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Fourth Attempt
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[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 23
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 101 (Cursed Room Common Sense Renovating dia)
Sages Advice: 3]
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Ding- Dong!
The cheerful sound of a bell echoed as we opened the door leading to the rooftop, and on the other side of the door was the entrance to a completely different location.
It seed that the place hadnt been cleaned properly in ages; the surroundings were dirty and the air felt stuffy.
However, it still wasnt that hard to tell where this was.
Most people would probably visit this place a few dozen tis throughout their lives it was a hospital.
The only problem with this particular hospital was the outer appearance of the nurses.
A nurse that looked exactly the sa as the strange-looking nurses I had seen until now, was standing behind the reception desk, pretending to be a normal nurse.
Kuweekraahk.
I wonder what it was trying to say. Maybe it was saying sothing along the lines of, Hello. It was evident that the nurses ant no harm they were even bending their backs, suggesting a warm welco.
Looking at the twisted nurses, I unconsciously brought my hand to the gun hanging on my waist.
That was when Songee held by the arm and stopped .
Oppa. I dont think we need to aggravate them.
She was right I had to be patient. There was sothing I understood from the looks of things. Just then, we had entered through the entrance of the hospital, and that seed to be why they were treating us like guests.
I decided to see how things turned out without upsetting them.
Under the watchful eyes of the twisted nurses, we slowly started roaming around the hospital.
Would a hospital like this ever exist in real life? There were several rooms for patients deeper inside the hospital, and they looked very familiar. They looked the sa as the strange places that appeared when I broke into the windows of the cars in the basent of the TV Station.
Those exact sa rooms were the ones for the patients. Each room had beds of steel, and shackled on those beds were the patients, who had already gone insane.
They endlessly gasped and groaned in pain, and sotis, a few of the nurses went into those rooms.
I didnt even want to imagine what went on inside them.
We were wandering around the hospital when one of the nurses approached us from afar. We were greatly startled for a while, but after stopping slightly away from us, the nurse let out so strange noises again.
Calmly, I thought to myself.
They had been treating us like guests until now, and there was no way they would suddenly start attacking us out of nowhere.
I decided to think of this as a normal hospital. What would the nurses say to a group of guests, who started wandering around the hospital after walking inside?
It would probably be sothing like, Is there anyone you are looking for?
Half in doubt, I shouted out just in case.
Kim Sangmin! We are looking for Student Kim Sangmin.
Please understand what Im saying!
The twisted nurse nodded slightly, turned around and started walking forward as if it understood what I was saying.
Naturally, Songee and I, who each had the bracelet and the filter, walked at the front with Elena following us from the back. In that formation, we started walking after the nurse.
It was a lot easier after that. Now that we had a nurse guiding us from the front, the other nurses didnt bother approaching us, and the one guiding us also kept a respectful distance. We continued walking like that for about 15 minutes.
Observing the hospital as we slowly walked forward, I realised that the strange places that appeared when going against the warnings of the TV Station were all parts of the hospital.
Only after walking down the corridor of the 4th floor for a very long ti did the nurse co to a stop.
With its hands, it gestured at a large room.
Was this the place?
The final goal we had been desperately looking for from yesterday was at last before our eyes.
Before walking inside, I earnestly begged for advice.
What would be the best thing I could do?
[Give the gun to Songee.]
I had a feeling I understood what this ant. Without saying anything, I handed the gun over to Songee.
We all resolved ourselves for the final ti.
Are we ready? Songee. I filled the gun with bullets.
I checked it. I can use the bracelet imdiately if need be.
It would be great if the enemy was a person. In that case, Ill be able to use my blessing as well.
After that, we headed into Kim Sangmins hospital room.
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What in the world was this place?
I had seen countless inhumane scenes and horrible images, but this place was different from any other place I had seen before.
It was like a completely different world. It was no longer a question of cruelty; it was just a fundantally different place to Earth.
