Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Originally, Lingo was going to Xu Beijin's place the night before.

However, because two sneaky people were found at the door of Xu Beijin's house, the visit was postponed.In addition, in the nightmare, Xu Bei asked him to solve this matter.

So when the nightmare was over and they returned to the starting point, Ringo found the thin man and the little girl.

The thin man was startled immediately, looked at Lin Po cautiously, and asked, "Boss...?"

He was afraid that they would secretly investigate the relationship between Lin Po and Xu Beijin, and Lin Po would find out.After all, how Ringo got into this nightmare... was also a matter of faint worry in his heart.

As expected, Lingo said, "I saw you poking your heads outside the gate of Beijin." He said in a flat, warning tone, "Don't disturb his life, don't disturb our affairs."

Thin man: "..."

When he heard Lingo's first sentence, he almost crouched down with his head in his arms, because he was afraid that Lino's temper would come up and he would strike directly.

However, Ringo actually... just warned them? !

The thin man looked at Ling Po in surprise, and for a moment didn't know what to say.

"We understand." The little girl said hastily, not seeing her usual indifference and calmness, she managed to force a smile, "We won't do this kind of thing again."

Ringo nodded.

If Xu Bei hadn't told him not to use force to crush others or something, then Ringo might have hit the door at this time.But in any case, he is still very satisfied with his deterrence.

He thought to himself, sure enough, he can still do a good job of explaining Xu Bei to him.

He thought for a while, then continued, "The same goes for the others."

The thin man asked hesitantly, "Others? You mean..."

"People like you." Ringo said, "Many people should be curious about my relationship with him."

Lingo didn't think of it before, but after Xu Beijin reminded him, he realized that maybe this would indeed bring some trouble.He didn't know which side the two people in front of him belonged to, and he wasn't interested either.

He only needs to send messages to other people through these two people.

It has to be said that since Lingo started getting in touch with Xu Beijin, especially after the drinks, he seems to have become... a bit smarter, at least at this time he still understands foresight.

It's not enough to just deal with the two people in front of us, there are so many people spying on Ringo in the narrow building.In the past, Lin Ao didn't care, but now, since Xu Beijin also suffered because of his relationship, Lin Ao had to care.

He naturally wanted to do it once and for all, so that he could claim credit in front of Xu Beijin.

But the thin man was dumbfounded.

He meant... Ringo is of course the uncrowned king at the bottom of the Narrow Building, but Ringo has never really lived up to his reputation.He has always been away from the ground floor of the narrow building, and none of the taskers has even the slightest understanding of his life.

But now, Lingo is standing up for a resident of a narrow building instead?

Is it just because someone is poking around outside the bookstore that he strictly forbids anyone to spy on the life of the bookstore owner?

The thin man stared blankly at Ling Po, and answered in a daze, but there was always a word echoing in his heart.

The Golden House Cangjiao...

He shuddered in horror.

When he came back to his senses, Ringo had already left, and the little girl was no longer as calm as before, frowning and thinking about something.

The thin man asked, "What's the matter? Don't you hurry up and do what the boss ordered?"

The little girl glanced at him and forced a sneer from her nose: "This matter is not that simple."

"what?"

The thin man froze for a moment.

His IQ may still be in the unclear relationship between Ringo and Xu Beijin.

But the little girl said: "Have you forgotten what the ground floor of the narrow building looks like now? Have you forgotten how much turmoil the bookstore owner's nightmare once caused? Oh...you really don't know what happened back then."

At that time, the thin man had not returned to the bottom floor of the narrow building.However, he was also popularized by the little girl recently, so he just thought about it for a moment, and his face suddenly changed.

The little girl said meaningfully: "Now that rumor is spreading in the narrow building, do you think the missionaries will rekindle their desire for the bookstore owner's nightmare?"

The thin man was silent.

Of course... this is a matter of course.

The thin man came back from a higher floor, and he knew what was going on above.From a certain point of view, the reason why he was secretly uneasy about that rumor was because...how could it be?How could someone escape from the narrow building above?

Just those missionaries?Just that group of taskers whose vitality is not even as good as the bottom of the narrow building? ?

