Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game
Chapter 55 Rumors
Thin people don't want to share a room with a toilet.So he was bored and tried to open the door, but unexpectedly found that the door lock could really be opened, so he left the apartment.
When he arrived at the lobby on the first floor of the Loko apartment building, he met Jiang Shuangmei who was sitting at the elevator door and crying bitterly.
He was startled immediately.
In addition to the fact that Jiang Shuangmei was crying, it seemed strange that when she was crying, the elevator door was not closed, but just opened, as if she was quietly listening to Jiang Shuangmei's cry.
This is... too weird, right?
Thinking of the previous round... no, it should be said, the restart of the previous two rounds of inexplicable nightmares, the thin man's expression gradually became thoughtful.
He stood there silently, waited for a while, seeing that Jiang Shuangmei was still crying, he could only sigh, didn't say anything, and went upstairs by himself.
He called out both the little girl and Shen Yunju.Sure enough, except for Jiang Shuangmei and Shouzi who found the door problem by mistake, the rest of the taskers stayed in the apartment peacefully.
Such a sinister nightmare setting really made several taskers feel disgusted.
They cursed the mastermind NE in a low voice.
The audience in the live broadcast room instead ridiculed them: "What does this have to do with the mastermind! They are artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence, if you want to scold them, scold the game planner!"
"This is bullying the weak and fearing the hard."
"Although, this nightmare is really sinister."
"Why did the voice of the elevator turn into a woman?? I remember it was a man before. Could it be that I remembered it wrong?"
Xu Beijin pondered for a moment, and finally thought that it is impossible to hide this matter from the audience all the time, it would be better for him to turn the audience's thinking around earlier...
Having said that, he felt that it was still easy to overturn.
He sighed secretly, and then said without changing his face: "I suspect that with the collapse of the nightmare, the death penalty has become more severe."
The audience put question marks on the public screen one after another.
Xu Beijin paused, and then explained: "The player died in the nightmare before, but the nightmare restarted, and the player's state will return to the original state. But this is a normal situation.
"In some special nightmares, the collapse of the nightmare means the collapse of the nightmare rules. Similarly, the death of the player is also part of the nightmare rules. Therefore, it is possible to punish the death of the player.
"Under this premise, the voice of the elevator changed from male to female, and the sister of the twins cried bitterly. If it is related to the death of the previous sister, this conclusion can be easily drawn.
"That is, my sister became this elevator.
"Of course this kind of thing cannot happen in reality, but in the game, the player's brainwaves can be attached to any object, not just their game account, but also inanimate objects like elevators.
"The refined facilities in this nightmare, in some cases, behaved very intelligently and flexibly, such as the elevator that communicated with the taskers. They behaved more like...human beings.
"In this case, combined with the death of the previous card dealer... He may have turned into a curtain and killed my sister; and my sister has turned into this elevator and changed the sound of the elevator.
"I suspect that the so-called 'death for safety' is a trap based on this death penalty."
After Xu Beijin's words fell, the live broadcast room was full of flowers and wonders, which even diluted Xu Beijin's guilt of deceiving the audience.
He touched his nose and smiled sheepishly.
The audience thought he was shy with such a blunt compliment.But who would have thought, what exactly was Xu Beijin hiding?
He still didn't dare to challenge NE's bottom line, still didn't dare to tell too much of the truth, and still didn't dare to test the reactions outside the narrow building.No matter how harmless the audience seemed, he could only keep silent.
Taking advantage of the time when the audience seemed to have accepted this point of view, Xu Beijin changed the topic: "The taskers seem to be arguing."
Yes, the taskers are arguing again.
The previous quarrel was due to the muscular man, the card dealer, and after the muscular man was "exiled", the atmosphere among the missionaries had improved a lot, but now the atmosphere between them has become stiff again up.
In the final analysis, it was because Jiang Shuangmei did not allow other workers to go to the power distribution room to cut off the power.
The thin man frowned deeply. He said, "Trying to cut off the power was a nightmare last time. Your sister agreed with us." At this point, he hesitated for a while, but he didn't ask that question after all.
—Where is your sister?
Perhaps, he already understood the answer to this question in his heart.When he passed by the eighth floor, he stood outside door 807 and took a look. There was no one in the apartment.
Not only Jiang Shuangmei disappeared, but also the muscular man.This matter made the thin man feel deeply disturbed.
He desperately wanted to get out of this nightmare.Not only because he and the little girl had stumbled into this nightmare, but also because he was completely unable to grasp the direction of this nightmare.
They seem to be... for various reasons, missing a lot of information, so it is impossible to solve this nightmare.
"Do not……"
Jiang Shuangmei's eyes were red and swollen, and her voice was obviously crying and hoarse.And she begged all the taskers with an almost crazy firmness: "Please let me try! At least... wait for me for a while..."
The little girl said coldly: "What did you find?" She glanced around, "Where's your sister? Let her tell us."
Obviously, the little girl didn't want to talk to Jiang Shuangmei very much, because Jiang Shuangmei was like the shadow of Jiang Shuangmei in the whole nightmare.Follows everywhere, but is useless.
The little girl has such a cold and direct personality, but then she was taken aback.
Because Jiang Shuangmei was instantly knocked down by her words as if she had been punched by something. She fell on the ground and let out another sob.
The little girl frowned, looked at her a little strangely, and then at the thin man.
The thin man sighed: "Her sister, maybe..."
"Disappeared?"
The little girl's merciless words made Jiang Shuangmei's body tremble again, but then she slowly raised her body and said, "No, I know where she is."
This is unexpected.
And Jiang Shuangmei pointed to the elevator when she came.
The missionaries were silent for a moment.
The thin man frowned: "How do you know? Wait..." He suddenly hesitated, "Panel card?"
It was a luxury to use a panel card to verify the identity of an elevator.But if it is really confirmed that those disappearing missionaries are actually those refined furniture and facilities, then the situation will be different in an instant.
This is a very strategic message!
You can't kill people in the narrow building, and you can't actively attack other taskers, but if...
For a moment, the thin man's imagination was running wild.
But then, he sighed.
If this kind of information had been put in front of him a few years ago, or even a few months ago, he would have attached great importance to it, and even reported it immediately to let Ding Yi judge the value of this kind of thing.
At that time, they had to compete with other daily necessities merchants, and there would always be some black hands on the counter.Regardless of whether they use it or not, they certainly hope to have some means of countermeasures.
But... the situation is no longer the same.
Ding Yi left the bottom floor of the narrow building, and he, the little girl, and some other people, after finding out certain things, would also leave the bottom floor of the narrow building and try to go to a higher floor.
In a place like Zhailou, even if you build a career... what's the point?That's the same as playing house.That's... that's fucking playing tricks!
Indeed, many people will invest a lot of energy and money in the game, but that is because they have their own real life - they have the real!But the human beings in the narrow building do not have the truth, but they want to find the truth in the false?
