Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Xu Bei thought about it for a while, and couldn't even choose between dealing with the wound and dealing with the chaos in the live broadcast room, which one was better to solve.

And during the moment of his hesitation, Lingo had already stood in front of him.

Lin Po said blankly, "No, yes, danger, danger."

Xu Bei said guiltily, "Hahaha...no life is in danger."

Ringo: "..."

He was angry and anxious, but seeing Xu Beijin's pale face and the blood-stained white shirt, he couldn't say a single serious word.

After a while, he said angrily, "Just make sure I won't lose my temper with you."

Xu Bei laughed a little, then fell into Ringo's arms: "But it really hurts."

Lingo hugged him, took a look at the hideous wound, and dared not look any further as if he had been electrocuted.

He felt his heart was shaking, but he calmly took Xu Beijin to the barter market on the bottom floor of the narrow building.

Some taskers left in a hurry, leaving a lot of items here.

Ringo picked out some medicines and first aid supplies.These are all drawn from the nightmare card pool, and they are regarded as a kind of living supplies.He carefully bandaged Xu Beijin.

Xu Bei is definitely not a tasker, and he can't even use item cards to heal his injuries, so he can only use this simpler method with slow results.

The entire ground floor of the narrow building was empty, save for the sound of the two of them breathing.

Lin Po suppressed his breathing, but when he finished bandaging Xu Beijin, he threw away the medicine in his hand without hesitation, and then directly kissed Xu Beijin's lips, acting violently, venting his dissatisfaction and worry.

Xu Bei let him kiss, and gently stroked Ringo's hair with his intact right hand.

Between the kisses, he panted and said softly, "Don't worry..."

But Lingo stopped, put his forehead against Xu Beijin's, and said word by word: "I'm very worried. I'm very angry."

Xu Bei was dumbfounded, and then said, "I'm sorry..."

"I'm just angry with myself." Ringo's voice was hoarse, "I don't want to see you get hurt, but I still let you get hurt again and again, I think I'm useless.

"They keep saying I'm the strongest in the narrow building, but I can't even protect you."

"No, it's not that you are useless. It's just..." Xu Beijin thought for a while and said, "You have been to that place too. The border of the narrow building. It's just that I was not careful, and I didn't avoid some... "

Lingo said sullenly, "It's because I'm useless."

Xu Beijin had a great headache, he tried various ways to persuade Lin Oo, but Lin Oo killed himself when Xu Beijin was injured, he couldn't stay by his side, he couldn't stop Xu Beijin from being injured, so he didn't Use, he is inferior, he is sad, he is angry with himself.

In the end, Xu Beijin had no choice but to say, "It's really not that you are useless...Then you will follow me wherever I go next time, and you can prove yourself, okay?"

Lingo immediately agreed: "Okay. It's settled, you can't leave me behind wherever you go."

Xu Bei agreed.

After a while, he recalled, and looked at Ringo suspiciously.

Didn't this guy really coax and deceive himself to promise that he would never leave Lingo again?

Xu Beijin felt that he had discovered the truth.

This made him dumbfounded, but it also helped.

After thinking for a while, he couldn't think of anything, and he could even understand Ringo's anxiety and anxiety.

He was injured, but this is a game, and the recovery speed is much faster than in reality, and now he no longer feels the pain of the wound.

However, before recovering initially, Lingo would not let him wander around.

So Xu Beijin simply continued to pay attention to the ultimate nightmare situation in the live broadcast room.

In the current ultimate nightmare, it can be described as chaos.

As many of you know by now, the end is divided into two phases—or should we say three?

The first stage is the crazy spread, the second stage is the sky fire descending into the world, and the third stage is when they entered the narrow building.

They don't know much about the situation in the third stage, but in the first two stages, a lot of information gained some consensus through nightmares and word of mouth.

Especially, after Mu Jiashi and other taskers entered various nightmares, including Xu Beijin's nightmare, and Xu Beijin didn't stop them from spreading the news to the outside world.

Before entering the ultimate nightmare, they spread what they saw and heard through various channels.

So now, most of the taskers who are still awake are quite familiar with the two things of the spread of madness and the birth of heavenly fire.

They know they need to avoid the lunatics, as well as some large buildings that obviously carry all kinds of crazy "viruses".

They also knew that when the fire came that day, they had to seek refuge in a nearby large building, or they would die easily.

Now, the madness has spread, but there seems to be no sign of the skyfire descending into the world.

Many quest players and cosplayers walked back and forth on the street, looking for other sober companions to support each other.

But at this moment, a sudden thick fog obscured their eyes.

"What's going on? Why is there fog??"

