Chapter 2838: Demonic Forbidden Zone (VIII)
Chapter 2812: The Demonic Forbidden Zone (VIII)
In the end, Gordon still chose to follow the three people and leave, because Schiller offered him a condition that he could not refuse, which was to help him find his body and return the bodies of his companions to their original owners, so that their souls could rest in peace.
For this reason, Gordon was willing to help them and revealed more information. They were the first group of people to enter the hotel to explore the anomalies, so they could naturally find clues about them before many anomalies were transformed.
According to Gordon's own description, it was not just when the anomalies broke out. Before that, they had already discovered that the anomalies that broke out in the city were related to water. When they found that the same anomaly broke out in the hotel, they immediately thought that there might be something wrong with the place with the most water in the hotel.
Gordon and his teammates came to the swimming pool together.
The hotel has two swimming pools, one is an indoor swimming pool, and the other is an open-air infinity pool on the roof. The indoor swimming pool stopped opening some time ago, and even the water was drained, so only the open-air swimming pool on the roof was left.
Gordon and his companions came to the roof of the building, but encountered strange events there that were unimaginable in their first half of life. In the end, Gordon's head drove his companion's body to escape.
"That place is very scary." Gordon said: "You will encounter unimaginable monsters. They will kill you, control you, and eventually turn you into me. It is a completely forbidden area."
"I don't recommend exploring there first." Jerome said: "I haven't been to the roof either, but I suspect that the danger of the floor is likely to increase floor by floor. If we can return to the lobby on the first floor, maybe we can find a way to leave here."
"Are you here to leave?" Schiller asked back.
While discussing with several other people, he sent a message to Peter. At present, Peter's side is relatively safe, even quiet. If there are any relatively dangerous places, he can go to explore first. Just investigating without breaking the rules, there is no danger for the time being.
But unfortunately, Peter told Schiller that the door to the rooftop could not be opened at all. There was a notice of suspension of business on it. Peter thought of some ways, but the door seemed to be welded tightly and could not be opened no matter what he did.
He called the front desk and said that he wanted to use the swimming pool. As a result, the front desk told him that he could use the indoor swimming pool. This made Schiller think of the indoor swimming pool when Gordon and others came in. The outdoor swimming pool was closed, but it was the opposite for Peter. Could it be that there is a restraint relationship between them?
In other words, in this timeline, it is very likely that the infinity pool has the advantage, but in Peter's timeline, the indoor swimming pool has the advantage.
Schiller asked Peter to go to the indoor swimming pool, but did not let him go in the water, just let him smell it.
Peter was very puzzled by this instruction, but he still did it. The indoor swimming pool was on the 7th floor. He took the elevator to the swimming pool. There were many people swimming here. Peter smelled left and right, but could not smell anything unusual, so he had to send a message back to Schiller.
"Really?" Schiller asked, "Didn't you smell disinfectant?"
Peter suddenly realized, and said, "Of course there is a smell of disinfectant, but which swimming pool doesn't smell of disinfectant? Isn't this normal?"
It is normal for the water in the swimming pool to smell of disinfectant, but it is a bit outrageous that the toilet water in Schiller's bottle also has this smell.
Of course, it is also possible that it is purely the smell of toilet cleaner, but Schiller suspects that things are not that simple. The nature of the water may be the difference between the two swimming pools, or even the difference between the two factions.
Don't forget that at Peter's time, there was almost no abnormality, which proved that one faction had won. Schiller speculated that it was most likely the conspiracy faction, because if it was the reckless faction, the hotel would not be so peaceful.
But the toilet in room 1905 was still broken, and Peter was splashed with water when he went to check it. Schiller speculated that the toilet might belong to the reckless faction, which proved that the reckless faction was not completely wiped out, and it is very likely that some forces still remain.
Will it be an indoor swimming pool?
Why did the conspiracy faction destroy almost the entire hotel but fail to affect the swimming pool?
No, they may have actually affected it, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people swimming there, but the water was not completely replaced, which proves that this kind of water seems to be impossible to eliminate.
Schiller had discovered before that this water had a restraining effect on the illusion monsters in the room, and Schiller couldn't help but think about it.
The pollution in Gotham also appeared in the form of water.
The rain in Gotham over the years contains some dark matter. This is the setting of most cosmic Gothams. It is not explicitly mentioned in the TV series, as if the whole Gotham is so chaotic just because of the gangs.
