Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

When He Shujun opened his eyes, he heard the sound of reading aloud.

It's early morning.morning reading...

Her classmates were by her side, some were lazy, some were serious, and some secretly lowered their heads and stooped, eating breakfast carefully.

He Shujun smelled the smell of boiled eggs, that strange, overcooked protein smell.

There are always people who hold textbooks and put them upright to cover their faces, for fear of being seen by the teacher when they are deserting.

But the teachers sitting on the podium can actually see everything, but they can't stop these little distractions.

He Shujun heard the girl on her right chanting some classical Chinese...or poetry?word?What is this girl's name?

He Shujun couldn't come back to God for a while.

In the last second, she closed her eyes in the dilapidated, dim narrow building, followed Xu Beijin's instructions and fell asleep;

The next second, in the endless drowsiness, she suddenly woke up, bathed in the morning sun, listening to the sound of reading and the whispers of the students.

She raised her head and saw a series of slogans in the third year of high school, most of which were cheering words such as studying hard and making progress every day.

Then she knew, it was the first day of the third year of high school.

She returned to Earth.

At this moment, a strong trance and touch attacked her mind, she subconsciously stood up, shaking her head, her eyes seemed to leave a deep imprint on the faces of every student.

She carefully observed their expressions, and saw their inexplicable expressions as if they were watching a show.

It is fresh and lively, and comes from the emotions of seventeen or eighteen-year-old children.

He Shujun suddenly felt like a dream.

"He Shujun?" On the podium, the teacher who watched the morning reading said strangely, "What's wrong?"

He Shujun was crying and laughing suddenly, she said loudly: "Nothing! Nothing! It's just me... Teacher, I..." She grinned a silly smile, "I'm so happy."

She heard someone whispering and wondered if she was stupid-how could anyone be happy because the third year of high school started?

But He Shujun was really happy.

She actually came back to this moment, this normal, peaceful, peaceful earth.

She and her classmates are having a headache about the upcoming college entrance examination and the endless weekly and monthly exams. They are looking forward to the future one year later, the future that is close at hand.

Like the sun at eight or nine o'clock.

Just looking at the past, you can feel the infinite possibilities, infinite vigor and vitality.Infinite...hope.

He Shujun wiped away tears and sat down.She looked at the textbook on the back table, ignored the strange look in her eyes, took out a Chinese textbook by herself, flipped to a page, and read aloud.

No matter what, don't think about where she is now, don't think about nightmares, don't think about the narrow building.

Let her spend this morning reading happily and happily first.The first day of senior year.turning point in her life.

While reading, He Shujun's voice gradually became hoarse.She wiped her tears desperately, but in the end, she was lying on the desk with the textbook covering her head.She smelled the smell of books, as well as the smell of soy milk from the breakfast at the front table.

Then, she burst into tears.

The whole classroom fell silent, all the students were baffled, and the teacher walked directly to He Shujun's side. He was at a loss for a while, and could only tentatively ask: "He Shujun? Are you okay?"

He Shujun continued to cry.

She was talking nonsense, but neither the teacher nor the students could understand what she was talking about.

They can only feel the sadness, ecstasy and a kind of inexplicable... despair in He Shujun?

The teacher could not appease He Shujun's emotions no matter what.

So, on the first day of school, He Shujun went to the school infirmary.

Here, she finally slowly stopped crying.The teacher worriedly asked her if she needed to call her parents over, or go home for a rest.

Afterwards, the teacher saw unprecedented maturity and reason appearing on He Shujun's girlish face.

He Shujun pondered for a while calmly, then shook his head, and said softly: "No. I'll just rest here for a while. I'll go back to class after a while."

The teacher is still a little worried.

On the contrary, it was He Shujun who was emotionally broken just now, and said softly that she was fine and just wanted to rest in the infirmary for a while.

The teacher in the infirmary also said that she would accompany He Shujun and let her rest here quietly for a while.

So another teacher left.