He doesn't believe it at all!

Even though he had some illusions, thinking that there was indeed such a small possibility... However, his heart was still pessimistic and desperate.

But he also knows that this rumor will definitely make countless taskers cheer up, re-enter the nightmare, and start the nightmare journey that may not be useful again.

...and Lin Ao wants to block other people from peeping into Xu Beijin's nightmare at this time?

This is against the greed of all other taskers.

The thin man smiled wryly, and said, "As expected of a boss." He even admired him, "Maybe this is love."

Little girl: "..."

She was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Wait... what?! What love?"

"How could Mr. Ringo be so considerate to a resident of a narrow building? He deliberately protects him?" The thin man said naturally, "You also know that there are many taskers who treat a resident of a narrow building..."

The thin man thought for a moment, and finally chose a word: "Like crazy."

Little girl: "..."

At this point, there were only the two of them at the initial point.

After coming out of the nightmare, all five missionaries are here.Shen Yunju and Jiang Shuangmei were the first to leave, and Lin Po waited for the two of them to leave, and after they had finished speaking to the thin man and the little girl, they also left.

So, the little girl was dubiously fooled by the thin man.

Who said that the missionaries' hospitality to the residents of the narrow building can only be explained by love?

It can only be blamed, some taskers really love the residents of the narrow building fanatically - at least the thin man saw one when he was on a higher floor.So, that kind of fanaticism took away his train of thought.

Just like the muscular man took Jiang Shuangmei away.

In any case, there was another rumor that was already faintly boiling at the bottom of the narrow building. It is said that the boss Ringo, who has a bug-level force value, has a sweetheart, Zheng Jinwu Cangjiao, and will not let anyone go. Spy on his sweetheart.

This really inexplicably made Xu Beijin's situation a little safer, and of course made more people secretly curious about him, not the kind of nightmare about him.

Xu Bei had no idea that asking Lin Biao to solve this matter would bring about such consequences; just as Lin Biao had no idea that he had an extra sweetheart inexplicably.

After Lingo left the initial point, he originally wanted to go directly to Xu Beijin's place.As he said to Xu Beijin, he just finished reading a book, so he wanted to return it and borrow another.

But when he passed a certain fork in the road, he stopped suddenly.He thought of the house that Ding Yi had told him before, so he turned a corner, went to the address that Ding Yi had told him, and walked into that house.

After that, even Lingo couldn't help being startled.

This house was completely emptied and turned into a large one-story house similar to a warehouse.Looking around, there may be dozens of rows of shelves, and the beverages on them are neatly arranged. Different varieties and categories are dazzling under the bright lights.

Lin Po couldn't help thinking, it seems that the daily necessities dealer is quite... kind?

He didn't know that Ding Yi actually abandoned the business he had built and planned to return to his job as a tasker, so he put almost all of his inventory here.

Of course, only the part that refers to the drink.

In any case, this at least satisfied Ringo.

He picked back and forth among the shelves, carefully looking for Xu Bei's favorite drink.He also played a little tricky, he didn't want to give Xu Beijin all at once, but planned to give it bit by bit.

After a while, he returned with a full load and immediately went to Xu Beijin's bookstore.

... Then he saw Mu Jiashi.

Ringo was a little surprised and a little bit unhappy.This displeasure may be because he rushed over to look for Xu Beijin excitedly, but Xu Beijin was entertaining other guests.

However, Lin Po immediately remembered that this was the tasker who said he was going to visit Xu Beijin in the previous nightmare.

His mood calmed down, and he was even a little proud.

You see, he came earlier than Mu Jiashi!

Xu Bei glanced at the expressionless Lingo.Although this guy looks innocent on the surface, his inner emotions seem to fluctuate violently.

... Ringo is really not a person who can hide his emotions.

Mu Jiashi naturally noticed it, he stood up, and greeted Lingo cautiously.

In the nightmare before, he had noticed Lin Po appearing beside Xu Beijin.At that time, he was still a little puzzled, but at this time he saw Lingo again in the bookstore in the narrow building... Isn't this a coincidence?

