PFC Chapter 2787 Phantom Chamber (3)
Chapter 2787 Phantom Chamber (3)
Chapter 2787 Phantom Chamber (Thirteen)
As soon as it was midnight, Schiller climbed out the window and returned to the house. The alarm clock rang very punctually, but this time, it only rang twice in the entire right corridor and four times in the entire 19th floor.
In other words, if something goes wrong with the people in one of Room 1901 and Room 1903, they are no longer judged as uncontaminated, but are likely to have been completely contaminated.
Which one will it be?
But Schiller didn't have time to think about these things for the moment. He knew that if his hotel was in the past, the hotel where Peter was would be more dangerous. Peter was not capable enough, so Schiller had to give him enough guidance, otherwise he would probably have difficulty surviving.
The only common point that can be found in the two hotels is the alarm clock. Schiller found an alarm clock in his room, and Peter opened the door of Room 1903 and took out an alarm clock from the toilet tank.
Jerome said that the alarm clock's sound was a detection procedure and would only sound when there was a living person in the room, but Peter also spent a night in that hotel and he said he heard nothing at night, which meant that the alarm clock on the 19th floor where he was didn't ring once.
This poses a problem, because besides Peter, Jerome is also a living person on the entire floor. That is to say, if the detection device is still working properly, then the alarm should ring at least twice on the 19th floor. Even if there is a problem with Jerome, the alarm in Peter's room should ring.
Schiller asked Peter to find the alarm clock in the room. Peter had just had a nap and felt in good spirits, so he followed Schiller's instructions and began to search his hotel room to find the alarm clock.
But he couldn't find it no matter how hard he searched. In the closet where Schiller found the alarm clock, there was no trace of the alarm clock.
That's unlikely, Schiller thought, unless he had moved the alarm clock somewhere else.
Because I am in the past on the timeline, all my actions will affect Peter. If I choose to leave the alarm clock behind, Peter will definitely not be able to find it. If Peter can't find it, it means that I have moved the alarm clock somewhere else.
Why do you do this?
It is impossible to speculate now, but it is very likely that it was because of some information he got in the following days, that is to say, in the following days Schiller thought that it was better for the alarm clock not to be in the room than to be in the room.
But at the time Schiller was there, the detection device was still working normally. Only when the alarm sounded could the room be guaranteed to be safe. If Schiller moved the alarm somewhere else, the unknown creature wandering in the corridor and causing the elevator noise might come in.
What made Schiller take such a risk and take the alarm clock away from Peter?
Another clue about the alarm clock is that the person in room 1903 chose to put the alarm clock in the toilet tank.
Judging from the current situation, if Peter's time period is really the future, the possibility of the situation completely improving is very small. It is more likely that everything in that time period is an illusion.
The tall and short men in rooms 1901 and 1903 were most likely completely contaminated, which is why they did not show any signs of struggle but were completely controlled.
Following this line of thought, the short man in room 1903, who was completely controlled, chose to put the alarm clock into the water tank. This behavior must be beneficial to him, which means that not putting the alarm clock in the water tank would be disadvantageous to him.
Is the detection device still working normally?
The train of thought came back to the question: if the detection device was still working properly, why didn't Peter hear any sound?
Schiller thought of another possibility, that is, everyone on the 19th floor, like the short man in room 1903, interfered with the alarm clock.
This is very possible. It is known that there are two forces fighting against each other in the hotel. One is trying desperately to pollute the guests, and the other is trying to prevent the spread of pollution by setting up detection devices. Once the pollution is found to be too serious, the cleaning procedure will be initiated.
The result of the game between the two parties was obviously that the latter lost, because at the time when Peter was there, the hotel still had problems, but peace had been restored on the surface, and the horrific pollution was hidden deeper.
Since the party that caused the pollution won, they must have a way to invalidate the detection device, and the method may be to put the alarm clock in the toilet tank like in Room 1903.
It is now past 12 o'clock, and there is still no sound from Peter's side. The alarm clock in Room 1903 is now in his hand, not in the water tank, which proves that the alarm clock may be completely broken.
Alarm clock afraid of water?
No, probably not simply water.
Schiller kept thinking, was the toilet in room 1905 broken really an accident? Whose toilet would spray water out as soon as the flush button was pressed? How could it be broken in such a way?
A flush toilet does not have a device that sprays water out. No matter how bad it is, it is impossible to install such a powerful water spraying device out of thin air. This cannot be explained by a faulty circuit.
Schiller could imagine that if someone came here unprepared and heard that the toilet in Room 1905 was broken, they might not touch it, but there was a certain possibility that they would check it, and then there was a greater probability that they would be sprayed with water.
There must be a source of pollution for the hotel guests to be contaminated. The source of pollution contaminates the hotel guests through some medium, and this medium is most likely water.
