Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

In the presence of missionaries, Xu Bei could not speak at all, but the reasoning boss just helped out, and typed his inference on the public screen.

"Time has always been a very important factor in this nightmare.

"In the dark bedroom, the interval between each round of counting is 1 minute; the fastest time to drive from the corridor to the service area is 3 minutes; the time when the nightmare collapses and the men in black kill indiscriminately leads to the restart of the nightmare is exactly 5 minutes ...

"This information requires taskers to pay attention to the time all the time, and as the nightmare collapses, the error tolerance rate is getting lower and lower.

"I used to think that in this nightmare, if you noticed the tension in time, you could successfully pass the nightmare; but now it seems that it is far from enough to play the true ending!

"Because, with the collapse of the nightmare, the time of the nightmare itself is flowing!

"In other words, when the nightmare was restarted, everything in the nightmare was restored to its original state; but starting from the fifth round of nightmare, the scenes and events in the nightmare are not in the original state, and will also change!

"In the beginning, the murderer was at large, then the police issued a warrant, and then the police narrowed down the scope of the search, and they are arresting them... These are all brought about by the passage of time in the nightmare.

"This should be the fifth round of nightmare, a change that occurred with the collapse of the nightmare.

"However, this brings up an interesting question.

"Why did the men in black start killing people indiscriminately in the fifth round of nightmare? At first I thought it was caused by the collapse of the nightmare.

"But it doesn't seem to be the case now. If the time in the nightmare starts to flow, at this point in time, the man in black is the murderer who is on the run... This makes me think, did he escape to this service area, and then, start kill?

"That is to say, not only the fixed scenes and information have changed, but the fluidity of time will even affect the actions of NPCs (or players?) in the game! Their behaviors will also change!

"According to this, I guess that the next change in the nightmare may be that the police surrounded the service area, preparing to arrest the murderer, while the men in black will continue to resist and continue to kill.

"...the situation is not good.

"It stands to reason that the magnitude and speed of the changes must be getting bigger and bigger as we go forward. It is very likely that the next round of nightmares will be completely different. This problem is a bit serious.

"Another point is that such a change happened after the nightmare collapsed... that is to say, if the nightmare does not collapse, then the taskers are doomed not to be able to obtain this information, and it is impossible to get through the true ending!

"Even if it is the second time to enter the nightmare challenge, I doubt whether it is possible to play a true ending in the normal state of the nightmare and the frozen time.

"...that's about all I can think of."

The analysis of the reasoning master stunned several viewers in the live broadcast room.

"Damn, I feel the malice of the game plan."

"In other words, if you want to get through this nightmare, you have to wait until after the fifth round? What's the difference between this and the previous nightmare of the doll shop owner, who had to get the item card to get to the true ending? All of them are unimaginable conditions. ah!"

"It's really a stroke of luck..."

"I would like to ask, if this change will also affect the performers, why is there no change in our North?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

...Because he is just a group performer!

The supermarket cashier and the man in black are obviously important supporting roles in the nightmare; while Xu Beijin is just an insignificant group performer, a tool man who takes care of the newspaper and sends the information in the newspaper to the mission workers .

Xu Beijin believed that there must be an extra performer like him at the gas station, and he sat there dumbfoundedly watching TV, the purpose of which was to let the taskers pay attention to the news broadcast on the TV.

This is completely just a way for the mastermind to remind the tasker that there are clues here.

Xu Beijin has been playing as a group performer in countless nightmares, and he already knows this kind of thing like the palm of his hand.

However, when the audience in the live broadcast room mentioned it, he still felt a little embarrassed and touched his nose unconsciously.

Seeing his performance, the audience laughed again.

However, this barrage and Xu Beijin's reaction seemed to remind the reasoning master.

He replied in a bit of surprise: "That's right... why hasn't Bei Bei changed? So, there are also ranks among actors?"

Xu Bei thought with all his heart, you guessed it right.

Because the reasoning boss has always insisted on guessing some settings of this game by himself, other viewers were also led away by him. It is a question of what status is in the end.

Xu Beijin didn't participate in their conversation. Instead, he raised his head and looked at the two taskers in front of him.

Mu Jiashi said: "...time."

He also realized the problem of time, and thought of another problem further.

He said: "But this is a nightmare." He muttered to himself, "The time of the nightmare is flowing, but it is absolutely impossible to exceed the time of reality... That is, although the events are going on in the nightmare, they are still what happened in the past."

He pondered silently.

The Selfish Man said suddenly, "How do you think it will end?"

Mu Jiashi came back to his senses: "What?"

"The man in black is that kid's father." The selfish man shrugged and said, "Didn't the police arrest him? Did he ever get caught?"

