Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Now Mu Jiashi, Shen Yunju and the witches already know that after the madness began to spread, human beings have been trying to understand and solve this strange madness.

But also because of the spread of madness, this process of exploration and discovery has also become extremely crazy and bloody, without reason and wisdom at all.

Again they bring up the question about the brain.

Craniotomy and brain replacement, this is what Fei and Wu Jian witnessed in the nightmare corresponding to this scene.

This seems to explain a lot, because human beings are, after all, .

"But the actual situation is not like this." Mu Jiashi said softly, "In Xu Beijin's nightmare, we have already heard that the enemies humans face have completely different life forms from us."

Both Shen Yunju and the witch were silent, but they all had their own thoughts.

Completely different from humans?

And what about humans?them--

"Brain, memory." Shen Yunju murmured, "Intuition, inspiration, instinct."

Sometimes humans can't comprehend something different than the way they exist.

In human civilization, in countless literary, film and television works about aliens, the images of those aliens are always made in the image of human beings.

Even if there are some distortions and changes, they are basically the same.

Also, those aliens were always flying their own spaceships, always...always tangible.

Rather than saying that human beings are imagining some kind of intelligent life race different from themselves, it is better to say that they are just conceiving.

If human beings went to another planet and had a completely different civilization, then what would they become.

So when they really encounter some kind of intelligent creature, they still deal with it according to their own experience and subjective judgment.

That maze is an example.

People still habitually believe that the alien creatures they encounter must be lost in such a maze full of psychedelic color blocks just like them.

That place could trap them—so, of course, it could trap aliens, too.

It's an arrogance rooted in their instincts.

Human beings appeared in this universe and created their own civilization in this universe;

So, of course other civilizations are also similar to human civilization, this is the inherent logic of this universe - they think so.

To deny this point of view is to deny themselves.

Human cognition of this universe is physical, scientific, has rules, and is an entity that can be explored and touched.They always think so.

Those advanced physics and those theories jokingly called "the end of science is theology" have not really been accepted by the public, nor have they ever received the attention and recognition of mainstream public opinion.

So when madness spreads in human society, human beings instinctively think that this is a brain disease, and it may be some kind of special infectious disease.Viruses, bacteria, protein mutations... anything is possible.

They need to study human brains, those crazy brains.

When Wu Jian picked up the book about the doomsday in the library of Cangcheng, when he read that the author mentioned "human rights of lunatics", in fact, he didn't think of what he once had in a nightmare. Everything the hospital has witnessed.

After all, at that time he didn't know much about the end of the earth.

But something cruel and bloody happened to those lunatics.

The sad thing is that no matter how much human beings study, they can't find out what's wrong with the brains of these lunatics.

This phenomenon has exceeded their capabilities, leaving them helpless.

So, naturally, some more radical solutions were put forward and practiced.

At this moment, madness has become the mainstream of this world and the whole society.As brutal as it is, that's how it happened.

Crazy...crazy, all-pervasive.

When Mu Jiashi, Shen Yunju and the sorceress walked into the hospital, the interior of the hospital was not foggy, and everything inside the building could be seen clearly, but what they felt first was a strange coldness.

That is the unique atmosphere of the hospital, but in a normal hospital, it should be a kind of whiteness with reason and cleanliness;

But now what they feel is a cloudy, chaotic ash.

The sorceress murmured, "Many... many cruel things have happened here. And they continue to happen."

Her two companions did not answer her, nor did they know what to say.

They walked to the information desk of the hospital and stopped.

Mu Jiashi said: "Now the ultimate nightmare has reached the stage of the ruins after the birth of the sky fire. Therefore, we don't have much time. Here... there may not be too many living people."

"Maybe such an empty place is a good place for them to develop artificial intelligence?"

Shen Yunju speculated, "Perhaps...artificial intelligence was originally proposed by people here?"

"You mean, the patient, or the doctor?"

Shen Yunju paused.

At that moment, what confuses him is, in this hospital, is it the patient or the doctor who is crazy?

He smiled bitterly: "I doubt very much that after the madness spread, some normal people were also sent here."

The witch said softly: "I think so too. Maybe in the eyes of those lunatics, those normal people are really crazy."