That's always the stuff that gets people down.
The thin man became Ding Yi's subordinate a year or two ago. At that time, he was also tired of living around the bottom of the narrow building and the slightly higher floors, so he chose to stop.
However, he didn't sink into the carnival night like some taskers did.On the contrary, he became Ding Yi's subordinate, so he got a...job?
Although these two words sound a little ridiculous, the thin man is doing his best and retains a little enthusiasm for work.Therefore, he has not had a particularly clear understanding of this change in mentality.
But he did hear from his companions—including but not limited to the little girl—that in recent years, the atmosphere on the ground floor of the narrow building has become more and more lifeless, and even they seem to be slowly rotting and despairing.
Like the folks at those carnival nights.Usually, after a night of carnival, I would go back to my room and have a good sleep.Later, he lay directly in the venue of the carnival night.
In the end, none of them knew whether it was a place for revelry or a place for burial.
In any case, the news that came down from a higher floor was like a shot of adrenaline to the mission workers on the bottom floor of the narrow building.As for whether it is a flashback, or a real life...
Who knows.
One must at least have some hope in order to be considered alive.If there is not even an iota of hope in life, how is it different from the walking dead?
The thin man at least has a little enthusiasm for work, but some people...he knows, some mission workers are more like living corpses.
Is it true that someone successfully left the narrow building, and whether his success can be replicated... The answers to these questions will take a longer time to verify.
The thin man hoped that time would be able to test the authenticity of this news, instead of dissipating in the gray mist of the narrow building like other half-truths and half-false news circulating in the narrow building, making it impossible to find its trace.
The thin man sighed deeply, and said heavily, "Did you find out with the panel card?"
"Yes Yes……"
Jiang Shuangmei was in a daze.
She thought about what happened just now.Almost the second she heard the female voice, she used the panel card.She couldn't even explain why she was so desperate...
She saw a line of fine print, and it almost took her breath away.
"Identity: Elevator (Jiang Shuangjie).
"Remarks: Special status, cannot be lifted."
...Irremovable? ?Why... how is it possible? !
When the thin man went downstairs and saw Jiang Shuangmei weeping there, she had actually used a split card in vain.But she failed.
Cannot be canceled.
Despair overwhelmed her in an instant.
And even though the elevator was silently with her, the sister, who was dead and might be trapped in the elevator forever, still didn't say a word.
Perhaps this means that Jiang Shuangmei will indeed fulfill her wish.
She would become a grown-up, a grown-up capable of standing alone, at the cost of her patron's disappearance forever.
She felt like a little animal being released.She is used to a warm environment, careful care, and close company.She could hardly imagine...how could it be? !
Why?It was just a nightmare, just when they decided to return to the nightmare to fight...the first nightmare? !
In this first nightmare, her sister left her.
No, no no...it shouldn't be like this...
Jiang Shuangmei trembled, in addition to despair in her heart, there was a kind of resentment and dissatisfaction that she didn't know who to target.
She should target herself, she should hate herself... But she started to hate the world, this narrow building, these missionaries in this nightmare, and even...
hated her sister.
Death... ha, death.Death allows one to escape lightly from all responsibility.Death can make a person completely innocent.
Death is not so much a result as a means.
When Jiang Shuangmei was younger, she saw death as her only means of fighting against this damned world.In the end, she instead became the... "world" left behind by death.
She fell on the ground and cried until the sky was dark, but after another moment, she suddenly raised her head to look at the thin man and the little girl, revealing a sharp and mean temperament that had never appeared in her body.
She said: "But you... you and you, you, you are so useless! Aren't you the solution merchant under Ding Yi?! Aren't you the guarantee to clear the nightmare?! Ha... After all, they are all a bunch of trash! waste……"
Saying that, she started to cry again.
With a stiff face, Shen Yunju looked at the thin man and the little girl.
...Scheme merchant?
This is not a word that often appears in the mouth of taskers.
The so-called plan merchants are those who sell the nightmare clearance plan in the narrow building.Compared with gold diggers like Mu Jiashi, solution merchants save more time and effort, but likewise, they also bear greater risks.
Because once the tasker with the purchase plan misses, the reputation of the plan merchant will be instantly ruined.
The customer who purchases the plan considers the plan provided by the plan merchant as the correct answer.Compared with the hands-on efforts of the gold diggers to control the direction at any time in the nightmare, the solution merchants, as well as their customers, seem very lazy.
And it does provide more benefits.After all, it is too time-consuming for the gold diggers to bring the boss in person.
Solution merchants are an alternative strategy that gradually emerged after Mu Jiashi left the ground floor of the narrow building.However, while such things are much cheaper than gold diggers, they are still not that popular.
In the final analysis, who knows if buying a nightmare clearance plan is true or not?The only way to verify is to practice it yourself.
If an enemy pretends to be a plan merchant and deliberately sells you a false plan that will sink you into a nightmare, wouldn't it be over in an instant?
Only Ding Yi, a daily necessities merchant with a wealth of wealth and a good reputation, can afford to support a group of solution merchants.
Not only because the appearance of the plan requires the accumulation of time and money, but also because the guests will trust the reputation of the daily necessities merchant.
In any case, plan businessman is still a very unpopular profession.
From a certain point of view, this is like a real-world clearing group.But... this is a narrow building, this is a nightmare.
Inexplicably, anger accumulated in Shen Yunju's heart.He said in a cold voice: "Anything can be bought and sold...isn't it?"
The thin man didn't speak.The little girl glanced at him coldly, but also said nothing.
In the end, Shen Yunju lowered his head in a self-defeating manner.
... What's the use of arguing about it?
The scene fell silent for a moment.
In the end, it was Jiang Shuangmei who suddenly said, "Does any of you have a panel card?"
The missionaries were all startled.
But no one would bluntly talk about the item card in the narrow building, especially in the nightmare, at this juncture, directly ask about the specific item card.
Jiang Shuangmei raised her head, revealing a stiff and withered face.She said, "I'll exchange other cards with you for...attack cards. How about it?"
Shen Yunju said almost immediately: "I will trade with you!"
Jiang Shuangmei laughed meaninglessly, and she casually threw the attack card in her pocket to Shen Yunju.After repeated confirmation, Shen Yunju handed his panel card to Jiang Shuangmei, and couldn't help but look at her with new eyes.
For a solo "zombie" like Shen Yunju, an attack card is such a rare and rare item card.And Jiang Shuangmei just traded it so casually... Or is it used to trade panel cards? !
Panel cards are too common!
Jiang Shuangmei didn't care what the rest of the taskers thought, she said calmly: "I just want to go and see, what is the culprit who killed my sister. Please..." She still showed a little cry after all, "Please At least let me confirm this matter."
The thin man's expression moved slightly, he and the little girl looked at each other, and then said, "Let's follow and see, okay?"
Jiang Shuangmei was noncommittal, like a wandering corpse, and went straight to the elevator—the elevator that meant her sister.
