Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

"Electrical appliances..." Xu Beijin whispered these two words, "No, it should be said, smart furniture."

After the nightmare restarted, Xu Beijin was still sitting in the bookstore.The scene that just appeared in the live broadcast room made him feel a little overwhelmed, and the audience also exclaimed.

Who would have thought that a bathtub could kill?Who would have thought that the smart furniture at home seemed to be refined?

At this time, Xu Beijin recalled the strange behavior of the taskers, which seemed to be understandable.

Sister Jiang was facing a corner of the curtain that suddenly turned up; the cat's eyes covered by Shen Yunju's hands;

Also, as Dai Wu said, "be careful behind your back".

These taskers are all in the apartment.What is behind them?It is the "home" where the nightmare is set, the furniture in the house.

And I'm afraid the taskers would not have thought that those ordinary furniture would suddenly come to life one day, staring at their backs with gloomy, vicious, hateful or indifferent eyes.

Even the most positive gaze that Sister Jiang met was just indifferent.

These living furniture seem to hold a ten thousand malice towards human beings.Even, like Jiang Shuangmei, he wanted to kill her.

But...it doesn't seem to be incomprehensible.

The curtains are okay, the toilet... If you think about it in your shoes, it seems natural that the toilet hates humans.

In the live broadcast room, the audience also understood Xu Beijin's words, and showed expressions of horror.

"Whoooooooo hold my doll tight."

"Your rag doll has also grown up [cute], and will slap your little face after you sleep [cute]"

"...Don't scare me!!!"

"I, this, that, no... I'm sitting on the toilet."

"Put up your toilet brush and defend yourself! We won't laugh at your [dog head]"

"Are you actually watching the live broadcast on the toilet??? Be careful..."

"Today, did you mention it?"

"I'm mentioning it, I'm mentioning it, thank you thank you."

"No, why did the furniture turn into spirits? Then can I make a wish that a bed that turns into spirits will become my boyfriend?"

"It's more likely that your bed can't stand you lying on him and snoring every day, so it uses sheets and quilts to suffocate you in the bed in the middle of the night."

"... Grass. Let me go."

"It's over, the reasoning boss is not here, and there is only Beibei, a decent person in our live broadcast room."

Xu Beijin: "..."

He sighed faintly.

Once, he thought that he could get information about the outside world from this audience.Even, he is deeply wary of these audiences, always feeling that he is an actor who does not know himself, and these audiences are watching their good show.

Maybe he is the experimental product lying in the nutrition cabin, and these audiences are senior researchers.

As for now...

Hahaha.

If these sand sculpture audiences who were laughing and laughing all day long could be regarded as researchers, then Xu Beijin could be regarded as a young scientist no matter what, right? !

Xu Beijin couldn't help feeling helpless.

At this time, in the screen of the live broadcast room, the nightmare restarted again, and the taskers all tried to leave the apartment again - same as last time, failed.

That means they may have to wait another hour before they can leave the apartment.This made some taskers who got nothing from the last round of nightmares feel anxious.

Except for Jiang Shuangmei, as well as the viewers and anchors in the live broadcast room, the rest of the taskers didn't know why the nightmare restarted, nor did they know where the danger came from.

They only know that the person with the mission is dead.

However, the time of death was an hour after they entered the nightmare, in other words, after they could leave the apartment.So, did the tasker's death happen in the apartment, or outside the apartment?Even, did he or she leave the apartment building?

These are all unknowns.And despite the vigilance secretly raised by these unknown taskers, whether they can realize that it is the furniture in the apartment that kills the taskers... This is also an unknown.

Some people may have suspicions, but they are hard to guard against.

It was only after Xu Beijin witnessed the whole process of Jiang Shuangmei's death that he decided that there was indeed something wrong with the furniture in this apartment building.And how can this group of mission workers in this mountain find out?

At least, Xu Beijin observed the taskers from different perspectives in the live broadcast room at this time, and no one seemed to be aware of the problem with the furniture in the apartment.

There was even someone—the tall and thin mission worker, who went to the toilet again.

Xu Bei wished him best.

But the toilet probably can't kill people...probably.

Human beings are nothing more than harming each other with the refined toilet...

Among these taskers, the most restless is probably Sister Jiang.In the previous round of nightmares, she reunited with Muscular Man and exchanged information.

The muscular man said that at the beginning of the nightmare, he also appeared in the apartment and noticed the invisible sight.This common ground makes Sister Jiang's thoughts a lot.

She also shared her experience with him, and not long afterward, the nightmare restarted.

