Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Look at what Ringo has done.

Let a narrow-loud resident participate in the affairs of their task force, but also to speak up about this matter openly.

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

... Judging from Ringo's facial expressions, he is not only glorious, he is even proud.

The scene fell into an extremely embarrassing silence, as if a love mind suddenly emerged from a group of workaholics, and showed affection madly and regardless of occasion.

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

But what can he do?

He wasn't sitting there blankly, as if nothing had happened.

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

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

This was their decision at the beginning of the third round of nightmare, and now it is the fourth round. If you proceed further, the nightmare may have an unknown breakdown. Whether or not to fight for a true ending at this time needs to be jointly decided by the taskers.

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

In any case, they still have another chance to enter this nightmare. Few people can solve a nightmare completely when they enter a nightmare for the first time, unless it is a big man.

So they looked at the goddess.

At this moment, no one noticed. Ringo was staring in the direction of Xu Beijin with squinting eyes.

Fei walked towards Xu Beijin.

She intends to have a conversation with Xu Beijin, about the residents of the narrow building. She was absent-minded and didn't notice Ringo's gaze at all. She talked to Wujian and walked over quietly, while the rest of the taskers looked at the goddess, but did not notice her movement.

She came to Xu Beijin's front.

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 Wujian through the live broadcast room, and he knew that they must have a lot of brains 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 somewhat self-aware of his reputation at the bottom of the narrow building.

Fei stood there, was silent for a moment, and then asked tentatively, "Are you all acting in this nightmare?"

Xu Bei looked at her, his eyes full of the deep and calm that Fei was very familiar with in a nightmare. He said, "...Life is like a play, isn't it?"

Fei whispered, "Play is like life."

Xu Beijin: "..."

He regretted it, and he shouldn't be fooling around.

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

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

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

For example, for 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 must make Fei realize that the residents of the narrow building are actually actors, humans, and the same nature as the taskers, the players in this game.

So he tapped his fingers on the tabletop, suddenly smiled, and said, "Aren’t you actually playing the role of players in this game in this building? Playing is just a way to participate in the game... The way of the player."

Scared.

"You are the players of this game." Xu Beijin said, "and we, too."

Fei stared at him blankly, then his complexion 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... She meant... Is this really information that can be revealed to the outside world?

For so many years, no one has ever doubted the identity of the residents of Zhailou, and now, in Xu Bei's understatement, she knows it? This group of narrow-building residents... They, are they not NPCs in the game? !

Are they also players? !

Is this what Xu Beijin wanted to suggest to her?

He just said the game in this building. He didn't necessarily refer to the game "Escape from the Sky", did he?

But...but...

Fei looked at Xu Beijin’s deep and meaningful eyes, she thought, no, no...what is he suggesting, he meant something, he was not just talking about this nightmare, he was just using this nightmare. Share some...some information that is forbidden to say.

Fei once again thought of what Xu Beijin had suggested.

She opened her mouth and said dryly, "Perhaps...Perhaps...I may understand what you mean...No, I mean...I don't know..."

Xu Bei looked at her all the way and said gently, "Don't worry. You know who I am at the bottom of the narrow building," he smiled, "right? You can find me at any time."

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

After a while, she came back to her senses, and heard the taskers talk about the nightmare in a serious way, and suddenly felt ridiculous inexplicably.

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

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

She bit her lip tightly, for fear that in the next second, the choking in her throat would accompany those collapsed emotions, overwhelming her sanity.

Wu Jian looked at her and asked with some worry: "Fei, are you okay?"

"No... not so good." Fei chuckled bitterly, "but...but it couldn't be better."

Of course the truth is cruel. But for people like them who are pursuing the truth, knowing the truth itself is great news.

Fei is willing to live sober and painful, rather than ignorant and happy.

She thought for a while, then took a deep breath and focused her attention on the nightmare now. They should be able to leave this nightmare soon, and it's not too late to think about the topic when they return to the narrow building.

She saw the goddess walk up to the little girl and squatted down.

The goddess looked at the little girl intently with his two-way trance-free eyes. The little girl also raised her head ignorantly and looked at her.

The goddess looked at the bracelet on the little girl's wrist, and after hesitating for a while, suddenly asked her: "Remember me?"