He Shujun lay down on his side, with his back to the teacher in the infirmary.Before long, she pretended to be asleep.So, the teacher in the infirmary also left the lounge lightly.

The moment the door of the lounge closed, He Shujun turned over and sat up immediately.

She stared at the closed door for a while, unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled wryly.

She has realized that no matter what, she is no longer that simple and naive high school senior.

She is already He Shujun, a mission worker who has worked hard and struggled in the narrow building for decades.

At the moment when he returned to the classroom of the third year of high school, He Shujun really felt a long-lost, uncontrollable ecstasy.

God knows how much she wanted to go back to normal, normal human life!

Emotional breakdown is precisely because of this.She really thought that she had returned to the previous earth, that time was going backwards, that everything was over, and even... that everything in the narrow building was just a dream.

dream.

So this word awakened all her memories, and she knew that she was still in a nightmare.

And I also remembered Xu Beijin's previous instructions - no matter what, keep rational and sober in the nightmare.

But she still indulged her emotions for a while.

She was crying and laughing at the same time, and this emotion was real, it was indeed the complex and intense emotion she had because of returning to this moment.She was almost dying of tears.

But at the same time, deep down, she watched her actions calmly and nonchalantly.

She knew—at least, based on what she saw and heard in the narrow building, she calculated what would happen next.

The first day of the third year of high school—so, right away, not long after, parents, teachers, students, the school, the Ministry of Education, etc., are all going crazy.She couldn't let herself get into that messy, closed situation.

So she knew that she had to leave this classroom as soon as possible.She can't be with other people, catastrophic changes can happen at any time, and she must keep herself safe.

No one knows what the consequences of dying in the ultimate nightmare will be.

Therefore, under this kind of cold calculation, she indulged her emotions and tears, so that the morning reading teacher had no choice but to bring her to the infirmary.

The teacher's proposal to let her go home really touched He Shujun's heart for a moment.

In addition, what makes her even more heartbroken is that she might still be able to see her parents who are still normal.

But then He Shujun became ruthless.

She didn't know if this ultimate nightmare really re-enacted her life.What if, in the nightmare, her "parents" were insane?

Then if she returned to them, wouldn't it be exactly what she wanted, and would she be sent back to school again?

Besides, that's... fake.Not her real parents.She is also unwilling to numb her soul with that false warmth at this moment.

They are in a terrible, ultimate nightmare of all mankind.

He Shujun took a deep breath, and once again wiped away the tears that kept gushing from his eyes.

She started thinking about something else.

This ultimate nightmare belongs to all mankind.And at this point in time after she entered the nightmare, she suddenly realized what the content of this nightmare was—the doomsday.It's the end of their lives.

But according to the analysis of the actual situation, the end of the earth lasted for a year, and then there were narrow buildings and so on.

It is impossible for them to spend such a long time in the nightmare, so there must be changes.

Or, in this nightmare, time jumps?Just to recreate some of the important turning points?

However, what is the identity of these people after entering the nightmare?Is it really just returning to the identity I once had on Earth?

Thinking of this, He Shujun couldn't help feeling a little regretful.She thought that when she was in the narrow building, she should have exchanged more information about herself on Earth with her companions.

Who knew the ultimate nightmare could be like this?

Had they known, they might have been able to find each other, rendezvous, and exchange information as quickly as possible in the ultimate nightmare.

but……

He Shujun realized belatedly that they had no clue about the ending of this nightmare.

If it's a replay of the end of the human race, will they end up in the Narrows?

With such an ending and direction, what should they do to solve this nightmare?

He Shujun thought for a while involuntarily, then clenched his fists to turn his mind back and not to think about those things for now.

She thought, there are two paths in front of her now.

The first was to go back to the classroom, let things take their course, wait and see what this nightmare would eventually reveal to her.

Maybe it's the reappearance of her lost memory, that vague high school life.

The second is to leave the school secretly and go outside the school to find clues.If this is a nightmare with a huge scene, then maybe she can find other taskers or residents of the narrow building in the scene.

He Shujun hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to choose the second path.