In the Cthulhu mythology system, water is a very important image. Let’s put it this way, in any role-playing game, as long as someone is described as dripping with water, don’t hesitate, run away.
Although Schiller's target this time might be an Outer God, from the perspective of conspiracy planning, water is also a very useful thing. Humans are naturally close to water sources and do not have much defense against water. Even if they are splashed with water from a tank, they would at most curse their bad luck and change their clothes, but they would not think of disinfecting or anything like that.
So the toilet is most likely a trap, waiting for someone to check it and then spraying them with water, thus contaminating them.
Although the specific situation in Room 1901 and Room 1903 is still unknown, Schiller speculated that the two guests might have been infected in this way, and at this point in time, they might not realize that they have been infected.
This is the terrifying thing about the Cthulhu mythology system. Its pollution to human beings is more of a cognitive distortion. For example, in room 1901, the head is no longer on the neck, but he may still think that there is nothing wrong with him and wants to open the door to go out for breakfast.
Schiller immediately reminded Peter not to touch any device in the room that might release water, but he knew it was a little late, because after Peter entered Room 1903, he took the alarm clock out of the water tank, and he had already touched the water at that time.
But Schiller thought about it carefully and found some problems. If he was the mastermind behind all this, he would not deliberately create a broken toilet, because there must be someone who is not the kind of nosy person and would not touch it when he heard that it was broken.
If water is the medium of pollution, then just wait for people to wash their hands or take a bath. Generally, guests who stay for two or three days will wash their hands even if they don't take a bath. Even if we take a step back, wouldn't it be better to directly pollute the drinking water? You have to drink water even if you don't wash your hands.
So Schiller speculated that the source of the pollution was probably unable to pollute all the water, or that the water that could be polluted was not endless for him, so he had to use it sparingly.
It is similar to how sprinklers are always used in conjunction with smoke alarms. If you really want to prevent fires, the sprinklers must work 24 hours a day to ensure that any fire can be extinguished. However, that may affect normal life and waste water, so a detection device is installed to detect smoke and then spray water.
The working principle of this pollution medium is probably the same as these two things. It is not that whoever touches the water will be polluted, but whoever does something will be sprayed by the water.
For example, Schiller pressed the flush button on the toilet.
It is possible that when he did not press the flush button, his hand would not be contaminated when he put it into the water tank or even into the toilet, and only the water that was sprayed out when he pressed the flush button would have problems.
Schiller told Peter his guess, which made Peter feel a little more at ease. He also secretly became more vigilant in his heart and vowed to never touch things that he could avoid.
If the detection device was still working properly as Schiller guessed, then the most important thing for them now was to repair the alarm clock, but Schiller chose not to do so.
Because it was obvious that Peter was basically beyond saving on the 19th floor at that time. No one made a sound, but you made a sound in your room. Everyone would know that you were an ordinary person. If Peter was besieged, Schiller would not be able to save him now.
Then Schiller began to think about why he took the alarm clock out instead of leaving it in the room for Peter. This might be some measures he would take in the future.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that there are fewer and fewer noises.
There were only two sounds left in the corridor on the right side of the 19th floor tonight, which meant that someone in rooms 1901 and 1903 must have died.
And if the noise in the corridor on the right and even in the entire 19th floor becomes less and less, and finally Schiller is the only one left, then Schiller will definitely be more inclined to throw the alarm clock away, otherwise he will face the same situation as Peter, that is, being targeted by these creatures on the 19th floor that are no longer human.
It is true that the detection device will take action on things in the room after it detects no ringing sound, but at that time, everyone in rooms 1901 and 1903 was fine.
This means that the detection device must have begun to fail at Schiller's time. Otherwise, if there was no sound in one person's room tonight, one person must have been completely eliminated, and Peter would not have been able to see both of them at the same time.
Inferring from this, the two people in rooms 1901 and 1903 must be beyond rescue, otherwise they would not have appeared in normal form at Peter's time.
No matter which one has a problem tonight, the other one will soon be gone, and it will definitely be too late to save people.
So Schiller chose to give up decisively and planned to seek a farther way instead of a near one. At present, Peter did not know the situation in the left corridor. If the situation was good, there might be survivors in the left corridor. It would be better to pay attention to the two noises in the left corridor.
There were sounds in only two of the six rooms on the left corridor, which meant that the other four were also destroyed.
If Schiller were asked to guess which two of the six rooms contained people, he would have to rule out room 6 first. There was something very wrong with this room, and it was unlikely that there were living people in it.
According to my own speculation, the last three rooms destroyed in the corridor on the right were 1901, 1903 and 1905, all of which are odd numbers. This means that it is possible that some supernatural phenomenon occurred according to the rule of odd and even numbers, and the survival rate of the odd-numbered rooms here is higher.
Then the rooms on the left may also follow a certain pattern. After excluding 1913, there are only two odd-numbered rooms left, namely 1907 and 1909.