Crash bosses in escape games

"Then please tell me the answer I want first, and then I will charge you." Liang Fei said.

"Would you rather die than know the answer?" the queen laughed.

"I know that there are people who say, 'Heard the truth in the morning, but die in the evening'. I didn't expect you to have such potential." The queen circled around Liang Fei a few times with great interest, "It seems that you are willing to pay such a high price. For the sake of this, I will fulfill you once." She waved her hand, and the space in front of her gradually distorted, and finally a door appeared.

"The answers you want to know are all behind this door." The queen opened the door herself, and behind the door was a twisted corridor, which could easily remind Liang Fei of time-space corridors, time tunnels and the like.

"Unfortunately, the moment you take off the bracelet, your life will come to an end. Even if you see this road leading to 'truth', you are destined not to reach the end." The Queen's tone was a little regretful, " You have completed all the assessments in the game, and you were originally qualified to know the truth. But fate is so cruel, I never thought that such a simple requirement as a bracelet would become the last obstacle in your pursuit of truth."

"Walking in, can you find the 'truth' you mentioned repeatedly?" Liang Fei looked up and down the tunnel.

"Yes. Unfortunately, you can't go in and see for yourself, but I can relay it to you." The queen said.

"Thank you, but I still prefer to witness it with my own eyes." Liang Fei took off the bracelet on his wrist and threw it to the queen.At the moment of throwing the bracelet, take three steps and take two steps, and run into the tunnel leading to reality.

The queen was astonished that Liang Fei took off the bracelet and didn't die. She didn't die until she took the bracelet and looked at it for a while, and then angrily shouted to Liang Fei behind the door: "You lied to me with a fake!"

"You only said you want a bracelet, and the replica bracelet is also a bracelet." Liang Fei's voice came from a distance in the tunnel, but unfortunately, the figure had already disappeared.

The queen gritted her teeth and stared at the corridor as if she wanted to catch Liang Fei back with her eyes.

In the end, there was only one sentence left, "Forget it!"

Then the bracelet turned into a string of exquisite bracelets, happily put it on her own bracelet, hummed a song and walked away.

……

Liang Fei felt a headache, this kind of headache included physical pain in the head, and also included the drowsiness of a huge amount of information pouring into his mind.

It has been a long time since he deceived the manager queen and entered the "corridor leading to reality", but the pain of lack of realism seems to have only lasted for a moment.

He obviously opened his eyes, but a series of instructions echoed in his mind repeatedly, asking him to "open his eyes" immediately.

He wanted to vent all the dullness in his head, as if a huge stone was pressing on his chest, and he couldn't get rid of the depression even though he tried his best.

Time continued to pass, and in the experience of nothingness without reference, he seemed to be asleep, or his soul and body were separated, floating in the air unsteadily.

"Liang Fei."

He heard someone calling him.He looked back reflexively, or just imagined the action of looking back.

At that moment, it was like a drowning person being fished out of deep water by a solid and powerful arm at the last second of life and death.The exhilaration of breaking through the water, the freshness of the humid air, and the excitement of the rest of the life after the catastrophe, like the evening drum and morning bell, aroused the dullness in the mind.

Consciousness gradually returned, and Liang Fei broke out in a cold sweat. The previous state was really abnormal, and the danger hidden in the ordinary is actually the most deadly.He moved his almost stiff limbs, and his heartbeat that had just calmed down missed a beat again.

He is back?

Liang Fei recognized where he was with just one glance.

Because this is the "home" he has lived in for more than ten years.

He was so familiar with this place that he could find what he wanted even with his eyes closed.But the familiar place, at the wrong time, just feels weird.

Memories of the past are like rising tides of sea water, slowly submerging Liang Fei's reason.He obviously hasn't been away for too long, but the memory of the past is like a thin film, and there is a stiffness hidden in the familiarity.

Liang Fei walked into the living room, touched the coffee table in the center, the surface of the coffee table was spotless, everything was as it was before the accident.

