Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Xu Beijin set an alarm clock for himself, and when he opened his eyes the next morning, it was clear that he had no dreams all night, but he felt like waking up from a dream.

The exhaustion of many years has not been swept away, but at least it has become much lighter.

He stared blankly for a while, then took a deep breath, his expression gradually became rational and calm.

He knows what to do now.

On the morning of this day, Xu Beijin finally contacted all the contacts in the narrow building, and checked the list of those they could not find.

The location and location of those people can be seen from the control panel, and the contact people are naturally busy looking for it.

Throughout the day, Xu Beijin was busy with these things.

The people on the ground floor of the narrow building waited calmly.

The ground floor of the narrow building is the only place that Xu Bei doesn't need to worry about.The missionaries and residents of the narrow building here were the first to know everything, and they were also the first to find everyone, and told them about the ultimate nightmare.

The whole day seemed extraordinarily calm and depressing. They wanted to know what was going on, but they didn't dare to disturb Xu Beijin.

Xu Beijin was so busy.

But he always has a subtle illusion.When he contacted different people, when he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the complicated narrow floors on the control panel, he seemed to see... Clusters of hopeful flames were lit one after another in the narrow buildings with lights up.

He felt a certain atmosphere, serious, stagnant, calm and oppressive, but it gradually permeated the narrow building.That instead means hope.

They saw hope.

Many people may not know anything.They don't know the existence of Xu Beijin, the efforts of Mu Jiashi and others, and there are taskers like Lingo who successfully leave and are sent back at will in a blink of an eye.

Perhaps these people are just dull, buried in their own efforts.They do not ask worldly affairs, stubborn and determined.

They are chasing that hope, maybe even they think that they are about to fail, they can't get it.

But someone held them back and told them—hope was near.

They will soon be able to hold this hope in their hands.

Sometimes, Xu Beijin finds those contacts, and when communicating with the other party, he can often hear some sounds coming from the contacts.Some were screams of excitement, others were suppressed cries.

He will feel a long-lost, sympathetic move.

The contact person can't help but apologize for being too emotional to have a good conversation with him, but then can't help crying while talking.

Many liaisons were crying while looking for those taskers and the residents of the narrow buildings.

their compatriots.their partner.

In the end, he was as calm as Xu Beijin, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.He was infected by a special atmosphere, and he could feel that this atmosphere was permeating the entire narrow building.

They live and die together, and they are about to overcome all difficulties and move towards the most important turning point in their destiny.

Their fate has gone through the first few decades smoothly and smoothly, and then the boat of their life was suddenly overturned by huge waves.

Since then, they have drifted with the crowd, seeing their own misery but being helpless, experiencing all kinds of despair but still seeing no light of hope.Now someone lit a light for them.

And it's for himself after all.

When the contact person goes to contact these people, the contact person will always repeat Xu Beijin's request tirelessly: "You must keep calm in the ultimate nightmare, you must guard your ego and reason, and you must not get lost in the nightmare. middle."

None of them knew why there was such a request, but they all agreed seriously.

Many people were unkempt, or covered in blood.Some people's arms are full of bite marks, which are the torture and persecution they have done to themselves.

Someone raised his hand cheerfully and said confidently, "It's okay. If I feel like I'm going to lose myself, I'll bite myself. I always do this in my nightmares, and it's very useful."

The contact person choked up again and again, but in the end he could only acquiesce in this person's choice.

Finally, at nightfall, all the contacts sent back a successful message.

As far as they could, they had already found everyone and told them what happened.

From the moment they entered the narrow building, human beings have never been so closely connected.

Perhaps there are many scum, many lunatics, and many scum among them, but at this moment, it seems that no one can refuse the great temptation brought by hope.

Will anyone betray?Xu Bei couldn't help but think about it.

He knew that maybe he shouldn't think about this possibility at this time.To shake the morale of the army, he thought, at least let him shake himself.

But he also knows that this is not impossible.He has to take corresponding responsibilities now, and he must consider for the sake of all mankind.

So, after pondering for a while, he finally sent a message to the contacts on each floor.

He asked them to find at least one trustworthy keeper and inform Xu Beijin of the keeper's identity.

Apart from the three of them, no one else on this floor could know the identity of the keeper.

And the purpose of the keeper is to be the last one to do it when everyone follows Xu Beijin's request.The keeper must ensure that everyone obeyed Xu Beijin's request.

If some people break their promises.Then, the keeper will force him to execute it.