"Is it bad weather?"

"No, that's not right! I've heard that the gray fog outside the narrow building..."

Even though many taskers and actors have never been to Xu Beijin's nightmare, they have heard a few words through various channels, including the rumor that "there are many lunatics in the gray fog outside the narrow building".

They couldn't tell whether it was real or not, but they at least remembered this when they entered the ultimate nightmare.

So at this moment, when the fog spread, they began to feel panic and anxiety uncontrollably.

Why does such a fog appear in the ultimate nightmare?Are there madmen in the fog?Are they in danger they don't know about?

Tension and fear appeared together with the gray fog.

The next moment, it was the door.

"This is impossible!"

When Fei saw the door in the gray mist, this sentence almost blurted out.

Beside her, Jiang Shuangmei looked at the door in disbelief.

She swallowed, and compared to the panic of other taskers, there was a trace of restless expectation in her expression.She said, "Is that the... door in the gray mist you mentioned?"

Fei didn't notice Jiang Shuangmei's expression. She bit her lip, leaving a deep white bite mark on her lip. She hesitated and said, "Yes... yes... it should be."

"Entering this door, can you meet the missionaries who have fallen into nightmares before?"

"Yes. No... wait, what do you want to do?" Fei suddenly recovered, and looked at Jiang Shuangmei in astonishment, "You are... you want to find your sister?"

Jiang Shuangmei remained silent.

Not long ago, when she had just entered this nightmare and hadn't met Fei... she met her sister.

This nightmare was a fictionalized one for her, a shadow from the past.

Jiang Shuangmei looked at her sister in confusion, and for a moment wondered if she was dreaming—no, she was indeed dreaming, even a nightmare.But she didn't expect to meet her sister in this nightmare.

She even felt that her sister looked a little strange.

It was obvious that they hadn't been separated for long, and they had the same face and appearance, but she felt that she couldn't recognize her sister anymore.

Then she realized, because this was when they hadn't entered the narrow building, Earth.

So of course it's not her sister.

This is just... just the narrow building, just an illusory shadow created by this nightmare.A false, false, repulsive, a substitute.

But she still looked longingly at her sister.

in their home.She heard the voices of their parents calling them to eat.

Jiang Shuangmei's eyes fixed on her elder sister, and then at her father and mother.

She backed away while weeping.She was reluctant to take her eyes away from them, and the concerned and puzzled expressions on their faces broke Jiang Shuangmei's heart completely.

She said: "I'm sorry...I'm sorry, sister. I'm sorry, I was wrong at that time. I should listen to you...I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Mom and Dad, I'm sorry, I can't live with my sister..."

She cried and apologized, wanting to kneel down and cry in her arms.She realized in a trance that she hadn't even been able to cry like this when her sister disappeared, but now she was crying like this in the face of strange, false shadows.

But her sister would not want her to cry like this.

Jiang Shuangmei thought in her heart.

She knew this clearly, clearly understood that this was nothing but a hoax.

The purpose of the ultimate nightmare is to sink her into such illusory warmth.Family, affection, the past, everything is fine, they are trying their best to pull her over and make her lost in it forever.

But...Jiang Shuangmei murmured: "I'm sorry...but, my sister is waiting for me."

Sister Jiang is waiting for her.Waiting for her in that cold, robotic elevator.

Jiang Shuangmei stepped back step by step.Finally, her back leaned against the cold door frame.

The fake Shuang Jiang looked at her, gentle, worried, and comforted her.

What Jiang Shuangmei thought was that the last time she was with her sister, it was the same situation.But at that time, her back was facing sister Jiang Shuang.

Pain and self-loathing rose in her again.

Her hand fumbled behind her back to the doorknob.

She was so hoarse from crying, she was still apologizing non-stop, and her facial features were twisted into a ball, which made her three false relatives feel strange.She heard them whispering, how to cry like this.

And why do you have to apologize?

And this question in turn blamed Jiang Shuangmei herself.

She took a deep breath, wiped away her tears, and said, "I'm sorry," before saying, "We should have met in another place, at another time. Not here."

She looked at these few shadows from the past, and smelled the familiar aroma of food.

She said, "Goodbye..."

She finally left without any regrets.She didn't turn around until the door slowly closed.She no longer dared to turn around and say goodbye to others.

She wandered around in her community for a while, then left the community and walked onto the main road.Not long after, she met Fei.

Fei came from another road.

Among the companions gathered by taskers such as Mu Jiashi and Ding Yi, Fei may be an important person but does not have much sense of presence.

Like her name, it was just a code name, not her real name.

The same is true for Wu Jian, but the feeling of Wu Jian...is much more real than Fei.

