Standing in the elevator, Schiller let out a sigh of relief.
Peter sent him a message, and he responded briefly without explaining the specific process. He only said that he had left the 19th floor.
But in fact, the crisis has just begun, because there are two other lit buttons in the elevator, one is for the 13th floor and the other is for the 7th floor. If nothing goes wrong, the elevator will stop at these two floors, and these two
No one knows what will enter the elevator on the floor.
There is no special mark next to the 13th floor, but because the number 13 itself is very special, nothing good will happen there. There is a word restaurant next to the 7th floor, but in this weird hotel, the restaurant is obviously nothing.
Good place to go.
The safest way now is for Schiller to press the elevator button on the 18th floor, let the elevator stop on the 18th floor, and then go to the 18th floor to find a safe room to stay.
But in fact, this is just procrastinating and committing suicide slowly. The situation in the hotel has begun to deteriorate. No room is absolutely safe. If it continues, the situation will definitely get out of control.
Schiller asked Peter to find Jerome.
When Peter knocked on the door, he would definitely not open it, but Schiller knew how to negotiate with this cunning guy. Jerome seemed to care that Peter and Schiller could communicate in real time, so Schiller asked Peter to leave a note
I wrote a few words on the paper and handed it to him through the crack of the door.
The note was quickly taken away, but there was still no movement in the room. It seemed that Jerome was thinking about whether to cooperate with them.
In fact, under normal circumstances, there is no harm in cooperation between the two parties, but the problem is that the anomalies in this hotel can obviously affect human sanity. In this case, the only person you can trust is basically yourself. It is very dangerous to cooperate with others rashly.
You may fall into a monster trap.
Before Jerome could reply, Schiller began to review the experience on the 19th floor in his mind, because there are some things that can only be determined after you follow your own ideas and succeed.
First of all, there are currently two forces in the hotel.
Whether it is the hallucination monster and the toilet monster in room 1905, or the elevator monster in room 1900 and the door-crashing monster in room 1913, they are obviously not that compatible.
If they were a group, almost no one would be able to escape. The hallucination monster would turn the toilet water into anything to cover it up. As long as no one can see through it without a pair of piercing eyes, he would probably die as soon as he enters the door.
It’s settled.
The elevator noise monster can move unscrupulously in the corridor, and anyone forced into the corridor will surely die.
The door of Room 1913 was originally open, but once someone tried to close it, the monster would break out of the door. This was probably because something in the corridor exerted a suppressive force on the room, so the door of Room 1913 was opened.
It should be left open, because once it is closed and the suppressive force is isolated, the monster will start to hit the door. The source of this suppressive force is most likely the elevator monster in room 1900.
If these things were created by a man behind the scenes, then he is stumbling over his own feet. Again, this hotel is not a weird rule created by some god. It must leave some way for people to escape, whether it is an illusion.
The monster is still a toilet monster. It seems that they are just trying to kill people. It is only because of the mutual checks and balances that people can have a chance of survival.
According to Schiller's speculation, the hallucination monster in the room, the elevator monster in Room 1900 and James Gordon should be products of a system, while the toilet monster and the monster that crashed into the door in Room 1913 may be other people.
Created to balance these monsters.
The contaminated water produced by the toilet monster is very restrained by the hallucination monster, and Room 1913 and Room 1900 both crashed after the collision. It can also be seen that their strength levels are similar.
As for who 1903 and 1901 belong to, it doesn't actually matter, because they never left the room from beginning to end. Schiller guessed that the two of them probably also had corresponding restraint options, but one of them already had one after he arrived.
He won, leaving behind an even better monster.
It is not difficult to see that the fighting style of one of the two parties is biased towards conspiracy, such as the hallucination monster and the elevator monster. These two monsters do not seem to be able to directly kill people and must trigger certain conditions.
The other party is more rampant, and there are no very complicated rules. They don't need to use words to guide them. Basically, they can't escape if they encounter them, such as being splashed by toilet water, or walking into Room 1913.
It's a very simple and straightforward trap, and it has no beginning or end, so it doesn't look like it was carefully planned.
But there is no doubt that the latter, the more reckless faction, has greater control over the hotel, because the toilet itself is a hotel facility, and the monster in Room 1913 can also break the door.
In contrast, hallucination monsters cannot affect the doors and windows of the hotel at all, and the elevator monsters cannot rush into the hotel rooms. This is not because they are willing to use such conspiracy methods, but because they do not have enough hard power, so they can only set traps.
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After figuring this out, Schiller had to start thinking about what role the alarm clock played in it?
The night before, that is, at midnight on the night when Schiller knocked the sofa out, Schiller brought the alarm clock with him, and the alarm clock did ring. This proves that there is indeed some relationship between the alarm clock and the elevator monster.
But Schiller changed his mind. He thought that it was probably not the elevator monster controlling the alarm clock, but the elevator monster imitating the sound of the alarm clock.
