Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Xu Bei thought to himself, this is not very scientific.

Before entering this nightmare, Xu Beijin considered whether he would really enter this nightmare to act.

It's quite random that he enters the nightmare to work and perform, and which nightmare he enters depends entirely on the mastermind's arrangement.But after the arrival of the live broadcast system, the nightmare he entered became more and more regular.

For example, the last nightmare, the one related to the elevator, Xu Beijin asked Dai Wu to publicize it, so that the taskers would be interested in this nightmare.In fact, Xu Beijin didn't expect to be able to enter that nightmare performance.

But it turned out that he really entered that nightmare.

And now, he also entered this nightmare.

He thought, why, is NE starting to meet the needs of players?

……This is impossible.

There must be something wrong.

How could NE make his wishes come true?How could it be possible for an actor to enter any nightmare he wanted?

But that's how it happened... So, what happened to NE?

Earlier, when the news of "someone successfully left the narrow building" and "the ultimate nightmare" spread in the narrow building, Xu Beijin thought that the final result of these rumors would be to make the taskers Be active.

Maybe in this situation, they can really leave the narrow building?It's not uncommon for fakes to come true.

But the question is, who spread the news?

The taskers have been making noise for so many days, but they haven't found out the source of the news.Could it be that there really are ghosts in the narrow building?

...It can only be NE.

NE is the ghost in this narrow building.

But why does it do this?Why spread such rumors, and why let the rumors spread in the narrow building?

Moreover, why did it let Su Enya return to the bottom of the narrow building?And deliberately let him go back to Xu Beijin's next door?And let him carry that nightmare from a higher level?

... NE seems to be helping Xu Beijin.

But how is this possible?

How could NE do this?

Xu Beijin sat there expressionless, thinking, how fucking ridiculous.

Everyone thought NE was the eyes of the mastermind behind the scenes, the ubiquitous watcher.However, judging from the signs he observed, NE is even secretly helping the taskers and actors...at least, to let them recognize the truth.

He sighed, feeling bored and tired.

He knows a lot, but he doesn't know a lot either.He doesn't know what's going on with NE now, and he doesn't know what's going on with the world outside the narrow building.It's been so many years since they've been in the Narrows...perhaps everything has changed.

Yes.Perhaps, the time has been long enough, so long that NE has also begun to deviate from the established track.

perhaps……

Xu Bei thought to himself, maybe it's time to open up his nightmare to the outside world.

That would probably be a very funny scene.Everyone thought that there was some shocking secret hidden in his nightmare.But that's not... that's not the secret they imagined.that's just...

It was just a nightmare related to nightmares.

And he wanted to open up his nightmare... or rather, it was because he wanted to enter his own nightmare.He felt it was necessary, it was necessary to make some changes and try, at least, to confirm one thing.

NE...

Xu Beijin sat there, his eyes flickering, deep and dark.

He thought that if he really wanted to enter his own nightmare, then he would have to find a few suitable ┌檤... It was impossible for him, or Ringo alone, to achieve his goal.

He needs time, enough time, and a strong enough ┌椤

Xu Beijin thought for a moment, then put aside these thoughts for the time being, and focused his attention on the screen in the live broadcast room.He has already started the live broadcast, and the audience has also appeared one after another.

"Hi North!"

"Beibei has been broadcasting so frequently recently, keep it up!"

"Secretly lick Bei Bei's handsome face."

"You guna! Beibei's handsome face is mine!"

"You're guna! It belongs to Little Apple!"

"What kind of nightmare is this time, Beibei?"

Reasoning the words of the boss, it finally brought the atmosphere of the live broadcast room back to the serious category.

Xu Beijin thought for a while, then smiled and said, "If I tell you guys directly, I'm afraid it will spoil the story."

"Whoa, whoa, actually, I want to hear the spoiler."

"...but the reasoning boss won't let me..."

"Hey, anyway, I don't use my brain, the reasoning boss rushes!"

Xu Bei looked at the bullet screen floating on the public screen with a smile, and then looked at the scene list on the right side of the screen in the live broadcast room, intending to shift the camera to the taskers.

Then he stared at the names of the missionaries for a while.

Mu Jiashi, Fei, Wujian, Lingo, Ding Yi.

... Another five-person black game? ? ?

The names of the remaining four people were unfamiliar, but these five acquaintances were enough to make Xu Bei dumbfounded.

He couldn't help shaking his head, thinking that after this nightmare, the three of them, Mu Jiashi, Fei, and Wujian, might be only one step away from the truth.

But... Ding Yi?

How did Ding Yi return to the bottom of the narrow building?What has she experienced at a higher level?

