bookandnovel Chapter 4: Exploring the Hotel (2)
Chapter 4: Exploring the Hotel (2)
Chapter 4: Exploring the Hotel (2)
[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 1
Current Location: Floor 1, Corridor
Sages Advice: 1]
Lastly, after walking from the front desk in the opposite direction of the main entrance for 10 minutes, we came across the elevator.
Ah, this feels a little spooky. The elevator is broken according to the notification. Hopefully some ridiculous monster wouldnt pop out because of that.
You do have a point. Kain, youve been pretty sharp after all. Lets all pause for a bit let me grab something, said Jinchul-ssi.
Everyone knew this man was in charge of 90% of the crews strength so no-one stopped him from grabbing a weapon. Shortly after that, he came back with something amazing.
Ehk? Hyung, what is that? A spear? Where did you get that from? asked Seungyub, the youngest boy of our group.
Yeah. I saw it on the way just then; there was this decorational pole used as a flag. Remove the flag and thats a polearm.
Seeing him swing that around, I asked him a question.
Umm Jinchul-ssi. Isnt that heavy? It looks heavier than 10 kilograms for sure.
Whats with that ssi. Dont bother calling me like that, Kain. You can just call me hyung. And like I said during lunch, before I wasnt strong enough to swing something like this around easily, but now I get the feeling I can. Its probably because of that Blessing of Courage. Superman would be an overstatement but Around as strong as Captain America I guess?
Ah, then I will call you hyung. Anyway, its very reassuring. Im sure most monsters would be stunned after getting hit by that.
Captain America it suited him very well but maybe it should be Captain Korea because hes Korean? There was a small part of me that thought he might be more of a monster than those actual monsters.
The person in charge of our strength was even more reliable than before so we all confidently headed towards the elevator.
Click
We opened the door of the elevator. Fortunately, there was no monster inside and it was unexpectedly quite clean. I immediately realised what it meant that a part of the functions were deactivated upon seeing the panel the buttons for Floors 2 and 3 were off. Songee pressed them just in case but as expected, nothing happened.
I guess we cant go to the 2nd and the 3rd floors yet. Then should we try going to the basement?
Whatever it is, lets just go there! Go wherever we can and see if theres anything important. What could possibly go wrong with Captain America protecting us?
Eunsol-noona who sounded a lot more confident shouted assuredly as Jinchul-hyung embarrassedly smiled from the side. As soon as Songee was about to press the button for the basement
[Heading to the basement now is incredibly dangerous.]
Grip.
I ran up instinctively and grabbed Songees arm. It was so abrupt that everyone was flustered. They were all staring at me not knowing how they were supposed to react while Songee was trembling like a rabbit.
Im sorry. Just then, I got the alarm. The alarm of the status screen that I mentioned during lunch.
You mean the one only you can see? The one that told you to go to Room 105?
Yes.
What did it say. I can somewhat make a guess but
It says its incredibly dangerous to go to the basement now.
Hah, far out. Everything is dangerous in this damn hotel, grumbled Jinchul-hyung.
Then lets do that. It told us about Room 105 so we should trust it. And Kain? I think you can let go of her arm now. A little bit more and Songee is going to faint.
*
Like what it was like in the morning, welcoming me back was a ridiculously large and fancy bedroom which even an average rich kid wouldnt be able to live in. Living alone in an outrageously fancy mansion like this with intriguingly delicious food isnt this paradise on earth?
I tried deceiving myself with those thoughts but it was in vain. There was no way there would be human-devouring monkeys in paradise.
What terrible things have I done to be forced into this mysterious prison?
Confusion, fear, concern and a little bit of anticipation for the unknown. I was despondently thinking inside that turbulent tornado of emotions when I spotted something flashing on the status screen.
Wasnt Sages Advice already at 0? Thinking that, I had a look and noticed it wasnt Sages Advice.
[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 1
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 105 (Room of Rest)
Teammate Information (*)
Sages Advice: 0]
I stared at the flashing label while thinking, Open! as I did before, and it immediately opened as a vast array of letters covered my sight. Seeing that, I realised it would be dangerous to look at this in a pressing situation.
But now that I thought about it, there was nothing flashing when I was exploring outside. It might be a feature that is only activated when at a safe location.
What appeared was a very brief profile of everyone.
[1. Han Kain (20) Wisdom. Freshman at K University
2. Cha Jinchul (31) Courage. Former professional boxer
3. Yu Songee (17) Affinity. Raises numerous animals
4. Elena Ivanova (23) Justice. Daughter of a diplomat seeking asylum. Currently wanting to be an actor.
5. Park Seungyub (14) Fortune. An unstoppable juvenile boy
6. Lee Eunsol (32) Wealth. 3rd child of the chairman of Daeyang Group]
Ah. This seemed to be an extension of the feelings I got from seeing my teammates which was changed into related facts. I noticed what the Blessing of Wisdom did: it was changing the ambiguous data I had into certain facts, and giving out warning signs when in danger.
[You have understood a little bit about your Blessing!]
A notification came immediately afterwards and I realised my perception of it was correct.
The information related to my teammates in general gave me the feeling, That sounds plausible. But seriously?
Jinchul-hyung who was being labelled with incredible titles like the terminator and Captain America, was in fact a former professional boxer.
Songee, who was a little flustered in the conversation before, liked animals a lot as expected, and Miss Elena wanting to be an actor made way too much sense. Even I would have had the same dream if I was born like that.
As for Seungyub, there was something obvious written down next to him. Arent boys that age all unstoppable?
But Eunsol-noonim was quite a surprise. Daeyang Group was the prominently rich family that everyone in Korea knew about. The 3rd child of the chairman She was astonishingly more rich than I had ever expected.
At the same time my honest opinion was that it would have zero meaning in a situation like this. Whether you were rich or poor, how would that matter in a hotel with monsters? The most meaningful career would probably be the former boxer. Thinking that I should get closer to Jinchul-hyung, I blankly fell asleep.
Ah, I have to set an alarm
Fortunately, the day came to an end without anything much happening apart from me being lectured a little for being slightly late to the meal.