The little girl blinked blankly.

The goddess 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 goddess was overwhelmed by an indescribable pain. She opened her mouth, but she was speechless. She didn't know what to say, and instinctively felt guilty for the little girl, but there was a strange feeling as if this emotion did not belong to her.

She looked at the little girl.

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

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

She just looked at the goddess and said nothing, as if the goddess' answer was not what she wanted.

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

The goddess 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, "...it's the end."

She staggered to her feet.

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

The goddess said: "This building is the realization of a game. The ending of this nightmare... Either it is the ending of the nightmare, or 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."

So far, they have been able to determine this. This nightmare all happened around this little girl. She is the protagonist of the game under development, and she is also the little girl who was left behind by her mother in reality.

"She confuses the game with reality." The man in the suit said, "Or, when she was so young, she could not tell whether her mother abandoned her on her own will or because of the effects of the doomsday, so she Confused this matter with what happened in that game.

"Maybe in the process of developing that game, the little girl heard some content of the game while she was involved in the work of her mother and her colleagues, or she learned about the game's plan again when she grew up.

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

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

The goddess said affirmatively: "Mother."

The man in a suit looked at her.

At this time, the expression of the goddess blended a sudden realization and more subtle, guilt. She seemed to be empathizing with the little girl's mother, and she even thought she had become the little girl's mother in a daze.

The man in the suit frowned, thinking, would the nightmare on the ground floor of the narrow building have this effect?

Of course they are accustomed to the existence of this kind of nightmare at higher levels. Sometimes they wake up from a nightmare and even feel like a world away, and even feel that they are not themselves now.

But why does a nightmare on the ground floor of a narrow building have such a peculiar effect?

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

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

He might not have thought so much, but he was also worried.

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

"In the narrow building, even if this little girl has grown up, she still cannot escape the experience of being left behind as a child. She habitually hides in dark corners, crying, curling up, resisting the approach of others...

"Because she only wants her mother to pick her up..."

The goddess said in an erratic tone.

The boy sneered and said, "Her mother, maybe she is dead." He still holds his point of view, "So, if we tell this little girl, the news of her mother's death..."

The goddess said: "Then why wouldn't it be a bad ending?"

The boy paused and frowned.

Being slapped in the face did not make him feel uncomfortable. He seemed to have some inspiration, opened his eyes wide, and muttered: "Death...is a bad ending?"

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

The goddess 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 restrictions...

"For example, after how long will the little girl’s mother be in danger and die; if the little girl’s mother cannot be found within the prescribed time limit, then the main task will be a failure.

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

Shuangmei Jiang looked at the little girl deeply.

She said: "She would definitely not hope that her relatives would die."

Jiang Shuangmei said this sentence in a very complicated tone. After that, she lowered her eyes, unable to continue.

Of course she can empathize with little girls. In addition, even if the little girl's mother took the initiative to leave her behind, the little girl might not be able to understand what the mother was doing.

Maybe she was just waiting for her mother to come and pick her up. Maybe when she became an adult, she finally understood that she had been left behind.

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

It was a childhood scar that she had never healed.

It was a slow, painful, and nightmare.

But I am afraid that the little girl would not wish that the person she was waiting for was dead. She was waiting for a meaningless hope, but at least it was a hope.

The taskers were silent for a while.

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

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

She squatted in front of the little girl, touched the little girl's head, and touched the bracelet on the little girl's wrist, trying to show a gentle smile. She said: "Good girl, my mother is here to pick you up."

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

The goddess touched her hair: "Mom won't leave you again."

The little girl nodded obediently.

The mastermind's reminder 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 taskers' eyes widened.

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

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

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

Ringo, he has always been at the bottom of the narrow building anyway, and has never left.

But the rest of the taskers made them all confused.

It is quite surprising that taskers like Jiang Shuangmei and Shen Yunju who were originally at the bottom of the narrow building still stay at the bottom of the narrow building; and now, the goddess are still here!

Didn't she go to a higher floor?

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

The rest of the questers left one after another, leaving only the goddess, Fei and Wujian left at the starting point.

The goddess probably noticed Fei Hewu's surprised expression, so she smiled bitterly, lowered her eyes, and said, "I promised her... I won't leave again. She is my daughter."

