvement’ has not progressed at all. If I recklessly try another room in this state, will it break easily? What if I struggle in other rooms and make it to the 5th time?
Wouldn’t it be better to do issue 101 one more time, where we learned a lot?
You never know. In the first place, it is difficult to make a rational decision because we do not know ‘how’ things change.
“Everyone else, please share your thoughts.”
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