Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Ringo has always said that Xu Beijin is special in his world.

And for Xu Beijin, the existence of Ringo is of course special.Not only because of Lin's extraordinary enthusiasm and persistence in wanting to fight with him, but more importantly, he is not interested in his nightmares.

It was precisely because he was not interested that Xu Beijin was really relieved.

He was actually very troubled by the questers' interest in his nightmares.He didn't want others to enter his nightmare, but he also knew that this move was unreasonable.

After sternly rejecting most of the taskers a long time ago and exposing himself as a monster who can't sleep, Xu Beijin lived a peaceful life for a while.

However, with the arrival of the live broadcast system, Ringo's attention to him, and Mu Jiashi's agreed meeting with him... All kinds of events made Xu Beijin keenly aware that there seemed to be some uneasy undercurrent, right here Flowing through a withered narrow building.

Likewise, his peaceful life seemed to be gone forever.

Xu Beijin felt uneasy, and of course he was a little ready to move.Any human being living in the narrow building, whether it is a tasker or a player, who has no idea of ​​leaving the narrow building?

The live broadcast system—Xu Beijin sighed again, it is really an excellent tool.Not only showed him the way, but also brought him a hope, and the latter was a taste he hadn't tasted in many years.

...Although, he still has to deal with this troublesome visitor.

After the nightmare was over, Lingo came here excitedly, and didn't even go to the place where Ding Yi told him to store drinks immediately.His home is at most 100 meters away from Xu Beijin's house in a straight line.

Lin Po brought the drinks he had collected, and spent at most half a minute on the way, thinking about how to communicate with Xu Beijin.He didn't realize that he was full of anticipation, joy and apprehension, which to some extent was exactly the same as in another scene.

Anyway, the moment Xu Beijin opened the door, Lingo raised the drink in his hand, but what he said was not a confession, but a bewildered expression——

"Fight me."

Xu Beijin: "..."

He sighed heavily.

After the two looked at each other for a while, Xu Beijin turned sideways to let Lin Po come in.

It was still early, no one should have noticed Lin Po's arrival, besides, Lin Po took the most direct path all the way, instead of the initial avenue that was further outside and more crowded with people, this made Xu Beijin feel relieved.

The only thing that might be noticed...

Xu Beijin unconsciously glanced at the opposite door and window.Although the door is a portal, in fact, people inside the house can still see the scene in the narrow building outside through the window.

But Xu Beijin didn't know if any new residents had moved into the opposite room.These are very random things, only the mastermind NE clearly knows the occupants of each room, as well as future occupants.

Xu Beijin closed the door.He just glanced over casually, not knowing that there really was a pair of eyes—the eyes of a woman, looking at the outside world in panic and fear.

She didn't monitor her neighbor's movements on purpose, but the script required her to do so, especially with Ringo as the tasker.However, the tasker did not notice the clues deliberately left by the residents of the narrow building. Instead, she saw the interaction between Lingo and Xu Beijin.

This made the woman's eyes flash with thoughtfulness.

But then she sighed mournfully.

Her nightmare is not like that little boy's nightmare, and it is possible to achieve a true ending by violent means.Even if he wanted to use Ringo's force value, it seemed useless.

The woman thought nonchalantly, she was just watching a gossip.

This neighbor of hers was unexpectedly valued by the taskers.When she was still on the ground floor of the narrow building before, during the busiest time, there were hundreds of taskers besieging her neighbor day and night.

Some missionaries even came to ask her about her neighbor.

However, she later went to a higher floor, and I don't know how it developed in the follow-up.

And now that she is back, she sees her neighbor who has a tasker coming to her.

But... what does it matter to her?

She just went from a higher floor to the bottom of the narrow building.Back to the nightmare that had tortured her for a long time.

She turned her head and pressed her back against the wall.Her eyes fell on the room she lived in, and then, she slowly revealed a real fear.

Xu Bei never expected Lin Po to come so fast, and was somewhat caught off guard.

And... another true ending; another Ringo who didn't go to a higher floor.

