Chapter 2782

Standing in the elevator, Shiler let out a long breath.

Peter sent him a message; he replied briefly, not saying the specific process, only saying that he had already left the 19th floor.

But in reality, the crisis had just begun, because there were two other lit buttons in the elevator, one was the 13th floor, and one was the 7th floor; if there were no accidents, the elevator would stop at these two floors, and no one knew what things would enter the elevator from these two floors.

There was no special mark next to the 13th floor, but because the number 13 itself was very special, there definitely wouldn't be any good things happening there; the 7th floor was marked with the word restaurant, but in this strange hotel, the restaurant was clearly not a good place to go either.

The safest method now was for Shiler to press the 18th-floor elevator, let the elevator stop at the 18th floor, and then go to the 18th floor to find a safe room to stay in.

But in fact, this was just delaying time and committing chronic suicide; the situation in the hotel began to deteriorate; there was no room that was absolutely safe; if it continued to be dragged on, the situation would definitely get out of control.

Shiler asked Peter to go find Jerome.

Peter went to knock on the door; he definitely wouldn't open it, but Shiler knew how to negotiate with this cunning guy; Jerome seemed to care very much about the fact that Peter and Shiler could communicate in real-time, so Shiler asked Peter to write a few sentences on a sticky note and pass it to him through the door crack.

The sticky note was taken away very quickly, but there was still no movement in the room; it looked like Jerome was thinking about whether to cooperate with them.

In fact, if it were under normal circumstances, there was no harm in cooperation between the two sides, but the problem was that the abnormality of this hotel could clearly affect human sanity; then under such circumstances, one could basically only trust oneself; rashly cooperating with others was very likely to fall into the monster's trap.

And while Jerome hadn't replied yet, Shiler began to review his experience on the 19th floor in his heart, because some things could only be determined after you succeeded following your own line of thought.

First, there were two forces in the hotel.

Whether it was the hallucination monster and the toilet monster in Room 1905, or the elevator monster in Room 1900 and the door-slamming monster in Room 1913, they were clearly not that compatible.

If they were in the same group, almost no one would be able to escape; the hallucination monster could just turn the toilet water into anything to cover it up; as long as you didn't have a pair of fiery eyes, no one could see through it, and then you would definitely be dead the first time you entered the door.

The elevator-ringing monster could act in the corridor without any scruples; anyone forced into the corridor was definitely dead.

And the door of Room 1913 was originally open, but once someone went to close it, the monster would break out; this was very likely because some thing in the corridor formed a suppression force on the room, so the door of Room 1913 had to be open, because once closed, the suppression force was isolated, and the monster would begin to slam the door; the source of this suppression force was very likely the elevator monster in Room 1900.

If these things were all created by a mastermind, then he was just tripping himself up; say it again, this hotel wasn't some rule-based horror story created by a main god that had to leave a way for people to live; whether it was the hallucination monster or the toilet monster, looking at them individually was just to kill people, only because of the existence of each other checking and balancing, did people have a glimmer of survival.

According to Shiler's speculation, the hallucination monster in the room, the elevator monster in Room 1900, and James Gordon should be products of the same system, while the toilet monster and the door-slamming monster in Room 1913 might be things created by others to check and balance these monsters.

The polluted water created by the toilet monster restrained the hallucination monster very fiercely, and Room 1913 and Room 1900 colliding and then all crashing also showed that their strength levels were about the same.

As for who Room 1903 and Room 1901 belonged to, it actually didn't matter, because they never left the room from beginning to end; Shiler guessed that they very likely also had corresponding restraint options, only that after he came, one side had already won, leaving behind a monster that was a cut above.

It wasn't hard to see that the fighting style of one of these two sides was biased toward conspiracy and tricks, such as the hallucination monster and the elevator monster; these two monsters seemed unable to kill directly and had to trigger certain conditions.

While the other side was more reckless, and didn't have any complicated rules, didn't need to use words to guide, basically as long as you ran into them, you couldn't escape, such as being splashed by toilet water, or walking into Room 1913, were all very simple and straightforward traps, and didn't have a head or tail, and didn't look like they were carefully planned.

But there was no doubt that the latter, which was the more reckless faction, had stronger control over the hotel, because the toilet itself was a hotel facility, and the monster in Room 1913 could also break the door.

In comparison, the hallucination monster couldn't affect the hotel's doors and windows at all, and the elevator monster couldn't rush into the hotel's rooms either; it wasn't that they were happy to use these conspiracy means, but because their hard power wasn't enough, they could only set traps.

After figuring this out, Shiler had to start thinking, what role did the alarm clock play in it?

On the night before, which was the night Shiler slammed the sofa out, at midnight, Shiler was carrying the alarm clock, and the alarm clock did indeed ring, which proved that the alarm clock and the elevator monster really had some relationship.

But Shiler changed his line of thought; he thought it was very likely that it wasn't the elevator monster controlling the alarm clock to ring, but the elevator monster imitating the sound of the alarm clock.

