"During this process, I passed mirrors and glass countless times. I was sure I saw myself, but I didn't realize anything was wrong at all. It wasn't until the alarm clock rang today that some thoughts that didn't belong to me filled my mind.
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"I began to realize that I had been eroded and that what I saw and heard might not be true, but I still retained a shred of sanity and I wanted to be able to leave the room."
"Why?" Schiller asked.
"I don't know, I don't know if this is my thought, I don't even know if I have had this thought. I feel like that thing has always been in my mind."
Gordon became a little absent-minded again, and Schiller kept calling his name, which gradually made his rationality return. Schiller told Gordon his speculation, but concealed the part related to Peter.
Because no one knows whether Gordon is still Gordon now.
Schiller didn't save Gordon because he believed in him so much. He just wanted to save the sergeant's life first. If things turned around later, the pollution might be cleared.
"Tell me about the method you told me before to leave the 19th floor." Schiller looked at Gordon and said.
"That's not necessarily what I told you." Gordon obviously didn't believe himself more than Schiller. He said, "I may have been manipulated and told you a sure way to die."
"Just tell me and I will make my own decision."
Gordon had no choice but to swallow his saliva and began to say: "This is the result of my research over the past few days. I found that something will come out of the elevator at 12 o'clock every night, but it will not only come to the 19th floor, but will also
Go to another floor."
"There was a ding when the elevator opened the door, which means that the elevator has resumed operation. I think maybe we can follow it and get in before the elevator closes."
"Why not get in before it?" Schiller said: "You can take advantage of it to patrol the corridor..."
"No." Gordon shook his head and said, "The elevator door will close after it comes out, and we can't open the door, so we have to rush into the elevator the moment it returns to the elevator and the elevator door opens."
"But that would be a trap."
"So we have to bet." Gordon said: "We both have similar guesses. I also think it is a pollution detection device. Since it will not attack uncontaminated things, as long as you make sure they are not contaminated, maybe it can
Make peace with it.”
Schiller began to think about it, and he had to say that what Gordon said made sense. If the thing outside was a pollution detection device, as long as it was sure that it had not been contaminated, it might not do anything.
But this is actually hard to say, because the Cthulhu mythology system itself is chaotic, and it is not really a rule. Moreover, there are no explicit rules now. You can only guess by yourself. If you guess wrong,
But he was completely passive.
According to Schiller's observation, the only way to leave the 19th floor is the elevator. You have to get on the elevator no matter what. If you really want to deal with that thing yourself, there is no other way but to force it.
But he is definitely not strong enough, and this starts with his origins.
The bishop is actually the "corpse collector".
When the first priest was killed in the church, he was even more convinced that there was no God in the world, so the bishop was born.
In the back garden of the church, at God's hands and feet, he opened up a cemetery of his own.
When the blood of the jumping living fish is drained, and they are no longer so vibrant and beautiful, they will rest in the bishop's kingdom and rot quietly in an unknown place.
Schiller said to everyone who asked him why he never had time on weekends: "Sorry, I have to thank God."
Then silently added in his heart: "Thank God that never existed."
He is the most pathological of all the personalities on the magic side. For a long time, he worked with hunting and abuse.
But this does not mean that he is as aggressive as a pathological personality. He is just a researcher. It is still a bit difficult for him to fight against monsters for 300 rounds.
But Schiller had his own way.
He asked Gordon his last question, "Have you seen any other living people on this level?"
"Are you referring to a living person like me?" Gordon smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly and said: "I only know that there should be a person living in room 1904, but I don't know how he is now. I
While exploring the corridors, I saw him walking around the room, but he never seemed to leave the room."
"Is there anyone living in room 1904?" Schiller was a little confused. The elevator only knocked twice there. If there was someone in room 1904, were the two knocks for 1904 and 1905?
But it’s not surprising. Judging from Gordon’s description, before the alarm clock went off today, he didn’t have any abnormality. He didn’t even realize that he was abnormal. Then the criterion may be much stricter than Schiller imagined.
The people in rooms 1901 and 1903 may all be judged as contaminated.
But if that's the case, why haven't the two of them been killed yet? Could it be that they have been killed now, but they were just busy coming to room 1907 and didn't pay attention?
Schiller returned to his room. He had to carefully sort out his thoughts and find a way out from these messy clues.
Everything is so weird.
When all the clues were put together, Schiller suddenly realized something - all of this might be a carefully woven trap.
First of all, during Schiller's first round of exploration, he discovered the conditions of the people in Rooms 1901 and 1903. On the first night, Schiller heard the sound of the elevator.
Immediately afterwards, the person in room 1903 gave a setting, that is, the alarm in the room must sound. Only in this way can one's own safety be guaranteed.
Then Jerome on Peter's side explained the setting, that is, the bell is a detection device, and the bell will ring only if the people in the room are not contaminated.
Then you can infer that you are not contaminated by the ringtone in your room, and then you will think that if the bell rings 5 times on the 19th floor, it means that there are 5 living people on the entire floor.
In fact, there is a very obvious loophole in the entire investigation, that is, all these settings are spoken through human mouths.
