Chapter 2769

After listening for a long time, only this sound echoed. Shiler put down the alarm clock, and he didn't hear the fifth ding sound for a long time.

It wasn't until 12:15 that the fifth sound came from a very distant place. Shiler judged that this should be the first sound of the corridor on the left, and then soon it was the second sound.

After the second sound was finished, there was no movement anymore. Shiler waited for another 15 minutes, and that sound never rang again.

The corridor on the right rang four times, and the corridor on the left rang twice. This was clearly not balanced.

And judging from the places where the sounds rang before, the elevator rang once, and then the sound began to get closer and closer. Room 03 rang once, Room 05 rang once, so maybe the sound after the elevator was Room 01.

In other words, 1, 3, and 5 all rang once, so the rule was that it rang in the odd-numbered rooms. But the problem was that it knocked four times in the corridor on the right, and there was no fourth odd number in the corridor on the right. Then where did the fourth knock ring?

Shiler thought of Room 00 because the room number of this room had been changed by someone. If Room 00 was originally an odd-numbered room, then it would make sense.

It just so happened that the corridor on the left was missing one sound, which proved that a certain odd-numbered room in the corridor on the left had been swapped over.

Why swap the room numbers of the rooms on the left and right sides of the corridor just to make the other party ring one less time on the left? But the meaning of this sound was still unclear. So far, no abnormal phenomenon had appeared.

Finding that there was no movement, Shiler didn't intend to sleep. He took the screws and the alarm clock to the table and started to study.

There was no doubt that both of these things had problems because the person who changed the room number couldn't have deliberately not screwed in two screws. The remaining two were either lost or taken away.

This alarm clock rang once just now, and if you listened closely, you could hear the sound of dripping water. Among all the supernatural phenomena related to the old days, water was a very important factor. This thing wasn't simple either.

Just when Shiler was studying, Peter suddenly sent a message. Shiler opened it and saw that Peter had taken a very blurry photo for him, which should have been taken through the peephole.

In the photo, the door of Room 04 was opened, and a figure was opening the door and walking out. Peter said that was the person who smiled at him during the day, and he marked that the time the photo was taken was 12 o'clock sharp.

In the other hotel, the person living in Room 04 went out at 12 o'clock sharp.

Through the side face of this photo, Shiler saw that this person should be Jerome Valeska.

That was the villain in the Cat Getan TV series. Shiler heard little Bruce say that this Jerome was now an insurance company investigator, mainly investigating the truth of various accidental death cases, used to help the insurance company refuse to pay.

And little Bruce had killed quite a few people in order to use the power of the Outer Gods to completely clear Cat Getan of darkness. This insurance investigator had been chasing him in order to investigate the truth, and was clearly quite effective. Little Bruce had to avoid his edge.

This guy was the foundation of a legendary investigator if put in a running group, Shiler thought. But it was also normal. The principle was the same as his. He was already crazy, so his threshold was ridiculously high. Basically, as long as he didn't face the Outer Gods directly, he could maintain his sanity.

Didn't expect him to appear in Peter's hotel, Shiler thought. If it was to chase little Bruce, could it be that the hotel where Peter was was the one with problems, and little Bruce was hiding inside?

Shiler didn't continue to think. He connected the voice communication and said to Peter, "Did you hear any movement just now?"

"What movement? I've been staying by the door staring at the opposite side and didn't hear any sound."

"No ding sound from the elevator?"

"No, did you encounter anything over there?"

"Nothing, Peter. I know you are a bit scared now, so you can go to sleep now. When you wake up tomorrow morning, I hope you can cooperate with me to do some things."

"No problem, Doctor, but I can't sleep now. Can't I help you now?"

"Are you sure you dare to go out?"

"Do I have to go out? Then forget it. I'll go to sleep for a while now. When it's dawn, I'll send you a message."

Hanging up the communication, Shiler didn't go to sleep. He put the screws and the alarm clock on the table and walked to the window. His gaze fell on the windowsill, but he used his peripheral vision to look outside the window.

The other hotel didn't appear. Was the key the mobile phone?

Shiler picked up the mobile phone again. His main gaze was on the mobile phone, and his peripheral vision was looking outside the window. Sure enough, in the next second, the scenery of the city retreated layer by layer, and a huge hotel approached. The lights were on in the window closest to him, but there was still no one.

Shiler lowered his head and glanced at the mobile phone and found that there was no signal. Everything seemed to be no different from before midnight.

After discovering this point, Shiler put away the mobile phone, but to his surprise, the hotel didn't disappear as before, but still stood there, and it wasn't just in his peripheral vision. Now Shiler could turn around and look toward that side through the window.

Shiler immediately opened the curtains and opened the window, leaned out, and stared at the room opposite. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, almost making Shiler lose his eyes.

He looked down. Below was an endless abyss, as if this hotel was thousands of floors high. The layered windows couldn't be seen to the end at all.

Shiler measured it. The hotel he was in was about 20 meters away from the hotel opposite. This wasn't an insurmountable distance. Just by using the things in the hotel, Shiler had a way to get to the other side.

But the premise was that there couldn't be any interference on the way, but this was almost impossible. Just that gust of wind just now was very likely to blow him down. This puzzle wasn't that easy to solve.

Taking advantage of this period of time, Shiler continued to explore in the room, wanting to find something similar to the alarm clock that he hadn't discovered before. But he searched all the way until four o'clock, and the sky was about to dawn, but he didn't find anything useful.