In other words, the alarm clock and the elevator are related, and the monster completely stepped in and imitated the sounds of the elevator and the alarm clock.
Schiller also thought about the meaning of the existence of alarm clocks. Not to mention that only the battery compartment of his alarm clock contained hair. The resident of Room 1903 at Peter's time must have put the alarm clock into the water tank.
It's an important clue.
It is known that there are two factions in the hotel, which can be simply summarized as the conspiracy faction and the reckless faction. There is a restraint relationship between these two factions. The action of throwing the alarm clock into the water tank is very similar to trying to use the water in the water tank.
to control the alarm clock.
The toilet is the area of control of the Reckless faction, and the water in the water tank is also likely to be controlled by them. So presumably, the alarm clock is the area of control of the Conspiracy faction. Some people want to use the Reckless faction to restrain some of the conspiracy of the Conspiracy faction.
Will throw the alarm clock into the water tank.
If the alarm clock is controlled by the conspiracy faction, then the elevator related to the alarm clock is likely to be controlled by the conspiracy faction, but in this case, there is no need for the conspiracy faction to create a monster that imitates the sound of the elevator and controls it in this building.
The elevator almost controls everything.
Schiller did not believe that the Conspirators controlled the elevator.
Because it is very obvious that he successfully got into the elevator, and so many monsters in the conspiracy faction have been struggling for so long just to let Schiller die here. As long as they can control the elevator, Schiller will not be able to enter smoothly.
Therefore, it is very possible that the conspirators only controlled the alarm clock related to the elevator. They had no way to directly control the elevator, so they played a conspiracy as always.
We still have to start with the house number.
The door number is the identity of the room. This rule may not only apply to guest rooms. This was the first thing that Schiller thought of when he discovered that the room could be taken away through the door number.
He very clearly remembered that when he got to the 19th floor, he looked back and saw that there was a floor sign on the elevator, but when he thought about it carefully, this was actually quite outrageous.
First of all, only people arriving on the 19th floor for the first time need to know that this is the 19th floor. Most hotel floor signs are posted directly opposite the elevator, so as to prevent people from walking to the wrong floor.
People who have already entered the 19th floor and need to return do not need to know that this is the 19th floor. They are either residents of the 19th floor, or they went to the wrong place, but they learned from others that they were from the 19th floor.
There's no need to look at the floor number again on the way back.
In other words, it is meaningless to hang a sign with the number 19 directly above the elevator, and it will not serve as a correct reminder.
So Schiller thinks that the principle of the floor card is very likely to be the same as that of the door number. The door number is the identity, so it needs to be placed on that wall, rather than on the opposite side of the elevator according to common sense in design psychology.
But there is a problem. The elevators are different from the guest rooms. The positions of the guest rooms on each floor are different, which does not affect anything at all. But the elevator does not work. The elevators upstairs and downstairs are not in the same position. How can he get up? Then he can't get up directly.
Is the ceiling blocked?
But the elevators here can be moved like building blocks. If the elevator on the first floor is placed on the far left and the elevator on the second floor is placed on the far right, then the result is that the elevators on the first and second floors cannot be used because the elevator shaft
It's not connected at all, so the elevator naturally can't go up.
Although it is a bit ridiculous that the elevator in this weird hotel must follow the laws of physics, but if you think about it carefully, it would be even more ridiculous if you can still go up without China Unicom.
When Schiller realized that the elevator could be moved, he immediately thought about whether the elevator shaft could be connected, and then deduced that his inability to call the elevator was probably not because someone had tampered with the elevator.
, but because the elevator has been moved and is not connected to the elevator shaft downstairs, it is impossible to enter or exit the 19th floor.
Some people may ask, when Peter got on the elevator, wasn't it still in the center? He could come and go normally, why couldn't Schiller?
As mentioned before, the group of monsters that Schiller called the conspiracy faction probably did not fully control the elevator at Schiller's time. They could only play tricks, but they could not decipher the rules on the ground floor of the hotel, so in order to control the elevator.
People were trapped on the 19th floor, so they moved the elevator.
But by the time Peter arrived, it was very obvious that the entire hotel was basically operating according to the same system. There was no conflict between the tall ones and the short ones. The monster in room 1900 no longer came out. The door to room 1913
It's also closed.
After ruling out the possibility of the supernatural incident completely resolving the hotel and restoring peace, there is only one possibility left, and that is that one of the factions has completely taken control of the hotel.
The position of the elevator at this time is completely up to them. Even if you think about it to the extreme, did Peter really leave when he took the elevator?
If the hallucination monster can leave the room and move freely, then it must not be difficult for it to fake a restaurant or other places.
After determining that the elevator was damaged most likely because it had been moved, Schiller's next reasoning goal was to figure out where the elevator shaft downstairs was located.