Despite getting some useful information, Sister Jiang is still worried about her younger sister.After that palpitation, it was hard for her not to wonder whether the death of the tasker who caused the nightmare to restart happened to Jiang Shuangmei.

Sister Jiang Shuang felt anxious and kept trying to go out, but all failed.

"Damn it!" She couldn't help cursing, "Why are they scattered in different apartments... Wait!"

apartment?

She turned suddenly to look at the apartment.As she imagined, it was more like a serviced apartment than a private residence.The decor is upscale but without the slightest personal touch.

In a brief meeting with the muscular man, she had glimpsed through the open door of the muscular man's apartment, which was exactly the same as the apartment she was in.

If it's a hotel apartment...

She whispered to herself: "There should be a security room on the first floor...Maybe there will be property management, and the check-in records can be found..."

This is her guess, based on some information from the earth.She didn't know if this nightmare would really be in line with her thoughts... After all, nightmares are places that cannot be judged by common sense.

Even if there is, it is also a question of whether they will adapt to changes based on the list of taskers who entered the nightmare.

However, she had no other choice.Is it really necessary to check room by room?

She had pressed the fourth floor in the elevator before, just to test the waters.She originally thought that being able to get out of the apartment was just the beginning of the nightmare. Who would have thought that the nightmare would restart soon after leaving the apartment?

She believed that the rest of the questers must have thought the same way, and they would have explored as much of the apartment building as possible in their search for other questers.

But since the first round of nightmares is over so quickly, it means that there is an unknown danger in the apartment building.This will prompt the taskers to gather as soon as possible to exchange information.

In this case……

Sister Jiang thought for a moment, then decided that after she could leave the apartment later, she would immediately go to the first floor of the apartment building without any pause in between.

In this way, one is to find possible check-in records, and the other is to find other taskers who may also go to the first floor to meet up.

Now Sister Jiang only hopes that her younger sister will be smarter and know that after leaving the apartment, she will go to the first floor to meet her...

She thought, Shuangshuang should be able to think of this point, right?

If Jiang Shuangjie knew that in the first round of nightmares, Jiang Shuangmei didn't even go out the door, and didn't even know that the door would be opened after an hour... Then she might not be so confident.

But she didn't know.

The nightmare restarted, and Xu Beijin left the bookstore again.

Ever since the first live broadcast, when he left the bookstore in fear, Xu Beijin seemed to be more and more used to this kind of free action.

In fact, the mastermind does not completely restrict the activities of the player, but only requires the player not to reveal his identity to the tasker, and to perfectly play the role of a narrow building resident.

And most of the original cosplayers were eager to defy NE.It's a pity that the long years and hopeless future have smoothed the hearts of most actors.

Even Xu Beijin, he has become more and more used to the life in the narrow building.Calm, hopeless, with no future.

Dai Wu told him that the game should be regarded as a second life, and at the same time, the real life should not be forgotten... Xu Beijin believed that he could not do it.Dai Wu's fearless optimism sometimes almost makes Xu Beijin feel envious.

But he can't.In other words, he did submit to NE.He accepted his fate.

The only thing he insists on is that he doesn't want any questers to enter his nightmare.And for this, he had to find ways to refresh himself, and thus acquired a small, harmless hobby.

But that's it.

And when he harvested the live broadcast system and left again and again——to escape from the bookstore, he finally realized that freedom... When people are deeply trapped and trapped in difficulties, and then suddenly the sea and the sky are bright and the clouds are clear...

Freedom, what a nostalgic thing.

It seemed to awaken a part of Xu Beijin's dormant soul.

... Well, its final performance is probably Xu Beijin involuntarily going to line up outside the milk tea shop.

What can he do.He can't control his feet.

Xu Beijin thought in despair and frustration.

When he watched his milk tea being sealed with plastic film by the machine again, he was suddenly taken aback.

He felt that there seemed to be a gaze staring at him behind him.That gaze was calm and indifferent, but it stuck firmly to his back, never leaving a single step.

Xu Beijin lowered his eyes slightly, and the happy expression on his face instantly faded.He took the milk tea handed over by the clerk, thanked him, then turned around and looked behind him.As expected, none of the actors were looking at him, but that gaze followed him everywhere.

He took a sip of milk tea, frowned and thought, is this what those missionaries are facing?

The moment he noticed that gaze, Xu Beijin thought of Dai Wu's warning to him.He realized that if there was a problem with the furniture and electrical appliances in the Loko apartment building, would there be a problem with the commercial area as well?

