Chapter 2767

"Doc-doc-doc-doc-doctor!!!!"

When Peter's scream with a lowered voice came from the communication, Shiler sighed. As a Son, Peter was almost perfect. If he had to say what defects he had, it was that his sanity value limit was a bit low, so even if it was full, it was very easy to drop to zero.

Sanity value wasn't courage. Peter actually didn't lack courage, but he lacked the ability to turn some fantasy mysteries into rational thinking. If you gave him a wooden stake, he could hit it with a crackle, but if you blew a gust of wind at him, he would have no way. Spider-Man was very bad at dealing with this kind of supernatural enemy.

Under Peter's slightly panicked description, Shiler knew that in Room 1904 opposite him, someone had just moved in. It was a young man wearing a jacket, and before entering the door, he revealed a perverted smile similar to an evil serial killer at Room 1905.

It could be said that if this person rushed up and gave the main door two bangs, Peter would definitely rush out and return the favor, but this person didn't move at all and just stood at the door and laughed. Peter was scared quite a bit, and now he didn't even dare to open the door.

Sure enough, counting on such a person to go out and explore wouldn't work. Shiler still had to do it himself. However, before going out, he had to set a goal first.

In the best case, he could come to the lobby, get the guest list, and figure out what was going on, but in Shiler's view, this was very difficult, so he also had to have a secondary goal to avoid returning empty-handed.

Shiler's goal was Room 1900.

Why it was here naturally didn't need to be said. Please, this was a hotel. Which floor of a hotel didn't start from Room 01? What was going on with 00? It wasn't writing code!

This Room 1900 must have something weird. It was the one closest to the elevator in the corridor on the right, but because of the angle problem, even if Shiler opened the door, a crack could only see half of the room number. He couldn't see the traces in front of the door like Room 1904 opposite. To get clues, Shiler had to leave Room 1905.

Shiler lowered his head and glanced at his watch. He checked in at about 10:00, and it was already 10:45. He suspected that some changes would occur at midnight, so he had about an hour and 15 minutes left.

Shiler opened the door wider. The lights in the corridor were still on, just a bit dim, but the vast majority of hotels were like this, and he couldn't see any problems.

He didn't hear the sound of the elevator moving, which proved that there were no new guests on the floor above his building.

Very good, it was safe for now. Shiler opened the door and walked out from the crack of the door with his body sideways. He took a flashlight but didn't turn it on. Leaning against the wall on the right, he walked toward the elevator on tiptoe.

The footprints at the door of Room 1904 were still there. Because it was bright in the corridor, he couldn't see if there was anyone active inside through the light. Room 1903 next to Room 1905 had no movement, and Room 1902 was also very quiet.

Just when Shiler reached opposite Room 1901, he suddenly heard a "bang" sound.

Shiler's movement stopped immediately. He stood against the wall without moving and looked at Room 1901 where the sound came from. Immediately after, there was another bang, and then two bangs. It didn't sound like someone was hitting the door, but rather like someone threw something and smashed it on the door.

Shiler approached at the fastest speed, lowered his body, lay on the ground, and looked into the room through the crack of the door.

A pair of feet standing by the door.

The feet were very close to the door. If there were no accidents, this person's nose should be stuck to the door panel.

What was that smashing the door?

Bang!

It was another bang, and suddenly a drop of liquid dripped down along the door panel. Judging from the state, it might be blood, but there was no bloody smell.

Bang bang!

His head was hitting the door. Shiler immediately realized that it was definitely not a normal posture for hitting the door, because there was a limit to the backward tilt of a person's head. Just tilting the head and hitting the door couldn't make such a movement.

Bang!

After making a sound again, Shiler slowly stood up because he judged that to make such a movement in such a posture, the other party's head was very likely no longer on the neck.

Bang bang!

The sound was getting louder and louder, as if something was about to break the door, but Shiler still had no intention of leaving.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have been scared away by now, but Shiler on the magic side was from a research background. In his previous life, they spent a lot of time pursuing supernatural phenomena.

Others explored spirits for fear of ghosts appearing. Shiler explored spirits for fear of ghosts not appearing because in his previous life, he searched for traces of spirits everywhere just to prove that magic existed in this world so that he could explain his own abnormal phenomena.

So every time he went to some rumored haunted places, he was full of hope, but the result was naturally disappointment.

This led to Shiler, who saw a ghost, not only not afraid but also very excited because he had been looking for it for a long time in his previous life and hadn't found it. Meeting one so easily, wasn't this equivalent to getting a rare item in a single draw?

However, Shiler didn't think the guy in the room now was a ghost because it had already been studied that so-called ghosts were actually a kind of abnormal brain wave. But no matter how abnormal the brain wave was, it wouldn't take its own head off. This thing should have been affected by other supernatural factors.

