Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

The third opening of the nightmare.

Xu Beijin sat behind the counter of the bookstore with a thoughtful expression on his face.

...This nightmare is the nightmare of his former neighbor?

This leads to a question: Has a new actor appeared to play the host of this nightmare, or... the female actor who used to live next door to him has returned to the bottom floor of the narrow building?

For the taskers, they don't know that the residents of the narrow building are also played by human players.Therefore, the two possible final results are the same, that is, the female narrow-house resident who moved moved back.

From a certain point of view, the player is playing the role of the NPC in the game, and the taskers only know those NPCs.The residents of the narrow building have always been the residents of the narrow building, their appearance and temperament never change, only the actors under the skin change.

Therefore, the taskers who don't know the truth will of course think that the people who come and go are the same people.

But for an actor like Xu Beijin who knows the inside story, there are two possibilities: Has the actor under the skin changed or hasn't changed?

There is nothing to say about the first possibility. There is a new actor to play the narrow building resident, which is very common in the narrow building.Of course, except that the narrow building resident and his nightmare will not change, everything else may change.

For example, the location of the house, the difficulty of the nightmare, the floor of the narrow building, etc.

It is said that some taskers encountered an extremely accidental situation.He played the true ending in a nightmare on the bottom floor of the narrow building. After going to a higher floor, he met the resident of the narrow building again (maybe a different actor) and his nightmare, and then relied on his own The information obtained before revealed another true ending.

How should I put it... This might be the European Emperor who descended from the sky.

And the second possibility is that the original actor returned to the bottom of the narrow building... This is what makes Xu Beijin feel a little confused.

Why did the actor go backwards and replay the narrow building resident he once played?

This was something Xu Beijin had never heard of.

Taskers who play a bad ending on a higher floor may go backwards to the floor.But this has nothing to do with the actor.

In addition, if the actor has gone to a higher floor, it means that she has already had a successful experience, so this time the nightmare started, is it because she did it on purpose?

Many questions crowded Xu Beijin's mind.

He couldn't help sighing wearily, feeling that since he picked up this live broadcast system, life has become more complicated.

... However, he still picked this thing up, and it didn't belong to him in the first place.

That... game anchor?Ever since the first nightmare, Xu Beijin has never encountered it again.However, Xu Beijin has always been worried about this in his heart.

When the anchor quit the game, there might have been some bugs, so the live broadcast system—or the data port of the live broadcast? ——Stayed in the game "Escape from the Sky", and was picked up by Xu Beijin later.

And this also brings up a new question, since he can enter this game, will there be other anchors entering this game?

The earth... the audience in the live broadcast room also know the earth.They are also human.So the game anchor who once appeared in the narrow building is also a person from Earth?

However, since they are all Earth humans, why didn't they know the existence of these people in the narrow building during the live broadcast?Why are these people still trapped in the game and cannot escape?

According to the news revealed by the viewers in the live broadcast room, there are still many games like "Escape from the Sky", which are inaccessible to ordinary players...Why?

Since ordinary players cannot enter, why can the anchor be allowed to broadcast live?

Why do ordinary people have heard or even watched the live broadcast of the game, but they don't know that the players are trapped in the game instead of entering these games voluntarily?

Outside... what happened?

Xu Beijin was overwhelmed with worry, and sighed tiredly and annoyed.

He has always been reluctant to think about these issues, because the current situation of the world outside the narrow building is a question that Xu Beijin has been curious about and distressed since he entered the narrow building.

These emotions accumulated in his heart, and over the years, Xu Beijin became numb.

Like those residents who are really lost in the narrow building, he is unexamined and mediocre.He doesn't want to think about the future, remember the past, or grasp the present.

As Dai Wu said, he almost regarded this game as "No. 1 Life".He let himself be like this because there was nothing he could do.He can't do anything.

The live broadcast system brought him a beam of light.

But is this beam of light good or bad?

Mastermind... NE, have you noticed that he is live broadcasting?

Xu Beijin closed his dry eyes, rubbed the center of his brows, and felt sleepy for a while.Not just physically, but psychologically as well.

After a moment of silence, he opened his eyes and looked towards the live broadcast room.

Because he was not in a good mood, he didn't even bother to go out and wander around.Although, there is still an hour before the mission workers can leave the apartment.

It's been a long hour.

Jiang Shuangmei and Jiang Shuangmei are worrying about the unfinished action just now.

They have realized that not all the fine-tuned apartment facilities in the Loko apartment building are malicious to humans.

Some are true, such as the bathtub, sweeping robot, air conditioner, and door locks that want to kill Jiang Shuangmei; but some are not, such as the curtains in Jiang Shuangmei’s apartment, which are just indifferent.

