A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

The setting of the room is actually very simple, except for a few desks and monitoring equipment, there are two large bookcases for storing materials.

Xiao Fengdi found the last black box from behind a row of books, which contained the last part of the corpse—the chest cavity and the internal organs that should be inside.

Because he didn't want to trigger the next plot right now, Fang Shiqing didn't put the box away for the time being, and put it in Xiao Fengdi's place first.He continued to check the room, and found a lot of snacks and two new skill books from the desks of several accountants.

Xiao Fengdi continued to check the contents of the bookshelves. He has the professional skills of a librarian, and he is very quick when checking ordinary books.

Several people were busy with each other, and the room fell silent for a while, only the rustling of things turning.

In this quiet atmosphere, there was a harsh creaking sound——

You Qingyu screamed and jumped up, retreating to the other side.Right next to her original position, a gap suddenly appeared on the wall, and then opened outward: it turned out to be a hidden secret door.

This secret door has been specially treated, and its concealment is very high. It has not been noticed by anyone until this moment.

Standing there alone holding the doorknob, Fang Shiqing held his breath: That turned out to be Zhao Jun.

At this moment, Zhao Jun looked extremely depressed.His eyes were stiff, there were heavy dark circles under his eyes, his face was sallow, and his body was bent... With this appearance, anyone who said he was a drug addict would believe it.

"It's you?" You Qingyu couldn't believe it, "You, this is... what's wrong?"

"……Um."

His reaction was very slow, and it took him a long time to respond.

His dry eyes swept around the room without expressing any emotion, whether positive or negative, towards the arrival of his teammates.

"You..." Fang Shiqing wanted to catch him immediately, but Xiao Fengdi stopped him: "Look first."

Zhao Jun walked slowly into the room.After he left the secret door, several people could see that behind the secret door was a very small space, probably only a little bigger than a closet.There was a wire bed inside, and the quilt on the bed was messed up. It seemed that he had been sleeping there until just now.

He walks stiffly, almost like a zombie.There was a small water dispenser in the financial room. He took a glass of water and poured it down, his face seemed to be better; but he still didn't say anything, he just turned around and returned to the dark room. door to go.

"Zhao Jun? Wait a minute, you—"

Fang Shiqing wanted to stop him, but he didn't respond to his name at all.

Before he could make any further moves, You Qingyu had already rushed over and grabbed Zhao Jun's arm.

"Stop!" She pulled back hard, "What's going on, what's going on with you, what the hell are you doing!"

In terms of strength alone, You Qingyu should be the weakest among the players, but at this moment Zhao Jun was still staggered by her.He raised his head slowly and moved his lips:

"...I want, go back to sleep."

"what?"

Zhao Jun tugged at his sleeves, probably realizing that the other party would not let him go easily, so he finally regained consciousness a little and said a few more words.

"I want to go back to sleep... I want, to dream. In the dream, there is a better world waiting for me. There, I can do anything..."

Fang Shiqing was shocked.What better world, so he's going to sleep and enter... the illusion?

Everyone else was forced to be trapped in the illusion, unable to move, but he was able to come out, but he still wanted to go in after he came out?

"Can you explain clearly, the cause and effect, what's going on? Why did you suddenly disappear, were you tied here by the BOSS?"

Zhao Jun looked at him with a dull expression.

"'Tied'? No... I made a deal with her. We each take what we want, and she'll let me have everything I've ever dreamed of."

He slowly opened a smile, and his speech gradually became fluent.

"In that wonderful dream, I was at ease like the protagonist of a male novel. I was promoted and made a fortune, surrounded by beauties, the society surrendered to me, and the whole world followed my will.

"I don't have to be a fucking social animal anymore, and I don't have to be beeped by my girlfriend to be inferior to other men... I want to succeed, I just want to succeed. In that world, I stand at the pinnacle of my life! I need This peak! You can't understand this feeling!"

He suddenly roared, You Qingyu was frightened for a moment, let go of his hand and took a step back.

"But...'that world' is false..."

"Does it matter?" he asked rhetorically. "I'm going to be in it anyway, it's my world to me. Does it matter if it's essentially true or not?"

Fang Shiqing actually felt that he could understand his feelings a little bit. After all, he also had such a stage not long ago-the stage of wanting to indulge in a false world and never wake up again.

However, he was luckier than Zhao Jun.Someone held his hand in time, preventing him from completely falling into the abyss of falsehood.

"Are you crazy!" You Qingyu couldn't believe it, "You...you are so different from a drunkard who is drunk and dreaming, and an addict who died in drugs!"

"That's my own business." Zhao Jun said, "It has nothing to do with you. You just pretend that I have never appeared in this game. Anyway, you have never respected me as a person. Wouldn't it be better if I died? "

You Qingyu was about to die of anger: "No one wants you to die, no one wants anyone to die, stop labeling us as murderers—"

Fang Shiqing came back to his senses and quickly stopped her.There is no benefit to choking each other like this.

"You can't think so," he said cautiously, "you are the only one of us who can communicate with the outside world—especially from afar. Without you, we will have a hard time doing things in the future. You just helped to make connections not long ago, Let's make $10, right? You're the surest way to make money."

"You don't need to comfort me," Zhao Jun looked a little calmer, "Forget it, brother. You are a good person, but you don't need to pity me, really. This is my own choice."

Xiao Fengdi interrupted suddenly: "Since it's your own choice, no one else has the right to interfere. But can you tell us all the information you already know?"

