hotmtlnovel Chapter 2778 Phantom Chamber (4)
Chapter 2778 Phantom Chamber (4)
Chapter 2778 Phantom Chamber (IV)
"Dr. Bobobobobo!!!"
When Peter's suppressed scream came through the communication, Schiller sighed. As a son of God, Peter was almost perfect. If there was any flaw, it was that the upper limit of his sanity value was a bit low, so even if it was full, it would easily drop.
Sanity is not courage. Peter actually does not lack courage, but he lacks the ability to turn some mysterious mysteries into rational thinking. If you give him a wooden stake, he can hit it with a crackling sound, but if you blow a gust of wind at him, he will be helpless. Spider-Man is not good at dealing with such mysterious enemies.
From Peter's slightly panicked description, Schiller learned that someone had just moved into the room opposite him, 1904. He was a young man wearing a jacket, and before entering the room, he gave a perverted smile like that of an evil murderer towards room 1905.
It can be said that if this man rushed up and punched the door twice, Peter would definitely rush out to fight back, but this man did not move at all, just stood at the door and laughed. Peter was so scared that he didn't even dare to open the door.
It turns out that it is impossible to rely on such a person to go out and explore. Schiller still has to do it himself, but before going out, he has to set a goal first.
The best case scenario was that he could go to the lobby, get the guest list, and find out what was going on, but Schiller thought that was difficult, so he had to have a secondary goal so as not to return empty-handed.
Schiller's target was room 1900.
Why is it here? Of course, there is no need to explain. Please, this is a hotel. Which floor of the hotel does not start with 01? What's the matter with 00? This is not writing code!
There must be something strange about Room 1900. It is the closest to the elevator in the corridor on the right. However, due to the angle, even if Schiller opened the door, he could only see half of the house number through a gap. He could not see any traces in front of the door like Room 1904 opposite. If Schiller wanted to get clues, he had to leave Room 1905.
Schiller looked down at his watch. He checked in at about 10:00 and it was already 10:45. He suspected that some changes would occur at midnight, so he now had about an hour and 15 minutes.
Schiller opened the door a little wider. The lights in the corridor were still on, but a little dim. However, most hotels were like this, so there was no obvious problem.
There was no sound of the elevator moving, which proved that there were no new residents on the floors above mine.
Very good, it is safe now. Schiller opened the door and walked out from the gap sideways. He took a flashlight but did not turn it on. He leaned against the right wall and walked towards the elevator quietly.
The footprints at the door of Room 1904 are still there, but because the corridor is also bright, it is impossible to tell by the light whether there is anyone moving inside. There is no movement in Room 1905 next to Room 1903, and Room 1902 is also very quiet.
Just as Schiller arrived opposite Room 1901, he suddenly heard a "bang".
Schiller stopped moving immediately. He stood against the wall and looked towards Room 1901 where the sound came from. Then there was another bang, and then two more bangs. It didn't sound like someone was banging on the door, but rather like someone threw something at the door.
Schiller approached as quickly as possible, bent down, lay on the ground and looked inside the crack in the door.
A pair of feet standing by the door.
The foot was very close to the door. If nothing unexpected happened, the man's nose should have been touching the door panel.
What was that thing that was smashing the door?
boom!
There was another bang, and suddenly a drop of liquid dripped down the door panel. Judging from its state, it might be blood, but there was no smell of blood.
Boom!
His head was banging against the door, and Schiller immediately realized that it was not a normal banging motion, because there is a limit to how far back a person's head can be tilted, and simply tilting the head back and banging it against the door would not make such a noise.
boom!
After another noise, Schiller slowly stood up, because he judged that if he made such a noise in such a posture, the other person's head might no longer be on his neck.
Boom!
The noise grew louder, as if something was about to break down the door, but Schiller still showed no intention of leaving.
If it were an ordinary person, he would have been scared and fled, but the Schillers on the magic side were all researchers, and they spent a lot of time in their previous lives pursuing supernatural phenomena.
Others search for ghosts because they are afraid that ghosts will appear, but Schiller searches for ghosts because he is afraid that ghosts will not appear. In his previous life, he searched for supernatural traces everywhere just to prove that magic exists in this world, so that he could explain his own abnormal behavior.
So every time he went to some rumored haunted place, he was full of hope, but of course he returned disappointed.
This resulted in Schiller not only not being afraid when he saw the ghost, but being very excited, because in his previous life he had been looking for it for a long time and couldn't find it, and now it was so easy to come across one, isn't this equivalent to a single draw?
