Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

This was Wu Jian's first time coming near the space agency, but when he saw the dilapidated building, he couldn't help being speechless.

"Has the situation reached this point..."

Wu Jian knows that for human society, technology usually comes first.

Ordinary people may not understand, but where they do not know, scientists continue their work in obscurity.

If it is not to the point of helplessness, how can the aerospace industry stagnate?

He looked at the old building with eyes of regret and fear.

Wu Jian, who has a rich imagination, naturally thought at this moment, maybe this scene also happened on the earth?

No, it must be so.

Wu Jian looked at it for a while, then looked away, followed Fei's footsteps, and came together outside the aerospace building, among the group of astronomy enthusiasts gathered.

Fei thought that when the first round of nightmares came here, she still didn't know anything about this nightmare.

But now, she has gradually understood what this nightmare symbolizes.

Doomsday...a doomsday in two phases.

If she hadn't been psychologically prepared, Fei might have been overwhelmed by endless panic when she realized this.

But when she entered this nightmare, she was actually well prepared.

Therefore, she was only in a daze for a moment, then walked forward, found one of the astronomy enthusiasts, and asked him: "Hello, we are here to find Xie Ji. Is she here?"

"Xie Ji?" The man said in surprise, "She just left."

Fei immediately frowned, cursed secretly, and then asked: "Did she say where she went? We need to find her urgently!"

Probably Fei's expression was really anxious, so the man hesitated for a moment, then nodded, saying that he was going to ask, then turned around and asked a few acquaintances to ask.

Afterwards, he told Fei: "Xie Ji said that she is going to the museum to find her boyfriend. She has been gone for almost an hour, and she must have arrived long ago."

Fei thought of the museum at the southern end of the road... her mood collapsed immediately.

The few of them walked from the library without stopping at other places along the way, and it took at least 10 minutes.

Now rushing to the museum again, this round of nightmares is almost over.

Wu Jian said helplessly beside him: "The third round of nightmare... Alas, it seems that it has begun to collapse."

He paused, and then said, "This nightmare is really deceitful, the space agency and the museum are actually in two completely opposite directions...

We didn't find that the nightmare had collapsed, so we had to turn around and go back, and we didn't know if it would be too late. "

Wu Jian couldn't help making a bitter face.

Fei took a deep breath, and her thoughts were still clear: "Whether Xie Ji went to look for Ke Xu, or Ke Xu came to look for Xie Ji, the result is the same. When the sky fire comes into the world, the two of them should stay together.

"So, as long as we catch up in the end. The museum is also a refuge, it doesn't matter."

Wu Jian also understood Fei's meaning: "Because I witnessed the death of my fiancée with my own eyes, this nightmare happened because of grief and regret?"

"If Ke Xu is really the master of the nightmare, I think it makes sense."

Fei said, "But the problem is, this nightmare... There are not many clues that show that Ke Xu is the master of this nightmare."

Rather, his fiancée Xie Ji has more to do with this nightmare scene.

Wu Jian didn't take it seriously: "Since this nightmare happened because of his fiancée's death, isn't it normal that the scene is dominated by Xie Ji's living area?

"And Ke Xu himself is an employee of the museum, and he knows some things about the library. He might also live in that residential area, and his fiancée was a researcher at the space agency... In this way, it's only the one in the east. The blocked area has nothing to do with him directly."

Fei frowned loosely, and she said, "That's true... But, there is still no direct evidence."

Wu Jian shrugged: "Oh, this is very troublesome. Why is there no one who looks exactly like that narrow building resident in this nightmare?"

In many nightmares, the image of the nightmare master in the narrow building is consistent with the nightmare;

Of course, there are inconsistencies.Just like the little girl they met in the last nightmare.

Different ages, appearance and temperament are of course also different.

And in this nightmare, if Ke Xu really experienced a disaster, coupled with the fright of his fiancée dying in front of his eyes, then it is quite normal for his image to change.

Thinking about it, Wu Jian shook his head."Shall we go back now?" he asked.

Fei hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and said, "No. You're here, let's find out more about Xie Ji."

They walked towards the person who asked Xie Ji's whereabouts earlier.

At this moment, that person had already walked to the side of the rest of the people and started talking with them excitedly.

After listening for a while, Fei realized that this person firmly believed that the unknown objects in the sky were sent by aliens, and that they were the chief culprit of the madness in human society for more than a year.

This guess made Fei laugh.

alien?Where did the aliens come from?

