Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

For Xu Beijin, this day should have been an ordinary day to go to work.

He habitually refers to playing a certain role in nightmares as Shanggong.

The nightmare is what the group of taskers said.

I don't know when, human beings suddenly became players in the game "Escape from Heaven".But this is a real escape game where players can feel pain and death.

Although everything is not over after death, the player will be resurrected, and the nightmare will start again, until... either escape, or fall into a nightmare of eternal collapse and endless loop.

Because of this, they dislike the term player less and less, and call themselves questers instead. The venues where they perform quests are these game copies called nightmares.

In a game setting, nightmares are literally nightmares.The main scene of this game is a towering narrow building called Narrow Building, and the residents in Narrow Building are the masters of those nightmares.

Most of the residents of the narrow building are in a daze on weekdays, and have great hostility and resistance to the mission workers.It seems that to them, the taskers are more like a group of outsiders who broke into the narrow building.

These outsiders are active in the narrow building during the day, listening to the clues of the nightmare from the mouth of the residents, and sneaking around outside the residents' houses at night to challenge the residents' nightmares.

It sounds like the hostility of residents to outsiders is justifiable.

But what the taskers don't know is that the residents of the narrow building are actually human beings struggling in the nightmare.

They play various roles in the nightmare and in the narrow building. Without revealing that they are acting, they secretly give outsiders clues about the nightmare and promote the development of the nightmare—this is their task.

...Many residents are very enterprising, but Xu Beijin is not included.

In Narrow Building, Xu Beijin's identity is the owner of a bookstore; and in nightmares, he often assumes such an identity—but in nightmares, he is basically a useless group performer.

The group performers occasionally need to provide some clues and say a few words to the taskers in the nightmare, but at most that's it.

Xu Beijin has been an unidentified corpse lying on the ground many times.As the nightmare repeated itself, Xu Beijin, who was lying dead, felt that he was really going cold...

It's a good day to go to work.He acted in his true colors as the owner of a bookstore.

And he has entered this nightmare many times to play.The owner of the nightmare is the owner of the doll shop next door to his bookstore.

The shop owner was very enterprising, and he always took the initiative to let the taskers enter his nightmare, and gave clues in various ways, hoping that they could completely solve this nightmare.

Outsiders who solve a nightmare completely can go to higher floors of the narrow building; while the owner of the nightmare secretly pushes outsiders to solve the nightmare, they can also go to higher floors.

However, he fought and failed repeatedly, and failed repeatedly.

But there is an advantage that every time the doll shop owner starts his nightmare, Xu Beijin can also paddle into his nightmare.

Like this time.

Xu Beijin poured himself a glass of boiled water slowly—the supplies in the narrow building were not very rich, so it was the same in the nightmare—then yawned.He has dark circles under his eyes and looks very sleep deprived.

In the eyes of outsiders, the bookstore owner in this narrow building is indeed a monster who cannot sleep.

There are many outsiders who want to enter his nightmare, but whether they talk to him during the day or poke around outside his bookstore at night, no one has ever managed to obtain any useful information.

On the contrary, the news that Xu Bei will never sleep was spread.

Since then, most utilitarian outsiders have paid little attention to this strange bookstore owner.Of course, some are still entangled.

Xu Beijin felt that this was a very troublesome matter, but he didn't know how to use a blunt and more polite way to make those outsiders retreat, so this matter was deadlocked.

Acting in a nightmare has become a relatively easy thing.

No matter how many days they spent in the nightmare, only one night had passed since they returned to the narrow building.And as a group performer who is always paddling on the edge and has a knack for fishing, Xu Beijin is even more at ease.

He stretched out his hand happily, wanting to take a sip of plain water.

The next second, with a flash in front of his eyes, he stretched out his hand to grab an empty space, and was dumbfounded.

The scene of the bookstore in front of him remained the same, but the boiled water he poured was gone.

……what's up!Has this nightmare just restarted? !Are this batch of outsiders so good!

He hasn't had his boiled water yet! !

For the game anchor Ole, this day is undoubtedly a day to test his European spirit.

As a new anchor, he promised the audience to randomly select a game from the huge game library for live broadcast.When the name of the game appeared in front of his eyes, his heart skipped a beat.

"Escape from Heaven".

This, no matter how you look at it, is very malicious!

Oulai is undoubtedly a timid as a mouse, never daring to challenge any anchor of horror and thriller games.

But the audience liked it very much, especially when they saw the scene where the host was frightened by the horror game and screamed, and even cried directly.So in Ole's live broadcast room, the few viewers all encouraged Ole to keep his promise and not to be coaxed.

Ole could only agree, and was ready to bite the bullet.However, before the actual live broadcast, he plans to try it out in private and make sufficient mental preparations.