When one person speaks, people may be suspicious; when two people speak, people may choose to believe part of it; when three people speak, people will confirm each other. Everyone is saying the same thing, which greatly improves credibility.
reliability.
And if these three people have different identities, are in different states, and may even be in different time and space, and their testimonies corroborate each other, people cannot help but not believe them.
One person prepares the hook, another person hangs the bait, and another person throws the rod. Schiller is very familiar with the fishing process.
Shorty, Jerome and Gordon probably play these three roles.
If you think about it carefully, there is something wrong with the short man in room 1903. He doesn't even have legs, and only has a voice on the door. Everyone can tell that something is wrong, and they may not completely believe what he says.
But it was hard to tell for Jerome. He was in another hotel. Schiller couldn't see him in person, and he acted very much like a normal person. But this was the biggest abnormality, because the hotel where Peter was in
, everyone seems to be a normal person, so Jerome, who is as normal as them, may also be as scary as them.
When it comes to Gordon, it's almost fake, because first of all, if there are fewer ringtones in the corridor on the right, people will find it difficult to tell whether there is a problem in Room 1901 or Room 1903, so it is inevitable not to turn their thoughts to
There are two more living people in the corridor on the left.
Once you feel that there are two living people in the corridor on the left, and you save Gordon in Room 1907, you will definitely feel that Gordon is one of the living people, because Gordon was saved by yourself, so people naturally
You will have more trust in the fruits of your own labor.
The short man mentioned the ringtone, Jerome explained the ringtone, and Gordon added that he would not kill people if he was not contaminated. The chain of clues was very complete.
All these settings point to one path - as long as you are sure that you have not been contaminated, you will definitely be able to follow this detection device and leave the 19th floor through the elevator.
But from beginning to end, there was no evidence for this ringtone setting. It was all said and done. The only alarm clock that existed in the room, Schiller never actually saw it ring.
This makes good use of the weaknesses of human psychology. First of all, the more people speak, the greater the credibility.
Secondly, if both good and evil parties emphasize the same point of view, people will believe in one of them and feel that one of them must be right, instead of thinking that both parties are wrong. Barb Wolf uses this principle.
It was Gordon who really made Schiller realize this was a trap.
Before asking what happened to Gordon, we must first ask why Gordon.
The fact that Gordon will appear here is the biggest problem in itself. There are so many madmen and villains in Gotham, why is it this police chief?
Bruce knows Gordon, and Schiller also knows Gordon. There are definitely many people in this city who know this police chief. Gordon is so good. As the last ray of light in a dark city, no matter who trusts or follows him.
Its number.
Even if others don't know he is Gordon, when they see the police uniform he is wearing, it will be easier to believe what he says. After all, Gotham is full of horrors now. You are here to collect black money, as long as you are willing to wear it
This police uniform is a hero, and most people understand this.
So people relied on their intelligence and spent a lot of energy and physical strength to finally find such a police chief. It was like finding a piece of driftwood in the ocean. There was no reason not to trust and rely on him.
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The long-term fear, loneliness and unresponsiveness during this period can truly turn a person into a fragile baby, almost desperate to cry loudly just to attract the mother's attention.
At the moment when their mother responded, they had no reason to think about whether the person holding them in her arms was a mother or a monster. As long as she could comfort themselves, it was enough. For ordinary people, this was simply an unsolvable trap.
And Gordon also gave the most deadly setting, which continued what was laid out before, but went deeper, that is, the existence patrolling the corridor will not attack people who are not contaminated.
Although he has clearly said that this is gambling, every clue points to the fact that as long as you gamble, you will definitely win, because you meet all the conditions for winning money, and no gambler can refuse this.
Of course, this sounds too much like unfounded suspicion of persecutory paranoia. After all, Schiller has no evidence for these speculations.
Just when he thought of this, Schiller suddenly remembered that he actually had evidence. Although it was not very reliable, it was much stronger than the evidence provided by this group of people.
We still have to start with room 1905.
As I said before, the method used during the riot in Room 1905 did not seem to be intended to kill Schiller at all. It may have been subject to certain rules and could not directly kill people. Schiller still insists on this view.
But this does not mean that this room does not want to kill people. It cannot do it personally, so it will definitely try to force people to commit suicide.
There seemed to be two ways to commit suicide. Schiller had previously guessed that the room was trying to force him into the bathroom, but now it seems that it might be because the water in the bathroom was contaminated.
The other way is to jump off the building. Needless to say, if you jump off the building, you will definitely die.
But there is a hidden third way, which Schiller had conceived before but did not adopt - rush out of the door and into the corridor as quickly as possible.
But this is the most likely and simplest way for normal people to take it. Who is a good person whose first reaction is not to open the door and run away when furniture flies up and hits him?
If Schiller guessed correctly, the room would not be so easy for people to escape. It would definitely be dragged to zero o'clock, with the purpose of making those who rush out face the existence in the corridor.
The room wants to kill people, so the way it paved such a simple path just proves that encountering a mysterious existence head-on is tantamount to suicide.
