Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 92
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Episode 92 – No. 102, Room of the Curse – ‘Mansion of Horror’ Re (5)
* 2 hours ago
– Park Seung-yeop
As soon as I received the syringe from my sister, I started running like crazy.
It feels similar to shooting a balloon with a gun.
Let’s not interfere with the destiny that ‘blessing’ has arranged by thinking about things in a complicated way.
Now I am the luckiest person in the world! Just believe in blessings and capture every moment, that’s the answer!
A loud noise started coming from behind.
Strange world. Everything is small.
If you think about it, the alien-like entity that appeared on the other side of Ari earlier was also small.
As I run around frantically, the animals and plants that appear are also small.
Is this what it feels like to be the Gulliver of the Lilliputian world?
I myself grew a few years younger when I entered Room 102, so I tend to be smaller, but in this strange world, I was one of the gigantic creatures.
I see grass and small trees shaking everywhere. The sound of footsteps ringing in my ears.
A sour and spicy smell, reminiscent of a piece of rotten meat somewhere.
Something started chasing me.
What do we do? It’s really disappointing every time this happens.
Why don’t I have the ability to fight?
There was something like a big tree in front. Let’s go up there.
The moment I thought about it and took a few steps, my body suddenly went down.
— Slurp!
My foot went into something that looked like a hole in the floor!
What unlucky thing to do in this moment of crisis –
Unlucky? How can I be unlucky now?
Now I am the luckiest person. Something unlucky can never happen.
Therefore, falling into a hole in the floor is not a result of bad luck, it is a result of ‘luck’!
Rather, he pushed his entire body into the hole.
After colliding with the muddy dirt for a long time, the place it fell was a strange underground cave.
I found out naturally after falling into a cave and running.
That’s it. The blessing of luck is coming to an end.
After listening to my sister’s words, I ran aimlessly while holding the syringe and reached this cave, which was the limit of my ‘luck’.
…
Is it because the protection has ended? Bat-like creatures flashed their eyes everywhere.
bat. Are there bats like that in the world? A bat with a tail like a scorpion?
I just gritted my teeth and ran towards the end of the cave.
—Hook!
No matter how much you run, you cannot outrun a flying creature with the running speed of a child.
As if to let me know that my luck was over, the bats were poking me with their tails.
… sick. And I feel a writhing sensation where I was stabbed.
I didn’t look at the stab wound. Wouldn’t it be impossible to leave a strange place like this anyway?
Even if I die, I have to carry the syringe that clearly contains the message my sister is trying to convey.
I could guess what the message was.
There is a place on this mountain that leads to a strange world, and this must be the enemy’s stronghold!
Besides that, my sister would have figured out more than me.
Faaah!
My vision became brighter.
When I closed my eyes and opened them due to the momentary light coming in, I realized that I had entered the outside world.
— Wiggle!
sick. Now the pain is truly unbearable!
I rolled on the floor feeling unbearable pain.
It’s so scary. What on earth happened to my body?
I took off my top while shaking.
“Aaaahhh!!!”
I couldn’t bear it anymore and ended up screaming.
Those bats earlier planted ‘eggs’ in my body!
I saw something like a caterpillar the size of my finger wriggling around my body.
It seems like some of them have already started to burrow into the body.
Sorry everyone. I’ll leave it at this.
I can’t bear the thought that these monsters might ‘hatch’ in my body.
I got as close to the hiking trail as possible, took off my clothes, wrapped them in my clothes, and put down the syringe.
jumped off the cliff
… That was the end of my consciousness. I’m sorry everyone. And please cheer up.
* today
– Han Ga-in
After confirming the deaths of Ari and Seung-yeop in the status window, we urgently called the nuns together.
When we went to the house where the children were, all the other children were sleeping on the sofa or mattress like they were dead.
The cardinal found the traces.
“It’s the mountain behind!”
“yes?”
“here! Agents usually leave traces this way. “Let’s go to the mountain behind!”
Without further explanation, Cardinal Mukseong ran straight to the car. I took a quick look and found an unknown symbol near the door. Is it like a password that agents use among themselves?
In a panic, I, the cardinal, and the nuns got into the car and headed to the mountain behind the mansion.
On the way to the mountain behind us, we stopped the car for a moment and picked up Jincheol, who had been summoned through the chat window.
It wasn’t long before we reached the mountain.
The problem is next.
Where on earth should I search this wide mountain?
At the very least, I need to know the place where Seung-yeop and Ari died!
First, we all climbed the hiking trail together. Did you go halfway up the mountain?
A blood-covered jacket was found near the road. Songi responded right away.
“that! “Those are Seungyeop’s clothes!”
Bloody top. What on earth happened?
When I lifted the clothes, a syringe filled with blood appeared inside.
Next to the clothes, there was also writing crudely scribbled in the dirt.
‘Mountain, strange world, home base’
So you’re saying there’s a strange place somewhere in the mountains, and that’s their base?
I understand what you mean, but where on this vast mountain, not some hill, is the headquarters located?
As I picked up the syringe and looked at it with puzzled eyes, the blood inside began to move on its own.
