Chapter 2779

Rushing out of the room directly to face the mysterious existence in the corridor was definitely not okay; even if Jerome was really Jerome, and Gordon was Gordon, in this situation, they didn't even know if the words they said were controlled, so they were simply untrustworthy.

But if this method of Gordon's wasn't used, it seemed there was no other way to walk out of the 19th floor; Shiler thought carefully, and after dawn should be his last chance.

There was no doubt that the ringing in the room would become less and less; no one knew what would happen if the ringing disappeared completely; moreover, Shiler couldn't be sure if the thing controlling the hallucinations in the room would be embarrassed into anger the next night.

His sanity value wouldn't decrease, but he still had a health bar; just by looking at that thing on Gordon's neck for one second, Shiler's head was still buzzing until now.

So it was best to solve the matter during this daytime; Peter's side couldn't be dragged on for too long either; Shiler couldn't find clues here, so counting on him was hopeless.

Very quickly, Shiler waited until dawn; the corridor was still very quiet, but Room 1901 and Room 1903 had no movement; Shiler suspected that the situation in these two rooms had deteriorated to the bottom, which meant they no longer had any sanity and had become puppets of some things.

But it was just as well that the two of them didn't make a sound, so as not to interfere with himself, Shiler thought; he no longer intended to investigate what was in the room, because now no matter what was in the room, it was untrustworthy, so it would be better to focus on the corridor.

Shiler went out the door and took a good look at this corridor, but there was really nothing to write home about here; similar corridors could be found in any hotel in the world.

There were no extra decorations in the corridor; the flower pots and fake flowers placed there were all ordinary; there were no paintings or the like on the walls; the carpet was completely fixed to the floor and couldn't be lifted; the solid wood room doors looked like they had good texture, but there were no decorations like wreaths hanging on them either.

Shiler observed for a long time, and finally let his gaze fall on the door number; this was the only clue he hadn't used so far, and also the only clue that had nothing to do with the thing in the corridor and the elevator.

This just proved that this clue might be very important.

It was known that the door number of Room 1900 had been changed, so which room's door number was exchanged with it?

In fact, Shiler had already confirmed it now, because he had previously unscrewed the screws of the door numbers in the left corridor; observing from the screw holes, all the screws had only been screwed in once, which meant that all the door numbers on the left hadn't been changed, including Room 1913, which looked like it didn't have good intentions.

The other rooms on the right also didn't have traces of screws being screwed in a second time, so the answer was very obvious; the only one Shiler hadn't unscrewed the screws and observed the screw holes for was Room 1905.

To be on the safe side, Shiler unscrewed one of the screws on his own room's door number; sure enough, the traces of the screw holes inside this screw were very messy, and it was obvious at a glance that it had been screwed twice.

Looking at it this way, it should be that the door numbers of Room 1905 and Room 1900 were swapped, but the problem came, who changed it and why?

Because he didn't want to investigate who else was in the room, the first question was put aside by Shiler first; he instinctively felt that the second question was the key.

From the structure of the hotel corridor, the smaller the number, the closer it was to the elevator; this was a rule on both the left and right sides; if the door numbers of Room 1900 and Room 1905 were swapped, then this rule was broken.

And Shiler felt that there shouldn't be a corridor where Room 1905 was next to Room 1901, and behind it were 1903 and 1904; this was too strange.

Shiler stood in front of the door and observed the door number carefully, but indeed he couldn't see any clues; he knew that to know the deeper secrets of the door number, he had to conduct an experiment.

Shiler prepared to take down the door number of the next door.

Last time he tried to do this, and then discovered that the wooden door began to age rapidly, but he didn't observe what would happen in the end; it was time to choose a unlucky person to do an experiment.

Shiler's gaze wandered between Room 1903 and Room 1901; he somewhat wanted to choose these two rooms, but in fact, they weren't very important either; Shiler thought for a while, bypassed the location of the elevator, came to the left corridor, and stood in front of the door of Room 1913.

This room had been very enthusiastic toward him from the beginning, inviting him in with the door wide open; since that was the case, presumably it wouldn't be stingy about contributing itself for Shiler to do an experiment.

Shiler took out his small knife and began to unscrew the screws.

To unscrew the screws forcefully, the door definitely couldn't be open, so Shiler simply closed the door, but just a few seconds after he closed the door, someone knocked on the door from inside.

"Only now do you remember to knock on the door? Too late!" Shiler said while unscrewing the screws: "Don't you know that one should close the door well when going out?"

I don't know if it was stimulated by this sentence, but the thing inside began to slam the door, but Shiler held the door firmly, and his speed was very fast; within a few seconds, one screw was unscrewed, and before this thing could slam a second time, the door number of Room 1913 fell into Shiler's hands.

