Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Among the ruins, only one tall building survived, and it is now crumbling.

Xu Beijin is the owner of the bookstore on the first floor of this tall building.

This building seems to be an office building, and his bookstore is more like a store that sells peripherals, cultural and creative supplies, etc., but there are also some other books.

In any case, the store is now very run-down, and it is no different from the antique bookstore in the last nightmare.I'm afraid, just like the ruins outside the window, his bookstore has almost become a member of the ruins.

——Xu Beijin walked around the bookstore and came to these conclusions.

Then, he opened the live broadcast room.

He once again faced a... a nightmare with a very complicated scene.

Xu Beijin looked at the list of nearly sixty different scene perspectives almost speechlessly.Fortunately, this time the six missionaries were under the same scene when they entered the nightmare.

On Xu Beijin's live broadcast system list, it was a place called Ruins [-].

In addition to the first area as the starting point of the nightmare, there are two to 49 areas, a total of 49 different ruin areas.

Xu Beijin focused the live broadcast on the six taskers.

At this time, some viewers also entered the live broadcast room.

"Hi Bei Bei!"

"Beibei, long time no see! I miss you so much."

"Beibei hasn't started a live broadcast for a long time! I thought that Beibei would lose us forever, eh... more live broadcasts in the future."

"What is Beibei's nightmare? While the reasoning boss is away, give us a spoiler!"

"Hey, isn't the reasoning boss here?"

"Ah...the situation is really a bit...suddenly worried."

"The reasoning boss won't something happen in reality, right?"

"...Don't be crowed. The situation is bad, what can we do?"

"Bah, bah, don't talk about those things. Don't make Beibei feel bad."

Xu Beijin: "..."

do not!

He is in a good mood!

Tell me more, what is the situation!

Xu Beijin secretly hated him.

He could only pretend to be nonchalant, and told the audience where he was, but he was still very curious about what the audience vaguely mentioned just now.

What kind of bad situation...can make the reasoning boss have an accident in reality?

However, the special word "situation" gave Xu Beijin a faint sense of foreboding.

Obviously, the audience in his live broadcast room are all ordinary civilians.And what kind of situation can make civilians have accidents for no reason?

Xu Beijin's first reaction was war.

But, war?

When Xu Beijin and these humans entered the narrow building, it can be said that the earth has entered a period of relatively stable development, and hot wars are already very rare.War, for civilians of their age, is almost a fantasy.

However, in the mouths of the viewers in the live broadcast room, the so-called "bad situation" seemed to be... commonplace, and even made them accept their fate.

Why is this happening?

The world outside the narrow building...what has it become?

Xu Beijin felt extremely restless and restless, but he couldn't share it with anyone.

... This time, Ringo did not participate in this nightmare.

It seems that Lingo has something to do these days, and he doesn't even come to Xu Beijin's bookstore every day.

Since the last time he borrowed a horror novel from Xu Beijin to read, he seemed to have a strong interest in Xu Beijin's books, so he would come to borrow a book every day, read it on the same day, and the next day. Come here for another one.

Xu Beijin originally suspected that he just wanted to fight with him, so he deliberately used reading to get close to him, but after careful questioning, Lin Po really read every book seriously.

Hmm... have a tiger in your heart, sniffing roses?

Therefore, Lingo came to the bookstore to report every day, and stayed for a whole day, which lasted for more than ten days in a row.Xu Beijin's bookstore is isolated from the outside world, and they live together all day long here, sharing books, drinks and snacks, and talking occasionally.

In the past two or three days, Lin Po didn't come, Xu Beijin was really not used to it.

He was a little curious about what Ringo was going to do.Before Lingo left, he told Xu Beijin that there might be some things in the next few days and he might not come.

But Xu Beijin felt that he didn't have to be so curious about Lin's life.

The matter of drinks has made Ringo involved in his daily life, not to mention the matter of reading.He has even gotten used to Ringo appearing in his bookstore.Arrive on time every day, leave on time...

But sometimes, Xu Beijin couldn't help thinking, what could this bring?For their narrow-house life, for their nightmares...for everything.

Nothing can be changed.

A new person appears in his life, and one day, this person may also leave.Ringo came close to him because he wanted to fight him and to know his combat power.

If one day he got bored, or went to a higher floor, then all this companionship and intimacy would be over.Xu Beijin stayed on the ground floor of the narrow building.

