Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

In the end, it was the dead ghost who broke the deadlock.

He is not as arrogant and domineering as the selfish ghost, he is not as resourceful as Mu Jiashi, Lao San, and Ding Yi, and he is not as indifferent as the boss, second brother, and Ringo.

He wanted to leave this nightmare.Even go to a higher floor if you can.

So, he took a deep breath and said word by word: "So...are we waiting here for the man in black to come?"

After a period of silence, the third child still couldn't stand it any longer, and replied hesitantly: "Is there any information we haven't found?"

He looked at Mu Jiashi.

Mu Jiashi took a deep breath, apologized in a low voice, and then said, "I have a problem." He pointed to the little boy, "When you saw this little boy in the narrow building, did he Is there any special place?"

This question stunned the boss, second brother and third child.

The third child looked at the little boy, was at a loss for a moment, then frowned and replied, "Nothing special."

"Did he say anything?"

"No." The third child shook his head, "It's like this, when the three of us met this little boy, he shivered in a corner, and we accidentally bumped into him, and then he ran away.

"Because we heard a string of numbers in his mouth at that time, we thought it was a clue to a nightmare, so we chased after him, but then he ran... When he ran near the house of Mr. Ringo, he disappeared."

Mu Jiashi asked with some doubts: "Then how do you know where his portal is?"

"Coincidence and coincidence. Later, we were not reconciled, and turned around the place where the little boy was squatting before, and then we just saw him running out of the house." The third child explained, "I tried it at night and entered a nightmare. "

Mu Jiashi remained silent.

The third child tentatively asked: "Do you think there is any problem here?"

Mu Jiashi shook his head, and he looked at Ringo again. Because Ringo was standing a little far away at this time, he raised his voice slightly: "Boss...have you met this little boy before?"

Lin Po returned to his senses, glanced at the little boy, and nodded, "I've seen it."

"Did he say anything?"

"I remember...he said that there was a supermarket in his nightmare, so I thought of coming to his nightmare." Ringo said, "I want to see what drinks are there."

This sentence can be said to have shocked several taskers present.Some were surprised that Ringo said about the drink, and some were surprised that the little boy actually said that there was a supermarket in his nightmare?

The third child was nervous and asked anxiously: "Boss, what exactly did he say, can you tell me in detail?"

Ringo nodded.In this nightmare, he behaved quite well - Xu Beijin was quite disappointed about this.

Ringo said: "At that time, this little boy ran over and I was about to go out. He bumped into me and apologized to me. I said I was going to buy a drink and asked him to get out of the way; then he said, the day my mother died, It was also because I had to go to the supermarket to buy drinks, so I quarreled with my father.

"Then he started crying, as if reciting a series of numbers. Then someone came after him and he ran away."

Mu Jiashi's eyes lit up, and he looked at the little boy.The little boy still looked at all the adults timidly.

The boss, however, was a bit depressed: "We chased this little kid for half an hour, and he was just muttering a series of numbers there, and it turned out... so obedient to the boss?! And apologize?! "

At this time, a sentence could not help but emerge in his mind: These days, even the NPCs in the game are bullying.

Although he knew that the reason might be because Ringo mentioned the drink, which triggered the mechanism for the little boy to answer the question, so he obtained such a piece of information, but...

But still very irritable!

Even such a child can watch the dishes!

Whether the boss's mentality collapses or not, no one else can control it.

Mu Jiashi muttered to himself: "That's right. Why did they come to this service area, why did the supermarket appear in the little boy's nightmare.

"If it's just because the parents are arguing in the supermarket, the supermarket may not appear in the nightmare. However, it is precisely because the mother wants to buy drinks for the son, which indirectly leads to the quarrel between the parents, so... in the little boy's nightmare, there will be a supermarket." The supermarket scene.

"He is, blame himself."

The eyes of the taskers were all focused on the little boy.

The little boy has always had that timid expression, hiding behind Ding Yi, as if feeling excessive fear and resistance to everything in this world.

The owner of a nightmare like him is actually very special.The owner of many nightmares is himself a villain——most of the actors who play the roles are the heinous existences.

But there are also a small number of actors whose scripts are pure and innocent victims like the little boy.Fear, anxiety, nervousness, panic, they are silent and harmless most of the time in nightmares, and sometimes even help the tasker.

