Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 78
Only Krnovel
Episode 78 – What Ari experienced (2)
“Penguin!”
I’m tired. Does her mother still not know how to continue speaking?
Should I get scolded for not using words like that when starting out?
…
5th session. The scary notifications that appeared when I first started.
[The adversaries recognize the participant’s intrusion.]
[The power of the curse becomes stronger.]
[You cannot escape.]
When I saw that, I got goosebumps for the first time in a long time. As soon as she started, she increased her strength in preparation for her mother to pounce.
…no change.
What is it?
It can’t be a meaningless notification. I had no feeling that ‘Kim Sang-min’ was attacking me in any way, and the power of the curse did not get stronger at all.
Is it because the place I am is a ‘hotel’ cut off from the outside world?
If you think about it that way, how did my mother become infected with the curse in the first place?
I don’t know anymore. I just waited in a daze, waiting for the space around me to collapse and a solution to appear.
Dear colleagues! Fighting~!
“Penguin! Answer quickly!”
Eh, I don’t know. Let’s ignore it since we were planning to go to the broadcasting station in the evening anyway.
Mom will break down the door and come in. Wouldn’t the broadcasting station come to their senses?
.
.
.
It seems like quite a long time has passed.
Mom hasn’t come in yet, and there hasn’t been a solution yet.
Is it strange? Mom is not a person with this much patience.
Just to check what he was planning, I opened the door and went out.
It wasn’t until I came out of room 103, walked down the hallway, and headed towards the front door of the hotel that I saw my mom.
weird. Such an atmosphere.
Mom is not the type to just stand quietly and admire the scenery.
…
Questions I have had since entering room 101.
‘How did my mother become infected with the curse in a hotel with no way to communicate with the outside world?’
‘The 5th round started and all kinds of penalties started, but why haven’t I seen any changes?’
And, the strange attitude of the mother standing over there.
Realization came to me with the feeling of lightning striking my head.
An answer that pierced all the questions I had came to mind in an instant.
“You! Who the hell are you?”
“disappointed.”
“what?”
“Isn’t this your second time at the hotel? I never thought the realization would be this slow.”
“…”
“I was deceived because I didn’t know what the curse medium was at first, and I’m disappointed that I kept being deceived even though I knew that the curse medium was the media. Is there any media that communicates with the outside world anywhere in this hotel? There is a separate entity that infected the curse. “Isn’t it natural?”
“…”
“That’s probably good. More than that, this scenery. It’s mysterious. Is it the deep sea? I see a lot of interesting fish.”
“Reveal your true self!”
“Good. Even so, it was quite boring waiting behind your mother’s infantile self.”
At the same time as the answer – the mother’s body was split ‘vertically’.
Even though I knew that she was a fake mother anyway, I was instantly filled with anger when I saw that cruel scene.
It was a tall man who appeared after splitting the mother’s body.
40s? 50s? He is very thin and wears glasses.
No, this appearance would be meaningless. According to my guess, that being is not human in the first place.
“You were the ‘prisoner’ in this room.”
“Prisoner? Is that what the Bureau calls us? Well, that’s not entirely wrong. This is my prison.”
“Was it you who gave strength to ‘Kim Sang-min’? ‘Director’?”
“He was a poor child. He suffered from severe bullying by his peers for no particular reason and ended up suffering from mental illness. After that, because of his mental illness, he became a target of reporters and was even stigmatized. Isn’t it pitiful? As much as he suffered in the world, he suffered once. “There should be a chance to repay you.”
“Did you really seriously feel that sympathy?”
“Of course not. But wasn’t it fun? You can make the world so fun with just a rock! Your bureau should have thanked me.”
“So, why did you show up at a place like this? My colleagues have gone to punish ‘Kim Sang-min’. Soon, the solution will be resolved and the entire space in Room 101 will collapse. Do you want to enjoy the last supper before that?”
…
The ‘Director’ looked around the hotel for a while with an emotional expression on his face.
“Mysterious. Do you understand how mysterious this hotel is?”
“…”
“You have no idea. Even if a dog were to follow its owner to a building, would you be able to understand how advanced architectural engineering the building was? Likewise, you would not be able to understand even a single aspect of how transcendentally great this hotel is. .”
“Did you show up in front of me to show off?”
“I’m not showing off. I’m far better than you. I’m showing off.”
“…”
“Isn’t it really mysterious? If you think about it, the entire universe we are in is nothing more than the inside of Room 101. However, when you participated, another hotel was formed inside Room 101. Another hotel was formed inside the hotel. Is it possible to ‘progress’ in a hotel within a hotel? You didn’t even think about entering a room other than the ‘rest room’. What a timid behavior. Let me tell you a surprising fact. This hotel within a hotel is also a cursed room, a gateway. “The rooms, etc. are all formed.”
“That’s fascinating.”
“I just deplore your crude mind that passes this incredible miracle off as ‘that’s amazing.’ Let me explain it in terms of ‘human knowledge’ so that you can understand. You know about black holes, right? A star several times more massive than the sun has a lifespan. “When all is done, a black hole is formed due to gravitational collapse. The gravity of a black hole is so strong that not even light can come out.”
