Chapter 2803 Phantom Haunted Room (Part 3)

Chapter 2777 Phantom Haunted Room (III)

Now they are both in Room 1905, but they can't see each other. There are several possibilities.

First, there are two Room 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 also the most reasonable from a practical perspective. Maybe the hotel just likes this number, so it deliberately built two rooms.

But now they can't verify it.

Because if you 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 this is not the case, it means that the hotel where one of them is staying is abnormal.

If you leave the room rashly without figuring out whose hotel is abnormal, you may encounter danger.

Now there are several clues. The first is that many things they encountered in the two hotels are 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 the two of them did look quite different, Schiller did not think that the front desk staff who served him would be impatient when seeing someone like Peter. At most, he was not so enthusiastic, and he did not look at him straight in the eye.

Secondly, the manager did not appear in the hotel where Peter was, 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 shouted to check out, while in Peter's hotel, he shouted to extend his stay.

After coming out of the elevator, Peter's 1905 went to the left, and Schiller's 1905 went to the right.

Schiller directed Peter to explore the room again, and then he found that the structure of the room was also reversed. Schiller's 1905 room was to enter the living room after entering the bedroom on the right, while Peter entered the living room and pushed the door on the left to enter the bedroom.

In other words, assuming that these are two hotels, the structures of these two hotels are likely to be mirror images.

So far, the most important clue is the vision Schiller saw when he took his phone to the window - another hotel was approaching quickly, and the window of another room was opposite to the window of 1905 where Schiller was.

Could this be the 1905 where Peter was?

Schiller thought it was possible, because Room 1905 was the room at the end of the right side. If the structure of the hotel opposite was exactly the same as this hotel, the windows of the two Rooms 1905 would not match, just like when two people stand face to face, the position of their hearts would not match, unless one of them was a mirror image.

To confirm whether this idea was correct, he had 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 he had to try it.

Schiller asked Peter to come to the window from the communicator, and asked him to hold the phone in front of the window to find a signal, while staring at the window with his peripheral vision. Soon there was an exclamation from the communicator, and it was obvious that Peter also saw the approaching hotel.

Schiller walked over with his phone and glanced out, but there was no one in the window opposite, just like before he disappeared last time.

Schiller frowned deeply, countless possibilities swirled in his mind, and finally he locked on the most likely ones.

Schiller, who was on the magic side, had done a lot of research on this aspect. Although there was no magic at all in his original world, and there were no supernatural events, after coming to the DC and Marvel worlds, these magic-side personalities had actually been studying things related to mysticism in the tower.

There are two most likely reasons for this situation of meeting each other but not knowing each other, one is the space problem, and the other is the time problem.

There is no need to say much about the space problem. The two of them may indeed be in 1905, but one person 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 that hotel is the embodiment of another space, then Schiller should be able to see Peter in front of the window.

Then the most likely result is the time. They are both in room 1905, but in different time periods, which will also prevent the two from meeting.

This can explain why Schiller did not see Peter in front of the window, because Peter had not come at this time period, and the figure Schiller saw in the window before was the previous occupant of this room.

But now we need to determine who entered the wrong time by mistake. Schiller saw that the date was normal, and he believed that Peter was the same. There is no way to judge this.

Let's make an assumption. Schiller thought he checked in at 10 pm on the 15th, but if there is a problem with this hotel, then 10 pm on the 15th may not be 10 pm on the 15th. It may become 10 pm on the 14th when he got off the elevator or entered the room. It may even be 13th, 12th, or even not this year.

Then if Peter came at the agreed time of 10 pm on the 15th, Schiller should have checked out at this time, so the room was empty, and Peter could 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 determine 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 disappeared. This may be the situation in the hotel where Peter was at Schiller's time.

In other words, if Schiller's time point was earlier, then he saw the previous guest of Peter's hotel. If Schiller's time point was later, then he saw the current guest of Peter's hotel, and Peter had left.

It is also simple to investigate. You just need to go downstairs to look at the guest list. It will record the date when someone checked in and the date when they left. Just find out which of the two names checked in earlier.

