After listening to this sound for a long time, Schiller put down the alarm clock and still did not hear the fifth ding.
It was not until 12:15 that the fifth sound came from a very distant place. Schiller judged that this should be the first sound in the left corridor, and then the second sound soon after.
After the second knock, there was no more movement. Schiller waited for another 15 minutes, and the sound never came again.
There were four blasts in the right corridor and two blasts in the left corridor, which was obviously not balanced.
Judging from the place where the sound was heard before, it is inferred that the elevator rang once, and then the sound began to get closer and closer. Room 03 rang once and room 05 rang once. Then maybe the sound after the elevator was from room 01.
That is to say, if 1, 3, and 5 all rang once, then the rule is that it rang in the odd-numbered room, but the problem is that if it knocked four times in the right corridor, and there was no fourth odd number in the right corridor, then the fourth knock was in the right corridor.
Where did the sound come from?
Schiller thought of Room 00, because the house number of this room had been changed. If Room 00 was originally an odd-numbered room, it would make sense.
There happened to be a missing sound in the left corridor, which proved that an odd-numbered room in the left corridor had been replaced.
Why should the door numbers of the rooms in the corridors on the left and right sides be changed, just to prevent the other party from knocking on the left? But the meaning of this sound is still unclear, and so far no abnormality has occurred.
Finding that there was no movement, Schiller did not intend to sleep. He walked to the table with the screws and alarm clock and began to study.
There is no doubt that there is something wrong with both of these things, because the person who changed the house number cannot have intentionally tightened two screws less, and the remaining two were either lost or taken away.
This alarm clock just rang, and if you get closer you can hear the sound of dripping water. Among all supernatural phenomena related to the old days, water is a very important factor, and this thing is not simple.
While Schiller was researching, Peter suddenly sent a message. Schiller opened it and saw that Peter had taken a very blurry photo of him, which should have been taken through a peephole.
In the photo, the door of Room 04 was opened, and a figure was opening the door and 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 sharp.
In another hotel, the person living in room 04 went out at midnight.
Schiller saw from the profile of the photo that this person should be Jerome Valeska.
He is also the villain in the Gotham TV series. Schiller heard from Little Bruce that this Jerome is now an investigator for an insurance company, mainly investigating the truth of various accidental death cases to help insurance companies deny compensation.
In the past, Bruce Jr. killed many people in order to use the power of the alien gods to completely eliminate the darkness in Gotham. This insurance investigator has been chasing him in order to investigate the truth, and it was obviously very effective, so Bruce had to stay away from the edge for a while.
This guy has the foundation of a legendary investigator in the running group, Schiller thought, but it's normal. The principles are similar to him. He is already crazy, so his threshold is ridiculously high. Basically, he can stay sane as long as he doesn't face the outside gods directly.
Unexpectedly, he appeared in Peter's hotel. Schiller thought, if it was to chase little Bruce, could it be that the hotel where Peter was staying was the problem, and little Bruce was hiding there?
Schiller did not continue to think about it. He connected to the voice communication and said to Peter: "Did you hear anything just now?"
"What's the noise? I stayed by the door and stared at the other side, but I didn't hear anything."
“No elevator ding?”
"No, did you encounter anything there?"
"It's okay, Peter. I know you are a little scared now, so you can go and have a sleep now. When you get up tomorrow morning, I hope you can cooperate with me to do something."
"No problem, doctor, but I can't sleep right now. Can't I help you now?"
"Are you sure you dare to go out?"
"Do you want to go out? Forget it, I'm going to sleep for a while now. When it gets dark, I will send you a message."
After hanging up the communication, Schiller did not go to sleep. 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 didn't show up. Is the key to it the mobile phone?
Schiller picked up the phone again, focusing on it, looking out the window with his peripheral vision. Sure enough, the next second the city scenery receded, a huge hotel approached, and the light in the window closest to him was on.
, but still no one.
Schiller looked down at his phone and found that there was no signal. Everything seemed to be no different from before zero o'clock.
After discovering this, Schiller put away his mobile phone, but to his expectation, the hotel did not disappear as before. It was still standing there, and not just in the peripheral vision. Now Schiller could turn around and pass through
The window looks over there.
Schiller immediately opened the curtains, opened the window, and looked 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 stories high, with layers upon layers of windows with no end in sight.
Schiller made a visual inspection and found that the hotel he was in was about 20 meters away from the hotel opposite. This was not an insurmountable distance. Schiller could get to the opposite side just by using these things in the hotel.
