After getting the news, Schiller walked to the bathroom of his room without stopping. He knew that the toilet was broken before, but he had no time to fix it. However, Peter found an alarm clock in the water tank of the toilet in Room 1903, so
This means that the toilet probably did not break accidentally.
Schiller used a knife to pry open the joint of the toilet tank lid. After taking off the lid, he found nothing unusual in the tank. Then he went back to the bedroom to get the alarm clock, hesitating whether to throw it in or not.
Now there are two possibilities for throwing it in. Either there is something abnormal in the toilet and the alarm will ring directly, which is very likely to attract the unknown monster with the sound. Or there is nothing wrong with the toilet and the problem is the alarm clock. The alarm clock
After being thrown in, it simply stopped making any noise. Schiller's room will not make any noise tonight.
The resident in Room 1903 said that the elevator-like sound was similar to the dormitory's ward rounds. Only when the alarm clock in your room rings does it mean that there is someone in the room, so no supernatural phenomena will occur.
Then Schiller threw the alarm clock into the water tank. If it didn't go off tonight, and the short man was telling the truth, maybe the strange monster would come in, or some other supernatural phenomenon would appear in the room.
Phenomenon.
While Schiller was thinking, Peter suddenly sent a message. He said: "I heard a voice. That person may be back."
"Hide." Schiller said: "Go to the bedroom and hide in the closet. He can't go out just once today. He will definitely go to dinner."
Peter did as he was told as fast as he could. He rushed into the bedroom as fast as he could, opened the closet door and walked in. The next second, the door outside the living room was opened.
This was not a movie. If Peter could see the short man through the crack in the closet, the short man would definitely be able to see him, so he didn't even think about seeing who came in. But Peter was very smart. He made a video call.
Call him and share your vision and hearing with Dr. Sohip.
Schiller listened carefully on the other end of the phone, and then realized something was wrong. The person who came in was not the short man, because Peter had shared his sight and hearing with him before. Schiller remembered the short man's footsteps, which was not the case.
of.
The person who came in was Jerome. Schiller guessed that this guy went out in the middle of the night and didn't know what he was doing. Assuming that the hotel over there is relatively normal, Jerome took advantage of the midnight to do some petty theft and got it.
A keycard is also possible.
But why did he enter room 1903?
Jerome was also rummaging around in the room.
He was about to find the bathroom. Peter said nervously: "I don't have time to clean up. The lid of the water tank is still open. He will definitely realize that someone..."
"But he won't necessarily realize it's someone else." Schiller said very calmly. Although the situation was very tense now, Peter was unarmed, and Jerome was coming menacingly. Schiller didn't believe that he didn't have a gun. Once the two met,
Peter might suffer a big loss.
But he still calmly analyzed: "You are a complete variable. It is easier for him to think that the person living in room 1903 realized that someone was following him, so he hid certain things in advance. This is more reasonable.
explanation."
"But he smiled at me yesterday."
"He was not necessarily smiling at you." Schiller said: "Maybe he was just smiling at the guests in room 1905. He had not really seen you."
Peter's heart calmed down a little, but his heartbeat was still very fast, because Jerome had already rushed into the bathroom. He had obviously discovered something abnormal in the water tank, and he must be looking for something.
Peter lowered his head and looked at the alarm clock in his hand. Is this the key? If he couldn't find it in the bathroom, would he open the closet?
Jerome came out of the bathroom, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer. Obviously, he found nothing in the bathroom, and he planned to search the bedroom thoroughly.
"What should we do? Doctor?" Peter is worthy of being Spider-Man. For this reason, he is no longer nervous or afraid. He fully contracts his muscles and prepares to give the person who opened the door a fatal blow.
But at this moment, another footsteps came from the door, this time it was the resident from 1903.
Peter heard very clearly that the people outside the closet took a breath of air, and with a creak, the closet door opened, and a dark figure rushed in.
Jerome and Peter stared at each other in the closet.
Spider-Man always seems to have some bad relationship with the Joker, and this bad relationship always comes true at some bad moments. At this time, both Peter and Jerome were shocked, and both of them shouted out in surprise.
The voice was swallowed back.
What a coincidence. The two thieves successfully met in the closet, but due to the current situation, they could neither attack nor communicate with each other.
The hotel room was not big, and lowering the voice was of no use, so neither of them could speak now.
Jerome first saw the alarm clock in Peter's hand. He seemed a little surprised and raised his eyebrows at Peter.
Peter quickly reacted. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and shook it at Jerome. Jerome also took out his mobile phone, but the two people's mobile phones were obviously not products of the same era.
