Chapter 2831: Demonic Forbidden Zone (I)

Chapter 2805: The Demonic Restricted Area (I)

There was only one table left in the restaurant.

Schiller and Jerome sat opposite each other, with plates of freshly baked, steaming meals in the middle of the table.

The chef had long disappeared.

Jerome ate the food on the plate slowly, his eyes on the extinguished red candle. He smiled slightly and said, "Compared to your superb cooking performance just now, the taste of the food is no longer important. Cheers to this night."

Schiller also raised his glass, smiled, and gently fiddled with the food on the plate. He was full of gluttony, but he was still hungry.

He noticed Jerome's sight and looked at the red candle at hand. He shook his head, picked up the candle, and put it in the briefcase. Jerome saw two identical red candles and three white candles in the box.

Jerome cast a puzzled look.

Schiller shook his head and said, "I remember I once said that I was from All Souls College, Oxford University."

"I just heard about this recently, I mean, I just came into contact with your world recently." Jerome touched his lips with a fork and said, "What should I call you, magician? Wizard? Or some kind of elf?"

"I'm not an elf, nor a magician, I'm a bishop." Schiller cut a piece of meat neatly, and then said, "I do have some abilities that are different from ordinary people, but they are far less magical than magic."

Jerome looked down at the food on the plate, and what he wanted to say was self-evident.

"I'm not kidding, you may think I summoned a demon, but that's not the case. It's just a part of me."

"You might as well summon a demon." Jerome commented pertinently, "What do you want to say? Such a terrible demon is just a part of you?"

Schiller shook his head again and said, "It's just a little precaution."

Although he said this to Jerome, Schiller still recalled what happened when he distributed the body before.

Each personality has a body, and the Mind Tower is placed in the original body as a server. All other bodies rely on brainwaves to flow into the main server to gain thinking and other abilities. Everyone's physique is more inclined to Schiller in the previous life, that is, some strength and inspiration are added.

However, there are exceptions to some personality traits. The superego gives the system's energy to the personality traits on the magic side. Therefore, although their physiques are not much beyond ordinary people, they are all allocated a certain amount of energy, so naturally they have abilities beyond ordinary people.

The bishop's ability is more like summoning souls than magic. The red and white candles in his hands are actually the energy of the system. Once the candles are lit, the system will build a soul-calling channel, connect other brainwave streaming routes to this side, and allow other personality traits to log in remotely.

The white candle summons the normal state, and the red candle summons the pathological state. During the candle lighting period, in addition to the energy required to maintain the channel, there will be additional energy as a sacrifice. Other personality traits that receive the sacrifice will have some magical attributes, similar to skill points that can be freely allocated.

For example, gluttony can make you digest food infinitely, manipulation can make you gain the power to defeat the chef, and if it is arrogance or greed, you can also make an umbrella, or simply take the sacrifice back intact.

The abilities of other magic-side personalities are different. No matter which life the bishop has ever used, he has never really used magic, so he chooses to turn the system's energy into props and summon other personalities to help him pass some difficulties.

More than half of a red candle has been used up. The next time it lasts only half as long as this time. The consumption level of the remaining two red candles is about the same as this time. Considering the danger of this universe, it is better to use them sparingly.

"Tell me what you know about the hotel?" Schiller asked proactively. This time he rescued Jerome. If the other party does not give some rewards, there is no need to continue the cooperation.

Jerome seemed to want to know more about the candle, but he knew that this kind of thing was often accompanied by unknown dangers. Even if Schiller told him the details, he would not believe it. What if it was a trap set by the other party? Moreover, he had no confidence that he could snatch it from Schiller, so even if the candle was useful, this matter had to be put aside.

Schiller was a rare partner, and Jerome knew this. He was just an ordinary person, and it was difficult to move around in this hotel. If he missed Schiller, it would be difficult to find another one.

Jerome pondered for a moment and then said, "All the changes started 20 days ago. It's not just the hotel that has problems, the whole Gotham has started to change."

"I received accurate information that there might be a source of the changes in the hotel, so I chased it, but unfortunately, my luck was not good. I was delayed on the 19th floor for too long, and when I came out, the changes in the hotel were irreversible."

Schiller thought to himself, as expected, the half footprint in front of the door of Room 1904 was left by Jerome. Without this hint, it is not easy to figure out the rules of the elevator. Jerome is still a completely ordinary person, so it is normal for him to be delayed for so long.

So it seems that he and Jerome did not come to the hotel at the same time. It is very likely that Jerome came a few days after the mutation broke out in the hotel, and Jerome, like himself and others, came later. The hotel you came to, that’s why it appears in the future timeline.

But the problem is that I came later, so why did I mistakenly enter the past timeline? Is there anything special about you?

"After leaving the 19th floor, I did not choose to go to the restaurant immediately because there was a problem with the elevator and I had to explore every few floors."

