amaotonovel Chapter 2794: Weird Feast and Nightmare (2)
Chapter 2794: Weird Feast and Nightmare (2)
Chapter 2794: Weird Feast Nightmare (Part )
If the elevator can be moved, then it is very likely that the elevator shafts of the 18 floors below may not all be in the same position. If Schiller wants to go down to the lobby, he may have to align the positions of all the elevator shafts like stacking blocks.
However, it is easier to leave the 19th floor. You can either align it with the elevator shaft on the upper floor or with the elevator shaft on the lower floor. As long as you align one floor, you can at least take the elevator to leave the 19th floor. If you are lucky, you may be able to leave a few more floors.
Schiller chose to align it with the elevator shaft below because most of the hotel's functional buildings are underneath, and the upper half of the entire hotel building is almost entirely guest rooms, so there is not much to explore.
What's more important is that it is easier to align with the bottom, because a lot of rooms can be excluded with some tricks.
As we all know, water in most high-rise buildings is pumped up from the ground floor. However, the capacity of water pumps in this era is limited. Generally speaking, it is impossible to pump water directly to more than 30 floors. Even if the water pressure can be very high, it is not very effective. The water flow is very weak and it is almost impossible to shower.
Therefore, many high-rise buildings will add a pressurized layer in the middle of the floor to re-pressurize the water pumped up and then transport it to the upper floors.
But no matter what, the middle floors do not produce water. The water is transported up through water pipes, and the principle of water pipes is the same as that of elevator shafts. If the middle is cut off, the water will definitely not come up.
In other words, as long as there is water in this room, it proves that the water pipes downstairs have not been cut off, which also proves that the elevator shaft cannot be located in this room, because there must be no water pipes in the elevator shaft. As long as they are in a certain position, they will affect the operation of the water pipes.
Of course, it is also possible that a room downstairs was moved, leaving a vacant space and causing the water pipe to break, but the absence of water does not necessarily prove that the elevator is there, but the presence of water can definitely prove that the elevator is not there.
So using the process of elimination, there should be no elevator shaft downstairs from Schiller's room. The water in Gordon's room, which Schiller had entered, was also normal, which proves that the elevator shaft was not there either.
Combined with the previous argument that there is something wrong with the water in the hotel, although it may not all manifest itself through the toilet, the pollution is definitely spread through the water.
In this way, we can also infer that the room where the contaminated guest is located is likely to have water, which means we can basically rule out the rooms where the guests have been confirmed to have been contaminated, so there are not many rooms left.
在零点之前，有嫌疑的有1900、1913、1902、1904、1909。
Of course, before implementing this plan, Schiller had basically determined that 1900 and 1913 were unlikely to be the location of the elevator shaft downstairs. Even if it was, Schiller could not put the elevator there. He had to let two monsters come out to jam the machine.
Then the only suspects are 1902 where an eyeball was seen before, 1904 where there was half a footprint at the door, and 1909 which Schiller had not seen.
1909 was ruled out first. As I said before, Schiller needed the monsters to collide in the corridor on the left. Room 1909 was too close to the collision site. Schiller's eardrums were bleeding even when he was standing in the middle. If he went to Room 1909 to change the door number, it would be basically impossible for him to rush into the elevator alive, so he had to be ruled out even if he couldn't.
The reason why 1909 was ruled out so easily was actually because Schiller used more clues to lock on 1904.
The house numbers on the doors of rooms 1900 and 1905 were changed, and the two rooms were also moved. Before the change, 1900 was directly opposite 1904.
Schiller had previously speculated that this change was most likely because someone didn't want 1900 to face 1904. This would make sense if someone wanted to enter 1904 without being disturbed by the monsters in 1900's room.
What finally played the decisive role was of course the half footprint at the door of Room 1904. Before seeing Jerome's footprint through Peter's vision, Schiller did not dare to make a bold guess, but after seeing the footprint, Schiller knew that Jerome had an accomplice.
That's right, the footprint was probably not left by Jerome himself, but by one of his accomplices at that time.
Schiller speculated that elevators could not travel back and forth between two points in time. In order to break through the constraints of existing time points, some special methods needed to be taken, and no one has found this method so far.
Logically speaking, if you see two identical footprints, you would definitely guess that the other person has been here.
But Jerome's situation is very special. Because the footprints are exactly the same as his, Schiller judged that his accomplices were there at this time point, because in "Gotham" Jerome has a twin brother, who is the most dangerous criminal in the city of Gotham, Jerome the Joker.
If nothing unexpected happens, the investigator that Bruce Jr. mentioned who chased him around was not Jerome, but his old enemy Jerome.
It's just because these two people look exactly the same, and very likely shared the same identity at certain times, that people have no way of finding out their true identities.
When it comes to the Joker, Schiller knows him too well. If you don't regard this as a script for the Cthulhu Mythos series, but turn your attention back to American comics, then the Joker and Batman laws must be useful.