It seems that everything experienced before, games, reincarnation, fighting... is just a dream that is too long.

If ordinary people encounter this situation, they will either cry with joy, or question the environment, or even have self-doubt.But Liang Fei's unusual nerves made him calm down almost immediately.

He knows all the layouts of his home like the back of his hand, and he only needs to look around to know where he is now, which is indeed exactly the same as his former home.But what does it matter?He would rather believe that he had fallen into some kind of subtle hallucination than end everything and return to his original world.

He poured himself a glass of water with ease, leaned back on the sofa, and stared at the ripples on the surface of the water until it gradually stabilized.

He listed his conjectures one by one in his mind, and denied them one by one.

—Is it all just a dream?

But before he lost consciousness and was involved in the game, he was obviously at the computer desk in the study, so he shouldn't have suddenly appeared in the living room when he woke up.

——Or is this an illusion set up for him by the manager queen?

But the queen's anger after realizing that she was cheated did not seem to be faking.

——The previous experience was only part of the escape series of games, and the game company used some undisclosed cutting-edge technology?

Liang Fei returned to the study room, and the game box lay quietly on the table, without any abnormality, and of course there was no structure related to science fiction elements.

He is convinced that with the development speed of the current level of technology, it is impossible to suddenly appear some kind of "high technology" that can put the player's consciousness into the game without using any equipment.

Even if there is any unknown technology, it is impossible for a small game company to be the first to put it into application.

——So, is it "brain in a vat"?

What if he was taken away by a mysterious research team, his body was soaked in nutrient solution, and his brain was stimulated by electrodes to produce the illusion of five senses, mistakenly thinking that he was experiencing some kind of escape game?

——Or, this is not an illusion set up for him by the manager queen, but he fell into a hallucination somewhere during the game, and he has not been aware of it until now.

In the first world, hallucinating from the lab's hallucinogenic drugs?Or in the second world, bewitched by the sea monster and have not woken up until now?Even in the third world, the virus had some unknown side effect on the body?

However, this direction of thinking is meaningless, because no matter what the situation is, it cannot explain the beginning of the accident—why he appeared in a game.

After negating several conjectures, Liang Fei threw away his habitual thinking and couldn't stop thinking about it.

——Could it be that all the fragments of the world he experienced were actually fragments of subconscious mind?

He who is struggling with thinking now is actually just a subconscious fragment of the main body of "Liang Fei". Countless fragments make up the complete "Liang Fei" himself.The unreasonable phenomena in the game world can also be explained by the fact that the subconscious mind is not limited by logic.He thought he was trapped in the reincarnation of the game, but in fact, "Liang Fei's body" is composed of countless such him, forming the subject's "consciousness".

——Or maybe because of some supernatural existence beyond common sense?Demons, gods, aliens, laws, indescribable horrors... some kind of supernatural power will catch the selected unlucky ones, throw them into a melting pot with different rules, and screen out the talents who meet the requirements. For their entertainment?

It can even be assumed that there is a "hell" in this world, and Liang Fei is just a ghost after a sudden death, undergoing the trials and tortures of reincarnation in the cracks of the world.

This speculation is more in line with the situation in the last world that Liang Fei experienced. In that non-linear building, dozens of participants who were divided into black and white teams experienced a selection that took into account both pvp and pve.

The last explanation seems to be the most reasonable, but it is also the most unreasonable reason.If this is a novel, this is probably the most "lazy" way to answer it.Because the author only needs to create a transcendent existence, and he can play all the characters in the palm of his hand.

But this cannot be a reason to deny this conjecture, because there is no positive correlation between splendor and rationality. If Liang Fei himself is the author of this novel, as long as he creates a wonderful plot, he may not reject "creating God" way of answering.

Whether it's "dreams", "consciousness trapped in a game", "brain in a tank", "falling into an imperceptible illusion", "subconscious fragments", "existence of a supernatural god", "hell trials"... These speculations are not Can't really help the current situation.It's just that the constant cutting and unreasonable chaos will only increase the trouble of no answer.