This little boy who has always been shy, introverted, and fearful is one of them.

Just as Mu Jiashi was about to say something, suddenly, there was a burst of chaotic screams from outside the service area.

……Outside?

Only roads and gas stations outside!

And of course there are people in the gas station!

An ominous premonition welled up in Mu Jiashi's heart, and he quickly walked out of the door of the service area, scanning the scene outside.The rest of the taskers followed behind him.

They saw a black figure massacring in the gas station.

The man in black went to the gas station?how so? !Shouldn't he be heading straight for the service area?

For a moment, Mu Jiashi's brain stopped spinning like a stuck gear.

Ding Yi said softly beside him: "The nightmare has collapsed, so will the situation be different from the fourth round?"

"Damn, the time is wrong!" The third child exclaimed, "Time has moved forward!!"

After hearing this, Mu Jiashi, who was also surprised by the sudden appearance of the man in black, turned his brain suddenly, and suddenly responded to a question - just now Ringo said, "He said the day my mother died".

However, if for the little boy, his current route is when his mother is not dead, why does he have no reaction?

In the fourth round of nightmare, after the little boy came to the service area, he also told about his mother's death.

He also said that he had met that supermarket cashier before, but if that was when his mother hadn't died, why would he have met Dai Wu?

From this point, it can completely break what Mu Jiashi said before, when the little boy walked out of the dark bedroom, his mother was not dead yet!

He made an error of judgment.He was wrong.

His confident analysis and research on this nightmare just now was completely wrong!

Mu Jiashi suddenly turned pale.

In the latter part of this nightmare, he is alone.It has to be said that this aroused his competitiveness and self-confidence.For a long time, he almost forgot the previous painful experience.

And now, he failed again.

When he said he was a piece of shit, a loser, his tone was half-truthy, self-deprecating and reassuring.He was more like saying that since he is a waste, as long as his performance is slightly better, it is satisfactory enough.

... But is he?

He was once a well-known gold digger with a [-]% success rate in the real ending at the bottom of the narrow building.

He fell to the clouds in a failure, and a crack appeared in his self-confidence, which was as solid as a diamond, shining brightly.Since then, he has complained about himself and used self-deprecating words to talk about it.

Of course he could go to a higher floor again.At least he believed it.

Failure is never something difficult to talk about.But—he thought, would he fail again?

Mu Jiashi remained silent.

At this time, the third child could no longer take Mu Jiashi's thoughts into consideration.

He muttered to himself: "The man in black went to the gas station...killed his wife, fled, rounded up...while fleeing, he entered the service area, and when he was rounded up, he was blocked at the gas station...no, Maybe he hid in a gas station?"

He organized his thoughts.

In fact, at this time, he also realized that what Mu Jiashi said before should be a little problematic.

The problem didn't lie in the front, but began when he analyzed the respective routes of the little boy and the man in black.The little boy's route is not only the cycle of his mother's death, but superimposed on his father's escape.

Although Mu Jiashi said that the man in black did not take the little boy with him on his way of escape, this was a little boy's nightmare after all, and the little boy's route must include all the factors that appeared in this nightmare.

And the little boy's performance in the face of Dai Wushi also proved that when he left the dark bedroom, it was actually his mother who had died.

But... In this case, why did the man in black suddenly disappear when the man in black and the little boy appeared in the service area at the same time?

Why can't they appear at the same time?

Wait, at the same time? !

... When this question suddenly jumped into the third child's brain, he suddenly understood.

Why can't they appear at the same time?

Because at this time, they shouldn't appear at the same time!

The paradox is that, in reality, when the little boy's father fled to the service area, the little boy might still be hiding in the dark bedroom, as the newspaper said, waiting for the police to come and find him.

Therefore, it is certainly impossible for the man in black to meet the little boy in the service area.

This is the contradiction between nightmare and reality.

In fact, it was the missionaries who took the little boy out of the dark bedroom after the counting ended, that is, after the death of the mother, thus changing the sequence of events in the nightmare.

If without the participation of the taskers, the nightmare repeats itself in chronological order in reality, then it should be:

The little boy's family of three went out to play, and when the mother went to buy drinks for the little boy in the service area, they talked and laughed with the cashier in the supermarket, so the little boy's father believed that he had cheated, and the two had a quarrel, and the father blamed the service area others within.