Xu Bei was really curious, so he switched the camera to the workers.At this moment, the nine taskers are concentrated in a certain block near the library.

Compared with the ruins, burning city and other scenes of the previous two nightmares, the scene of this nightmare seems to be a bustling urban scene before the end of the world.

Summer afternoon, sunny and hot.Cicadas chirped next to the lush trees, and the road surface was scorched hot by the sun.It's just that those crazy humans broke this peaceful scene.

From time to time, there are crazy humans running away, not knowing where they are going.

Nine questers appeared by the side of a certain intersection, facing this scene, they were a little stunned for a while.

The summer heat made them sweat profusely in no time.

Mu Jiashi wiped the sweat from his brow, and glanced at the mission workers present.

The presence of Fei and Wu Jian did not surprise him, because they came to this nightmare together.He was a little surprised by Lin Po, but anyway, this boss has always been elusive, and no one knows which nightmare he will end up in.

There is nothing strange about those missionaries who don't know each other.

But... Ding Yi?

Mu Jiashi's gaze paused on Ding Yi's body, and the blue-haired woman also quietly looked back at Mu Jiashi, and nodded slightly as a greeting.

Mujia really thought, what are you doing?Why did Ding Yi return to the bottom of the narrow building?

She gave up everything she built on the bottom floor of the narrow building, and went to a higher floor without hesitation, and now she is back?

Mu Jiashi had some difficulty understanding the mentality of this former "billionaire".

He looked at the four unknown taskers again, guessing that they chose to enter this nightmare because of the new rumors in the bottom of the narrow building recently.

Those rumors were about a new nightmare.

It has to be said that when Mu Jiashi heard this rumor, he couldn't help thinking, where did these messy rumors come from?These missionaries are exhausted in it, but it is only because of some unknown rumors?

But when he really learned the content of this rumor and some news about that nightmare, he couldn't help but be astonished.

Because he discovered that that nightmare... was, it was the nightmare he had encountered on the higher floors of the narrow building!

How can this be? !

He instinctively thought that this might have something to do with Su Enya... No, it must have something to do with Su Enya!

However, when he went to look for Su Enya, he unexpectedly found that Su Enya had disappeared.

At that moment, what Mu Jiashi felt was some kind of uncontrollable panic.Su Enya's disappearance seemed to indicate some kind of ominous omen, which made him feel that there seemed to be an invisible hand behind all this, plucking the strings and imperceptibly promoting the development of everything.

And the only question is, does the owner of this hand have good intentions or malice?

Mu Jiashi was worried and planned to go home, but when he caught a glimpse of the bookstore next door to Su Enya, he hesitated, and then went to visit Xu Beijin.

In the conversation between him and Xu Beijin, the only thing he still remembers deeply is that the man sitting there with deep eyes and pale complexion spoke in a mysterious, cold and profound tone tell him:

"Knowing the truth is a terrible thing, but if you can't know the truth for the rest of your life, will you die with regret?"

And Mu Jiashi said firmly: "If the truth can lead me to where I want to go, then... yes, I will. I want to know the truth."

Xu Beijin took a deep look at him, and then said, "Go to that nightmare."

Mu Jiashi was a little confused.

Xu Beijin said: "The nightmare that is circulating on the bottom floor of the narrow building recently. Get rid of that nightmare."

So Mu Jiashi came to this nightmare...again, it should be said.

He wondered if Xu Beijin knew that he had entered this nightmare.He felt that Xu Beijin probably didn't know about it, but this mysterious bookstore owner always had an unfathomable aura that made Mu Jiashi always feel that everything was under the control of the other party. .

He thought, it was just a resident of the narrow building.

... the residents of Narrow House.

Now this term means something more to him, not just artificial intelligence and a bunch of data in the game.

Before entering this nightmare, he also went to find Fei and Wu Jian, and made an appointment with them to enter this nightmare together.

And earlier, he had another meeting with these two taskers.

Fei and Wu Jian mentioned to him what they had encountered in a previous nightmare, the one related to the elevator.What they said about the truth and true ending of that nightmare shocked Mu Jiashi greatly.

He didn't know that the survivors in that building were acting up, he didn't get the information at all.He just met the little girl, took her to her mother - the woman on the 16th floor - and played the real ending.

Fei smiled wryly, and said, "Then, what you played may be the ending in the 'game'."

In this nightmare, the lunatics below the 9th floor constructed a huge, real game world for this building that completely relied on the virtual script.Reaching the ending of this game, that is, taking the little girl to find her mother, may also be said to be a kind of ending of this nightmare.

But that was a false true ending.

Is the false truth meaningful?

Mu Jiashi couldn't help frowning.