For another example, in room 408 where the muscular man is located, the light is even more friendly to humans.

Therefore, the two sisters naturally thought of trying to communicate with these refined furniture.And the only thing they have met so far that they can talk to is the elevator in the apartment building.

More importantly, from the current point of view, the elevator does not seem to be too malicious to humans, but more of a mischievous trick.However, one resident had a heart attack due to an elevator prank and died immediately, which made them unconsciously cautious.

Who knows if it was just a prank or a deliberate homicide?

There are six elevators in total, and it is difficult for them to immediately tell which one is good and which one is bad.

However, this is an action goal after all.However, when they were about to act, the nightmare suddenly restarted.

what's going on?

Sister Jiang could not help feeling a little worried.She was a little afraid of this unexpected situation, just like the sudden death of Jiang Shuangmei in the first round of nightmares restarted the nightmares.Any death that is unknown and occurs in a nightmare will make the taskers panic.

but……

Sister Jiang touched her right inner pocket and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.No matter what, the two item cards were recovered, which is a great thing.

Compared to her joy, the muscular man was not so happy.

At the first moment when the nightmare restarted, he touched his pocket and found that the two stolen item cards were gone, leaving only the few cards he had with him, so he spat resentfully.

Damn it, he thought, it was found.

Even if the one in the toilet tank is easier to find, but he has hidden one in a place like the lampshade, how could he find it casually?

He could not help but look suspiciously at the lamp.

The round lampshade calmly emits light.

He couldn't see anything, so he gave up in discouragement and kicked the sofa angrily.Turning his head, he comforted himself secretly, after all, he had a piece of news that no one knew about, didn't he?

This news alone made his nightmare worth it.

...It's just that there were originally two item cards plus a message, and I don't know how many item cards I didn't have time to get started, but now there is only one message... The muscular man always feels at a loss.

He stood there, persuading himself to take a step back in his heart, just be patient, everything is safe, and it is a good thing to get out of this nightmare smoothly.

However, he kept looking up at the lamp, and then at the bathroom, feeling uncomfortable no matter what he thought.

For a while, Shinobu thinks more and more angry, and takes a step back and thinks more and more losses.

By the end, he was even walking up and down the apartment with red-eyed eyes.He muttered: "Damn it, my item card..."

It was obviously Jiang Shuangjie's item card, but he stole it, so he felt it was his own.

He even panted heavily in anger and clenched his fists.After a moment, he walked to the door and waited for the first hour to pass—he reversed his original thought.He decided not to stay in the apartment anymore.

He decided to get "his" item card back!

Shen Yunju was also trembling.But the muscular man was trembling with anger, while Shen Yunju was out of fear.

He sat there with no expression on his face, trembling hands and feet.His eyes were distracted, which was very similar to the fear after the death of Jiang Shuangmei.Because, they all died at the hands of things they never thought of.

Jiang Shuangmei died in the bathtub; Shen Yunju died in the elevator.

escalator.

After being separated from the skinny man and the little girl, he took the escalator to the basement floor. After walking around the basement floor, he found nothing else, but was so greedy for the aroma of various delicacies.

It's a pity that he didn't bring any money, and these delicacies were just for viewing.

So he walked towards the escalator absent-mindedly, intending to go to the second floor to have a look.

The escalators in this commercial area are stepped, not the smooth, hypermarket-like escalators.So Shen Yunju was more careful, paying special attention to his footsteps so as not to step on the air.

However, the moment he set his sights on one of the steps and raised his foot to step on it, he suddenly felt a venomous gaze staring straight at him. The coldness and gloomyness in the gaze made him shudder.

Afterwards, he watched helplessly as the step he was about to step on suddenly moved rapidly.He could have stepped on it safely, he obviously chose it, but the step moved forward a little bit, as if he didn't want to be stepped on by him.

It was too late for him to retract his legs, so he stepped on the ground, fell headfirst, and rolled down the escalator.

At this time, his head was bleeding, and there was another automatic glass door in front of the escalator, which was supposed to open automatically when someone was detected, but it didn't open at this time.As soon as he slammed into it, the glass door shattered, and the broken glass pierced into his hands, feet, body, and head.

Then he died.

The suffocation and shortness of breath that almost vomited when rolling, the severe pain as if the spine was broken, the dizziness when the head hit the glass door, the sting when the broken glass pierced the body, the drowsiness and numbness when the blood flowed everywhere...

Almost at the moment when the nightmare restarted, Shen Yunju unconsciously retched for a moment.

Death... Some taskers may have gotten used to death; while some taskers will never be able to get used to it.