But the premise is that there can't be any interference on the road, but this is almost impossible. The gust of wind just now is likely to 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. However, he found it after four o'clock, and it was about to dawn, and he did not find it.
Something useful.
The hotel opposite has always been there, and it didn't disappear as soon as people looked away like it did before midnight. When the first ray of morning light came over, the busy scene of traffic resumed outside the window, as if the night last night was weird.
It's all an illusion.
Peter's message was sent on time. He said that he had gone out, and he opened the video and the communication shared his view with Schiller.
The corridor of the hotel over there was very quiet. Peter went out quietly. He took a look at room 1904 first and found nothing 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 wearing 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 his head, pushed up his glasses, and nodded towards Peter.
Peter didn't know why, so he nodded to him and smiled.
But room 1901 was 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, nothing happened to this man yet, so he could walk out as if nothing had happened.
And this can also explain why Peter, the man living in room 1903, heard him say that he wanted to extend his stay, while Schiller heard that he wanted to check out.
Maybe at Peter's time he really wanted to extend his stay, but at Schiller's time, various supernatural phenomena broke out, and he felt scared, so he ran to check out, and the check-out failed, so he couldn't escape at all.
At Peter's time, it might be normal for the front desk to be a little sloppy, but at Schiller's time, the front desk was a little too enthusiastic, as if they were afraid of missing him as a guest, and even made such a tricky request.
Everyone strives to be satisfied, which may also be an abnormal phenomenon.
So it is possible that Peter went to a time when the anomaly broke out before it was so serious, and he was at a time after the anomaly broke out.
Peter went downstairs quickly. The elevator was running normally and everything went very smoothly. He came to the breakfast restaurant. There was a lot of food here. Some people were taking meals, some were talking to each other, and some were sitting by the window.
Business.
Peter breathed a sigh of relief at this scene. He took some waffles 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 smiled at him.
But unfortunately, this guy didn't seem to come for breakfast, and Peter didn't see any staff members among the crowd, but he saw resident No. 1901 greeting him in the corridor, and the one in front of the elevator that day.
Guest No. 1903 of Yuan.
These two people should be from out of town here to discuss business. The person in room 1901 is taller, nearly 1.9 meters tall, and the person in room 1903 is shorter and fatter.
Peter gave them two nicknames, the tall one and the short one, and Schiller decided to use these nicknames to avoid confusing them.
Schiller also got up and went out. He planned to take a look at the situation in the hotel during the day. After going out, the corridor was still very quiet, maintaining its original appearance at night. Schiller walked through a few doors and came to the elevator. As a result, he found that the elevator was still quiet.
Closed.
Has the supernatural phenomenon completely gotten out of control? Schiller sighed inwardly. He did not see a safe passage in this layer. Theoretically, this is impossible. The only explanation is that there is some kind of supernatural phenomenon that blocks all roads.
They're all sealed.
Now he is completely trapped on the 19th floor.
Schiller returned to room 1901 and took a look, and found that the man was still standing in front of the door, but he no longer banged his head on the door. Room 1903 made no sound no matter how hard he knocked. Room 1913 still opened the door 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. Schiller had to return to his room. He planned to get some props and continue to talk to the man in room 1901 using notes to see if he could.
Can't get any response.
Schiller opened the briefcase that he had been carrying before. In fact, it contained no paper information, but a bunch of strange things. Schiller rummaged through it and finally took out a stick.
White candles and a lighter.
He took the things and went out, first placed the candle next to door No. 1901, and then began to write on the note.
"I help you open the door, what can you give me in return?"
"Help me open the door", the blood gathered into these words again.
No matter how Schiller asked after that, this guy always said the same thing and had no attitude when asking for help. Schiller thought a little speechlessly.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door in Room 1903, and the voice came again, "Hey, you damn lunatic, you can't open his door, he's already entangled with something."
"Did you hear that ding last night? Tell me what it was or I'll knock the door down right now."
"Open the door and you'll die."
"Do you think I'm afraid of death?"
The other party seemed a little helpless and had no choice but to say: "There is someone in the room with the noise. You should have got the alarm clock, right? You have to make sure that the alarm clock will ring. If your room is judged as unoccupied, something terrible will happen."
It’s about something.”
"That means the alarm clock may not go off."
"It's possible."
“What if it doesn’t ring?”
"It seems that I can only 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 questioning 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 on the ground and looked through the crack in the door.
There is nothing inside the crack of the door.
The disease is finally cured! I went to Wuhu to eat a pound!