Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Look at what Ringo has done.

Let a narrow building resident participate in the affairs of their missionaries, and speak out about this matter openly.

Is it very honorable for you to ask a resident of a narrow building for help? !

...Judging from Ringo's facial expression, he is not only honored, he is even proud.

The scene fell into an extremely awkward silence, as if a love brain suddenly emerged from a group of workaholics, and frantically showed affection regardless of the occasion.

Several taskers who knew Lin Biao's feelings for Xu Beijin, such as Fei, Wu Jian, and Jiang Shuangmei, secretly glanced at Xu Beijin who was not far away.The complex meaning in that gaze made Xu Bei want to grab the ground with his head.

But what could he do?

He just sat there with a blank face, like nothing happened.

...Yes, he is just an ordinary NPC in this game.AI doesn't understand anything, really.

After a moment of silence, the man in the suit changed the subject nonchalantly: "That's fine. But..." He looked at the witch first, "Do you want the witch to try? Maybe we can solve this nightmare earlier."

That was their decision at the start of the third-round nightmare, and now it's the fourth.If it goes on further, the nightmare may experience an unknown collapse. Whether to fight for the real ending at this time needs to be decided by the taskers together.

Several taskers looked at each other, and finally decided to let the sorceress try it first.

Anyway, they still have another chance to enter this nightmare.Very few people can completely solve a nightmare when they first enter the nightmare, unless it is a big boss.

So, they looked at the witch.

At this time, no one was paying attention. At this moment, Lin Po was squinting his eyes and staring at Xu Beijin's direction.

Fei walked towards Xu Beijin.

She intends to have a conversation with Xu Beijin about the residents of Zhailou.She was absent-minded and didn't notice Ringo's gaze at all.She talked to Wu Jian and walked over quietly, while the rest of the missionaries looked at the witch and didn't notice her movement.

She came in front of Xu Beijin.

Xu Beijin sat there calmly, looking up at her.

In the last nightmare, he had some contact with this tasker, but that was all.Xu Beijin saw many speculations about her and Wu Jian through the live broadcast room, and he knew that they must have a lot of brain holes and ideas.

Moreover, he also knew that once Fei realized the problems of the residents of the narrow building, she would definitely come to him.

...Xu Beijin is more or less self-aware of his reputation at the bottom of the narrow building.

Fei stood there, silent for a moment, and then asked tentatively: "In this nightmare, are you all acting?"

Xu Beijin looked at her, with the deep and peaceful look that Fei was very familiar with from the previous nightmare.He said: "...life is like a play, isn't it?"

Fei whispered, "A play is like life."

Xu Beijin: "..."

He regretted it, he shouldn't have played tricks.

Because he set his tone very high from the beginning, Xu Beijin didn't even know how to continue this conversation for a while.

He thought Fei should have realized that the residents of the narrow building were "acting", just like the people in this building in this nightmare.They may be forced to play such a survival game under the persecution of some people.

However, this may just be a game setting, isn't it?

For example, the NPCs in the game "Escape from the Sky", maybe they are acting in the setting, and NE is the final boss they need to defeat... Maybe this is also possible?

Therefore, Xu Bei tried his best to make Fei realize that the residents of Zhailou are actually actors, human beings, and the same nature as taskers, players in this game.

So he tapped the table lightly with his fingers, suddenly smiled, and said, "Actually, you are also playing the role of players in this game in this building? Playing is just a way to participate in the game... to become player's way."

Crimson at a loss.

"You are the players of this game." Xu Beijin said, "And so are we."

Fei stared at him blankly, then her expression changed drastically.

She looked at Xu Beijin in confusion and horror, opened her mouth, but was speechless.She even suspected that she would forget what Xu Beijin said in the next second... What she meant... Is this really information that can be disclosed to the outside world?

For so many years, no one has ever doubted the identity of the residents of the narrow building, but now, in Xu Beijin's understatement, she knows?These narrow building residents...they, aren't they NPCs in the game? !

Are they players too? !

Is this what Xu Beijin wanted to imply to her?

He's just talking about this game in this building, he doesn't necessarily mean the game "Get Out", does he?

But...but...

Fei looked at Xu Beijin's deep and meaningful eyes, she thought, no, no... what is he implying, what does he mean, he is not just talking about this nightmare, he is just using this nightmare Sharing some... some forbidden information.

Fei once again thought of what Xu Beijin hinted at.

She opened her mouth and said dryly, "Maybe... maybe... maybe I understand what you mean... no, what I mean is... I don't know..."

Xu Beijin looked at her and said gently: "Don't be so anxious. You know my identity on the bottom floor of the narrow building," he smiled, "Right? You can find me anytime."