In the post-apocalyptic world, the lunatics are the ones who have the right to speak and the mainstream group in society.

Mu Jiashi was silent.

This is a mental hospital.However, it later became a center for the study of madness, and numerous operating rooms and laboratories were set up.

There are a lot of lunatics here, that's for sure, but will there be any normal people here?

Mu Jiashi shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Instead, he said, "The third operating room is on the 11th floor. Time is running out. Let's see if the elevator can run."

They walked over.

Their footsteps echoed in the empty hospital.The bulletin board on the side has now become a plate for recording the progress of experiments and research.

She had a strange hallucination, obviously the ground of this hospital was very clean, almost spotless.

But she still felt that she was walking in a pool of blood, which reminded her of the building she had been to.

Her daughter is there.

This special association made the witch feel uneasy.She suddenly realizes that her daughter is actually in the Ultimate Nightmare as well, they just haven't been able to meet.

Besides... she looked down at the ground, checking her every step.She thought she had more important things to do.

It seemed like every time, she had to keep her daughter waiting for her.

I'm sorry, mom, I'm sorry for you...don't be mad at mom.The sorceress murmured in her heart.

She was more or less in a trance, emotionally turbulent.

And at this moment, Mu Jiashi suddenly stopped.

Shen Yunju asked: "What's wrong?"

Mu Jiashi frowned and said, "Do you feel that something is wrong?"

"Where?" Shen Yunju was confused, "I don't feel anything..."

"You talk a lot." Mu Jiashi said mercilessly, and looked at the witch again, "How are you?"

Shen Yunju was startled, and then realized that when he walked into this hospital, his mood didn't seem to be as calm as before.

He also looked at the witch, and was taken aback.He found that the witch's eyes were filled with tears.

Her voice was calm though: "I think of my daughter. I feel... I'm sorry for her."

"why?"

"Abandoned her again. Let her wait for me." The sorceress murmured, "I have never been a qualified mother."

Mu Jiashi said calmly: "But what we are doing is to make your daughter not have to wait for you in the future."

He paused, "We are doing the right thing, don't let those distracting thoughts affect you."

The sorceress nodded slowly.

Shen Yunju said in a timely manner: "So, we are all affected by this scene?"

Mu Jiashi said: "I think so."

Shen Yunju looked at him, somewhat curious about what Mu Jiashi thought of—the next second, he realized that such curiosity was also an incredible thing for him before.

He was called "Zombie" in the narrow building, and such mood swings hadn't appeared in his mind for a long time.

The madness of this scene seems a little too exaggerated...

Before Shen Yunju had time to think about it, he heard Mu Jiashi say, "We're here. The elevator is still available."

They walked into the elevator and pressed the button for the 11th floor.

At this moment, Shen Yunju couldn't help thinking of that nightmare.In an office building, chaotic elevators and chaotic people... He suddenly looked at the sorceress.

Because the witch has also been to that nightmare.

The three people present had all experienced that nightmare.That was the nightmare of the witch's daughter.

According to their guess about that nightmare, the witch should even be an employee of that game company... Wait?

The witch is an employee of that game company?

Shen Yunju realized this belatedly.

Starting from that game company, he thought of the game plan again.

In fact, they all intentionally or unintentionally ignored the identity of the witch on earth.

She used an item card, and the "cost" of this item card changed her completely.

Besides, the nightmare they had been to was her daughter's nightmare, so they unknowingly ignored the important position of the witch in this nightmare.They paid attention to her daughter, but they didn't pay much attention to the witch.

Strictly speaking, the taskers who were traveling with the witch at that time were still a little hesitant about whether the witch was the little girl's mother.The sorceress is really crazy and difficult to communicate with.

They actually got all kinds of clues about the witch's past.For example, she actually left her young daughter alone on a certain floor;

For another example, she hinted and reminded other taskers countless times with nagging words.

In other words, judging from these clues, the former witch should be a rational, cold, and intelligent woman.It's just that her nervousness covered up all her past.

So they also forgot that the witch actually has a direct connection with the game company.

After that, they were busy studying the doomsday, nightmares, narrow buildings, and gray fog.Then, never thought of this clue again.

However, what happened in that office building was a game created based on the sorceress and her daughter.