And she herself knew that a large part of the reason why she chose the second path was because she didn't want to go back to that former classroom at all.

She had a feeling that she couldn't help being there, she didn't want to leave.

That was... that was the place she had missed for so many years.It's where she's lived for a long, long time, where her friends are, where her textbooks are.The center of gravity of her life had been there.

So she dared not go back.

She silently said: "In the nightmare, you have to stay rational, stay awake, and keep yourself. Don't miss those things that have passed away."

She stood there for a moment, thinking, yes, that is the time that has passed.Never, never come back.

What she misses, what she dreams about, what she still remembers...

her high school career.

He Shujun stood up from the small bed in the lounge expressionlessly, and patted her cheek lightly to wake herself up.She then exited the infirmary through the lounge window.

She hid her school jacket in a locker in the lounge.

Her school does not strictly require students to wear school uniforms, and it is even more lenient for high school seniors.

But on the first day of school, it is always necessary to look tidy, so most students put on a school uniform jacket over their own clothes.

But now that He Shujun is planning to leave school, naturally he can't go out in school uniform.

Fortunately, the weather is fine today, the sun is shining brightly, and it is not too cold without a coat.

When the school doctor entered the lounge and found that there was no one in the lounge, he probably thought that He Shujun had gone back to the classroom.

As for the classroom, because He Shujun didn't say when he would go back, the teachers probably wouldn't care too much.

The busy high school life will make them ignore these small details and focus on teaching.

Therefore, when someone discovers that He Shujun is missing, it is estimated that her friends will come to her for dinner and find out that she is not there.

But by that time, He Shujun had already disappeared.

She calmly analyzed everything in her heart, while lightly jumping down from the window.

During the morning reading time, there were hardly any people on campus.It was only after seven o'clock.

He Shujun loosened the rubber band of the ponytail, straightened her hair, made herself look more mature, and changed her demeanor slightly.

This is very easy for her, after all, she has been immersed in the nightmare of the narrow building for a long time, and she herself is no longer the immature student she used to be.

She stared at her own figure revealed on the glass, and nodded in satisfaction.

Not long after, He Shujun nodded to the school guard as if nothing had happened, and left the school.

The doorman may think she is a parent, or a teacher, or a foreigner who came to handle errands.However, the gate guard would not consider her a truant student.

After finally leaving the school, He Shujun unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.She turned her head to look at her former alma mater, a complicated light flashed in her eyes.

She even felt as if something was pushing her, pulling her, making her go back.

But she finally shook her head.

Then she said to herself briskly: "Okay, now, let's see what surprises there will be outside of school..."

She took two steps and came to a crossroads.

Here, He Shujun stopped and looked around with a slightly strange expression.

This is not like the buildings near the school in her memory.

On Earth, near her high school, on the opposite side of this intersection, there is a small stationery store, then various snack bars, and then there is a residential area.

She knows that there are quite a few high school seniors who, in order to study hard, will move out of the dormitory and rent a house opposite the school for a year.

But now, on the opposite side of this intersection, is a gym.

He Shujun couldn't help but frowned.

At this moment, she realized that this ultimate nightmare was not a complete reproduction of the earth after all; nor could it be.

In this huge scene, there may be countless taskers and residents of the narrow building.

And every small scene represents the person's nightmares and past experiences.

Even, some scenes are not just a person's nightmare?

He Shujun took a deep breath and walked towards the gym.

"So, Beijin, what are we going to do in the narrow building?"

Ringo asked in a rascally manner.

When everyone entered the ultimate nightmare, the entire narrow building fell silent instantly.Empty and lifeless, it makes one's scalp tingle.

But Ringo didn't feel that way.He still stayed in Xu Beijin's bookstore, idly asking Xu Beijin what they were going to do now.Xu Beijin told him before that the two of them don't have to enter the ultimate nightmare.

"Wait a minute..." Xu Beijin replied, "I'll do one thing first."

"what?"

"Turn on the live broadcast."