Why does Lingo keep looking for Xu Beijin?Is he interested in his nightmares?No... In the nightmare before, Lin Po said that he was not interested in Xu Beijin's nightmare, he just wanted to fight with Xu Beijin.

However, for a resident of a narrow building, if he is not interested in his nightmares, why should he do it for this sake?Even if you want to fight and doubt the opponent's ability, you won't be able to...

and many more? !

The corner of Mu Jiashi's mouth twitched suddenly, and all serious thoughts were swept away.He secretly looked at the two men in front of him with a new look.

Mu Jiashi, a tasker who also came back from a higher floor, can think of things that the thin man can think of.

Just because Lingo is not interested in Xu Beijin's nightmares doesn't mean that Lino is not interested in Xu Beijin!

So that fight...

Mu Jiashi's emotions at this time are truly indescribable.

He froze for a second, then decisively bid farewell to Xu Beijin.He didn't want to disturb...well, whatever, he didn't want to be here anyway.

Before leaving, he caught a glimpse of Ringo holding a book in his hand.

He saw the cover of the book, the background was pitch black, and the main body was a pen and a piece of paper that seemed to be printed with blood.

horror story?This thought crossed Mu Jiashi's mind.

After Mu Jiashi left, Lingo handed the book back to Xu Beijin.

Xu Beijin asked casually, "How about this novel?"

Ringo replied: "Although it is a horror novel, but...does the author have any enmity with the protagonist in his novel?"

Xu Bei was stunned for a moment. He looked down at the cover, and then said thoughtfully, "It seems to be true. It is said that the author wrote one of his enemies into the novel, so..."

"No wonder." Ringo said.

He suddenly looked at Xu Beijin suspiciously.

Why does Xu Bei know the background of this novel?When he read it, he didn't find the story behind it.

But before Lin Po could ask this question, Xu Beijin changed the subject: "You said earlier that you wanted to borrow something else, what did you want to see?"

So Ringo also forgot the doubts that came to his mind earlier.He said, "Please recommend one."

Xu Beijin put the books returned by Lingo back on the bookshelf, then stood there, looking at the bookshelf, thinking about what books to give Lino.Ringo walked to his side and stood still, looking at him quietly.

Xu Beijin stroked his chin and thought for a moment, then took out a book from the bookshelf and handed it to Lin Po.

Lin Po looked down and found that it seemed to be a mystery novel with the very common title of "xxx Murder Case".He asked, "What is this about?"

"I don't want to spoil the spoiler." Xu Beijin showed some smiles, "Go and find the murderer yourself."

Lingo looked at the book: "Oh...it seems to be a very unexpected murderer."

Xu Bei smiled and remained silent.

Lingo looked at his expression and couldn't help asking: "It can't be anything, 'I' is the murderer, or everyone is a murderer... Is this kind of thing?"

"Of course not. It's not that special, but..." Xu Beijin hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Like this kind of mystery novel, the murderer, the victim, the crime scene, the time of the crime, the method of the crime... there will always be one of them." question."

Ringo shook the book, and said with some interest, "I'd like to see what's wrong with it."

Xu Bei couldn't help but smile.

Ringo said again: "I have already told those two people, don't come to spy on the bookstore again, and don't come to disturb your life again."

Xu Beijin was slightly taken aback, then smiled sincerely and said, "Thank you."

Ringo said, "So..."

"Do not hit."

Ringo: "..."

He wasn't even angry anymore, instead he felt—so true.

Xu Bei couldn't help laughing.

Afterwards, he sorted the drinks that Ringo and Mu Jiashi had brought over, as if he had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and arranged everything carefully.

And Lingo came to help him, but if he didn't get the position Xu Beijin wanted, then Xu Beijin would get angry instead.

Lingo was really convinced by the man in front of him.First reject his request, and now come to order him.

He asked angrily, "What's the difference between putting it in this cabinet and that cabinet?"

Xu Beijin said seriously: "I firmly don't put the juice in the cabinet under the biographical books."

Ringo asked incredulously, "What's the difference?"

Xu Beijin frowned, pondered for a moment, and then said, "The taste is different...?"

Ringo: "..."