This point was inadvertently recorded by her daughter, and it was engraved in her nightmare...

No, strictly speaking, they didn't know whether the actor was the little girl trapped in the office building.

Maybe it was just a cosplayer, maybe she got lost in this little girl's nightmare.

Maybe... maybe the sorceress is the same?Maybe the witch just assumed the identity of the mother in the game, just like the other women in the office building.

Perhaps they are not the mother and daughter in essence, but they are sinking into a nightmare together.

But the identity of the actor does not affect the script.Moreover, they are convinced that this script is what actually happened.

In other words, there is indeed a mother and daughter.The mother is an employee of the game company, and her colleagues used her and her daughter as the prototype to create a game in which the daughter finds her mother in the doomsday.

Shen Yunju once again felt an unprecedented strangeness.

That office building, narrow building.game, game.It's like an inexplicable hint.Reality and illusion, truth and mask.

A game that takes place in a building... the closest people in the world... The narrow building's artificial intelligence is used to protect the survivors in the narrow building...

Two game plans.

He suddenly thought of when he appeared in the office building scene again in Xu Beijin's nightmare.

When he found out about the game plan, it didn't mention any "building" at all.

The game plan only said that people should investigate the tragedies that happened in the doomsday, but it didn't actually involve the game scenes and graphics.That focuses more on the gameplay and gameplay of this game.

And "lou" belongs to the little girl's nightmare and the game played by the mother and daughter.

The mother abandons her daughter, and the daughter is in a building, in the last days, looking for her mother;

And the floor where the little girl stayed was the mother's protection for the little girl.

"Floor" means "protection".

Every floor of the narrow building is safe and under the protection of artificial intelligence;

Unless to go to the nightmare, to go under the haze covered by the doomsday.

Shen Yunju was in a daze for a moment, as if his mood swings also made his thinking more active than ever before.

The elevator rose steadily.It seems that the power at this point in time is still somewhat guaranteed, but it is not known how long such a guarantee will last.

Shen Yunju suddenly said: "Witch..."

The sorceress responded and looked at her blankly.

Shen Yunju looked at this nagging woman, she didn't have much sense of presence in their team, they always regarded her as a mascot.

Mu Jiashi also looked over strangely, not knowing what Shen Yunju wanted to ask her, but he waited quietly.

Shen Yunju said: "Do you still remember your past? Your...memories on Earth?"

The witch looked at him in surprise, wondering why Shen Yunju mentioned this.

She showed an illusory smile: "I remember. I remember my daughter."

"No..." Shen Yunju interrupted the sorceress, he found that the sorceress had been talking about her daughter since that nightmare.But, is that really the daughter of the witch?

Maybe yes, but why... didn't the sorceress remember that she had a daughter until then?

Even though she has lost her memory, her daughter should have been born several years before the end, right?That's what that little girl looks like.

Shen Yunju said: "Your daughter, in the narrow building, has the shape of an adult woman."

The sorceress looked at him blankly.

Mu Jiashi frowned, as if vaguely aware of something.

Shen Yunju said: "Are you sure that is really your daughter?"

The witch was a little surprised: "I'm sure! Of course I'm sure! I do have a daughter..."

"Is that actor your daughter?"

The sorceress looked hesitant.

Mu Jiashi said, "What exactly do you want to ask?"

Shen Yunju took a deep breath: "What I want to ask is...sorry, I was a little bit of a dead end just now. What I really want to ask is - if you are the mother of that little girl. Then, are you an employee of that game company? "

Mu Jiashi and the witch were stunned at the same time.

"Game company!" Mu Jiashi whispered incredulously, "I completely forgot..."

Mu Jiashi himself once entered the little girl's nightmare, but he didn't really understand the truth of this nightmare at that time, especially the part about the game company below the 9th floor.

Fei and Wu Jian told him the truth about this part after the nightmare was over.

As for the matter of the witch, Fei and Wu Jian didn't talk about it in detail, and Mu Jiashi didn't think deeply about it either.

After that, he also heard about the sorceress and her daughter, but he didn't connect it all...

To be precise, all of this has gone through too quickly, and they have received too much information, so it is difficult for them to think through all the details in a short period of time.

For example, up to now, Mu Jiashi has never talked with Su Enya about the true ending of her nightmare.

