bookbashuk Chapter 2777 Phantom Chamber (3)
Chapter 2777 Phantom Chamber (3)
Chapter 2777 Phantom Chamber (Part )
Now they are both in room 1905, but can't see each other. There are several possibilities.
First, there are two rooms 1905 in the hotel, one at the end of the corridor to the right, and the other at the end of the corridor to the left. This is the most reasonable thing from a practical point of view. Maybe the hotel just likes this number, so they built two rooms specially.
But now they can't verify it.
Because if they want to verify whether there is Room 1905 on each side of the corridor, one of them must leave the room and walk into the corridor, but this is very dangerous.
Because if that's not the case, it means it's not normal for them to have a hotel with people staying there.
If you leave the room without knowing who is in the abnormal hotel, you may get into danger.
Now there are several clues. The first is that many things they encountered in the two hotels were opposite. The staff Schiller met in his hotel were very enthusiastic and professional, but the front desk staff Peter met were very impatient and tired.
Although there was indeed a big difference between their appearances, Schiller did not think that the front desk staff who served him would be impatient when seeing someone like Peter. At most, he would be less enthusiastic, but he would not even look at him straight in the eye.
Secondly, the manager did not appear in the hotel where Peter was staying, but it is also possible that Peter did not look like an important person, so the manager stayed in the room.
Then there was the man who rushed out of the elevator. In Schiller's hotel, he was shouting that he wanted to check out, but in Peter's hotel, he was shouting that he wanted to stay longer.
After coming out of the elevator, Peter's 1905 goes left and Schiller's 1905 goes right.
Schiller directed Peter to explore the room again, and then he found that the structure of the room was also reversed. In Schiller's Room 1905, after entering the living room, he pushed the door on the right to enter the bedroom, while Peter entered the living room and pushed the door on the left to enter the bedroom.
That is to say, assuming that these are two hotels, then the structures of the two hotels are likely to be mirror images.
So far, the most important clue is the vision Schiller saw when he went to the window with his phone - another hotel was approaching rapidly, and the window of another room was opposite to the window of 1905 where Schiller was.
Could this be the 1905 room where Peter is?
Schiller thought this was possible because Room 1905 was at the end of the right side. If the structure of the hotel opposite was exactly the same as this one, the windows of the two Rooms 1905 would not align, just like when two people stand face to face, the positions of their hearts would not align, unless one of them was a mirror image.
To confirm whether this idea was correct, he would have to go to the window again, but Schiller was not sure whether meeting another person in another hotel in this way would cause any reaction, but it had to be tried.
Schiller asked Peter to come to the window through the communicator and asked him to hold the mobile phone in front of the window to find a signal, while staring at the window with his peripheral vision. Soon there was a cry of surprise from the other side of the communicator. Apparently Peter also saw the approaching hotel.
Schiller walked over with his cell phone in his hand and glanced out of the corner of his eye, but there was no one in the window opposite, just like before he disappeared last time.
Schiller frowned deeply, countless possibilities swirling in his mind, and finally he locked on the most likely ones.
Schiller on the magic side has done in-depth research in this area. Although his original world actually had no magic and no supernatural events, after coming to the DC and Marvel worlds, these magic-side personalities have actually been studying things related to mysticism in the tower.
There are two most likely reasons for this situation where people meet face to face but do not recognize each other. One is the space problem and the other is the time problem.
There is no need to explain the spatial issue. They may both be in 1905, but one of them is in 1905 in a parallel space. The two spaces are folded together, but because they are in different spaces, they cannot see each other.
But this cannot explain the hotel outside the window. If the hotel was the embodiment of another space, then Schiller should be able to see Peter in front of the window.
Then the most likely result is time. They are both in room 1905, but in different time periods, which will also prevent the two from meeting each other.
This can explain why Schiller did not see Peter at the window, because Peter had not come at this time, and the figure Schiller saw at the window before was the previous occupant of this room.
But what needs to be determined now is who has entered the wrong time by mistake. Schiller sees the date as normal, and he believes the same is true for Peter. There is no way to tell from this.
Let's make an assumption. Schiller thought he checked in at 15 p.m. on the 10th. But if there is something wrong with the hotel, then 15 p.m. on the 10th might not be 15 p.m. on the 10th. The moment he got off the elevator or entered the room, it might become 14 p.m. on the 10th. It could even be the 13th, the 12th, or even not this year.
So if Peter arrived at the agreed time of 15pm on the 10th, Schiller should have checked out by then, so the room would be empty, and Peter could then successfully book and check in.
The reverse is also possible, Schiller arrived at the scheduled time, but Peter arrived at an earlier time by mistake.
To judge who was earlier, we need to combine all the clues. Schiller saw a figure in the window of the hotel outside the window. Now the figure has disappeared. This may be the situation in the hotel where Peter was at Schiller's time.
That is to say, if Schiller's time point was earlier, then he was seeing the previous guest of Peter Hotel. If Schiller's time point was later, then he was seeing the current guest of Peter Hotel, and Peter had already left.