As soon as the door number was taken down, the room began to age at the fastest speed; Shiler retreated a little bit, the aging speed became faster and faster, and then the entire door merged with the wall and disappeared completely.

Shiler walked up again and touched the wall where the door originally was; there were no flaws, as if there was no room there at all, and it had always been a cold, hard wall.

Shiler retreated to the elevator location again and looked at the layout of the left corridor; it was abruptly missing a room, which was indeed somewhat strange, and then he walked to the location where Room 1913 originally was and discovered that four screw holes were actually left on the wall.

Could the door still be nailed back? Would Room 1913 appear again?

Shiler didn't try, because the moment he took the door number down, he could feel that the thing in the room had already retreated a few steps to build up strength to slam the door; now putting the room back, it was hard to say whether it would slam the door open; it would be better to keep this door number for now.

Shiler first sent the door of Room 1913 back into the room, and then began to study Room 1905 and Room 1900.

Room 1913 disappeared along with the door number, which meant that the door number was very likely the main body of the room; since that was the case, the person who changed the door number didn't just change the door number, but directly swapped the locations of the two rooms.

The difference was, if only the door number was changed, then the so-called Room 1905 Shiler was living in now should be Room 1900, then it was possible that someone deliberately wanted Shiler to live in Room 1900.

But if the door number swapped along with the room, then the Room 1905 Shiler was living in was actually still Room 1905, only the location was changed, from near the elevator to the end of the corridor, opposite Room 1904.

But what was the significance of such a change?

Shiler initially felt that maybe someone wanted Room 1905 to be far away from the elevator, because little Bruce specially marked Room 1905 on the coordinates he gave him, which meant that this room was special, and it was normal for someone to want to move it.

But later he thought about it, and it seemed there was no such necessity; the elevator didn't have any clear danger, even the monster that came over by elevator didn't show any tendency to rush into the room; if it checked the nearest room every night, then no matter how far Room 1905 was moved, it would be just as dangerous, so doing this didn't have much significance.

Then thinking in reverse, could it be that someone wanted Room 1900 to be closer to the elevator?

But because there were no clues about the elevator, and everything currently appeared very calm, all the inferences related to the elevator didn't make sense.

Shiler stood in front of the door of Room 1905 and thought for a while; there was another possibility: if the locations of Room 1905 and Room 1900 were swapped, then the original Room 1900 should be located here at Room 1905, and this was opposite Room 1904.

Could it be that someone didn't want Room 1900 to be opposite Room 1904?

Shiler felt he had grasped the key; if the person who swapped the door numbers was the person in Room 1904, then it made sense.

Because 1900 and 1913, these two numbers appearing on this floor wasn't normal, so there might also be danger hidden inside Room 1900, and this danger would very likely threaten the room opposite it, so someone went to swap the door numbers of the two rooms, so that Room 1900 wouldn't face their own room.

But what danger was in Room 1900?

Currently, Shiler hadn't seen any danger in any room rush out of the room door to the corridor; did the person in Room 1904 think that the thing in Room 1900 would rush out?

Because only in this way would Room 1904 be the first to bear the brunt, and the person inside would have the motivation to change the door number.

Shiler thought for a while and came up with another good idea; he prepared to take down the door number of Room 1900 and put it in the location of Room 1913; anyway, it was empty there now.

As for what kind of mutation this would trigger, Shiler was also very curious; it would be best if there was some abnormality, so that more clues could be deduced.

Shiler took down the door number of Room 1900 at the fastest speed, walked to the location of Room 1913 with the door number, and nailed the door number to the place where the screw holes were.

A gray-white door appeared slowly, gradually merging with the door number, as if the door number had never left, and it was clearly written on it "1900".

Room 1900 had always been very quiet; even now that it was swapped to this location, there was no change; after Shiler waited for a while and discovered there was no movement, he returned to his room.

But he didn't sit and wait for death, but connected to Peter's communication; assuming he was at a past point in time, then after swapping the door number, there must be a change on Peter's side.

Receiving Shiler's message, Peter pushed open the room door and looked into the corridor, discovering that quite a few people had gone out for breakfast again, but it looked like there was no movement in the corridor on the far right.

Peter crept over, stood at the location of the elevator in the middle and looked at the end of the right corridor, then widened his eyes and said: "It is indeed Room 1900, Doctor; this is too strange."

Then Peter's line of sight turned slightly to the side, as if he saw something strange again; he turned his head and stared at the room opposite Room 1900, and said somewhat confusedly: "How come there is a Room 1913 here?"

"What?"

Shiler stared at the message Peter sent back; Peter took a video for him; what appeared in the lens first was of course Room 1900, but as the lens turned to the back, it was written "1913" on the door number of the room directly opposite Room 1900.