This is a double insurance.

After sending out this news, Xu Beijin began to look for the taskers and residents of the narrow building on the higher floors.Their number is not huge, probably around 100.

These are people from the fifty floors up.

The fifty floors are already very high, but there is still a very long distance from the top floor of the narrow building.They are the best in this game.

Xu Beijin's contact speed is very fast, and it is also the model of a contact person plus a contract keeper.

And those people may not be able to verify Xu Beijin's statement, but they have spent a long enough time in despair, so they believed Xu Beijin.

There are not many people on each floor, and some floors are even empty.

For these taskers, they may have discovered the problem of the residents of the narrow building earlier.

After all, on some floors, there are only a few sporadic taskers co-existing with the residents of the narrow building.

They have discovered each other's problems for a long time.

However, knowing the truth never means solving the problem.When they learned that the ultimate nightmare was about to begin, they wept with joy.Enduring silence for many years, they finally waited for a turning point.

Xu Beijin's mood became more and more complicated. For a moment, he even wished that he had never looked for these people, wished that he had never understood their life and current situation.

But—at the same time, there seemed to be a cold, high-minded will that forced Xu Beijin to do all of this.

Occasionally, Xu Bei could hear himself talking to himself: "Things have come to this point... If you don't succeed, you will succeed..."

He's trying to convince himself.Sometimes if he couldn't convince himself, or his emotions were really out of control, he would go and talk to Ringo for a while.

He could feel that the heavy burden on himself was not only on him now.

Many people don't know the truth, and don't know where the final outcome will go.However, they are also taking on everything.

They may also be able to guess how cruel and severe the consequences will be if this attempt is unsuccessful, but they still agreed.

So in the end, Xu Beijin felt that he was being pushed away by something.

The force was not very strong, gentle but firm, so that he couldn't tell whether such a long search was based on his own will, or just because... everyone wanted him to do this.

And he finally convinced himself.

This is an unprecedented operation.It was as if fate had joined them all together at one point.

They have similar responsibilities, for each other and for themselves.

The last person Xu Beijin found was also the person who went to the highest floor among all the current taskers in the narrow building.

He was trapped on the fifth floor of No.60 of the narrow building.

There is only him here, there are no other residents of the narrow building, and no other missionaries.

That means he's completely stuck here.If there are other Narrow House residents, then he can also use his nightmares to return to the floors below.But not here.

No one has followed his footsteps, so he has been forgotten by everyone.

A doomed hero.

Perhaps all the taskers have forgotten him, and this is theoretically the best of them.They will not remember him, nor will they know his glorious past.

The world has abandoned... her.

Xu Beijin couldn't tell her gender from the name on the control panel, so he couldn't replace the genderless pronoun "he" with a more appropriate "she" until he saw her in person.

It's a young woman.On the surface, she even enjoyed herself on the fifth floor of No.60. She grew flowers, read books, and treated precious prop cards as decorations and playing cards.

In this way, she spent countless lonely nights on the fifth floor of No.60.

Her name, according to the display on the control panel, is "Xiang Chenyu".

"Good evening, Ms. Xiang."

When Xu Beijin's voice rang in her ears, Xiang Chenyu was startled, she raised her head subconsciously, looked around, but found nothing.Then there was a dull look of confusion in her eyes.

Xu Beijin explained his reason for coming.

But Xiang Chenyu's reaction now seems a little slow.Xu Bei waited patiently for her to react.

After a while, Xiang Chenyu said slowly: "So, you plan to start, the ultimate nightmare?"

"Yes..." Xu Beijin said, "Ma'am, I'm just waiting for your reply."

Xiang Chenyu was at a loss for a moment, and then suddenly, she felt her cheeks go cold.

Before she could react, her eyes were already filled with tears.

She said, "Of course...of course!"

Then, the last tasker in the narrow building also joined their team.

In fact, compared to taskers, residents of narrow buildings are more difficult to find and persuade.

Most of the taskers are at least awake and able to communicate, but many residents of the narrow building, like the trembling female tasker huddled in a corner at the bottom of the narrow building, have lost their ego and reason.

They have completely become characters in the script, but they are not crazy.At least, he wasn't crazy enough to have to go to the gray fog.

They regard themselves as characters in the game, so the reasons for escaping from the narrow building cannot be brought in front of them.

Therefore, the contact people can only mention the ultimate nightmare, NE, etc., and finally convince them.

It is still unknown whether Xu Beijin will obey Xu Beijin's request in the end.