The rest of the taskers consciously took the stairs.
A few minutes later, they all came to Room 807.
Seeing this scene through the screen of the live broadcast room, Xu Beijin suddenly had some complicated emotions in his heart.He thinks that when this nightmare started, he randomly aimed his camera at this apartment.
And who would have thought that the nightmare might also end here?
Jiang Shuangmei stood beside the sofa where she picked up the item card, looking around.Enduring the pain and self-loathing, she recalled what happened in the last period of the last round of nightmares.
Finally, her eyes fixed on the curtains hanging in the corner of the wall.
No matter how you look at it, among the furniture in the living room, the only thing that can kill people in a short period of time and can move by itself... is the only curtain.
What's more, Sister Jiang once told her that in the first round of nightmares, she had seen the curtains float up for no reason.
... She hated herself for remembering those past events clearly, as if her sister was still alive in her memory.But actually no.
Is the false truth meaningful?
With trembling hands, Jiang Shuangmei used the panel card against the curtain.
She was silent for about ten seconds, until the long silence in the room made the other three taskers feel confused and uneasy, and Jiang Shuangmei suddenly moved.
But the direction of her action is not outside the door.
The questers watched in bewilderment as she pulled a pair of scissors from the kitchen, and...
Cut the curtains.
Her expression is still very calm, as if her facial muscles are dead, as if she did this out of anger rather than revenge.She cut it meticulously and beautifully, as if her purpose was to specially cut the lower part of the curtain into a fringe shape.
tassel……
The mission workers felt a chill and fear.
They don't even dare to ask, the result of using the panel card.And they seemed to already have an answer in their hearts.
In the first round of nightmares, it was Jiang Shuangmei who died; in the second round, it was Shen Yunju.In these two rounds of nightmares, the dead will not disappear.
In the fourth round of nightmare, it was Sister Jiang who died.she disappeared.
What about the third round?
Who is the deceased in the third round of nightmares?Will he disappear?Will he... be a curtain?
And the curtain killed Sister Jiang Shuang...
Who would harbor resentment towards Sister Jiang?
Almost instantly, the thin man thought of Jiang Shuangmei's crazy answer.
After a while, Jiang Shuangmei seemed to calm down.She slammed the scissors on the curtain, then calmly nodded to the three taskers, and said, "Sorry. Let's go down."
The thin man almost mistook Jiang Shuangmei for her older sister.
They went back to the ground floor.
Jiang Shuangmei suppressed her grief and touched the button on the elevator."I'm sorry," she said softly. She paused. "I'm going to live, sister. I'm going to... get out of this damn game."
In a trance, she seemed to hear a sigh.
However, there was still silence in the elevator, as if the dust could be heard clearly when it hit the ground.
Jiang Shuangmei sniffed and stopped crying.She has recognized the reality.
She squeezed those prop cards tightly, including the "Devil's Mask".Unbeknownst to everyone, when she used the panel card to look at the curtain, the panel of the muscular man, she learned something no one could have imagined.
The price of using the item card "Devil's Mask" is not just extreme arrogance in temperament.
After losing this prop card, the "demon" abandoned its former owner like a shoe.
Therefore, if someone uses the panel card on this abandoned tasker, his panel information, even his past, will be presented without reservation.
Therefore, Jiang Shuangmei learned about the muscular man's residence, the item cards he owns, the nightmares he has experienced, the network resources he has mastered, the information network he has, and so on.From a certain point of view, she can become a "muscle man" now.
In addition, Ringo's sweetheart is the bookstore owner...
Jiang Shuangmei took a deep breath, and a little thought flashed in her eyes.
After her sister left, she had to rely on her own ability to survive after all.And the information seen through the panel card might help her get a foothold on the bottom of the narrow building.
love...
Jiang Shuangmei suddenly gave a wry smile.
She thought, someone would really find... love in a place like Narrow Building?
She sorted out her thoughts for the last time, wiped her face to make herself look calmer, and then joined the other taskers.
A few minutes later, they knocked on the locked door of the power distribution room with a hammer from the security room, and then destroyed the circuit here.
Then, the voice of the main brain sounded.They reached a common ending.
Xu Beijin opened his eyes in the bookstore.
After a moment of trance, he said goodbye to the audience.
This time the live broadcast lasted for a long time, roughly four hours.But even though the live broadcast has ended, for Xu Beijin, the impact of this nightmare on him still continues.
milk tea……
Uh, not this one.
What he said was that he could actively intervene in the process of the nightmare.
The Mastermind did not forbid him from revealing the information obtained through the live broadcast.It seems that NE has tacitly accepted that that is something he knows and can reveal to others.It's like the player can freely disclose the information he knows to his companions.
However, the actor and the tasker are not the same after all.
Xu Bei thought with all his heart that perhaps in the next nightmare, he should conduct some more in-depth attempts and research.
He was thinking enthusiastically, but after a while, he yawned sleepily.
He stood up and went to the window.
This does not refer to the window on the side of the door, but to the other side.In the narrow building, no matter where the house is, the window opposite the door can always see the scene outside the narrow building.
It was thick fog.The gray mist covered the sky and the sun, and the narrow building stood in such a gray mist.
There was never sunshine, never rain.This desolate and dilapidated scene seems to have never changed, which makes people feel daunted and uneasy.
The missionaries' curiosity about the gray fog ended at the sacrifice of some troublemakers who walked into the gray fog but never walked out.That was a long time ago, almost when these humans were just trapped in the narrow building.
At that time, Xu Beijin was probably the same as he is now, standing by the bed in the bookstore, silently and silently looking at the thick gray fog outside the narrow building.
He let his thoughts wander, not even realizing the passage of time.He thought of the things that happened many years ago, and the memory of when he first came to the narrow building... It was indeed a very long time ago.
He even let himself recall some memories of Earth.He thought, maybe this is because, in the nightmare just now, he returned to the business district like the earth.
... Then he suddenly thought of Shen Yunju.
At that moment, he regretted a little, because he didn't want to face those things at all.
Shen Yunju said that he had seen that business district on Earth.
Shen Yunju also concealed some other things, Xu Bei could see it, and he could guess some.
But... that doesn't seem to make much sense.No matter what Shen Yunju said or what he didn't say, the situation has always been like this.After all these years, is it true that no one has discovered some problems?
Of course there are.
But why haven't their lives changed?
no... maybe...
Xu Beijin looked deeply at the gray mist outside the window.
He thought, in recent days...it seems that there are indeed some undercurrents...isn't it?
But even if he knew, he seemed to be... Xu Beijin was almost habitually pessimistic, but he immediately thought, no, that's not right.He can use the information obtained from the live broadcast room... He can actively intervene in the progress of the nightmare!
He almost cheered up, but the next second, a sudden knock on the door interrupted his train of thought.
...Who is coming for him?
Xu Bei tilted his head in confusion, he thought, it couldn't be Ringo, could it?