“Are you going to give me a physics lecture?”
“The fact that not even the fastest light in the universe can come out means that a black hole is a place completely cut off from the outside. Depending on the perspective, it also means that the inside of a black hole could be another world. So, there is another world inside the black hole. There is a saying that there is a universe. In a similar vein, there is also a saying that this universe itself, where all things exist, may be inside a huge black hole. Isn’t it similar to the hotel within this hotel?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Think about it with your stupid head. What would happen if you ‘proceeded’ in this hotel within a hotel? Would you be able to leave with the legacy you gained here?”
“I don’t know, but I can’t proceed alone anyway.”
“You must be like that. Then, what if ‘I’ proceed? What if I destroy this hotel? What if I liberate all the trapped beings?
From your perspective, is this room 101? Each room is ultimately a place to confine a ‘prisoner’, to use your expression. “Is it possible to suppress all of the multiple prisoners?”
!
“Would my colleagues have solved this problem before I resorted to such modifications? All that remains is for you to end up trapped forever in a collapsing space.”
“Did you have the personality to trust and love your comrades that much? It is quite different from the memories of the body I borrowed. I am free to enter and leave this place. The deep sea is a difficult environment for humans. Even now, I am your comrade. It may make you unable to do anything.”
“Do you think that kind of bravado works on me? If you demon-like prisoners can run as wild as they want inside the rooms, I can’t proceed with any of the rooms. Isn’t it quite unreasonable for you to show up in front of me like this and show off? Episode 5 “This will finally be possible as restrictions are lifted, right?”
Did you hit the nail on the head?
Looking at the man’s leisurely attitude as he looks around, it doesn’t really feel that way.
Rather… . This conversation itself feels ‘uninteresting’.
“I guess I was lucky when I escaped from the hotel in the past, but for something like that, I don’t think your understanding is very low. As you said, my pranks like this are possible because this is your fifth attempt. In fact, I will also try to disturb your colleagues. I don’t have any thoughts. Rather, I want it to be ‘resolved’ quickly. I also took care of it at the hospital. I took steps to make sure the nurses didn’t bother you for no reason. Sangmin was making a lot of useless dolls, so I broke all but one. There is only one left. “You guys should understand this. Isn’t it fun to have the feeling of fighting? Right now, one of your colleagues, a big man, is in a fist fight with a doll, so it will end soon.”
What does this mean?
The ‘hospital director’, like the old swallower, is talking about how he is helping us.
“Your expression is full of doubts. Your expressions make me quite amused. I am a kind person, so don’t worry. The plan is all completed anyway, so there is no reason why I can’t explain. Once you ‘solve’ the room, there will be a decisive battle. Starting with the place, the entire world inside the room collapses, which means that this ‘hotel within a hotel’ also collapses.
Of course, as the ‘hotel within a hotel’ collapses, the prisoners will naturally collapse as well. However, now that I am a little freer, I plan to do my part to help them withstand the collapse, even if only for a little while. It may only be a moment, but it is the moment when at least double digits of ‘prisoners’, including me, are free! “Even if all of the prisoners and I join in, will Room 101 be able to hold out?”
understood.
When colleagues solve a room, the space inside the room collapses. At that point, the plan is to take down Room 101 with ‘a large number’ of prisoners, aiming for the moment when the hotel within the hotel collapses.
Is such an escape possible?
I don’t know. There is no way to judge these stories because they are so far beyond my understanding.
One thing is certain.
If not one hospital director, but a double-digit number of ‘prisoners’ who are said to have been formed in a hotel within a hotel, leave the hotel, wouldn’t the Earth be cut off by roughly 10 minutes?
—Shoot!
A sound reminiscent of a huge wave rang out. The sound can be heard even in the hotel where outside sounds cannot enter.
My colleagues solved it.
Everything began to collapse.
The hotel within the hotel is slowly collapsing… .
The hospital director, who had been waiting for that moment, quietly raised his gaze upward.
An indescribable radiance emanated from the director’s body.
Five colors? Seven colors? No, I can’t express that light with the colors I know.
Wearing a halo that could not exist in this world, the director stretched out his arms in all directions.
In an instant, dozens of hands emerged from the director’s body.
Each hand flew towards the room in the hotel.
–Kugung!
The hotel door melted.
–Gooooooo!
–Raaaaa!
–Cow!
A huge shout rang out from every room. The shout shook the entire collapsing hotel and spread throughout the world.
I was just mesmerized by all this surreal sight.
What should I do? Does it mean that I am attacking the author?
Did people stop construction because ants were biting them? Did you even care?
The moment when the hotel collapses and even each room collapses.
I saw countless prisoners being held in their bodies by the ‘hands’ of the hospital director, who were emitting brilliant light.
Each one of them is an evil god who treats mortals like insects.
The power of the evil gods, who were said to have narrow stars, shook the heavens and the earth.
High heaven.
From the far end of the sky – a ‘pillar’ came down.
See next episode