Could it be little Bruce?

Shiler didn't lie down to look at the crack of the door again. He made a quite bold move, which was to walk over and twist the door handle.

Very unsurprisingly, it couldn't be twisted open.

Shiler thought, if Peter's side was normal and his side was abnormal, then this hotel must be operating according to some rule, otherwise he couldn't have checked in successfully.

But unfortunately, this didn't look like some rule-based horror game that posted the rules directly at the main entrance. The rules of the hotel needed to be explored by himself.

But in Shiler's view, the clues were actually very clear—this was a hotel, and hotels all over the world used some common rules, such as not being able to open the room door without a room card.

Shiler suspected that some aliens in the hotel now, such as the man hitting the door with his head in Room 1901, also had to follow these rules of the hotel, otherwise they couldn't move smoothly.

Now Shiler didn't have a room card outside and couldn't open the door. The man who didn't know what supernatural phenomenon had affected him might also be unable to open the door for some reason.

Shiler received a room card when he entered the room, so if this man could enter the room, it was impossible not to have a room card. Then the only possibility was that he couldn't use the room card now.

No, it might not just be that he couldn't use the room card. After all, Shiler didn't swipe the room card again when he went out. As long as he pressed the door handle, he could open it. Then this man was very likely unable to press the door handle.

Why was it hitting the door with the head?

Shiler thought for a moment and got the answer. It must be because only the head could move. If the hands could move, he would have opened the door and walked out long ago.

In other words, the man standing in front of the door now, his head was very likely controlled by something, such as a creature like a face-hugger. This kind of creature could only control the head, and it might not have the concept of opening the door. If it wanted to go out, it could only manipulate what it could manipulate to constantly hit the door.

Shiler took a few steps back and turned to leave.

If he couldn't come out, why bother with him? Let him hit it. It would be best if he hit himself to pieces.

But after walking two steps, Shiler walked back again. He thought about it, took out a sticky note from his pocket, took out a pen from another pocket of his trench coat, and wrote a sentence on the sticky note, "May I ask if you need help?".

He passed it in through the crack of Room 1901.

He saw blood dripping onto that sticky note. Under the reflection of the white paper, Shiler saw clearly that this blood was not red, but black, and it looked too viscous, a bit like a puddle of rotten mud.

The blood slowly gathered into a sentence on the paper: "Help me open the door".

Could this thing actually communicate?

After confirming this point, Shiler didn't stuff the sticky note in again, nor did he try to continue communicating. He put away the pen and paper and walked toward the elevator.

As soon as he walked over, he found something wrong. The light at the elevator entrance was black. Shiler walked over and pressed the button, but there was no response.

Was the elevator broken?

Shiler pressed the button a few more times with force, but there was no response. He lowered his head and looked. It was already 11 o'clock.

It was hard to determine whether the elevator was broken or stopped operating at 11 o'clock. The elevators in the vast majority of hotels in the United States and Europe were not operating 24 hours a day. Sometimes they would be overhauled in the early morning, and sometimes they would simply not be open at night. Shiler had also encountered similar situations several times.

Then there was definitely no way to go down and get the guest list tonight. Everything could only wait until tomorrow morning.

But now there was still an hour until midnight. Shiler decided to investigate the situation on the 19th floor again.

He paused at the elevator, then walked toward the left side of the elevator. He wanted to see if there was another Room 1905 at the end.

After walking over, the first room was 1906, and opposite was 1907. Left even, right odd, it was 6 rooms just like the right side.

Shiler walked a few more steps forward and found something wrong. The room at the very end was not 1911, but 1913.

In other words, the six rooms on the left were 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, and 13 respectively.

5 and 13 were both unlucky in Western culture. The number 5 was because the pentagram was the symbol of the devil, while 13 was because of religious factors. Judas, who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th disciple, and the Last Supper also happened to be on the 13th.

These two rooms were both located at the end of the 19th floor. It seemed that they should also hide some rules.

Shiler came to the door of Room 13.

Suddenly, the door of Room 13 opened.

It was as if inviting Shiler to enter, the door gently opened a small crack. Nothing could be seen inside. The light of the flashlight couldn't pass through the rich darkness.

Shiler turned and left.

Such an obvious trap, he wouldn't be fooled. If there was someone in this room, when hearing the footsteps of someone approaching, a normal person would definitely not open the door at the first time. If there was no one in this room, then what opened the door?

At least this exploration made Shiler determine that at least there were no two Room 1905s in the hotel he was in now, and Peter was definitely not at the end of the corridor on the other side, which was about the same as his previous guess. That meant one of them was in a parallel space-time.

Shiler returned to the corridor on the right again. This time he intended to see what was going on with Room 1900.