Chapter 2768

Shiler walked to the door of Room 1900. This time the door didn't open. On the contrary, it was closed very tightly. Shiler walked up and twisted the door handle, but it wouldn't twist. He lay down and looked into the room through the crack of the door, but he couldn't see anything either.

He took out another sticky note and stuffed it in through the crack of the door, but the crack of the door seemed to be blocked by something. The front end of the sticky note was pushed into wrinkles, but it couldn't be stuffed in at all.

The crack of the door was very tight and not enough to accommodate a person's fingers to pass through. The hardware facilities of this hotel were also relatively advanced. It used a room card instead of a key, so there was no keyhole to look at, and there was no way to pry the lock.

Shiler thought about it, and his gaze fell on the room number of Room 1900. What was quite peculiar was that only the two screws on the upper part remained on the room number of Room 1900, and the two screws on the lower part had disappeared.

Shiler turned his head to look at Room 1901 opposite him again and confirmed that the room number was indeed fixed with four screws, not two. Then where did the two screws on the door of Room 1900 go?

All room numbers looked exactly the same, so it was possible that the room number had been changed. However, could these screws really be removed by ordinary methods?

Shiler walked up and touched the screws with his hand first, but there was no response. He pried it lightly with a fountain pen and found that it wouldn't turn either. However, if there were a screwdriver, it should be able to be unscrewed.

Shiler didn't have a screwdriver, but he had a small knife. Shiler opened his trench coat and took out from the inner pocket of his trench coat the small knife that looked very thin but was actually made of sound-absorbing steel and vibranium.

The biggest advantage of this thing was that it could absorb sound. Even if it were used to pry a lock or knock, it wouldn't make any movement. It was very suitable for all kinds of supernatural scenes. However, it had no special performance in terms of attack power. The blade, which was two knuckles long, might not even be fatal when stabbing someone.

Shiler inserted the tip of the knife into the cross-shaped screw hole and twisted it with force with one hand. It really turned. He started to twist the small knife with some effort. It took three or four minutes to remove one screw.

But Shiler didn't rush to remove the second screw because now the whole room number only had one screw left, which meant Shiler could rotate the room number.

Shiler turned the room number down, revealing the screw hole of the screw he had removed. He turned on the flashlight and took a look. The thread inside was very messy, which meant that someone had once unscrewed the original screw and then screwed a new one in.

The room number had indeed been changed.

Then the problem now was, which room number had the room number of 1900 been changed with?

According to the numerical rule, the room number 00 should indeed appear here because opposite it was the room number 01.

But according to common sense, the room number 00 shouldn't appear anywhere because it was impossible for any normal hotel to have a Room 00. So it was normal for it to replace any one.

Shiler unscrewed the other screw as well, but the moment he took the room number down, he found that the door in front of him began to age rapidly. The paint on the wooden door panel was peeling off, and the wood was also becoming decayed and unbearable.

After Shiler hesitated for half a second, he put the room number back in its original place. The aging stopped and was gradually recovering.

It seemed that the room number couldn't be moved, or rather, it couldn't be taken away for a long time. Shiler estimated the speed of aging just now. If there were a professional screwdriver, he should be able to swap the room number once before it completely aged.

Looking at the current situation, someone might have already done so. Then why did the other party want to swap the room number?

There was no supernatural phenomenon on the room number, so the problem was with the door. Once the room number left the door, the door would begin to age rapidly, and what it would become when it aged to the end was unknown.

Would the room age along with the door?

Someone risked the door aging and collapsing to swap the room number, proving that confusing a certain room was more important to him than whether the things inside the room were safe.

Shiler didn't see any room number missing screws in the corridor on the left. He remembered very clearly that when he looked over just now, all room numbers were fixed to the door with four screws.

But Room 00 was missing two screws. Where did these two screws go? Why didn't the person who swapped the room number nail all four screws in?

Too many questions couldn't be answered, which made Shiler feel very bad. He had never been a person who followed the rules, but rather a person who, if you didn't make me happy, I would make this world unhappy.

Shiler walked to the door of Room 1902 next to him.

He used the small knife to remove the two screws under the room number of Room 1902, then walked to the door of Room 1901, ignored a certain head hitting the door, removed the two screws under the room number of Room 1901, and then walked to the door of Room 1903...

That's right, since the person who changed the room number could remove two screws, Shiler could remove all the two screws under all the room numbers.

These two screws weren't important. It was important to Shiler's mood that there were no these two screws.

If you ask, all Shilers are sick.

It could only be said that Shiler, standing in front of the room door in the middle of the night, prying screws one by one, now looked like the most ghost-like creature in the whole hotel.

Just when Shiler was attacking the screws on the room number of Room 1903, he suddenly heard movement in the room of Room 1903. Soon, footsteps were approaching the door.

Shiler's movement didn't pause at all. He accelerated the rotation speed in his hand. Soon, a screw was removed by him.

"Hey, what are you doing?!"

A voice suddenly came from behind the door. A black shadow flashed at the peephole. It seemed that someone was looking outside through the peephole.

"I'm working." Shiler said.

"You can't take that thing down, get out of here!"