Fei was silent, then nodded.She returned to the taskers in a daze, unable to recover for a long time.

After a while, she came back to her senses and heard the taskers talking about the information related to this nightmare in a serious manner, and suddenly felt ridiculous for no reason.

She knew that this ridiculous mood might be based on some kind of arrogance... These taskers don't know anything, so of course they should focus on the matter at hand.

However, it was precisely because they didn't know anything that Fei felt this way.

She bit her lips tightly, for fear that in the next second, the choking in her throat would be accompanied by those collapsed emotions, which would overwhelm her rationality.

Wu Jian looked at her and asked worriedly, "Fei, are you alright?"

"No...not very good." Fei smiled bitterly in a low voice, "but...but, it couldn't be better."

The truth is of course cruel.But for people like them who pursue the truth, knowing the truth itself is the best news.

Fei would like to live a sober and painful life, rather than ignorant and happy.

She thought for a while, and then took a deep breath, focusing on the nightmare in front of her.They should be able to leave this nightmare soon, and it won't be too late to think about that topic when they return to the narrow building.

She saw the sorceress walked up to the little girl and squatted down.

The sorceress looked at the little girl intently with her dazed and lifeless eyes.The little girl also raised her head ignorantly and stared at her.

The sorceress looked at the bracelet on the little girl's wrist, and after a moment of hesitation, she suddenly asked her, "Do you remember me?"

The little girl blinked blankly.

The sorceress said, "I gave you the bracelet." She pointed to the little girl's wrist, and tried to soften her voice, "Before, when I was upstairs."

The little girl stared at her for a while and said, "...then you left me."

At that moment, the witch was defeated by an indescribable pain.She opened her mouth, but she was speechless. She didn't know what to say, and she instinctively felt guilty towards the little girl, but she also had a strange feeling, as if this emotion didn't belong to her.

She looked at the little girl.

"I'm sorry..." she said, "I'm sorry, I don't want to either."

The little girl was silent, with some subtle emotions in her eyes.

She just looked at the witch without saying a word, as if the answer from the witch was not what she wanted.

How should they treat such a little girl, abandoned by a crazy mother?More importantly, what should they do to solve this nightmare and achieve the true ending?

The sorceress looked at the little girl, and after a long time, she murmured, "I seem to understand...how to solve this nightmare." She paused, and then said, "...the real ending."

She staggered to her feet.

The boy couldn't help asking her: "You know?"

The sorceress said: "This building is the embodiment of a game. Playing the ending of this nightmare... either, playing the ending of the nightmare, or playing the ending of the game in the nightmare."

The rest of the taskers were stunned.

The man in the suit looked at the little girl thoughtfully, and said, "This little girl is the master of nightmares."

By now, they have been able to determine this.This nightmare all revolved around this little girl.She is the protagonist of the game under development, and she is also the little girl who was abandoned by her mother in reality.

"She confuses the game with reality." The man in the suit said, "Or, when she was so young, she couldn't tell whether her mother abandoned her based on her own will or because of the impact of the end, so she Confused this matter with what happened in that game.

"Perhaps during the development of the game, the little girl overheard some of the content of the game while participating in the work of her mother and her colleagues, or re-learned about the planning of the game after growing up.

"So, in her nightmare, she fused reality with some elements of the game...or simply confused the two things.

"The most important thing is, as the master of the nightmare, what exactly does she want?"

The witch said affirmatively, "Mother."

The man in the suit looked at her.

At this time, the witch's expression was a combination of sudden realization and more subtle guilt.She seemed to be empathizing with the little girl's mother, and she even had a trance feeling that she had become the little girl's mother.

The man in the suit couldn't help but frowned, thinking, would the nightmare at the bottom of the narrow building have this effect?

Of course, they are used to the existence of such nightmares at higher levels. Sometimes when they wake up from nightmares, they even feel as if they are in another world, and even feel that they are not themselves.

But why does a nightmare at the bottom of the narrow building have such a strange effect?

The man in the suit thought of the rumors about this nightmare at the bottom of the narrow building, and his mood fluctuated for a while.

This nightmare... He thought of this building, the end, and those survivors and lunatics, and he thought, is this nightmare really related to the narrow building?

Maybe he didn't have as much as Fei thought, but he also felt worried.

The sorceress didn't care about the reactions of other taskers, she just said to herself: "What she needs is her mother... is her mother's commitment and companionship, she hopes that her mother will never abandon her, never leave her alone That dark, under the desk.

"In the narrow building, even though this little girl has grown up, she still can't get rid of the experience of being abandoned when she was a child. She habitually hides in a dark corner, crying, curling up, and resisting the approach of others...