Compared to the unexplained panic of the taskers, Xu Beijin was much calmer.Although that gaze was always on him and made him a little uncomfortable, but as a resident of a narrow building where hundreds of taskers gathered at the door, Xu Beijin thinks that this is just a small scene now.

It's just—he bit his straw, thinking a bit distressed—if this gaze still followed him when he returned to the bookstore...it would be a bit annoying.

He took a few steps to the side to keep himself out of the way of other actors.His calm eyes searched among the various decorations, electrical appliances, and objects in the room, trying to find the lingering sight.

He was on the first floor of the business district. There was a milk tea shop at the entrance. He had never drank this brand, so he came to queue.

Now, he stands aside, looking thoughtfully at the entire commercial area, from the automatic glass doors at the entrance, to the passenger elevators and escalators in the atrium, to the small appliances in the milk tea shop...

There is also air conditioning.

Xu Beijin raised his head subconsciously and looked at the air outlet of the central air conditioner in the business district.

This is one of those appliances in the commercial area that is often overlooked.People tend to focus on the dazzling shops, but don't pay attention to the air-conditioning outlets above the white walls.

But it's everywhere.

The moment Xu Beijin looked at the air outlet of the air conditioner in front of him, the gaze that had been staring at him disappeared instantly.

Xu Beijin breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, but then felt baffled.

He is a cosplayer.Moreover, he is not the master of this nightmare, and what he insists on saying is no different from the NPC in the nightmare.

So, this refined air conditioner...why look at him?

Xu Beijin tilted his head somewhat incomprehensibly, and he said softly to himself: "Okay, maybe it's because...you haven't seen me like this?"

He laughed amusedly.Perhaps he himself realized that for a cosplayer like him, when he is "working", he goes to drink milk tea with other cosplayers, which is completely fishing.

Other actors might think that his script was just wandering around the business district, but Xu Bei knew very well that he was just teased out by the audience in the live broadcast room, and then he got out of hand.

And, that was a solid hour.It would be too boring to just wait in the bookstore.

...Xu Beijin didn't have the concept of boredom before.He's just doing a dutiful paddling extras in a nightmare.It's a pity that he now has a live broadcast system.

From thrift to extravagance.

He took one last look at the air-conditioning outlet on the side front.Although I don't understand why this line of sight is fixed on him, but since it has appeared, and Dai Wu reminded him before, "Be careful behind your back", Xu Beijin decided to be more cautious.

He took the milk tea and went back to the bookstore.

There was no such strange look in the bookstore.

In fact... Xu Beijin suddenly realized that in the bookstore, he didn't see any electrical appliances at all.

Wooden bookshelves and counters, old antique books, mottled and peeling walls... There is no TV, no air conditioner, and no common household appliances.

The only thing that can be called electricity is a single light bulb on the ceiling.But he couldn't even find the switch to control the light bulb. It seemed that the purpose of setting up the light in the nightmare was just to create a scary atmosphere.

Xu Beijin sensed the strangeness of the matter.He casually put the milk tea on the counter and walked around the bookstore.He couldn't find any useful information.

In the first two nightmares, he had newspapers in his bookstore, but this time he didn't.The bookstore is full of dirty old books, some of which are even blurred.

But there was something odd about it.

Xu Bei stared deeply at this antique bookstore.The bookstore, he thought, lacked the information on nightmares, but it was like a... a safe house.

According to the information obtained so far, the danger in this nightmare comes from those refined household appliances.By the way, there are other facilities.But no matter what, it's an electrified thing anyway.

And in his bookstore, there are no such electrical appliances.The only thing that is powered is a small light bulb.Even if this light bulb can become a spirit, what can it do?Blow yourself up to kill with shards of glass?

In any case, the bookstore doesn't look dangerous.

For the taskers, they will inevitably come to the business district to look for clues; and at that time, the electrical appliances on the business district will definitely start attacking them.Nightmare doesn't give an unsolvable problem, so they must have a way to dodge those attacks.

"...That's why there is a safe house." Xu Beijin murmured in a low voice, "This kind of safe house cannot be the only one."

He is so sure because he is the owner of this bookstore, but he is actually just a cosplayer.It sounds a little weird if something like a safe house belongs to an extra.

Thinking, he glanced at the time.

Twenty minutes had passed since the nightmare restarted.

So Xu Beijin left the bookstore again without hesitation, focusing on the bookstore, and began to look for a "safe house" similar to his antique bookstore.

Two and ten minutes later, he found three.