...Damn, he actually thinks this possibility is very high.
He walked slowly to the door, took a deep breath, and opened the door... Then, his eyes widened in surprise.
Outside the door, Mu Jiashi, who called himself a loser and a waste, raised some drinks in his hand, and then showed a friendly smile.
He came to visit Xu Bei as promised.
Xu Beijin felt a little surprised. He welcomed Mu Jiashi into the door, but he still couldn't recover.
Mu Jiashi... Didn't he go to a higher floor?Did he choose not to go to a higher floor, or... failed again on a higher floor?
Xu Beijin was too embarrassed to ask about this, but Mu Jiashi took the initiative to say, "I didn't go to a higher floor."
Xu Beijin felt even more embarrassed: "Is it because of...?"
Mu Jiashi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "I'm sorry, it's not because of the agreement with you, but because of..." He sighed, "I'm a loser, do you understand? If I can't adjust If you have your own mentality, even if you go to a higher floor, it will be of no use."
Xu Beijin was silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.
But Mu Jiashi changed the subject: "I wanted to come here after the nightmare was over, but I wanted to bring you some drinks..." He pushed towards Xu Beijin, "It took me a long time to find these drinks, so I came to visit you so late."
Xu Beijin asked in confusion, "Have you been searching for a long time?"
Mu Jiashi hesitated for a moment, then said, "That's... Boss Ringo..."
Okay, he wiped out the market, didn't he?
Xu Beijin acted nonchalantly on the surface, feeling speechless for a while.
What he didn't know was that Ding Yi was actually preparing for the last nightmare, and put all the drinks she could get in a certain room to make a deal with Ringo.And that is almost half of the inventory on the ground floor of the entire narrow building.
And at the bottom of the narrow building, some of the beverages that were originally in circulation in the market were indeed taken away by Lingo, but in terms of quantity, compared to the ones collected by Ding Yi, it was just a drop in the bucket.
Even the carnival party of the fallen missionaries has complained a lot these days.
Naturally, Xu Beijin didn't know the twists and turns, but he was a little bit dumbfounded at Lin Biao.
Mu Jiashi observed the expression on Xu Beijin's face.The man in front of him was as deep and calm as ever, and even when he mentioned Ringo, Xu Beijin didn't seem to have any reaction.
He didn't know why, because the relationship between Xu Beijin and Lingo wasn't that good yet?Or... are you pretending to be calm?
Mu Jiashi couldn't see it at all.
Just like a few years ago, if Xu Beijin hadn't suddenly burst into anger and threw the excessive tasker out of his bookstore, then the tasker would have regarded the bookstore owner as some kind of good-tempered guy.
But in fact, it is not a wise choice to annoy the other party.
A few years ago, Mu Jiashi gave Xu Beijin some drinks, which actually made him gain something.From this point of view, the bookstore owner in front of him probably followed the principle of equivalent exchange.
If he is interested, maybe he can take advantage of this and make some deals with him, just like a few years ago, maybe he can also get some clues about the nightmare.
but……
But Mu Jiashi suddenly became tired and lazy.
He didn't want to repeat the fate of the past few years.He chose to stay on the bottom floor of the narrow building simply because he wanted to stop.He was tired—weary from failure.But that wasn't just a failure, it was a...
A desperate rout.
So instead, he chatted with Xu Beijin about life, about everything in the narrow building.
Instead, in a slightly joking tone, he mentioned life in the higher floors of the narrow building other than nightmares.
On the higher floors, he said, life was slightly more comfortable than at the bottom of the narrow building, but also more lifeless.The higher it goes, the more it is, because the higher it goes, the higher the difficulty of the nightmare and the more dangerous the situation.
The taskers felt more and more that it was impossible for them to leave the narrow building, so they became more and more desperate and collapsed.If you have to say it, the bottom floor of the narrow building is more lively.
At least there are still some wild nights here.Although it is not a good place to go, it is at least a lively place.
"And on the higher floors..." Mu Jiashi said, "All the taskers are just discussing nightmares, customs clearance plans, and the matching of item cards."
Xu Bei listened carefully.
Mu Jiashi smiled wryly: "There isn't even a card dealer." He sighed with mixed emotions, "Everyone is... a tasker, just a tasker. Traveling through the nightmare... that's all That's all."
Xu Beijin's expression moved slightly.
He suddenly thought that in the previous nightmare, when he told the audience about the existence of card dealers and garment makers, the audience used to ask and answer in a playful way.
"What do these missionaries do every day?"
"Do everything except work."
The taskers on the bottom floor of the narrow building are not doing their jobs, while the taskers on the higher floors have instead become working machines.
This stark contrast made Xu Beijin couldn't help showing a little smile.It's not all funny, it also has unspeakable bitterness.
However, in Mu Jiashi's eyes, there is only one meaning - ridicule.
Mu Jiashi: "..."
He looked at Xu Beijin in surprise, thinking, why did the bookstore owner show such an expression to what he just said?
He and Xu Beijin looked at each other.
He didn't understand why Xu Beijin showed a mocking expression.
Xu Bei couldn't understand why he suddenly stopped talking.
Mu Jiashi was silent for a moment, and then asked tentatively, "Have you ever heard about the higher floors of the narrow building?"
Xu Beijin shook his head.
Mu Jiashi frowned slightly, feeling unbelievable.Xu Beijin's expression just now, combined with his current appearance, only made Mu Jiashi feel that he was hiding something.
So Mu Jiashi said again: "Before I returned to the bottom floor of the narrow building, there was always a rumor on the higher floors."
Xu Beijin was taken aback, not knowing why Mu Jiashi mentioned this suddenly.
How did he know that Mu Jia has a lot of eyes, because of Xu Beijin's slight expression, all kinds of twists and turns in his mind instantly appeared.
Mu Jiashi said: "The rumor is..." He subconsciously slowed down his speech, observing Xu Beijin's expression, "Someone successfully left the narrow building."
He said this news, of course, to test Xu Beijin's reaction.
And Xu Beijin subconsciously opened his eyes wide, showing a slightly surprised expression.
……some?
Mu Jiashi felt that something was wrong. After all, the rumor that someone left the narrow building, no matter whether it was true or not, when any tasker heard about it for the first time, he would definitely show a shocked or even ecstatic expression.
Xu Beijin's reaction seemed a little too calm.
And immediately, Mu Jiashi felt that he was thinking too much.
Really... The man in front of me is also a bookstore owner, and he is just an NPC in the game. Do we still expect him to show an expression similar to that of the player?
However, Mu Jiashi also knew that some residents of narrow buildings also hated narrow buildings.Maybe they will also think about leaving the narrow building?
Mu Jiashi was amused by the thought in his mind, even though he didn't really laugh.
He means... the residents of the Narrow Building.It's just an NPC in the game, it's just a bunch of data.Do they really know the meaning of freedom, escape, hope and more?