Young Bruce has time to send a message to himself thousands of miles away, so there is no reason for him not to go find the Joker. Even though they are enemies, when something really happens, the first person Batman thinks of is still the Joker.
Now that Batman is really in trouble, the Joker cannot remain indifferent. It is not difficult to find this hotel. He is not like Schiller, a foreigner who has to rush over after receiving the news, so he must have arrived much earlier than Schiller.
If Jerome was at that time, then Jerome must have been at that time, so Jerome would ask whether there was a delay in the communication between Peter and Schiller, because he also had a teammate at a different time point, and the communication between the two might not be efficient enough.
If Jerome was here at this point in time, Schiller would still believe in his research results. As a clown, he has a genius criminal wisdom, and as an investigator, he can chase little Bruce up and down. Since he left footprints at the door of Room 1904, Schiller chose to believe his judgment.
As expected, the Joker was right again, and the elevator shaft downstairs was indeed right below room 1904.
And because the Joker was one step ahead of Schiller, Schiller suspected that he might have straightened out the position of the elevator shaft below, and the elevators on most floors had resumed normal operation.
But this also brought up a problem. If the elevator was functioning properly, people entering the elevator could press the floor button, and people outside the elevator could also press the floor button. Schiller stared at the lit button for the 13th floor and felt a little conflicted.
He wanted to go to the restaurant on the 7th floor, but he had to go to the 13th floor first. However, once the elevator door on the 13th floor opened, it was hard to say what would come in, but Schiller had no way to stop the elevator at the 13th floor.
The elevator was descending very quickly and started to slow down in a blink of an eye. Schiller also made a decision. In the second when the elevator stopped completely, Schiller slightly bent his body.
Ding!
As soon as the elevator door opened wide enough for an adult male to pass through, Schiller rushed out without even looking, and turned right as soon as he stepped out of the elevator, sticking to the dark wall on the right.
With a swish, Schiller saw a bright light coming on in the elevator door, illuminating almost the entire floor. The elevator, which originally had only four metal walls, seemed to have suddenly turned into a magnificent glass palace. Each wall was subdivided into countless reflective glass surfaces, on which Schiller's figure was reflected.
Schiller moved further inside so that the light would not shine on him. The elevator door slowly closed, the light became dimmer and dimmer, and the figure reflected in the countless glass fragments gradually disappeared.
The elevator left.
Schiller knew that he had made the right choice. Staying in the elevator would be tantamount to seeking death. However, troubles arose before another one arose. Although he had escaped the danger in the elevator, he was now on the 13th floor and had to wait for the next wave of elevators to arrive.
boom!
A loud noise came from the end of the corridor on the right. Schiller felt that the sound was a little familiar. After thinking about it, he found that this was the sound of the monster in Room 1913 banging on the door.
boom!Boom!
There were three more consecutive knocks, getting closer and closer, and louder and louder. The last knock sounded like the door was about to be broken.
Schiller didn't care about much else and rushed to the elevator, pressing buttons frantically. At this time, the elevator panel showed that the elevator had reached the 7th floor and was returning.
boom! ! ! !
A door was smashed.
Schiller did not choose to look back, but just stared at the elevator panel quietly. Heavy footsteps came from behind him, clatter... clatter...
The sound of the metal chain being dragged was getting closer and closer, and Schiller felt his heartbeat quickening, but it was not because he was nervous, but because some indescribable and indescribable atmosphere enveloped him.
Wow... Wow... Wow...
The footsteps stopped right behind Schiller.
Ding!
The elevator has arrived.
Schiller slowly closed his eyes, judged the extent of the elevator door opening by hearing, then stepped into the elevator. Instead of turning back to press the button, he reached out a hand to feel for the position of the button and pressed the door closing button.
During the whole process, he neither opened his eyes nor turned around. Even when the elevator door was completely closed, Schiller still had his eyes closed when he turned around.
The elevator began to descend slowly.
Suddenly, crash!
Schiller froze suddenly, and the thing followed him into the elevator.
I absolutely cannot open my eyes now, because the metal walls of the elevator are reflective and I cannot look directly at that thing. If I look at it, my eyeballs will definitely explode.
But just standing there was not a solution. There must be a reason why this thing didn't attack him. Either the elevator restricted it, or its attention was attracted by something else, or maybe both.
Now Schiller had two choices.
The first option was to take advantage of the fact that the monster was suppressed by the elevator, open his eyes, see its true face, and confront it head-on. The second option was that the next time the elevator door opened, Schiller would run away.
Schiller sighed in his heart. As he said before, he was just a civilian. It was a bit too advanced to ask him to fight these monsters for three hundred rounds - he prepared to run.
But running is also a problem. If the monster chases him out, without the suppression of the elevator, it is hard to say whether Schiller’s current health bar can hold up.
Schiller took a deep breath, and suddenly he had a new idea, which was to pray that one of Batman's enemies would have better luck and not be hit head-on by him.