"……what?"

"It's about everything about the dungeon boss. Anything goes, the more detailed the better. This information may help us pass this book and save other people's lives. Even if you decide to die, it's not that you don't want this good thing do it."

"...?!" You Qingyu's eyes widened, seemingly in disbelief.

Zhao Jun was touched, nodded and said: "Okay. But I, for a while, can't think of anything to say..."

"Sit down and talk," Xiao Fengdi pointed to the chair opposite, "Let's start from the beginning. When and how did you reach an agreement with the boss of the dungeon?"

His business-like attitude is reassuring.

Zhao Jun sat down as he said, and thought slowly for a while.

"It all started probably on... the night of the Dragon Boat Festival." He closed his eyes, "That night, I had a dream for the first time. It was a very comfortable dream."

The self in the dream has a completely different life trajectory from the reality, happy and at ease, easily climbed to the pinnacle of life, and is in a relationship with the goddess who dare not even think about it——

"At the end of the dream, a voice told me to open a certain express box in the warehouse after I woke up. I did so, and then found...a doll from the dusty express box. "

The next thing will be a matter of course.Every night, that puppet will give him a world of winners in life, and that kind of virtual enjoyment is as addictive as poison.After a few days, he couldn't get rid of that enjoyment at all, and gradually became tired of the life of the day.

At this time, the puppet girl formally appeared in front of him and proposed a "deal".

That is, let him get the opportunity to indulge in the fantasy world all the time, and take his life as a price.

Fang Shiqing was shocked when he heard it.It turns out that the boss has been eyeing Zhao Jun so long ago?No, not right.Reminiscent of what other people said, he felt that the boss probably played tricks on all the players at the same time, but finally chose Zhao Jun as the target—maybe because Zhao Jun was the best.

"After that, you left the courier point without notifying anyone, and came to this abandoned factory alone, right. What happened after that, did you see the boss again?"

"No," Zhao Jun shook his head, "She gave me instructions in the dream the night before yesterday. I came directly at dawn yesterday, and according to what she said, I found that bed here..."

Fang Shiqing originally stood silently behind Xiao Fengdi and listened, but couldn't help asking, "Why are you still waking up from the illusion?"

Others can't wake up even if they want to, but he can get up and find water to drink, which seems very strange.

"Because I need to drink water," Zhao Jun was also puzzled, "I have been sleeping since I arrived here. I haven't eaten or drank for more than a day. Isn't it normal to wake up thirsty?"

"..." Forget it, let him do whatever he said.

Xiao Fengdi stood up and glanced at the half-open secret door: "That is to say, she appointed you to sleep on that bed?"

"Correct."

Could it be that Zhao Jun's illusion is different from other people's, and he can only enter it by lying on that bed and falling asleep on his own initiative?

Fang Shiqing wanted to go into the dark room to take a look, but Zhao Jun suddenly became nervous: "...What do you want to do? You don't want to destroy that bed, do you?"

"Ah, no, no, I just want to take a look." Fang Shiqing had to stop, and smiled wryly, "You think too much, I didn't plan to do anything about it."

"Yes," Xiao Fengdi said flatly, "it's too inefficient to attack that bed. It's faster to attack people."

"what……?"

——Before anyone else had any reaction, he picked up the fire axe, turned the handle of the ax upside down, and knocked Zhao Jun unconscious.

Xiao Fengdi found the location of his attack very accurately, and Zhao Jun collapsed on the chair without saying a word.

"??? Brother Xiao, you—"

You Qingyu was startled.Xiao Fengdi signaled to Fang Shiqing with a calm expression: "Is there any rope, come and help tie him up. It won't cause trouble when he wakes up later."

"Oh." Fang Shiqing was not too surprised, he had vaguely thought that the other party would do this before.

"You..." It took You Qingyu a while to find his voice, "Didn't you just say that death is his own choice and no one else has the right to interfere?"

"That's just a temporary expedient," Xiao Fengdi took the rope and said, "When firefighters and police rescue jumpers, they will say 'I'm not approaching, just chatting with you', and suddenly rush Go up and drag him back. His mind has been affected by continuous illusions, and he can't use normal logic to persuade him, so it's faster."

"……Oh."

She said after a while, "I'm sorry, brother Xiao, I thought you were planning to give up your teammates just now."

"fine."

Xiao Fengdi went into the dark room, and quickly found a puppet that was only one foot tall from under the bed. Although he didn't know the reason for it, it should be this thing that led Zhao Jun into the illusion.

Immediately, he lit a spell and burned the puppet completely.

You Qingyu quickly returned to the monitoring equipment and continued to tinker with his head down.Probably because she was a little embarrassed, she did it very quickly this time, and it didn't take long for the video to come out.

"Nine o'clock in the evening... Ah, I found it. This is a video from 08:30 to [-] o'clock. After that, the surveillance was suddenly turned off."

She projected the video across the entire screen.The resolution of the surveillance video is not high, and the picture is somewhat blurred after zooming in. It can be seen that it is an empty factory floor.

"Start playing from the beginning? Or fast-forward first, wait until there are people-"

Xiao Fengdi immediately walked to the side: "How does this thing work?"

"Oh, this console is an external connection, the play button is this, the pause button is this, and the fast forward is..."

After figuring out the basic manipulation method, Xiao Fengdi nodded, but instead of playing the video immediately, he straightened up and said, "Before that, there is one more thing I need to ask you to cooperate."