"Are you the person who wants to check out today?" Shiler recognized his voice, but the movement under his hand didn't pause at all. He said, "Why did you come back?"

"Did you hear what I said? You can't remove that screw, hurry up and screw it on!"

"Why?"

The other party seemed to be stunned by the question and said in a bit of frustration, "Then why do you want to unscrew it? Are you crazy?"

"I see that there are only two on Room 1900. I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, so I decided to let all the room numbers have only two."

This statement clearly shocked the person inside the door greatly, but soon he opened his mouth with a bit of anxiety and said, "You can't do this, listen to me, hurry up and screw it back. This thing is very important. Without the room number, something very terrible will come in."

The two screws of Room 1903 were already in Shiler's hand. He weighed a handful of screws in his hand and said, "That's really great. I decided to nail all the screws on my room number."

"You..." The other party was choked and couldn't speak. After a long time, he opened his mouth and said, "You don't need so many screws. Four for one room number is enough. Hurry up and give mine back to me!"

"Do you know the guest in Room 1901?" Shiler asked.

The other party suddenly fell silent and didn't mention anything about letting Shiler return the screws to him.

Shiler started to remove the remaining two screws.

The person inside heard the movement and roared in horror, "Are you crazy? You want to remove the room number???"

"Is there anything wrong with that?"

"Don't, please." The person inside was clearly very flustered. He said, "You can't do this. Something very terrible will happen."

"Then tell me what's going on with 1901 first."

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll tell you, stop removing it." The other party said hurriedly, "I only saw that man once on the first day I checked in. He looked like he had a very serious illness, his face was pale, and as soon as I saw him, he ran to the bathroom to vomit."

"I suspect that he might have died long ago. The thing hitting the door now might not be a person. You must not open the door for him."

Shiler stopped the hand that was rotating the screw. After thinking for a moment, he said, "You didn't check out? Why didn't you leave?"

"I have no way to leave." After the other party finished speaking, he fell completely silent. No matter how Shiler twisted the screws, there was no movement.

Shiler didn't twist the remaining two screws anymore, but he didn't return the two he had removed before either. He lowered his head and glanced at his watch. It was already 11:45. There were 15 minutes until midnight.

Shiler came to the door of Room 1904. He was very careful not to touch the carpet with half a footprint, but started to remove the two screws on the door of Room 1904. This time no one made a sound. Shiler very smoothly removed the screws on the door of Room 1904.

Now, except for Room 1905, the screws on the room numbers of all the doors in the corridor on the right only had two left.

Shiler walked back to the door of Room 1905, but didn't nail all the screws on his own room door, but took the screws and walked back to his room.

He summarized the harvest of his trip out. First, he knew that the elevator in the hotel was very likely to be out of service after 11 o'clock. Secondly, he figured out that the structure of the corridor on the left was basically the same as this side, but there was a Room 13.

The situation on the right side was a bit complicated. The room number of Room 1900 might have been moved. There was a man in Room 1901 standing in front of the door constantly knocking on the door with his head. Room 1902 had no movement. There was a person in Room 1903 who claimed he couldn't leave. There was half a footprint in front of Room 1904. He lived in Room 1905.

And he had now removed two screws from the room numbers of all the rooms on the right except his own room. And according to the person in Room 1903, the room number might have some special function, and the screws fixing the room number were also very important.

He guessed that after midnight, the corridor might have some terrible changes, and now he had removed the screws of the room numbers in the corridor on the right. Would there be any strange situation?

Shiler waited patiently in the room for a while. Soon, he heard a ding sound coming from outside the door.

This was the sound of the elevator opening on this floor. He had heard it during the day. This meant that the elevator had resumed operation, but it was more likely that something had come up.

There were no footsteps, nor any other sounds. Shiler lowered his head and looked at his watch and found that it was already 12:01. Everything was very calm, as if no abnormality had appeared.

It was another ding sound. The elevator seemed to have opened again, and then it was quiet for at least a minute. It was another ding sound.

However, Shiler very keenly discovered that except for the first sound, the other ding sounds shouldn't have been made by the elevator. Although the sound was exactly the same, the source of the sound was gradually approaching.

Ding!

This was the fourth sound. Shiler heard very clearly that this came from Room 1903 next door.

Ding!

In his own room.

Shiler immediately turned his head and walked toward the direction where the sound came from. He opened the bedroom door and didn't find anything that could make this sound. He immediately started searching. After searching for a long time, he finally found an alarm clock in the lower layer of the wardrobe.

This alarm clock was the very ordinary kind, a retro alarm clock with a small hammer hitting the ears on both sides when the time was up. There was nothing in the whole room that had the condition to make this kind of metal sound.

Shiler studied it, but this alarm clock was very ordinary, the time was also very accurate, and no one had timed anything. If this thing rang just now, it was very difficult to infer who controlled it.

Shiler put the alarm clock to his ear.

He listened carefully. At first, he could only hear the sound of the second hand ticking and rotating. But after listening for a long time, this sound began to transform into another sound. It was no longer a dry mechanical sound, but more like the sound of dripping water.

Tick, tick, tick...