But Xu Beijin had already tried his best.

During this day's actions, he could almost be said to have seen all kinds of things in the world.

In the past, he just stayed on the ground floor of the narrow building, watching the gray fog billowing outside through the window of the bookstore.

He imagined the living conditions of the people in the narrow building, but he didn't really observe it.

The ecology of the bottom floor of the narrow building is completely different from that of the higher floors, both in terms of environment and atmosphere.

On the higher floors of the narrow building, people are obviously calmer and more rational, and the quality of life is far more affluent and relaxed than that at the bottom.Although, this peaceful atmosphere should be called dead silence.

In fact, many people have realized that they may never be able to leave the narrow building.

Like Ye Lan and her companions, those who are willing to resolutely come to the bottom of the narrow building for a chance of survival, after all, are still a minority.

And, no matter what hopes they hold, when they decide to return to the bottom, it means that they deny their former self.

The same is true for Mu Jiashi, although he did not return to the bottom of the narrow building because of the rumors in the narrow building.

It was a complete failure, but they like to call it the pursuit of hope.

crazy?

Madness is what hides behind sanity.There is an imperceptible tension hidden in the atmosphere on the higher floors of the narrow building, and a string that is about to break is stretched in everyone's heart.

They seem to have really stood on the edge of the abyss.

This is especially true for those taskers who go from the bottom of the narrow building to the higher floors.

They went to a higher level with hope, but the result was that the taskers at the higher level were even more desperate and gloomy than them.In addition, the nightmare at a higher level is far worse than they imagined.

But for those narrow building residents, the situation is another look.

They have always carried the gloomy, decadent, and corrupt temperament of Zhailou.

That kind of coldness and madness that is almost like death.They can't get out of the script they're used to.

Although it was only NE's request and coercion at the beginning, as time passed, as they became more and more familiar with the nightmare master in this script, they would find that the self in the mirror became strange instead.

Who are they?

self?

When they can't even tell who they are, who is the object that the self points to?

It is not so much the hope of escaping the narrow building that convinces the narrow building residents, but rather the curiosity about the ultimate nightmare.

Regardless of everyone's state of mind, they eventually said yes to the liaison's request.

When the liaison person carried the news about the ultimate nightmare, they walked all over the floor they were on, needless to say, those who had known the news before, and those who had never heard the news, brought a kind of unusual joy and renewal. , in addition, is a kind of trepidation.

They couldn't believe that hope had really come their way.They were afraid that this was just another rumor in the narrow building that seemed true or false, no one knew where it came from, no one knew why this news appeared, and whether it would disappear immediately after a while.

But this time, the liaison brought a more accurate time.

"At twelve o'clock tonight, we will know the answer."

Twelve o'clock!

People watch the time almost constantly, counting down to themselves.They used this method to try to calm themselves down, but the violent atmosphere pervading the entire narrow building still couldn't dissipate.

At ten o'clock at night, Xu Beijin was still standing in front of the control panel.

He stood almost all day.

When you feel tired occasionally, just sit on the floor.The control panel will also be lowered a little in line of his line of sight.

He would chat aimlessly with Ringo, but he was mainly dealing with the matters of the liaison and the keeper.

It took them a whole day to finally connect everyone.

It's an incredible thing.

Most of the reason is that Ding Yi, Dai Wu and Su Enya have already contacted more than 90.00% of the people, and Xu Beijin only needs to find the last [-]%.

Another reason is that the control board—or the authority of NE, gave him great help.

He can locate a certain person at any time, monitor a certain person remotely, and get in touch with him.

There are some narrow-building residents who cannot be contacted by the contact person anyway, or some mission workers who locked themselves up, these are all contacted by Xu Beijin.

However, such people are not particularly many.Otherwise, whether they can accomplish all this today is also unknown.

But eventually caught up.

Now there are still two hours before the time agreed between Xu Beijin and those contacts and keeper.

He is looking at a number.

That is the person who is having a nightmare.

Not many, about forty or fifty.

When the contact person contacted the human beings on each floor, they have already emphasized to the mission workers and the residents of the narrow building, please don't enter the nightmare today.If they had time, they would enter a nightmare tonight.

Of course most people listened.

Even if he was dubious, he was not hesitant to waste such a short while.

At least those taskers on very high floors stopped their steps after Xu Beijin got in touch with them, waiting for the ultimate nightmare to come.

Xu Beijin had already arranged for the people on the bottom floor of the narrow building.

