Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

A few minutes later, Dai Wu left Xu Beijin's bookstore and stood outside the building.According to the development of the nightmare, he should be waiting here at this time, waiting for the executed survivor to fall.

But his mind was still immersed in what Xu Beijin had just said.

Dai Wu's words seemed to still echo in Dai Wu's ears.

He heard the voice of the bookstore owner, the tone was indeed calm and calm, but it seemed to contain the sea, deep and vaguely uncertain.

"How many nightmares about the end of the world have you harvested? I don't think there are too many, otherwise, you would not be entangled in the truth, but just immersed in this second life.

"...Maybe it's because I'm imposing too much of my thoughts on other people. I think there are indeed many people who want to know the truth.

"In short... I know a nightmare, and I plan to let some questers who want to know the truth go to that nightmare. You should have a way to make some questers think that they have learned about this nightmare 'unintentionally' ?

"You are already at the supporting role level, so you should be very familiar with this behind-the-scenes means of promoting the development of nightmares.

"...Many people may want to know what I know. But...that is not a good thing."

Dai Wu heard the man show a complex expression that is difficult to describe with exact words, and then said in a particularly solemn or desperate tone: "Sometimes memory can also become a curse."

Dai Wuxiang, what memory?what does he know

Is it the memory of how they entered the narrow building?

Dai Wu could only think of this.Because when you mention memory, you will think of that memory.Neither the tasker nor the actor knows, they don't remember, or they are "forced" to forget that memory.They never knew how they got into the narrow building.

But Xu Beijin remembered?

Although Dai Wu didn't know whether his guess was right or not, he suddenly felt sympathy.After all, if everyone else has forgotten, but Xu Beijin remembers, and keeps the secret for so many years alone...

Then he could really understand Xu Beijin's gloomy and deep aura.

It is even a kind of pain brewed by the years.

Therefore, Dai Wu quickly took a deep breath and stopped imagining Xu Beijin's dark years for so many years.That sounds pretty miserable.

Moreover, forcing him to tell this secret sounds cruel enough.

...But that does involve the freedom of other taskers and actors.

This was a dilemma. Dai Wu hesitated for a while, and then felt that he seemed too reckless to show his cards with Xu Beijin.

But the chaotic atmosphere in the narrow building now really made him feel that the time had come.He hoped to take advantage of the situation, go down the river, learn the truth, and escape from the narrow building.

So he just sighed, and then thought of Xu Beijin's request.

If you want to know the truth, let some taskers enter the nightmare that Xu Beijin said.

What kind of nightmare was that?

Dai Wu was a little curious, but Xu Beijin didn't say it clearly.He only said that after this nightmare was over, he asked Dai Wu to go to his bookstore and talk about it in detail.

In this way, Dai Wu could only suppress his curiosity.

However, apart from the nightmare itself, Xu Beijin's purpose for doing this also confused him a little.He could see the suppressed emotion in Xu Beijin, but he didn't understand where it came from.

If Xu Beijin had really spent so many years guarding the truth alone, then Dai Wu seemed to be able to understand his mentality a little bit.But that's not enough to fully explain the matter.

To put it bluntly, why is Xu Beijin so persistent in bearing the truth alone?

Judging from his appearance just now, it seems that he didn't want to escape from the narrow building, nor did he want to prevent others from knowing the truth.It was more like a deep fear and exhaustion.

After all, it comes down to... What exactly is Xu Beijin's nightmare?

When he said his nightmare wasn't the ultimate nightmare, did he mean that the ultimate nightmare had a different destination, or that there was no ultimate nightmare at all?

Thinking about it, Dai Wu grimaced and rubbed his hair.He thought, it would be fine if he raised the goal of "defeating NE" just because he wanted to live a good second life, as he said to Xu Beijin before.

It was true in the beginning, but then things gradually changed.

After all, who wants to be immersed in the false reality all the time?

They are like prisoners imprisoned in this huge prison.However, they don't even know what crime they committed to be imprisoned here.

What if they are innocent?What if they shouldn't be here?

So why can't they know the truth behind the scenes?Why not try to escape this damn cage?

For Dai Wu, Xu Beijin's concealment and forbearance may be a kind of self-righteous compassion and pity.He was alone with the secret, and what was the point?Torture yourself and torture others.

But maybe... maybe he really couldn't say it?

In those conspiracy theories, NE is always the image of a high-level watcher.Perhaps Xu Beijin is the top priority of its monitoring targets.