But there is still the same problem. Now we can't be sure why the hotel has become like this. It would be very stupid to go out rashly. Now Sosip and Peter have no superpowers. If they dare to wander around in this hotel that is obviously problematic, they will definitely suffer a big loss.

Although neither of them is afraid of death, time is the key. Little Bruce is obviously in trouble. If they die and come back, the situation will definitely get worse.

While 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 of the toilet and was sprayed all over as expected.

That is to say, the toilets of both of them were broken at the time, but the manager told him that a repairman would come around 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, so the toilets after 10 o'clock should be good. If Peter's time was behind him, he would not have encountered a broken toilet.

So Peter's time was ahead of him?

Did Peter enter the wrong time by mistake?

No, it's not certain yet, Schiller thought, the manager just said that the repairman would come, but what if he didn't come? What if the repairman never came because of heavy rain or some other reason?

In that case, the toilet would always be broken, and it might be broken until next year, and there would be no way to determine who was earlier and who was later.

It seems that the figure I saw in the hotel opposite will be the key. Should I take another look?

Schiller walked to the window with his phone again, focusing on the phone and looking outside.

The hotel came again, but there was still no one in the window. It might be the worst case, that is, the person had checked out, and the room might not be booked for a long time.

It seems that he must take the risk to explore. Schiller thought that there were too few clues in the room to determine what was going on, and since he could check in smoothly, it meant that the hotel he was in now followed certain operating rules. As long as he did not take the initiative to break this rule, the danger would not come so quickly.

He comforted Peter through the communication device and asked him to stay in the room honestly and never go out. He put away his suitcase and prepared to go out and take a look.

He had to go out to explore. Although Peter had memorized a lot of knowledge related to mysticism, he was really not very suitable for this job. If he was still Spider-Man, it would be fine, but this Peter had given his ability to Bruce. Now he was also an ordinary person. Without spider sense, he did not have any advantages beyond ordinary people.

On the contrary, because he was Spider-Man and his fists were big enough, he could ignore many small dangers and was more likely to act rashly. He was not as good as 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 doors with odd numbers in the corridor were all on his side. 1905 was ahead of 1903, and then 1901, while the even-numbered rooms were opposite him, 1905 was opposite 1904, then 1902, and finally 1900.

This was the composition of the rooms on the right corridor. Schiller had never seen the one on the left, so he was not sure whether it was a larger or smaller number.

Before Schiller completely opened the door, he found half a footprint on the carpet of room 1904 opposite him, or a small half of a footprint with only the edge of the shoe printed on it, so he could not see the size of the foot or the body shape, but he could see that the footprint was left not long ago.

Is there anyone living in room 1904?

Schiller didn't knock on the door rashly. It's hard to say what's behind the door in such a weird hotel.

But since there are traces, maybe Peter can confirm it. Schiller immediately sent a message to Peter, asking him to stare at the peephole to see if anyone enters or leaves room 1904.

Peter came to the door and looked out the peephole. As soon as he leaned on the door, he heard movement outside the door, which seemed to be footsteps coming towards this side.

Peter swallowed his saliva 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 before, he saw too many investigators who died tragically in various files. There were many investigators who 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 walking towards you?"

"Yes, they are getting closer. Should I keep watching?"

Schiller was also a little hesitant. Although it sounded like human footsteps, it might not be a person.

The horror of the old days is that you can’t listen, can’t talk, and can’t look directly at it. Peter’s SAN value is not that high, but his clairvoyance is quite high. If he really sees something and faints, the clue will be broken.

Schiller recalled Peter’s experience in his mind again. He felt that the rules on Peter’s side should not be broken. The hotel is still operating according to certain rules. This proves that the danger has not yet come and it should be able to last for a while.

"Keep an eye on them, Peter." Schiller said so.

Peter had to hold back his fear and look out through the cat's eye. Fortunately, two people slowly walked into his field of vision. The front was a tall and thin black man, and the back was a young man in a black jacket.

The black man in front opened the door with the room card, and the young man walked in. Peter breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he was just a guest staying in the opposite room.

But at the moment of closing the door, the young man smiled widely at Room 1905.

Inspired by the movie of the same name