novelonline Chapter 2780 Phantom Chamber (6)
Chapter 2780 Phantom Chamber (6)
Chapter 2780 Phantom Chamber (VI)
After listening for a long time, only this sound was echoing. Schiller put down the alarm clock, but he still didn't hear the fifth ding.
It was not until 12:15 that the fifth sound came from a very distant place. Schiller judged that it should be the first sound in the left corridor, and then the second sound came soon.
After the second knock, there was no sound. Schiller waited for another 15 minutes, but the sound never came again.
There were four rings in the right corridor and two rings in the left corridor, which was obviously unbalanced.
Judging from the location where the sound was heard before, the elevator rang once, and then the sound started to get closer and closer, ringing once in Room 03 and once in Room 05, so it is possible that the sound after the elevator was from Room 01.
That is to say, numbers 1, 3, and 5 all rang once, so the pattern is that they rang in the odd-numbered rooms. But the problem is that they knocked four times in the right corridor, and there is no fourth odd-numbered room in the right corridor, so where did the fourth knock occur?
Schiller thought of Room 00, because the room number had been changed, and if Room 00 was originally an odd-numbered room, that would make sense.
There happened to be one less sound in the left corridor, which proved that an odd-numbered room in the left corridor had been moved.
Why do we need to swap the door numbers of the rooms on the left and right corridors, just to make the other party knock one less time on the left? However, the meaning of this sound is still unclear, and no abnormal phenomenon has been found so far.
Finding that there was no movement, Schiller did not intend to sleep. He walked to the table with a screw and an alarm clock and began to study.
There is no doubt that there is something wrong with both of them, because the person who changed the door number could not have deliberately tightened two less screws, and the remaining two were either lost or taken away.
The alarm clock just rang, and if you listen closely you can hear the sound of dripping water. Among all the supernatural phenomena related to the old days, water is a very important factor, and this thing is not simple either.
While Schiller was studying, Peter suddenly sent him a message. Schiller opened it and saw that Peter had taken a very blurry photo of him, which must have been taken through a peephole.
In the photo, the door of Room 04 was opened, and a figure was walking out. Peter said that was the person who smiled at him during the day, and he marked the time when the photo was taken as 12 o'clock.
In another hotel, the person living in room 04 went out at exactly midnight.
Schiller saw from the profile of the photo that this person should be Jerome Valeska.
That is the villain in the TV series Gotham. Schiller heard from Bruce Jr. that Jerome is now an investigator for an insurance company. His main job is to investigate the truth of various accidental death cases in order to help the insurance company refuse to pay compensation.
Before, young Bruce killed many people in order to use the power of the Outer Gods to completely eliminate the darkness in Gotham. This insurance investigator had been chasing him in order to find out the truth, and was apparently very effective, so young Bruce had to temporarily avoid the spotlight.
This guy is a legendary investigator in the game, Schiller thought, but it's normal. The principle is similar to his. He is crazy, so the threshold is ridiculously high. Basically, he can remain sane as long as he doesn't face the Outer Gods directly.
Unexpectedly, he showed up in Peter's hotel. Schiller thought, if he was going to chase little Bruce, then could it be that the hotel where Peter was staying was the problem, and little Bruce was hiding there?
Schiller didn't think about it any further. He connected the voice communication and said to Peter, "Did you hear anything just now?"
"What's the noise? I've been standing by the door, staring at the other side, but I didn't hear any sound."
“No elevator ding?”
"No, did anything happen to you there?"
"It's okay, Peter. I know you're a little scared now, so you can go to sleep now. When you wake up tomorrow morning, I hope you can cooperate with me to do something."
"No problem, Doc, but I can't sleep right now, can't I help you now?"
"Are you sure you dare go out?"
"Want to go out? Forget it. I'm going to sleep for a while now. I'll send you a message when it's daybreak."
After hanging up the phone, Schiller did not go to bed. He put the screws and the alarm clock on the table, then walked to the window, his eyes fell on the windowsill, but he looked out the window with his peripheral vision.
The other hotel did not appear. Is the mobile phone the key?
Schiller picked up his phone again, focusing mainly on the phone, and looking out the window with his peripheral vision. Sure enough, the next second, the city scenery receded layer by layer, and a huge hotel approached. The light was on in the window closest to him, but there was still no one.
Schiller looked down at his phone and found that there was no signal. Everything seemed to be no different from before midnight.
After discovering this, Schiller put away his phone, but to his surprise, the hotel did not disappear as before, but was still standing there, and not just in his peripheral vision. Now Schiller could turn around and look over there through the window.
Schiller immediately opened the curtains and the window, and leaned out to stare at the room opposite. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, almost blinding Schiller.
He looked down and saw an endless abyss below, as if the hotel was thousands of floors high, with layers of windows with no end in sight.
Schiller estimated that the hotel he was in was about 20 meters away from the hotel opposite. This was not an insurmountable distance. Just by using the things in the hotel, Schiller would be able to get to the other side.
But the prerequisite is that there can be no interference on the road, but this is almost impossible. The gust of wind just now may very likely blow him down. This puzzle is not so easy to solve.