Dai Wu sighed, then raised his head and saw a black shadow falling from the sky.Because it was against the light, he couldn't help squinting his eyes.

He wants to collect this guy's body.

That's what Dai Wu needs to do in this nightmare.The owner of the nightmare, the body of the owner of the dream, who was immersed in an illusory dream, he wanted to recover this body.

Afterwards, the owner of the nightmare will use this body again, or those bodies that have died before, to open this dream within a dream again.

He may wake up from the suffocation of the fall, but it will not be long before he will indulge in this dream again.And Dai Wu is the custodian of his dream body.

In fact, if the missionaries explore the playground and other places in the ruins carefully, they will find that survivors with the same or similar appearance as this corpse are everywhere.

But apart from the man who walked into the mist, the taskers didn't pay attention to the other ordinary survivors at all.

Dai Wu couldn't help but sigh because of their stupidity and dullness.

What about the one who agreed to find out the identity of the deceased?

However, he really desperately hopes that this group of taskers can do more to make this nightmare end sooner.

Dai Wu wanted to quickly learn the truth from Xu Beijin.

So many years have passed, and they humans have been in this narrow building for so many years.Some people have even become accustomed to the barren and uninteresting life in the narrow building.

But... perhaps because the atmosphere in the narrow building is too active recently, Dai Wu also couldn't help but have some delusions.

Maybe, they can regain their lost "No. 1 life"?

The missionaries Dai Wu placed high hopes on, because of hunger at this time, went to the treasure house to find food.After filling their stomachs, they came to the front of the building and witnessed the scene of Dai Wu collecting his body.

This seems to explain why the corpse finally disappeared in the last round of nightmares.

Dai Wu cast a vigilant look at them, and then quickly left the area.

And the missionaries did not go to Dai Wu again, they came to the bookstore again, got the book, and learned something related to the book from Xu Beijin's mouth, and then the fog around the ruins Dissipated again.

They still decided to go to the home of the man who walked into the mist first.

A few minutes later, they came to the southwest corner of the ruins and continued to walk outside.Once again they came to the outside of the complete rolling door.

Surprisingly, the man was there too.

Calculating the time, he should be between the first search for food and the second search for food at this time. I am afraid that he will leave here again in a short time and go to the treasure house to exchange food.

But the missionaries blocked him.

At this time, he was lying in his dilapidated "home" made up of several brick walls, showing a dazed and dazed expression.He seems to be going through the process of forgetting, and he often shows a painful expression because of hunger.

The missionaries tried to talk to him, but got no answer.

In the end, they could only focus on the rolling door.Mu Jiashi opened the rolling door with a simple and rough movement, but to his surprise, the resistance he encountered was not great.

In the next second, his eyes widened immediately.

The bread piled up like a hill, like running water, rushed out of the warehouse behind the rolling door.The number almost drowned Mu Jiashi's calf in an instant, and it continued to climb higher and higher.

...What are you doing? !

Is this where all the bread of the ruins is concentrated?

This man... Mu Jiashi subconsciously turned his head to look at the man lying on the ground with a pale face like a ghost, as if he was going to starve to death in a second.

He is sitting on a golden mountain without knowing it, and this is only because he once robbed a person of food, and that person wrote him into a novel in order to get revenge on him.

Mu Jiashi felt a little terrified, but it wasn't really because of what happened to this man.It was just a dream within a dream, and after all, it was just a nightmare.

No matter which side you sympathize with, it sounds ridiculous.

So at this time, it might be better to say that Mu Jiashi is feeling the situation, sympathizing with themselves, sympathizing with them who are trapped in the narrow building and have nowhere to escape, repeating the same fate day after day, going to a higher floor, and then being killed. Deeper despair bound by...

Humanity.

What's even more tragic is that human beings can't even forget their own tragic fate.

For this man who knew nothing about his own destiny, at this time, his amnesia became a blessing; but memory, for some people, became a curse.

After Mu Jiashi was silent for a moment, he tried to get his legs out of the sea of ​​bread.

The man turned a blind eye to everything that was going on around him. He stood up like a ghost and wandered out again, looking for his food.

At this time, probably only the collector can still laugh, he said with a smile: "Oh...it's really interesting."

Wu Jian picked up the bread on the ground in a daze, and said to himself: "Why are there so many bread..." He looked around in a daze, "Is this the starting point of this nightmare?"

Mu Jiashi's expression suddenly changed.

...Damn it!The tasker completely forgot the memory of this nightmare, and the nightmare is about to restart again!

Why so fast!