They are a handicraft store that makes pottery, a clothing store that sells second-hand clothing, and a retail store that sells tobacco, alcohol and tea.The locations are all near his bookstore, or in other words, around the open-air plaza on the basement level.

...Xu Beijin doubted whether the missionaries would be able to find these safe houses, especially in a panic.

Perhaps other locations in the business district will have safe houses, but there is a high probability that there will be no safe houses inside. After all, there is a central air conditioner inside.If it is outside the building, then it is only along the street and near the open square.

The only problem is that the taskers seem to have not realized what went wrong with this nightmare.

At least judging from the pictures in the live broadcast room, Xu Beijin found that, except for Jiang Shuangmei, who had an accident before, the rest of the taskers were still not at all wary of those smart furniture.

Xu Beijin confirmed the location of each safe house, then walked through the open-air plaza—bought another cup of milk tea by the way, planning to drink it later—and returned to the bookstore again.

All his actions were recorded by the camera in the live broadcast room, and all kinds of curious barrages had already been flying across the public screen, all asking what Xu Beijin was doing.

To be honest, this live broadcast has continued until now, but it is actually quite boring.The taskers were trapped in the apartment for an hour at a time, and they had to do this every time the nightmare restarted; and Xu Beijin was not a very good anchor to enliven the atmosphere.

However, he is handsome.

So the audience has a lot of patience with Xu Beijin very realistically.

It wasn't until Xu Beijin returned to the bookstore that he fully explained his actions just now.

He said: "Since there is a safe house, it means that when the taskers come to the business district, they will definitely face very serious dangers. Besides..." He pondered for a moment, and then said a question that he had been worrying about for a long time , "This nightmare has not provided any available information."

According to the general development of nightmares, when it comes to the second round of nightmares, taskers will often encounter residents of narrow buildings who can provide information, or find other written materials.In short, they should not be for nothing.

But now these missionaries have encountered such a dilemma.

Seven people were scattered in seven rooms.For the first hour of the nightmare, they couldn't join.Moreover, even after an hour passed, they could try to rendezvous, but the danger in the apartment seemed to be on another level.

This is a bit annoying.

In the live broadcast room, the audience also echoed.

"That's right. In the previous nightmare, by the second round, the players knew that the man in black had killed someone in the bedroom. By the third round, they directly solved the mystery of the counting. But this time Nightmare... I can't see that the player has obtained any useful information."

"We know a lot of information, because we are God's perspective, and the information is shared. But the players are scattered in seven different rooms... It's miserable."

"And even if one of the players knows, there's no way to tell the others."

"Beibei, do you think there will be a safe house in the apartment building?"

Xu Beijin was taken aback, thought for a moment, and said, "It's possible. Maybe it's on the first floor of the apartment building."

As he said that, he simply began to adjust the angle of view of the live broadcast room, and kept checking those ancillary buildings of the apartment building that he hadn't looked at carefully before.Finally, he stopped at the green facilities of the community.

He hesitated for a moment, and then expressed his conjecture: "There are electrical appliances everywhere in the apartment building, such as air conditioners, lights, elevators, fans, etc... But it seems to be safe outside the apartment building."

"!!that is true!!"

"However, do the players think that there must be clues in the apartment building, so they have been looking for them and are unwilling to come out..."

"I think it's very possible... Once again, I feel the maliciousness of the game plan."

"It's terrible... If it was me, I would definitely not want to leave if I didn't find any clues in the apartment building..."

Xu Beijin nodded, and said in a low voice, "It's human nature."

Such a large building is placed here, and everyone knows that there must be some clues in it.However, there are so many rooms in the apartment, if they were to be found one by one, how could the seven missionaries have the time?

There is also a huge commercial area waiting for their exploration!

In addition, they were forced to wait anxiously in the apartment for an hour.This will inevitably affect their mentality, making them unconsciously think that they have wasted an hour, and unconsciously speed up their actions afterwards.

Thinking about it, Xu Beijin set his sights on the screen in the live broadcast room.

He couldn't help but wonder how these missionaries would choose.

In the second round of the nightmare, an hour passed quickly, and the taskers could leave their apartments to explore.

Sister Jiang stood up, and before opening the door, she subconsciously touched the inner pocket of her waist.

... Then her face suddenly changed.

She pinched the empty inner pocket in horror—where are her two prop cards? !Why is it gone? !

She instinctively recalled all her experiences in this nightmare.

...that's a card dealer!

That muscular man who looks honest and honest with a flattering smile is actually a card dealer? !

Sister Jiang's eyes widened angrily.