Jiang Shuangmei didn't leave too much impression on Fei.

But at this time, it was Fei's attire that made her stunned.

Fei is a doctor.

Noticing Jiang Shuangmei's surprised gaze, she smiled wryly, and then explained: "The trainee doctor...is still practicing. After staying in the narrow building for so many years, I have forgotten all my professional knowledge."

Jiang Shuangmei still feels miraculous.

Doctor——In Jiang Shuangmei's view, such a profession must be the endorsement of calmness, reason, and sensitivity, and she believes in science and truth.However, Fei's performance is just the opposite.

She was always neurotic, overly anxious, overly tense.She believed in some baseless conspiracy theories, believed in the existence of the culprit, and believed that NE was watching them.

Such a change is so strange that Jiang Shuangmei can't help being curious.

But she didn't ask too much. After all, it was Fei's privacy, just as Jiang Shuangmei herself didn't like other people mentioning her sister.So, she didn't talk too much.

They continued on their way without encountering anything in particular.

At this time, Fei began to talk about her own affairs: "Actually...sometimes, I can't understand everything that happened to us." She was silent for a moment, "Maybe you can't understand..."

"No, I understand." Jiang Shuangmei said softly, "Some things I don't need to happen, but they happen."

Fei nodded, and murmured: "Yes, that's it." She thought for a moment, "The narrow building is such a thing. I don't want to, but it's unavoidable. But you have to find a reason for this.

"Everything happens for a reason."

Jiang Shuangmei felt a burst of unspeakable pain and depression.

They walked away in silence for a moment.

In the end, Fei said: "The things we have encountered seem illogical and inexplicable... But there must be reasons behind them that we don't know. I have always believed in this way, and I have been... looking for possible reasons. "

Fei thought for a moment, then added: "Any reason."

Jiang Shuangmei couldn't help asking: "Then do you believe in God?"

"God? I don't believe it..." Fei was a little surprised, and then said, "If you really want to talk about God..."

Jiang Shuangmei listened quietly.

"You said that those alien creatures whose existence forms cannot be understood by us, are more advanced and powerful than humans... Are they gods?"

Jiang Shuangmei was startled and hesitated for a while: "Maybe...but, I would rather not think so."

Fei murmured: "Yes, that's it. If gods are just some kind of creatures that exist in this world, why don't they come to kill us, but come to save us..."

Their topic took a strange direction, but the two chatted happily for a while.

Until, the fog suddenly appeared.

"fog……"

Fei frowned.

Is this really the gray fog outside the narrow building?Instead of the weather changes that appear in the nightmare scene itself?

And if it was really gray fog, why did it appear in the ultimate nightmare?Will such fog have any effect on the ultimate nightmare?

All kinds of questions made Fei feel extremely confused and uneasy, and she realized that they still seemed to know too little about the ultimate nightmare... But the problem is, Xu Beijin should always know these things, right?

It was he who pointed out to them the way to open the ultimate nightmare, and it was he who told them that they must stay awake and rational in the ultimate nightmare.In every sense, he is on the side of mankind.

That being the case, would he not know the possibility of the gray mist entering the ultimate nightmare?

If he knew, and if this matter was really so dangerous, then he should remind them, right?

Or, because a few of them have been to Xu Beijin's nightmare, Xu Beijin tacitly agreed that they understood the situation, so he didn't mention it any more?

It also sounds like a possibility.

But... Fei was in chaos for a while.

Finally, she calmed down slowly, and said to Jiang Shuangmei: "There shouldn't be any major problems. It should be..."

She still believed that if the gray fog appeared after the ultimate nightmare and the situation was really dangerous to their survival, then Xu Beijin would definitely remind them.

Since there is no reminder, it means that the situation is still under control.

That is to say, as long as they follow Xu Beijin's instructions, stay awake, rational, and self-sufficient, and ensure that they don't get lost in the ultimate nightmare, then everything will turn around.

Fei thought so.

However, the fog was getting thicker, till the moment when she couldn't see her fingers, Fei finally couldn't deceive herself.

She murmured in a low voice, her voice trembling: "What is the difference between this scene... and the gray fog outside the narrow building..."

Now, the gray fog in the ultimate nightmare is so thick that it is no different from the gray fog outside the narrow building.

For a moment she felt great confusion, she didn't understand what happened——

As she said to Jiang Shuangmei, there are always some things that happen against their wishes, but no matter what, there should always be some reasons behind these things.

Now Fei couldn't understand why the gray mist outside the narrow building could seep into the nightmare inside the narrow building.

And, so rich.

