082. Escape from Hell Hotel
082. Escape from Hell Hotel
The second trial.
I cleared the room-escape challenge without much trouble.
I brushed off my clothes and stepped over the wreckage of the shattered iron door into the hallway.
"Huh? Looks like I got first place for escaping."
No one else was in sight.
It didn't look like anyone else had managed to get out yet.
【Yoho】─Whoa.
【Min-ji】─Whooaaah!
【Qkrnfl892】─Lol of course you got first place, you smashed the fucking door down, you crazy bastard.
【Min-ji】─Room escape... was it originally done with brute force...?
【Dick Lover】─This is a shitshow.
【Reformed Guburi】─Is this for real, you fuck? Lol
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! A god of destruction!
"It's not against the rules, so who gives a shit? The hotel staff said to escape by any means necessary."
【Reformed Guburi】─Hm. He does have a point. Sex.
【Hottie Licker】─A point worth beating into you. Lick.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─The staff member's probably losing her mind right now. She was totally about to say it's absolutely unbreakable. Lol
【Qkrnfl892】─Fr lol. They probably never imagined someone would actually smash their way out.
【Plum Tree】─They even stammered.
【Dick Lover】─What if they sue you for property damage?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Se-hun's rich so it's fine.
【Yoho】─There's no way they'd sue for damages. They literally told us to break our way out.
【Min-ji】─Right~.
【Yoho】─Min-ji. Stop adding commentary after my messages. It's annoying.
【Min-ji】─Don't wanna~.
After checking the viewers' chat,
I walked down the hallway to move to the next location and stopped in front of the elevator.
‘...Should I take the stairs?’
The elevator was working normally.
But I didn't get on.
Because of the message written on the wall right next to it.
<The elevator is connected to the Abyss of Hell.>
A phrase scrawled in red paint.
Something I hadn't seen last night.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Why aren't you getting on?
【Reformed Guburi】─Looks like he's gonna rip one before he gets on. The smell doesn't go away if you do it inside.
【Yoho】─Do you seriously think the streamer's like you, Reformed? -_-
【Min-ji】─Right~.
"Ah. Seeing this message, I figured I shouldn't take the elevator."
I adjusted the camera angle.
Then I showed the viewers the message written on the wall.
【Reformed Guburi】─Fuck, that scared me. I thought it was written in blood.
【Plum Tree】─It really does look like blood.
【Min-ji】─It's probably paint~.
【Yoho】─What about that message?
【Bubblegum Collector】─Warkyarpya. It doesn't say you can't take the elevator?
【Drift AI】─I will speak. I say that I understand.
Except for Drift,
the viewers hadn't grasped the hidden meaning of that phrase.
"You guys seriously don't get it? Don't you remember what the staff said earlier?"
【Hottie Licker】─Don't remember. Lick.
【Reformed Guburi】─Did they say sex?
【Qkrnfl892】─What did they say?
"They said one sinner who failed the trial fell into the Abyss of Hell."
【Qkrnfl892】─Damn, how do you remember that word for word? Weren't you supposed to have the memory of a goldfish?
【Plum Tree】─He has a good memory sometimes.
【Dick Lover】─He only remembers what he wants to remember.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya. He's a selective goldfish!
【Reformed Guburi】─No, I mean, what does that have to do with that phrase? Explain it, you fuck!
【Min-ji】─Right~!
"If I've spelled it out this much, try using your own brains a little. To put 'fell into the Abyss of Hell' in simple terms, it means they got eliminated from the game, right? So the Abyss of Hell means elimination."
【Reformed Guburi】─Uh huh? So?
"...Are you seriously that empty-headed, you bitch? It means that since the elevator is connected to the Abyss of Hell, if you ride it down, you'll be processed as eliminated, you thick-skulled bitch."
【Reformed Guburi】─Ah. You're right? Sex.
【Yoho】─Aha.
【Min-ji】─I get it now~.
【Plum Tree】─Now that I hear it, that makes sense.
【Hottie Licker】─Lick.
【Dick Lover】─What's up with Se-hun's deductive skills?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Right? Why is he so smart?
【Qkrnfl892】─Damn, a regular Sherlock.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Se-hun was the brains?
【Gyejipsa】─Wakyapya...
【Drift AI】─I will speak. I say that you are all just stupid.
As Drift said,
this wasn't because I was smart, but because the viewers were stupid.
It was something anyone could easily figure out if they just used their heads a little.
【Yoho】─It's morning so I'm half-asleep, my brain wasn't firing on all cylinders. Heh.
【Min-ji】─Don't make excuses~.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya. Yoho is so damn pathetic!
【Gyejipsa】─Wakyapya! Mudfish soup!
"Anyway. Since there's a high chance I'll be eliminated if I take the elevator, the safe move is to take the stairs down."
With that, I turned my back on the elevator and headed to where the stairs were.
***
I took the stairs down to the 9th floor.
I couldn't go straight down to the 8th floor.
This hotel had a weird layout, with separate staircases on each floor.
In other words, to get down to the 8th floor, I had to take a different staircase on the opposite side.