"Because, she just wants her mother to pick her up..."

The sorcerer spoke in an erratic tone.

But the boy sneered and said, "Her mother, maybe she is dead." He still insisted on his point of view, "According to this, if we tell this little girl her mother's death..."

The sorcerer said: "Then why can't it be a bad ending?"

The boy paused and frowned.

Being slapped in the face didn't make him feel bad. He seemed to have gained some inspiration, opened his eyes wide, and murmured, "Death... is it a bad ending?"

Jiang Shuangmei looked at him, then at the sorceress, and said, "This is what you said, the ending of the game in this nightmare, right?"

The sorceress nodded.

With great confidence, Jiang Shuangmei said to herself: "Since the main task of the game is to take the little girl to find her mother, there must be a corresponding time limit or other conditions...

"For example, how long will it take before the little girl's mother will be in danger and will die; if the little girl's mother cannot be found within the specified time limit, then the main quest will be considered a failure.

"And for the owner of the nightmare..."

Jiang Shuangmei looked deeply at the little girl.

"She certainly wouldn't want her loved ones to die," she said.

Jiang Shuangmei said this sentence in an extremely complicated tone.Then, she lowered her eyes, unable to continue speaking.

Of course she was able to empathize with the little girl.In addition, even if the little girl's mother took the initiative to abandon her at that time, the little girl might not be able to understand what her mother was doing.

Or maybe she's just waiting for her mom to come pick her up.Perhaps it was not until she became an adult that she finally realized that she had been left behind.

Outside the nightmare, she is already an adult, but in the nightmare, she is still a little girl when she was young.

That was her unhealed, childhood scar.

It was a sluggish, belated pain, and a nightmare.

But I'm afraid the little girl doesn't want the person she's waiting for to be dead.She waited for a meaningless hope, but at least it was a hope.

The missionaries were silent for a while.

After a while, the boy said in a blunt tone: "So, how do we get the real ending?"

The sorceress said in an extraordinary and calm tone: "I already know." She looked at the other taskers, then at the burning city outside the window, and at the survivors gathered on the 16th floor We, she said, "I really already know..."

She squatted in front of the little girl, touched the little girl's head, touched the bracelet on the little girl's wrist, and tried to show a gentle smile.She said, "My dear girl, mom is here to pick you up."

The little girl stared at her blankly, as if she hadn't reacted yet, but after a while, she let out a scream of surprise: "Mom! Mom, you're here to pick me up!" She hugged her mother and said aggrievedly, "You came so late..."

The witch touched her hair: "Mom will never leave you again."

The little girl nodded obediently.

The mastermind's prompt sounded in their ears at this moment.

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

The missionaries all stared wide-eyed.

From the beginning to the end, the little girl just hoped that her mother could come back to pick her up; if possible, it would be best not to abandon her again.

Fei and Wu Jian looked at the people around them at the starting point on the bottom floor of the narrow building.

The man in the suit and the boy had disappeared, and they probably went to a higher floor, which was not surprising.As for whether they will come back, this is also unknown.

What about Ringo, anyway, he has always been on the ground floor of the narrow building, and has never left.

But the rest of the taskers made them all feel confused.

It is surprising that taskers like Jiang Shuangmei and Shen Yunju, who originally belonged to the bottom of the narrow building, are still staying at the bottom of the narrow building; and now, the sorceress is still here!

Didn't she go to a higher floor?

Didn't she say before that if the true ending is played, she will go to a higher level?Why didn't she choose to go?

The rest of the taskers left one after another, leaving only three people, Shen Po, Fei and Wu Jian, at the starting point.

The sorceress probably noticed Fei and Wu Jian's surprised expressions, so she smiled wryly, lowered her eyes, and said, "I promised her... I won't leave again. She is my daughter."

Fei immediately frowned.

Wu Jian even said carelessly: "That's just for the ending of the nightmare..."

"No..." The witch shook her head, denying Wu Jian's words.

The nagging temperament on her body is gradually dissipating, but her whole person has become more calm and gentle, and she can even be called capable... Just like the woman in the photo in the nightmare.

She just said, "That's different. If I go to a higher floor, I'll leave her again... Maybe, I've already left her once, but in the narrow building..."

Wu Jian looked at her in surprise and speechless, thinking, the sorceress is really that sorceress.

Fei looked at her thoughtfully, and suddenly couldn't help but say, "If..."

She stopped talking.

The witch looked at her a little strangely, but after all, she didn't ask what she wanted to say.She bid them farewell, left the starting point, and went to find her daughter.