Besides, Lingo is the tasker, while Xu Beijin is the actor.The taskers never knew the existence of the players, they just regarded them as NPCs in the game, a string of data rather than living people.

These pessimistic thoughts always disturb Xu Beijin's peaceful life.But he's used to his pessimism, so sometimes he can tease himself and say, look, he's still a new friend after all, isn't he?

He never gained friends in the narrow building.

But in this nightmare, he still saw an acquaintance among the taskers.

Mu Jiashi.

Xu Beijin had never seen Mu Jiashi in such a long period of time since the last visit.He didn't go out very much, and in the past ten days, he didn't have a nightmare to go to work, and Mu Jiashi didn't visit him again.

Before Xu Beijin thought that Mu Jiashi was still interested in his nightmare, but now it seems that this man who experienced failure on a higher floor seems to be really disheartened.

...although in this present nightmare, he seems to be normal.

Because the rest of the taskers seem to be very, very unreliable.

Mu Jiashi: "..."

He suddenly wanted to know that in the two nightmares after returning to the bottom of the narrow building, the taskers he encountered were both a bit headache, whether the reason was because of the mentality of "I want to be a waste too".

Except for Mu Jiashi, the five taskers, some of them introduced themselves as waste card collectors, young people with ecstatic expressions, some of them were chattering, staring at a man and a woman around them with vigilant and nervous eyes, their eyes were red, swollen and congested, and their expressions were Two ferocious, strong men.

No one knew Mu Jiashi, a gold digger who was once famous at the bottom of the narrow building, which actually made Mu Jiashi heave a sigh of relief.

The collector touched his chin and said with a smile: "Oh, that's great. It looks like you all have item cards. If you run out of use times in this nightmare, why don't you sell them to me? If you give them to me, then I'm so happy!"

The two men with bloodshot eyes looked at him with disdain at the same time.

To the taskers, scrap card collectors are like those little kids who are childishly addicted to toys.

The vast majority of scrap card collectors have very distinctive personalities, just like the young man in front of him, even in the nightmare of ruins, he can smile and bring up the scrap card issue without hesitation.

And the waste card collectors are also the only group of taskers who can openly mention item cards in nightmares.The rest of the taskers avoided these three words, for fear of being stolen, and also for fear of being misunderstood as a card dealer.

But scrap card collectors don't care so much, they always only want scrap cards.If they inadvertently get an item card that still retains the number of uses, they will return it to the owner instead, or give it to someone else casually.

There are quite a few quest players who have a good relationship with collectors because collectors of scrap cards can often get this kind of cards.

Either it is a stolen item that is difficult for card dealers to sell, or it is an item card that has been lost for various reasons, or... In fact, many questers suspect that house thieves will cooperate with collectors.

Some house thieves will give or sell a whole batch of item cards cleared from the homes of the disappearing questers to collectors, and among them, it is very likely that some of them still retain a small number of uses, which are extremely rare and Precious item card.

But scrap card collectors don't care.

In a sense, they dealt with much more item cards than card dealers.

But that's just a bad card.

Therefore, there are a lot of taskers who think that these collectors are fools.They collect useless cards, but dismiss serious prop cards... They are either crazy or fools.

And the vast majority of scrap card collectors actually think they are lunatics.

This damned narrow building, this damned world... Isn't it suitable for lunatics like them?

So at this moment, the collector looked at the rest of the taskers with a smile: "I'll take it as if you agreed, how about it? Waste cards are of no use to you. But to me..." He took a deep breath He took a breath and exhaled again, "That is the supreme treasure."

There was a mission worker with a bald head. He rubbed his arms with an exaggerated expression, and then rolled his eyes: "Crazy." He clapped his hands instead and said, "Okay, this is a nightmare. We should get down to business, Don't mess with this guy."

The young collector who is called "this guy" is not angry, he still has a smile on his lips, as if the smile is carved on his face.

In the live broadcast room, the audience was terrified by this guy's laughter.

"Why can someone laugh so much in this escape game? Perverted?!"

"That's the most~supreme~zhen~bao~!"

"...Qiaoqiu, I don't understand why some people regard trash as treasure."

Just now Xu Beijin had explained to them what a scrap card collector is, and unsurprisingly, the audience was also a little dizzy—why do some people like to collect such things? !

Xu Beijin said more pertinently: "The cards of the item cards are all different. It is said that some types of item cards come in sets, and it is very easy to satisfy the preferences of collectors."