She held the hand of Jiang Shuangmei, who was beside her, because they could hardly see each other in such a thick fog.

Jiang Shuangmei's voice was also a little trembling, but she still asked a question rationally: "Should we continue to move forward?"

They didn't stop just now, but when the fog gradually thickened to block their sight, they stopped.Now, they should be outside a park.

Fei hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Stop for a while, and wait and see what happens."

They waited for about three to five minutes, and then...

"Door!"

"This is impossible!"

The voices of Fei and Jiang Shuangmei appeared almost at the same time.

They looked at the door that appeared in the mist in surprise.

In the thick mist, they could hardly tell the direction, height and distance.

The door was about a few steps away from them, glowing faintly, as if waiting for them to open it.

Jiang Shuangmei fixed her eyes on the door.

That door... as long as you open it, you can meet the fallen missionaries in the gray mist.

Fei looked at Jiang Shuangmei, wanting to confirm that the tasker would really not rush into the fog out of control because of her sister.

After a moment of silence, Jiang Shuangmei finally smiled wryly: "I really want...I really want to see her again. You met her in that nightmare, didn't you?"

Fei hesitated for a while, then nodded.

Jiang Shuangmei took a deep breath: "Don't worry. Don't worry about me... If there is a need, then I will go in without hesitation. But now... Now, it's not this moment. I won't go crazy."

She seemed to use this way of talking to herself to persuade herself not to act impulsively.

She'd done it once before, and the price was beyond her reach.

Fei glanced at her several times, and after confirming that she really wouldn't rush into the fog, she worriedly thought about other things.

A door appeared in the gray mist...how could this be?

Now, they are trapped in this dense fog, unable to move an inch.They didn't know what lay ahead, nor did they know if backing up would get them out of the area.

And what will happen if you are in a stalemate with this door here?

They watched the door nervously.

And at that moment, Fei almost thought she was dazzled - she saw the door and was pushed away from it!

She made a decisive decision: "Run back!"

From the door in the gray mist, what else could it be but a lunatic?

She actually forgot that doors always go both ways!They can enter the nightmare scene in the gray fog through the door, and the lunatics in the nightmare scene can naturally come out through the door!

But...but how is this possible!When they entered Xu Beijin's nightmare before, those lunatics never used the door, why did they come out of the gray fog now!

Fei Baisi was puzzled.

At this time, Xu Beijin answered this question in the live broadcast room: "Because now, the gray fog covers a part of the ultimate nightmare... It's like erosion."

The audience in the live broadcast room listened, and Lingo was also sitting beside him, watching him quietly.

Xu Beijin smiled at Lin Po, and continued to explain: "These scenes eroded by the gray fog can be said to have become part of the gray fog, but there are still sober people trapped in these scenes.

"For Gray Mist, these sober people are incompatible. Therefore, Gray Mist will put a "door" near these people, allowing the lunatics to deal with these sane people...or let the lunatics go "Infect" them.

"In chronological order, first of all, many people in the ultimate nightmare sink into it, so the gray fog appeared to take them away;

But the gray mist enveloped this nightmare, so those who were awake became the targets that the gray fog wanted to clear.

"Of course, although Gray Fog seems to be active in this process, this is actually a program setting in the game, not Gray Fog having the cognition to eliminate aliens.

"If you compare it to other ordinary nightmares, in the ultimate nightmare, these lunatics running out of the gray fog are the "danger" of this nightmare.

"The danger in the ultimate nightmare, and of course the 'doom' in the setting of the game, but the doom is not enough.

After all, many players have already understood the whole process of doomsday, and they can avoid these dangers.

"So, the madman in the gray fog has become a new danger. From another perspective, according to the game setting, this ultimate nightmare is the premise of closing the narrow building's artificial intelligence.

Therefore, in order to ensure that it is not shut down, artificial intelligence will naturally prevent human actions.

"And that's the way artificial intelligence comes out."

As he spoke, Xu Bei coughed twice.Lingo silently handed over a glass of water—it wasn't even a drink anymore!

Xu Bei drank a couple of sips, and thought helplessly, he really just talked too much in one breath, so his throat was a little dry... Can Little Apple stop looking at him like that...

However, he was at a loss, so he could only drink water silently.

In the live broadcast room, the audience was discussing enthusiastically.Many people can't understand it, but the reasoning master explained it very powerfully.

But Xu Beijin's thoughts are not here.

He stared at the side of the live broadcast system, the column of the number of viewers, and looked at it seriously.

Suddenly, a crisp voice sounded, and the number of audience members instantly refreshed, adding one.

Xu Beijin lifted his spirits.

He realized that the audience he had been waiting and looking forward to had come.