This place appeared like the cave of a foreign planet.
The surroundings were full of large translucent rocks that appeared like strange crystals. There were no sources of light nearby, and yet the entire place was bright, as if there were microorganisms in this place that gave out light.
And
The power of the curse was overwhelmingly stronger here.
Even though there was no-one in front of us, it gave a head-splitting headache. A bizarre notion of common sense started seeping into my head despite every attempt done to stop it.
I forced myself to turn around. The only one that looked normal was Songee, who used the bracelet on herself imdiately after entering the room.
Elena was already on her knees.
Songee looked quite delicious. Now that I thought about it, her na already sounded delicious, did it not*?
Her na was exactly the sa as one of the mushroom species, and Songee mushrooms happened to be one of my favourite mushrooms of all ti.
They were pretty expensive and hard to get on top of that. How should I eat it?
For good ingredients, it would be foolish to add sauces and condints. If I were to get a good-quality Songee mushroom, I would wash it, bake it in the oven and dip it in salt.
I rembered hearing the story of a celebrity that got trash-talked for putting those expensive Songee mushrooms into instant noodles, but honestly, that made very jealous.
Pouring a generous amount of shockingly expensive ingredients into instant noodles and having a big mouthful of it! Didnt that just sound lovely?
Apparently in Japan, theres a dish called Dobin Mushi where they steam it in a teapot, and that appeared quite delicious. It was one of the dishes I wanted to try ever since I saw it on TV.
Songee should taste just as good, right? Thats what her na suggests after all!
But wait a second. Maybe Songee was a bit too big to go into a teapot. Should I buy a big teapot? Or maybe I should make her a bit smaller
Bang!
That was when I felt my consciousness fading away.
Even with the filter, this place was impossible for to handle.
I had a gist already so it wasnt that surprising. The aning of the advice telling to give the gun to Songee was very simple.
You cant do anything here no matter what you do.
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Yu Songee
Bang! Bang!
I had no other choice.
Although I didnt mind shooting the cursed people of the Hotel, I really did not want to shoot my teammates. Why was I always the one who had to do this?
But what else could I have done?
Kain-oppa suddenly walked towards and stroked my hair.
At the start, I was startled wondering what was going on, but
Maybe I can put her in a teapot if I take the head off?
I shot him imdiately after hearing that.
Elena-unni had also started saying sothing strange while holding onto my legs.
Slow-cook this along with beef and
I also shot her after hearing that.
I had no idea why both of them thought about eating .
Seeing them reminded once again just how powerful the power of the curse was. Kain-oppa even had the filter, but it seed that he couldnt keep himself sane inside this place either, just like Elena-unni.
Honestly, personally I couldnt feel anything different, so I wouldnt have known that the curse had beco stronger without hearing what they said.
This bracelet might be more powerful than every other mind control abilities of this Hotel. But if no-one could keep themselves sane apart from , how were we supposed to solve this room?
I had no idea, but there were people a lot smarter than , so I decided to talk about it outside.
For now, I decided to see this to the end even just by myself.
It didnt take that long.
After walking for about 3 minutes, I reached the end of the cave and found sothing resembling a large chunk of flesh.
What was this, I wondered. Was this the one behind everything going on outside? Wasnt this just a large, wriggling heart?
Next ti we ca in, maybe all I needed to do was protect Jinchul-oppas mind, while he destroyed this with his fists.
Rembering the gun I had, I decided to try shooting it.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
It started to show so response after I shot 3 bullets in a row.
It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! YOU ARE HURTING AS WELL.
A sharp voice pierced directly into my head.
That was when I heard the sound of sothing running behind . Looking back, I found the nurses rushing to in a hurry.
Ahah, so it really was this guy. It seed that our job was to sohow destroy this thing.
I did more than enough, right?
It was scary to do anything more than this, but I said one last thing before going.
Its nothing compared to everything you did to the world, you know that?