Taking advantage of this time, Schiller continued to explore the room, trying to find something like an alarm clock that he had not discovered before, but he searched all the way until past four o'clock, and it was almost dawn, and he still didn't find anything useful.
The hotel opposite has also been there. It did not disappear as soon as people looked away, as it did before midnight. But when the first ray of morning light shone through, the hustle and bustle of traffic outside the window resumed, as if the strange night before was all an illusion.
Peter's message came on time. He said he had gone out, and he turned on the video and shared his view with Schiller.
The corridor of his hotel was very quiet. Peter tiptoed out of the door and took a look at Room 1904 first. He didn't find anything wrong. Just when Peter was about to get closer to the peephole of Room 1904 to take a look, the door of Room 1901 suddenly opened.
A man in a suit and leather shoes walked out of the room. He was a very typical elite. When he saw other people in the corridor, he turned around, pushed his glasses, and nodded at Peter.
Peter didn't understand, so he nodded and smiled at him.
But Room 1901 is the room where Schiller found the man banging his head against the door yesterday.
So Peter's timeline is earlier than his? Schiller speculated that maybe in Peter's timeline, this man hadn't had any accidents yet, so he could walk out like nothing happened.
And this would also explain why Peter heard the man living in room 1903 say he was going to stay longer, while Schiller heard he was going to check out.
Maybe at that point in time Peter really wanted to extend his stay, but at Schiller's point in time, all kinds of supernatural phenomena broke out and he became scared, so he ran to check out, but he failed and could not escape at all.
It might be normal for the front desk staff to be a little slack at Peter's time, but at Schiller's time, the front desk staff was a little too enthusiastic, as if they were afraid of missing out on him as a guest, and they even tried hard to meet such a tricky request raised by him, which might also be an abnormal phenomenon.
So it is possible that Peter went to a time point when the abnormal phenomenon outbreak was not so serious, while he was at a time point after the abnormal outbreak.
Peter went downstairs quickly. The elevator worked normally and everything went smoothly. He came to the breakfast restaurant where there was abundant food. Some people were getting food, some were talking to each other, and some were sitting by the window talking about business.
This scene made Peter feel relieved. He took some muffins and sausages, found a seat and started eating. At the same time, he searched the crowd to see if he could find the madman who was smiling at him.
But unfortunately, this guy didn't seem to come for breakfast, and Peter didn't see any staff among the crowd. However, he saw Resident No. 1901 who greeted him in the corridor, and Resident No. 1903 who he met in front of the elevator that day.
These two people should be from other places who came here to discuss business. The person in room 1901 is taller, nearly 1 meters tall, while the person in room 9 is shorter and fatter.
Peter gave them the nicknames of the Tall One and the Short One, and Schiller decided to use them to call them both to avoid confusing them.
Schiller also got up and went out. He planned to see what the hotel was like during the day. After he went out, the corridor was still very quiet, maintaining its original appearance at night. Schiller walked through several doors and came to the elevator, only to find that it was still closed.
Has the supernatural phenomenon completely gotten out of control? Schiller sighed in his heart. He didn't see a safe passage on this floor. Theoretically, this was impossible. The only explanation was that some supernatural phenomenon had blocked all the roads.
Now he was completely trapped on the 19th floor.
Schiller returned to room 1901 and found that the man was still standing in front of the door, but he no longer banged his head against the door. No matter how he knocked in room 1903, there was no response. The door of room 1913 opened automatically as soon as Schiller walked over.
All the other rooms could not be opened and nothing could be seen through the cracks in the doors, so Schiller had to return to his own room. He planned to get some props and continue to communicate with the man in room 1901 using notes to see if he could get any response.
Schiller opened the briefcase he had been holding in his hand. There was actually no paper document inside, but a bunch of strange things. Schiller rummaged through it and finally took out a white candle and a lighter.
He took his things and went out, first placing the candle next to the door of No. 1901, and then began to write on the note.
"I'll open the door for you, what can you give me in return?"
"Help me open the door," the blood gathered into this line of words again.
After that, no matter how Schiller asked, this guy just said the same thing. He didn't even have the attitude to ask for help. Schiller thought speechlessly.
Suddenly, someone in room 1903 knocked on the door from the inside, and the voice came again, "Hey, you damn lunatic, you can't open his door, he's been entangled by something."
"Did you hear that dinging noise last night? Tell me what it was, or I'll knock the door down right now."
"You'll die if you open the door."
"Do you think I'm afraid of death?"
The other party seemed a little helpless, so he had to say: "There is someone in the room with the noise. You should have got the alarm clock, right? You have to make sure the alarm clock will go off. If your room is judged to be empty, something terrible will happen."
"Which means there's a chance the alarm won't go off."
"It's possible."
"What if it doesn't ring?"
“It seems that the only way is to leave the room.” The other party’s voice hesitated, and then said: “But I don’t know. It keeps ringing and I haven’t tried to go out.”
Schiller had been talking and answering questions with the voice in Room 1903, but in fact he did not stop at the door of Room 1901, but came to the side of the door of Room 1903.
He slowly lay down on the ground and looked inside through the crack in the door.
There was nothing in the crack of the door.
The disease is finally cured! I went to Wuhu to eat a lot!