Even the main brain NE, even artificial intelligence, may not be able to understand these human concepts well.
And just an NPC with a bunch of data?
Maki Harvest
When he arrived at the lobby on the first floor of the Loko apartment building, he met Jiang Shuangmei who was sitting at the elevator door and crying bitterly.
He was startled immediately.
In addition to the fact that Jiang Shuangmei was crying, it seemed strange that when she was crying, the elevator door was not closed, but just opened, as if she was quietly listening to Jiang Shuangmei's cry.
This is... too weird, right?
Thinking of the previous round... no, it should be said, the restart of the previous two rounds of inexplicable nightmares, the thin man's expression gradually became thoughtful.
He stood there silently, waited for a while, seeing that Jiang Shuangmei was still crying, he could only sigh, didn't say anything, and went upstairs by himself.
He called out both the little girl and Shen Yunju.Sure enough, except for Jiang Shuangmei and Shouzi who found the door problem by mistake, the rest of the taskers stayed in the apartment peacefully.
Such a sinister nightmare setting really made several taskers feel disgusted.
They cursed the mastermind NE in a low voice.
The audience in the live broadcast room instead ridiculed them: "What does this have to do with the mastermind! They are artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence, if you want to scold them, scold the game planner!"
"This is bullying the weak and fearing the hard."
"Although, this nightmare is really sinister."
"Why did the voice of the elevator turn into a woman?? I remember it was a man before. Could it be that I remembered it wrong?"
Xu Beijin pondered for a moment, and finally thought that it is impossible to hide this matter from the audience all the time, it would be better for him to turn the audience's thinking around earlier...
Having said that, he felt that it was still easy to overturn.
He sighed secretly, and then said without changing his face: "I suspect that with the collapse of the nightmare, the death penalty has become more severe."
The audience put question marks on the public screen one after another.
Xu Beijin paused, and then explained: "The player died in the nightmare before, but the nightmare restarted, and the player's state will return to the original state. But this is a normal situation.
"In some special nightmares, the collapse of the nightmare means the collapse of the nightmare rules. Similarly, the death of the player is also part of the nightmare rules. Therefore, it is possible to punish the death of the player.
"Under this premise, the voice of the elevator changed from male to female, and the sister of the twins cried bitterly. If it is related to the death of the previous sister, this conclusion can be easily drawn.
"That is, my sister became this elevator.
"Of course this kind of thing cannot happen in reality, but in the game, the player's brainwaves can be attached to any object, not just their game account, but also inanimate objects like elevators.
"The refined facilities in this nightmare, in some cases, behaved very intelligently and flexibly, such as the elevator that communicated with the taskers. They behaved more like...human beings.
"In this case, combined with the death of the previous card dealer... He may have turned into a curtain and killed my sister; and my sister has turned into this elevator and changed the sound of the elevator.
"I suspect that the so-called 'death for safety' is a trap based on this death penalty."
After Xu Beijin's words fell, the live broadcast room was full of flowers and wonders, which even diluted Xu Beijin's guilt of deceiving the audience.
He touched his nose and smiled sheepishly.
The audience thought he was shy with such a blunt compliment.But who would have thought, what exactly was Xu Beijin hiding?
He still didn't dare to challenge NE's bottom line, still didn't dare to tell too much of the truth, and still didn't dare to test the reactions outside the narrow building.No matter how harmless the audience seemed, he could only keep silent.
Taking advantage of the time when the audience seemed to have accepted this point of view, Xu Beijin changed the topic: "The taskers seem to be arguing."
Yes, the taskers are arguing again.
The previous quarrel was due to the muscular man, the card dealer, and after the muscular man was "exiled", the atmosphere among the missionaries had improved a lot, but now the atmosphere between them has become stiff again up.
In the final analysis, it was because Jiang Shuangmei did not allow other workers to go to the power distribution room to cut off the power.
The thin man frowned deeply. He said, "Trying to cut off the power was a nightmare last time. Your sister agreed with us." At this point, he hesitated for a while, but he didn't ask that question after all.
—Where is your sister?
Perhaps, he already understood the answer to this question in his heart.When he passed by the eighth floor, he stood outside door 807 and took a look. There was no one in the apartment.
Not only Jiang Shuangmei disappeared, but also the muscular man.This matter made the thin man feel deeply disturbed.
He desperately wanted to get out of this nightmare.Not only because he and the little girl had stumbled into this nightmare, but also because he was completely unable to grasp the direction of this nightmare.
They seem to be... for various reasons, missing a lot of information, so it is impossible to solve this nightmare.
"Do not……"
Jiang Shuangmei's eyes were red and swollen, and her voice was obviously crying and hoarse.And she begged all the taskers with an almost crazy firmness: "Please let me try! At least... wait for me for a while..."
The little girl said coldly: "What did you find?" She glanced around, "Where's your sister? Let her tell us."
Obviously, the little girl didn't want to talk to Jiang Shuangmei very much, because Jiang Shuangmei was like the shadow of Jiang Shuangmei in the whole nightmare.Follows everywhere, but is useless.
The little girl has such a cold and direct personality, but then she was taken aback.
Because Jiang Shuangmei was instantly knocked down by her words as if she had been punched by something. She fell on the ground and let out another sob.
The little girl frowned, looked at her a little strangely, and then at the thin man.
The thin man sighed: "Her sister, maybe..."
"Disappeared?"
The little girl's merciless words made Jiang Shuangmei's body tremble again, but then she slowly raised her body and said, "No, I know where she is."
This is unexpected.
And Jiang Shuangmei pointed to the elevator when she came.
The missionaries were silent for a moment.
The thin man frowned: "How do you know? Wait..." He suddenly hesitated, "Panel card?"
It was a luxury to use a panel card to verify the identity of an elevator.But if it is really confirmed that those disappearing missionaries are actually those refined furniture and facilities, then the situation will be different in an instant.
This is a very strategic message!
You can't kill people in the narrow building, and you can't actively attack other taskers, but if...
For a moment, the thin man's imagination was running wild.
But then, he sighed.
If this kind of information had been put in front of him a few years ago, or even a few months ago, he would have attached great importance to it, and even reported it immediately to let Ding Yi judge the value of this kind of thing.
At that time, they had to compete with other daily necessities merchants, and there would always be some black hands on the counter.Regardless of whether they use it or not, they certainly hope to have some means of countermeasures.
But... the situation is no longer the same.
Ding Yi left the bottom floor of the narrow building, and he, the little girl, and some other people, after finding out certain things, would also leave the bottom floor of the narrow building and try to go to a higher floor.
In a place like Zhailou, even if you build a career... what's the point?That's the same as playing house.That's... that's fucking playing tricks!
Indeed, many people will invest a lot of energy and money in the game, but that is because they have their own real life - they have the real!But the human beings in the narrow building do not have the truth, but they want to find the truth in the false?
That's always the stuff that gets people down.