It was always Xu Beijin who felt helpless towards Lin Biao, but this was the first time that Lin Biao felt helpless towards Xu Beijin.

So Lingo was really like a little apple spinning around, letting Xu Beijin direct.Put this here, put this there.Ten minutes later, even the drinks brought by Mu Jiashi were neatly placed.

Xu Beijin finally felt comfortable.

He smiled shyly at Ringo, and said, "Would you like something to drink?"

Ringo said, "Anything is fine."

Bookstores and narrow buildings are still the same bookstores and narrow buildings.The dilapidated place is still very dilapidated, and there is no way to repair it.In these rooms, whatever furniture is spread out is always the same, never changing.

Sometimes, Xu Beijin thinks that the reason why he will never be able to treat Zhailou as "Second Life" is that everything seems too unreal.Everything is the way that can only appear in the imagination.

But this day was the first time since he came to the narrow building. He did not expect that the narrow building was fake, and it turned out that it was just a game.

He directed Ringo around, and seeing Lin's hard work and inability to complain about him, he even couldn't help laughing.

And what about Lingo... Lingo held several drink cans in his arms, squinted at him, then snorted coldly, and put those drink cans one by one into their proper place according to Xu Beijin's instructions.

They really don't look like other people in the narrow building.

——When they stopped, sat down, read their books, drank their drinks, and ate their snacks, Xu Beijin thought so.

For a long time, he felt the lingering haze in his heart, and it seemed that some light had penetrated into it.

He was looking at the book absent-mindedly, but he was thinking in his heart, really... really, the presence of this fellow Ringo is too strong!

Xu Beijin sighed silently in his heart.

No matter what...it's thankful that Ringo didn't mention the fight to him.

After Mu Jiashi left Xu Beijin's bookstore, he stopped almost instinctively.

Because he saw the neighbor next door to the bookstore.

A female Narrow House resident.

When he went to a higher floor, the resident of the narrow building hadn't left; and when he came back, the resident of the narrow building was actually there.

He stared at him through the window.

Afterwards, he walked into the narrow building resident's house and greeted her.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

The woman in the room, her back pressed against the wall."It's been a long time," she whispered.

She once met the tasker in front of her at the bottom of the narrow building.The same was true when she went to higher floors.

Either way, it wasn't quite the same dejected, haggard-looking man he was now.

She thought of the nightmare in which he had failed.She also appeared in that nightmare, and had some contact with this man.Of course...that's what happens at a higher level.

That was a nightmare she got as a brand new narrow building resident after going to a higher floor.That was her nightmare.

But Mu Jiashi didn't know that the person playing the role under the skin of the narrow building resident in front of him was the master of the nightmare that caused his failure.

But he looked deeply at the woman in front of him.

In a way, the Narrow House resident changed his fate.It was she who told him that Xu Beijin liked drinks, that's why he gave Xu Beijin drinks as a gift, and thus obtained a clue to a certain nightmare, so that he could go to a higher floor.

higher floors...

Mu Jiashi couldn't help being in a daze.

But the woman took the initiative to ask: "Are you asking about my neighbor again?"

Mu Jiashi was silent for a moment, then shook his head slowly: "No." Regardless of the thoughts of the narrow building resident in front of him, he continued, "I have experienced a tragic failure. Maybe you may have heard of it...or maybe you haven't. It made me less interested in nightmares for a while."

The woman couldn't help frowning.

Mu Jiashi said: "No matter what, I still thank you for the information you provided, which indirectly led me to a higher floor of the narrow building..."

He suddenly choked up, because he thought, should this be gratitude or resentment?

But the woman asked: "What does the higher floor of the narrow building look like?"

Mu Jiashi thought of the previous conversation with Xu Beijin, which was calm, pretending to be relieved, and even slightly teasing.He told Xu Beijin that it was not as vibrant as the ground floor of the narrow building.

But now, he said, "That's not where a waste like me should go." He said, "So I chose to go back to the bottom of the narrow building."

He kept saying "back".

"That's not what I asked." The woman didn't care about Mu Jiashi's self-pity, and there was a slight temptation in her words, "I'm talking about... the higher level, the nightmare. The one that caused you to fail."

