amaotonovel Chapter 2790 Phantom Chamber (6)
Chapter 2790 Phantom Chamber (6)
Chapter 2790 Phantom Chamber (XVI)
It is definitely not an option to rush out of the room and face the mysterious presence in the corridor. Even if Jerome is really Jerome and Gordon is Gordon, in this situation, they don't even know whether what they say is manipulated or not, so it is simply unreliable.
But if Gordon's method was not used, it seemed that there was no way to get out of the 19th floor. Schiller thought about it carefully and felt that after dawn should be his last chance.
There is no doubt that the noises in the room will become less and less. No one knows what will happen if the noises disappear completely. Besides, Schiller cannot be sure whether the thing controlling the illusions in the room will become angry next night.
His sanity value will not decrease, but there is still a health bar. Just taking a look at the thing on Gordon's neck, Schiller's head is still buzzing.
Therefore, it would be best to resolve the matter during the day. Peter can't drag it out for too long, and Schiller can't find any clues, so there's no hope of counting on him.
Soon, Schiller waited until dawn. The corridor was still very quiet, but there was no movement in rooms 1901 and 1903. Schiller suspected that the situation in these two rooms had deteriorated to the bottom, that is, they had completely lost their rationality and had become puppets of something.
But it was just right that the two of them kept silent so as not to disturb him. Schiller thought that he no longer intended to explore what was in the room, because no matter what was in the room now, it was unreliable. It would be better to focus on the corridor.
Schiller went out and took a good look at the corridor, but it was really unremarkable. Similar corridors could be found in any hotel in the world.
There were no extra decorations in the corridor. The flower pots and artificial flowers were all ordinary. There were no paintings on the walls. The carpet was completely fixed to the ground and could not be lifted. The solid wood door looked very textured, but there were no decorations such as wreaths.
Schiller observed for a long time and finally turned his attention to the house number. This was the only clue he had not used so far, and the only clue that had nothing to do with the thing in the corridor and the elevator.
This just proves that this clue might be important.
It is known that the house number of room 1900 has been changed, so which room's house number has been exchanged with it?
In fact, Schiller has now confirmed it, because he had previously removed the screws of the house numbers on the left corridor. Observing from the screw holes, he found that all the screws had been screwed in only once, which means that all the house numbers on the left have not been changed, even Room 1913, which looks malicious.
There were no signs of the screws being screwed in again in the other rooms on the right, so the answer was obvious: the only room where Schiller had not removed the screws and observed the screw holes was Room 1905.
To be on the safe side, Schiller unscrewed a screw from the doorplate of his room. Sure enough, the screw hole marks inside the screw were very messy, and it was obvious that it had been screwed twice.
It seems that the room numbers of Room 1905 and Room 1900 have been swapped, but the question is, who changed it and why?
Schiller put aside the first question because he didn't want to find out who else was in the room. He instinctively felt that the second question was the key.
Judging from the structure of the hotel corridor, the smaller the number, the closer it is to the elevator. This is a rule on both sides. If the room numbers of room 1900 and room 1905 were swapped, this rule would be broken.
Moreover, Schiller felt that there should not be a corridor. Room 1905 was next to Room 1901, and behind it were Room 1903 and 1904. This was too strange.
Schiller stood in front of the door and observed the house number carefully, but he really couldn't see any clues. He knew that if he wanted to know the deeper secrets of the house number, he had to conduct an experiment.
Schiller was about to take down the number plate of a door.
The last time he tried to do this, he found that the wooden door began to age rapidly, but he did not observe what would happen in the end. It was time to choose an unlucky person to conduct an experiment.
Schiller's eyes wandered between Room 1903 and Room 1901. He wanted to choose these two rooms, but in fact, they didn't matter. Schiller thought about it, walked past the elevator, came to the corridor on the left, and stood in front of Room 1913.
This room had been welcoming to him from the beginning, with its doors wide open, inviting him in. Given that, it would surely not be reluctant to contribute itself to allow Schiller to conduct an experiment.
Schiller took out his pocket knife and began to turn the screws.
In order to tighten the screws hard, the door must not be open, so Schiller simply closed the door. However, just after he closed the door, someone knocked on the door within a few seconds.
"You remember to knock on the door now? It's too late!" Schiller said as he tightened the screws, "Don't you know that you should close the door when you go out?"
I don't know if it was stimulated by this sentence, but the thing inside started to bang against the door, but Schiller held on to the door tightly, and his speed was very fast. A screw was unscrewed within a few seconds. Before the thing could hit the door for the second time, the door plate of Room 1913 fell into Schiller's hands.