Mu Jiashi was startled, and a guess appeared in his heart.

At this time, there was a noisy sound from the central flower bed outside, mixed with the scream of a little boy.

Mu Jiashi immediately put down the rest of his distracting thoughts, and hurriedly left the bookstore—the third child and the others arrived with the little boy!

It was precisely because the little boy saw the man in black that he screamed, but the moment he appeared, the man in black suddenly disappeared.This strange scene made the little boy's screams choke in his throat, and he was at a loss.

The third child's eyes lit up, and he said to himself: "Ten minutes!"

In the fourth round of nightmare, when the little boy appeared in the service area, the man in black also disappeared, and then it took twelve minutes to re-arrive at the deepest supermarket in the service area.

In the eyes of the third child, the man in black should have restarted from the dark bedroom, waited for the 8-minute count-up time to end, and then spent another 3 minutes rushing from the promenade to the service area via the highway, so the total is 1 minutes.

In the fourth round of nightmare, the man in black still needs to walk from outside the service area to the supermarket, so it takes another half to one minute to walk, making a total of twelve minutes.

But now they are in the central flower bed, so it is more appropriate to calculate according to the time of ten and one minutes.

In this nightmare where the time must be extraordinarily precise, the third child didn't want the slightest error.

Hearing the third child muttering to himself, Mu Jiashi asked a little strangely: "What ten minutes?"

He noticed the disappearance of the man in black—and Ringo. After the man in black disappeared, he walked inside on his own. After all, the open space at the central flower bed was too crowded at this time.

Not only crowded, but chaotic.The conversations of the taskers, the cries of the injured residents of the narrow building, and the sudden disappearance of the man in black.

The intricate information made it too late for Mu Jiashi to think about the reason why the man in black disappeared and what the third child meant.He was still thinking about the question of time, and the question asked by the selfish man-has the man in black been arrested?

The third child explained to him that he speculated on the whereabouts of the man in black completely based on the action time of the man in black.He added: "However, I don't know why the man in black had to start from scratch as soon as the little boy arrived at the service area."

A certain factor in this sentence touched Mu Jiashi's nerves.

He looked at the little boy sharply.

The little boy was still timidly hiding behind Ding Yi.For his ten-year-old age, he is so timid and crying, he doesn't look like a little man.However, if one considers what happened to him, then such a performance is also pitiful.

But when Mu Jiashi looked at the little boy, this man who devoted himself to solving the nightmare puzzle did not care about his poor experience at all, but finally wanted to understand one thing.

After a while, he took a deep breath, nodded to the third child, and said, "You said you have ten minutes of safety time, so let's analyze the current situation."

The taskers didn't pay attention, Dai Wu leaned on the railing of the corridor, watching them with interest.

Mu Jiashi first explained the two discoveries they had just made in the service area - including the changes in the news in the newspaper and the news reports on the TV at the gas station.

The third child and Ding Yi also nodded thoughtfully.

Mu Jiashi said: "And what you said just now, the little boy arrived at the service area, and the man in black started from scratch. It reminded me of the third definition of time in this nightmare."

The taskers—including the audience in the live broadcast room—all looked at him blankly.

There were only a few people whose eyes lit up and couldn't help but secretly exclaim.

Mu Jiashi continued: "The three-tiered definition... might as well be the three-tiered connotation.

"Level one, the urgency of time.

"In this nightmare, everything we do has a corresponding and clear time length. 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 7 minutes and 8 minutes, these are all calculated to the second.

"Therefore, in our operations, we must pay special attention to the issue of time. This is also the easiest layer to notice.

"The second layer, the fluidity of time.

"The nightmare comes to the fifth round, and the time in the nightmare will move forward. The police will issue a wanted warrant, the murderer will kill innocent people while escaping, and the police will start to arrest fugitives.

"In addition, the residents of the narrow building will also recover their memories. This is also a point worth investigating. Why does he recover his memories now, but not in the previous rounds?

"Because, the previous rounds of time are fixed and fixed at one point in time, and each round of nightmare is a new beginning, so of course he won't remember us.

"However, when the time changes and jumps to the next point in time, the previous rounds of our interrogation will become the established past, and will not start again and will not change. Naturally, the residents of the narrow building will also have this memory.

"However, the chaos of the nightmare may allow him to obtain complex and chaotic memories; for example, the cashier, he remembers what happened in the third and fourth rounds at the same time.

"The fluidity of time will allow us to obtain more information, but it will also increase the danger. In any case, this level of meaning is naturally discovered when we enter the fifth round of nightmares.

"The third layer, the circularity of time.

