Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Why can't little girls be the hosts of nightmares?

Previously, the taskers and the audience in the live broadcast room had never considered this issue, because the taskers knew that the resident of the narrow building was an adult woman, not the age of the little girl in the nightmare.

And the audience in the live broadcast room were obviously misled by the thoughts of the taskers.

But the identities of the actors in the nightmare do not completely match their image in the narrow building.For example, Xu Beijin is the owner of the bookstore in the narrow building, but in the nightmare, he may not always play the role of the bookstore owner.

And Nightmare Master is no exception.Their identities in the narrow building may have hinted at some clues in their nightmare, but it may also bring some misleading.

It may be because the little girl outside of the nightmare has grown up, and this experience was a lingering nightmare in her childhood, and even after she became an adult, she often returned to this moment to have nightmares.

It may also be because, in this nightmare, the owner of the nightmare felt extremely helpless and frightened in the apocalypse and this terrible building, so he transformed his image into a weak little girl.

This is her nightmare, in which anything can happen.

Of course, based on the relationship with that photo, Xu Beijin personally prefers the first possibility.

In the live broadcast room, the audience discussed enthusiastically: "Yes! The little girl may also be the owner of the nightmare!"

"There was an image of the nightmare owner in the nightmare before, isn't it just a little boy?"

"If the little girl is the master of the nightmare, then it seems more reasonable to say that the sorcerer takes the role of her mother..."

"Then it should be that after the witch gave her the bracelet, the little girl subconsciously regarded the witch as her mother, and even affected that photo?"

"Fuck, I'm convinced."

"Come, come, buy and leave: Is the owner of the nightmare, the little girl or the little girl's mother?"

"The little girl has been seen, but her mother is still missing. I choose the little girl."

"Emm, but just now Beibei said so much about the background setting of this nightmare. I think if it's really just a little girl this age, she shouldn't understand so much, right? I vote for the little girl's mother."

"The question is, if the little girl outside the nightmare has grown up, and this nightmare is just her dreaming of her childhood... can it be completely explained?"

"...I'm sorry I'm dizzy. Before I have more evidence, I'll be neutral."

"Why can't the owner of the nightmare be someone else, and the little girl and her mother are just distractions (Devil Whispers)"

"!! You might as well let me die!!"

The audience debated back and forth, but with no conclusive results.

And the same goes for missionaries.

They also thought of the possibility that the little girl was the host of the nightmare, but this was of no help to their current predicament.They still need to go back and forth on different floors of this building, looking for their possible way out in the madness and blood.

The teenager speculated that Jiang Shuangmei might have replaced the role of the little girl, and this aroused suspicion about the identity of the nightmare's owner, but this did not bring about any change.

Jiang Shuangmei and Wu Jian left the No. [-] elevator, and the three taskers in the No. [-] elevator also started their "adventure".

Elevator No. [-] had four illuminated floor buttons, and the man in the suit didn't think much about it, he just pressed the sixth floor.

Before the few of them reached the 20th floor, they had actually tried countless times in the No. 20 elevator, with the goal of reaching the [-]th floor.Compared with taking the stairs, the efficiency is naturally very low, but they have probably figured out some rules.

First of all, the floors that an elevator can go to should be fixed in a certain set, but this set should overlap with the sets of other elevators.

Secondly, the actual floor corresponding to the floor button that lights up in an elevator is a certain floor in the collection, which is not fixed; but it may also go to a certain floor in the collection that only this button can go to.

Based on this situation, if the taskers want to go to all the floors corresponding to this elevator, it is impossible for them to do it by pressing only one button. They must press all the buttons to try it out.

Finally, there are safety and danger among the floors that the elevator can go to, but whether a certain floor is safe or not, the answer is fixed.They don't have to worry, the situation on this floor changes at some point.

...Maybe when the nightmare collapses, the situation will change.

However, the man in the suit suddenly thought of Jiang Shuangmei's mention of the bracelet on the little girl's wrist that should have belonged to the sorceress.

In this way, has the nightmare collapsed?This shouldn't be the case if it's just a reboot.However, if the little girl is the master of the nightmare, and she subconsciously regards the witch as her mother, then the situation is completely different...

The owner of the nightmare has complete control over his nightmare.This was his dream after all.

Now that the little girl and the witch are all missing, the man in the suit couldn't help but feel even more headache.Maybe they can use the panel card to cheat, but now even the objects to use are gone.

The man in the suit doesn't like to use item cards either.

For the taskers on the higher floors of the narrow building, they are more used to finding the truth by themselves.

Moreover, they almost tacitly agreed to an unspoken rule, that is, the nightmare of using item cards to cheat. After the ending is played, the chances of rare item cards appearing in the card pool will be extremely reduced.

Therefore, this group of higher-level taskers is like a group of hamsters, desperately hoarding useful item cards, and at the same time not using them in nightmares, trying to rely on their own abilities to pass the level.

...In fact, the man in the suit did not expect that the nightmare at the bottom of the narrow building would be so difficult.

He couldn't help but look at the boy.The young man who originally thought he came to fry fish on the bottom floor of the narrow building is now thinking hard with his head down. He seems to be trapped by some details of this nightmare, unable to come up with a reasonable answer.

For this logic control, this nightmare may make him puzzled.

The man in the suit couldn't help shaking his head.Compared to his companions, the man in the suit is a more pragmatic individual.He hoped that when he saw the little girl later, he could ask her the answer to the question of whether she was the master of the nightmare.

In addition, he also hoped that Lingo and Fei would gain something.Otherwise, their second round of nightmares has been going on for so long, and they still get nothing, instead they only get a lot of problems.

The elevator dinged and arrived at the corresponding floor.

The man in the suit subconsciously calculated the time and distance.The elevator went down from the 20th floor, and it took about three or four seconds.

So this is... 17th or 18th floor?

The man in the suit thought, during the first round of nightmares, Fei, Liang Shuang, and Shen Yunju took the No. 18 elevator to the 18th floor. They already knew that there was an inexplicable pervert on the 17th floor. The elevator door opens, it will be the [-]th floor.

And the 17th floor happens to be just above the 16th floor; if the 16th floor is a safe zone through and through, then what is the 17th floor?

With a little nervousness, the elevator door opened.

In the next second, the pupils of the man in the suit shrank rapidly.

Fei and Ringo reached the 14th floor.

Before that, they also stopped by to take a look at the 15th floor, and those messy tables and chairs were still piled up in the corners.

What concerned Fei most was that the desk and chair that Lin Bao and Wu Jian had met before had disappeared in the middle of the ground.

Ringo walked over and walked around, and then said: "There." He pointed to the pile of tables and chairs by the wall and said, "It's where I threw my last round of nightmare."

Fei murmured, "Has the nightmare changed?"

Lingo also understood what this meant: "But this is only the second round."

Fei was silent for a moment, then she said slowly: "So, what's the point of putting the pair of tables and chairs in the middle of the ground...?"

Ringo thought for a while, and tried to answer this question: "Because it is facing the burning city outside the window?"

"Facing...the burning city..." Fei repeated what Lingo said, and suddenly turned her head to look out the window.

That silent city is still burning silently, as if in the whole city, only this building still has some living creatures lingering.

...Why only people escaped from this building, but no one came to this building from outside?

This question suddenly appeared in Fei's mind.

And this question seemed to point to a possibility that frightened her.

Because there is no one outside.

Lin Po looked at Fei inexplicably. Because of his words, the tasker showed a thoughtful expression, and then his face became paler and paler, and finally he almost approached her. Hearing Xu Beijin say that in this building, The crumbling look of the group of lunatics.

... Lin Xi felt some subtle emotions because of the similarities between himself and Xu Beijin.

He pondered for a while, and finally dug out a little bit of familiarity from his memory—is this the picture of husband and wife?

He thought about it again, well, it seemed to make sense.

So Ringo was happy again.

He is completely different from Xu Bei when he is happy.No matter how much Xu Bei laughed, others thought he was thinking of some bad idea, but Lin Po was gentle and harmless, and he looked extraordinarily obedient when he smiled, the kind of obedient who pleases the elders.

If someone really knows Ringo's character, then he might already feel a little scared because of his smile at this moment.

But he was thinking, so he and Xu Beijin were a natural match?

Starting from this perspective, Lingo finally came to the conclusion that he really likes Xu Beijin - if he didn't like Xu Beijin, how could they have a husband and wife relationship?

...the logic seems to be broken somewhere.

But Ringo did not have this self-knowledge.

While thinking, he casually followed Fei to the 14th floor.

Before entering the 14th floor, Fei took a closer look at the window glass of the safety door in the stairwell on this floor. She didn't dare to break into the ogre's territory, and there was really no need for that.

...at least not yet.

The situation on the 14th floor was beyond Fei's expectations, because everything on this floor remained as it was before except for the missing window panes.

Neatly arranged desks, printers on the wall, piles of printing paper, locked filing cabinets, drinks, computers, documents, calculators, stationery on the desktop... everything, as if the last second There are still people busy in this office area.

But in the next second, everyone disappeared.

Compared with the other weird, crazy, and murderous floors, this scene made Fei feel the chill behind her.

It is obvious that since the office areas on other floors appear to be so chaotic, the same was certainly true on the 14th floor when the "incident" occurred.

But why, it seems so normal here now?

...because the "renovator" has ever been here?

Scarlet looked around in bewilderment.

At this moment, Ringo's ears suddenly moved, and he subconsciously looked towards the source of the sound he heard - it was a sound of breathing mixed with weak sobs.

After a while, the two came to the bathroom on the left side of the floor.

Just like the normal appearance of the outside world, the bathroom on this floor was not locked like other floors.

They all heard faint cries coming from the men's room.

Fei and Lingo looked at each other.

Lingo stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of the men's room. After sweeping it, he saw a person curled up in the corner.Because of the stranger, he didn't even dare to continue crying.

"mushroom"?

Lingo didn't bother to go in, so he said directly, "Come out."

That mushroom... No, maybe that person was frightened by Lingo, so he stood up tremblingly after only a moment of fright, and walked towards the outside slowly, step by step.

The two missionaries were finally able to see his true face.

This is a middle-aged man who looks about 40 years old, with thinning hair, suits and leather shoes, but his face is full of tears.

He didn't know how long he had been crying in the toilet by himself, and now he didn't even feel ashamed, but his face was stiff, his head was lowered, his body was trembling slightly, as if he was still very scared.

Fei tried her best to calm her voice so as not to scare this rare living person: "Are you okay?"

The man didn't answer.

Fei asked again: "Do you know what happened on this floor?"

Perhaps some of the words reminded the man of something, he almost subconsciously twitched, as if recalling something that frightened him so much.

He yelled, "NO! NO!! Don't remind me of those things...! Please..."

With that said, he sat limply on the ground and curled himself up again.

But before Fei continued to ask questions, he started talking on his own.

"That group of people, they were here before. They were crazy here, they said this is their canteen, so it needs to be repaired.

"They had the renovators turn it into what it was, but then they stopped coming, saying things have changed and they don't have to live like this anymore...

"Everything, I can't go back..."

The man continued to cry, and Fei also understood what happened.

It's a man-eating ghost.

They regard the 14th floor as their cafeteria, maybe because they used to work here, so they decided to turn it into the original place, so that they seem to return to the state before the incident, and continue to eat and work here , rest and communicate.

But maybe the situation continued to collapse, and at some point, the group of ogres realized that there was no need to maintain the original state, because the situation had already changed.

They may have left this floor in the end, went to the lower floors, and ended up staying there, even painting the glass windows in the stairwell with blood.

Those man-eating ghosts have completely left their original lives.

...and that is the end?Is it the effect of something unknown on their brains?They were supposed to be normal people, working and living normally, but one day, they somehow became man-eating ghosts.

The sinfulness of their conduct does not affect the eccentricity of their motives.

Fei silently listened to the words of the "mushroom" in front of her.

He said that he hid here quietly after the group of man-eating ghosts left.Everyone else knew that this place used to be the territory of man-eating ghosts, so they didn't dare to come here.

He just took advantage of this mentality and hid here quietly until he was discovered by Lingo and Fei today.

He doesn't know much more than some past about this layer.

Fei couldn't help asking: "You hide here alone, don't you need to eat? Don't you feel thirsty and hungry?"

The man looked at Fei with a strange look, and said, "I am 'Mushroom'."

Fei was stunned for a moment, and then finally understood why, according to Xu Beijin, this group of mushrooms was also included in the ranks of lunatics.

Because they don't feel thirsty or hungry, they huddle in dark corners like real mushrooms.They seem to have lost all human touch, and only fear and resistance to the outside world remain.

Fei couldn't help thinking, could this be that "event" that happened outside, and no one knew what happened, the consequences?

Human beings were affected by the brain without knowing anything, and their lives have since embarked on another path.And even they themselves are not surprised by this.They think it's their own choice.

...Fei thought of the narrow building, and thought of their lost memories.

If she had to say it, she also thought of the "price" of the item card.

She knew that many taskers on the higher floors of the narrow building were unwilling to use item cards.

Apart from the very high-sounding reason they said - using the item card will affect the card pool after the nightmare is over - the real reason should be that they are afraid of the price of the item card.

No one wants to become like a sorceress; and a sorceress is just the epitome of a tasker who has used countless item cards at a higher level.

The item card also had some kind of... special influence on their brains without their own awareness, and the taskers would take it for granted, that's what they thought.

But if you let outsiders see it, the impact is so obvious that it cannot be added.

But it is difficult for the affected taskers to realize it by themselves.Because human beings do not doubt their brains, how can human beings doubt their own brains with their own brains?

Just like the man in front of Fei, he has already firmly believed that he will not feel thirsty or hungry, and he does not need to sleep.The meaning of his life is just shrinking in the corner.

If it wasn't because of fear that he had to stand up and answer Fei's question, then he would probably spend the rest of his life in that corner, right?

Fei couldn't agree with such an idea, but what could she say to such a person who had already firmly believed in her situation?

In the live broadcast room, the audience also felt a little helpless because of the appearance of this mushroom.

"Hey, although there is no clear image of the end of the day in this nightmare, and the taskers have not encountered that incident, but..."

"It's the charcoal of life after the end of the world."

"I didn't expect the doomsday in this nightmare to be like this? There was also a doomsday in the last nightmare, but it's just... different from this one."

"I think the effect on the brain is pretty scary (whispers)"

"However, although……"

"...Okay, let's not talk about it."

Xu Beijin looked at the veiled conversations of the audience in the live broadcast room with a little surprise.

There are not many viewers in this group of live broadcast rooms, and they are already familiar with each other, and sometimes they can even chat on the barrage.They have always been outspoken, and they have teased Xu Beijin and Lin Po's affairs countless times.

As a result, it actually "stop talking" now?

Xu Beijin wondered if this had anything to do with... the real world situation.For example, when the reasoning boss hadn't appeared for a long time, the audience in the live broadcast room once said that the current "situation" in the real world is not very good.

...But this group of audience should be civilians, right?What happened?

Xu Beijin's heart could not help but be covered with a layer of haze.

What troubled him even more was that even if he wanted to know, he didn't dare to ask so bluntly.

After a while, Xu Beijin could only pretend that he didn't see the audience's conversation, and turned his attention to the screen in the live broadcast room.

He found that Jiang Shuangmei and Wu Jian had arrived at the stairwell on the 22nd floor.

That's probably the floor where the sea of ​​blood exists.Xu Beijin then switched the main perspective to their side.

Looking in from the glass window in the stairwell on this floor, there is nothing special inside, and there is no possibility of the existence of the bloody sea at all.But in the last round of nightmares, Jiang Shuangmei, Fei, and Shen Yunju were actually splashed all over their bodies and faces by blood pouring in from outside the elevator.

They opened the door and entered the 22nd floor.

Later, Jiang Shuangmei realized in confusion that there was really no blood on this floor.

Could it be on the 23rd floor?

Not impossible.But is the 22nd floor so ordinary?

Jiang Shuangmei and Wu Jian went all over the 22nd floor.

Wu Jian said suspiciously, "Is there nothing on this floor?"

Jiang Shuangmei replied: "I don't know." She paused, "But I always feel that it can't be so simple."

She couldn't tell what it was like.

This floor is no different from other floors, but there seems to be a special smell permeating the nose.The smell became more and more obvious and more pungent until Jiang Shuangmei touched her nose uncomfortably.

She said, "Did you smell..."

"...the smell of blood?"

Wu Jian said hesitantly.

The two of them looked at each other and looked around almost simultaneously.

The next second, they saw a very dark trickle flowing from the air outlet of the central air conditioner.After that, all the air conditioners started leaking that fluid.

The strong smell of blood began to linger around them.It was blood, pouring from the air-conditioning vents above their heads.Perhaps, it is actually coming out of the air vent through the exhaust vent of the air conditioner?

In any case, almost immediately, a thin layer of blood accumulated on the ground.

Jiang Shuangmei's back felt cold, she hurriedly said to Wu Jian, "Let's go!"

They quickly retreated to the stairwell, huddled together at the glass window, and stared dumbfounded at the blood that first flowed out like a stream, then directly washed away the outer panel of the central air conditioner like a waterfall, and finally washed away the entire floor like a flood .

However, the blood somehow did not spill over that floor, nor did it pass over the windows that had lost their glass.

The entire 22nd floor is like a container, containing a steady stream of blood.

Finally, the slowly rising blood covered the glass window in the stairwell.They can no longer see what happened on the 22nd floor.

...Jiang Shuangmei watched this scene and couldn't help rubbing the goosebumps on her arms.She said to herself: "It really is a nightmare..."