Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 75
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Episode 75 – No. 101, Room of the Curse – ‘Media that Changes Common Sense’ (9)
[User: Han Ga-in (Jihye)
Date: Day 24
Current location: Tier 1, Room 101 (Curse Room – Common Sense Change Media)
Sage Advice: 3]
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fifth attempt
*
– Han Ga-in
As soon as I entered the room, a ‘notification’ appeared.
[The adversaries recognize the participant’s intrusion.]
[The power of the curse becomes stronger.]
[You cannot escape.]
…
This is the penalty starting from the ‘fifth attempt’.
It’s ridiculously harsh.
—thud! thud! thud!
“Come out! Ahahaha! Oppa? Aren’t you coming out?”
—Hook!
…
As soon as it started, the whole family started going crazy.
I immediately locked the door and locked myself in the room.
Can I get out of this?
Consider other people’s situations.
If you have a gun, just shoot and kill him.
Either Song, who has a bracelet, or Jincheol, who is strong, will be able to resolve it somehow.
I’m a little worried about Elena. A situation where she was with her family as soon as it started, with sight and hearing blocked. It depends on whether you can somehow survive the beginning of the play and activate the blessing.
… Actually, it’s not a situation to worry about. The biggest problem is the three of us: me, Seungyeop, and Eunsol.
Eunsol noona will never be able to do it. The bodyguard will rush in, but will there be an answer? I think she’s already dead.
It doesn’t seem to be easy for Seung-yeop either.
—thud! bang!
What should I really do with this? They are determined to break open the door and come in.
…
I opened the closet in my room and put on as many winter clothes as I could. Wear three layers of jeans, two sweaters, and two padding. I think this would be enough to survive even if I fell into Antarctica.
Wouldn’t it be difficult to pierce it with a kitchen knife? My parents and younger brother are not sword masters.
—Suddenly!
As soon as he opened the door, he stabbed his younger brother in the neck with a dagger. In that moment, the kitchen knife grazed my upper body, but still! It couldn’t penetrate extremely thick clothes.
While I was frantically stabbing him repeatedly, I felt someone coming from behind and quickly dodged it, but I was hit hard on my back.
When I turned back, I saw my father holding a golf club that was in his room.
It’s bearable!
Unlike me, who is fully dressed, almost like wearing cloth armor, my family is just in casual clothes. It feels like my intelligence itself has been reduced due to an overly strong curse.
It didn’t take long to take them all down.
…
As expected, ‘Escape’ did not appear even after defeating the entire family.
…my stomach started to hurt.
Did you say ‘the curse has become stronger’?
When I came out of the house, I saw a world that had become hell. A catastrophe in which all humans rush towards all humans.
Should I say that it is fortunate? Unlike the ‘family’ who clearly only targeted ‘me’, other people outside the house were going crazy and fighting among themselves, as it was difficult to control them so delicately.
In this situation, the minimum system, including taxis, has collapsed.
How on earth do I get to a broadcasting station? Walking through this hell?
I decided to try driving a car. Surely the world is in such a state that they won’t get arrested for driving without a license?
I roughly know the route to the broadcasting station.
Just before leaving, I checked the status window.
[Colleague location information (*)
Park Seung-yeop: Dead
Eunsol Lee: Death]
As expected, the two couldn’t hold out.
If we have to, let’s use ‘Gangrim’. It wouldn’t be a waste if it were for the sake of legacy.
… Stomach pain.
*
Driving for the first time was easier than I thought. Because I learned the minimum operation method through my experience playing bumper cars.
Everyone is busy fighting, so there aren’t many cars on the road. People passing by?
I just hit it and went.
There aren’t many cars. I completely ignored things like signals and speed limits, and the person just hit me and went, and I didn’t even care if I hit him here and there and started moving again.
Is it easy to drive?
… Go out and learn how to drive properly.
Somehow, after a difficult time, I arrived at the broadcasting station, and I saw the faces of my colleagues whom I had missed so much in this short period of time.
I saw Songi, which was about a 10-minute walk away, and Grandpa Mukseong, who must have driven there on his own.
“What about the others?”
“I’m waiting. Check your status window. When you die, it says ‘dead’? Do you think the rest will come?”
“I’ve been seeing you periodically since a while ago, and Elena and Jincheol are alive. They seem to be coming somehow.”
“By the way, what kind of penguin are you imitating? What about that outfit? Aha! Did you use your brains for this? You don’t have a gun. After all, you’re my junior!”
“…”
“But why don’t you take it off now? It looks so hot.”
I had no intention of becoming a junior, but it was true that it was hot, so I took off my clothes appropriately.
“What about the broadcasting station staff?”
“It seems like everyone is ‘getting ready’.”
“preparing?”
“They don’t come down from above at all. They probably noticed ‘us’ coming and are preparing in their own way.”
“What preparations are we making?”
“What I’m most worried about is guns. At a broadcasting station, there will be petition police. I think I’ll bring as many guns as I can. That’s why Songi and I are just waiting. I think we can only proceed if the wild boar comes and uses a shield or something.”
Cough!
…
I felt like my throat was itchy, so I coughed harshly.
Not only was there blood, but things that looked like teeth were sticking out.
…
“…”
“Are you okay?”
I slightly rolled up my jacket and checked the condition of my stomach.
…A new mouth was forming on the stomach.