While being surprised, Mu Jiashi also felt that his memory was rapidly losing, and all kinds of memories and scenes about this nightmare were rapidly turning gray and white.

As the bald man said, when the nightmare came to the third round, all the questers would start to lose their memories—he didn't expect that all the questers would be forced to completely forget it!

...Maybe the bald head doesn't know about it at all.

Those memories were like sand flowing from his palms; and the harder he gripped, the faster the sand flowed.

but……

At that moment, he realized vaguely that if he didn't do something, then when the nightmare really restarted, maybe he wouldn't remember anything.

Perhaps, the rest of the taskers are also going through the same process.Mu Jiashi could see the terrified and gradually dazed expressions on their faces.Perhaps, when the nightmare really restarts, they will think that they are in the first round of nightmare when they are in the fourth round of nightmare.

In those two or three seconds, Mu Jiashi fell into a desperate predicament, and then he struggled hard, just like the last self-esteem of a waste, and kept repeating in his heart: dream in dream in dream in dream in dream ...

Darkness fell, and then it was like a torn curtain.

Mu Jiashi suddenly opened his eyes, in a state of confusion, he thought, what is a dream within a dream?

At the moment he was in a daze, there were already quarrels around the taskers.He looked at the group of unfamiliar taskers and was a little confused for a moment.

It's just the first round of nightmares, why are they arguing like this?

The scrap card collector once again enthusiastically talked about his intention to collect scrap cards, and the bald tasker also showed a dismissive expression, and the two of them instantly had a sharp confrontation.

...Really, and...

A trace of confusion flashed in Mu Jiashi's heart.

what?

The woman frowned and said helplessly, "We should go collect information instead of listening to you arguing here."

The bald head said: "This is the second time my brother and I have entered this nightmare."

Mu Jiashi looked around and felt the pain in his brain like a needle.He frowned and rubbed the center of his brows, feeling like he had overlooked something.

... What a dream within a dream?

Does it mean that they are now in a dream within a dream?

Mu Jiashi's eyes were slightly dazed, as if something was about to burst out of his brain, but there was something hard blocking it.

He heard a lot of things being said, but he was so distracted that he couldn't catch anything.

Then, someone's voice flowed into his eardrums: "...we will gather under the building..."

Building...?

Mu Jiashi froze suddenly.

No, that wouldn't be called freezing either.His eyes could not help showing extreme shock and anxiety, as if he had been hit hard by a sledgehammer.

He raised his head suddenly, looked around, and finally saw the building at the end of the ruins.

He stared at it for a while.

Suddenly, while the other taskers were still discussing the route to search the ruins, Mu Jiashi ran away at a very fast speed, aiming directly at the building.

The other taskers looked at him in astonishment, but did not follow.They looked at each other, not knowing why.

The bald head and the flower arm who had come to this nightmare immediately sensed that something was wrong.They had completely lost their memories of the previous rounds and decided this was their first nightmare.

But when they found Mu Jiashi's strange behavior, although their brains told themselves that this was the first round of nightmares, their instincts felt uneasy.

So after hesitating for a moment, the bald head overturned his previous plan and said directly: "Let's follow!"

For the time being, no one disagrees with him, not even collectors.

They probably thought that Mu Jiashi had gone crazy, but they also vaguely felt that he might know something?

Through the live broadcast room, Xu Beijin watched Mu Jiashi rushing towards the building panting, and he even felt a little admiration for the tasker in his heart.

When he and the audience saw that the taskers all believed that this was already the first round of nightmares, they had to say that they were all sweating for this group of taskers.

The nightmare has progressed to the fourth round... It can also be said to be the third round. No matter what, the situation is always completely different from the first round.If the taskers still use the lax and cautious attitude of the first round, then they are likely to miss some information directly.

They were just like the man who walked into the mist, doing some not-so-useful things in vain.

However, Mu Jiashi seems to remember something?

This surprised Xu Beijin.

Just like in the little boy's nightmare, he thought again that Mu Jiashi was indeed the gold digger who set the record of 100% true ending at the bottom of the narrow building.

Although Mu Jiashi always laughed at himself saying that he was a loser and a waste, the incomparable successful experience in the past seemed to be still engraved in his soul and became an indelible background in his soul.

He is still that powerful tasker.

Mu Jiashi ran so fast that his lungs were about to explode.But an unknown fear and anxiety drove him to speed up.

Finally, he rushed into the building.Then, he braked suddenly and stopped at the door of the bookstore.

Mu Jiashi saw Xu Beijin, hesitated for a moment, and then greeted him.