Mu Jiashi was startled suddenly.He seemed to be stabbed by something, and a sharp pain and surprise suddenly rose in his heart as if threatening him.

Nightmare, he thought?The higher... nightmare of his failure?This narrow building resident...

He stared at the woman in front of him.

Suddenly, he withdrew all his emotions, and asked in a cold, firm and decisive tone: "What exactly do you want to ask?"

"Failure." The woman said in a very low voice, as if she was afraid of being heard, so she was extra careful, "That failure. What happened in the nightmare?"

Mu Jiashi said: "The nightmare caused my failure. However, I did not fail in the nightmare." He stared at the woman in front of him, "What do you know?"

After returning to the bottom of the narrow building, even though he also experienced a nightmare, he never told others why he failed to return to the bottom of the narrow building.

He has said countless times that he is a loser, a waste.But he never revealed the truth.

A well-informed merchant of daily necessities like Ding Yi might know; but this... this narrow building resident?How could she know? !

He didn't return to the bottom because of the failure of the nightmare.That nightmare succeeded, the true ending.But that nightmare also failed because it destroyed him.

That's not...the death of the physical body, but the soul.He encountered a nightmare that he could not imagine and could not face.So, he failed, failed countless times.

He couldn't escape that nightmare, so he could only fall into the abyss forever.

Mu Jiashi took a deep breath, suppressing the trembling.

His gaze was very cold, that was the side that never really disappeared under his decadent and depressed appearance—that was the side that belonged to the gold diggers who used to play the 100% true ending at the bottom of the narrow building.

He asked again: "What do you know?"

The woman looked at him with a mysterious smile.

"I fear a lot. The only thing I don't fear is death," she said.

Mu Jiashi's face changed drastically.

The woman said: "It seems that you still remember this sentence."

Mu Jiashi was silent, his brain had received too much information, and now it was even a bit stuck.

And the only reason is...why does this woman in front of me, a resident of the narrow building who lives on the bottom floor of the narrow building, know this sentence he heard in the nightmare on the higher floor? ?

It doesn't make sense at all!

The woman gave a deep laugh, and she said, "My name is Su Enya." She looked at Mu Jiashi who had doubts and anxiety on her face, and said lightly, "But I'm afraid, I can't tell you more."

Mu Jiashi stared at her for a moment, then nodded.He didn't ask why the woman couldn't tell him more.Or maybe he already knew the reason.

He thought of that nightmare again, and thought of a woman in that nightmare.

It wasn't based on any relationship between men and women, he just thought of that woman because of her identity in that nightmare and some things that happened in that nightmare.

That sentence—"I fear a lot. And the only thing I don't fear, is death."—was exactly what the woman said.And now, it also appeared in the mouth of the female narrow building resident in front of her.

He seemed to understand something, and more doubts seemed to arise.

Mu Jiashi said in a low voice: "I understand. Goodbye."

He said goodbye to Su Enya, and walked to his room full of unease, surprise and confusion.

At a corner, he accidentally tripped over a narrow building resident lying in the corner.He stood up in pain, and looked at the narrow building resident while apologizing.

It seemed to be a homeless person, lying on the ground at this moment, unresponsive.His chest still rose and fell, but his eyes were dull, with a smirk on his face, his eyes seemed to be condensed in a boundless and distant place.

He holds a pen in his hand.

Mu Jiashi frowned slightly, subconsciously thinking of the book in Ringo's hand.

Coincidence, he thought?

After thinking about it carefully, he felt that his subconscious association was completely nonsense.Just because there is a pen on the cover of a book, can it be associated with the nightmares of the residents of the Narrow House?

He stared at the resident of the narrow building paralyzed on the ground for a while, and greeted him tentatively, but got no response.So he could only look back and leave this deserted path.

Ten days later, Mu Jiashi left his house at night, and after hesitating for a moment, he chose to walk into the portal of a certain narrow building resident.After an unknown period of darkness, he opened his eyes.

As far as the eye can see, there are ruins.

At the same time, Xu Beijin also opened his eyes somewhere in this nightmare.

He looked around and thought, well, he's a bookstore owner again.