amaotonovel Chapter 2789 Phantom Chamber (5)
Chapter 2789 Phantom Chamber (5)
Chapter 2789 Phantom Chamber (Fifteen)
"During this process, I passed by mirrors and glass countless times. I was sure I saw myself, but I didn't realize anything was wrong until the alarm rang today. Then some thoughts that didn't belong to me filled my mind."
"I started to realise that I had been corrupted and that what I was seeing and hearing might not be real, but I still had a shred of sanity left and I wanted to get out of the room."
"Why?" Schiller asked.
"I don't know, I don't know if it's my thoughts, I don't even know if I've ever had that thought, I just feel like it's always in my head."
Gordon became a little absent-minded again. Schiller kept calling his name, which gradually brought him back to his senses. Schiller told Gordon his speculation, but concealed the part about Peter.
Because no one knows whether Gordon is still Gordon now.
Schiller saved Gordon not because he trusted him so much, he just wanted to save the sheriff's life first. If things turned out well later, maybe the pollution could be cleared.
"Tell me about the method you told me before to leave the 19th floor." Schiller looked at Gordon and said.
"That may not be what I told you." Gordon obviously didn't believe himself even more than Schiller did. He said, "I may have been manipulated and told you a way that would lead to certain death."
"Just tell me and I will make my own judgment."
Gordon had no choice but to swallow and began to say, "This is the result of my research over the past few days. I found that at 12 o'clock every night, something would come out of the elevator, but it would not only come to the 19th floor, but also go to other floors."
"There was a ding sound when the elevator door opened, which means the elevator is back in operation. I thought maybe we could follow it and get in before the elevator door closes."
"Why not get in before it?" Schiller said, "while it's patrolling the corridor..."
"No." Gordon shook his head and said, "After it comes out, the elevator door will close, and we can't open the door, so we can only rush into the elevator when it returns to the elevator and the elevator door opens."
“But that would be a trap.”
"So we have to gamble." Gordon said, "Our speculations are similar. I also think it is a pollution detection device. Since it will not attack uncontaminated things, as long as you make sure you are not contaminated, you may be able to coexist peacefully with it."
Schiller began to think about it. He had to admit that what Gordon said made sense. If that thing outside was a pollution detection device, it might not take action as long as it was sure that it had not been contaminated.
But it is actually hard to say, because the Cthulhu mythology system itself is chaotic, and it is not really a set of rules or weird stories. Moreover, there are not even any obvious rules now, so you can only rely on your own guesses. If you guess wrong, you will be completely passive.
According to Schiller's observation, the only way to leave the 19th floor is by elevator, and one has to take the elevator no matter what. If that thing really wants to attack him, there is no other way but to fight it out.
But he is definitely not the best, and this has to start with his origin.
The bishop is actually a "corpse collector".
When the first priest was killed in the church, he became more convinced that there was no God in this world, and thus the bishop was born.
In the back garden of the church, at the hands and feet of God, he opened up a cemetery of his own.
When the blood of the jumping fish has been drained and they are no longer as lively and beautiful, they will rest in the bishop's kingdom of God and rot quietly in a place unknown to anyone.
To everyone who asks him why he never has time on the weekends, Schiller says, "Sorry, I'm going to thank God."
Then he added silently in his mind, “Thank God he never existed.”
He is the closest to being pathological among all the personalities on the magic side, and for a long time he worked with hunting and torture.
But this does not mean that he is as aggressive as a person with a pathological personality. He is just a researcher, and it is a bit difficult for him to fight a K-type monster for three hundred rounds.
But Schiller had his own way.
He asked Gordon his last question, "Have you seen any other living people on this floor?"
"Are you referring to a living person like me?" Gordon said with a self-deprecating smile, "I only know that there should be someone living in room 1904, but I don't know how he is now. When I was exploring the corridor, I saw him walking around the room, but he seemed to have never left the room."
"Is there someone living in room 1904?" Schiller was a little confused. The elevator only knocked twice. If there was someone in room 1904, then were these two knocks for rooms 1904 and 1905?
But it is not surprising. From Gordon's description, he did not show any abnormal behavior before the alarm rang today, and he himself did not even realize that he was abnormal. The judgment criteria may be much stricter than Schiller imagined, and the people in rooms 1901 and 1903 may have been judged as contaminated.
But if that was the case, how come they hadn't been killed yet? Could it be that they had been killed now, but I was just too busy coming to room 1907 to notice?
Schiller returned to his room, where he had to carefully organize his thoughts and find a way out from these messy and scattered clues.
Everything is so weird.
When putting all the clues together, Schiller suddenly realized something - all this might be an elaborate trap.
First, during Schiller's first round of exploration, he discovered the conditions of the people in Room 1901 and Room 1903, and when the first night arrived, Schiller heard the sound of the elevator.
Immediately afterwards, the people in Room 1903 came up with a setting, which was that the alarm in the room must be sounded. Only in this way could they ensure their own safety.