"You reminded me of this level, third child, I didn't realize it before.

"The circularity I am talking about here does not refer to the restart of the nightmare, but... the several scenes we have experienced, dark bedrooms, corridors, parking lots, roads, and service areas. This is a linear cycle process. , is actually arranged according to the process of the death of the little boy's mother.

"A dark bedroom can point home. The family starts from home, walks down the promenade, drives up the road from the parking lot, takes a rest while passing the service area, then the couple argues, drives on the road, returns home—and It is the death of the mother.

"In the little boy's nightmare, this process is endless. His nightmare is the death of his mother, and his nightmare is this infinite loop of death. Home is the beginning and the end.

"Then we can analyze the behavior patterns of the little boy and the man in black.

"The little boy's starting point is the bedroom, and it's the bedroom where the murder is in progress—whether it's the counting, or the woman's screams we heard during the second round, this can be verified.

"However, when he came out of the bedroom, it was after the murder, that is to say, the mother died, and the road of death was restarted again. When the little boy set off, the mother had not been killed.

"Then let's look at the man in black. The starting point of the man in black is the promenade. This may be before he killed his wife, or after he killed his wife. Judging from the fact that he directly came after us with a machete, this should be It was his escape route after he killed his wife.

"There is a question here, why did the little boy's route not include his father's escape route after his mother's death? I will talk about this question later.

"In short, the escape route of the man in black is also the same, from the promenade to the parking lot, flee to the service area by car, and then mostly hide in the service area.

"The fifth round of nightmares changed. The man in black started killing in the service area, which is proof of the fluidity of time. The purpose may be to retaliate against what he believed to be his wife's cheating. Then the police discovered his whereabouts and began to arrest him. action.

"This is the respective course of action of the little boy and the man in black. But this creates a contradiction.

"When the little boy and the man in black appeared in the service area at the same time, the route on the little boy's side, the mother hadn't died yet; but on the other side of the man in black, he had already killed someone and started to flee!

"The little boy is the master of the nightmare. His route is fixed, so the only one who can change is the man in black. The man in black needs to make his route match the route of the little boy. There is no case of death.

"So... I think that during the ten or so minutes, he didn't go back to the dark bedroom to continue counting for 8 minutes-that is, the process of killing. He must match the route of the little boy before he can return to the service district.

"In this case, he should have repeated the process of packing their luggage, preparing to leave, and going from home to the service area. This process may also take more than ten minutes!"

Hearing this, the third child hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "But, he started killing when he came here..."

"In my opinion, the man in black does not completely symbolize the little boy's father." Having said that, Mu Jiashi couldn't help but pause, and some thoughts flashed in his mind, "His mask is still a mask, which means that he is just The product of a little boy's nightmare, his image has been fixed on the murderer, and he will definitely be carrying a machete all the time, ready to kill at any time."

The third child frowned, hesitated to speak.He felt that Mu Jiashi's explanation of this matter was somewhat far-fetched, but there seemed to be no better explanation.

However, in response to Mu Jiashi's previous statement, he still put forward his own opinion: "I think the flow of time should only happen outside the dark bedroom. We still need to count the fifth and sixth rounds of nightmares. "

"That's true." Mu Jiashi nodded confidently, "As I said, the bedroom is both the beginning and the end, and it is fixed at the moment of the death of the little boy's mother."

The third child nodded thoughtfully and agreed.

The rest of the taskers also showed amazed and convinced expressions.

In the live broadcast room, the reasoning boss nodded frantically.

The rest of the audience: "I'm in a knot."

Such a stark contrast made Xu Beijin laugh.

"Beibei, please stop laughing. When you smile, I think I am the biggest idiot in the world."

"It's different for me. I thought I understood something, but Beibei smiled, and I suspected that I didn't understand."

"I can't say it well, I feel like Bei Bei despises my IQ."

"Beibei's smile is really... lethal."

Xu Beijin: "..."

Is this his intention?

this is not!

But anyway, he understood Mu Jiashi's words.

Everyone is convinced, but the selfish man says, "I have a question."

"what is the problem?"

The selfish man scratched his hair: "I said... the nightmare itself is illogical, right? Is it useful for you to analyze so much?"

Mu Jiashi: "..."

He just wanted to sort out everything that happened in the nightmare!

The second elder brother rolled his eyes and said with a sneer, "I now know why you are a lone wolf."

The selfish ghost chuckled: "Why, pointing out the mistakes is not enough?"

Mu Jiashi took a deep breath, and didn't bother to pay attention to the selfish ghosts—seriously, fortunately, in Zhailou, taskers can't kill each other.

