landbeastnovel Chapter 54: Room 106, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Land of Hope’ (1)
Chapter 54: Room 106, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Land of Hope’ (1)
Chapter 54: Room 106, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Land of Hope’ (1)
[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)
Date: Day 21
Current Location: Floor 1, Room 106 (Mission Room Hotel Land of Hope)
Sages Advice: 3]
1. Real Life Bumper Car
-Vuuuuung!!!
The monster truck began its assault before I could even come to myself. The first prey that the monster truck chose as its target was
Wait, what the fuck its me! I dont even have a licence!
I quickly racked my brain and recalled how my dad used to drive.
Somehow, I turned the key and started the car. After putting the lever thing to drive mode, I mindlessly lowered my gaze to the bottom and
Which ones the accelerator and which ones the brake? Why are there two pedals?
[Press on the right pedal]
Thank you so much! I hurriedly pressed on the right pedal and the car started to move forward.
Kugugugung!
That was the sound echoing from behind. Plus, I could feel the ground shaking for some reason whenever the truck moved! What kind of bumper car was this?
I was driving and turning the car like crazy and that was when I noticed something. This seemed to be because of the last bit of conscience this Hotel had, but the monster truck wasnt that fast.
Meanwhile, the conversation tab was getting heated up.
Kim Mooksung: Turn the key, start the car, set to drive and press on the accelerator!
Park Seungyub: Which ones the accelerator? And how do I set to drive?
Lee Eunsol: Move the stick next to you to D, and press on the right pedal near your feet!
Yu Songee: Why isnt it lighting up?
Lee Eunsol: You have to turn the key all the way! If you still cant move, then check if your gear stick is on N or P!
Cha Jinchul: You will all die if you dont hurry up! Fortunately, it went after Kain but still!
Han Kain: Fortunately my ass! Im dying here!
I was really dying out here. Was that truck crazy? Why was it always coming after me? Without even turning around, I could tell from the deafening noise and vibration that the truck was right behind me.
In the middle of my frantic escape, I noticed that the truck had changed its target.
Yu Songee: Uahhhhh! Its coming after me!
Lee Eunsol: Press! Shut up and press your accelerator!
The truck started going after a silver car. Shifting left and right, the silver car blindly raced forward.
Cha Jinchul: Youll crash into the wall if you go straight! Turn your handle!
Yu Songee: To where?
Lee Eunsol: Right side. Right!
The silver car turned left.
Lee Eunsol: Wait, theres also a wall there. Go right!
In the midst of that chaotic pursuit, the silver car belatedly turned to the right and barely survived from the truck. Seeing how she could still escape from the truck despite moving like that in utter chaos, I realised it once again.
The truck was quite slow and took time to change directions.
Cha Jinchul: Does that go after the closest car?
Kim Mooksung: Ill get closer and have a look!
In about 10 seconds, the truck finally changed its target to different cars. Two cars that were evidently more skilled at manoeuvres started travelling around the truck to catch its attention.
Judging from the slow driving and turning speed of the truck, those two cars should be able to buy a fair bit of time.
In the meantime, we had to come up with a plan.
Han Kain: Itll be over if people bad at driving get targeted, so move to the outskirts of the arena right now!
Lee Eunsol: Good idea. Save letters from now. We need plans.
Han Kain: Called bumper cars but the size difference is too big. Our cars will be the only ones breaking.
Lee Eunsol: Agreed. Crashing cars is not an option.
Kim Ahri: Maybe make the truck crash itself into the wall?
The situation at hand was very obvious. If we were to stay here without our cars, we could avoid dying to the truck but there was no way for us to win.
Bumper car was a fight between cars. Regardless of our survival, it would probably be our defeat if the truck destroyed all our vehicles..
What would happen if we were to lose here? What about Grandpa Mooksung? Will everything be over with him dead?
Our faces started turning pale after thinking about his death.
We have to crush it. We must somehow destroy that truck. We cant let him die like this.
Youre right but is there a way to physically destroy that thing? Can you use your bracelet, Songee?
Ive been trying for a while, she replied. But the truck is enormous and the drivers seat is too high up, and the truck is moving all the time so I cant target the person inside.
Miss Elena. Can you use your Blessing of Justice? Jinchul-hyung asked.
I also tried to but I couldnt. What I could instinctively tell was that Grandpa Mooksung was the first to point his gun. So
The truck driver was acting in self-defence so I guess that doesnt count as an evil act. But what about the truck threatening us from the start? Is that not evil because thats part of the bumper car game?
That blessing is kind of ridiculous the more I see it. We only have 2 cars left now. I think Kain might have to use his Descent if need be. Can you break that truck if you descend? asked Eunsol-noona.
Descent. I recalled the feelings from before.
Honestly, Im confident I can destroy even a thousand of those trucks.
Thats why we shouldnt use Descent for something like this, said Jinchul-hyung. Thats like killing a chicken with a dragon-slaying sword. I have an idea. Let me try something.
Hyung?
Jinchul-hyung walked forward in large strides without saying anything else. We only had one car left now.
Even though we werent sure about what he was trying to do, we definitely had to do something so no-one stopped him.
He headed towards the truck without any hesitation. The monster truck started to turn in order to head to its last target and
Jinchul-hyung jumped 5 metres up and clung onto the drivers seat!
He then smashed the door like a gorilla and successfully went into the drivers seat.
I guess you can just brute force it like that.
He is really strong. That truck door looks like refined steel how did he crush that thing with his bare fist? Looks like he got even stronger than before.
Maybe hes getting more and more used to his blessing.
The driver that was originally inside the truck was thrown away in tatters while Jinchul-hyung calmly drove the truck into the outer walls of the arena.
/Mission 1. Real Life Bumper Car: Success! Congratulations. Would you like to proceed to your next mission?/
Ah. It seemed that you could decide whether you wanted to continue with the missions or not, but we had no other option at this point.
There was a message we saw at the beginning.
/If there is a survivor at the end of the attractions, everyone that died in the process will be brought back to life./
In other words, it meant that everyone that died in the process would stay dead unless we passed all the missions.
Lets proceed.
We have no other options. We have to revive Grandpa.
*
Everyone silently walked forward and faced another alarm.
/2. Challenge. Human-devouring Merry-go-round.
3! 2! 1! Start!/
Human-devouring Merry-go-round.
After the dimensions stopped shaking and everything nearby returned to being clear, I found myself sitting on top of a strange horse that had an actual live head on a wooden body.
Suddenly, the horse turned its head and thrashed its neck around trying to eat me!
I immediately felt like jumping down from the horse and looked down at the floor but the floor was even more dumbfounding.
Sharp thorns that would probably pierce me to death upon contact were filling the floor of the carousel, and everyone was sitting on a human-eating wooden horse that was placed on top of those thorns as we rotated in a clockwise direction.
What were we supposed to do here?
Everyone was confused as to what to do, but that was when Jinchul-hyung shouted with a thrilled voice.
Wait up! I can pull these heads out!
Despite the confusion, I couldnt help but turn to him after hearing such an absurd statement. And after turning towards him, I saw that he really did pull out the head of the live horse that was attached to the wooden body!
Was this mission also solvable through brute force?
At the same time, a question appeared in my mind.
Are merry-go-rounds supposed to be cleared by fighting against the horses?