For human beings, since they started the space industry, they have never forgotten the aliens. They always think that somewhere in such a huge universe, there must be intelligent life similar to human beings.

But they have never found it, as if in such a vast universe, there is only such a small and lonely existence as human beings.

In order to explain this phenomenon, human beings have to come up with various theories, such as large filters, high-dimensional organisms, and other reasonable or unreasonable explanations.

Human beings seem to be born to need companionship, and don't want to live alone.

But... when this guess appeared in the mouth of a human who was about to face the doomsday, Fei still felt the indescribable inconceivable.

She meant, this kind of speculation is even more conspiracy theories than the "conspiracy theories" they came up with in the narrow building!

Fei even subtly thought, is this the speechless and funny mood of those mission workers in the narrow building after hearing some speculations organized by them?

alien?

It's hilarious just thinking about it.

Obviously, it's not just Fei who thinks this way, even other astronomy enthusiasts think the same way.

They are extremely proud of the level of human science and technology, and they have no doubts about the achievements of human exploration into the universe.

They don't believe that there are any intelligent creatures and their civilization that can escape the capture and search of humans.

"What if... you know, what if we are being hunted?" The man argued, "Maybe we are a low civilization, and they are a high civilization, so it is impossible for us to find them, and they are How about crushing us completely?"

He said it with an extra serious tone, but everyone else laughed.

"What kind of existence would that be?" Someone teased him, "Higher-dimensional creatures? Spiritual bodies? Warp life? If that's the case, we're like ants at their feet.

How can people care what ants do?They don't care about us at all! "

"Maybe it's like a sci-fi novel, because our planet is in the way of building a galactic highway, so we are just wiped out hahaha."

One person even said in a particularly cheerful tone, "Do you really think that the situation in science fiction will come true?"

The man blushed and was so angry that he didn't want to talk to this group of people.

Fei just walked over at this moment.

However, she had no intention of intervening in their debate, and although she cared a little about the various possibilities they talked about, in Fei's view, their discussions were just some whimsical ideas.

She just wanted to ask about Xie Ji.

"Xie Ji?" Someone looked at them in surprise, "What are you asking her for?"

"Xie Ji's fiancé asked us to come here." Fei simply copied the excuse Mu Jiashi and Ding Yi used before, "They have been arguing a lot recently, so her fiancé asked us to come and ask, you guys often communicate with Xie Ji, I guess I know what Xie Ji thinks..."

"It's a lot of noise... Oh, I see, I heard Xie Ji say that her fiancé doesn't believe in the existence of unknown objects, right?"

Fei nodded.

Then someone sneered: "I see, Xie Ji deserved it too. For ordinary people, is there any benefit in knowing a disaster in advance? We have to face this problem because we observed it.

"Her fiancé doesn't know anything at all, why did Xie Ji tell him? It just makes people flustered, and they don't know whether this matter is true or not."

"Hey, what you said is wrong. We all saw it with our own eyes. What else is true or false? It is indeed true."

"However, Xie Ji is indeed... I dare not tell my parents about this matter. They are old and have a bad heart. Don't be scared of anything... Maybe there is really nothing wrong? "

"Do you believe this? The group of astronomy experts quarreled like that because they might not have the equipment to observe, and they are still stuck in theoretical inference, but we..."

The man pointed to the astronomical telescope behind them, "We saw it with our own eyes!"

"Yes, yes, we have all seen it..."

Fei couldn't help interrupting their off topic: "What I want to ask is, Xie Ji..."

"Oh, I understand what you mean. You are here to be a lobbyist, I hope we can soften Xie Ji's attitude.

But, she is just like her fiancé, with a very stubborn temper.

"You want to be the peacemaker, Xie Ji may not be happy, maybe you think you are intervening too much."

The man sneered as he spoke.

"Yeah, Xie Ji came over earlier with a frowning face, and we also asked. She talked about her and her fiancé, and we persuaded her, but it was useless.

She just left in a huff, maybe she went to the museum to quarrel with her fiancé..."

"I heard that Xie Ji is a descendant of a soldier, right? That character is really tough... I even suspect that if she goes to find her fiancé this time, she might have to divorce..."

"Then what can I do? The three views are inconsistent..."

Hearing this, Fei narrowed her eyes, and looked at Wu Jian.

Wu Jian muttered: "Why do I feel that such a thing is really possible?"

Fei You said faintly: "Then, Ke Xu saw with his own eyes that his girlfriend who wanted to separate from him because of his distrust died in the heavenly fire..."