Xu Beijin was only surprised for a moment, he thought, yes, Ringo said he was not interested in nightmares, so why did he go to higher floors?

Perhaps it was Ringo himself who chose not to go to the higher floors?

Xu Beiquan thought so, but he was too embarrassed to ask directly.Maybe in the future, if he gets a little more familiar with Ringo, he will ask, but it's still hard to open his mouth now.

He welcomed Ringo into the door, and put away the drink brought by the guest with a little embarrassment.The distance from the former world became longer and longer, and he almost forgot how to treat guests.

However, Xu Beijin managed to dig out some fragments from his memory, which allowed him to prepare some good drinks for Ringo, took out the cups he had collected, poured each of them into the cups, and put them on the small table.

One cup for Ringo, one cup for myself.

When he sat down, Xu Bei thought to himself, it is rare for such a scene to appear in the narrow building.

In fact, if Ringo hadn't been full of fights and fights, he would have been quite easy to get along with.He was frank and said what came to his mind.He brought over a dozen bottles of drinks, including soft drinks, soda cans, glass bottles, and everything else.

"This was collected before." Ringo said, "Maybe there are some you don't like, but anyway, I collected them all, so I brought them here. I knew what you like to drink in a nightmare before, so I will pick one and give it to you later. "

Holding the cup, Xu Beijin hesitated for a moment, not knowing what to reply.

He should reveal, does he remember what happened in the nightmare?

He waited for a while, but didn't wait for the mastermind's prohibition, so he said kindly: "Thank you." He paused again, "However, you don't have to...you don't have to give it all to me."

Ringo asked strangely, "But you like it."

"I like it. But..." Xu Beijin pondered for a moment, "If it's not something I like, you must give it to me."

Ringo looked a little dazed, he frowned and said, "But..."

Xu Beijin said gently: "In this way, you will be used by others, such as helping others to do things in nightmares. I don't want others to take advantage of you because of our friendship."

Lingo looked at him for a while, and probably finally understood what he meant: "I don't care. Other people are in my eyes..." He thought for a while, "It's like weeds on the side of the road, I don't care whether they live or die .Only you are special. I am willing to do something for you."

Xu Beijin was silent for a moment, and he suddenly felt that it might not be unreasonable for others to say that Lin Biao is a mad dog or a fool.His worldview seems very problematic.

Xu Beijin sighed, and said again: "You said earlier that you are not interested in nightmares either. I'm a little curious, what does the narrow building mean to you?"

Ringo looked at him, as if hesitating and hesitating.After a moment of silence, this harmless young man said slowly, "I don't know."

"what?"

"I don't know." Ringo said honestly, "I just... just live here."

Xu Beijin looked at him.

Ringo showed a somewhat distressed expression: "They all have a past. I heard from those missionaries that they used to be on Earth, and that they wanted to go back to that moment. But... I don't. I don't have a past."

Xu Bei was taken aback, and he quickly asked, "What do you mean? Are you saying that you have no memory about the earth?"

Ringo nodded."When I opened my eyes, I was in the narrow building," he said.

Xu Bei looked at him absent-mindedly.

What happened to Ringo made Xu Beijin have some bad guesses.

His bug-like force value, his simple and stubborn brain circuit, his blank past... These all make Xu Beijin have various conjectures.

Perhaps, the taskers maliciously speculated about Ringo's IQ problem because he actually didn't remember anything?Sometimes he's dull, sometimes he's quick-witted, and sometimes he doesn't know anything about human interaction, all because he's really like a blank slate?

But... why?

Why do taskers like Ringo appear?

What about his past?Why does he have such a superb force value?

Holding the cup, Xu Beijin was distracted for a long time.

When he came back to his senses, he saw that Ringo had stood up and walked aside.Probably feeling bored, so Ringo went to read the books in the bookstore.

"Sorry, I lost my mind."

Xu Beijin put down his glass, and hurriedly walked to Lin Po's side to apologize to him.