In this case, there are still dozens of taskers—as well as residents of the narrow building—entering the nightmare.

Their mentality may be that they don't care, they may be dismissive, they may be too lazy to pay attention, or they may feel that they can quickly come out of the nightmare.In any case, they entered a nightmare.

Xu Beijin looked at the dozens of names quietly, and then sighed slowly.

Should these people be called traitors?

It seems that there is no need for that.

Things have come to this point, he is powerless to help these "willingly give up the opportunity" people.

When the ultimate nightmare opens, if these people are still in the nightmare—including those nightmare masters and taskers—then they will be abandoned by the ultimate nightmare.

The reason is simple, players who have already entered one instance cannot enter the second instance at the same time.

Of course, no other cosplayers appear in these nightmares.Whether the actor enters the nightmare role-playing or not is randomly selected by NE, and Xu Beijin prevents this process.

Therefore, those who are still in the nightmare are just the task players who entered the nightmare, and the master of the nightmare, and there are no other players.

The other NPCs in those nightmares are just auto-generated programs of this game.

Xu Beijin guessed that those people in the narrow building were probably waiting excitedly, and they didn't even know that someone had entered the nightmare.

He stared at the number for a while, then swiped the interface away neatly.

He doesn't want to see these anymore, it doesn't make sense.Let's talk about the rest until twelve o'clock.Now, he has done everything that should be done.

Xu Beijin was stunned for a while, and then contacted Ringo.

Xu Beijin's voice was a little hoarse and intimate: "Good evening, little apple."

Lingo was in Xu Beijin's bookstore. Others were in a hurry, but Lino stayed out of the matter, took a book, and read it quietly.

Through the screen displayed on the control panel, Xu Beijin caught a glimpse of what book Lin Po was reading...

He couldn't help but paused, then changed the subject nonchalantly: "There are still two hours."

Lingo put down the book, as if waking up from a dream: "Only two hours?"

He stood up, moved his body, thought of the ultimate nightmare, and was a little curious: "What is in the ultimate nightmare?"

"It's a retrospective of some things." Xu Beijin said, "However, the two of us will not enter the ultimate nightmare."

Lingo was stunned.

"On the one hand, it's because we are no longer...human beings in the true sense. We are not the players recognized by this game." Xu Beijin said, "On the other hand, there must always be some people left besides the nightmare."

Ringo seemed to understand, but he still asked, "What are you doing outside?"

"Save the world." There was a playful smile in Xu Beijin's voice, "The ones who stay outside the nightmare are the ones who are really saving the world."

Ringo blinked in surprise.

Afterwards, he said, "Bei Jin, just listening to the tone of your words, I think you are more like destroying the world."

Xu Beijin: "..."

Hey!

He was angry and funny, and said angrily on purpose: "How can there be such a little apple as you!"

Lingo muttered softly, "Just tell the truth..."

Xu Beijin: "..."

Ringo couldn't help but smile.

They then talked about other topics, such as the book Ringo was reading.

But Xu Beijin still didn't say what the ultimate nightmare is, and what the two of them need to do outside of the nightmare.

At 11:30, Xu Beijin temporarily cut off contact with Lingo, and began to contact those contacts one by one, telling them what they needed to do.

Those contacts were extremely surprised on a certain floor of the narrow building, and kept asking, is this what Xu Beijin wanted them to do?

And Xu Beijin replied affirmatively: "Yes, that's it."

The contact person was full of hesitation and puzzlement, but he still followed what Xu Beijin said.Xu Beijin also notified those very high floors one by one.

Finally, the bottom floor of the narrow building.

It was already twelve o'clock.

Xu Beijin found Mu Jiashi, Ding Yi and others, and then expressed his request: "Now, let everyone sleep."

go to bed?

The people who heard this sentence were stunned in unison.

Xu Beijin smiled vaguely.He said: "You have always wanted to know what the ultimate nightmare is and how to open it—then have you ever thought about who is the owner of the ultimate nightmare?"

The people present thought of Xu Beijin's order just now, and an incredible guess appeared in their brains for a moment.

"The ultimate nightmare is a nightmare that belongs to all humans in the narrow building. A nightmare shared by all humans."

Everyone felt as if something had hit their hearts hard.They suddenly realized, and panicked.

Xu Beijin's tone gradually became dull, with an indescribable complexity and exhaustion: "So, when everyone falls asleep, the ultimate nightmare will automatically start."