Wu Jian took a breath and murmured, "That must be a lifetime of psychological shadow."

Fei was a little confused, and always felt that something was not quite right.

But she thought about it carefully, but she couldn't think of where it was.

She put aside her doubts for the time being, and asked again: "So, you also know Xie Ji's fiancé?"

"I know..." Someone simply pointed to the aerospace building behind him, "Don't look at this place as crappy, but there are actually caves under the ground. It seems that the cultural relics brought by the museum are placed there. "

Only then did Fei suddenly realize why Ke Xu drove here.

"We've been gathering here for the past few days, watching them move those precious cultural relics around. It's a pity...we're all going to die."

Someone said with a sigh.

Some people also objected: "If Xie Ji hadn't seen that thing..."

"Don't be like this. To be honest, I still want to die more clearly."

Fei heard some special meaning from their conversation, she asked: "Is Xie Ji the first person to observe that unknown object?"

"No.1 in the world!" Someone smiled wryly, "However, it's not a good thing."

"Just a few days ago. We held routine observation activities here. After the madness started to spread, we came here every now and then, in fact, to clean up the astronomical telescope.

"Anyway, during the observation activities a few days ago, Xie Ji saw that thing... Sigh, I don't know what to say. When she saw that thing, her face turned pale.

"At the time she was reluctant to say what she saw, but when we saw her like that, we knew there must be something wrong, and then everyone saw it.

"At that time, there were a few people who didn't come here often, and almost fainted from fright. Only then did we understand why she didn't want to say it at first... Damn, who would have thought of that?

"There is something flying towards you above your head, and you don't know when it appeared!"

"Tsk, I think you are the one who fainted from fright?"

"Later, it was made public to the whole world... However, other people probably will find out sooner or later, but we saw it earlier, and it was a coincidence... Hehe, I happened to see the news of my own death."

"Can you learn from Xie Ji, what did she say when she made it public... She is afraid of many things, but she is not afraid of death alone, is that right?"

"Xie Ji can do whatever he wants, but I am still afraid of death."

"I've only lived in my twenties, I haven't dated yet, and I haven't enjoyed life to the fullest. Finally, the boss went crazy and gave us a year's paid leave, and the whole world is going to end... Ha, who would want that? ?”

With that said, the atmosphere became dull.

Someone asked, "How much longer?"

"An hour... less than one o'clock. Maybe four or five ten minutes."

"The countdown of life."

"Shut up, I want to live a long life. I'll hide in it later, maybe I don't have to die?"

"All right, all right, you will definitely survive."

"That's right..."

Fei didn't listen to these people's bickering, she muttered to herself: "Xie Ji is the first person to discover an unknown object? The first??"

Wu Jian said softly, "This identity... seems to be a bit important?"

Fei was silent for a while, then smiled wryly and said: "If the resident of the narrow building is not a man, I must suspect that Xie Ji is the master of this nightmare."

"Judging from the clues of this nightmare, Xie Ji is the most suitable candidate for the owner of the nightmare. But..." Wu Jian couldn't help but said, "How is this possible?!"

Fei couldn't help but feel a little strange.

Judging from the various clues in this nightmare, Xie Ji is the central figure in this nightmare, and she is even No.1 who observed the coming of the sky fire.Such an identity is really special and important.

It was as if the whole nightmare was born around her.

But the problem is, the owner of the nightmare is a man.

Could it be that, as Wu Jian said, because Xie Ji's death had brought too much impact on Ke Xu, that's why his nightmare centered on Xie Ji?This is also quite reasonable, not unreasonable.

But Fei always felt that, as the master of the nightmare, Ke Xu seemed incompatible with this nightmare.

She thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "Let's go, let's go to the museum first."

Wu Jian said: "It took us four to five 10 minutes to arrive at the museum, and that was almost the time when the fire from heaven came to the world."

"If you meet a bus on the road, you can sit on it. Anyway..."

Fei bit her lip, she was worried that if they didn't make it to the museum, the sky fire would have already descended into the world, and when they missed the refuge, once they died of the sky fire descending into the world, they would be like He Shujun.

However, she finally chose to face the truth and believed in Mu Jiashi.

So, she said, "Let's go..."

Wu Jian nodded silently, and did not object to Fei's opinion.

And Fei turned to look at the long-haired man, thought for a while, and said, "We're going to the museum, but in case we can't make it there... why don't you stay in the library?"

The long-haired man glanced at her and said, "I'll go with you."

Fei was a little surprised, and then thought of the long-haired man's pursuit of death, maybe he hoped that they could die in the fire of heaven.