Theoretically speaking, this nightmare must have a true ending, but they are all busy, busy understanding the end and solving the nightmare.

After procrastinating, Mu Jiashi completely forgot about it.

They all knew about the sorceress and her daughter. They knew that the sorceress abandoned her daughter and left her daughter alone in a certain empty floor.They also knew that it was hard for the sorceress to reunite with her daughter.

But the witch's daughter never appeared in front of them.So, even though they knew it, everyone ignored the existence of this actor intentionally or unintentionally.

Moreover, even if they knew about their relationship, it was only limited to what the mother and daughter had experienced, not...not, the part about the game company.

At this moment, when Shen Yunju mentioned the relationship between the witch and the game company, Mu Jiashi suddenly realized, and suddenly looked at the witch.

The sorceress was at a loss for a moment.

Before she could answer, the elevator doors opened.

The witch is still thinking and remembering.A subtle expression gradually appeared on her face.

"What did you remember?" Shen Yunju asked anxiously, "Is that so?"

Mu Jiashi took a look at Shen Yunju, and once again confirmed that this "zombie" seemed to have too strong and obvious mood swings in this hospital.

But Mu Jiashi thought it over, and still didn't point out this point.Such intense mood swings seem to be doing more good than harm, at least for now.

The active thinking made Shen Yunju recall what he had experienced in the nightmare in the office building at the moment he saw the elevator.

Similarly, he also recalled the doubts about the witch.

At this point, they still need to travel to their destination.They looked at the map directions in the hallway.The third operating room is at the end of the corridor, the penultimate room.

The corridor looked very gloomy, and there was a kind of coldness and dampness brought on by the return of damp on the ground.The feeling of stepping on it once again made the witch think of a pool of blood.

There was a dry emotion in her voice: "Yes... yes, I am."

Shen Yunju couldn't wait to ask: "You remember?"

The sorceress replied: "Game company...it's not a world-renowned game company. It's medium-sized, but the founder has a vision and bought that office building a long time ago.

"So, our work at that company was very idle... no ambition. We just made the game we wanted to make, and the founders and founders of the company agreed with us."

Their shoes stepped on the slippery ground, almost causing Mu Jiashi to slip.

He braced himself against the wall to avoid embarrassing himself.He listened intently to the witch's words, and in this kind of place, the voice of the witch almost echoed.

Mu Jia really trembled inadvertently.But he didn't care about it himself, he just still listened to the witch's words.

"So we have many... many game plans. Many ideas and ideas, some ideas we will realize, some will not. But every game planner will have a thick plan book.

"Sometimes when we make a game, we will take out these plans, examine them one by one, and then integrate them together.

We have made some successful games, whether it is commercial or its own game value, we have all been successful.

"I have also failed. Failure is always inevitable. After a while, we seemed... seemed to be lost, and seemed to start... crazy..."

Shen Yunju said, "Is that after the madness spread?"

The sorcerer was at a loss for a moment: "Maybe."

The three of them were silent for a moment.

From these descriptions of the sorceress, they can't actually learn any useful information.Those are things of the past.

Except... except for one thing.

Shen Yunju asked: "You said, people in this game company habitually combine different ideas?"

"You mean..." Mu Jiashi suddenly realized, "Lou? There are also nightmares and doomsday?"

Shen Yunju nodded, then shook his head: "No, not only. There are also artificial intelligence, survivors and protectors... There are at least four ideas."

The separation of mother and daughter in the doomsday can also point to various tragedies that occurred in the doomsday;

From a person's nightmare, explore the truth of the doomsday and dispel the haze of the doomsday;

A safe floor in a building; a protector for survivors of a post-apocalyptic...

Shen Yunju has discovered these four different elements.

A game that mixes various elements.

"So we have come to the last element." Mu Jiashi said with an extreme calmness, "Artificial intelligence, protector."

Their footsteps stopped outside the door of the third operating room.

Afterwards, Mu Jiashi raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"I'm a bit confused, what do they mean when they mention these four elements of the game?"

In the live broadcast room, as the conversation between Mu Jiashi, Shen Yunju and the witch progressed, the audience gradually began to not understand.