Wu Jian looked at Fei, then at the departing sorceress, a trace of confusion flashed across his eyes.

Fei said, "What if she is really the mother of that little girl?"

Wu Jian subconsciously denied: "How is this possible?!" He said, "That is... that is, the residents of the narrow building..."

Fei smiled wryly: "If..."

She didn't say "if" anything.

She just thought, if the residents of the Narrow Building are acting and the witch is the little girl's mother, then... what about in the Narrow Building?Is that little girl, that female resident of the narrow building, the daughter of the sorceress?

Is she just acting, or has she already entered the play?Or is she really the daughter of the witch?

That witch, is she the mother of the little girl?

After thinking for a while, Fei shook her head bitterly.

This is an unclear situation.They want to find an answer, maybe their lost memory has the answer they want, but since the memory has been lost, can they still find the answer?

...The residents of the narrow building and the taskers, is there a kinship relationship between them?Is this really possible?

Wu Jian looked at her with a feeling of fear and uneasiness: "But, if... if it's true, your guess is true, wouldn't it be..." He murmured, "Things will happen. significant change."

Fei said quietly: "Not many people will believe it. We don't have any evidence. Just take those few words as evidence, and others will not believe it." As she spoke, she had a sudden thought, "If at this time, someone The residents of the narrow building jumped out to prove their identity..."

Wu Jian smiled wryly: "Don't be too fancy. If they really want to...then why haven't the residents of the narrow building come forward to speak out for so many years? So many years have passed..."

Fei said, "Maybe it's because of NE."

Wu Jian opened his mouth, and found it difficult to refute this statement for a while.

In the end, he lost his mind and said: "If it's really because of NE, we can't know the truth now."

Fei bit her lip thoughtfully, and finally said, "No...no, let's find someone first."

"Who are you looking for?" Wu Jian asked in surprise, "...the bookstore owner?"

Fei said: "No...I mean, Mu Jiashi." She paused, and walked out of the starting point with Wu Jian, "Mu Jiashi also came to this nightmare before, and played the true ending. I'm a little curious, What happened to him at the time."

Wu Jian asked perplexedly: "Will he be in a different situation from us?"

Fei said, "Who knows. There is more than one true ending to the nightmare."

Wu Jian nodded.

Indeed, there is more than one true ending, or in other words, there is more than one way to achieve the true ending; moreover, if the methods used are different, the final effect and various details may also be different.

And that's why it's so hard for solution merchants to do it.

No one can guarantee whether the buyer can completely follow the plan in the actual operation process; even if he is subjectively willing, there will always be endless emergencies in the nightmare, interfering with his actions.

In the past period of time, the mission workers on the bottom floor of the narrow building rushed to the higher floors frantically, and even the business of the gold diggers has improved a lot, but the business of the planners is still not tepid. The look of fire.

Under the premise that the effect of the nightmare ending cannot be guaranteed, no one would be willing to spend a lot of money to buy a nightmare plan, even though the plan is indeed true and reliable.

Generally speaking, this "effect" will be reflected in the card pool at the time of final settlement.

That is an invisible scoring, just like using item cards to cheat in a nightmare, it will imperceptibly worsen the evaluation, resulting in poor quality item cards in the card pool.

And the way to play the ending, especially the means used by the quest players in the process, of course, may also affect the final settlement.

However, this is just the guesswork of the taskers.After all, no one knows how NE evaluates their performance in the nightmare.If you guess too much, then it will come back to the topic of whether NE is monitoring them all the time.

And the answer to this question is likely to be, "Yes".

Therefore, the interest of the taskers has declined, just like the "doomsday" topic that was once very popular in the narrow building, and finally disappeared in tacit silence and resistance, and NE-related topics have become less and less.

On the way to Mu Jiashi's residence, Fei and Wu Jian tacitly did not mention any more topics related to the residents of the narrow building, performances, and so on.Perhaps based on some special intuition, they always feel that they are closer to NE after returning to the bottom of the narrow building than in the nightmare.

Fei thought again, would NE be on the bottom floor of the narrow building?

No one knows.

They finally arrived at Mu Jiashi's residence.Before they entered the nightmare, Fei and Wu Jian had already talked with Mu Jiashi many times, and they knew where Mu Jiashi lived.

However, to their surprise, Mu Jiashi was not at home.

When Fei and Wu Jian went to look for Mu Jiashi, Mu Jiashi had actually arrived at Xu Beijin's bookstore...next door.

He came to find Su Enya.

He knocked, the door opened, and he entered the narrow house dweller's room.He stared intently at the woman crouching on the ground with her back against the wall.

He said, "I've come to talk to you...about, the end of the world."