The thin man became Ding Yi's subordinate a year or two ago. At that time, he was also tired of living around the bottom of the narrow building and the slightly higher floors, so he chose to stop.
However, he didn't sink into the carnival night like some taskers did.On the contrary, he became Ding Yi's subordinate, so he got a...job?
Although these two words sound a little ridiculous, the thin man is doing his best and retains a little enthusiasm for work.Therefore, he has not had a particularly clear understanding of this change in mentality.
But he did hear from his companions—including but not limited to the little girl—that in recent years, the atmosphere on the ground floor of the narrow building has become more and more lifeless, and even they seem to be slowly rotting and despairing.
Like the folks at those carnival nights.Usually, after a night of carnival, I would go back to my room and have a good sleep.Later, he lay directly in the venue of the carnival night.
In the end, none of them knew whether it was a place for revelry or a place for burial.
In any case, the news that came down from a higher floor was like a shot of adrenaline to the mission workers on the bottom floor of the narrow building.As for whether it is a flashback, or a real life...
Who knows.
One must at least have some hope in order to be considered alive.If there is not even an iota of hope in life, how is it different from the walking dead?
The thin man at least has a little enthusiasm for work, but some people...he knows, some mission workers are more like living corpses.
Is it true that someone successfully left the narrow building, and whether his success can be replicated... The answers to these questions will take a longer time to verify.
The thin man hoped that time would be able to test the authenticity of this news, instead of dissipating in the gray mist of the narrow building like other half-truths and half-false news circulating in the narrow building, making it impossible to find its trace.
The thin man sighed deeply, and said heavily, "Did you find out with the panel card?"
"Yes Yes……"
Jiang Shuangmei was in a daze.
She thought about what happened just now.Almost the second she heard the female voice, she used the panel card.She couldn't even explain why she was so desperate...
She saw a line of fine print, and it almost took her breath away.
"Identity: Elevator (Jiang Shuangjie).
"Remarks: Special status, cannot be lifted."
...Irremovable? ?Why... how is it possible? !
When the thin man went downstairs and saw Jiang Shuangmei weeping there, she had actually used a split card in vain.But she failed.
Cannot be canceled.
Despair overwhelmed her in an instant.
And even though the elevator was silently with her, the sister, who was dead and might be trapped in the elevator forever, still didn't say a word.
Perhaps this means that Jiang Shuangmei will indeed fulfill her wish.
She would become a grown-up, a grown-up capable of standing alone, at the cost of her patron's disappearance forever.
She felt like a little animal being released.She is used to a warm environment, careful care, and close company.She could hardly imagine...how could it be? !
Why?It was just a nightmare, just when they decided to return to the nightmare to fight...the first nightmare? !
In this first nightmare, her sister left her.
No, no no...it shouldn't be like this...
Jiang Shuangmei trembled, in addition to despair in her heart, there was a kind of resentment and dissatisfaction that she didn't know who to target.
She should target herself, she should hate herself... But she started to hate the world, this narrow building, these missionaries in this nightmare, and even...
hated her sister.
Death... ha, death.Death allows one to escape lightly from all responsibility.Death can make a person completely innocent.
Death is not so much a result as a means.
When Jiang Shuangmei was younger, she saw death as her only means of fighting against this damned world.In the end, she instead became the... "world" left behind by death.
She fell on the ground and cried until the sky was dark, but after another moment, she suddenly raised her head to look at the thin man and the little girl, revealing a sharp and mean temperament that had never appeared in her body.
She said: "But you... you and you, you, you are so useless! Aren't you the solution merchant under Ding Yi?! Aren't you the guarantee to clear the nightmare?! Ha... After all, they are all a bunch of trash! waste……"
Saying that, she started to cry again.
With a stiff face, Shen Yunju looked at the thin man and the little girl.
...Scheme merchant?
This is not a word that often appears in the mouth of taskers.
The so-called plan merchants are those who sell the nightmare clearance plan in the narrow building.Compared with gold diggers like Mu Jiashi, solution merchants save more time and effort, but likewise, they also bear greater risks.
Because once the tasker with the purchase plan misses, the reputation of the plan merchant will be instantly ruined.
The customer who purchases the plan considers the plan provided by the plan merchant as the correct answer.Compared with the hands-on efforts of the gold diggers to control the direction at any time in the nightmare, the solution merchants, as well as their customers, seem very lazy.
And it does provide more benefits.After all, it is too time-consuming for the gold diggers to bring the boss in person.
Solution merchants are an alternative strategy that gradually emerged after Mu Jiashi left the ground floor of the narrow building.However, while such things are much cheaper than gold diggers, they are still not that popular.
In the final analysis, who knows if buying a nightmare clearance plan is true or not?The only way to verify is to practice it yourself.
If an enemy pretends to be a plan merchant and deliberately sells you a false plan that will sink you into a nightmare, wouldn't it be over in an instant?
Only Ding Yi, a daily necessities merchant with a wealth of wealth and a good reputation, can afford to support a group of solution merchants.
Not only because the appearance of the plan requires the accumulation of time and money, but also because the guests will trust the reputation of the daily necessities merchant.
In any case, plan businessman is still a very unpopular profession.
From a certain point of view, this is like a real-world clearing group.But... this is a narrow building, this is a nightmare.
Inexplicably, anger accumulated in Shen Yunju's heart.He said in a cold voice: "Anything can be bought and sold...isn't it?"
The thin man didn't speak.The little girl glanced at him coldly, but also said nothing.
In the end, Shen Yunju lowered his head in a self-defeating manner.
... What's the use of arguing about it?
The scene fell silent for a moment.
In the end, it was Jiang Shuangmei who suddenly said, "Does any of you have a panel card?"
The missionaries were all startled.
But no one would bluntly talk about the item card in the narrow building, especially in the nightmare, at this juncture, directly ask about the specific item card.
Jiang Shuangmei raised her head, revealing a stiff and withered face.She said, "I'll exchange other cards with you for...attack cards. How about it?"
Shen Yunju said almost immediately: "I will trade with you!"
Jiang Shuangmei laughed meaninglessly, and she casually threw the attack card in her pocket to Shen Yunju.After repeated confirmation, Shen Yunju handed his panel card to Jiang Shuangmei, and couldn't help but look at her with new eyes.
For a solo "zombie" like Shen Yunju, an attack card is such a rare and rare item card.And Jiang Shuangmei just traded it so casually... Or is it used to trade panel cards? !
Panel cards are too common!
Jiang Shuangmei didn't care what the rest of the taskers thought, she said calmly: "I just want to go and see, what is the culprit who killed my sister. Please..." She still showed a little cry after all, "Please At least let me confirm this matter."
The thin man's expression moved slightly, he and the little girl looked at each other, and then said, "Let's follow and see, okay?"
Jiang Shuangmei was noncommittal, like a wandering corpse, and went straight to the elevator—the elevator that meant her sister.
The rest of the taskers consciously took the stairs.
A few minutes later, they all came to Room 807.