Peter used the most advanced communicator issued by the Spider Army, a small hexagonal projector, and Jerome held a flip phone that looked very cheap at first glance, which was very suitable for the era he was in now.
Peter operated the projector a few times, and a string of numbers was displayed, which was obviously his mobile phone number. He waited for a while, and sure enough, a message was sent.
"Who are you? Why are you here?"
After discovering that he could communicate, Peter did not rush to reply to the message, but immediately told Schiller everything. After discovering that he could communicate with Jerome, Schiller no longer concealed it, he asked directly.
“What’s going on with this hotel?”
"It seems you have discovered it." Jerome replied: "There is a big problem with this hotel, but I am investigating the specific problem."
"You can't fool me." Schiller asked Peter to reply to Jerome, ruthlessly exposing his coping and said: "You didn't tell lies, you just blurred some facts, but I definitely have clues that interest you.
, how about one for you and one for me?"
Jerome seemed shocked again by the other person's frankness. He looked up at Peter and narrowed his eyes, feeling that the boy in front of him didn't seem like someone who could say these words.
But he still nodded. There were not many opportunities to communicate. Schiller did not delay anymore and asked Peter to send his first question, "What's the problem with the people in room 1903?".
"He is tainted." Jerome replied, and as if to show his sincerity, he added, "He has been corrupted by the evil god."
Schiller thought about his previous speculation. If Peter's time was before his own, then Jerome might have discovered the anomaly in the hotel and came to investigate, and some people at the time he was investigating were contaminated.
But it's not serious, maybe they don't even know it.
But at this point in time, all the abnormalities broke out, which is why it became so terrifying and weird.
Jerome quickly posed his own question, "Do you exist in another hotel?"
Obviously, he found that he was not communicating with the young man in front of him, and it was very likely that he had encountered a similar anomaly.
Schiller did not intend to hide it from him, but said: "Yes, I am in another hotel."
"Which room are you in?"
"Sorry, but it's my turn now, what's the use of an alarm clock?"
"In response to a certain existence." Jerome said: "You can think of it as a detector, starting, detecting, and responding."
"Test for what?"
"I'm sorry too. Now it's my turn. Which room do you live in?"
"1905." Schiller did not choose to deceive. He guessed that Jerome knew a lot about this place, so if he said a different room number, the other party might have a way to confirm it.
The other end of the communication was silent for a long time, completely longer than it should have been, which made Schiller certain that there must be something special about Room 1905.
"Bless yourself," Jerome said. "No one can leave that room alive, not even dead."
"My turn, what is the alarm clock used to detect?"
"Pollution." Jerome's answer was succinct.
In fact, Schiller had already made a guess. When Jerome said it, he became even more sure. To a certain extent, what the person in room 1903 said was not wrong, but the alarm clock would ring because there was no living person in the room.
, but the alarm clock will ring only if the people in the room are not polluted.
So if the alarm clock stops ringing, it means that the people in this room are contaminated, then the terrifying existence may directly obliterate everything in the room without the ringing sound, and the hotel itself may even expel those things.
go.
This is a kind of defense mechanism. Schiller thought that it may be universal in the entire hotel. It is activated at midnight every night to eliminate all dangers.
But the only problem is that the bells are ringing in odd rooms, but the person in room 1901 has already taken the lead in the charge, and the person in room 1903 can only hear his voice but not his legs. These two can be regarded as uncontaminated living people.
?
Then Schiller thought that the detection of pollution may not be to detect whether there is pollution, but to detect whether the degree of pollution is deep. Although the two people in rooms 1901 and 1903 are a bit strange, they still seem to be able to communicate, so they may be able to escape
determination.
The alarm clock in room 1900 also rang, which proves that there is someone in that room, so it is possible that the people in room 1900 deliberately changed the house number, plus 1901, 1903 and Schiller himself, there are exactly four people in the right corridor
For a living person, the bell only rang four times.
There were two sounds in the corridor on the left, proving that there might be two living people there, but why did the number of living people exactly match the odd-numbered rooms? Can you only survive in odd-numbered rooms?
Schiller was not sure, but instead of asking this question, he changed the question and asked: "How to leave the 19th floor?"
"You cannot leave the hotel you are in." Jerome replied happily, and even explained in detail, "Once the number of ringtone replies is less than 10, you will never be able to leave this floor."
Sure enough, it was some kind of detection mechanism. Schiller thought that there was something in the hotel that was ruling out supernatural beings. Moreover, he even had a sense of the overall situation. Once there were fewer than a certain number of living people, the hotel would be completely closed, so as to minimize the risk.
And Jerome asked Schiller an unexpected question, "Can you communicate in real time with this silly boy in front of me?"