So Liang Fei quickly gave up sitting on the sofa and thinking wildly.He took the key and closed the door behind his back, as if he had no attachment to this long-lost home, and walked briskly to the street.

The streets with people coming and going are still the same as he is familiar with.The endless stream of people changed rapidly, hurriedly heading in the opposite direction from him.

He grabbed someone casually, and was looked at impatiently by passers-by as if he was crazy.

During the short 3-minute journey from home to the street, he thought of many things.The experience of wandering in fragments of several worlds emerged before his eyes like fallen leaves.

Amidst the withered and yellow leaves flying, he stretched out his right hand and grabbed one of them with precision.On this fallen leaf, vitality is still flowing, and the green veins seem to be shining with a little bit of light.

In the intermittent twilight, countless memories floated up and down, and in the rapidly changing picture, he saw a familiar face.

This is it.At that moment, there seemed to be a voice in my ear.

He pressed the pause button and found the key to breaking the game for himself.

"Have you heard of the Gross Institute?" Liang Fei grabbed the passerby in front of him and smiled.

This is what Liang Fei asked Xia Jue in the third world fragment.

And the next sentence is...

"Have you ever heard of the name Nie Ming?"

——This is a key, a key that breaks through rules and boundaries, unlocks freedom and exploration, and connects fantasy and reality.

Apart from the special circumstances of Zhang Yunan and Xu Yueqi, Xia Jue is the first abnormal aborigine Liang Fei has come into contact with, and the first "game NPC" who "perceives the rules of the game".

The beginning of everything abnormal, or the key to Xia Jue's "awakening", was Liang Fei's inadvertent temptation when the two first met.Liang Fei asked these two questions to Xia Jue. He intended to probe information about the background of the world. Unexpectedly, he used fragments of another world to "activate" the aborigine Xia Jue's "awareness" of world fragments. ", let Xia Jue, who originally lived in his own world with peace of mind, realize the existence of other worlds.

That is - awakening.

The awakened aborigines are "abnormal" in every world, which will cause chaos in the rules of the world, so let the chaos become a sharp edge to solve the predicament.

The passers-by who were stopped by Liang Fei were bewildered after hearing these two questions.It seemed that he had never heard of information about the Institute or Nie Ming, but compared to his previous impatience, he put away his slightly angry expression and put on a puzzled look.

Liang Fei didn't wait for passers-by to respond, and his purpose was not to obtain information.He gushed: "It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it, but have you heard of the legend of the sea monster? It is said that there is a cruise ship on the sea that provides gambling places for the upper class. Hidden on the cruise ship is a sea monster that likes to sign contracts with people." Demon..."

Every time Liang Fei said something more, the doubts in the eyes of passers-by were superimposed.This kind of doubt is not a puzzled question, but rather like a deep thought.

"I don't know what you're talking about, but why do I feel that what you said makes me..." The passer-by scratched his hair and murmured.

"There is no doubt."

As the passer-by blurted out the last few words, Liang Fei suddenly heard a laugh.The voice seemed far away, and seemed to come from his brain. The man's tone was a little helpless: "It's so fast."

The feeling of separation between soul and body reappeared, the street in front of him was still a familiar street, and the passerby with doubts on his face was still the same passerby, but Liang Fei just felt it, something was different.

He let go of the passerby, let him go, and returned home in a daze.He wanted to sort out his thoughts and analyze what the harvest just now meant, but an irresistible sleepiness quickly eroded it.

He slumped on the couch and closed his eyes.

……

The unconscious state lasted only a few minutes, this time Liang Fei had a very clear sense of time.When he silently counted to three hundred, he smelled a familiar smell buried in his memory—a strange smell between disinfectant and air freshener.

He sat up slowly, shocked again by his surroundings.

White walls, surveillance devices, metal key cards...

Is this the Gross Institute?

Fragments of the world he experienced for the first time?