Lingo blinked, a little confused: "Live broadcast?"

"Yes..." Xu Beijin told Lin Po about his previous live broadcast in his nightmare, "Now, I want to use this live broadcast system to deliver some information."

Ringo was a little confused.

What message is conveyed?To whom?Why use live broadcasting?

But Lin Po heard that this was a serious matter, so he didn't bother Xu Beijin anymore.

And Xu Beijin explained to Lin Po: "It is to ask for help from the outside world."

"Ask for help?" Lin Po pondered for a while, "Won't you be blocked?"

He also knows a lot of things now, at least he knows the situation of human beings, and he knows more details than other humans.

This is mainly because Xu Bei tried to explain his memory problem to Lingo, so Lino had already learned in detail about the various behaviors of the Fieka tribe.

Although he has no sense of substitution for what happened to human beings, but thinking that Xu Beijin had experienced all of this before... Lingo instantly became angry.

Instead, it was Xu Beijin who comforted him dumbfounded.

As for the others, including the residents of the narrow building and the taskers, Xu Beijin didn't tell them the truth in too much detail.

Firstly, the enemy is so powerful, if we let them know the truth now, it is estimated that many people will shrink back.

Secondly, the Fieka tribe may not know about the movements they are making now, but if the words "Fieka tribe" really keep appearing in human mouths...

Think about the gibberish characters that the audience uttered in Xu Beijin's live broadcast room.

Xu Beijin was already a little skeptical that the string of garbled characters that appeared in the live broadcast room was the words "Fieka".And these words were blocked in the live broadcast room.

Therefore, Xu Beijin was also worried that this would attract the attention of the Fieka tribe.When explaining everything to Ringo, he also didn't mention the Fieka tribe, but just replaced it with some other words.

Now, when Lin Biao heard that Xu Beijin wanted to use the live broadcast system to ask for help from the outside world, he couldn't help but feel strange.

Those behind-the-scenes black hands must have blocked the network environment of this game. Can this live broadcast system reveal the information he wants to convey?

And Xu Beijin's answer was: "It's very possible, yes. Because this game can be broadcast live to the outside world."

Ringo is still puzzled.

Xu Bei thought for a moment, and then explained to Lin Po: "Do you know that there is actually more than one game like this that traps human beings?"

"More than one?" Ringo subconsciously repeated, "Are there many?"

"Yes. There could be a lot. Some streamers even have access to these game streams, it's like... streaming beast fights. "They" keep all prisoners of war in games like this. "

Lingo felt a little puzzled: "Why are you imprisoned in the game?"

Xu Beijin squinted his eyes, his eyes were deep, and his tone was intriguing: "Because this is "their" strength.Network, data, virtual world... This is "their" territory. "

Lin Po was thoughtful, and subconsciously said, "So you plan to..."

Who to ask for help?

Ringo vaguely thought of a possibility.

Xu Beijin replied: "Everything is still unknown. In short, you wait for me first, and I will start a live broadcast."

Ringo said "OK".

When Xu Beijin turned on the live broadcast again, he felt somewhat emotional for a moment.

In fact, it has not been a few days.When they went to Xie Ji's nightmare together, the audience in the live broadcast room chatted with him.

But in just five or six days, the situation he faced had changed drastically.

His mentality when he got the live broadcast system at the beginning, and his mentality now are completely different.

However, he is still very grateful for the appearance of the live broadcast system and the company of those sand sculpture audiences.

"Hi Bei Bei!"

"Beibei is also super handsome today! Lick!"

"Hey, you pervert!"

"Go away! Beibei belongs to Little Apple!"

"Where's Little Apple? Beibei didn't turn the camera on Little Apple immediately! You've changed!"

Xu Bei couldn't laugh or cry.

Now the live broadcast is aimed at the scene in the ultimate nightmare.Although Xu Beijin is not in the Ultimate Nightmare right now, with the help of NE's authority, he can remotely watch what happened in the Ultimate Nightmare, and he can also broadcast live.

