Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 31: Room 103, Cursed Room – ‘Animal Farm’ (5)

Chapter 31: Room 103, Cursed Room – ‘Animal Farm’ (5)

[User: Han Kain (Wisdom)

Date: Day 13

Current Location: Floor 1, Room 103 (Cursed Room – Animal Farm)

Sage’s Advice: 3]

I gently licked my fur.

Now, I was quite used to walking on four legs and honestly, I liked how I turned into a cat out of all the animals.

It’s a fairly elegant animal after all.

Besides, I also liked how I was a Norwegian forest cat.

At least I wasn’t a cow or a pig.

Although I didn’t say this to my teammates, I actually didn’t have any resentment against the family of farmers.

To be honest, what wrong have they ever done?

They were just plucking the long feathers of a goose and killed a wolf that attacked the farm. Similarly, they were only trying to butcher the cow because it was injured.

It was something that happened very often on Earth.

The only problem was that people were inside the goose, the wolf and the cow.

Of course, I would still do what I had to do.

Meoowww! Meeeoooowwww!

By shouting as loudly as possible, I gathered the eyes of everyone. Mei turned her eyes towards me as soon as I let out a noisy growl this early in the morning. She liked me quite a lot, so I felt a bit sorry considering the thing that now had to be done.

Tap tap

“Aht! No, Ahri! Come here~. You’re a good girl right?”

Tap

“Uhh! No, Ahri. Don’t hit that! That’s my mum’s favourite vase~!”

Sorry. But that’s exactly why I’m hitting it.

Tap!

Clink!!!!!!

“Aahhhhhht!!!!!!!”

After calling Mei, I tapped the fanciest vase and dropped it on the ground.

This was actually quite fun.

Amy shrieked and screamed after coming to the kitchen but that was none of my business. Ignoring her, I jumped out the window.

All I had to do now was go to the cow barn for my last bit of work.

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“What is… going on?”

Brian couldn’t keep his mind straight.

After waking up in the morning, he was desperately pondering about the best ways to run the farm again but in less than 10 minutes, he heard a scream. In a fluster, he dashed to the kitchen and found out that his wife’s favourite vase had been shattered into pieces while his daughter was crying that the cat ran away. 

His mind was still in a mess because of the wolf incident yesterday, and couldn’t understand why things were going south so early in the morning.

However, that was only the start of his nightmare.

“Father!!! You need to hurry to the farm! Right now!”

He mindlessly dashed forward and saw an enormous boar ruining the farm. 

It wasn’t here to eat either! As if its goal was to ruin the farm itself, it was busy pulling and trampling on the crops!

Brian was incredibly enraged.

“Peter, be careful. I’ll be back with the gun,” saying that, he immediately left to pick up his gun.

Although he wasn’t sure what was wrong with the farm and couldn’t understand what the problem was, he still knew how to resolve it. In the end, he simply had to blow the heads of the troublemakers until it resolved itself.

While he was running from place to place to solve the problem, he saw the loyal golden retriever gazing at him. Despite the ruckus happening at the farm, the dog was energetically wagging its tail like nothing wrong was going on, and seeing that put his heart at ease.

Right. It wasn’t a big deal. All he had to do was shoot the boar to death, and chase the cat out or something. 

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El Doggy (Elena): Farmer moving to pick up the gun

Clever Snake (Lee Eunsol): I’m also in position

Boar (Cha Jinchul): Should I dodge?

Kim Cat (Kim Ahri): Trust me

Black Cow (Han Kain): When are you coming?

Kim Cat (Kim Ahri): Need to check the gun just in case

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His heart settled back down after picking up the gun in his room.

Right. Those packs of wolves yesterday were also resolved with 2 guns. Shooting the boar should easily solve the problem. 

After calmly heading back to the farm, he saw the fearless boar insisting on trampling on the crops without even being scared by his gun. While containing the fury that was soaring to the top of his head, Brian pulled the trigger.

—————–KWANG!!!!!!

That was when the gun exploded.

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“UAHHHKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The farmer’s scream filled the farm all the way up to the brim as his family all ran out in fright.

It was a success.

While trying my best to stay awake last night (even though cats don’t really sleep much at night), I shoved trash into the muzzle which proved to be effective.

I could see his family in astonishment as they carried Brian over to the bed and created a fuss while applying gels and wrapping bandages around his hands. 

Now… All I had to do was move for the last part of the plan.

After gently jumping up to the windowsill and running for a little, I arrived at the barn of cows. As soon as I got there, a black cow that had been sitting on the ground immediately raised itself up.

The wooden fence that was blocking the cows from going outside was so tough that even a cow would find it difficult to break through it, but the structure was actually very simple. 

You simply had to turn the handle to the left and lift it up. Naturally, there was no reason to make it difficult for humans to enter the barn. 

