Chapter 68: Room 101, Cursed Room – ‘Common Sense Renovating Media’ (2)

Chapter 68: Room 101, Cursed Room – ‘Common Sense Renovating Media’ (2)

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Third Attempt

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[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 22

Current Location: Floor 1, Room 101 (Common Sense Renovating Media)

Sages Advice: 3]

The second warning I had to go against was this.

2. You must not turn around in the staircase to the basement.

I headed to the 2nd basement floor, and started walking down the stairs leading to the 3rd floor of the basement.

Kagak Kagagak.

Clink, clank.

Kagagak



Hearing it the second time made me certain.

Something was following me from behind. Whenever I took a step or two forward, the one behind me took an equal number of steps.

If I were to turn around after reaching the corridor, the thing behind me would probably disappear, so I had to turn around while walking down the staircase.

Heaving a deep breath, I was about to turn around but it was then.

An alarm popped up.

[You will be attacked upon turning around.]

It was the first Sages Advice that came up after we entered Room 101 again.

Why, I wondered.

Why was the advice so limited? If this was indeed coming from a Sage, shouldnt they be able to tell me a much wiser method?

I recalled the first time an advice showed up.

Back then, after being attacked by a man-eating monkey, I was frightened and was desperately wishing for a way out, and the advice told me how to survive.

Ever since that point, the Sages Advice told me what to do whenever my life was at risk.

A piece of advice for a better chance at survival was not bad. It had indeed saved my life quite a few times, but in the Hotel, there were times when I had to figure things out even at the cost of my life.

So

Give me better advice.

One thats not for immediate survival, but one thats actually wise.

Tell me what to do to know more about this room.

Pat!

The second advice popped up.

[As soon as you turn around, lower your head, shoot the opponent in their leg with the gun and check the name written on the cap.]

It was the second time I figured something out about my ability after entering this Hotel. Apart from the way to use the filter, I realised how to use the Advice.

Flick!

Immediately after turning around, I lowered my head and pointed my gun down at where their legs would be.

The sound of something heavy slicing through the air resonated across the staircase as a sharp blade barely missed my head.

Bang! Bang!

Without even the time to breathe, I mindlessly shot my gun at the legs. My skills with a gun might be horrendous but the opponent was so close that it was very easy to land the shots.

The opponent stumbled and I finally had a chance to look at their overall figure, but seeing it made me gasp for breath.

Its entire body that was taller than 2 metres was wrapped in bandages. What I thought were blades were its fingernails that were longer than 30 centimetres.

And the screeching sound of metal that had been echoing behind me was from the legs of the monster. It looked like the metal blades of an ice skate were glued to their feet.

The most horrifying part of the monster was that it still had a rather feminine body. There were evident lines of a female body and although the clothes were half-ripped and wrapped in bandages, it resembled the outfit of a nurse if anything.

It looked like an awkward imitation of a human which added to the horror.

Bang! Bang!

The monster was floundering its arms around on the floor so I shot its head on repeat, and soon, it stopped moving.

Check the name on the cap, was it?

New World Hospital

Was that what I had to remember?

There might be several hospitals with that name so I also looked at the symbol next to the name, which resembled some clouds. After memorising the rough shape of the logo, I took a step back from the corpse.

I then noticed something which I couldnt due to the heat of the battle.

The area around the staircase had changed to something else.

It was clearly different from that of the TV Station.

Was this a school uniform?

After scanning through everyone, I was made certain that they were wearing school uniforms. I could see remnant signs of shirts and jumpers and judging from the size of their clothes, I noticed that they were probably high school students.

And if these indeed were Korean school uniforms, they were bound to come with name badges.

Squirming my hand through the wriggling pieces of flesh, I rummaged through the uniform looking for a name badge.

Doing this made me remind myself once again, that I would never become an agent or anything similar after leaving the Hotel, because if I did, I would probably have to do things like this for the rest of my life.

Rip!!!

That was when my stomach cried out from another sharp pain.

Did I get a scratch somewhere? I held myself back from looking at the wound in fear that it would be disheartening.

After a long and arduous attempt, I barely managed to find a name badge.

Lee Hyuk and whats the last word? Its too damaged and I cant

Its Lee Hyukjin.

It was a lot clearer and composed than the voice I heard from before, and was from a different direction. When I lifted my head, I noticed that a pair of eyes and a mouth from another equally jumbled-up person were facing my way.

Lee Hyukjin?

Yes.

Can you talk for a while?

I keep falling asleep and waking up, but I can talk for a bit. Hyung, you need to leave right now. A nurse is going to be coming very soon.

Where is this place? Who are you? What have you gone through, and who did it? Tell me everything you know.

I dont know. Sangmin suddenly turned into a monster and locked us in here. After that, the nurse came here everyday and made us like this.

Sangmin? Who is that?

Kim Sangmin. Hes from our school and Grrrhhhhhhhhh

He was about to say something but suddenly closed his mouth and started letting out a strange noise. Maybe he fell asleep again.

These kids didnt know where they were at either, but I could guess where this was.

They had been talking about a nurse for a while, and the monster that appeared behind me in the staircase also resembled a nurse.

And the name written on the nurses cap was New World Hospital.

Maybe that was where this was?

But why was the hospital connected to the TV Station? It was hard to understand why.

And these kids.

No matter how I saw it, it was clear that the objective was to give them endless pain without letting them die. Only the one student that was occasionally falling asleep was able to barely maintain their consciousness, and everyone else had long turned into subconscious chunks of flesh.

Kung!

Suddenly, an unbearable sense of pain in my stomach made me crumble down to the ground.

What was going on? When did I get such a big injury to my stomach?

Lets calm down.

Calming myself down, I quickly went through everything that I figured out.

There were quite a lot of new things I discovered.

New World Hospital, mentally ill people locked up in beds, high schoolers who turned into monsters, Lee Hyukjin and Kim Sangmin.

At the very least, there were enough clues to get us started on the Internet in our next attempt.

Was there anything else that I could do?

That was when echoes started reverberating from the other side of the door.

Kagagak! Kagagak! Kagagak!

The sound of metal sliding across the floor started resonating from everywhere.

It was the nurse several of them at that.

It seemed that those nurses had the ability to contort people like clay and turn them into undying pieces of flesh to put them through endless pain.

I decided to stop here.

I just couldnt imagine myself fighting against those nurses.

Lastly, I made a strong wish.

Is there anything else I can do?

The last and final advice appeared on the system window.

[Lift your shirt and check your stomach]

I did as told and lifted my shirt.

That completely eradicated any leftover wish for me to stay alive and try doing anything.

Without me even realising it, my stomach was fully distorted, twisted and turned. This seemed to be the cause of the sharp pain that had been harassing my stomach.

It looked absolutely horrific.

It seemed that this hospital had the curse of twisting and distorting the human body.

Bang!

I felt my consciousness fading away with the pull of a trigger.

/You have failed!/

I kind of did everything though. Wasnt it too harsh calling that a fail?