However, Schiller did not think that the guy in the room was a ghost, because it had been studied before that the so-called ghost was actually a kind of abnormal brain waves. However, no matter how abnormal the brain waves were, it would not take off its own head. This thing should have been affected by other supernatural factors.
Could it be Bruce Jr.?
Schiller did not bend down to look through the crack in the door again. Instead, he made a rather bold move: he walked over and turned the doorknob.
As expected, it wouldn't open.
Schiller thought that if Peter's side was normal and he was abnormal, then this hotel must be operating according to some rules, otherwise he would not have been able to check in smoothly.
But unfortunately, this is not like some rule-based ghost games where the rules are posted directly at the door. You need to figure out the rules of the hotel by yourself.
But in Schiller's view, the clues are actually very clear - this is a hotel, and hotels all over the world have some common rules, such as not being able to open the door without a key card.
Schiller suspected that some of the anomalies in the hotel, such as the man in room 1901 who kept banging his head against the door, had to abide by the hotel's rules, otherwise they would not be able to move around smoothly.
Now Schiller is outside and can't open the door without a door card. This man who is affected by some unknown supernatural phenomenon may also be unable to open the door for some reason.
Schiller received the room card when he entered the room, so it was impossible for this man to enter the room without a room card. The only possibility was that he could not use the room card now.
No, maybe it's not just the room card that can't be used. After all, Schiller didn't swipe the room card again when he went out. The door can be opened just by pressing the door handle, so this man may not be able to press the door handle.
Why bang your head against the door?
Schiller came up with the answer after a little thought. It must be because the only part that could move was the head. If the hands could move, they would have opened the door and walked out long ago.
In other words, the man standing in front of the door now may have his head controlled by something, such as a facehugger or something like that. This creature can only control the head and may not have the concept of opening a door. If it wants to go out, it can only control the things it can control to keep hitting the door.
Schiller took a few steps back, turned around and left.
Why bother with him if he can't get out? Just let him crash into it. It would be best if he crashes himself to pieces.
But after walking two steps, Schiller came back. He thought for a moment, took out a note from his pocket, and took out a pen from another pocket of his windbreaker. He wrote a sentence on the note: "Do you need any help?"
It was passed into room 1901 through the gap.
He saw blood dripping onto the note paper. Under the reflection of the white paper, Schiller could see clearly that the blood was not red, but black, and it looked too sticky, a bit like a pool of mud.
The blood slowly gathered on the paper and formed a sentence: "Help me open the door."
Can this thing communicate?
After confirming this, Schiller did not put the note in again, nor did he try to continue communicating. He put away the pen and paper and walked towards the elevator.
As soon as he walked over, he found something wrong. The light at the elevator door was off. Schiller walked over and pressed the button, but there was no response.
The elevator is broken?
Schiller pressed the button a few more times, but there was no response. He looked down and saw that it was already 11 o'clock.
It is difficult to determine whether the elevator is broken or has stopped operating since 11 o'clock. Elevators in most hotels in the United States and Europe do not operate 24 hours a day. Sometimes they are inspected in the early morning, and sometimes they are simply closed at night. Schiller has encountered similar situations several times.
So there is definitely no way I can go downstairs to get the guest check-in slip tonight, and I’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning.
But there is still an hour until midnight, so Schiller decided to check the situation on the 19th floor again.
He paused at the elevator, then walked to the left side of the elevator to see if there was another room 1905 at the end.
After walking over, the first room is 1906, and then opposite it is 1907. There are double rooms on the left and single rooms on the right, just like the right side, there are 6 rooms.
Schiller walked a few more steps forward and found something wrong. The room at the end was not 1911, but 1913.
也就是说，左侧的六个房间分别是06、07、08、09、10和13。
Both 5 and 13 are unlucky in Western culture. The number 5 is because the pentagram is the symbol of the devil, and 13 is due to religious factors. Judas, who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th disciple, and the Last Supper happened to be on the 13th.
Both rooms are located at the end of the 19th floor, and it seems that there should be some hidden pattern.
Schiller came to the door of Room 13.
Suddenly, the door of Room 13 opened.
As if inviting Schiller to come in, the door opened slightly, but nothing could be seen inside, and even the light from the flashlight could not penetrate the thick darkness.
Schiller turned and walked away.
He would not fall for such an obvious trap. If there was someone in the room, a normal person would never open the door the first time they heard approaching footsteps. If there was no one in the room, then what opened the door?
At least this exploration made Schiller certain that there were not two rooms 1905 in the hotel he was in, and Peter was definitely not at the end of the corridor on the other side. This was similar to his previous guess, that one of them was in a parallel time and space.
Schiller returned to the corridor on the right again, and this time he planned to see what was going on in Room 1900.