But it's meaningless to worry about the original ending now, instead he cares more about the news brought by Fei and Wu Jian.

"Play..." he muttered, "maybe..."

Fei said, "Don't say it. Don't say it."

Mu Jiashi looked at her.

Fei bit her lip, her body trembling slightly: "If NE finds out..."

Mu Jiashi knew Fei and Wu Jian's character, so he didn't say any more.The three of them were silent, looking at each other, not knowing what to do for a while.

Afterwards, Mu Jiashi told Fei and Wujian about Su Enya, including the nightmare he had encountered at a higher level.

He suddenly realized that regarding the so-called "truth", he knew the part of the end, while Fei and Wu Jian knew the part about the residents of the narrow building.

But...does that mean all?

After all, why did they enter the narrow building, why did they become prisoners of this building in the mist... no one knows.They're just getting closer to the truth.They understand part of it, but they haven't really seen the whole picture yet.

That one meeting, they ended up obsessed with what the messages suggested.And then, they decide to enter this nightmare.

This... was a nightmare that was raging at the bottom of the narrow building.

According to the rumors, the missionaries all said that this was the first time the nightmare appeared on the bottom floor of the narrow building.But the resident of the narrow building, the owner of this nightmare, yelled that he came down from a higher floor.

He also yelled that the end was coming, and all of them had to die.

This is really a very malicious threat, but it just attracted the attention of the mission workers on the bottom of the narrow building.

These missionaries thought, doomsday?end? ?They need such nightmares!

Now, all nightmares related to doomsday seem to have the shadow of "ultimate nightmare".

The taskers believe that the background of this game called "Escape from the Sky" may be a doomsday that leads to the loss of life. The survivors are lingering in this high-rise building, and the appearance of outsiders (taskers) is to solve this problem. Doomsday, at least, is to investigate the ins and outs of Doomsday.

The nightmares of the survivors, that is, the residents of the narrow building, are derived based on their encounters in the doomsday; outsiders entered their nightmares to understand what happened in the first place, and then targeted the doomsday in a targeted manner, thus bringing these people together. Survivors rescued from the narrow building.

In this case, there must be an "ultimate nightmare", and its purpose is to completely solve this doomsday.

And as long as the ultimate nightmare is solved, the quest players are equivalent to clearing the game, and they can leave this nightmarish game logically.

This is what many people think, so they are frantically looking for nightmares related to the end, trying to play a true ending, and if this nightmare happens to be the so-called "ultimate nightmare", then they can leave the narrow building.

But, of course, there are also those who have more in-depth ideas.

Since the so-called "doomsday" really exists, why did the doomsday happen to the residents of the narrow building instead of them, the earthlings?

Maybe it is because the earth has encountered a doomsday—no matter what form it takes—that’s why they came to the narrow building.The background story in the game is a metaphor for what happened to them, the earthlings.

They are the survivors who really lost their home planet and were trapped in this gloomy narrow building.

The inferences of the first level and the second level now have many believers among the taskers.

As for the third floor, I am afraid that only a few people know about it.

That is—why, the residents of the narrow building cannot be earthlings?Why can't residents of narrow buildings and outsiders be ├嗄wu

On the higher floors, without the knowledge of the mission workers at the bottom of the narrow building, some news began to spread secretly.

The source is the item card sent by Fei to a higher level.

The reason why she made three is because their organization has always been like this, the purpose is to ensure that the information can be passed on to the corresponding people.

But this time, in the end, there were only two prop cards back to their organization.One was left outside.

The way these item cards are transferred, after all, allows a certain tasker to go to a nightmare that their organization is already familiar with, play the true ending and then go to a higher level.This is a very primitive way of conveying information, but there is no other way.

It's just that, in the nightmare, the tasker unfortunately met a certain card dealer (or, is everyone a card dealer now?), and then unfortunately got stolen the item card used to convey information, And, he didn't discover it himself.

And the card dealer, after going to other nightmares, tried to use the item card but found that it could not be used, and tore up the item card in anger, only then discovered that there was another mystery in it.

All the taskers in that nightmare got the news—the residents of the narrow building have a problem.

The information that Fei wrote on that piece of paper was very short, but precise enough: "Narrow building resident. Play. Human player?"

So, at a certain moment, the mission workers began to look at the residents of the narrow building with special eyes.

The residents of the narrow buildings on the higher floors are ┭ crazy, but quite a few of them are still rational and sober.

The actor named Wu Shen, who had a brief contact with Xu Beijin, sensed the opportunity almost immediately.

When a tasker asked him bluntly whether he was playing a certain role and whether he had a script, he replied: "Why do you think I don't?" He said, "Don't you and I have two eyes and one eye? Do you have a nose and a mouth?"