After Jerome finished speaking, he lifted the hem of his shirt. His abdomen was wrapped with a bandage. Schiller smelled a very faint smell of blood. He knew that if an ordinary person wanted to survive in such a situation, he would have to go through many life and death tests. .

Jerome put down his clothes and continued: "Actually, I didn't know the restaurant was on this floor. I entered here by mistake. I don't know if you saw the monster in the elevator when you took the elevator down. I call it Wan. Hua Jing, when every fragment of it reflects your appearance, you will be completely lost in the glass maze."

Schiller thought of the bright monster he saw in the elevator. It should be the Wanhua Mirror that Jerome said. It looked more dangerous than he imagined.

"I was stared at by it." Jerome said: "It wanted to pull me into the mirror, so I had to avoid all reflective objects as much as possible. At that time, I rushed out of the elevator and had nowhere to go. Just like you, I brought this monster to the door of the restaurant."

Schiller nodded. He knew that there were two forces in the hotel. The two parties restrained each other. If they wanted to get rid of one party's entanglement, they could only use the other party. Jerome's thinking was the same as his own.

"I rushed into the restaurant. Sure enough, the monster didn't chase me anymore, but I was faced with an even more terrifying situation. The chef created endless reincarnations here, and in each round there were people chasing me in various ways. Die and go back to the restaurant."

"Have you ever died?"

"Of course not, I'm very cautious." Jerome cut a piece of vegetable leaf and said: "The chef made a very fatal mistake. He would return to the kitchen after every dish. Maybe he thought that I would eventually He will die here, so he is not cautious enough."

Schiller frowned, and Jerome didn't intend to show off. He continued: "Your guess is generally correct. The rules of the restaurant are very simple. They also appeared at the beginning of the mutation. The chef was later An intruder, but the monster is not upstairs, but next door to the kitchen."

"Those nerves on the ceiling spread from the back kitchen. The chef is just one of the puppets controlled by these nerves. There is a restraint relationship between the restaurant and the chef. Now the restaurant is closed, but the owner of these nerves does not intend to let go. "

Schiller looked up at the ceiling. It seemed that it was not his illusion. The neural network on the ceiling had changed, but it did not become denser. It just seemed that those neural structures were more real, and some of them were not present originally. Peripheral nerves also appear.

Does this guy want to swallow the restaurant directly?

"The consequences of losing balance are very terrible." Jerome continued: "I am not alarmist, because I have seen such a situation with my own eyes. Once one of the two parties that are balancing each other is completely defeated and swallowed up, what will happen to the life of the two parties? The side that comes down will be unimaginably powerful.”

"They can eat each other?" This is new information for Schiller, but it is not good news. Logically speaking, there is no such thing as leveling in the Cthulhu mythology system, and there is no difference between anomalies and anomalies. If any connection could be upgraded by devouring others, then all the legendary investigators could be upgraded to Outer Gods.

"At least that's the news I got." Jerome's tone didn't sound like he was lying. He said, "I know there may be some unknown news within your magic world, but I must tell you, you can't do it here. According to common sense, everything happening here is too bizarre.”

Schiller also nodded. He knew that this hotel should not be viewed as a pure Cthulhu mythology system, because in addition to Naiya being involved in it, there was also a little Bruce.

Batman is the spokesperson for the order side. No matter who he is, Batman is very good at establishing rules. If all the changes are caused by him, then it is not surprising that there are rules among these abnormalities that can be grasped by humans.

"The root cause is in the kitchen." Schiller muttered as he said: "It's not that I don't believe your intelligence, but it's not a good idea to rush in like this. I need more information."

Jerome could understand, and he didn't expect Schiller to be fooled into it, but he had to rely on the power of this magician, otherwise he alone would not be able to enter the kitchen or leave the hotel in this life.

After weighing it, Jerome finally came up with his trump card. He said, "What if there is not a monster in the kitchen, but a person?"

"one person?"

"Yes, there is a person. There is a contaminated person hidden in every public facility in this hotel. They are the owners of this public facility. And if nothing else, they are not completely irrational, and many of them can still communicate. "

This reminded Schiller of James Gordon, the key figure in setting up the sound trap. Jerome probably also met him on the 19th floor, but the exploration of other floors gave Jerome more information. intelligence.

Do you want to believe what he says?

Schiller thought, this born bad guy hardly told the truth. He said he had never died, but who knew if it was true?

If he died here, then he, who was sitting here now, was just a puppet like James Gordon, a part of a terrible trap. Schiller didn't want to fall for it.

Suddenly, Schiller recalled that when he knocked on the door to call the dead, the ringing sound was exactly the same as the elevator ringing sound, which meant that the restaurant and the elevator monster might be on the same side.

Would going to the kitchen be a trap set by the restaurant for him?