Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Why did the host of the nightmare die?

After Mu Jiashi was stunned for a moment, he logically thought of the reason - because of hunger.

The owner of the nightmare might have starved to death.

If the building in the dream was really an insurance measure left by the owner of the nightmare in order to wake himself up from the dream, then under what circumstances would he wake himself up?The situation must have been urgent in the outer nightmare.

He himself has realized that he is dreaming, and if he wants to leave this dream, he must wake up...

He must have clearly understood that he was dreaming, so he consciously awakened himself.

The outside is a nightmare, the inside is a dream.Anyway, the owner of the nightmare seems to prefer to stay in the dream.Unless... he had to wake himself up.

Because if he didn't wake up from the illusory dream, he might die.

I'm going to starve to death.

After reaching this conclusion, Mu Jiashi breathed a sigh of relief.He seemed to have vaguely grasped the thread of this nightmare.He once again thought of the resident of the narrow building who he met at the corner of the narrow building, holding a pen and giggling.

The owner of this nightmare will ignore what is happening outside, even the pain in his own body because he is immersed in a false dream.

It sounds incredible.

How can there be such a stupid person?

Yet humans are indeed such fragile and complex creatures.

In the narrow building, Mu Jiashi knew that many taskers would rather degenerate and immerse themselves in the feast of alcohol and carnival.They resist to participate in the nightmare, understand the narrow building, and seek the truth.

If illusory, short-lived pleasures can fill their hearts, then why pursue the truth of those painful realities?

Happiness is something that can paralyze the mind.

Mu Jiashi sighed involuntarily.He could understand it, but he couldn't agree with it.Sometimes he retorted impatiently in his mind that it was false—what's the point of a false thing?

But everyone knows that human beings are creatures who pay for their emotions.

So Mu Jiashi didn't think about those things anymore.

In the final analysis, he is a man with a cold, firm and decisive nature after all.Under his dejected appearance, the ambition that pushed him to a higher floor was still blazing.

Just like the truth he once uttered in front of Xu Beijin, he returned to the narrow building, just hoping that he could adjust his state and then go to a higher floor again.

If that failure did destroy him, then out of the ashes, a new Mu Jiashi would be reborn.He sincerely hoped that this time he would not be destroyed.

...And even if it is really destroyed again, what can he do?

In a place like Narrow Building, it is always very easy to give up on yourself.

Mu Jiashi frowned thoughtlessly and remained silent for a moment, thinking about how to find the mysterious nightmare owner.

At this moment, he heard someone gasp in his ear, and then his body shook violently.

He looked around and found that Fei had woken up.After another moment, Wu Jian, Bald Head, and Hua Bi woke up one after another.Finally, the collector struggled a bit, but still woke up.

Mu Jiashi blinked, thinking, this group of people is not so unreliable.

...Yes, after all, they are all taskers who came down from higher floors.

After the group of taskers calmed down, Mu Jiashi analyzed the current predicament, and then asked them what they thought.

"So, we are now going to find the owner of the nightmare?" The bald head said thoughtfully, "Do you think that by pointing out his futility, we can achieve a true ending?"

Mu Jiashi said rigorously: "It should be said that he will definitely not want himself to fall into the ending of his enemy in the book. Therefore, he must be able to reach an ending and leave this nightmare. As for whether it is the real ending or not, I don't know." Sure."

"If it's just a normal ending, wouldn't it be enough to prevent him from starving to death?" The Collector said with a smile, "Why does the normal ending require so much effort?"

Fei said, "Isn't that... we have to find his enemy too?"

Mu Jiashi nodded, agreeing.

After hesitating for a while, Fei looked at Wu Jian, and finally said: "I have a search card here, which can be used twice."

Almost instantly, all the taskers looked at her with a little bit of shock and subtle respect in their eyes.

It is extremely rare and useful to search for a series of item cards, no matter what kind.

Search cards can discover unexplored locations in the scene, or clues, special items, or the location of a special NPC.That's enough to make people jealous.

The quest card may discover the secrets hidden by others (including taskers and residents of the narrow building); the predict card can directly obtain clues related to the future development of this nightmare, which can be described as rare and powerful, and it points directly to the center.

There are five types of prop cards in the narrow building, each of which has three categories, and a total of fifteen different prop cards.

Among them, the Charm series is the most face-oriented (in various senses), the Power series is the most practical, the Search series is the most powerful, the Transformation series is the most treacherous, and the Panel series...

Well, the panel series is the most tasteless.

In fact, apart from the panel cards, the other two prop cards in the panel series are very interesting. Both the definition card and the knowledge card have corresponding uses; however, compared to the rotten street of panel cards, the other two prop cards are surprisingly rare. .

