mtl008 Chapter 2792 Phantom Chamber (End)
Chapter 2792 Phantom Chamber (End)
Chapter 2792 Phantom Chamber (End)
The flames quickly spread into the bathroom, but just as Schiller had guessed, not a single flame touched the toilet.
Schiller actually discovered a long time ago that the thing that controls the hallucinations in the room and the thing that pollutes the people in the room may not be the same thing. It is more likely that they are two systems.
Assuming that the thing that creates the illusion has a way to pollute others, then there is no need for it to create these fancy illusions. It can just put the pollutant on the carpet at the entrance, and whoever steps on it will die.
And if the thing that controls toilet water to pollute other people's things has a way to affect the entire room through hallucinations, then it can simply create invisible toilet water and splash it on whoever it sees, and there would be no need to stay in the bathroom.
So they are most likely two monsters that do not interfere with each other, and may even have formed a kind of check and balance relationship. The monster that controls the hallucination uses hallucinations to force people to come to the bathroom to be polluted, and the toilet in the bathroom also gives the hallucination monster a means of killing.
But the premise is that neither of them endangers the fundamental interests of the other party.
Obviously, the territory controlled by the monster that pollutes others is the toilet, and it pollutes others by splashing toilet water. The illusion monster may control other places besides the toilet, and hallucinations are almost everywhere.
But now that Schiller was standing on the toilet, all three parties felt a little embarrassed.
The water and fire created by the room illusion are real, at least real to the senses of the residents, which means that it must be made of something, which may not be scientific enough, but it is a substance that exists.
This substance wants to invade the toilet's territory, but the toilet certainly won't allow it, so the illusionary flame cannot interfere with the toilet.
The toilet pollutes others by spraying water, but now Schiller is standing on the toilet lid, which cannot be opened at all, so the toilet cannot spray water and cannot pollute Schiller.
It seems that neither party can really influence the residents, and they can only use indirect methods. Otherwise, even if Schiller was a living person, the toilet lid could still be opened.
Schiller thought that if he found something to press on it, the toilet lid would definitely not care and would still be able to open. The only reason it couldn't be opened now was that he was standing on it.
The fire couldn't be lit and the toilet lid couldn't be opened, so the three parties were in a stalemate. In the end, Illusion chose to compromise because it was almost ten o'clock in the evening and it didn't have much time left.
Schiller jumped off the toilet lid very smoothly and rushed out of the bathroom as fast as he could without being sprayed by the water. But when he returned to the room, he found that it was extremely cold.
Temperature can also kill people. Schiller was very clear about this. When hallucinations were at their wit's end and they wanted to torture themselves with various ways of death, freezing to death was considered a relatively painful way to die.
What's more troublesome is that low temperature will affect the speed of brain function. To some extent, this can be regarded as a way for the room to weaken Schiller.
Schiller still had no intention of leaving the room, even though the temperature in the room had reached a point that was completely unsuitable for human survival and he was shivering with cold. However, after he discovered the intention of the room, he turned around and walked back to the bathroom.
This time the toilet was affected. A thin layer of ice formed on the outer surface of the toilet. Schiller pressed the flush button and quickly dodged, but the toilet lid still popped up and water sprayed out. Schiller found that the water that sprayed out this time and the water that sprayed out before and remained on the ground were not frozen.
This confirmed his previous guess, that there was indeed something wrong with the toilet water, otherwise it would not make sense that only this kind of water would not freeze.
Schiller endured the cold and came to the living room. He picked up the bottle he had used to drink water from. After returning to the bathroom, he did an extremely bold move. He used the bottle to collect the water on the ground.
He was very careful not to let his hands touch the water, and the water did not violate the laws of physics by jumping up and hitting him, but was smoothly poured into the drink bottle.
The amount of water that sprayed out was actually not a lot, only about one-fifth of the beverage bottle. After discovering that the water was gone, Schiller pressed the flush button again and dodged, and successfully got some water.
In this way, Schiller filled the mineral water bottle.
Then he started pouring water into the room.
Wherever the water touched, all the ice melted, and the illusion seemed to be scalded, melting away in large pieces. But Schiller was still not satisfied. He picked up a melted bedside table, carried it to the bathroom, and smashed it hard on the toilet.
With a loud crash, the heavy and hard solid wooden bedside table smashed the toilet directly. After the toilet disappeared, the water pipe connected to the toilet was gurgling out.
Moreover, it seemed that Schiller's rash action broke the balance of the toilet itself. The water began to flow out faster and faster. When Schiller walked out of the bathroom, water had already started to flow out from the gap in the bathroom door.
This is what is called tit for tat. All the illusions touched by the water disappeared, and the room began to tremble slightly, as if something was attacked and screaming.
Schiller leaned against the wall leisurely, watching the water on the ground being covered and the illusion disappearing. Not long after, the temperature in the room began to rise.
The thing controlling the illusion seemed to be at a disadvantage, but it seemed unwilling to give up and made the temperature in the room higher and higher.
Unfortunately, it still couldn't affect the water in the room. If it could really work together to eliminate the thing that polluted the water and turn the water into steam that filled every corner of the room, Schiller would really have to consider returning to the sofa.
The two sides fought for a long time and found that neither could do anything to the other. The water produced in the bathroom was limited, and hallucinations could not appear where there was water. They finally decided to call a truce, and the time was almost midnight.
Schiller screwed the cap on the mineral water bottle. He did not pour out all the water, and some remained at the bottom of the bottle. After he discovered that this thing could restrain some other things in the hotel, he realized that there were really no bigger bottles, otherwise Schiller would have to open a water plant.
Schiller now sets out to verify his last conjecture.
