"Maybe it's because this hospital is extraordinarily big?" Natasha thought about it for a moment and said, "There are quite a lot of wards on our way here, so maybe we need such a long corridor as well, right?" ”

"But the size of the ward is not large." Batman looked at the ward and said, "It's very strange that most of the wards here are double or single rooms, and there are no public wards, so not all the patients are dangerous patients who are extremely aggressive, right?" ”

"In this case, it is the best option for hospital operators to build more large wards and add single or double rooms appropriately, which can not only reduce construction costs, but also accommodate more patients."

"And did you find out." Batman walked over to the wall on the side of the room, pounded the wall and said, "The walls separating rooms from room to room are very thick, but the hallways and building facades are normal. ”

Natasha was also a little confused by what he said, so she said, "What the hell did you think?" ”

Batman paced in front of the door, reasoning from the beginning.

"This scene was created by a murderer, and there must be a reason why he would create a complex hospital with corridors, ward lobbies, and various rooms, rather than simply making a space to lock us in."

"When it comes to method inference, I prefer to equate the effort with the gain, and only a better harvest will make the murderer use more complex methods."

Since the purpose of the murderer is to kill us, and there is no need to take any laws into account here, it is impossible for him to adopt more complicated methods just to confuse the police and get away with it like ordinary people, which means that the benefits he can gain from this method are direct. ”

"And in this game, there is only one direct benefit, and that is to kill us and win."

"It means that he created complicated scenes to kill us."

"So to make a reverse deduction, does this mean that he can't kill us without creating this complicated scene?"

"The previous game process is also a testament to this." Batman twisted his finger lightly and said, "The killers in these games seem to be very powerful and have various abilities, but they don't directly use these abilities to kill us, but have to go around in circles, which shows that their abilities must have their drawbacks." ”

"For example, the first imitation murderer, not to mention that he has no way of understanding Dick's habits, he has only become a person from beginning to end, instead of taking the opportunity of our division of troops and becoming someone else to confuse us, it's not that he doesn't want to do it, but he can't, he doesn't have this ability."

"Not to mention the second arsonist, if he can really control the fire from the air, why not just set our skin on fire, but instead make a huge flame in the space around us, it's very likely that he can't do it."

"The same is true of the third gem killer, his size is so big, he can shoot us to death in one piece, but he has to play games with us, what curiosity about human nature is all nonsense, I have observed before, he didn't dare to throw the cage aside This action can be seen that he can't control his strength well at all, although the strength is great, but it is very slow."

"And although many gemstones have amazing hardness, it also means that they lose their toughness and will be very brittle, and it is a bit troublesome to break through such a large gemstone, but it is not difficult for us to cooperate."

Batman paused, then said, "And this is very reasonable, we are not like the player in the game can die infinitely and resurrect indefinitely. ”

"We only have one life to participate in the game, if he makes ten invincible monsters with infinite strength, fast speed, and can transform, teleport and dream, then this is not a game, but a one-sided killing, and the organizers obviously won't do it."

"So he will definitely make a lot of restrictions on the killer's side, such as not being able to do it for a certain period of time, and the killer's own ability is also defective."

"Then we have to think about what is the flaw of this dream killer now, he didn't kill directly, whether it is not safe yet, or whether he can't kill directly, it is debatable."

"But there is no doubt that he made up such a complex hospital as a dream scene, it must be to make up for his shortcomings and better achieve the purpose of killing us."

"Then this hospital is his modus operandi, and all the oddities in the hospital can be linked to his personality, and his flaws can be found."

"First of all, the most irrational thing about this hospital is the architectural structure, no hospital operator would deliberately make the walls very thick, the wards very small, the corridors very long, which is an anti-human design in any hospital."

"Then that's the key to profiling." Batman touched his chin and said, "The question is whether the walls are thick, the wards are small, or the corridors are long. ”

"I think it's the last point, and the first two points are for the last point."

"First of all, if the key point is that the walls are thick, and this murderer wants to build a fortress that is difficult to destroy, then he should also thicken the outer walls, not just the walls adjacent to the room, which will not protect anything."

"It's the same with small rooms, and since the ultimate goal of this hospital is to kill us, the killer's focus can't be on the hundreds of other wards that we hardly ever go to."

"On the contrary, we almost inevitably pass through the corridors, which are the part that has the greatest impact on us, whether it's exploring the hospital or our daily activities.

"Another proof is that the doctors and nurses in the hospital are constantly hinting that we are sick, but we can easily detect their attitudes and want to arouse our rebellion, either to prove it to them or to run away."

"And if you want to prove that you have to go to the doctor's office repeatedly, you have to shuttle through the corridors repeatedly, and even more so when you escape."