“uh? uh?”
The cardinal shouted from the side in surprise.
“hey! Give me that syringe-”
As the blood that spontaneously escaped from the syringe penetrated my body, I lost consciousness.
*
When I came to my senses, I found myself standing in a dark space.
When I turned my head, I saw Ari standing somewhere with a blank expression.
Is this how you convey information?
“What on earth did you do when you died? “You can use the chat window to call us, why did you go to a dangerous place alone?”
Ari, who was standing there blankly, did not react to my words and just waved his hands in the air as I approached him.
…
Somehow, ‘this Ari’ doesn’t seem to be the real Ari. Is it just like a hologram?
An image emerged from thin air.
Starting from the entrance to the mountain, a path appeared leading to a place with a strange door.
As I crossed the door, a strange worldly landscape and a beautiful flower field appeared.
The video was repeated twice as if to memorize it.
After the video ended, Ari spoke as if she was talking in the air.
“If you pass through this door, the enemy’s stronghold, the other world, appears. Here, there are flowers made by processing human souls. “It is assumed that destroying this area will be the key to solving it.”
Is it too grand? There is a place in another world that needs to be destroyed?
While I was confused, the hologram in front of me continued talking. The next words were even more shocking.
“Maybe I will lose. The level of my soul is very high, so the effect is greater than sacrificing hundreds or thousands of humans.
Perhaps an ‘unborn evil god’ will be born soon. “We need to escape immediately.”
I shouted in surprise.
“no! Suddenly, an evil spirit is born? Besides, what does it mean that the spirit is of high rank?”
I felt it for a moment while asking the question. Now my question.
This is something the ‘real Ari’ would never have answered.
However, this hologram, which seemed to have been created with part of Ari’s memories, looked at me and answered.
“The spirit of the participants increases in level as they progress through the hotel. That’s one of the purposes of the hotel. “My soul has already left the human realm.”
With that answer, I escaped from the dark space, feeling like I was in an endless whirlpool.
*
– Han Ga-in
As soon as I woke up, I relayed the information I received.
The fact is that somewhere in the mountains there is an alien world that can be said to be the enemy’s stronghold, and with Ari himself being offered as a sacrifice, the birth of a prisoner, the ‘unborn’, is imminent!
The cardinal shouted with a serious expression.
“Fucked!”
Songi shouted with a confused expression.
“What happened?”
The answer was given directly by the person who was being born in real time.
—-Gooooooooo!
An endless evil cry shakes the heavens and the earth.
Dark clouds suddenly began to cover the entire sky from the mansion.
When I looked at the cardinal with a mesmerized expression, he sighed and said.
“We found the base for the birth of the evil god, and that’s all well and good, but it looks like the evil god will be born soon because Ari was sacrificed.”
Elena muttered with a fearful expression.
“That means… .”
“The story is that now everything is on the verge of ruin.”
The earth shook and black energy erupted from the heavens and earth. Jincheol shouted urgently.
“Then what should I do?”
“Move now! “We must escape before the ritual is completely over!”
“What about the headquarters in the other world? “Shouldn’t that place be torn down?”
“You idiot! The evil spirit has already eaten all his food and is on the verge of being born, so what will he do if he destroys his stronghold too late? “I should have destroyed it before this shit started happening.”
I also realized the situation.
We have found out the location of the headquarters where the ritual for the birth of the evil god is held, but Ari, a highly concentrated sacrifice, has already died and is offered as a sacrifice, and the evil god is about to be born.
‘This attempt’ has already failed.
Of course, it was not a fruitless attempt. If only I could somehow get through to the fourth attempt!
Wouldn’t the solution be to destroy the evil spirit’s base before it is born and kill the enemy as well?
Let’s think about it after escaping.
Everyone hurriedly got into the car and started moving towards the mansion.
I ran into one problem.
‘Should I use Advent?’
As soon as I got into the car, I asked people around me for opinions.
“Should I use Kangrim to attack that guy? Aren’t they a bit weak when they’re just born? “In the meantime, why don’t others try to distance themselves as much as possible?”
The cardinal answered.
“I don’t know.”
“Do you have any other thoughts?”
“Your advent has a limit on the number of times, and I am reluctant because of the Lord. Unless there is a clear solution, I want to save it.
This attempt was already a failure in my opinion. “At the point where we have not been able to prevent the birth of the evil spirit, the best we can do is escape.”
“But is it even possible to escape without Kangrim?”
The condition for escape is to escape from the ‘current crisis’ at least temporarily.
In a situation where an evil spirit is born, what should we do to escape the crisis even temporarily?
What is needed at this moment is advice.
I prayed earnestly. Please tell me what to do!
[Sage’s advice: 3->2]
[Sometimes the only way is to save time by messing up the game.]
… What do you mean? Buy time by ruining the game?
I couldn’t understand for a moment. He immediately wrote one more piece of advice.
‘How can you buy time by ruining the game?’
[Sage’s Advice: 2 -> 1]
[You have the ‘power to twist everything.’]
I looked at Jincheol.
The third attempt led to disaster.
I realized the only way to escape.
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