Then Jerome on Peter's side explained the setting again, that is, the bell is a detection device, and the bell will only ring if the people in the room are not contaminated.
Then, he inferred that he had not been contaminated by the ringing of a bell in his room. Then he thought that the bell rang five times on the 19th floor, which meant that there were five 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 says it, people may be skeptical. When two people say it, people may choose to believe part of it. When three people say it, people will confirm each other. Since everyone is saying the same thing, the credibility is greatly increased.
And if these three people have different identities and different statuses, and may even be in different time and space, and their testimonies corroborate each other, people cannot help but believe it.
One person prepares the fishhook, one person puts on the bait, and another person casts the rod. Schiller is very familiar with the fishing process.
The short guy, Jerome and Gordon probably play these three roles.
If you think about it carefully, it is obvious that there is something wrong with the short man in room 1903. He doesn't even have feet, and there is only a voice attached to the door. Anyone can see that something is wrong, but they may not completely believe what he says.
But Jerome is hard to tell. He is in another hotel, and Schiller can't see him. He behaves very much like a normal person, but this is the biggest abnormality, because in the hotel where Peter is, everyone looks normal, so Jerome, who is as normal as them, may also be as terrifying as them.
But when it comes to Gordon, it is almost indistinguishable from the real thing, because first of all, once the ringing of the bells in the right corridor decreases, people will find it difficult to distinguish whether there is a problem in Room 1901 or Room 1903, so they will inevitably turn their thoughts to the fact that there are two living people in the left corridor.
Once people thought that there were two living people in the corridor on the left and Gordon was rescued in room 1907, they would definitely think that Gordon was one of the living people, because Gordon was rescued by himself, and people would naturally trust the results of their own labor more.
The short man mentioned the ringing sound, Jerome explained the ringing sound, and Gordon added the setting 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 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 just one person saying it and another saying it. The only alarm clock in the room was never actually seen by Schiller.
This makes good use of the weaknesses of human psychology. First of all, the more people say something, the more credible it becomes.
Secondly, if both the good and evil sides emphasize the same point of view, people will tend to believe one of them, thinking that one of the sides must be right, and will not think that both sides are wrong. This is the principle used by the hook wolf.
It was Gordon who actually made Schiller realize that this was a trap.
Before asking what happened to Gordon, one must first ask why Gordon.
The fact that Gordon appears here is the biggest problem in itself. There are so many crazy people and villains in Gotham, why is it this sheriff?
Bruce knows Gordon, and Schiller also knows Gordon. There must be many people in this city who know this sheriff. Gordon is so outstanding. As the last ray of light in a dark city, there are countless people who trust and follow him.
Even if others don't know that he is Gordon, when they see the police uniform on him, they will be more likely to believe what he says. After all, Gotham is full of terror right now. Even if you are here to collect bribes, as long as you are willing to put on this police uniform, you are a hero. Most people understand this.
So people relied on their intelligence and spent a lot of energy and physical strength, and finally found such a sheriff. It was like finding a piece of drifting wood in the ocean. There was no reason not to trust and rely on him.
The long-term fear, loneliness and lack of response will really turn people into a fragile baby, crying loudly almost desperately just to get the mother's attention.
And at the moment when the mother responded, they had no reason to think about whether the person holding them was a mother or a monster. As long as she could comfort them, it was enough. For ordinary people, this was simply an unsolvable trap.
Gordon also gave the most deadly setting, which continued the previous foreshadowing, but was more in-depth, that is, the existence patrolling in the corridor would not attack those who were not contaminated.
Although he has clearly stated that this is a gamble, all the clues point 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 the groundless suspicion of paranoia. After all, there is no evidence for Schiller's speculation.
Just as 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 have to start with Room 1905.
As mentioned before, the means used during the riot in Room 1905 did not seem to be aimed at Schiller's life. It may be that they were subject to certain rules and could not kill people directly. Schiller still holds this view now.
But this doesn't mean that the room doesn't want to kill people. It can't do it itself, so it will definitely find ways to force people to commit suicide.
There seem to be two paths for suicide. Schiller had previously speculated that the room was trying to force him into the bathroom, but now it seems that this might be because the water in the bathroom was contaminated.
The other option is naturally to jump off the building. Needless to say, jumping down will definitely lead to death.
But there is a hidden third way, which Schiller had conceived before but did not use - rush out of the door and into the corridor as quickly as possible.
But this is the most likely and simplest path that a normal person would take. When a good person encounters furniture flying up and hitting him, whose first reaction wouldn't be to open the door and run away?
If Schiller guessed correctly, the room would not allow anyone to escape so easily. It would definitely be delayed until midnight, with the purpose of making the person rushing out face the existence in the corridor.
The room wants to kill people, so it paves such a simple path to prove that a head-on encounter with the mysterious entity is tantamount to suicide.
To cheat and sneak attack