However, as soon as he logged into the game, he felt like he was about to suffocate.

The character he manipulated was standing in a cramped small room.According to the guide he glimpsed when he logged in to the game, this should be a doll shop.

However, this dark, damp, and dilapidated small shop does not look like a warm and childish doll shop at all.

In the dimly lit, gloomy and narrow shop, there are all kinds of cabinets and boxes stacked precariously up to the ceiling. Dirty dolls are stuffed in every corner and crevice.

The number is so large that it can make people suffer from intensive phobia.

Around Ole, there were other people standing, but he didn't care.He stared intently at the... dolls who were also staring at him.

The dolls are really like living people.Those dark, lifeless eyes stare straight at you.If the material of the eyeballs is better, maybe there will be a transparent reflection—for example, your figure, reflected on it, just like real eyes.

The others seemed to be talking about something, while Ole looked nervously at this weird doll shop, and the excessive panic made it impossible for him to say hello to the rest of the people present.

Suddenly, his eyes fixed on a certain doll.

It was a doll in a glass showcase.This street-facing doll's shop has window display cases - perhaps once beautiful, but now full of dust and cobwebs.

In one of the windows, the scene is arranged as an exquisite princess room. Although the fabric has turned yellow and even moldy, you can still imagine the beauty of the past.There, a doll was staring at Ole.

She was sitting by the bed, about fifty centimeters tall, with neatly combed hair.Wearing a red dress, she looked like a beautiful and delicate girl, even tilting her head innocently.

Ole looked at her obsessively.

He clearly wanted to move his body, but because of fear and an unexplained tension, he stared at the girl doll, not even daring to blink.

He thought anxiously, quickly look away!Why are you looking at that doll?That doll... so weird, tattered, what's so interesting about it!

...but the doll suddenly blinked.

Na stared at him like that, then, mischievously, blinked.

Ole: "..."

He was about to scream when someone tapped him on the shoulder from behind.

"Hey you……"

Ole shuddered, and there was an indistinct sound in his throat, and then his body went limp, and he fell down.

The character he used immediately lost his breath because he was frightened, so when the game device detected that his nerve fluctuations were too violent, for safety's sake, he was forcibly disconnected from the game.

... And this incident, of course, also frightened the person who tapped him on the shoulder.

Or human missionaries.

The tasker looked at his hand suspiciously, thinking, is he so scary?Scared people to death? !

But it's too late to think too much.Once someone dies in the nightmare, the nightmare will restart immediately in a short time.In less than three seconds at most, the scene in front of them changed instantly, returning to the original state again.

And Ole, who left the game, was also a little angry at this time.Although he cooks, he doesn't think he's a cook!How could he be scared and retreat just because the doll winked at him and someone patted him on the shoulder!

What a shame!

So after a moment of shock, he logged back in angrily—then immediately turned around and ran out with his eyes closed.

If you can't provoke him, you can't hide from him!

The moment Ole's foot stepped on the threshold of the doll shop, he suddenly heard someone behind him shout angrily.

He turned his head and took a look almost subconsciously, and then saw—a lot of dolls in the doll shop, all stood up, and then stepped forward with short furry or plastic legs, chasing him like this!

In an instant, Ou Laihun was almost scared, screaming, ignoring the anxious and irritable shouts of other taskers behind him, and rushed out of the doll shop screaming.

He panicked and fled instinctively to the nearest house for refuge.

It was a bookstore, and the store door was half-closed, so Ole opened the door and ran in, saying hastily, "Outside... there's——!"

His voice suddenly froze.

Inside the door, sat a man with fair skin and dark circles under his eyes.He was very handsome, with slightly messy dark brown hair.Behind him is the deep and dark storefront, with mysterious and old books scattered in the bookshelves.

When the man heard the noise and raised his head, he looked straight at the person passing by, his eyes were empty, like a demon walking out of hell, because Ole disturbed his leisure time alone, so he stared at Ole silently. lai.

That pale skin, bright red lips, handsome and unrealistic facial features, and those pitch-black pupils... seemed to gradually overlap with the eyes of those dolls who scared him out of their senses just now.

Ole: "!!!"

Oulai rolled his eyes and passed out immediately - the figure disappeared immediately.Once again he was scared out of the game.

But after he left, a certain area on the ground suddenly flashed, and a distorted area similar to a mosaic appeared.A few seconds later, the nightmare restarted again, and there was an extra spot of light inexplicably on the distorted ground before.

…Xu Beijin, who was sitting alone in the bookstore, had a blank expression, blinked his eyes, and looked at this scene in a daze.

what just happened?

He looked at the spot of light on the ground.

What is this again?