He sat on the sofa with a pale face for a while, and finally calmed down slowly.At this time, the nightmare had restarted for almost half an hour, and he finally started to think about business.

There was also a problem with the escalator.This means that business districts are not safe places either.

Apartment buildings, commercial districts, sophisticated electrical appliances, excessive malice... Shen Yunju fell into deep thought.However, he soon couldn't continue thinking, because another cold gaze was cast on him.

Even though he started shaking again almost immediately, he still managed to calm himself down and looked up at the apartment... no, no... everything was normal.

Finally, his eyes fell on the cat's eyes.

In the first round of nightmares, he once thought that there was a person lying behind the cat's eyes, and the cat's eyes were like the eyes of that person, looking at him with distorted and malicious eyes.

And now he knows.

Cat eyes, those eyes.

He met the cat's eyes.Until... for some unknown reason, that line of sight flickered and disappeared again.

Shen Yunju took a sharp breath, and frowned inexplicably.

What the hell...why, Maoyan looked at him with that vicious look, and then disappeared again?Why did you suddenly give up?

If Shen Yunju could share his mood with Jiang Shuangmei at this time, I'm afraid he would get Jiang Shuangmei's very strong sense of approval.After all, the current Jiang Shuangmei also encountered the same confusion.

In the first round of nightmares, she was killed by the bathtub; in the second round of nightmares, she was almost frozen to death in the bedroom by the combination of the air conditioner and the door lock.

She knew that all the fine furniture in this apartment were full of malice towards her, so she was cautious at the beginning of the third round of nightmares.

First he left the bedroom decisively, then quickly ran to the edge of the door, squatted against the wall, shrank in the corner, buried his head in his knees, and planned to spend the first hour of the nightmare like this.

Half an hour later, when she unconsciously moved her stiff and numb legs, she realized that half an hour had passed, and the apartment was still as peaceful as before.

Why, she wondered, dumbfounded.

Not to mention the fine furniture, she didn't even feel any malicious eyes!

A thought came to her involuntarily: Did these furniture let her go?

If it was the first time she encountered such a situation, she would definitely not think too much; but this is the second time.In the last round of nightmares, the air conditioner and door locks let her go for no reason. Although the elevator was a prank, it was not a threat.

This time, the apartment was so peaceful that there was no danger at all.

Although she was a little dull, at this moment, she immediately thought, could it be because she had already died once in a nightmare, so these spirited furniture no longer targeted her?

Jiang Shuangmei immediately became happy.She hated these chattering things the most. If she was asked to fight some murderer, then she would be willing.

But she can't do it at all if she has to deal with such weird things as exquisite furniture.

She thought in her heart, if this is the case, why not let her sister die as well...?It's painful, but safe for the next few rounds of nightmares.

But... she thought again, this matter is not absolutely certain, she dare not let her sister take risks.

This is, after all, death.Although it is said that after death, there will be resurrection, but that is also death.It's not like in ordinary games, the controlled character dies when he dies, and he can't feel his death anyway.This is... the death they experienced firsthand.

Thinking about it, Jiang Shuangmei gave up the idea.

She felt a little more relaxed, so she stopped squatting in the corner.But the psychological shadow left before was too great, and she didn't dare to approach the bathroom and bedroom, and just stood by the door in a daze.

Time passed little by little.

Xu Beijin still did not leave the bookstore.He stood in a daze behind the counter, thinking about the narrow building and the annoying things in the nightmare, thinking about this strange nightmare and his strange neighbors, thinking about the stalking Ringo, and then suddenly came back to his senses and watched the live broadcast The picture in the room...

The audience became bored.

They all wanted to know what the truth of this nightmare was, so they didn't want to leave, so they started playing tricks on the barrage.

Now there are seven perspectives listed on the barrage, and each missioner knows it clearly, so they guessed what kind of furniture they encountered according to the performance of each missioner.

The most contented person is naturally Ringo.I don't know if Ringo has ever encountered a strange sight, and I don't know if this group of sophisticated furniture is also bullying, anyway, I haven't seen Ringo have any special reaction.

The audience said one after another, "It's over, it's over, Little Apple is also that little apple today."

Secondly, it is... wait, the most relaxed one, followed by Jiang Shuangmei? !

"It's not scientific!"

"Didn't this girl cry in her last round of nightmares?"

"Strange...why is she so relaxed all of a sudden? Still singing for fun?"

After discovering Jiang Shuangmei's strange behavior, Xu Beijin transferred the sound source to her.

As a result, the audience in the live broadcast room heard that the tasker who had been frightened by this apartment building in the last round of nightmares was now singing happily.