That is to say, the alarm clock and the elevator had a relationship, and that monster completely cut in and imitated the sound of the elevator and the alarm clock.

Regarding the significance of the alarm clock's existence, Shiler had also thought about it; let alone the hair in the battery compartment of the alarm clock he had here, the move of the resident in Room 1903 at Peter's time period putting the alarm clock into the water tank must be an important clue.

It was known that there were two forces in the hotel, which could be simply summarized as the conspiracy faction and the reckless faction; there was a restraint relationship between these two forces, so the move of throwing the alarm clock into the water tank looked very much like wanting to use the water in the tank to control the alarm clock.

The toilet was the territory of the reckless faction, and the water in the tank was also very likely controlled by them; then speculating like this, the alarm clock was the control range of the conspiracy faction, and someone wanted to use the reckless faction to restrain certain conspiracies of the conspiracy faction, so they threw the alarm clock into the water tank.

If the alarm clock could be controlled by the conspiracy faction, then the elevator that had a connection with the alarm clock might also be controlled by the conspiracy faction, but in that case, the conspiracy faction had no need at all to create another monster that imitated the elevator sound; in this building, controlling the elevator was almost equivalent to controlling everything.

Shiler didn't think the conspiracy faction controlled the elevator.

Because it was very obvious that he successfully took the elevator, and so many monsters in the conspiracy faction had been tossing for so long, just to let Shiler die here; but if they could control the elevator, Shiler couldn't have entered smoothly.

So it was very likely that the conspiracy faction only controlled the alarm clock that had a relationship with the elevator; they had no way to directly control the elevator, so they played a trick as always.

Still had to start from the door number.

The door number was the main body of the room; this rule might not only apply to guest rooms; this was the first thing Shiler thought of when he discovered that he could take the room away through the door number.

He remembered very clearly that he looked back when he went up to the 19th floor, and a floor sign was hung above the elevator, but thinking about it carefully, this was actually quite outrageous.

First, only people arriving at the 19th floor for the first time needed to know this was the 19th floor; the vast majority of hotel floor signs were pasted opposite the elevator, which could prevent people from going to the wrong floor.

And people who had already entered the 19th floor and needed to return didn't need to know this was the 19th floor; they were either residents of the 19th floor, or they went the wrong way, but learned from others that this was the 19th floor; there was no need at all to look at the floor number again on the way back.

That is to say, hanging a sign with the number 19 on it right above the elevator had no significance and couldn't play a correct prompting role.

So Shiler felt that the principle of that floor sign was very likely the same as the room door number; the door number was the main body, so it needed to be placed on that wall, rather than placed opposite the elevator according to the common sense of design psychology.

But there was a problem; the elevator and the guest room weren't the same; the locations of the guest rooms on each floor were different, which didn't affect anything, but the elevator couldn't; the elevators on the floor above and the floor below weren't in the same location; how could he come up? Wouldn't that be blocked directly by the ceiling?

But it just so happened that the elevator here was like building blocks that could be moved; assuming the elevator on the 1st floor was placed on the far left, and the elevator on the 2nd floor was placed on the far right, then the result was that the elevators on the 1st and 2nd floors couldn't be used, because the elevator shaft wasn't connected at all, and the elevator naturally couldn't rise.

Although in this kind of eerie hotel, the fact that the elevator still had to follow the laws of physics was a bit absurd, but thinking about it carefully, if it could come up without being connected, it would be even more ridiculous.

Shiler, in the state of realizing that the elevator could be moved, also thought of the problem of whether the elevator shaft could be connected in the first instance; furthermore, he deduced that he couldn't call the elevator, which was very likely not because the elevator had been tampered with by anyone, but because the location of the elevator had been moved, and it wasn't connected to the elevator shaft below, which led to the 19th floor being unable to be entered or exited.

Someone might ask, wasn't the elevator still in the center at Peter's time period? He could come and go normally; why couldn't Shiler?

It was said before that this group of monsters that Shiler called the conspiracy faction very likely hadn't completely controlled the elevator at Shiler's time period; they could only play tricks, but couldn't crack the underlying laws of the hotel, so in order to trap people on the 19th floor, they moved the elevator to a location.

But at Peter's time period, what was very obvious was that basically the entire hotel was operating according to the same set of systems; there was no contradiction between the tall one and the short one, the monster in Room 1900 didn't come out, and the door of Room 1913 was also closed.

Excluding the possibility that the paranormal events were completely solved and the hotel restored peace, only one possibility remained, which was that one of the factions had completely mastered the hotel.

Then at this time, where the elevator was located was entirely up to them; even if one thought extremely, did Peter really leave after taking the elevator?

If that hallucination monster could leave the room and move freely, then presumably faking a restaurant or something else wouldn't be difficult for it.

After determining that the elevator damage was very likely because the location had been moved, Shiler's next reasoning target was to figure out where the elevator shaft below was located.