Xu Beijin looked up at him with a slight smile in his eyes.He said pointedly: "Are you going to get that book again?"

This is a behavior approved by the mastermind.When the nightmare comes to this round, actors like Xu Beijin can also "remember" the memories of the previous rounds.

However, the man who walked into the mist might still have to repeat that fate.

Mu Jiashi was stunned.

Compared with the so-called "that book", what he cares about is——?

Mu Jiashi's voice was slightly hoarse, and he said to himself: "So, I, we... really forgot something."

At this time, the rest of the taskers also followed panting.

When they heard what Mu Jiashi said, the bald head and the flower arm immediately changed their expressions, but the other three taskers didn't understand why.

The bald head said anxiously: "Have we forgotten everything before? How many rounds of nightmares is this...Damn it!"

Mu Jiashi didn't answer his questions, and he actually didn't know the answers to these questions, but he faintly felt that something was wrong, and got some confirmation from Xu Beijin's mouth.

He still believed what Xu Beijin said.

Then he thought of the word he had inexplicably remembered: a dream within a dream.

He suddenly looked up at the building—a tall building.Why is there such a tall building in the ruins that hasn't collapsed yet?

Mu Jiashi asked abruptly: "Boss, can I go up to the roof of this building?"

Xu Beijin nodded and said, "Of course."

So Mu Jiashi showed a confident smile.

"I see," he said.

After speaking, he turned around and rushed to the rooftop.Couldn't take the elevator, so he had no choice but to take the stairs.

Obviously, the running of that distance just now made his lungs exhausted, but at this moment, he still tried his best to drive his tired legs up the stairs quickly.

He always has a feeling that he doesn't have enough time.Whether that was true or not, he chose to trust his instincts.

The other taskers felt baffled, but the bald head and the flower arm had already followed behind Mu Jiashi, so the strange herd mentality made them follow.

But when Mu Jiashi resolutely rushed to the edge of the roof, as if he wanted to jump off the building, even the bald head who had been following him without thinking changed his expression: "Hey——!"

But before he had time to say anything, Mu Jiashi had already jumped down resolutely.

It was a kind of... a suffocating weightlessness, as if every cell in the body was wailing overwhelmed.

But at the same time, the unbearable weight of the heart and the lungs rushed to his brain again, and an extreme fear and the feeling of falling into the abyss attacked him together.

... He took a long and sudden breath, and woke up instantly.

He still remembered the weightless feeling of falling, as if it would last until the end of his life, as if he would fall into a bottomless pit for the rest of his life, never being able to leave.

Fall into the abyss forever.He thought of these four words again.

Yet he woke up.

He had escaped from that dream within a dream, and had recovered all the memories from previous rounds of nightmares.Around him, the rest of the taskers were still sleeping.

I'm afraid they won't be able to wake up until they choose to jump off the building themselves.

Mu Jiashi was panting violently, he couldn't tell if it was because of the remaining fear, or because of the disgusting gameplay of this nightmare.

After a long time, he finally calmed down, stood up and looked at the surrounding scene.

It was also in ruins.

According to his thinking, this nightmare is because the author of that book was robbed of food in the ruins of reality, so he had this nightmare based on the shadow of fear, anger and hunger.

So in this superficial nightmare, at least there will be the owner of the nightmare and the man who stole his food.If what Dai Wu said is correct, then there should be survivors from the playground.

However, if the survivors in the amusement park were just an insurance method arranged by the owner of the nightmare for him to wake up from the dream within the dream, there might be only two people in this superficial nightmare.

And when Mu Jiashi really saw this superficial nightmare, he realized that the situation might be a little more special than he imagined.

There are still a large number of ruins——still a large number of survivors.

In other words, this is still a post-apocalyptic ruin.

Rather than saying that the owner of the nightmare is afraid of the risk of food being robbed, it is better to say that the object of his fear is the post-apocalyptic ruins themselves.

Doom—that was what he was really afraid of.

Mu Jiashi couldn't help showing a wry smile.

He doesn't care what the owner of the nightmare is afraid of, he doesn't care.He was just thinking, in such a huge ruin, how would he find the owner of the nightmare?

Not to mention, the other missionaries were still trapped in a dream within a dream, and he could only rely on his own strength.

In addition... the sudden restart during the second round of nightmares still haunts Mu Jiashi.

If something had happened in the outer nightmare, what would it be?

die?

whose death?

It can never be...

……and many more.

Mu Jiashi was startled suddenly.

Why couldn't it be the death of the nightmare's master?