He thought to himself, after all, everything changed qualitatively because of the change of NE's position.

Thinking of this, Xu Beijin glanced out subconsciously, then lowered his eyes thoughtfully, and suddenly laughed.

However, he thought, NE is NE, and artificial intelligence is artificial intelligence.This damned artificial intelligence is high up in the narrow building, spying and monitoring humans.

Just as the missionaries thought, it was indeed the accomplice and wingman of the black hand behind the scenes.

Thinking about it, Xu Beijin sighed secretly, and turned his attention to the ultimate nightmare. He wanted to confirm the situation of the human beings in the ultimate nightmare first, and then go to do other things that should be done with Lingo.

In addition, he has been paying attention to the situation of the audience in the live broadcast room.

It has always been the few IDs he is familiar with, and no strange IDs appear.

Xu Beijin was a little disappointed for a while, but he thought again, the live broadcast has just started not long ago, it is impossible for it to be so fast and in such a timely manner.

He smiled self-deprecatingly.

Then, he looked at the screen in the live broadcast room.

This time, there were a lot of people in the ultimate nightmare, and Xu Beijin didn't take the initiative to control the direction of the live broadcast camera, so at this moment the live broadcast room's screen was frozen on a stranger.

He was standing on the roof of a building and yelling, as if he was about to jump off the next second.

The audience in the live broadcast room were confused.

"What is this for?"

"What kind of new nightmare is this?"

"Beibei! Call Beibei! Come and introduce this nightmare!"

"Beibei won't broadcast the live broadcast for a few days, I think the reasoning boss is already hungry and thirsty!"

"Do you think the reasoning boss is already? What about you?"

"I'm pretty self-aware about my IQ (pathy)"

Xu Beijin looked at the bullet screens in the live broadcast room, thought for a while, and explained the nightmare to them: "We are almost at the end of this game."

Several viewers in the live broadcast room were stunned.

"ending!"

"My mother! I feel like Beibei and I haven't known each other for long, and this game is about to end! And isn't this an online game? There's an ending?"

"Uh, like that, a new beginning after the end?"

"Because this is a puzzle game, right? A puzzle game must have an ending."

"The reasoning boss is right!"

Xu Beijin glanced at the barrage, and then continued: "The setting of this game is that after the end of the world, human beings enter a shelter named "Narrow Building". The manager of this shelter is an artificial intelligence... ..."

He roughly explained the setting of the game itself.

The audience sighed again and again.

Later, Xu Beijin talked about the ultimate nightmare they are currently broadcasting: "All players will enter the ultimate nightmare, whether they are players or taskers."

At this point, Xu Beijin blurred the position of himself and Ringo.The audience only thought that he was also in the ultimate nightmare, and they didn't realize that he was actually still in the narrow building.

Xu Beijin said: "In the ultimate nightmare, people return to the past doomsday. They need to make a new choice, whether to continue to believe in the judgment of artificial intelligence and stay in the narrow building, or to abandon artificial intelligence and continue to work with A dangerous doomsday to fight?

"Their choices in the nightmare will directly affect the state of the artificial intelligence managers of the narrow building in reality.

"Because, when this artificial intelligence is manufactured, its function is only to manage the narrow building, and has no other use.

If all surviving humans did the same, turn off the AI's choice.Then, this artificial intelligence will lose the qualification to manage the narrow building.

"It is impossible to give an answer for this choice without reason or basis. When human beings were facing the doomsday, the designers and manufacturers of narrow buildings and artificial intelligence spent a lot of energy and made countless sacrifices. Only then was this last refuge established.

"This is the response of human beings to the doomsday. Therefore, human beings must also maintain their original attitude after re-experiencing the whole process of doomsday in the nightmare, so that artificial intelligence can be successfully shut down.

"Now, the players in the nightmare are faced with such a choice."

Xu Beijin explained the setting of the game, and also clarified the two choices of the final ending.

To turn off the AI, or, not to turn it off?

Faced with this problem, the attitudes of the viewers in the live broadcast room had huge differences.