Chapter 50: Thirteenth Floor, Waiting Room
I shared my experiences from the eleventh and twelfth floors with Ha Hee-Jeong.
She explained that sometimes the Tower of Ordeal would force a climber to move straight to the next floor without sending them to the waiting room. Of course, since the climber wasn’t given any time to rest, it was more exhausting.
She consoled me, telling me I must have had a tough time, before giving me a brief rundown of the thirteenth floor.
- Kwon Su-Hyeok (Thirteenth Floor): So, the thirteenth floor will require climbers to pair up, right?
- Ha Hee-Jeong (Thirteenth Floor): Yeah.
- Kwon Su-Hyeok (Thirteenth Floor): But do we really want to be paired? Wouldn’t it be safer if we helped our other party members?
- Ha Hee-Jeong (Thirteenth Floor): No, the thirteenth floor isn’t dangerous enough to warrant that. We’ll earn more points if the two of us handle it.
Well, if that was the case, I didn’t see any point in continuing to argue. Ha Hee-Jeong didn’t share many details about the thirteenth floor, but I figured following her advice was the best course of action.
- Kwon Su-Hyeok (Thirteenth Floor): But why is there an active timer? Shouldn’t there be an indefinite wait since no other climbers have cleared the twelfth floor?