Fei frowned immediately.

Wu Jian said more carelessly: "That's just for the end of the nightmare..."

"No..." The goddess shook her head, denying the elusive words.

The nagging temperament in her is gradually dissipating, and her whole person has become more calm and gentle, even capable...just like the woman in the photo in the nightmare.

She just said, "That's different. If I go to a higher level, I will leave her behind again... Maybe, I've already left her behind once, just in a narrow building..."

Looking at her in amazement and speechlessly, I thought, the goddess is indeed the goddess.

Fei looked at her thoughtfully, and suddenly couldn't help saying: "If..."

She stopped talking.

The goddess looked at her strangely, but did not ask her what she wanted to say after all. She bid farewell to them, left the starting point, and went to find her daughter.

Seeing Fei, and then at the goddess who left, there was a trace of confusion in 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 bitterly: "If..."

She didn't say "if" anything.

She just thought, if the residents of the narrow building are acting, and the goddess is the mother of the little girl, then...what about the narrow building? Is that little girl, the female resident of the narrow building, the daughter of a goddess?

Is she just acting, or is she already in the play? Or is she really the daughter of a goddess?

The goddess, is it the little girl's mother?

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

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

...Is there a kinship between the residents of the narrow building and the tasker? Is this really possible?

Wu Jian looked at her with a feeling of fear and anxiety: "But, if...if that is true, and your guess is true, wouldn't it be..." He muttered, "Something will happen. significant change."

Fei said quietly: "Not many people will believe it. We don't have evidence. Just use those few sentences as evidence, and other people will not believe it." She said, "If this time, there is The residents of the narrow building jump out and prove their identity..."

Wu Jian smiled bitterly: "Don't be whimsical. If they really want to... Then why haven't the residents of the narrow building come out to say it for so many years? So many years have passed..."

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

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

In the end, he said in despair: "If it really is because of NE, now we can't know the truth."

Fei bit her lip thoughtfully, and finally, she said, "No...no, go find someone first."

"Who are you looking for?" asked in a strange way, "...that bookstore owner?"

Fei said, "No...I mean, Jiashi Mu." She paused, and walked out of the starting point with Wu Jian. "Jia Shi Mu had come to this nightmare before and had a real ending. I was a little curious. What was his situation at the time."

Seeingly confused and asked: "Will he be in a different situation from ours?"

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 to say, there is more than one way to play the true ending; and, if the methods used are different, the final effect and the various details may be different.

And this is why it is so difficult for planners to do.

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

In the past period of time, the taskers at the bottom of the narrow building rushed to the higher floors frantically, and even the business with the gold nuggets was much better, but the business of the plan merchants was still tepid. The look of fire.

Under the premise that the effect of the nightmare ending cannot be guaranteed, I am afraid that no one will be willing to spend a lot of money to buy a nightmare plan, although that plan is indeed true and reliable.

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

That is an invisible scoring. It's like cheating in a nightmare with a prop card, it will make the evaluation invisibly worse, resulting in poorer quality of the prop card in the card pool.

And the way the ending is played, especially the means used by the taskers in the process, of course, is also likely to 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, it will finally come back to the topic of whether NE is monitoring them all the time.

The answer to this question is likely to be "yes".

As a result, the taskers were disappointed, just like the "doomsday" topic that was once very popular in the narrow building, the tacit silence and resistance were finally eliminated, and NE-related topics became less and less.

On the way to Mu Jiashi's residence, Feihe and Wu Jian tacitly did not mention topics related to the residents of the narrow building, acting, 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 once again thought, would NE be on the bottom of the narrow building?

No one knows.

They finally arrived at Mu Jiashi's residence. Before they entered the nightmare, Fei and Wujian had already had many conversations with Mujiashi, and they knew where Mujiashi lived.

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

When Fei and Wujian went to find Mu Jiashi, Mu Jiashi had actually come to Xu Beijin's bookstore...next door.

He is here to find Su Enya.

He knocked on the door, the door opened, and then he walked into the house of the resident of the narrow building. He stared closely at the woman who was crouching on the ground with her back against the wall.

He said, "I'm here to talk to you...about, the end."