The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2782 Phantom Chamber (8)

Chapter 2782 Phantom Chamber (VIII)

After receiving the news, Schiller went straight to the bathroom in his room. He knew that the toilet was broken, but he didn't have time to fix it. However, Peter found an alarm clock in the water tank of the toilet in Room 1903, which meant that the toilet was most likely not broken accidentally.

Schiller used a knife to pry open the connection of the toilet tank cover. After taking the cover off, he didn't find anything unusual with the tank. Then he went back to the bedroom to get the alarm clock, hesitating whether to throw it in.

There are two possibilities if it is thrown in now. Either there is indeed something abnormal with the toilet and the alarm will ring directly, which is very likely to attract the unknown monster with the noise. Or there is nothing wrong with the toilet and the problem is the alarm clock. After the alarm was thrown in, it simply stopped ringing, and there will be no sound in Schiller's room tonight.

The resident of Room 1903 said that the elevator-like sound was similar to the dormitory manager's room inspection. Only when the alarm clock in your room rings does it mean that there is someone in the room, and no supernatural phenomena will occur.

Then Schiller threw the alarm clock into the water tank. What if it didn't ring tonight and what the short man said was true, maybe the strange monster would come in, or some other supernatural phenomenon would occur in the room.

While Schiller was thinking, Peter suddenly sent a message, saying: "I heard a voice, that person may be back."

"Hide." Schiller said, "Go to the bedroom and hide in the closet. He can't just go out once today. He must be going to dinner."

Peter did as he was told as quickly as possible. He rushed into the bedroom, opened the closet door and walked in. The next second, the door outside the living room was opened.

This was not a movie. If Peter could see the short man through the gap in the closet, the short man would definitely be able to see him, so he didn't even think about seeing who came in. But Peter was very smart. He made a video call and shared his vision and hearing with Dr. Soship.

Schiller listened carefully on the other end of the phone, and then realized that something was wrong. The person who came in was not the short man, because Peter had shared his vision and hearing with him before, and Schiller remembered the short man's footsteps, and it was not like this.

The person who came in was Jerome. Schiller guessed that this guy went out in the middle of the night and no one knew where he went. Assuming that the hotel over there was relatively normal, it was possible that Jerome took advantage of the night to commit some petty theft and got a door card.

But why did he go into room 1903?

Jerome was also searching for something in the room.

He was about to find the bathroom, and Peter said nervously: "I don't have time to clean up, the lid of the water tank is still open, he will definitely realize that someone..."

"But he may not realize it's someone else." Schiller said very calmly. Although the situation was very tense, Peter was unarmed, and Jerome was aggressive. Schiller didn't believe that he didn't have a gun. If the two met, Peter might suffer a great loss.

But he still calmly analyzed: "You are a complete variable. He is more likely to think that the person living in room 1903 realized that someone was following him, so he hid something in advance. This is a more reasonable explanation."

"But he smiled at me yesterday."

"He may not be smiling at you," Schiller said. "He may just be smiling at the guest in room 1905. He hasn't really seen you."

Peter's heart calmed down a little, but it was still beating fast because Jerome had rushed into the bathroom. He obviously noticed something unusual with the water tank and he must be looking for something.

Peter lowered his head and looked at the alarm clock in his hand. Is this the key? If he can't find it in the bathroom, will he open the closet?

Jerome came out of the bathroom, and his footsteps were getting closer. Obviously, he found nothing in the bathroom, so he planned to search the bedroom thoroughly.

"What should we do, Doctor?" Peter is worthy of being Spider-Man. At this point he is not nervous or afraid. He completely contracts his muscles, ready to give a fatal blow to the person who opens the door.

But at this moment, another sound of footsteps came from the door, this time it was the resident of Room 1903.

Peter heard very clearly that the person outside the closet gasped, and then the closet door opened with a creak, and a dark shadow rushed in.

Jerome and Peter stared at each other in the closet.

Spider-Man always seems to have some bad fate with the Joker, and this bad fate always comes true at some bad moments. At this time, Peter and Jerome were both shocked, and both of them swallowed their voices when they were about to shout in surprise.

What a coincidence, the two thieves successfully met in the closet, but because of the current situation, they could neither attack each other nor communicate.

The hotel room was not very big, and there was no point in lowering the voice, so neither of them could speak now.

The first thing Jerome saw was the alarm clock in Peter's hand. He seemed a little surprised and raised his eyebrows at Peter.

Peter reacted quickly. He took out his cell phone from his pocket and shook it towards Jerome. Jerome also took out his cell phone, but the two people's cell phones were obviously not from the same era.

