As soon as midnight arrived, Schiller climbed through the window and went back into the house. The alarm clock rang on time, but this time, it only rang twice in the entire right corridor and only four times in the entire 19th floor.
In other words, if something goes wrong with the people in one of Rooms 1901 and 1903, they will no longer be judged as not being contaminated, but will most likely be completely contaminated.
Which one will it be?
But Schiller has no time to think about this now. He knows that if his hotel is in the past, the hotel where Peter is located will be more dangerous, and Peter's abilities are insufficient. Schiller must give him enough guidance, otherwise he may
It's hard to survive.
What can be found in common between the two hotels now is the alarm clock. Schiller found an alarm clock in his room. Peter opened the door of Room 1903 and got an alarm clock in the water tank in the toilet.
Jerome said that the alarm clock sounded as a detection procedure and would only go off when someone alive was in the room, but Peter also spent a night in that hotel and said he heard nothing at night
, which means that there was no sound even once on the 19th floor where he was.
Then there are some problems, because in addition to Peter, Jerome is also a living person on the entire floor. In other words, if the detection device is still working normally, there should be at least two rings on the 19th floor, even if this Jerome
There's a problem. The alarm clock in Peter's room should go off.
Schiller asked Peter to look for the alarm clock in the room. After Peter had just slept, he felt that he was in good spirits, so he followed Schiller's instructions and began to search the hotel room where he was, trying to find the alarm clock.
However, he searched and searched but could not find it. In the wardrobe where Schiller found the alarm clock, he found no trace of the existence of the alarm clock.
This was unlikely, Schiller thought, unless he had moved the alarm clock somewhere else.
Because I am in the past on the timeline, all my actions will affect Peter. If I choose to leave the alarm clock, it is impossible for Peter to find it. If Peter cannot find it, it means that he has moved the alarm clock somewhere else.
Went.
Why do you do this?
It is impossible to speculate now, but it is very likely because of some information he got in the next few days, that is to say, Schiller in the next few days thought that it would be better if the alarm clock was not in the room than in the room.
But at this point in time where Schiller was, the detection device was still working normally. Only when the alarm clock sounded could the room be safe. If Schiller moved the alarm clock to another place, the one wandering in the corridor and causing the sound of the elevator would
Unknown creatures may come in.
What made Schiller willing to take such a risk to get rid of the alarm clock and keep it out of Peter's reach?
There is another clue about the alarm clock, that is, the person in room 1903 chose to put the alarm clock in the toilet water tank.
Judging from the current situation, if Peter's time period is really in the future, the possibility of the situation getting completely better is too small. It is more likely that everything in that time period is an illusion.
The tall and short people in Rooms 1901 and 1903 were most likely completely contaminated, which is why they did not show any signs of struggle, but were completely controlled.
Thinking along this line of thinking, the short man in room 1903 who was completely controlled chose to put the alarm clock in the water tank. This behavior must be beneficial to him, which means that if the alarm clock is not placed in the water tank, it will be harmful to him.
is disadvantageous.
Is the detection device still working normally?
The thought circled around again. If the detection device was still working normally, why didn't Peter hear any noise?
Schiller thought of another possibility, that is, everyone on the 19th floor, like the short man in room 1903, interfered with the alarm clock.
This is very possible. It is known that there are two forces fighting in the hotel. One is trying desperately to pollute the guests, and the other wants to prevent the spread of pollution and installs detection devices. Once the pollution is found to be too deep, the cleanup process will be initiated.
The result of the game between the two parties was that the latter obviously lost, because at the time Peter was there, the hotel still had problems, but peace had been restored on the surface, and the horrific pollution was hidden deeper.
Since the party that caused the contamination won, they must have a way to invalidate the detection device set up, and the way may be to put the alarm clock in the toilet water tank like in Room 1903.
It is now past 12 o'clock, and there is still no sound from Peter's side. The alarm clock in room 1903 is now in his hand instead of in the water tank, which proves that the alarm clock may be completely broken.
Alarm clock afraid of water?
No, it's probably not just water.
Schiller has been thinking, is the broken toilet in room 1905 really an accident? Whose toilet sprays water when the flush button is pressed? How can there be such a bad idea?
The flush toilet does not have a device for spraying water out. No matter how bad it is, it cannot install such a powerful water spray device out of thin air. This cannot be explained by a bad circuit at all.
Schiller could imagine that if the people who came here were unprepared and heard that the toilet in Room 1905 was broken, they might not touch it, but there was a certain possibility that they would check it out, and then there would be a greater chance of being sprayed all over them.
water.
If the guests in the hotel are polluted, there must be a source of pollution. The source of pollution contaminates the guests in the hotel through some kind of medium, and this medium is most likely water.
In the Cthulhu mythology system, water is a very important image. Let's put it this way, in any running game, as long as someone is described as dripping with water, don't hesitate and run away.