Xu Beijin couldn't help being shocked.He carefully observed Jiang Shuangmei's expression in the live broadcast room, and found that the tasker was really not afraid at all.

why?Did she know what this nightmare was about, and how to escape, or at least how to avoid those spirited furniture?

Xu Beijin could only think of this reason to explain Jiang Shuangmei's relaxation at this time.

He carefully recalled what happened to Jiang Shuangmei in the last round of nightmares. Fortunately, she had two accidents, and the angle of view of the live broadcast room was roughly caught.

But thinking about it, Xu Beijin showed a thoughtful expression.

There were two escapes... one was that the air conditioner and door lock in the bedroom were inexplicable, and the other was that the elevator door pinched her like a prank.

Compared with the first round of nightmares, the intensity of the danger suddenly dropped.It's more like intimidation and intimidation than real killing intent.

More importantly, the bathtub and sweeping robot that attacked Jiang Shuangmei directly in the first round of nightmares did not move at all in the second round of nightmares.

Does this mean that after the taskers are killed and revived by the spirited furniture, the furniture will consciously give up after realizing the futility of killing?

Compared with Jiang Shuangmei's guess, Xu Beijin's thoughts are undoubtedly a step deeper.

In order to confirm his guess, he immediately looked at Shen Yunju's situation.

In the last round, although Xu Beijin did not directly observe Shen Yunju's death, because this guy's death happened on the escalator from the first floor to the second floor, Xu Beijin heard the confusion directly in the bookstore. screams.

In addition, the location of each tasker can be seen on the live broadcast system, so Xu Beijin immediately knew the identity of the deceased.

But now, like Jiang Shuangmei, Shen Yunju appeared more relaxed in posture and expression.

Xu Beijin immediately confirmed the correctness of his guess in his heart.

He shared his views with the audience.

Amidst the appreciative voices of the audience, Xu Beijin pondered for a moment, and then said, "However, this may also bring bad news."

The audience raised question marks one after another.

Xu Beijin stared at the seven taskers on the screen in the live broadcast room, and said, "Exchanging one death for safety in a nightmare sounds like a very cost-effective operation for the taskers.

"Moreover, the further the nightmare goes, the more it will be broken and chaotic. The difficulty of chasing and killing furniture in the early stage of the nightmare is completely different from that in the later stage of the nightmare.

"In this way, for the taskers, it is more cost-effective to exchange death for safety in the next few rounds of nightmares. Who knows how long the safety obtained by death in the early stage can last?

"That is to say, once the taskers understand this rule, they are very likely to actively choose to die instead of trying to survive in the later stages of the nightmare.

"However, the nightmare in the narrow building cannot be truly tolerant, allowing the tasker to exchange death for absolute safety. This is very likely to be a trap.

"The previous quester said that the questers who came to this nightmare would disappear for no reason. No quester has disappeared yet, but in the future, when the nightmare collapses, this may not be the case.

"If after the nightmare collapses, the death of the tasker means disappearance. If the tasker still wants to trade death for safety at that time... wouldn't it be bad?"

The audience suddenly realized and nodded, and once again denounced the black heart of the game planner loudly.

Xu Bei smiled.

Without the rhythm of the reasoning masters, the audience in the live broadcast room are really well-behaved and shaky.After all, they are cute and brainless, and they will believe whatever Xu Bei says.

Xu Beijin originally wanted to praise the audience for their cuteness, but after hesitating for a while, he felt that this seemed to be mocking their IQ, and then he thought that he was a mocking face, in case the audience misunderstood...so he silently gave up.

He sighed secretly, and turned his gaze back to the live broadcast room dumbfounded.

At this time, the beginning of the third round of nightmares happened to have just arrived within an hour.

Sister Jiang decisively opened the door and left the apartment.

After leaving the apartment, she tried again to re-enter the apartment using her fingerprints, but again failed.She tried the common password she remembered before, but it still failed.

She looked at the lock thoughtfully, then took a deep breath, trying to ignore the existence of this thing.

Apart from not letting him in, the lock didn't seem to do anything else, so let's consider it harmless for the time being.

She walked to the elevator, and hesitated between letting the elevator come up, or running down to find the elevator herself.

At this moment, the lights in the corridor on the eighth floor began to flicker again.

During the first round of nightmares, the damn light was flickering; during the second round, Jiang Shuangjie was so focused on finding the muscular man to confront the item card that she didn’t pay much attention to the lighting problem; and now, the light has started again Flashing... It's disturbing.

Distraught, Sister Jiang looked back at the lights in the corridor.

Suddenly, she was taken aback.

Three short lights, three long lights, three short lights.

Three short, three long, three short.

...Sister Jiang Shuang was dumbfounded.

Isn't this the fucking Morse code for help? !