Chapter 65: Room 101, Cursed Room – ‘A Strange Family’ Re (3)

Chapter 65: Room 101, Cursed Room – ‘A Strange Family’ Re (3)

Before reading the chapter, you can have a look here for an update about what was happening in my life if youre interested.

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Third Attempt

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[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 22

Current Location: Floor 1, Room 101 (Cursed Room A Strange Family)

Sages Advice: 3]

I put together everything I found out till now.

From my searches on the Internet, it was clear that none of the media were in their right minds. That led to the question where was the place that first produced such programmes?

The main suspects were the public broadcasting stations.

Of course, these days, there were plenty of other options including all sorts of platforms that allowed people to stream by themselves.

However, there would be no end to it if I were to go through every possible candidate on the list. First off, I put public broadcasting stations as the primary candidate; if I was wrong, all I had to do was look for other options.

Did that mean I had to visit one of the broadcasting stations then?

That led to several other questions.

1. There were more than one broadcasting station so where was I supposed to go?

There were tons of potential candidates even if I were to limit it to TV stations. If I were to add all the other broadcasting stations and channels to the list, there would probably be tens of them if not hundreds.

2. How was I supposed to go there?

Leaving the house and distancing oneself from the Strange Family for about 10 minutes was what was required for a successful escape. Originally, this easy escape method had been the guarantee to our lives, but it was in fact a hindrance to the resolution of the curse of this room. A message signalling a successful escape would show up before we even went to the broadcasting station and we would then be chased out of the room.

3. What about people who couldnt leave their starting points?

If this room was only solvable by leaving the starting point and moving to a specific broadcasting station, what about Ahri, who couldnt even leave the area that she started in? Was she out of the equation just because her starting point was in the Hotel?

That didnt sound right. Even though the Hotel was at times irrational, cruel and a hard place to understand, they never exposed us to impossible missions by, for example, making us face ridiculous monsters that could wipe us out in 3 seconds.

It was hard to understand why, but staying here thinking to myself wouldnt lead to anything, so instead of doing nothing pondering by myself, I decided to think later and focus on doing what can be done.Geett the latest novels on no/v/elbin(.)c/om

The first question still had to be addressed first though. I had to decide which broadcasting agency or station I had to go to.

After some thought, I sat back down in front of the computer and started searching through old articles.

Kain! Are you done? Can you come help with the laundry?

The Strange Family was starting to interfere again. I had to buy as much time as possible.

Theres something I have to do at uni! I have to go out very soon!

Fortunately, unlike videos, going through articles and reports that were made purely of words wasnt that stressful. Even though the articles were just as absurd as everything else happening in this world, the infectious degree of the curse seemed a lot weaker than vivid videos and actual people.

Going further and further back in time, I continued looking for the place in this world where the strange events had first occurred.

Only after going about 8 months back in time did I finally find a suspicious candidate.

ABS.

It was a rather recently founded TV Station, and there were more than 30 news reports strongly condemning the overly inappropriate contents of ABS. There were dozens of reports in the span of 1~2 days.

However, as if it only took a day or two for the curse to reach the entire world or rather, Korea for that matter, there werent any more words of criticism. All the other media platforms had also gone insane.

The destination was now set as ABS.

That led me to the next question.

How was I supposed to go there?

I suddenly came up with a simple solution.

What was the requisite for the successful escape in the first place? It was because of a physical distance being formed after sensing the change in the Strange Family, right?

Swoosh. Bang.

I felt a lot better the moment I left the taxi and distanced myself from him. I was in the middle of collecting my breath when the sound of something digging into someones skin echoed from behind.

Hahaha! Thank you very much, young lady. Thats excellent!

Blankly turning around, I found my sisters hand-axe stabbing through the taxi drivers belly, who was in turn thanking her for that.

Ignoring that, I turned back to the front. It wasnt even surprising anymore, and my only wish was that she wouldnt swing or throw that at me.

Powerlessly, I walked forward when my sister came up to me and asked a question.

Oppa? The hospitals that way though?

I was thinking about dropping by ABS before going to the hospital.

Why are you going there all of a sudden?

Oppa?

I immediately came up with an excuse.

I saw on my phone just then apparently theyre filming the Black Hole Princess at ABS right now. Wasnt that your favourite show?

Huh? Really? How did I miss that?

Because I just thought of it.

I had a feeling that she would take her phone out if I were to sit here waiting, so I quickly started sprinting towards the TV Station.

We were pretty much there anyway. After running with my sister for about 5 more minutes, we arrived at the TV station.

At last, I was here. Thinking of all the hard work it took to get here made me feel like commending myself for all that effort. It really was amazing that I thought about bringing my family all the way to the TV Station in a world as terrible as this, and carried through with it.

Letting out a sigh, I was walking towards the entrance of the TV Station but

That was when someone tapped on my shoulder.

It gave me goosebumps.

There was a semi-ability I gained ever since I entered Room 101. The curse, weakened by the filter, would cause me pain and a headache whenever a person infected by the curse walked up to me. Thanks to that, I was able to tell beforehand if there was someone nearby approaching me.

However, there was none of that just then.

Overcoming the fear and nervousness, I slowly turned my head back to see who was behind me, and

I saw in front of my eyes a very familiar face.

Bang!

That was when my sisters head exploded to pieces.

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So, youre telling me you brought your family all the way here, yes? asked Grandpa Mooksung.

I did.

That is remarkable. I did think of that for a split second, but I truly wasnt expecting someone to actually carry out such a crazy plan!

Did you not find it odd, however? That is a method that no-one else can use except for you with the filter, and Miss Songee with her bracelet.

None of us can remain sane by being with a family member for that long. Even Ahri would die from having her blood dried up.

There is no way the Hotel would have separated us for us to individually work our way through it, while making it so that only a select few of us can come here.

I did find it strange, but I couldnt come up with a solution.

You found it strange, but still gave it a shot because it was possible for you. I think its excellent that you had the guts to put that into action. Whatever the case, you arrived at the TV Station and that is good news for me too. Honestly, I was starting to think that no-one else was going to arrive here and was wondering whether I should proceed by myself or not. Having another person will go a long way.

So how did you come here, Sir? You dont have a filter like me, and you dont have a bracelet like Songee either, so how did you bring your family all the way here?

The method I used was a lot easier. It is something anyone can do as long as they know how to.

And what is it?