He turned to the third child and said: "The important issue now is that if we can't solve this nightmare in this round, then if the time of the next round of nightmare is pushed forward, we will gradually lose the initiative!"

The third child nodded, hesitated and said, "I understand what you mean, but..."

He also knows that the information they have now will gradually become worthless as the nightmare passes, because they don't know what will happen to the nightmare and what kind of situation they will face.

Mu Jiashi hopes to take the initiative, which means that he hopes to be ahead of the nightmare and know in advance what will happen next in the nightmare.

But... that sounds very difficult.

Mu Jiashi said: "I said just now that there is a problem, why the little boy's route did not include the father's escape route." He paused again, and added, "The TV at the gas station said that the police are rounding up murderers. guilty."

The third child nodded, then he was startled for a moment and suddenly realized: "You mean, his father has been arrested! The road to escape is a road of no return, so it cannot be included in the infinite loop process!"

Mu Jiashi nodded: "Another point is that when his father fled, he didn't take the little boy with him. Things that have not been experienced, of course, cannot become the little boy's route."

He was silent for a moment, and after thinking for a moment, he said again: "The little boy is the master of nightmares, and the scenes, routes, and time of these nightmares are all based on him. So, even if his father is arrested, when he starts to have nightmares again When the time comes, the man in black will reappear... This is more reasonable."

"Don't care if it's reasonable or not!" The second brother said impatiently, "In short, what you mean is that in the next round of nightmares, the situation is likely to change again, and the murderer has already been arrested?"

Mu Jiashi nodded: "I think so."

The selfish man sneered and said, "Why can't it be back to the beginning?"

This question made Mu Jiashi startled, he hesitated for a while, and did not answer immediately.

Yes, with the Nightmare reboot, the time of this Nightmare is also moving forward.

But who can guarantee that the time of the nightmare will not turn back?

As the selfish ghosts said before, nightmares are always illogical. They hope to make nightmares logical and reasonable, but the results may not necessarily be as they wish.

The selfish ghost said contemptuously, "You really are a waste."

The boss let out a hey and began to roll up his sleeves.

Mu Jiashi stopped him, and smiled wryly: "You're right." He sighed a long time, wiped his face, the confident expression just now disappeared from his face, and returned to When I first came to this nightmare, I was discouraged, "Don't listen to me, I am a failed tasker."

The third child hesitated to speak.

He could see that Mu Jiashi might have some knots in his heart, but...

In a place like Narrow Building, words of comfort are not so easy to say.People are always wary, suspicious and suspicious of each other.

In the end, the third child remained silent.

In the middle of the flower bed, several taskers fell into a suffocating silence.

In the live broadcast room, the audience was deeply at a loss for their performance, and they knocked out barrages one after another, asking: "They are too serious! Isn't it just playing a game!"

Xu Beijin hesitated for a moment, and then suddenly said: "This is different, you know, the game "Escape from Heaven"..."

He is testing.

He wanted to know what the viewers meant by the so-called "games that only anchors can play".

And the audience foolishly took the bait.

"Ah, yes. This kind of game that is not open to the public is always more serious."

"I don't know what's going on with this game... I've heard of similar games before, and I feel that there is such a serious atmosphere among the players. It seems like there is a big matter of life and death."

"Maybe it's because of livelihood [laughing and crying]"

"It's a pity that the anchor will sign a non-disclosure agreement... Although it can be broadcast live, it can't reveal anything. Hey, I'm very angry. Obviously it can be broadcast live, why don't you want to reveal some truth?"

"Perhaps the reasoning boss can reason something out?"

"I can't... This kind of non-disclosure agreement is very strict. The anchor can't talk without talking. Alas, I suddenly feel that Beibei is so dumb that he revealed so much information without knowing it."

"The requirements for anchors are so high. In fact, many big anchors are unwilling to broadcast. Only a newcomer like Beibei will step into such a big pit... Woohoo, I feel sorry for us Beibei."

"Maybe Beibei's live broadcast room will disappear mysteriously in the future..."

"Stop it, I'm afraid."

Xu Beijin: "..."

He was mad.

This group of viewers seems to have talked a lot. There are piles of bullet screens on the public screen, but they are all useless!

He wants to know what the outside world is like now, he wants to know where the humans who entered the narrow building are going, and whether the outside world knows about them.

The only information available is probably...

There are other games like "Get Out"?

But what does this mean?It means that there is another group of people who, like them, suffer in other games and cannot escape?

Xu Beijin felt a deeper despair.

For these ordinary viewers, they don't know what happened, and they don't even know what the game screens they watched and the players represent.

And Xu Beijin couldn't reveal the truth to them.

At this moment, both the central flower bed and the bookstore fell into silence.