"In other words, the corridor that is longer than any other hospital is what kills us."

Batman looked up at the ward again and said, "The division into small wards and thickened walls is all to cover up the anomalies in the hallway. ”

"We've been to the hospital before, so we have a certain understanding of how many doors there are in a corridor of the hospital."

"So he had to make a lot of small wards to simulate the door spacing of a normal hospital, and because the corridor was too long and the number of doors was limited, the ward might be stretched too long, making us feel weird as soon as we walked in, so he chose to thicken the walls and return the ward to its normal size."

At this point, Natasha looked at the ward she was in, and she did notice something unusual.

The room was rectangular and had two windows, each with a bed under it, but it was found that on each of the two short sides of the rectangle was a large cabinet, and on the long side was a bed and nothing on the other.

Natasha remembered that the large cabinet had in her room, and it was not a medical item, but some sculptures and other decorative objects.

She didn't think about it at the time, but now she thinks about it very strangely, why are there so many decorations in the ward of the mentally ill? Is it because they are afraid that they will not harm themselves with these things?

"This is to further improve the spatial structure of the slender room." Batman reached out and knocked on one of the cabinets and said, "Thicken the walls and plug two more cabinets, and the ratio of length to width of the room will be basically normal." ”

And he walked over and knocked on the guardrail at the end of the bed and said, "This bed is less than two meters, it should be only one meter eight at most, this is also to increase the visual lateral space." ”

"But our ...... Oh yes, if we made our bed shorter, you'd have noticed it right away, so our bed was normal. ”

Batman nodded, he really liked this kind of teammate who trusted his abilities and knew everything about it.

"But what does the long corridor have to do with killing us?" Natasha asks another question and says, "Is it trying to make us more tired?" However, ordinary corridor turns are not effortless, and as for the trouble of extending this straight-line distance? ”

"Unless straight lines matter." Batman began to think in silence.

His mind kept playing out the long hallway he had just walked through, a deep, straight corridor leading to the end, flanked by door after door.

Suddenly, two very different but similar scenes overlap in Batman's mind.

"Bus, car." He said in a deep voice.

"What?" Natasha asked, puzzled.

"The structure of the long corridors and wards is like a structure of a bus and the seats on both sides." Batman said with his eyes wide open.

He walked to the side of the cabinet and crouched down, and pulled out a pile of papers from underneath, without a pen, so he drew a simple pattern with some dust on the windowsill.

"It's the long hallway of the hospital." Batman drew a straight vertical line.

"It's a symmetrical ward on both sides of the hallway." Batman drew a lot of horizontal lines on this vertical line.

"This is the aisle of the bus." Batman draws another vertical line underneath.

"It's the seat of the bus or the seat gap." Batman drew a number of more horizontal lines on the vertical line.

"These are two almost identical patterns, both with a vertical line and a lot of short horizontal lines on them."

"But it's still too abstract." Natasha couldn't think of a connection, she tilted her head to look at the pattern on the paper and said, "So why did the killer make the structure of the hospital imitate the structure of a bus?" What's the point? ”

Batman felt like he had the answer, but just a little bit, the truth was on his lips.

With a "bang", the door was slammed, but fortunately Batman locked the door casually, and the door did not open.

Natasha turned her head to look, and finally saw the face of the female ghost in red clearly, it was a face that was completely skinless, with black muscles and veins, a large mouth that cracked to the ear, and blood-colored eyes, which was sticking to the observation window of the door at this time, looking extremely terrifying.

"Bang! Crash! ”

Batman withdrew his hand from the shattered observation window, rubbed his wrist and said, "I'm sorry, I saw that smiley face reflexively." ”

"Bang bang!"

A series of bloody handprints sped past the window, and Natasha's eyes followed the bloody handprints all the way to the top of the window in the room.

The black hair fell suddenly, and the grimace slammed against the glass.

This time Natasha, who was really startled, took a step back, because it was a very typical jumping face scare.

But in the next second, the infusion rod smashed the glass with a "bang", and even knocked the protective railing bent with a bang.

Natasha, who was under the window, grabbed the infusion pole with both hands and stabbed it violently, and after the tooth-souring metal deformation, the infusion pole that originally stretched out of the stand had turned into a bare spear at this time.

Natasha exhaled and walked towards the door with the infusion rod in her hand.

Batman turned to unlock her, but was pushed aside by Natasha.

Boom!!!

In the long dark corridor, a door panel flew to the opposite wall, and Natasha retracted her foot, spear in hand, and strode to the left, glaring to the right.

Finally, he looked back at Batman and said.

"Sorry, reflex."

Hum

(End of chapter)