Ringo said indifferently, "It doesn't matter."

He was still looking down at the books.In fact, even Xu Beijin has only read some of these endless books.Ringo seemed to be interested in one of them, so he pointed to the book and asked, "Can I borrow a book?"

Xu Bei glanced at the book and nodded, "Of course."

The books in his bookstore... In fact, most of them are miscellaneous books.Novels, or essays, or the diaries of some unknown people.When Xu Beijin felt bored, he would randomly pull out a book to read.

The book that Ringo chose seemed to be a horror novel.On the cover was a pen and paper with blood on it.This bookshelf is full of books that Xu Beijin has read before, none of them are important, Lin Po can read them whenever he wants.

Ringo took out the novel and thanked him politely.

Xu Beijin hesitated for a moment, then asked him again: "Your memory problem... have you told anyone about it?"

"No." Lingo was still looking at the cover of the horror novel over and over again, and after hearing Xu Beijin's question, he answered casually, "You are special, so I told you. I know, in the narrow building, Vigilance is a must."

A complex emotion arose in Xu Beijin's heart.

One is that he was surprised that Lingo still had such an idea; the other was that he was flattered that Lingo actually told him such a private matter; and the third was that it sounded even more strange.

Ringo lost his memory, but he was not a blank slate like a baby.He knows what the Narrow Building is, the tasker, the nightmare, the item card, some unspoken rules of the Narrow Building, and some ways to behave in the world.

For example, he even knew that if he gave Xu Bei a drink, he might be able to soften Xu Bei's heart and fight him.

This is a characteristic of socialization.

In other words, even though Ringo has lost his past memory, and he may even have heard about what the earth is from other missionaries, he still has the character and experience nurtured by human society.

This made Xu Beijin deeply disturbed.

What caused Ringo's amnesia?

What was the past of this young man standing beside him?

Obviously this is Lin's problem, but at this moment, Xu Beijin is far more anxious than Lin's.He secretly glanced at Lin Po several times, thinking, the emperor is not in a hurry with the eunuchs.

...He didn't mean that he was a eunuch.This is a metaphor.

Ringo seemed content to borrow a book.He saw the cups on the small table. Under the dim light in the bookstore, the pottery cups looked delicate and unique.

Ringo said thoughtfully, "Do you like collecting cups?"

Xu Beijin was a little dazed, and hesitantly replied: "It's okay?" He smiled wryly, "Life in the narrow building is really too boring."

Sometimes, he took out different cups from the cabinet, poured different drinks, turned on a small night light, and sat on the slightly old sofa to read a book... At that time, the dust in the air rose and fell in the light.

He was half asleep and half awake, and he felt as if he had returned to the earth in a trance.

However, the next second he will wake up and realize that he may never return to Earth.

It always caused him a deep pain.

Therefore, although he collects drinks, cups, and some other household items, and decorates his bookstore when he is in the mood, many times, because of this behavior itself, he feels a kind of long-term and Intense pain.

Xu Beijin sighed, and he decided to make it clear to Lin Po: "Lin Po, I hope you don't just agree to other people's requests just because you want to fight with me, because you want to collect drinks and cups, or something else. , okay? It's not fair to you."

This will not only embarrass and embarrass Xu Beijin, but also get Lin Biao into too much trouble.

Ringo felt a little strange, because in his opinion, equivalent exchange is a very normal thing.But since Xu Beijin said so, Lin Po didn't want to disobey him, so he said kindly, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

He thought to himself, if he understands, then he doesn't need to be asked by others, and he can propose it on his own initiative.

Well, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the logic.

Xu Beijin didn't know his own opinion yet, what kind of ghost did Lin Po misunderstand him into.He just breathed a sigh of relief because of Ringo's straightforward consent.

He took the initiative to ask: "Do you want to eat anything? I have collected some snacks."

Lingo gave him a weird look, as if to say: What kind of strange things do you collect all day long?

Residents in the narrow building, as well as those tasked, who would really live the life in the narrow building as life?

But it seems that Xu Beijin is such a person.