At 11:45, Schiller removed a piece of the sofa that was still in the room from the whole sofa and dragged it to the door. During this time, the room wanted to compete with him for the use of the sofa, but gave up after Schiller splashed toilet water on his face.
Schiller successfully dragged the sofa to the door. It was now 11:50. He slowly opened the door and dragged the sofa into the corridor without hesitation.
After he closed the door, it locked almost immediately, and it locked with a very loud click, as if some existence was saying, "Don't come back again."
By the time Schiller had dragged the sofa into the recess where the elevator was, it was already 11:53.
Schiller placed the sofa at the elevator door with the backrest against the elevator door, and placed the alarm clock on the sofa. It was 11:55 at this time.
Schiller rushed to the end of the corridor on the left as fast as he could, and came to the door of Room 1900 opposite Room 1910. He took out a knife and removed the doorplate of Room 1910 with lightning speed, and then quickly replaced the doorplate of Room 1913 in his hand.
It is 11:59 now.
It took about 1913 seconds for the door number 15 to emerge from the wall, and there were 45 seconds left until midnight.
boom! ! ! !
The thing inside the door of Room 1913 did not leave. Its first bang against the door knocked Schiller, who was blocking the door, out.
Schiller hit the opposite wall head-on, but he didn't seem to be surprised at all. He quickly stood up and ran towards the elevator as fast as he could.
There are 30 seconds left until midnight.
The thing in room 1913 seemed to take a few steps back and began to gather strength again, and Schiller took about 5 seconds to run to the elevator.
He ignored the alarm clock and the sofa. Instead, he stepped first on the sofa cushion and then on the sofa backrest. He stood directly at half the height of the elevator door and looked up.
Right at his eye level, right above the elevator door frame, there was a sign that looked exactly like the doorplate, with the floor number "19" written in Arabic numerals.
Schiller began to dismantle the sign.
This sign was much larger than the house door sign, and the screws were also larger and harder to tighten. It took Schiller five or six seconds to unscrew one screw. After three screws were removed, there were still 10 seconds left until midnight.
Circle, circle, and circle again. When there were 5 seconds left until midnight, Schiller took the sign marking the floor in his hand, and the elevator under the door frame slowly disappeared.
It's midnight.
Ding!
The sound of the elevator arrived as expected, but it did not come from where the elevator was located at all.
The sound came from the left end of the corridor on the 19th floor.
The door to room 1900 opened.
Schiller breathed a sigh of relief; his guess was correct.
The monster did not come out of the elevator at all. The sound that was heard before all the rooms were not the sound of the elevator arriving, but the sound of the monster in room 1900 starting to move.
Because the positions of rooms 1905 and 1900 were swapped, room 1900 became the room closest to the elevator. The difference of less than one meter in distance made it impossible for people to judge from the sound whether there was a problem with the elevator or room 1900.
The trap was set as soon as Schiller entered the hotel.
The sound of the elevator door opening is a very unique sound. Schiller heard this sound when he first walked into the 19th floor, so when he heard this sound again, he would definitely think of the elevator first.
So after hearing the sound n+1 in the corridor, you will definitely think that the first extra sound is a sign that the monster has arrived by elevator, suggesting that the monster will use the elevator.
Then, through word of mouth, Gordon told Schiller that the only way to leave the 19th floor was to rush onto the elevator while the monster was using it, and a perfect trap was created.
Some people who are more vigilant may think that close contact with monsters may lead to death, or that although this plan is feasible, it may be necessary to find a pattern among the monsters.
But it was all fake from the beginning.
The monster didn't come in through the elevator at all, but stayed in room 1900 the whole time. Perhaps its only ability besides killing people is to make the same noise as an elevator to complete one part of this ingenious trap and make people follow it to death.
It is easy to imagine how desperate the explorer would feel when, after going through untold hardships and thinking that he had found the pattern and could succeed in one go, he followed the elevator noise monster forward, only to find that it stopped at the door of Room 1900.
But this time the monster was not so lucky.
boom!
After the first elevator sound was heard and the elevator monster walked out of room 1900, a huge crash was heard at the end of the corridor on the left, and the monster in room 1913 broke down the door and came out.
Schiller, holding the sign, walked down from the sofa and sat down slowly. Although he could not see what was happening at the end of the corridor on the left, there was no doubt that a collision had begun.
The monster in room 1913 is obviously not from the same system as the elevator bell monster.
The fact that it rammed the door meant that it was not from the same system as all the monsters that set up the trap. If it was really helpful to the plan, the other party would not have been able to lock it in the room.
A silent collision began.
Schiller closed his eyes and covered his ears, refusing to listen, see or feel. The entire corridor began to shake wildly, and some tiny screams and whispers rushed into his ears.
Blood flowed from Schiller's ears, but he acted as if he didn't hear it and just sat calmly on the sofa in the middle of the corridor.
Five minutes later, the corridor fell silent.
Schiller stood up with his briefcase, walked to the center of the corridor and looked to the left. There was nothing there. The doors of the two unique rooms, 1900 and 1913, were tightly closed, as if all the terror and fear just now were an illusion.
And Schiller knew that he had found a way out of the 19th floor.
He took the number plate for the 19th floor and came to the door of room 1904. He took down the number plate on the door of room 1904 and nailed the number plate with the floor number 19 on it.
Schiller looked down at the half footprint on the carpet in front of No. 1904. The wet footprint left by Jerome that Peter saw when he came out of the closet flashed through his mind. The size and shape of the two footprints slowly overlapped.
This is the answer to the 19th floor.
A brand new elevator door slowly emerged.
"Ding!"
ding ding ding ding