Peter was using the most advanced communicator issued by the Spider Army, a small hexagonal projector, and Jerome was holding a flip phone that looked very cheap, very suitable for the era he was living in.

Peter operated the projector for a few times, and a string of numbers appeared, which was obviously his mobile phone number. He waited for a while, and sure enough, a message came.

"Who are you? Why are you here?"

After finding that they could communicate, Peter did not rush to reply, but immediately told Schiller everything. After finding that he could communicate with Jerome, Schiller did not hide it anymore, he asked directly.

“What’s going on with this hotel?”

"It seems you have discovered it." Jerome replied: "There is a big problem with this hotel, but I am investigating what the problem is."

"You can't fool me." Schiller asked Peter to reply to Jerome, ruthlessly exposing his response and saying: "You didn't lie, you just blurred some facts, but I must have some clues that you are interested in. How about you share one with me?"

Jerome seemed shocked again by the other party's straightforwardness. He looked up at Peter and narrowed his eyes. He felt that the boy in front of him was not someone who could say such words.

But he nodded anyway. There were not many opportunities to communicate, so Schiller did not delay any longer and asked Peter to send the first question, "What's the problem with the person in room 1903?"

"He was contaminated," Jerome replied, and as if to show his sincerity, he added, "He was corrupted by the evil god."

Schiller thought of his previous speculation. If Peter's time point was before his, then Jerome might have discovered the abnormality of the hotel and came to investigate. At the time he investigated, some people were contaminated, but not seriously, and they might not even know it themselves.

At this point in time, all the abnormalities broke out, so it became so terrifying and weird.

Jerome quickly posed his own question, "Do you exist in another hotel?"

Obviously, he found that he was not communicating with the young man in front of him, and he might have encountered similar abnormalities.

Schiller did not intend to hide it from him, but said: "Yes, I am in another hotel."

"Which room are you in?"

"Sorry, but it's my turn now. What's the use of an alarm clock?"

"Responding to a certain existence." Jerome said, "You can think of it as a detector, starting, detecting, responding."

"Testing for what?"

"I'm sorry too. Now it's my turn. Which room are you staying in?"

"1905." Schiller did not choose to lie. He guessed that Jerome knew this place very well, so if he said another room number, the other party might have a way to confirm it.

There was silence on the other end of the line for a long time, far longer than it should have been, which made Schiller certain that there must be something special about Room 1905.

"It's up to you," Jerome said. "No one leaves that room alive, not even dead."

"My turn now. What does the alarm clock detect?"

"Pollution," Jerome's answer was brief and to the point.

Schiller had actually guessed this a long time ago, and when Jerome said it, he became even more certain. To some extent, what the man in Room 1903 said was not wrong. The alarm would not ring because there were living people in the room, but because the people in the room were not contaminated.

So if the alarm clock doesn't ring, it means that the people in the room have been contaminated, and then that horrible existence may directly wipe out everything in the room without the ringing sound, and even the hotel itself may expel those things.

This is a defense mechanism, Schiller thought, which may be prevalent throughout the hotel, activated at midnight every night to eliminate all dangers.

But the only problem is that bells rang in all the odd-numbered rooms, but the person in Room 1901 had already led the charge, and the person in Room 1903 could only be heard but not seen. Could these two be considered living people who were not contaminated?

Then Schiller thought that detecting contamination might not be detecting whether there is contamination, but detecting the depth of the contamination. Although the two people in rooms 1901 and 1903 are a bit strange, they seem to be able to communicate, so they may be able to avoid judgment.

The alarm clock in Room 1900 also rang, which proved that there was someone in that room. So it was possible that the person in Room 1900 deliberately changed the house number. Together with Rooms 1901, 1903 and Schiller himself, there were exactly four living people in the corridor on the right, so the bell rang exactly four times.

There were two noises in the corridor on the left, proving that there might be two living people in there, but why did the number of living people just match the odd-numbered rooms? Can people only survive in odd-numbered rooms?

Schiller was not sure, but he did not ask this question. Instead, he asked another question: "How do I leave the 19th floor?"

"You can't leave the hotel you're in." Jerome replied straightforwardly, and even explained in detail, "Once the number of ringtone replies is less than 10, you will never be able to leave this floor."

It was indeed some kind of detection mechanism, Schiller thought, some existence in the hotel was eliminating the supernatural, and he even had a sense of the overall situation. Once the number of living people was less than a certain number, the hotel would be completely closed to minimize the danger.

Jerome asked a question Schiller didn't expect, "Can you communicate with this silly boy in front of me in real time?"