amaotonovel Chapter 2793: Weird Feast and Nightmare (1)
Chapter 2793: Weird Feast and Nightmare (1)
Chapter 2793: Weird Feast Nightmare (I)
Standing in the elevator, Schiller let out a long sigh.
Peter sent him a message, and he replied briefly without explaining the details, only saying that he had left the 19th floor.
But in fact the crisis has just begun, because there are two other lighted buttons in the elevator, one for the 13th floor and the other for the 7th floor. If nothing unexpected happens, the elevator will stop at these two floors, and no one knows what will get into the elevator on these two floors.
There is no special marking next to the 13th floor, but because the number 13 itself is very special, nothing good will definitely happen there. There is a sign saying "restaurant" next to the 7th floor, but in this weird hotel, the restaurant is obviously not a good place.
The safest way now is for Schiller to press the elevator button for the 18th floor, let the elevator stop at the 18th floor, and then go to the 18th floor to find a safe room to stay in.
But in fact, this is just delaying time and committing chronic suicide. The situation in the hotel has begun to deteriorate. No room is absolutely safe. If it continues to drag on, the situation will definitely get out of control.
Schiller asked Peter to find Jerome.
Peter went to knock on the door, but he definitely wouldn't open it. However, Schiller knew how to negotiate with this cunning guy. Jerome seemed to care a lot about the fact that Peter and Schiller could communicate in real time, so Schiller asked Peter to write a few words on a note and pass it to him through the crack in 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 would be no harm in the cooperation between the two parties, but the problem is that the anomaly of this hotel can obviously affect human rationality. In this case, the only person you can trust is yourself. If you rashly cooperate with others, you may fall into the monster's trap.
While Jerome hadn't replied yet, Schiller began to review the experience of the 19th floor in his mind, because there are some things that can only be confirmed after you succeed in following your own ideas.
First of all, there are currently two forces in the hotel.
Whether it is the illusion monster and toilet monster in room 1905, or the elevator monster in room 1900 and the door-slamming monster in room 1913, they are obviously not so compatible.
If they are in the same group, almost no one will be able to escape. The illusion monster can just turn the toilet water into something to cover it up. Without a pair of sharp eyes, no one can see through it. You will probably die the moment you enter the door.
The Elevator Noise Monster can move around the corridor with impunity, and anyone cornered in the corridor is doomed to die.
The door of Room 1913 was originally open, but once someone tried to close it, the monster broke out. It is very likely that something in the corridor created a repressive force in the room, so the door of Room 1913 had to be kept open. Once it was closed, the repressive force was isolated and the monster would start to bang on the door. The source of this repressive force was most likely the elevator monster in Room 1900.
If all these things were done by a mastermind, then he would be tripping over his own feet. Let me say it again, this hotel is not some weird hotel with rules made by the main god that has to leave some way out for people. Whether it is the hallucination monster or the toilet monster, they all seem to be designed to kill people. It is only because of their existence that they check and balance each other that people can have a glimmer of hope.
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 banging on the door in room 1913 may have been created by other people to balance these monsters.
The contaminated water created by the toilet monster has a great inhibitory effect on the illusion monster, and the fact that Room 1913 and Room 1900 both crashed after the collision also shows that their strength levels are similar.
As for who 1903 and 1901 belong to, it doesn't really matter, because neither of them left the room from beginning to end. Schiller guessed that they both probably had corresponding restraint options, but one of them had already won after he came, leaving behind a more powerful monster.
It is not difficult to see that the fighting style of one of the two sides tends to be more conspiracy-oriented, such as the illusion monster and the elevator monster. These two monsters seem unable to kill people directly, and certain conditions must be triggered.
The other side is more reckless, and there are no complicated rules. There is no need for verbal guidance, and basically once you encounter it, you can't escape. For example, being splashed with toilet water or walking into room 1913 are very simple and straightforward traps, and there is no beginning or end, and it doesn't look like a carefully planned one.
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 down the door.
In contrast, the illusion monsters cannot affect the hotel's doors and windows at all, and the elevator monsters cannot rush into the hotel rooms. It's not that they are willing to use such conspiracy and trickery, but because they don't have enough hard power, so they can only set traps.
After figuring this out, Schiller had to start thinking about what role the alarm clock played in this.