The hotel opposite had also been there all the time and didn't disappear as long as a person's gaze moved away like before midnight. And it wasn't until the first ray of morning light shone over that the scenery outside the window recovered to the bustling scene, as if all the weirdness of last night was an illusion.

Peter's message arrived on time. He said he had already gone out, and he turned on the video. The communication shared his field of vision with Shiler.

The corridor of the hotel on his side was very quiet. Peter tiptoed out of the door and took a look at Room 1904 first. He didn't find any problems. Just when Peter intended to lean close to the peephole of Room 1904 to take a look, the door of Room 1901 suddenly opened.

A man wearing a suit and leather shoes walked out of the room. He was a very typical elite person. Seeing that there were other people in the corridor, he turned his head, pushed his glasses, and nodded at Peter.

Peter didn't know why, so he also nodded at him and revealed a smile.

But Room 1901 was the room of the man Shiler found hitting the door with his head yesterday.

So Peter's timeline was earlier than his? Shiler inferred this. Maybe in Peter's timeline, this man hadn't had an accident yet, so he could walk out as if nothing had happened.

And this could also explain why the person living in Room 1903 heard him say he wanted to extend his stay, while Shiler heard he wanted to check out.

Maybe in Peter's timeline, he indeed wanted to extend his stay, but by Shiler's timeline, various supernatural phenomena broke out, and he felt scared, so he ran to check out, and the check-out didn't succeed, and he was completely unable to run.

In Peter's timeline, the front desk appearing a bit distracted might be normal, while in the timeline where Shiler was, the front desk was a bit too enthusiastic, as if she was afraid of missing him as a guest, and even tried her best to satisfy the tricky requirements he put forward, which might also be a kind of abnormal phenomenon.

So it was possible that Peter went to a timeline where the supernatural phenomenon hadn't broken out so seriously, while he himself was in a timeline after the outbreak.

Peter soon went downstairs. The elevator was operating as usual, and everything was very smooth. He came to the breakfast restaurant. There was rich food here. Some people were taking food, some were talking to each other, and some were sitting by the window talking about business.

Such a scene made Peter breathe a sigh of relief. He took some pancakes and sausages, found a seat for himself, and started eating. At the same time, his gaze searched among the crowd, wanting to see if he could find that crazy person who smiled at him.

But it was a pity that this guy didn't seem to come to eat breakfast. Peter didn't see any staff figures in the crowd either, but he saw the guest in Room 1901 who greeted him in the corridor, as well as the guest in Room 1903 who had a one-sided encounter in front of the elevator that day.

These two should both be people from out of town who came to talk about business. The person in Room 1901 was taller, with a height close to 1.9 meters, while the one in Room 1903 was shorter and fatter.

Peter gave them both nicknames, calling them Tall and Short respectively. Shiler decided to continue using these nicknames to refer to the two of them to prevent mixing them up.

Shiler also got up and went out. He intended to see the situation in the hotel during the day. After going out, the corridor was still very quiet, maintaining the original appearance of the night. Shiler passed a few doors and came to the elevator, but he found that the elevator was still closed.

Had the supernatural phenomenon completely lost control? Shiler sighed in his heart. He didn't see any safety exits on this floor. Theoretically speaking, this was impossible. The only explanation was that some kind of supernatural phenomenon had sealed off all the roads.

Now he was completely trapped on the 19th floor.

Shiler returned to Room 1901 to take a look and found that the man was still standing in front of the door, but he was no longer hitting the door with his head. Room 1903 had no movement no matter how he knocked. Room 1913 still opened automatically as soon as Shiler walked over.

All other rooms couldn't be opened, and nothing could be seen in the crack of the door. Shiler had to return to his room. He intended to get some props and continue to talk to the man in Room 1901 through notes to see if he could get any response.

Shiler opened the briefcase he had been carrying in his hand all along. It didn't actually contain any paper materials, but a pile of strange things. Shiler rummaged through it and finally took out a white candle and a lighter.

He took the things and went out, put the candle next to the door of Room 1901 first, and then started writing on the note.

"I'll help you open the door, what reward can you give me?"

"Help me open the door", the blood gathered into this line of words again.

After that, no matter how Shiler asked, this guy was just this sentence. He didn't have any attitude when asking for help, Shiler thought with some speechlessness.

Suddenly, someone in Room 1903 knocked on the door from inside, and that voice came again, "Hey, you damn lunatic, you can't open his door, he has been entangled by something."

"Did you hear the ding sound last night? Tell me what that is, otherwise I'll hit the door immediately."

"You'll die if you open the door."

"Do you see me afraid of death?"

The other party seemed a bit helpless and had to open his mouth and say, "There are people in the room with the sound. You should have already gotten the alarm clock, right? You have to ensure that the alarm clock will ring. If your room is judged as having no one, something very terrible will happen."

"In other words, the alarm clock might not ring."

"It is possible."

"What if it doesn't ring?"

"It seems you can only leave the room." The other party's voice was a bit hesitant, and then he said, "But I don't know, it has been ringing all the time, and I haven't tried going out."

Shiler had been asking and answering with the voice in Room 1903, but in fact, he didn't stop at the door of Room 1901, but came to the side of the door of Room 1903.

He slowly lay on the ground and looked into the room through the crack of the door.

There was nothing in the crack of the door.