Then, I shot all the remaining bullets at the large flesh except for one, which I had to use to kill myself.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Ahhh! Sir! Where are you! Theres another one here to hurt , sir!
Sir? I know a sir as well. Who is this sir that you are talking about?
The nurses were just around the corner.
This should be enough.
Bang!
My consciousness slowly started to fade.
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[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 23
Current Location: Floor 1, Corridor
Sages Advice: 2]
Han Kain
Kung! We woke up in the corridor just like every other ti, but it was more painful this ti around.
I looked around with my fingers pressing down on my temples, and found everyone waking up with exhausted looks on their faces.
It was around nightti. We went in in the morning, and it seed that we had used up the whole day.
And imdiately after waking up
Many of us turned our eyes to the sa person.
The man, who had the biggest build and muscles from our group, lowered his head with a dead look on his face.
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When working in a group, it was inevitable for so people to make mistakes. People would tease, rebuke and scold that person if they made a small mistake.
However, it was sotis extrely difficult to say anything if that mistake they made was an enormous one.
At tis like that, everyone else tended to be so busy with cleaning up the ss, and the person in question also tended to shrink from an imnse sense of guilt (unless they were very shaless), and that made it even harder to bla them for it.
This was very common, especially when you had to work with the sa people after the event.
The person in question was already blaming themselves for it, so how would blaming them on top of that be any helpful?
It was more productive to console them and think about the next plan.
That was exactly what we were going through.
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Hey! Buddy! Its not like were all actually dead or anything. What are you doing? Hurry up and eat sothing!
Why are you so down? said Ahri. All you did was be a good son. I was in the Rest Team and the Give-up Team from the start, and I was super relaxed; playing gas with my mum.
Ahri. I dont think thats sothing to be proud of.
You know what happened to ? My fake father died, and I had to fight with my family after the funeral and ended up like him. I literally got buried alive with him. Why are you so depressed by sothing so small?
You got buried alive? Noonim? What in the world is up with your family?
Oppa! You still have the red capsule, right? Thats good enough. I saw it till the end, and I think you just have to take the pill and destroy that flesh.
By the way, Kain-oppa, can you please tell what you were thinking at the end?
Songee suddenly threw the hot potato at . This was already her third ti asking after leaving Room 101 about the teapot.
Rather than explaining to her about the stead Songee mushrooms in a teapot, I decided it would be a better idea to pretend ignorance.
I actually have no clue. My mind turned blank the mont we entered the hospital room.
Hmm
She didnt seem convinced, so I decided to have a social distance with her for today.
Thus ended our chaotic dinner.
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So, this is going to be our final strategy conference. Of course, theres no guarantee that this will be our last one, but I think so at the very least. We know what our goal is; we know where it is, and have a rough idea of the power it has. If we take a long ti to solve this after knowing this much, that would just be proving our incompetence.
Eunsol-noona. This is already our fifth attempt
Yes, and thats our biggest problem. We would have cleared it 100% if this was our 4th attempt instead, but this is our 5th. Ahri, do you rember how exactly its going to change?
Sorry, I was really young during my first ti at the Hotel, and I can barely rember anything.
Ahri said she was born at the Hotel. That ant she must have been a tiny kid during her first ti, so it was understandable that she couldnt rember anything clearly.
And because this is our 5th attempt, theres an agenda that we need to discuss before anything.
1. Do we continue attempting Room 101?
Depending on how you see it, it might be correct to skip Room 101, considering how its going to turn harder, and go with either Room 102 or Room 104, and co back once were stronger.
Of course, you might also ask the question, Would it even make it easier even if we did change to a different room?
Our fundantal specs are still the sa. Would we be able to clear another room if we jump in just like this? What if we struggle and end up making it the 5th ti for all the other rooms?
Maybe it would be better to finish Room 101, since we know the most about it?
No-one knows. Its hard to make a good call because we dont even know how its going to change.
Everyone, share your thoughts.
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