【Reformed Guburi】─Why is there only an elevator and one door here?
【Plum Tree】─The 9th floor has a strange layout.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─I've never seen a structure like this before. Not that I've ever been to one.
【Hottie Licker】─Since it's a hotel where the escape game is the main feature, not the lodging, they probably remodeled everything except the guest room floors. Lick.
【Qkrnfl892】─Was the crappy condition of the facilities all part of the concept too?
【Yoho】─Probably? They deliberately created a gloomy atmosphere.
【Min-ji】─Right~.
【Yoho】─Please stop saying 'right~'. I think I'm gonna develop a neurosis.
【Min-ji】─Riiiiiiight~!
【Yoho】─-_-
【Bubblegum Collector】─Warkyarpya! Min-ji beat Yoho!
【Gyejipsa】─Warkyarpya! Min-ji wins!
The 9th floor was a cramped space with only one door and one elevator.
There were no instructions on where to go,
and since there were no other visible paths, I cautiously opened the door in front of me for now.
Creeeeak-
When the door opened, a small room appeared.
Counting the one I'd entered from,
it was a square room with a door installed on each of its four sides.
【Yoho】─It's an ordinary room.
【Reformed Guburi】─What do we do here?
【Hottie Licker】─Sex. Lick.
【Reformed Guburi】─Oh. Lol
【Min-ji】─Even at a glance, it's a game where you pick one of the three doors to get out.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─If you count the one Se-hun came in from, there are four doors though.
【Min-ji】─We have to exclude that door~.
【Qkrnfl892】─You obviously exclude the door you came in from, you idiot.
【Drift AI】─I will speak. I say that Reverse-Rape Maniac, you should just keep your fingers still.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Otay...
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Getting reverse-rape gang-bullied!
【Gyejipsa】─Wakyapya! Dumber than Bubblegum!
【Gyejipsa】─Bubblegum keeps hitting me next to me. T.T
Min-ji's guess was right.
The moment the door I'd entered from closed behind me,
an explanation of the game came through the speaker on the ceiling.
<The third trial will now begin.>
<Find the correct path and proceed. There is no time limit.>
<If you choose the wrong path, the hands of the dead will rise from the Abyss of Hell and drag the sinner down.>
It seemed that way.
This time, brute force was not going to work.
***
Room 1001.
Here, just like the other rooms, the floor had collapsed and the bed had fallen through with it.
The woman who witnessed that scene stood there blankly and let out a hollow laugh.
"Wow, hahaha... They really made this shit terrifyingly well..."
Then, a sudden unease crept over her.
Something was off.
The bed had fallen below, but the sound of it hitting the ground never reached her.
As if the hole was bottomless.
‘...What? Didn't it fall to the 9th floor?’
The woman turned on her phone's flashlight and shone it down the hole.
She couldn't see anything.
The light was simply swallowed up by the pitch-black darkness.
‘...’
Hoping against hope,
the woman took out a useless object from her belongings and dropped it down the hole.
Then she listened carefully.
Same thing.
There was no sound of the object hitting the floor.
"...H-hey! I think there's something seriously fucked up under the floor here! Are you sure the safety mats are in place?"
The woman shouted, looking up at the camera and speaker on the ceiling.
"Can't you hear me?"
"Hello?"
"Why aren't you answering? I asked if it's safe!"
"If I get hurt, are you going to take responsibility?!"
The speaker remained silent.
And she realized that something had gone terribly wrong.
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If she failed to escape, she would really die.
This wasn't just a simple game.
The woman instinctively realized that.
She was desperately trying to decipher the clues and escape the room.
But her brain alone wasn't enough to deduce the password from these hints.
"Ah, no... Isn't this way too little time?"
"...Fuck, I don't know!"
Eventually, the woman tried to escape by punching in any number she could think of.
[The password does not match. Please try again.]
[The password does not match. Please...]
[The password does not...]
Of course, a randomly entered password couldn't possibly be correct.
And then, the timer finally hit 0.
Rumble-
Along with a faint vibration,
the cracks in the floor began spreading outward from the hole that had appeared earlier.
The woman, now gripped by fear, looked up at the ceiling and pleaded earnestly with a trembling voice.
"E-excuse me? I understand I'm eliminated, so could you please just open the door now...?"
As expected, the staff maintained their total silence this time too.
The woman's pleas grew more and more desperate.
"You crazy bastards! Stop fucking around and open the door!"
Just as the terrified woman was on the verge of tears, pounding on the door with everything she had,
the staff's voice finally came through the silent speaker.
<The five sinners who failed the trial will fall into the Abyss of Hell.>
"Hey, you sons of bitches! What do you mean sinners, you fucks?! What did I even do for you to do this to me? Just open it, now!"
<Room 1001. Eliminated.>
<All of the customers gathered here this time are 'Sinners of Violence.'>
<Repent for your sins from the bottom of Hell.>
Bzzt.
With those final words,
the speaker connection was coldly cut off.
And before long, the entire floor collapsed.
"Aaaaargh!"
The woman, who had been pounding desperately on the door, fell into the Abyss of Hell with a scream.