On the previous night, at midnight when Schiller knocked the sofa out, Schiller brought his alarm clock with him and it did ring, which proves that there is indeed some connection between the alarm clock and the elevator monster.
But Schiller changed his mind and thought that it was very likely that the elevator monster was not controlling the alarm clock, but imitating the sound of the alarm clock.
In other words, the alarm clock and the elevator are related, and the monster just interfered and imitated the sounds of the elevator and the alarm clock.
Schiller also thought about the significance of the existence of the alarm clock. Not to mention that only his alarm clock had hair in the battery compartment, the action of the resident of Room 1903 at that time who put the alarm clock into the water tank must have been an important clue.
It is known that there are two forces in the hotel, which can be simply summarized as the conspiracy faction and the reckless faction. There is a restrained relationship between these two forces. 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 most likely controlled by them. Based on this speculation, the alarm clock is under the control of the conspiracy faction. Someone wants to use the reckless faction to restrain certain conspiracies of the conspiracy faction, so he threw the alarm clock into the water tank.
If the alarm clock can be controlled by the conspiracy faction, then the elevator connected to the alarm clock is also likely to be controlled by the conspiracy faction. However, in this case, there is no need for the conspiracy faction to create a monster that imitates the sound of an elevator. Controlling the elevator in this building is almost equivalent to controlling everything.
Schiller doesn't think a conspiracy controlled the elevators.
Because it was very obvious that he had successfully boarded the elevator, and so many monsters in the conspiracy faction had been struggling for so long just to let Schiller die here. If they could control the elevator, Schiller would not have been able to get in smoothly.
So it is very likely that the conspiracy faction only controlled the alarm clock related to the elevator. They had no way to control the elevator directly, so they played a conspiracy as usual.
Let’s start with the house number.
The door number is the room itself. This rule may not only apply to guest rooms. This is the first thing Schiller thought of when he discovered that he could take the room away through the door number.
He clearly remembered looking back when he reached the 19th floor. There was a floor sign hanging above the elevator, but when he thought about it carefully, it was actually quite outrageous.
First of all, only people who arrive at 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 to prevent people from going 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 have gone to the wrong floor but learned from others that this is the 19th floor. There is no need for them 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 does not serve as a correct reminder.
Therefore, Schiller thought that the principle of the floor plate was most likely the same as that of the room plate. The room plate is the main body, so it needs to be placed on that wall, instead of being placed opposite the elevator according to the common sense of design psychology.
But there is a problem. The elevator is different from the guest rooms. The guest rooms on each floor are in different locations, which does not affect anything at all. However, the elevator is different. The elevators upstairs and downstairs are not in the same position. How can it go up? Wouldn't it be directly blocked by the ceiling?
But the elevators here are movable like building blocks. Suppose you put the elevator on the first floor on the far left and the elevator on the second floor on the far right, then the elevators on the first and second floors cannot be used, because the elevator shafts are not connected at all, and the elevators naturally cannot go up.
Although it is a bit ridiculous that the elevator in such a weird hotel has to follow the laws of physics, if you think about it carefully, it would be even more ridiculous if you can still go up without being connected.
When Schiller realized that the elevator could be moved, the first thing he thought of was whether the elevator shaft could be connected. He then deduced that the reason he couldn't call the elevator was most likely not because the elevator had been tampered with, but because the elevator had been moved and was not connected to the elevator shaft downstairs, which made it impossible for him to enter or exit the 19th floor.
Some people may ask, wasn't the elevator still in the middle at the time when Peter got on it? He could come and go normally, so why couldn't Schiller?
As mentioned before, this group of monsters, which Schiller called the conspiracy faction, may not have completely controlled the elevator at that time. They could only play tricks, but could not crack the rules of the bottom floor of the hotel, so in order to trap people on the 19th floor, they moved the elevator to another location.
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 and short people. The monster in room 1900 no longer came out, and the door of room 1913 was also closed.
After ruling out the possibility that the supernatural events could be completely resolved and peace restored to the hotel, there was only one possibility left, and that was that one of the factions had completely taken control of the hotel.
At this time, the position of the elevator is entirely up to them. Even if we think about it more extremely, did Peter really leave when he took the elevator?
If the illusionary monster could leave the room and move freely, it would not be difficult for it to fake a restaurant or some other place.
After determining that the elevator was damaged most likely because it had been moved, Schiller's next goal of reasoning was to figure out where the elevator shaft downstairs was located.