Therefore, the panel series can only be endorsed by panel cards in the end, and panel cards...

It can be described as astonishing tasteless.

Although tasteless prop cards can sometimes be useful, of course the more powerful prop cards are more useful.

Therefore, the taskers all looked at Fei with a surprised look.

...it's literally doing charity.

Afterwards, Fei said: "In exchange, I hope you can tell me... the nightmares related to the end."

Hearing this, Xu Beijin in front of the live broadcast room began to feel anxious. He was afraid that his live broadcast would be cut off again. It was okay, because he only mentioned the nightmare and had no other hints, so his live broadcast was kept. .

The missionaries all agreed to Fei's request, but they didn't intend to exchange clues immediately.Every tasker has his own little thoughts, and he doesn't want anyone other than Fei to get relevant clues.

So they agreed to communicate with Fei alone on the way to find the owner of the nightmare and his enemy.

Bu Cun Fei also said that he could also give the clues to Wu Jian, which would be faster.

All agreed.

So Fei used her item card.

"Trade Name: Messenger of Mercy

"The card pattern: (Wings with white wings)

"Interpretation: The courier can help you find the person you are looking for, provided that you really have something to convey. No matter what, if you can make the courier like you, maybe he will find someone for you for free.

"Number of uses: 2/2"

After using this card, a bright white feather suddenly appeared in the air.

Fei said, "Just follow the feathers."

Using this prop card did not make her feel distressed, because the card pool where this prop card was located and the corresponding nightmare had already been figured out by the organization behind Fei.

In other words, except for the luck problem when drawing cards, they can almost mass-produce prop cards.

Fortunately, they didn't mean to rule the whole narrow building.

Afterwards, while following the feathers formed by the item cards, they told Fei the clues they knew one by one.

The first thing they went to was the enemy.Feathers follow their movement speed, slightly faster than them.The taskers unconsciously quickened their pace, for fear that something might happen to the nightmare.

The first one to come to Fei was the collector, and the bald head went to Wu Jian.

The Inch Collector didn't talk about the clues about the doomsday nightmare first, but he talked about the item card first.He said with a smile: "Ma'am, when you run out of this card, why don't you give it to me?"

"What do you exchange for?"

The collector pondered for a moment, and then said: "I came down from a higher floor. In order to get to the bottom of the narrow building, I went to a nightmare that is said to be very difficult, and I played a bad ending."

"And what was that nightmare?"

Collector smiled slightly: "In that nightmare, the end is happening."

Fei narrowed her eyes, she couldn't help being a little surprised, she immediately said: "No problem, let's exchange!"

Afterwards, the collector told her the residence of the narrow building resident.After finishing speaking, he left with a smile on his face, waiting for the item card to be used up before it came to his hand.

The second person who came to Fei was Mu Jiashi.He hesitated for a moment, and finally chose what he had experienced, a nightmare on the bottom floor of a narrow building.

"...It was a nightmare of the true ending when I went to a higher level."

His expression was unclear, and he spoke lightly.

What he didn't say was that the reason why he was able to have a true ending in this nightmare was because Xu Beijin told him the clues about this nightmare a few years ago.

"It's a nightmare about the elevator. But ... outside, it's a doomsday scenario," he said.

Fei showed a somewhat interested expression, then nodded, and she said, "On the bottom floor of the narrow building?"

Mu Jiashi nodded: "Yes." He paused again, and added rigorously, "It was like this at the time. I don't know if it has disappeared now. Maybe we can take a look later."

Fei immediately nodded.

In the live broadcast room, the audience was discussing these nightmares enthusiastically, but Xu Bei blinked and thought, God help me?

In fact, what he wants these missionaries who are looking for the truth to go is the nightmare that Mu Jiashi mentioned.

Not an inch... I'm afraid Mu Jiashi also misunderstood this nightmare.

The focus is not on the outdoors, but on...

Xu Beijin slowly fell into deep thought.

At this time, Xu Beijin was still in the inner dream.Although the taskers had left this dream and went to the outer nightmare, Xu Beijin still stayed in that bookstore.

Maybe even if he jumps off a building, he still can't leave this dream within a dream.

In the final analysis, no matter whether it is a dream within a dream or an outer nightmare, they are all part of this copy of the game.These "NPCs" probably couldn't leave their fixed scenes.

The scene on the screen source list on the right side of the live broadcast system also hints at this point.These scenes are not divided into two types: dream in dream and outer nightmare, and still use simple numbers. It seems that these ruined areas are all located on the same level.