Against animals, this was enough. They didn’t have the wisdom of knowing how to use a handle and there was thus no way for them to leave without the help of a human, but… it was a different matter for sentient animals.

Because of the feeble strength of a cat, it wasn’t easy to lift the handle up. I put all my strength into it to lift the handle, and then saw the black cow on the other side poking its antlers into the gap to continue lifting the handle by itself. 

With that, my task was over. It was up to the bulky friends to finish everything.

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4 days after becoming a cow at this damned farm.

I was finally free again.

The first thing I did after coming outside was freeing all the other cows as well. After quickly opening the doors with my antlers, I poked on the butts of the hesitant cows as they all jumped outside in fright.

Those guys would now add to the chaos and…

In the meantime, I had to go to the geese farm. Staying locked in one place must have been frustrating for Songee.

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I noticed that the plan had begun without anyone telling me about it. 

The farm was filled with screams and shouts as soon as it became morning. People were screaming and letting out teary shrieks, while the animals were creating a fuss in their own way.

At this point, it was safe to assume that this farm was completely wasted.

Although I still wasn’t sure whether this was the right plan or not… I didn’t have the confidence to explain what was wrong about it, and thus stayed silent the whole day.

I was taking care of my feathers by myself when the door of the geese farm suddenly opened with a thud.

Was someone here to look after the farm despite the chaos?

Thinking that, I turned to the door and realised the visitor was a cow and not a human.

I wondered how he opened the door, but I guess a ‘thinking cow’ was different from normal ones. Without even using the ‘Discord’ messenger function, I noticed what he was trying to say with his gesture. He was most likely telling me to come outside.

Even now, I still wasn’t sure about this plan but…

In any case, it was time to help everyone.

But what could a goose even do to destroy the farm?

I had never pondered as much as this on how to break something in my entire life.

To be frank, I didn’t have to do anything. When I went around the farm, I realised it was already in utter chaos!

It seemed that everyone had gone all in – more than 10 cows were screaming and running around; a boar was trampling on a plot of land which had no more crops to trample on, and more than 300 geese were starting to fly to the sky.

In addition to that was the farmer drenched in blood.

I’m sorry Brian. I think this farm is beyond recoverable at this point.

What could I even do to help everyone?

While walking around, I discovered something I could do. 

In front of me was a carriage. Actually, it was questionable what era this was staged in. The farmer was carrying some unknown gun and yet the transportation method was still a horse carriage.

Whatever the case, I walked up to the carriage, and tweaked on something that resembled a wooden nail with my beak.

My plan was to spend the rest of the time taking this thing out.

Seriously though. Was ruining the farm going to let us ‘escape’ this room? It’s been on my mind the whole time, but there seriously was something strange about this plan.

I was whole-heartedly messing around with the wooden nail on the wheel in deep thought when a shadow was cast over my body.

“What are you doing! Huh? Wait, aren’t you the one that was biting other geese yesterday? That’s strange. That one was supposed to be dead though… Anyway, why are you doing this now?”

Peter was enraged.

If I saw him as a human, I would have had a good impression of this boy as a young and energetic countryside boy, but he was the scariest man alive now that I was seeing him as a goose. 

He soon gripped onto my neck.

Was this really how I was going to die? Was he going to kill me just because I was playing around with the wheel?

I was thinking that when Peter clenched his grip around my throat.

My consciousness faded away. Ah… was this really the end?

Even in Room 103, it seemed that I was still useless…

It was then.

Something enormous covered the ground. Silence filled the farm.

It was an absurd turn of events.

Until just then, all the humans and animals were screaming like crazy to the point that my ears were about to explode, but everything suddenly turned so quiet that I couldn’t even hear the sound of a mosquito.

Tentacles came out of the dark figure and touched Peter as my body dropped back down on the ground.

The monster had saved me.

I was a bit uncertain until now, but now, it was very clear.

That ‘monster’ liked me quite a bit.

It was the same for the past few days. When Ahri saw the monster, she said it didn’t do anything to her and yet the monster constantly came and stroked me on my head. This time, it even blatantly saved me from danger.

Besides, it was still daytime.

According to what we knew thus far, the monster only moved at night and yet it was here to help me from my distress even though it was still daytime. 

What in the world was that thing? Being treasured by something that wasn’t human was rather frightening instead of making me happy.

The figure disappeared without any omens like the time when it showed itself.

And as if he was hypnotised, Peter turned around like nothing happened and walked off to finish his other business.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was when I finally realised what was wrong.

The sense of incongruity that had been filling me ever since I heard about the plan to destroy the farm yesterday –the identity of the doubt that had been bothering my mind.

The most supernatural existence in this strange farm was clearly that ‘monster’ and yet the Farm Destruction plan and the escape plan that the team came up with had nothing…

There was not a single consideration for the monster. As if it did not even exist.