When they returned home, the father killed the mother and forced the little boy to count.After the death of his mother, the little boy hid in a wardrobe in the bedroom and his father fled to the service area.Neighbors called the police, and the police came to the house and found the body and the little boy.

Subsequently, the police issued a wanted warrant.The father went on a killing spree in the service area, which attracted the attention of the police.The police narrowed the search, and the father fled into the gas station (or had been hiding in the gas station before), and then killed in the gas station.

Whether the father was arrested in the end, and what happened to the little boy after he was discovered by the police, are still unknown, and the taskers did not get a clear answer.

The only information is that Dai Wu once said that while the murderer was fleeing, the little boy seemed to have disappeared.

But apart from these ambiguities, the nightmare should cycle in this order—the way of the little boy's mother's death and his father's way of escape are the same.

It was because of the participation of the taskers that they took the little boy out of the dark bedroom and changed the order of the story development. This caused the man in black to see the little boy in the service area where he should not have seen the little boy.

But the nightmare is centered on the owner of the nightmare.

Therefore, when the little boy came to the service area, it was impossible for the owner of the nightmare to disappear. Naturally, the man in black could only disappear.

The disappearance of the man in black was stuck at the node where he had just fled to the service area.What did he do after he disappeared? On this point, the third child agreed with Mu Jiashi's point of view.

In other words, the other people in the nightmare should be attached to the owner of the nightmare; the route after the man in black disappears should also be the route that fits the little boy, at least under normal circumstances.

But before Mu Jiashi thought that the little boy’s route was that the mother was not dead, and the killing after the man in black arrived at the service area was because he was the incarnation of a murderer, and could erupt anytime and anywhere—this explanation was somewhat far-fetched, but at that time they They have all been brought into Mu Jiashi's thinking, and no one has thought of a better explanation.

In fact, the little boy's route is that his mother is dead. In this way, the process of the man in black starting from the dark bedroom and finally arriving at the service area is not the process of a family of three traveling as Mu Jiashi thought, but the process after the murder. way of escape.

So, when he arrived, he naturally started killing.

That's his line, enough to explain what happened in the fourth round of the nightmare.

However, the nightmare collapsed in the fifth round.The time in the nightmare has flowed. To be precise, the time outside the dark bedroom should have flowed, and the time in the dark bedroom has always been frozen in the 8 minutes of the mother's death. Thinking of this, the third child's brain There seemed to be a glimmer of inspiration.

Because of the flow of time, they didn't have time to figure out the problems that they hadn't figured out. In the chaotic scene of the fifth and sixth rounds, they didn't have time to figure it out even more.

When they first started this nightmare, the point in time was when the father killed the mother.

Inside the dark bedroom is the ongoing killing; outside the dark bedroom is the escape process of the man in black after the murder.This also explained why there was an error in the counting and why the man in black could not appear in two places at the same time.

However, since the fifth round of the nightmare collapsed, the timing of the nightmare's start has changed subtly, and it was pushed back to the moment when the man in black fled and arrived at the service area.

In the dark bedroom, the process of mother's death was still happening; but outside the dark bedroom, it was a beat faster.

And this fast beat is like a gear that has gone wrong; if it was one step faster before, it will always be that one step faster afterwards.The collapse of the nightmare had an extremely bad impact on this cyclic gear that was originally running precisely.

So when the man in black disappeared again, he did not rejoin the little boy's route, but continued his own route—just as the TV news said, the police were rounding up the man in black, so the black The clothes man went to the gas station.

He went on a killing spree again.

But this time, no one had time to stop him.

In the sixth round of nightmare, the lethality of the man in black has become very powerful.

When the missionaries heard the screams, there was already a river of blood at the gas station, and they didn't even have time to guess how long the men in black had been killing there.

Nightmare, reboot again.

At the beginning of the seventh round of nightmares, the atmosphere was particularly weird.

The few people in the dark bedroom were naturally still counting.Xu Beijin pointed the camera in the live broadcast room at the people on the corridor.Leaving aside Lingo and the dead ghost, Mu Jiashi's face was gloomy, and the selfish ghost sneered even more.