Ringo thought for a while, then nodded decisively in agreement.He suddenly felt that since he learned that Xu Beijin liked to drink, he was slowly getting closer to Xu Beijin's life, and then found that Xu Beijin was not what he imagined at first.

He meant... he felt that Xu Beijin was very special, and he might be able to beat him, so he used Xu Beijin's life as a reference for his own life.However, Xu Beijin seemed to be completely different from him.

Lingo looked curiously at the pile of snacks that Xu Beijin took out.

There are many cabinets in Xu Beijin's bookstore.Although the cabinets without doors were filled with books, which seemed very serious, but the cabinets with doors were full of messy things collected by Xu Beijin.

If Lin Po went to the second floor and went to Xu Beijin's more private room, he would be amazed that Xu Beijin had collected so many things in the narrow building for so many years.

Whether it's drinks, snacks, cups, bowls and chopsticks, etc., everything is available.Although he just put many things there, they are also dazzling.

It wasn't until seeing the surprise in Lin Po's eyes that Xu Beijin finally realized that his image might have collapsed.

In the narrow building, no one had ever been so close to his daily life.Those taskers who want to enter his nightmare naturally don't count.I'm afraid that only a pure-minded person like Lin Po can make Xu Beijin reluctantly let go of his guard.

He smiled somewhat embarrassedly, then pushed his favorite snacks towards Ringo, and opened two cans of his favorite drinks.He said, "Try it."

So, on this day, Lin Po fell in love with those things that Xu Beijin used to pass the time almost instantly.

Books, drinks, snacks.

Before he left, he asked: "I don't know what the world outside the narrow building is like. However, I have never experienced what you gave me in the narrow building. Is this something from the outside world?"

Xu Bei was startled.

Seeing the doubt in Lin Po's eyes, he might feel a little uneasy—or Xu Beijin made it up.

He was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "Yes."

Lin Po nodded thoughtfully, then said goodbye to Xu Beijin and left.

He came here this time, but failed to fight Xu Beijin.However, there seems to be another windfall.

Xu Bei watched him leave with all his eyes.This day was the first time he was not alone in the narrow building.Although in the nightmare, there are audiences in the live broadcast room to accompany, but the online companionship is still different from the real companionship.

He couldn't help but think of another missionary who said he was going to visit him.Mu Jiashi... However, since the last nightmare had a true ending, Mu Jiashi should have gone to a higher floor, right?

Thinking of this, Xu Beijin inevitably smiled, not because he was happy, but because of some more complicated thoughts.

He thought that even if Mu Jiashi came to visit him, it was probably because he was interested in his nightmares.

This kind of thinking made Xu Beijin feel a little bit depressed.

At this time, he once again lamented Ringo's simplicity and purity.He likes to get along and talk with people like Ringo, it's so simple that he can see clearly at a glance.

Xu Beijin always feels very tired, and puts his brain to sleep most of the time, so he likes to deal with people like Ringo.

...He didn't mean to despise Ringo.Ringo's keen intuition is also something he can't wait for.

Xu Beijin stood silently at the door for a while, full of thoughts in his mind.

After a while, he returned to the bookstore, cleaned up the mess, and put back the things that should have been put away.After a long time, the bookstore returned to its original state, and Xu Beijin sat there quietly.

Suddenly, he regretted it a little.

Maybe he should keep the items in a slightly chaotic state for a while longer.In this way, the residual warmth after this kind of friend's visit can be kept longer.

But it's meaningless to be an afterthought at this time.

He sighed and sat alone until late at night.

Immediately, another trance invaded his brain.He couldn't help being slightly startled, thinking to himself, it's only been a day, and he's going to work again?It never seemed so fast before...

However, he couldn't defy the mastermind's arrangement, so he calmly closed his eyes, and his consciousness sank into a deeper darkness.

When Xu Beijin opened his eyes again, it was also night time in the nightmare.

He looked around and found that he was still the owner of a bookstore.However, he also still has no information about this nightmare.It seems that he is still an idle extra in this nightmare.