Xu Beijin had faintly sensed that something was wrong before.On the live broadcast system, there are nearly [-] scenes to choose from, but in fact, during the real live broadcast, he did not switch to so many scenes at all.

And the taskers did almost walk through the entire ruins.

Now the taskers have left the dream within the dream and went to the outer nightmare, so their names appear under those scenes that have never been broadcast live before.

Before, Xu Beijin thought that these unseen scenes were outside the fog; but he didn't expect that they didn't even belong to the same level.

... Xu Beijin was misled by this live broadcast system.

He wondered whether to laugh or cry, since the live broadcast system cheated him like this, and even provided him with a view of God, why not just tell him the answer directly?

For example, after the first area, add a bracket, saying that it is the first area of ​​a dream within a dream.

Another example is the 39th area where the taskers are currently located, and a bracket is also added to define it as the 39th area of ​​the outer nightmare.

Isn't this clear?

Xu Beijin secretly made fun of the rigidity of the live broadcast system, but he also knew that his thoughts were completely out of thin air.

While he was thinking wildly, the taskers had already found that "enemy".

It was a man in his 40s and [-]s, but compared to the decadent appearance in his dream, he now looked extraordinarily flamboyant and energetic.He seems to have become the little leader of the ruins, and he can even order others to find food for him.

The feather floated in front of him, then disappeared.

Seeing the missionaries who suddenly appeared, the man showed a wary and provocative expression.

Although the place still looks like a ruin, at least a small area has been cleared, and a small house has been built with broken mud bricks, and even a deck chair has been placed.The man was sitting on the recliner, looking very relaxed.

But the taskers couldn't help showing weird expressions.

They unconsciously thought of the man walking into the mist like a walking corpse, holding the bread and walking indifferently.

Mu Jiashi cleared his throat and asked, "Did you grab someone's food before?"

The man snorted, and said disdainfully, "Snatch, do I still use it?" He smiled triumphantly, "That's called taking."

The expressions of the taskers became even weirder.

... Well, no matter what, the man in front of him and the other man are nothing more than a phantom from the past in a nightmare.

Fei said: "Then, shall I use the item card again?"

Mu Jiashi stared at the man for a while, then suddenly said: "Use it. I think... I seem to know the true ending of this nightmare."

Fei used that item card, and another feather appeared.She casually threw the scrap card to the collector.The collector looked at the item card carefully, and then put the waste card into his arms with a smile.

Mu Jiashi didn't pay much attention to the interaction of the taskers, he just said: "If the master of the nightmare falls in a dream, it is the moment when he wakes up, then if he sees this man when he wakes up...he will have What's the reaction?"

Crimson froze for a moment.

The bald head said: "He will feel..." He pondered the possible mental journey of the owner of the nightmare, "What's the point of having a good dream?"

It was still a dream after all.

"I think so too." Mu Jiashi nodded, "In reality... it's just the outer nightmare, and nothing has actually changed."

The taskers all showed thoughtful expressions.

Soon, led by Feather, they found the owner of the nightmare.

To their surprise, the owner of the nightmare was still asleep.His position is close to his enemy, at most 100 meters apart, and his enemy has shelter from the wind and rain, servants at his beck and call, and endless food.

But the owner of this nightmare, like the man who walked into the mist in the dream, lived in the ruins of rubble that was rough and windproof.

A few thin pieces of clothing, no, it should be said that they were just fabrics, were spread out on the ground to make his bed.Now it has become very dirty, with a black and oily sheen.

Sleeping on it is not very comfortable to the naked eye.

The owner of the nightmare was a young man in his twenties, skinny, with black eyes, a pen was still tightly held in his hand, and some messy papers were scattered around him, with words written all over them.

Some of the words on the paper were written in blood.Perhaps, the pen he used ran out of ink, and he wrote with his own blood.

Seeing this scene, Mu Jiashi naturally thought of that novel, "Nightmare Reincarnation".And what he thought of was not only the one in the nightmare, but also the one in Xu Beijin's bookstore in the narrow building.

He thought, is this the source of the blood on the cover of the book?

Although the owner of the nightmare is sleeping at this moment, the missionaries seem to be able to hear the sound of hunger rumbling from his stomach.

However, his expression is very soothing, even beaming.He kept smiling, almost a goofy smile.He muttered something like "serve it", "let you mess with me", "see if I don't kill you".

It does sound very depressing.He is probably tossing his enemies well in his horror novels and in his dreams.

However, the taskers frowned involuntarily.

Fei said, "Now that both of us have been found, what should we do?"