Although Schiller's target this time may be an alien god, from the perspective of conspiracy arrangements, water is also a very useful thing. Human beings are naturally close to water sources and will not have much defense against water, even if it is
If the water in the water tank splashes all over me, the most I can do is curse and change my clothes, but I won’t think of disinfecting it.
So the toilet is most likely a trap, waiting for someone to check it, and then spraying water all over them to contaminate them.
Although the specific situation in Rooms 1901 and 1903 is not yet known, Schiller guessed that the two residents may have been tricked in this way, and at this point in time, the two of them may not have realized that they had been tricked.
Recruited.
This is the terrible thing about the Cthulhu mythology system. Its pollution to human beings is more of a cognitive distortion. For example, in Room 1901, the head is no longer on the neck. He may still think that there is nothing wrong with him.
Open the door and go out to have breakfast.
Schiller immediately reminded Peter not to touch any device in the room that might release water, but he knew it was actually a little late, because after Peter entered Room 1903, he took out the alarm clock from the water tank. At that time, he
It has hit the water.
However, Schiller has some problems if he thinks about it carefully. If he was the mastermind behind all this, he would not deliberately create a broken toilet, because there must be someone who is not the kind of nosy person who would just hear that it was broken.
Don't touch it anymore.
If water is the medium of contamination, then just wait for people to wash their hands or take a bath. Generally, guests who stay for two or three days must wash their hands even if they don’t take a bath. To put it another step back, it will directly pollute the drinking water.
Isn't water better? You have to drink water even if you don't wash your hands.
So Schiller guessed that the source of this pollution is probably that he cannot pollute all water, or that the water that can be polluted is not endless for him, and he has to use it sparingly.
Just like sprinklers are always used in conjunction with smoke alarms, if you want to really prevent fires, then the sprinklers must work 24 hours a day to ensure that they can put out any fire, but that may affect normal life.
It also wastes water, so a detection device is installed to detect smoke and then spray water.
The working principle of this pollution medium is probably the same as these two things. It is not that whoever touches the water will be polluted, but whoever does certain things will be sprayed by the water.
For example, Schiller pressed the toilet button.
It's possible that when he didn't press the pump button, he wouldn't be contaminated when he put his hand into the water tank or even into the toilet. Only the wave of water sprayed out when he pressed the pump button was problematic.
Schiller told Peter his guess, which made Peter feel a little more at ease. He also secretly increased his vigilance in his heart and vowed that he would never be mean in the future. He would not touch anything if he could not touch it, and walk around if he could.
Go around.
If, as Schiller guessed, the detection device is still working normally, then the most important thing for them now is to repair the alarm clock, but Schiller did not choose to do this.
Because it was obvious that Peter was basically hopeless on the 19th floor at that time. Everyone was silent. If you were the only one who rang in the room, everyone would know that you were an ordinary person. If Peter was besieged, Schiller would be able to
Can't save him.
Then Schiller began to think about why he took the alarm clock out instead of leaving it in the room for Peter. This might be some measure he would take in the future.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the noise is getting less and less.
Tonight, there were only two sounds left in the corridor on the right side of the 19th floor, which means that someone in rooms 1901 and 1903 must have been completely destroyed.
And if the sounds in the corridor on the right and even the entire 19th floor become less and less, and only Schiller is left in the end, then Schiller will definitely be more inclined to throw the alarm clock out, otherwise he will face the same situation as Peter, that is
Targeted by these non-human things on the 19th floor.
It is true that the detection device will take action on things in the room after it cannot detect the ringtone, but at Peter's time, the people in rooms 1901 and 1903 were fine.
This means that the detection device must have started to fail at this point in time of Schiller. Otherwise, if there is no sound in one person's room tonight, one person will definitely be completely eliminated, and it will be impossible for Peter to see them at the same time.
Two already.
Extrapolating from this, rooms 1901 and 1903 must not be saved, otherwise they would not be able to appear at Peter's time in a normal state.
No matter which one has a problem tonight, the other one will soon, and it will definitely be too late to save people.
So Schiller chose to give up decisively and planned to go far away from the near. At present, Peter did not know the situation in the left corridor. If the situation was good, there might be survivors in the left corridor. It would be better to pay attention to the two noises in the left corridor.
Only two of the six rooms in the corridor on the left had noise, which meant that the other four were also wiped out.
If Schiller was asked to guess which two of the six rooms had people in them, Schiller must first exclude 1913. There was something very wrong with this room, and it was unlikely that there was a living person in it.
Based on my own speculation, the last three rooms that were destroyed in the right corridor were 1901, 1903 and 1905. They were all odd numbers, which means that it is possible that some kind of supernatural phenomena appeared according to the rules of odd and even numbers. Here
Odd-numbered rooms have a higher survival rate.
Then the rooms on the left may also follow a certain pattern. After excluding 1913, there are only two odd-numbered rooms left, namely 1907 and 1909.