The selfish ghost said: "Sure enough, analysis and thinking are useless analysis and thinking. It's all fucking wrong."

Mu Jiashi glanced at him, the lifelessness in his eyes made the selfish ghost twitch suddenly.

in this way……

Not like this.Selfish thought.

He has seen many questers who entered the nightmare with this appearance, and then never came back, together with other questers who entered the nightmare together.

Some desperate questers even choose to burn everything together, willing to sink into the nightmare of eternal collapse.

Mu Jiashi's current appearance made the selfish ghost vigilant.

But thinking about it, he became irritable again.

Damn it, how did it end up being his thing? !

Mu Jiashi didn't know what the selfish ghost was thinking.He sighed, calmed down, and said a little tiredly: "Let's go to the service area."

The four got into the car in silence.Mu Jiashi drove the car.

Although Mu Jiashi said before that he is not very good at driving, anyway, the men in black are not chasing them now, so Mu Jiashi's skills can handle it.

But at this time, he didn't care about these little things at all.

In the last round, they were divided into two cars, which was also proposed by Mu Jiashi; but this round, Mu Jiashi didn't say anything, and the selfish ghost and the dead ghost were also happy to save effort, and directly got into the back seat.

As the vehicle drove on the road, Mu Jiashi slowly calmed down, and the analysis of this nightmare came to his mind again.

After a moment of silence, he said, "Maybe this time, if we want to deal with the man in black, we need to use item cards."

Mu Jiashi would not be so naive in expecting Ringo to make a move again.

But his words caused a strong reaction from the selfish ghost.

"What? Item card?? You don't have an item card, do you expect me to take it out?" The selfish ghost sneered, "It's a good idea."

He has thought about whether Mu Jiashi's state is not right now, so he should take some action.But those thoughts had nothing to do with prop cards, he was just thinking about whether it was necessary for him to participate in this nightmare more actively.

Item card?

Don't even think about it.

The selfish ghost's reaction was within Mu Jiashi's expectation.Mu Jiashi made such a suggestion just to give it a try. Therefore, facing the selfish ghost who spoke lies, Mu Jiashi remained silent.

He is not very good at using this kind of tongue, so he doesn't want to talk nonsense with people like selfish ghosts.Among the bosses he has ever led, he has encountered many people who are more selfish than selfish ghosts.

Selfish ghosts at least don't bother them in their normal, nightmare-exploring process, and some bosses...

Ha ha.

So in the nightmare, Mu Jiashi's mood has been very calm - even too indifferent, both for others and himself.

In a nightmare, staying calm really comes first.Because, no one knows when they will encounter sudden danger in the nightmare.

Don't look at the agitation on Selfish Ghost's face, he might be calmer than anyone else.

He is a lone wolf.

A lone wolf who can live in the narrow building for a long time is not a good character to get along with.

Bottom?

The bottom layer doesn't mean anything, people always miss.Didn't people like Mu Jiashi fall to the bottom of the valley?None of them knew what kind of past and identity the "teammates" they met in these nightmares had.

The workers in the narrow building are alienated and wary of each other.

Mu Jiashi was used to this kind of thing, so he didn't react much, but the dead ghost was much more tender, and couldn't help retorting: "Are you shameless? They don't even have item cards!"

The selfish ghost instead challenged him: "Then if you have an item card, take it out!"

He hesitated for the ghost.

Of course he has.Anyone who has item cards will definitely bring a few with them when they enter the nightmare.Even if there is a card dealer in the nightmare, it must be brought. After all, no one wants to be lost forever in the nightmare of eternal collapse.

All the taskers in the narrow building knew that if they couldn't leave the nightmare, they would be in an endless loop in the nightmare of eternal collapse, and life would be worse than death.

The authenticity of this news, as well as its source, cannot be verified, because it has become the consensus of everyone.

And... this is a topic that cannot be verified.

Just as it is impossible for those who are dead to jump up and tell the living what will happen to them after death; it is also impossible for the missionaries who have been lost in the nightmare of collapse to suddenly appear and tell them what the nightmare will become.

Taking a closer look, the reality of the nightmare about eternal collapse is also an unknown.However, the questers—and the cosplayers—believe in it.