The audience agrees, but they still think that in the current environment, a person who can laugh so happily must not be a good person.

...this is the ruins.

In a world made of rubble, bricks, steel bars, and cement, dust is dispersed in the air, and sometimes it looks like a mist with a special color, but the grayish-yellow hazy feeling always makes people think of something else. scene.

For example, in doomsday movies, the setting sun is dim, leaving only a little dim afterglow.

It was as if something, some ultimate weapon, fell cruelly at a certain moment, and then destroyed the city in an instant.They saw countless collapsed buildings, crumbling houses.They saw the Ferris wheel falling down in the distance.

And the surrounding is very quiet.

Occasionally, they could glimpse a few figures, bending over the dilapidated street corner, but in the blink of an eye, those figures disappeared.

The bald tasker took a deep breath and tried his best to ignore the tingling smile on the back of the collector.

"We're going to explore this scenario separately," he said.

In the live broadcast room, "fools" floated on the barrage.

Everyone knows that in this kind of escape game, it is best not to separate the team, but this bald man who has naturally taken over the leadership of the team proposed to separate and act instead?

However, Xu Beijin said a good word to him: "The scene of this ruin is too big, and the team will waste a lot of time exploring together."

Mu Jiashi thought so too.

His gaze swept around, especially behind him.He noticed that the place farther behind them was covered by thick fog, making it impossible to see clearly.

He thought, this means that they can't leave this area?

At this time, the bald head's proposal had been agreed by all the taskers, and Mu Jiashi also nodded absently.

The bald head nodded complacently, so he, who thought he had taken control of the leadership, said part of the information he knew: "This is the second time my brother and I have entered this nightmare."

These words immediately aroused the interest of other questers, and even Collector blinked and looked at him curiously.

The "brother" that the bald man said was referring to the tasker with the flower arm next to him.However, they are not similar in appearance, but their bodies and expressions are similar, so they are probably not brothers in the true sense.

The bald-headed gaze swept over every tasker, as if to confirm his leadership position.

With a dejected look on his face, Mu Jiashi let his bald head look at him, but he remembered that when he entered the nightmare last time, he also met a tasker who entered the nightmare for the second time.

Compared with the frankness of the bald head, that person is much more hypocritical and selfish.

But... there are so many people like this recently.

As soon as this idea appeared in Mu Jiashi's mind, he immediately understood the reason.

Because the atmosphere among the mission workers on the ground floor of the narrow building recently can be described as radical.Almost everyone is constantly having nightmares.

The true ending is naturally to leave the bottom floor of the narrow building immediately, and the taskers will not be discouraged by the bad ending or the normal ending, but will continue to work hard, and immediately return to the previous nightmare the next night.

Unless you have failed several times in a row, and you are afraid that you will enter the nightmare again, and the nightmare will experience an unknown collapse, then you will give up this nightmare and try other nightmares.Otherwise, you must die with the same one.

The reason is naturally because, the more you enter a nightmare, the more information you can grasp, and the higher the probability of a true ending.

S/L Dafa is good.

Because of this, there have been fewer and fewer taskers on the ground floor of the narrow building recently.Ten or 20 days of work, the nightmare of so many narrow building residents is enough for this group of taskers to break through.

Even if you are very good at it, you can get a ride from others.

For various reasons, the taskers who are still on the bottom floor of the narrow building have their own thoughts.Either they are really good, and they are unlucky and didn't get a ride with other people's true ending; or they have ulterior motives and try to fish in troubled waters.

Of course, there are also those like Lingo and Mu Jiashi who really don’t want to go to higher floors; there are also those taskers who still choose to eat and wait to die and indulge in carnival.

In any case, the ground floor of the narrow building is very different from the past.

But Xu Beijin was completely unaware of this.

He himself couldn't imagine how lively the ground floor of the narrow building and those nightmares were in just ten or so days.

Therefore, when he heard that both the bald head and the flowery arm came to this nightmare for the second time, he couldn't help being surprised, and subconsciously thought of his second nightmare in the live broadcast.

In this nightmare of ruins, Xu Beijin didn't get any information from the mastermind, which made him stare at the bald head in the live broadcast room, wanting to see what this guy knew.

The bald head confirmed that every tasker was curious about what he said, and then nodded, with a complacent and proud mood, he told about his previous exploration in a nightmare.