Outside the bookstore is a bustling business district, full of feasting lights.But none of this has anything to do with his dilapidated antique bookstore.

Xu Beijin coughed as he was choked by the dust in the bookstore.He was surprised and thought helplessly, this antique bookstore was even messier than his bookstore in the narrow building.

The books randomly placed on the shelves are like genuine old antiques-not that they are really worth much, but that they are covered with dust, as if they have just been dug out of some ancient grave.

The only light source in the bookstore was a light bulb above his head, the dim yellow light was not bright, not as bright as the lights outside.

Xu Beijin opened the window, and finally let the dust disperse a little, then opened the live broadcast room.

The audience didn't come in immediately, and Xu Beijin got used to it.He looked at the options on the right, wanting to see which scene to switch to to see the situation.

... Then Xu Beijin was startled.

On the list on the right side of the live broadcast room, under the option of "Switch Screen Source", there is a list that is too long to fit on the entire screen.

Xu Beijin looked carefully, and found that these scenes in the list were also divided into sub-parent lists, such as the first to eleventh floors of the Loko Apartment. If you click on one of the floors, you will find that there are different scenes on each floor. There are 101 rooms in total, ranging from 1111 to 121.

This is not counting the corridors, stairwells, halls on the first floor, elevators, security room, power distribution room, underground parking lot, road greening and other supporting facilities of the apartment on each floor, not to mention the outside of the apartment, which is Xu Beijin. The large commercial area where it is located.

This nightmare scene looks very huge.

In Xu Beijin's first live-streamed nightmare, the main scenes were only doll shops and bookstores; the second nightmare was slightly bigger, but not much bigger than the first nightmare.

But this time in this nightmare, there are more than 100 rooms in the apartment alone, and there are also dozens of shops in the business district.

I am afraid that the number of actors needed is huge.

However, Xu Beijin took a closer look at the number of taskers and found that there were actually only seven of them.

...and there is Ringo again.

Xu Beijin was shocked.

Why did Ringo run into the nightmare again?Isn't it said that he may not have a nightmare for ten days and a half a month?Could it be that he came to collect some drinks again?

Xu Beijin stared quietly at the bustling business district beyond the bookstore, as if subtly confirming his guess.

...he has a headache.

However, the names of the other six taskers are not familiar, at least not from the previous two nightmares.

That's right, the two previous nightmares had their true endings, and the missionaries in them, except for this strange guy like Ringo, should have gone to higher floors.

Xu Beijin randomly clicked on one of the rooms where the tasker was, intending to see what the nightmare was about this time.

He glanced at the room number. 807.

In the picture, the brightly lit and upscale interior of the apartment is presented in front of him.A female tasker was standing in the center of the living room, she seemed to have just woken up, and looked around blankly.

After living in a dark, dilapidated narrow building for a long time, the sudden appearance of such a high-end apartment on the earth in the past made this tasker stunned.She couldn't believe that such a scene would reappear in her nightmare...

She means, nightmare!

Such a room with warm yellow lights looks warm and well-decorated. It is also equipped with various smart furniture. What kind of nightmare will this expensive apartment bring?

Loan nightmare?

The female tasker frowned, feeling that things were a little weird.

She subconsciously touched her waist, and in the inner pocket of her clothes were the two item cards she brought when she entered the nightmare this time.Those were the two most powerful prop cards she had collected over the years.

For this nightmare, she took it without hesitation.

But... such a weird scene in the nightmare made these two prop cards somewhat useless.

At this moment, a sudden shudder climbed up her back, startling her instantly, and immediately turned to look behind her.

There is nothing behind her.But that feeling was still like a gangrene, as if it had penetrated into her bones, bringing waves of chills.

She trembled and turned around, but found nothing.The warm yellow lights of the high-end apartment, coupled with a few ambient lights, make the house bright like daytime.

Everything was as usual, only she felt the fear.

She can't see her back.

However, it seemed that someone's eyes were watching her back.