Fei was too lazy to care about the long-haired man's thoughts, she turned to look at Wu Jian, and asked, "Did you bring the panel card?"

"I brought one." Wu Jian said in surprise, "Who are you going to use it for?"

Fei hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Xie Ji. If Xie Ji is not the master of the nightmare, then Ke Xu must be."

Wu Jian nodded.

So, they walked quickly towards the museum.

The audience in the live broadcast room watched their actions and sighed for a moment: "It's too bad, the owner of this nightmare can't be determined at all."

"The owner of the nightmare: I am playing hide and seek with you [dog head]"

"However, from the looks of it now, it's probably Ke Xu, right?"

"Hey, actually, I think Xie Ji is really possible... This nightmare really revolves around her."

"The more this is the time, the more we have to be wary of the game's planning routines! Maybe it's intentional to make you think that Xie Ji is very possible!"

"I don't know if everyone realizes that there are three major contradictions in this nightmare?"

"Which three?"

"Master reasoning, I've already sat down! You can start talking!"

"Pick up your ears silently."

"The first is, who is the couple who are quarreling? Both alternatives have problems and contradictions that do not match the corresponding characteristics.

However, now we can know that this probably refers to Xie Ji and Ke Xu.

"The second is the various contradictions arising from the birth of Heavenly Fire. Judging from the narrations of all parties, people's positions on this matter are very contradictory. Some people firmly believe in it, while others don't believe it at all.

"Furthermore, such contradictions have even spread to the academic world. The opinions of the two parties are completely irreconcilable, and they are fighting to the death.

However, this kind of thing cannot be won by bickering alone, and it must be proved.

"However, we haven't seen evidence from the beginning to the end, such as the photo of the unknown object...

This makes me very suspicious of what this so-called unknown object is.

"Of course, we all already know that this thing does exist, and it did cause a huge disaster.

But this kind of ambiguous way of expression... It seems that this topic is deliberately avoided, or that the owner of the nightmare doesn't know the details of this thing at all.

"After all, the nightmare is still based on the memory of the owner of the nightmare. If the owner of the nightmare does not know the details of something, then it is naturally impossible for it to appear in the nightmare.

"This is why, between Ke Xu and Xie Ji, I think Ke Xu is more likely to be the owner of the nightmare.

"However, this involves the third contradiction. If Ke Xu is the master of the nightmare, and based on my understanding of the nightmare in the second point...

Then, why in Ke Xu's nightmare, there are so many magazines and periodicals on the third floor of the library?

"From his performance, he doesn't look like the kind of person who is willing to read such books, and he also scoffs at the speculation of his fiancée.

"The only possibility I can think of is that after Xie Ji's death, he calmed down, or under the torment of pain and despair, he studied these things, including books on astronomy.

"And this kind of learning and research was also reflected in his nightmares, and formed those books.

"Of course this can be explained, but just like these two taskers, this is just an explanation. Whether it is reasonable or not is our patch for a certain guess.

And the problem that caused this patch itself is already very worthy of our thinking.

"By the way, this comes from Occam's razor. Don't multiply entities unless necessary. We're patching our assumptions, which may not actually be needed. There are other, more plausible and Concise possible.

"In other words, Xie Ji is the owner of this nightmare. This fits many characteristics, for example, she is related to all the scenes of this nightmare, and in her nightmare, the materials on the third floor of the library will naturally appear.

"In addition, judging from the information provided by this group of astronomy enthusiasts, Xie Ji's attitude towards unknown objects was taboo at the beginning.

She was unwilling to say what she saw, and although her attitude changed later, it was because other people had discovered the secret.

"In her nightmares, maybe she'll go on with her original attitude of not talking about it.

This also confirms the problem of the unidentified object being so non-existent in this nightmare.

"However, the contradiction is that... these players say that the owner of this nightmare is a man. Sigh..."

A large section of analysis by the reasoning boss flashed on the public screen. In order to check it carefully, the audience had to manually pause the live broadcast.

However, at this moment, Xu Beijin suddenly switched the live broadcast source of the screen.

Fei, Wu Jian, and the long-haired man have to travel thousands of miles to the museum. There is probably nothing to see during this journey, and switching screens should be done, but... What exactly did Xu Beijin switch?

The audience watched in bewilderment.

They found that this was the crossroads at the entrance of the library, and there was no one there, neither lunatics nor taskers appeared here.

However, a van is parked here.

The science fiction novel mentioned in the article is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy