Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

When the taskers came to the 31st floor, they couldn't help being dumbfounded by the empty floors.

They said almost in unison: "The nightmare has collapsed?!"

Yes, this is already the third round of the nightmare.Generally speaking, by this time, the nightmare is indeed very likely to experience a collapse.

But the result of the collapse is that the little girl disappeared immediately!

Such a situation instantly gave them a headache.

Some taskers even subconsciously looked at Lingo, and found that this powerful boss had shown a displeased expression, and they were even more worried about whether he would run away... In fact, the result of Ringo's runaway is similar, right?

Thinking about it, they calmed down.

The man in the suit made a quick decision: "There is no elevator on the 31st floor, so the little girl must take the stairs. One group of people took the stairs to see if they could catch up with the little girl, another group went to the 20th floor to take the No. 9 elevator, and another group went to the [-]th floor. Look for that freight elevator upstairs."

This time, the man in the suit and the boy will not choose to stay together again.

While they were grouping, Lingo had already rushed out impatiently, and started going down the stairs.

Wu Jian glanced at Fei and the man in the suit, and rushed out after them.

The young man sneered, "I'm going to find elevator No. [-]."

Fei took the initiative to say: "I'll be with you." Thinking about it, she also pulled the sorceress along the way, "You can come with us."

The other group was going to find the freight elevator on the 9th floor. It was the place where the sorceress took the little girl with her inexplicably during the last round of nightmares. Fei was worried that after the sorceress went, there would be some special reaction.

In addition, there are photos on the 20th floor, and the No. [-] elevator that the goddess once took.What happened in the first round of nightmares, maybe they can review it now in the third round of nightmares to see if they can find any new clues.

The man in the suit obviously understood her thoughts, so he nodded and said to the other two, "Okay, let's go to the ninth floor now."

Jiang Shuangmei and Shen Yunju walked with him.

The eight missionaries set foot on their respective destinations again.They also have no intention of looking for elevators No. [-] and No. [-], but pay more attention to some things that are going on now.

For example... the whereabouts of the little girl.

Lingo and Wujian ran down quickly all the way.They ran all the way to the 16th floor without seeing the little girl.The little girl's footsteps couldn't be as fast as the two big men's. There was no reason why they couldn't keep up with the little girl's pace.

Lin Po frowned, but couldn't think of where the little girl could go, so he simply walked into the 16th floor.

He came in front of Xu Beijin and asked him, "Did you see a little girl?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

He raised his head and looked at the little apple that suddenly appeared in front of him, feeling speechless for a moment.

Wu Jian cautiously followed behind Lingo, and also walked into the 16th floor.Then, he heard Xu Beijin say after a moment of silence, "I haven't met."

Lingo asked persistently, "Where do you think she will go?"

Xu Bei thought with all his heart, do you think I am your portable think tank?

He sighed and said with a headache, "I don't know anything..." He suddenly paused, thinking of the live broadcast system, he felt somewhat guilty for a while, "How can I reason it out? I'm not a prophet."

He still spoke out with confidence.

The audience laughed loudly in the live broadcast room, and all lamented that they were still talking nonsense with their eyes open.

But Lingo looked at him and said seriously: "I can tell you the information you need. In this nightmare, in the entire narrow building, I only trust you, and only your deduction."

Xu Beijin fell silent for a moment, only feeling that something soft hit his heart lightly.

Ringo only believed in him?

Why does Ringo only trust him?

Does he really deserve Ringo's trust?

…… Ringo really likes him?

Xu Beijin suddenly gave a wry smile in his heart.

He thought, is he stubborn?Is he preconceived?Is it because he biasedly and unfairly determined that it is impossible for Lingo to like others, especially himself?

Maybe Lin Po really, just put this sincere feeling in front of him?

He was silent for so long that Ringo tilted his head in confusion.

Ringo said again, "What information do you need?"

Xu Beijin opened his mouth, but stopped talking.He wanted to discuss that sentence with Lin Po carefully, but because of various concerns, he silently swallowed the words.

Just like not long ago, facing Ringo's sincere concerns, he also chose to remain silent and put aside the subject.

Xu Beijin was a little overwhelmed by Lingo's intimacy.

In the end, he could only say: "That little girl..."

He was just about to ask his own question, but at this moment, a timid and uneasy voice suddenly interrupted: "Hello... sorry, I just want to ask... the little girl you are talking about is... mine daughter?"

Xu Beijin, Lin Po and Wu Jian looked at this woman almost subconsciously.

Wu Jian said in surprise: "When Fei came to ask you about the little girl before, didn't you say nothing? Why now..."

The woman said confusedly, "What, when?"

It was only then that Wu Jian realized that this woman hadn't recovered the memory of the previous rounds of nightmares.

And she suddenly jumped out of this round of nightmares, admitting that she is the mother of the little girl, probably because they came to this floor and asked about the whereabouts of the little girl, which means that the little girl may have disappeared...

Wait, she said she was the mother of the little girl?she is not dead? ?

Wu Jian was dumbfounded.

The woman couldn't help but said, "What happened to my daughter? I heard you ask him if he saw the little girl. Does that mean she left the 31st floor? Why did she leave? I told her to wait for me there... "

The woman was rambling on, but no one paid attention to her words at the moment.

The sudden appearance of this woman, who claimed to be the mother of the little girl, greatly shocked the taskers and the audience in the live broadcast room.

"Damn!! What Beibei said is right!! The little girl's mother is actually not dead!!"

"I suspect that Beibei already knew that this woman is the little girl's mother. She should also be the actor, right?"

Facing this question, Xu Bei smiled without saying a word.

"……Ok, I see."

"Beibei, you are too tolerant! If it were me, I would definitely be unable to bear the spoiler!"

"Beibei didn't even tell us the clues to his own nightmare!"

"... Now the question is, if the little girl's mother is not dead, then what is going on with this nightmare? Is the ending speculated by the teenager-looking tasker still valid??"

"Although, the ordinary ending of taking the little girl to find her mother can still be achieved, right?"

"Then what about the real ending? If the little girl's mother hadn't died, the real ending might not be so simple."

"...Actually, I think that the true ending speculated by the previous tasker is too simple. Beibei has been live broadcasting for so long, and the true ending unraveled cannot be deduced so logically."

"Yeah, I think this group of questers obviously still have a lot of unexplored places. For example, the situation below the 9th floor, such as the No. [-] elevator, such as the other three buttons of the No. [-] elevator..."

"+1, it's too early to tell the truth."

"...No, you all thought that guy's reasoning was extremely correct just now, why are you denying it again now..."

"I am the grass on the wall."

"I believe what other people say [smile]"

The audience in the live broadcast room quickly fooled the previous sloppy behavior.

At this moment, the 16th floor is actually still in a subtle silence.

Lingo looked at this woman in a puzzled manner, and then at Xu Beijin, pondering whether it was necessary for Xu Beijin to speculate on the little girl's whereabouts.

And Xu Beijin was waiting for Ringo to speak.

As for Wu Jian... Wu Jian has already fainted.

It wasn't that he was unaware of the problem, but as soon as the little girl's mother appeared, it seemed that she completely overturned some of the previously recognized ideas of the taskers.

"In other words, the 'déjà vu' of elevator No. 17 didn't actually happen on the 17th floor." Wu Jian struggled to straighten out the logic, "It should be the floor that the other three buttons can go to. The [-]th floor is just for the task. Hazards . . . and distractions arranged by the author.”

Wu Jian understood.

What happened on the 17th floor was a complete disturbance.

If the missionaries believe that what happened on the 17th floor, that is, being discovered and killed by the group of man-eating ghosts who carried the corpses, is "reproducing" something, then they will logically deduce that the little girl's mother is dead reached this conclusion.

But the little girl's mother is still alive.

In the second round, when Fei came to the 16th floor to ask these sane survivors, for various reasons, they avoided talking about what they knew, especially the little girl's mother.

Wu Jian didn't know how to evaluate this woman's behavior.

She left the little girl alone on the 31st floor, regardless, even if others asked about the little girl, she pretended not to know, but when she heard the news that the little girl was missing, she immediately jumped out and hurriedly asked what happened whats the matter.

...What kind of mother is this?

Wu Jian couldn't help sighing.

He thought, if the owner of the nightmare was really the little girl, then he could also understand why the little girl had nightmares.

But... His thoughts suddenly stopped.

He suddenly realized a question - is the owner of the nightmare really a little girl?

Since there will always be interference items in the "sense of déjà vu", will the owner of the nightmare have the same situation?

The two choices they now face, whether it is the little girl or the little girl's mother, are actually pending.They couldn't confirm who was the master of the nightmare.

Whoever is, seems to be missing the last piece of the puzzle.

If it was the little girl, why would she know about the elevator-related incidents?Why is it possible to create a "sense of déjà vu"?

If it was the little girl's mother, that is, the woman in front of her, she didn't look afraid at all, not even that worried about her daughter.

This also overturns the previous conclusion.

Previously, the missionaries believed that the little girl's mother was the master of the nightmare, and that the object of her fear was the fact that she had abandoned the little girl, and therefore subconsciously evaded her actions, instead identifying the witch as the little girl's mother.

But now the woman, who claims to be the little girl's mother, doesn't seem so guilty about the daughter she left behind.

All in all, these two seem to have a bit of a problem with whoever is the master of the nightmare.

So what if someone else is the master of the nightmare?What if these two people are distractors?

Wu Jian felt that it was impossible.

Because, the interaction between the witch and the little girl shows that the mother and daughter do play an extraordinary role in this nightmare.

They, unless one of them is the owner of the nightmare, can't explain why the witch appeared in that picture, why she behaved so strangely, why her bracelet appeared on the little girl's hand in the second round .

Thinking about it carefully, Wu Jian couldn't help feeling a headache, feeling that this nightmare was already a mess.

Of course, he also knew that the ordinary ending must be very simple, that is, take the little girl to find her mother, or take the woman in front of him to find her daughter.

But what about the real ending?

Everyone knows that only the true ending can explain everything.

When several people were silent, the woman was already hysterical: "Tell me! What happened to my daughter?!"

Wu Jian came back to his senses and took a deep breath: "We didn't see your daughter on the 31st floor. We suspect that she came downstairs to find you."

The woman's expression froze for a moment.

She murmured: "How is it possible...how is it possible...I told her clearly, let her stay in a safe place and wait for mother to come back...impossible..."

Wu Jian couldn't help asking: "What on earth are you thinking? Why do you let such a small child stay alone in an empty floor?"

The woman glanced at him, but said, "The 31st floor is safer than any other place."

Wu Jian was taken aback.

The woman said: "Renovators don't go to the upper floors because the damage isn't big enough. If one day they come up with a genius idea of ​​how to fix the broken windows, then things will change.

"And the cannibals don't go there, because there's no one on the top floor anymore. Everyone wants to leave, and then... goes into the decorator's bucket, or the cannibal's stomach.

"We are stuck here because the 16th floor is their blind spot. The man-eating ghosts chose the 14th floor for the cafeteria before, because...their madness first appeared on the 14th floor, and then they went down, there is no up.

"They also use the 15th floor as a place of execution... If any of the ogres wants to defect, they will take people to the 15th floor, let them see the burning city outside, and then those people dare not leave .

"There are fewer and fewer people like this now. Since the 15th floor was used once a few days ago, the man-eating ghost has never brought anyone there. It is estimated that only the tables and chairs used for the previous execution are left on the 15th floor." .

"Man-eating ghosts and decoration workers have a good relationship, but at the beginning, the man-eating ghosts were worried that the decoration workers would steal their ingredients, so they chose a bridgehead to observe the decoration workers' actions.

"The 18th floor is where the decoration workers work, so they chose the 17th floor. But later, the ogre found that the decoration workers would not bother, so they simply used the 17th floor as the storage place for the ingredients.

"So, the 16th floor became our only choice."

Speaking of this, the woman showed a slightly bitter expression, and she said: "Of course I know that if she stays alone on the 31st floor, she will be very scared, but there is nothing I can do."

The woman's words solved some of their doubts, especially the matter on the 15th floor.

but……

Wu Jian was silent for a moment, and then said: "Since the 16th floor is safe, you can..."

"Temporary safety." The woman said, she glanced at Xu Beijin, "When the food here runs out, we will start desperately."

Wu Jian fell silent immediately.

He wanted to say that he remembered other missionaries saying that when they found the little girl on the 31st floor, there were already eaten food packages scattered around the little girl, and the little girl's stomach was already growling with hunger.

In other words, even on the 31st floor, the situation of the little girl is not so good.

But...but what could he say to this woman?

In such a doomsday place...

In the end, Wu Jian just kept silent.

At this time, Xu Beijin said: "The little girl left the 31st floor to find her mother, so did you tell her your whereabouts before?"

The woman hesitated to speak, and finally just shook her head in embarrassment.

"So she doesn't know where you are going." Xu Beijin didn't express any personal views on the woman's actions, and he looked at Lin Po and Wu Jian again, "Did you take the little girl somewhere before?"

Just as Lingo was about to explain, Wu Jian hurriedly said, "After she was brought out from the 31st floor, the sorceress... someone took the little girl to the 9th floor."

He didn't know if the little girl had recalled the previous round of nightmares, but since she had already voluntarily left the 31st floor inexplicably, it is very likely that she recalled the previous experience, and only then did she think of going to find her mother .

Anyway, since Xu Beijin asked, Wu Jian told the story.

And Lingo glanced at Wu Jian unhappily, but because he was doing business, he held back.

He turned to observe Xu Beijin, and after confirming that Xu Beijin's expression hadn't changed or showed any discomfort, he nodded in satisfaction.

Lingo turned to think a little distressed, is this the feeling of liking?

Why, liking someone, but it will cause emotions like worry?

He was thinking about these questions, his face was still expressionless, and he didn't let anyone notice his mood swings at all.He just looked at Xu Beijin quietly.

And Xu Beijin didn't notice his thoughts, he just said: "If the little girl went to the 9th floor before and didn't find her mother, then this time, she should look for her from floor to floor?"

Wu Jian nodded, thinking that what Xu Beijin said made sense, but then he said: "No... no. The little girl should know that there are some floors we have already been to, and her mother is not there... But the problem The reason is that in those floors..."

Xu Beijin said, "Is there any danger?"

Wu Jian's face slowly turned pale.

The 20th floor is still the same.

The young man, Fei, and the sorceress arrived at the 20th floor and found no trace of the little girl along the way to find the No. [-] elevator.

The boy couldn't help complaining, "Where did that little brat go?"

No one answered his question, so he just rolled his eyes and kept silent.

They also went to see the photo.The face on it is still the witch, and the little girl in the photo is still wearing the bracelet.

The sorceress looked at the photo in a daze.When Fei was almost worried that she would do something strange again, she lowered her eyes, as if she was not interested in that photo.

The boy said: "I told you, you are not the mother of that little girl at all, you were misled by this nightmare." He looked at the witch, "You are at a higher level, have you not encountered such a nightmare? "

The sorceress hesitated for a long time, and finally said softly: "I have met."

In some higher-level nightmares, taskers will be given a layer of...false settings?It was similar to the hypnotic experience that Wu Jian and Jiang Shuangmei experienced before, but it started as soon as they entered the nightmare.

Sometimes, the taskers even forget their identities, thinking that they are really living in a nightmare.

Therefore, for the young man, it really embarrasses the higher-level taskers for the sorceress to act so hip-stretched.These are not real identity settings for her, but just a layer of hint added by the nightmare...

As for?

The boy really wanted to ask that question.

The witch took a last look at the photo, took a deep breath, and finally managed to return to normal.

They came to elevator No. [-].

The man in the nightmare suit pressed the sixth floor in the previous round, but now there are still three buttons that have not been pressed, namely the eleventh, nineteenth, and thirty-fifth floors.

Without hesitation, the boy directly pressed the eleventh floor.

He suddenly looked at the witch and asked, "Do you remember which button you pressed before?"

He didn't expect the witch to answer this question, but just tried it. After all, the witch was in a panic at that time, who knows what she still remembers.

But after staring at the buttons for a while, the sorceress said with certainty, "It's the eleventh floor."

"The eleventh floor." The boy murmured, "Go to the eighteenth floor."

The elevator was running slowly downward, but the running time was beyond their imagination.The young man silently counted the time in his mind. When the elevator stopped, they spent a total of ten or so seconds, nearly 20 seconds, before the elevator finally stopped.

The teenager blinked and said suddenly, "I suspect we've reached below the ninth floor."

He was right to be skeptical.When they stepped out of the elevator, the missionaries found that the scenery outside the window on this floor seemed closer, and it was probably a relatively low floor.

The safety door in the stairwell was blocked, and the floor sign was also submerged in bricks. They couldn't see the floor sign from the inside, so they could only estimate based on the time, it might be the seventh or sixth floor.

This layer looked very dark.

It was already evening at this time, and now there are no lights in the room.If it is on a higher floor, the burning city outside can still help illuminate, but on this floor, the side buildings block the light source.

Therefore, this layer is almost invisible.

They tried to walk around this floor, but not long after, the boy and Fei let out a cry of pain one after another.

They all stepped on sharp objects, possibly broken glass or other sharp objects, which directly scratched their legs and feet, and even cut their shoes.

On the contrary, the sorceress, for some reason, accidentally escaped all dangerous places.

The boy said in disbelief: "Is this floor specially used to hurt people?!"

Fei didn't say a word, but frowned tightly.

They stumbled all over this floor, but found nothing, only glass shards and strange sharp objects covering the entire floor, they didn't know whether it was scissors, blades or fruit knives, and some were even standing on the ground. on the floor.

They all inevitably had some wounds on their feet.

Finally, the three endured the pain and returned to the elevator.

The young man held his breath, frowned fiercely, and slammed on the door-opening button of the elevator.

But at this moment, he suddenly froze for a moment.

Because, after he pressed the door open button of the elevator, it was not the No. [-] elevator they took that opened.

It was an elevator that had stopped on this floor.

... Elevator No. [-], right here.