Seeing this scene through the screen of the live broadcast room, Xu Beijin suddenly had some complicated emotions in his heart.He thinks that when this nightmare started, he randomly aimed his camera at this apartment.
And who would have thought that the nightmare might also end here?
Jiang Shuangmei stood beside the sofa where she picked up the item card, looking around.Enduring the pain and self-loathing, she recalled what happened in the last period of the last round of nightmares.
Finally, her eyes fixed on the curtains hanging in the corner of the wall.
No matter how you look at it, among the furniture in the living room, the only thing that can kill people in a short period of time and can move by itself... is the only curtain.
What's more, Sister Jiang once told her that in the first round of nightmares, she had seen the curtains float up for no reason.
... She hated herself for remembering those past events clearly, as if her sister was still alive in her memory.But actually no.
Is the false truth meaningful?
With trembling hands, Jiang Shuangmei used the panel card against the curtain.
She was silent for about ten seconds, until the long silence in the room made the other three taskers feel confused and uneasy, and Jiang Shuangmei suddenly moved.
But the direction of her action is not outside the door.
The questers watched in bewilderment as she pulled a pair of scissors from the kitchen, and...
Cut the curtains.
Her expression is still very calm, as if her facial muscles are dead, as if she did this out of anger rather than revenge.She cut it meticulously and beautifully, as if her purpose was to specially cut the lower part of the curtain into a fringe shape.
tassel……
The mission workers felt a chill and fear.
They don't even dare to ask, the result of using the panel card.And they seemed to already have an answer in their hearts.
In the first round of nightmares, it was Jiang Shuangmei who died; in the second round, it was Shen Yunju.In these two rounds of nightmares, the dead will not disappear.
In the fourth round of nightmare, it was Sister Jiang who died.she disappeared.
What about the third round?
Who is the deceased in the third round of nightmares?Will he disappear?Will he... be a curtain?
And the curtain killed Sister Jiang Shuang...
Who would harbor resentment towards Sister Jiang?
Almost instantly, the thin man thought of Jiang Shuangmei's crazy answer.
After a while, Jiang Shuangmei seemed to calm down.She slammed the scissors on the curtain, then calmly nodded to the three taskers, and said, "Sorry. Let's go down."
The thin man almost mistook Jiang Shuangmei for her older sister.
They went back to the ground floor.
Jiang Shuangmei suppressed her grief and touched the button on the elevator."I'm sorry," she said softly. She paused. "I'm going to live, sister. I'm going to... get out of this damn game."
In a trance, she seemed to hear a sigh.
However, there was still silence in the elevator, as if the dust could be heard clearly when it hit the ground.
Jiang Shuangmei sniffed and stopped crying.She has recognized the reality.
She squeezed those prop cards tightly, including the "Devil's Mask".Unbeknownst to everyone, when she used the panel card to look at the curtain, the panel of the muscular man, she learned something no one could have imagined.
The price of using the item card "Devil's Mask" is not just extreme arrogance in temperament.
After losing this prop card, the "demon" abandoned its former owner like a shoe.
Therefore, if someone uses the panel card on this abandoned tasker, his panel information, even his past, will be presented without reservation.
Therefore, Jiang Shuangmei learned about the muscular man's residence, the item cards he owns, the nightmares he has experienced, the network resources he has mastered, the information network he has, and so on.From a certain point of view, she can become a "muscle man" now.
In addition, Ringo's sweetheart is the bookstore owner...
Jiang Shuangmei took a deep breath, and a little thought flashed in her eyes.
After her sister left, she had to rely on her own ability to survive after all.And the information seen through the panel card might help her get a foothold on the bottom of the narrow building.
love...
Jiang Shuangmei suddenly gave a wry smile.
She thought, someone would really find... love in a place like Narrow Building?
She sorted out her thoughts for the last time, wiped her face to make herself look calmer, and then joined the other taskers.
A few minutes later, they knocked on the locked door of the power distribution room with a hammer from the security room, and then destroyed the circuit here.
Then, the voice of the main brain sounded.They reached a common ending.
Xu Beijin opened his eyes in the bookstore.
After a moment of trance, he said goodbye to the audience.
This time the live broadcast lasted for a long time, roughly four hours.But even though the live broadcast has ended, for Xu Beijin, the impact of this nightmare on him still continues.
milk tea……
Uh, not this one.
What he said was that he could actively intervene in the process of the nightmare.
The Mastermind did not forbid him from revealing the information obtained through the live broadcast.It seems that NE has tacitly accepted that that is something he knows and can reveal to others.It's like the player can freely disclose the information he knows to his companions.
However, the actor and the tasker are not the same after all.
Xu Bei thought with all his heart that perhaps in the next nightmare, he should conduct some more in-depth attempts and research.
He was thinking enthusiastically, but after a while, he yawned sleepily.
He stood up and went to the window.
This does not refer to the window on the side of the door, but to the other side.In the narrow building, no matter where the house is, the window opposite the door can always see the scene outside the narrow building.
It was thick fog.The gray mist covered the sky and the sun, and the narrow building stood in such a gray mist.
There was never sunshine, never rain.This desolate and dilapidated scene seems to have never changed, which makes people feel daunted and uneasy.
The missionaries' curiosity about the gray fog ended at the sacrifice of some troublemakers who walked into the gray fog but never walked out.That was a long time ago, almost when these humans were just trapped in the narrow building.
At that time, Xu Beijin was probably the same as he is now, standing by the bed in the bookstore, silently and silently looking at the thick gray fog outside the narrow building.
He let his thoughts wander, not even realizing the passage of time.He thought of the things that happened many years ago, and the memory of when he first came to the narrow building... It was indeed a very long time ago.
He even let himself recall some memories of Earth.He thought, maybe this is because, in the nightmare just now, he returned to the business district like the earth.
... Then he suddenly thought of Shen Yunju.
At that moment, he regretted a little, because he didn't want to face those things at all.
Shen Yunju said that he had seen that business district on Earth.
Shen Yunju also concealed some other things, Xu Bei could see it, and he could guess some.
But... that doesn't seem to make much sense.No matter what Shen Yunju said or what he didn't say, the situation has always been like this.After all these years, is it true that no one has discovered some problems?
Of course there are.
But why haven't their lives changed?
no... maybe...
Xu Beijin looked deeply at the gray mist outside the window.
He thought, in recent days...it seems that there are indeed some undercurrents...isn't it?
But even if he knew, he seemed to be... Xu Beijin was almost habitually pessimistic, but he immediately thought, no, that's not right.He can use the information obtained from the live broadcast room... He can actively intervene in the progress of the nightmare!
He almost cheered up, but the next second, a sudden knock on the door interrupted his train of thought.
...Who is coming for him?
Xu Bei tilted his head in confusion, he thought, it couldn't be Ringo, could it?
...Damn, he actually thinks this possibility is very high.