“Are you and Songi okay?”
The old man quietly rolled up his shirt and showed it off.
… Some lumps of flesh mixed with eyeballs and tongues were writhing.
“When it started, it said, ‘The power of the curse becomes stronger.’”
“Perhaps our bodies themselves are distorted now. Songi has a problem with her right arm.”
“It might be difficult to hold out for long.”
“Just take it easy. Anyway, were you planning on staying in a place like this for a long time? Let’s go to the hospital as soon as the two of you arrive.”
“If the circumstances arise, I will use Advent.”
“Yes. Actually, I believed that too and entered room 101 once more.”
“Maybe in yesterday’s vote?”
“I think it was right to go to another room. But, I guess everything will work out with your advent.”
*
Not long after, the sound of a car arriving was heard, and Jincheol appeared.
“You’re here! You bastard! You sure didn’t bring your mother with you again, did you?”
“Are you sure you’ll make that mistake again?”
“Did you take your medicine?”
“I just came.”
We all waited for Elena to arrive.
Has it been about 15 minutes?
…
An angel flew from the sky.
*
Her hair, which seemed to be made of melted gold, waved like waves.
The scales, radiating golden brilliance, spun in a spiral around her.
In that state, Elena ‘came down from heaven.’
When all the colleagues present were entranced with their mouths open,
Elena passed us by as if ignoring us and ran straight upstairs to the broadcasting station.
…what?
“Uh! Uh! Elena!”
“oh!”
“Everybody run! It looks like justice has already been unleashed and we can’t stop it!”
Elena arrived with ‘Justice’ already activated.
I ran frantically and checked Elena’s situation.
The blouse dress that was torn here and there was beautiful, but it also exposed Elena’s body –
Torn?
When I opened my eyes wide, I saw that my clothes were torn here and there and there were wounds everywhere.
Later, my colleagues also noticed this.
“Sister? Are you hurt?”
As before, the conversation itself is possible regardless of Elena’s ‘action’ being forced.
Elena explained step by step.
“As soon as I started, my sister rushed in. I used the blessing too late, but it didn’t heal the wounds that had already occurred.”
…
As soon as we started going up to the broadcasting station, resistance began in earnest.
—bang! —bang!
People in police uniforms started shooting,
Broadcasting station employees began building the interior walls and desks of their offices like barricades.
I think it would have been very difficult to break through honestly.
Elena solved it very easily.
An invisible force began to throw employees and make them all faint.
In the first place, since an invisible hand is suppressing people, barricades are meaningless.
faint? Looking closely, none of the employees appear to be dead.
… After listening to Ari’s words yesterday, is it really possible to ‘subdue’ even a victim of the curse?
I felt like I knew about Elena’s blessing.
blood. Blood flows endlessly as Elena walks in front of her.
Even the overwhelming power of ‘justice’, which blocks flying bullets and ignores and overpowers the barricades erected by employees, does not help at all with the wounds Elena has already suffered.
Since we are walking with blood staining the floor, we have no choice but to talk among ourselves.
“Grandpa! What should we do? Will Elena be able to fight until the end in that condition?”
“I’m going too! If I could stop it, I would at least stop the bleeding, but they’re wiping it all out without stopping.”
“Let’s just get to the rooftop as quickly as possible. We’re already on the 6th floor.”
“I’ll go and pick up Elena.”
“Aren’t you being attacked for interfering with the execution of your brother?”
“I have no intention of interfering. Shouldn’t I just pick it up and run upstairs? I don’t know what kind of artificial intelligence the ‘Blessing’ itself has, but at least I won’t interfere.”
Jincheol ran over and started running, holding Elena in his arms.
Fortunately, Elena didn’t refuse either.
…Will I be able to go to the end like this?
*
In the end, as soon as she got to the rooftop, Elena fainted from the tension. It seemed that even the power of ‘justice’ that forced her execution could not stop Elena from fainting because her own body could not withstand it.
“Anyway, all the employees down here are incapacitated. Let’s leave them here and go up on our own.”
“Would it be safe if we left it here? The employees weren’t dead, they were just unconscious. We couldn’t even kill them for fear that Elena would attack ‘us.’ If the employees wake up, they will kill Elena.”
“So you’re taking me to a hospital overflowing with monsters?”
“Look at this. We have to take him.”
The direction the pine tree points in.
The scale was orbiting around Elena.
“The blessing hasn’t disappeared?”
“Justice is still being served. It’s just that Elena’s body passed out. If she wakes up somehow, she’ll be able to fight again.”
“I fainted because the bleeding was so bad. How on earth can I wake up? I’m going to die any minute now.”
“The blessing may work even when you are unconscious. Maybe you will wake up.”
“Let’s just take it! I’ll carry it! It’s not heavy anyway.”
“No, I will carry you. It will be easier for you to climb up if you are freer.”
As if blocking the option of ‘leaving Elena among the employees who will wake up soon’, Jincheol seemed ready to move with Elena.
However, if his real brother carries him on his back, the loss of his combat power is too great. I carried it.
… The smell of blood wafts up to me. Is it really okay?
Grandpa Mukseong didn’t question it any further.
The rooftop of the broadcasting station. A place connected to the hospital entrance.
Everyone stopped for a moment.
…
There is no need to waste time. After looking at each other once, we made our resolve and entered the hospital.
The long episode 101 has come to an end.
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