Xu Beijin also made a live broadcast of the little girl's nightmare before.Therefore, the audience can understand this step and understand what the three of them are talking about.

But...then they don't quite understand.

"Uh, I feel like what they mean is that the game company in that nightmare is the producer of this game?"

"So I didn't get it wrong!"

"It's a pity that this game is not for us to play, and we have no way of knowing who the game maker is. I think it's quite beautifully done."

"If this game is really produced by that game company, isn't that little girl's nightmare just like an easter egg? Some of the background and elements of this game company are embedded?"

"It's a pity that they couldn't go below the 9th floor to have a look... It's a pity."

"Sorry +1..."

"Wait, I think according to what they mean, it's not just that the game company is present in that nightmare, but their actions in the ultimate nightmare also faintly echo the game company's settings?"

"You mean, the game company left clues and hints about the ultimate nightmare in advance?"

"emm official cheating?"

"Wait, wait, it's a bit messy, let me sort it out."

"Wait for the reasoning boss!"

"It's over. My thoughts are like this. The situation we are facing now is like a nesting doll.

This game was indeed produced by that game company, and the game company also put itself into this game as a kind of... er, easter egg?Hint clue?

"In the game, there is also a game company established with reference to the image of the game company in reality.

And the identity of the witch in this game.In other words, her identity in the game setting was once an employee of the game company in this game, so she knew about the game company.

"In a sense, it's as if she completed the special task in the little girl's nightmare, so she obtained some special information, and the content of the information is related to this game company.

"I don't know if you can understand this. It's a nesting doll, a game within a game, a dream within a dream, a game within a game.

"We can regard this game as a real world, and the game company is the creator of this world.

When the Creator created this world, he also projected his own image into it... Maybe it's easier to understand.

"Then it is about the ending of the game. The ultimate goal of all the practices of the game company is to point to the ending, in order for the players to pass the level and enjoy the game process completely.

"So the "creator" in the game did not appear for no reason, and there must be clues and hints about the ultimate nightmare.

Besides, this is a puzzle-solving game, and the appearance of any element is not for no reason.

"Then the next step is, what are the clues? From the words of the sorceress, we can notice that the game company's style of making games is that they will integrate different elements together.

This is the habit of the game company in the background story of this game, and it is also the habit of the game company in reality.

"In other words, this game called "Escape from Heaven" is a fusion of different plans. They may want to make a doomsday game, so they began to search for their past inspiration and ideas around the doomsday plan.

"For example, a planner of that game company once thought of the idea of ​​a mother and daughter being separated in a certain doomsday, and the daughter went to find her mother, so they transformed this background setting into a certain nightmare in this game.

And based on this, he derived countless ideas about the different experiences of human beings in the doomsday.

"For another example, a certain plan had a brain hole about artificial intelligence. Humans developed artificial intelligence, but in the end they went against their creations... So they also put this point into the ending of the game. middle.

"For another example, a certain planner once thought that if the end comes, then someone will definitely die for no reason, maybe we can investigate the right and wrong of it... Then, this constitutes a nightmare.

"Even, there may be a certain plan, thinking about the post-apocalypse, human beings have built refuges, and under the management of powerful but domineering protectors, their life security has become more and more boring and dead, and there may have been various conflicts , eventually leading to the downfall of the sanctuary.

"Maybe it was a collection of these four ideas, and maybe more, that eventually evolved into the game "Get Out."

"The inference master is very good!"

"It makes sense, it makes sense, is this a collection of ideas?"

"Even if you know the habits of this game company, you also know how this game is made.

But I still don't understand, what does this have to do with the ending of the game played by the players? "

"I'm not sure about that either. I do have some ideas, though. The simplest example would be AI equals protector, right?

But after different ideas are fused together, there will inevitably be a process of conflict and improvement.

"In the setting of the protector, the protector must be human beings, and they are the ruling group of human beings.

Maybe there will be some process of power struggle and corruption.But now it is replaced by artificial intelligence.

"And the latter must be rigid and mechanical, absolutely fair rather than profit-oriented. Therefore, what caused the managers of the narrow building to conflict with humans?

"In terms of setting, the answer to this question needs to be adjusted, and it has evolved into the answer that Beibei told us before——

The artificial intelligence needs to maintain the safety of the narrow building, so it expels those crazy people, which leads to conflicts between it and other survivors.