Mu Jiashi didn't answer this question immediately. He stared at the nightmare owner for a while, and then suddenly asked inexplicably, "Do you have a mirror?"

Fei was stunned for a moment: "... what?"

"Mirror..." Mu Jiashi took a deep breath, "Maybe, we can show him what he looks like now."

He was the one pushed into the trap of ego by hatred and false joy.

There are still a few minutes before the nightmare master wakes up.The missionaries searched nearby. They were not only looking for mirrors, but also for food.

Wake up from the dream, they will still feel hungry.

This kind of hunger actually made Mu Jiashi feel a little novel, after all, he never really felt this kind of feeling in the narrow building.But as long as he thought about why they were so hungry, he couldn't help feeling a little complicated.

This nightmare may be coming to an end, but... what about the narrow building?

A few minutes later, they did find a broken mirror among the nearby ruins.Wu Jian picked up the mirror and wiped it with the hem of his clothes.

He stared at himself in the mirror involuntarily.

After entering the narrow building, his appearance never changed.Time seems to have stayed on them, and it is hard to say whether it is kind or cruel.Fear and anxiety flashed in Wu Jian's eyes.

He didn't dare to look at himself in the mirror anymore, he always felt that it was just a shadow from the past, not the real him.

He handed the mirror to Mu Jiashi.

On the other side, two strong men with a bald head and a flowery arm brought the enemy of the nightmare master.

There is not much resistance, it seems that at this point, the mastermind no longer gives too many obstacles.

Mu Jiashi realized that it was actually Fei's prop card that made them take many detours, so they didn't have to search for the owner of the nightmare and his enemy on the huge ruins.

... Sure enough, in many cases, item cards are a means of cheating.

However, in the game, skipping classes is also a skill.

Why not use item cards?

If they use Ding Yi's item card, maybe they can solve this nightmare directly now, what mirror are they looking for?

Mu Jiashi secretly sighed, he had a premonition that this would be another ending that required a lot of talking.

Can they convince the owner of this nightmare...?

However, the situation was beyond his expectation.

Mu Jiashi just said a few words casually, hoping that the owner of this nightmare would not be immersed in an illusory dream, so that relatives and enemies would be happy, and he handed him the mirror, so that he could see who was caught in his dream. In the torture of the mouth.

He wanted to say something more, but the man snatched the mirror from his hand and stared at the haggard self in the mirror.

The man who was sitting on the ground, so thin that he could be blown away by a gust of wind, stared blankly at the papers around him, and at the pen he was holding firmly in his hand.

He looked at the enemy who was brought here inexplicably, and he didn't even remember robbing him of food, his enemy.His enemy was swearing, but he still had that arrogant look.

Everything that happened in the dream just happened in his dream.

He fell into a long silence, as if the wind blowing from afar had blown his brain clean.

So he suddenly jumped up, threw the pen away, and said loudly, "You're right! I'm a fucking piece of shit!" He yelled, cried again, and said hoarsely, "What's the use of dreaming..."

He looked at his enemy with hatred, and finally said in despair: "He doesn't even know why I hate him."

Finally, he looked at the taskers and said hoarsely, "You guys woke me up, thank you."

He looked at Mu Jiashi very seriously, crying earnestly on his face, but he couldn't help thinking in his heart that it was not in vain for him to lie on the ground and deliberately touch Ci, the legendary boss who 100% played the true ending.

Taskers: "..."

Ah... the master of this nightmare, is he... is he so easy to trust others?

Although the result is good, the situation seems a bit weird...

Xu Beijin: "..."

He thought, is his colleague a little too cooperative?

Even the taskers had strange expressions on their faces.

This kind of eagerness to go to a higher level is too obvious, and the acting skills are too hip... Can the main brain really communicate?

Xu Beijin was so worried that he seemed to have been fooled.

Not long after, the mechanical and cold voice of the main brain came from the ears of the taskers.

"Congratulations on achieving the true ending of the nightmare. Please choose whether to go to a higher floor: Yes/No."

Some left and some didn't.

When Xu Beijin woke up from the deep and boundless darkness and opened his eyes, what he thought of was the agreement with Dai Wu.

He thought, where did the owner of the nightmare, the actor, live on the bottom floor of the narrow building?

Having not gone out for a long time, Xu Beijin really needs to spend some time to dig out some things buried in his memory.

However, when he opened his eyes absent-mindedly, in the next second, he was almost scared out of his wits.

Why is Ringo in his bookstore? !

Lin Po noticed that he was waking up, so he looked at him with piercing eyes immediately, and asked seriously, "Bei Jin, do you think I like you?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

... He felt that Ringo must have lost his mind.