As soon as the doorplate was taken down, the room began to age at the fastest speed. Schiller stepped back a little, and the aging speed became faster and faster. Then the entire door merged with the wall and disappeared completely.
Schiller walked forward and touched the wall where the door was originally. There was no flaw at all, as if there was no room there at all. There was always a cold and hard wall here.
Schiller retreated to the elevator and looked at the layout of the corridor on the left. There was a room missing, which was indeed a bit strange. Then he walked to the original location of Room 1913 and found that there were four screw holes left on the wall.
Can you nail the door number back? Will Room 1913 appear again?
Schiller did not try, because the moment he took off the doorplate, he could feel that the thing in the room had taken a few steps back and was gathering strength to ram the door. Now if he put the doorplate back, it would be hard to say whether he could break the door open, so he decided to keep the doorplate for now.
Schiller first put the door of Room 1913 back inside the house, and then began to study Rooms 1905 and 1900.
Room 1913 disappeared along with the house number, which means that the house number is most likely the room itself. In this case, the person who changed the house number did not just change the house number, but directly swapped the positions of the two rooms.
The difference is that if it was just a change of house number, then the so-called Room 1905 where Schiller lives now should be Room 1900, so it is possible that someone deliberately wanted Schiller to live in Room 1900.
But if the house number and the room were changed together, then Room 1905 where Schiller lived is still Room 1905, but the location has changed from near the elevator to the end of the corridor, opposite Room 1904.
But what is the point of such a replacement?
Schiller initially wondered if someone wanted to move Room 1905 away from the elevator, because Room 1905 was specifically marked on the coordinates given to him by Bruce Jr., which meant that this room was special and it was normal for someone to move it.
But then I thought about it and it seemed unnecessary. There was no clear danger in the elevator, and even the monster that came in the elevator showed no inclination to rush into the room. If I checked the nearest room every night, then no matter how far away Room 1905 was moved, the danger would remain the same, and there was not much point in doing so.
Then thinking about it the other way around, could it be that someone wanted Room 1900 to be closer to the elevator?
But since there are no clues about the elevator and everything seems very calm, all the inferences related to the elevator are somewhat unreasonable.
Schiller stood in front of the door of Room 1905 and thought about it. There was another possibility. If the positions of Room 1905 and Room 1900 were swapped, then the original Room 1900 should be located here in Room 1905, which is opposite Room 1904.
Is it possible that someone didn't want room 1900 to be located across from room 1904?
Schiller felt that he had grasped the key. If the person who changed the house number was the person in room 1904, then it would make sense.
Because 1900 and 1913 are the same, it is abnormal for these two numbers to appear on this floor, so there may be danger in Room 1900, and this danger may very likely threaten the room opposite it, so someone swapped the house numbers of the two rooms so that Room 1900 would not face their own room.
But what danger is in room 1900?
So far, Schiller has not seen any danger in any room rush out of the door and into the corridor. Does the person in room 1904 think that the thing in room 1900 will rush out?
Because only in this way will the people in Room 1904 be the first to be affected and have the motivation to change their door number.
Schiller thought about it and came up with a good idea. He planned to remove the doorplate of room 1900 and put it in the place of room 1913, which was empty anyway.
As for what kind of changes this would cause, Schiller was also very curious. It would be best if there was something abnormal, so that he could infer more clues.
Schiller removed the doorplate of Room 1900 as quickly as possible, walked to Room 1913 with the doorplate, and nailed the doorplate to the screw hole.
A gray-white door slowly appeared and gradually merged with the house number, as if the house number had never left. "1900" was clearly written on it.
Room 1900 had always been very quiet, and there had been no changes even after it was moved to this location. After Schiller waited for a while and found that there was no movement, he returned to his room.
But he did not sit there and wait for death. Instead, he connected to Peter's communication. Assuming that he was at a point in the past, there must have been changes in Peter's place after the house number was changed.
After receiving Schiller's message, Peter opened the door and looked into the corridor. He found that many people had gone out for breakfast, but there seemed to be no movement in the corridor on the far right.
Peter tiptoed over, stood at the middle elevator and looked to the end of the corridor on the right. Then he widened his eyes and said, "It is indeed Room 1900, Doctor. This is very strange."
Then Peter's eyes turned slightly to the side, as if he had seen something strange again. He turned back to stare at the room opposite Room 1900 and asked in confusion, "Why is there a Room 1913?"
"what?"
Schiller stared at the message sent back by Peter. Peter took a video for him. Of course, the first room to appear in the camera was Room 1900, but as the camera turned back, the doorplate opposite Room 1900 read "1913".