"And the paradox becomes, AI can't understand the emotional bond between humans, so at the end of the day, they're bound to clash.

"But... this leads to a very strange question. Since artificial intelligence does not understand emotions, why does it have nightmares?"

"Damn! I haven't thought about this problem at all!"

"That's right! It's artificial intelligence! It's impossible to dream, right? The end is not a nightmare for it, is it?"

"Maybe it's just for the game?"

"I don't think it's just for the game, right? According to what the reasoning boss said just now, this game is a puzzle-solving game, so nothing happens for no reason."

"The game company put their own image into this game, just to imply that this game itself is a stitch monster? Then there must be some contradictions in it..."

"Just like Xie Ji and Ke Xu before... one body with two sides?"

"Stitch monster?"

"You're not implying..."

"The artificial intelligence of the narrow building?"

"How could artificial intelligence be a stitch monster?"

"But it has nightmares that only humans can have! It is possible to have nightmares if you have the emotion of fear? Then how can artificial intelligence have human emotions?!"

"Because it's actually human?"

"No, it's impossible. The setting of this game is that artificial intelligence is the manager of this narrow building, because it is artificial intelligence.

That's why it can throw those lunatics out without hesitation, otherwise do you think normal humans can bear to do such a thing? "

"Even if it does, I don't think it will react like this after other human survivors know about it."

"So it has both the coldness of artificial intelligence and human emotion??"

"I started asking questions like crazy."

"What do you mean? How is this possible?!"

"Although... do you still remember that Mu Jiashi said just now, what kind of research is this hospital doing?"

"Brain...I mean..."

change brain...

The word seems to be on everyone's mind.

Has a human brain been used in an artificial intelligence?

They began to think about this question.

Including Xu Beijin.

He was thinking about this question in a daze, and a huge astonishment suddenly emerged in his heart.

No, this was not what he had experienced.On the earth, in reality, of course, there has never been any artificial intelligence, any narrow building, or any shelter.Never had.

He certainly never had any brain surgery, never.

But is this the setting in this game?

From the beginning, the manager of the narrow building, the artificial intelligence of the narrow building, is not just pure artificial intelligence?

It has two sides in one body, not only has the cold program of artificial intelligence, but also has the emotional fluctuations of the human brain?

So, there will be a human player, a human player, who will become the artificial intelligence of the narrow building, and become NE? !

So this wasn't a bug in the first place? !Is this the setting of this game?A person destined to be... a person destined to know the truth?

Is this the way for the designer of this game, the human designer, to leave for his compatriots? !

Xu Bei was astonished.

He didn't know about it.

He always thought that he became NE because of a bug in the game, a special bug.

Because the artificial intelligence of the narrow building also belongs to the narrow building, is also a narrow building resident, and also has nightmares.

So it is assumed that he can be played by default, so he will, fortunately or unfortunately, become NE.

But right now, that doesn't seem to be the case.It wasn't because of a bug...it was the way out that their compatriots had left for them.

For a moment, Xu Beijin had mixed feelings in his heart.

He didn't realize it at all...

In fact, he has vaguely realized that there seems to be some problems with the information he got from NE.

When he was looking for data ports with Ringo before, if Ringo hadn't asked a question about old and new players.

Then he has not realized that the port is not only for new players to log in, but also for old players to log in.

This can't be said to be a fallacy of information, it's more like... the information he got from NE, or the fragmented memories in his brain, that's what the game was like in the earliest days, not the latest version.

So much time has passed, and the game has been updated in so many versions, there must be new elements added, especially about the ending part of this game.

Perhaps at the beginning, the ending line of this game has not been completely perfected.This is a very normal thing. This is an online online game. It is very likely that the plots that players have not explored and progressed to are currently being produced.

And it was precisely at this moment that Xu Beijin entered the game.He just understood what the game looked like at that moment.

Perhaps in the long time since then, more elements have been added to this game.

Xu Bei knows a lot, but he also has a lot of unclear things.

The Ultimate Nightmare... He knows how to open the Ultimate Nightmare, knows some solutions to the Ultimate Nightmare, but it is very likely that it will be in the game update