"This ruins is roughly a rectangular area. It's surrounded by fog and you can't get out... Hey, when we came last time, there was an idiot who wanted to go out, but he didn't know what was going on, so he just asked The nightmare restarted once again.

"This scene is mainly ruins, and there is another building, but that building is about to collapse. This place seems to be... an area after the end of the world. There are many survivors looking for food here. We are also survivors. .

"By the way, in this nightmare, you will feel hungry and tired, so we must also find food."

Speaking of this, the bald head thought about it carefully and said, "That's it."

The collector rubbed his chin and asked excitedly: "But you don't have any important information. We will find out when we explore the scene later. Did you get this little information last time you came to this nightmare? What about the ending? ?”

The bald head gave him a disgusted look: "We had a nightmare last time, and we didn't find food in the end..." His voice slowly sank, "And then they all starved to death. A bad ending."

The collector's eyes flashed, and he said to himself: "Oh...bad ending..."

In the live broadcast room, the audience chatted on the barrage.

"So, this is a doomsday survival game?"

"Looking for food, and then...? Since the bad ending was played before, wouldn't the normal ending be that you found the food and didn't starve to death?"

"This ending is really ordinary."

"If the main scene is the ruins and the building, then the message should definitely focus on the building... right?"

"That bald man didn't mention the building much. It seems that the building may be just a set? Oh, by the way, just now Beibei said that this is an office building, so there shouldn't be any food here."

"No, there is Beibei's bookstore here. There must be some clues in the bookstore?"

"Beibei...uh, Beibei, what's wrong with you?"

When the main perspective was aimed at those taskers, Xu Beijin shrunk down the picture of his bookstore and placed it in the lower right corner.At this moment, the audience could see that in the small window, Xu Beijin's face was as pale as death, and even his lips were trembling.

After a while, he seemed to come back to his senses suddenly, and subconsciously said hastily: "Sorry, I... I was distracted."

The audience was very tolerant, just wondering what Xu Beijin thought of just now, why his expression suddenly became so ugly, like...fear.

Xu Beijin was silent for a moment.

During that moment, he subconsciously leaned his back against the back of the chair.He clenched his fingers, feeling a dull, heavy pain and gloom.

He forced a smile: "I just thought of... some things in reality."

"Ah... Hug Beibei."

"Beibei is willing to live broadcast this kind of game, it must be because the real life is not easy...everything will be fine! Beibei believes in me!"

"Beibei don't think about things that make you sad and unhappy."

The audience in the live broadcast room comforted Xu Beijin, and Xu Beijin also thanked them softly.The gloomy look between his brows remained undiminished, so after only a moment, the audience's topic went off track.

"To be honest... I think Beibei is more like an angry villain at this time, rather than a sad little cutie."

"I really want to say, Beibei, don't be so sullen, it's really scary."

"...Beibei, you are a little self-aware of your face, don't show such an expression casually, it will scare the flowers and plants!"

"Beibei, let's have a laugh!"

"When Beibei smiles, he also looks like a villain who has succeeded in tricking him."

Xu Beijin: "..."

Hello!He is a genuinely good man!

After being disturbed by the audience in the live broadcast room, Xu Beijin's mood turned from depression to depression.

Although they are all "depressed", the situation seems to be different.

He sighed dumbfoundedly, and turned his gaze back to the scene in the live broadcast room - the bald head.

He said that this nightmare is the ruins after the end.

end……

Xu Bei supported his head with a sleepy expression.He couldn't tell what he was thinking at this moment, because his thoughts and memories were all mixed together, making it impossible for him to tell whether it was the past or the present.

……end.

In the narrow building, this is almost a forbidden word.For various reasons, this term was once popular in the narrow building, and then it was suddenly banned from mentioning it.

Xu Bei hadn't recalled this word and the meaning it symbolized for a long time.

He suddenly turned his head and looked at the ruins outside the window—he thought, doomsday?

... Maybe it's not just that, it's just a doomsday.

During the period of his silence, the taskers had already assigned their tasks.

If the ruins are rectangular as a whole, then they are located in the most remote northwest corner.

So, starting from their current position, the bald head and the flower-armed group explored towards the east; The central location of the ruins to explore.

Five minutes after the nightmare started, six taskers walked out of their starting point.

Xu Beijin regained his senses and divided the screen in the live broadcast room into four equal parts, presenting his place and what the three groups of people explored respectively.