But since Bruce Jr. is determined to use the power of the evil god to eliminate the dark power in Gotham, it proves that this is not aimless, and the Gotham in the TV series may also be polluted.
Most of the pollution in Gotham was put in by the Court of Owls, and behind the owls is Barbatos. It happened that Bruce Jr. also met Barbatos that time, that is to say, the power in this hotel may not only be the Outer Gods, but also the local power of DC, and the status is not low.
To compare who is stronger between Naya and Barbatos, it is like Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong. That street urchin Naya has been squatting over Barbatos' head for so long, but he didn't do anything to him, right?
Most of the Outer Gods are indeed blind and stupid, but Naya is not. This guy has full subjective initiative. Schiller thinks that if he can deal with Barbatos, he will definitely take action.
As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake. Although the concept of Cthulhu Mythos has been derived from both Marvel and DC, they are mainly American comics. Naturally, they will not let you easily take action against a main character that promotes the plot, otherwise the story will not be able to continue, right?
In this case, we must consider the local power of DC. There is nothing abnormal about this water from the surface, so it may not be a product of the past.
It seems that this swimming pool has to be visited, Schiller thought, even if it is to determine whether there is a local power of DC in the hotel, it must be visited.
The best situation is to go to the indoor swimming pool. Gordon’s statement that the indoor swimming pool is not open may not be true, but if you want to go to the indoor swimming pool, you have to go to the 7th floor. Even if the elevator is basically straightened out, it will not take long to go down, but if it is really closed, it will be a waste of time and increase many risks.
The outdoor swimming pool that Gordon said he could go to might also be a trap. Although he emphasized the danger, he did not give any specific details. It was probably waiting for Schiller to fall into the trap. According to Jerome, the elevator upstairs was not straightened out, which meant that they had to play with building blocks by themselves, which was even more difficult.
Schiller knew that if he continued to play by the rules, he would definitely be too late. It was not about how he was doing here, but the key was that Peter's side could not be calm forever. In Schiller's view, Peter's side had reached the critical point of an outbreak.
His ultimate purpose here was to save little Bruce, but if it was just for this purpose, he didn't have to come in person. This hotel was dangerous, but if the Scarlet Witch's team was thrown over, they had experience and powerful mutant abilities, and the Scarlet Witch was not only an angry human woman, but also an angry mother. Naya might be blown up.
Schiller just wanted to know what Naya was going to do, how he targeted little Bruce, and what he wanted to do with Batman. This was what he came here to explore in person, and it would not work if he handed it over to a bunch of reckless men.
Naya can run away if he can't win. No one can catch him when he runs out of the DC world, but his purpose and secret will be buried forever. It's not that Schiller slandered him. This guy has been holding back his fart no matter which universe he appears in. What if he remembers to go to the Marvel universe and mess with it? It's better to be a thief than to be a thief.
But of course, Naya is much better than that piece of shit that laughs wildly. He does most things with the same fun-driven drive as Schiller, and his level is quite good, with a kind of dark romantic epic beauty.
Schiller had just played shit with his head, and now he should fight with the master and relax himself.
So far, Schiller has been a diligent investigator within the rules, but because Naya himself is the first mover and has taken so many steps ahead, if he wants to catch up, he must take some special measures.
Schiller plans to go to the roof.
Admittedly, this is a very risky decision, and there is almost no room for implementation, because the elevator is not straightened out now, but Schiller does not intend to straighten it out. He has a bold idea.
Schiller returned to room 1905, stood by the window and looked out. There was nothing outside the window. The city was more like a fake map. But once Schiller moved his eyes away and only used his peripheral vision to scan the window, another hotel would be late.
Schiller believed that this hotel was the hotel where Peter was. In addition to the fact that the hotel structure was mirrored from the hotel he was in now, he found that with every passing day, the hotel would move closer to this side, about one meter away.
If the anomaly broke out more than 20 days ago, and the hotel was divided into two at this time, then the distance between the two hotels should have been more than 40 meters at first. Now, the distance has been reduced to more than ten meters, which means that there are only more than ten days from his day to Peter's day.
In theory, as long as he waits for these ten days, the two hotels will overlap, and then Schiller and Peter can meet, but the meeting is meaningless. It does not solve any problems. All problems are piled up together, and finally there will be a big explosion.
Now, with the addition of Cobert and the restaurant as their base, they don't have to follow the hotel's rules completely, but can give full play to their creativity and do what they want.