The tasker was shocked to pass on this information.

Soon, all higher-level taskers learned the shocking news.

This caused an uproar.

Some people think it's just nonsense, but some people suddenly believe it, and gossip together with other missionaries who believe in the news.

They didn't dare to discuss this matter openly, for fear that NE and the possible behind-the-scenes hands would find out, but they secretly exchanged information and exchanged their own speculations.

After a period of undercurrents, everything seemed to be calm again.

Because... what's the point?

When they learned that the residents of the narrow building are also ┧ us, the players trapped in this narrow building, and even their ┌, what appeared in their hearts was not ecstasy, but after a short shock... a deeper feeling despair.

Yes, another batch of victims.

But so what?Even with the cooperation of the residents of the narrow building, they cannot leave the narrow building.

What's more, in the more frank exchanges in the past few days, they have realized from the hints in the words of the residents of the narrow building that this group of ┌ is more deeply restrained and restrained by NE.They cannot break away from the script, and even have stricter level restrictions themselves.

If it was a group performance, then they would hardly be able to learn any clues related to the nightmare.

Moreover, even if they know something, what they want to say to the outside world still needs NE's approval, and they can't just disclose it to the outside world.

Therefore, after the short-lived frenzied atmosphere, the higher-level mission workers fell into a more silent state.

And even though the taskers at the bottom of the narrow building have not all heard about this matter, there are indeed some well-informed taskers who have learned that the atmosphere on the higher floors is quite weird and subtle in recent days.

But they also have no time to pay attention to what is happening at a higher level.

Because, they have a lot of things to do now.

At this time, the taskers on the bottom floor of the narrow building have the nightmare of the ruins to get through, the elevator-related nightmare to enter, and this one, which seems to have come down from a higher floor, and inexplicable nightmares are waiting for them.

They are very busy.

Many questers hadn't been to the previous two nightmares, but when they heard that there was a new, possibly "ultimate nightmare" nightmare, they couldn't help but have a terrible headache, and they didn't know which nightmare to go to first.

Of course, there are also taskers, who headed to the third nightmare with a dull head.

why?

Because many people realize one thing.

The reason why they came to the bottom of the narrow building was because they heard that the "ultimate nightmare" was located on the bottom of the narrow building; but when they heard the sound, they found that the rumored nightmare was not the so-called "ultimate nightmare".

Later, they were persuaded by the statement that "the exit of the narrow building should be on the ground floor instead of the top floor".

But after all, where is the "ultimate nightmare"?

No one knows.

Now this popping up, the Nightmare's master claiming to be from a higher level of Nightmare, sounds a bit more like it.

If this nightmare randomly appears on a certain floor of the narrow building from time to time...

The missionaries were full of imagination.

They always feel that the strange thing is, why didn't any taskers on any floor come out to claim the rumor that "someone successfully left the narrow building"?Why does no one know where the original source of this news is supposed to be?

... What if, that "ultimate nightmare" just cannot be determined exactly where it appeared?

The missionaries thought that the "exit" and the "ultimate nightmare" must be on the top floor.But no one at a higher level knows where it is.

Therefore, the higher-level taskers turned their attention to the bottom of the narrow building.

When the group of higher-level taskers returned to the bottom of the narrow building, but found nothing, they suddenly heard that a higher-level nightmare appeared inexplicably on the bottom of the narrow building...

They all thought, could it be this nightmare?With all this elusiveness, it's no wonder others don't know the exact location of the ultimate nightmare, right?

For various reasons, many taskers have set their sights on this nightmare.

And if it's those taskers who can't catch up and are not well-informed, they might still be struggling with the nightmare of the ruins right now.

Mu Jiashi set his sights on the four unknown taskers, and thought that the ones who could enter this nightmare at the first time must be the taskers with very strong ability and keen sense of smell.

This nightmare... maybe he can be a waste?

Mu Jiashi thought almost jokingly.

He has come to this nightmare before, and knows how to play the true ending, although his purpose of entering this nightmare this time is not here.Besides, at the bottom of the narrow building, even if it had a bad ending, so what?

Furthermore, there is still Ringo in this nightmare.

No matter how he thought about it, such a good situation would allow him to search for the information he wanted without having to take into account what happened to the rest of the taskers.

It couldn't have been better.

Just when Mu Jiashi was thinking this way, he suddenly heard someone take a deep breath.

He looked over and saw a long-haired male tasker.

The man showed an intoxicated expression, and said madly: "I smell it, it's the breath of my beloved death."

Mu Jiashi: "..."

Oops, it looks like some pervert has entered this nightmare.