Because they don't want to use their whole life to test its authenticity.

It is already miserable to come to the narrow building; if you are forever lost in those inexplicable and repeated nightmares, that is the real hell on earth.

Therefore, it is no wonder that many taskers are already exhausted and desperate.They no longer enter the nightmare, but join the doomsday carnival of some taskers.

And even those questers who entered the nightmare, unless the real ending is imminent, otherwise, they are still willing to give it a try, play a normal ending, and fight again next time, just like selfish ghosts, with the previously obtained information, start over.

Item cards, even if you can use them, don't use them.

Because of this, of course the dead ghost will hesitate, of course he will hesitate and weigh.

The selfish man laughed: "I advise you hypocrites, you might as well be a real villain like me, at least you don't have to be bound by rules and regulations. I said that I am not willing to take out the item card, but I am not willing..."

Blushing for the dead ghost: "You...you call me a hypocrite? You are such a shameless thing..."

The selfish man and the dead man were arguing in the backseat.

"Okay." Ringo said impatiently, "I'm going back to the narrow building. I'll subdue that man in black right away."

The car was suddenly quiet, and the three missionaries looked at him in astonishment.

For some reason, Mu Jiashi even secretly breathed a sigh of relief.This nightmare... the whole process of this nightmare made him feel deeply exhausted.

Whether it was the rush of the journey, the back and forth quarrels with other questers, or the annoying time of this nightmare, or his failure, it all made him feel——he simply treated him as a waste.

Really rubbish.The kind of waste that gives up on itself and doesn't want to work hard anymore.

Therefore, when Lingo said that he planned to directly subdue the man in black, it must be said that Mu Jiashi even secretly yelled hello for him.

Anyway, I have already obtained so much information, if I really want to play the real ending, I will try again later.Entering the same nightmare for the first few times, the nightmare will not change much, just like it is impossible for the nightmare to collapse immediately in the first few rounds.

Mu Jiashi didn't speak, and the other two taskers didn't dare to disobey the big brother's wishes, for fear that they would be subdued first—at this time, the selfish ghost could see the wind and play the rudder.

Therefore, Lingo nodded in satisfaction: "Then it's decided. Anyway, I don't think you can make it look like the real ending."

Three taskers: "..."

Boss, it doesn't have to be so real.

Ringo didn't know how much heart-wrenching feeling his casual words brought to the three taskers present.

He looked out the window, even eager to get out of this nightmare.

After learning about Xu Beijin's preferences, and getting a chance to visit Xu Beijin's home, Lin Biao couldn't wait.

In terms of his character, the reason he was able to stay so patiently for so long was because he wanted to think carefully about his next actions.

But he probably overestimated himself, and also overestimated this group of taskers.Time has passed for so long, he can't think of any way, and this group of taskers can't think of any way.

So, the impatient Ringo decided to end this nightmare manually.

This is actually something he often does, but only this time, it's not because he was really offended, but because he has other things that make him anxious and make him eager to go back to the narrow building.

With this emotion in mind, when the car of the four of them arrived at the service area, Ringo was the first to get out of the car and strode towards the central flower bed—then his footsteps stopped.

Mu Jiashi, who was following behind him, couldn't help but let out a small sigh.

In the service area, there was no figure of the man in black at all.

Even the residents of the narrow buildings, which were originally a large number, disappeared a lot.The entire service area was empty, without the bloody and brutal killing scene before, but it was eerily quiet.

Mu Jiashi's eyes widened in shock, and he muttered to himself: "How could this happen? Did the nightmare change again..."

After a moment of doubt, he gradually accelerated his pace and rushed to the supermarket in the service area.The selfish ghost and the dead ghost followed closely behind him.

In the supermarket, only a few salespersons and cashiers are still working.

Dai Wu still stuck to his post, and when he saw the three of them rushing over, he showed a surprised expression.

"Why are you again? Or because of the man in black?" He said puzzledly, "But, that murderer killed his wife and continued to kill indiscriminately in the service area. After being caught by the police, he was already sentenced to death." .Didn't you watch the news?"

These words made Mu Jiashi stop suddenly, suddenly realized.

In the bookstore, Xu Beijin, who saw this scene through the screen in the live broadcast room, propped his chin, and said to himself: "So it's like this..."