It is easy to investigate. You just need to go downstairs and look at the guest list. It will record the date when someone checked in and the date when they left. You just need to find out the date when two names checked in.
But the problem still exists. Now we are not sure why the hotel has become like this, so it would be very stupid to rush out. Neither Sosip nor Peter have super powers now. If they dare to wander around in a hotel that obviously has problems, they will definitely suffer a great loss.
Although neither of them was afraid of death, time was of the essence, and it was obvious that something was wrong with little Bruce, and if they died and came back, the situation would definitely get worse.
Just as Schiller was thinking, he suddenly remembered that the toilet on his side was broken. Peter also said that there was water around the toilet when he went to the bathroom, so the toilet on his side might also be broken.
Schiller asked Peter to try the toilet. Peter pressed the flush button and was sprayed all over as expected.
That is to say, the toilet was broken at both of their time points, but the manager told him that a repairman would come around 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, so the toilet should be fine after 10 o'clock. If Peter's time point was later than his, he would not have encountered a broken toilet.
So Peter's timing is ahead of his?
Did Peter arrive at the wrong time?
No, it's not certain yet, Schiller thought. The manager just said the repairman would come, but what if he doesn't come? What if the repairman never comes because of heavy rain or some other reason?
In that case, the toilet will always be broken, and it may even break until next year, and there will be no way to determine which one breaks earlier or later.
It seems that the figure I saw in the hotel opposite may be the key. Do you want to take another look?
Schiller walked to the window with his cell phone again, focusing on the phone while looking outside with his peripheral vision.
The hotel came again, but there was still no one in the window. It might be the worst case scenario, that is, this person has checked out, and the room may not be booked for a long time.
It seems that I have to take the risk and go out to explore, Schiller thought. There are too few clues in the room to determine what is going on. And since he was able to check in smoothly, it means that the hotel he is in now follows certain operating rules. As long as he does not take the initiative to break this rule, danger will not come so soon.
He comforted Peter through the communication device, asking him to stay in the room and not go out. He then put away his suitcase and prepared to go out for a look.
He is the only one who can go out to explore. Although Peter has memorized a lot of knowledge related to mysticism, he is really not very suitable for this job. If he was still Spider-Man, it would be fine, but this Peter has given his abilities to Bruce, and now he is also an ordinary person. Without spider sense, he does not have any advantages over ordinary people.
On the contrary, because he was Spider-Man and had big fists, he could ignore many small dangers and was more likely to act rashly. He was no better than Schiller, who had been an ordinary person for most of his life.
Schiller pushed open the door of the room, and then he carefully saw that the odd-numbered doors in the corridor were all on his side. 1905 was followed by 1903, and then 1901, while the even-numbered rooms were opposite him. 1905 was facing 1904, then 1902, and finally 1900.
This is the composition of the rooms on the right corridor. Schiller had never seen the left corridor, so he was not sure whether it was a larger or smaller number.
Before Schiller pushed the door open completely, he found half a footprint on the carpet of Room 1904 opposite him, or rather, less than half a footprint with only the edge of the shoe printed on it. Therefore, it was impossible to tell the size of the foot or judge the body shape, but it was obvious that the footprint was left not long ago.
Is room 1904 occupied?
Schiller did not knock on the door rashly. It was hard to say what would be behind the door in such a strange hotel.
But since there were traces, perhaps we could confirm it through Peter. Schiller immediately sent a message to Peter, asking him to keep an eye on the peephole to see if anyone entered or left room 1904.
Peter came to the door and looked out through the peephole. As soon as he leaned over the door, he heard some movement outside, as if there were footsteps coming towards him.
Peter swallowed and felt a little scared. He was not afraid of criminals at all, but he was afraid of these supernatural events. When he was endorsed by Black Sun, he saw too many investigators who died tragically in various files, and many of them were much better than him. Now he was just an ordinary person, and he was not sure that he could surpass his predecessors.
"Doctor, I heard some noise." Peter said in a low voice. His greatest strength was that he was not stubborn. He couldn't figure it out, so he quickly called for help. "It sounded like footsteps. It sounded like two people."
"Are they heading your way?"
"Yes, it's getting closer. Should I keep staring?"
Schiller was also a little hesitant. Although it sounded like human footsteps, it might not be a human.
The horror of the old days lies in the fact that it cannot be heard, spoken, or looked at directly. Peter's SAN value is not that high, but his clairvoyance is quite high. If he really saw something and passed out, the clue would be lost.
Schiller thought over Peter's previous experience in his mind again. He felt that the rules on Peter's side should not have been broken, and the hotel was still operating according to a certain pattern. This proved that the danger had not yet arrived and it should be able to last for a while.
"Keep an eye on them, Peter," Schiller said.
Peter had to hold back his fear and looked out through the peephole. Fortunately, two people slowly walked into his field of vision. A tall and thin black man in front and a young man wearing a black jacket behind.
The black man in front opened the door with the room card and the young man walked in. Peter breathed a sigh of relief, as it seemed that it was just a guest staying in the room opposite.
But at the moment the door closed, the young man smiled broadly towards Room 1905.
Inspired by the movie of the same name
(End of this chapter)