He walked slowly to the door, took a deep breath, and opened the door... Then, his eyes widened in surprise.
Outside the door, Mu Jiashi, who called himself a loser and a waste, raised some drinks in his hand, and then showed a friendly smile.
He came to visit Xu Bei as promised.
Xu Beijin felt a little surprised. He welcomed Mu Jiashi into the door, but he still couldn't recover.
Mu Jiashi... Didn't he go to a higher floor?Did he choose not to go to a higher floor, or... failed again on a higher floor?
Xu Beijin was too embarrassed to ask about this, but Mu Jiashi took the initiative to say, "I didn't go to a higher floor."
Xu Beijin felt even more embarrassed: "Is it because of...?"
Mu Jiashi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "I'm sorry, it's not because of the agreement with you, but because of..." He sighed, "I'm a loser, do you understand? If I can't adjust If you have your own mentality, even if you go to a higher floor, it will be of no use."
Xu Beijin was silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.
But Mu Jiashi changed the subject: "I wanted to come here after the nightmare was over, but I wanted to bring you some drinks..." He pushed towards Xu Beijin, "It took me a long time to find these drinks, so I came to visit you so late."
Xu Beijin asked in confusion, "Have you been searching for a long time?"
Mu Jiashi hesitated for a moment, then said, "That's... Boss Ringo..."
Okay, he wiped out the market, didn't he?
Xu Beijin acted nonchalantly on the surface, feeling speechless for a while.
What he didn't know was that Ding Yi was actually preparing for the last nightmare, and put all the drinks she could get in a certain room to make a deal with Ringo.And that is almost half of the inventory on the ground floor of the entire narrow building.
And at the bottom of the narrow building, some of the beverages that were originally in circulation in the market were indeed taken away by Lingo, but in terms of quantity, compared to the ones collected by Ding Yi, it was just a drop in the bucket.
Even the carnival party of the fallen missionaries has complained a lot these days.
Naturally, Xu Beijin didn't know the twists and turns, but he was a little bit dumbfounded at Lin Biao.
Mu Jiashi observed the expression on Xu Beijin's face.The man in front of him was as deep and calm as ever, and even when he mentioned Ringo, Xu Beijin didn't seem to have any reaction.
He didn't know why, because the relationship between Xu Beijin and Lingo wasn't that good yet?Or... are you pretending to be calm?
Mu Jiashi couldn't see it at all.
Just like a few years ago, if Xu Beijin hadn't suddenly burst into anger and threw the excessive tasker out of his bookstore, then the tasker would have regarded the bookstore owner as some kind of good-tempered guy.
But in fact, it is not a wise choice to annoy the other party.
A few years ago, Mu Jiashi gave Xu Beijin some drinks, which actually made him gain something.From this point of view, the bookstore owner in front of him probably followed the principle of equivalent exchange.
If he is interested, maybe he can take advantage of this and make some deals with him, just like a few years ago, maybe he can also get some clues about the nightmare.
but……
But Mu Jiashi suddenly became tired and lazy.
He didn't want to repeat the fate of the past few years.He chose to stay on the bottom floor of the narrow building simply because he wanted to stop.He was tired—weary from failure.But that wasn't just a failure, it was a...
A desperate rout.
So instead, he chatted with Xu Beijin about life, about everything in the narrow building.
Instead, in a slightly joking tone, he mentioned life in the higher floors of the narrow building other than nightmares.
On the higher floors, he said, life was slightly more comfortable than at the bottom of the narrow building, but also more lifeless.The higher it goes, the more it is, because the higher it goes, the higher the difficulty of the nightmare and the more dangerous the situation.
The taskers felt more and more that it was impossible for them to leave the narrow building, so they became more and more desperate and collapsed.If you have to say it, the bottom floor of the narrow building is more lively.
At least there are still some wild nights here.Although it is not a good place to go, it is at least a lively place.
"And on the higher floors..." Mu Jiashi said, "All the taskers are just discussing nightmares, customs clearance plans, and the matching of item cards."
Xu Bei listened carefully.
Mu Jiashi smiled wryly: "There isn't even a card dealer." He sighed with mixed emotions, "Everyone is... a tasker, just a tasker. Traveling through the nightmare... that's all That's all."
Xu Beijin's expression moved slightly.
He suddenly thought that in the previous nightmare, when he told the audience about the existence of card dealers and garment makers, the audience used to ask and answer in a playful way.
"What do these missionaries do every day?"
"Do everything except work."
The taskers on the bottom floor of the narrow building are not doing their jobs, while the taskers on the higher floors have instead become working machines.
This stark contrast made Xu Beijin couldn't help showing a little smile.It's not all funny, it also has unspeakable bitterness.
However, in Mu Jiashi's eyes, there is only one meaning - ridicule.
Mu Jiashi: "..."
He looked at Xu Beijin in surprise, thinking, why did the bookstore owner show such an expression to what he just said?
He and Xu Beijin looked at each other.
He didn't understand why Xu Beijin showed a mocking expression.
Xu Bei couldn't understand why he suddenly stopped talking.
Mu Jiashi was silent for a moment, and then asked tentatively, "Have you ever heard about the higher floors of the narrow building?"
Xu Beijin shook his head.
Mu Jiashi frowned slightly, feeling unbelievable.Xu Beijin's expression just now, combined with his current appearance, only made Mu Jiashi feel that he was hiding something.
So Mu Jiashi said again: "Before I returned to the bottom floor of the narrow building, there was always a rumor on the higher floors."
Xu Beijin was taken aback, not knowing why Mu Jiashi mentioned this suddenly.
How did he know that Mu Jia has a lot of eyes, because of Xu Beijin's slight expression, all kinds of twists and turns in his mind instantly appeared.
Mu Jiashi said: "The rumor is..." He subconsciously slowed down his speech, observing Xu Beijin's expression, "Someone successfully left the narrow building."
He said this news, of course, to test Xu Beijin's reaction.
And Xu Beijin subconsciously opened his eyes wide, showing a slightly surprised expression.
……some?
Mu Jiashi felt that something was wrong. After all, the rumor that someone left the narrow building, no matter whether it was true or not, when any tasker heard about it for the first time, he would definitely show a shocked or even ecstatic expression.
Xu Beijin's reaction seemed a little too calm.
And immediately, Mu Jiashi felt that he was thinking too much.
Really... The man in front of me is also a bookstore owner, and he is just an NPC in the game. Do we still expect him to show an expression similar to that of the player?
However, Mu Jiashi also knew that some residents of narrow buildings also hated narrow buildings.Maybe they will also think about leaving the narrow building?
Mu Jiashi was amused by the thought in his mind, even though he didn't really laugh.
He means... the residents of the Narrow Building.It's just an NPC in the game, it's just a bunch of data.Do they really know the meaning of freedom, escape, hope and more?
Even the main brain NE, even artificial intelligence, may not be able to understand these human concepts well.
And just an NPC with a bunch of data?
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