Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

The witch thought, she should have known.

Madness in school means learning;

Failure to study is clearly punishable.

They saw two fully clothed children in a public bathroom with scalding hot water pouring over their heads.

They were quickly scalded to pieces, and their blood flowed down together in the sewage.

Clothes stick to their flesh until they are torn off at will.

"This is a kind of corporal punishment." He Shujun said beside the sorceress, "It means that their enthusiasm for learning is not enough, so they need to be more "hot".Of course, this also saves the effort of taking a shower at night. "

"Won't their parents have a problem?"

"No..." He Shujun's voice slowly sank, "Parents will suffer the same corporal punishment as children. When children study by themselves, parents will accompany them. So, if the child is distracted, the parents are of course also responsible.

"Parental punishment will be carried out at night."

"But if this is the case..." The sorceress thought for a while, "Pass the conflict on to the family? What will happen to the teacher?"

"The teacher's punishment will not be so severe, because one teacher corresponds to dozens of students, which is not the same."

He Shujun explained in a very complicated tone. Since entering the dormitory, her tone has always been like this, "The teacher corresponds to the weekly examination and evaluation, and uses the students' grades to speak."

The sorceress hesitated, but still asked: "What if the grades are not good enough?"

"It shows that the teacher is not conscientious enough." He Shujun said, "If the grade of the class he leads is the bottom one, the teacher will punish him publicly. The students will secretly vote for his punishment."

The sorceress opened her mouth, then shook her head again: "Forget it, let's not talk about it."

He Shujun twitched the corner of his mouth emotionlessly.

After a while, she turned her head and asked casually, "So, are we leaving here?"

"Let's go..." The sorceress said softly, "You don't like this place either, do you?"

He Shujun looked blankly at the ceiling of the dormitory.Those are clean white tiles.If it is too white, it will reveal a shocking coldness and paranoia.

She said: "Yes, I don't like it. Maybe my friend has been "heated" before. "

The sorceress said again: "These two children, shall we save them?"

He Shujun was silent for a long time before saying in a hoarse voice: "Save..." She said, "Even if we save it, it won't help, but we must save it. Maybe we can succeed this time?"

"Success..." The witch was a little confused, but then she said, "Yes, we can succeed. The whole world is waiting for our success."

He Shujun no longer knew whether the witch had regained her self-awareness.

She couldn't help thinking, is this the meaning of bringing a witch?It seems that the special intuition of the witch can give invisible comfort and support.

At least, He Shujun felt a lot more comfortable because of the witch's words at this time.

She murmured, "Yes, the whole world is waiting for us."

The witch looked at He Shujun quietly.

After her reunion with her daughter, the nervousness she displayed seems to have subsided quite a bit.

They turned off the faucet in the bathroom and got their clothes soaked.There was nothing they could do for the two students, they could only move to the locker room and let them lie down for a while.

"Are they going to die like this?"

"No." He Shujun shook his head, "It's just that they will suffer a little bit. A doctor will come to check their bodies soon."

The sorceress was speechless, but looked at the two silent students and murmured, "Why don't you run away?"

"Because the students think the same way." He Shujun's tone turned cold, "Their brains were also controlled by madness. They became... tools for learning."

"Terrible……"

He Shujun stared at the two students for a while.Their cheeks were blistered from the hot water, which may have been caused by previous encounters like this.There are always those restless and slippery students in the school.

Finally, she said, "Come on, let's get out of this nightmare."

"Nightmare?"

Only then did He Shujun realize that she had slipped her tongue, but she didn't want to cover it up, so she said, "A place like this...is called a nightmare."

She took the sorceress to a certain dormitory, "The content of the nightmare is based on the fact that human beings are crazy, and... the world after the heavenly fire came into the world."

The sorceress listened half-understood. She didn't bother with the words that didn't exist in her memory, she just asked: "Then why did the nightmare happen? And...can let us enter? It sounds very unbelievable."

"It's a... game."

"Game?" The sorceress was even more surprised, and asked, "But, games are for entertainment, right?"

entertainment……

Yes, games are of course for entertainment.No matter how the game market develops, games that simply bring happiness to people will definitely be popular.

And "Get Out" is also a game.

Who can take pleasure here?

Of course it is impossible for human beings... the mastermind behind the scenes?

Are those behind-the-scenes black hands watching the performance of humans in the narrow building as if they were watching a theater?

He Shujun thought about it, but felt something was wrong.If they could do that, then humans would be nothing more than ants to them. Who would use ants for fun?

child?abnormal?

Although this guess was ridiculous enough, He Shujun still felt that it was just a random guess.

After all, they don't even know who the culprit is, whether it exists or not, let alone why they put humans into this game.

So in the end, He Shujun just said: "I don't know either. Maybe, it's like a disaster from heaven."

This is the form of expression that the fire from heaven came to the world.

The witch was a little surprised and confused, but she didn't ask any more questions because they had already arrived at the door of a certain bedroom.

He Shujun said to herself: "She may not want to study very much, but she is not a bad child. But she wants to escape from this school. So, she became a bad child.

"A bad boy will accept the punishment that belongs to a bad boy."

He Shujun took a deep breath, and then said: "The child inside is the master of this nightmare."

The witch turned her head and looked behind them.This is a bedroom at the end of the corridor, the darkest and dampest place.

She could feel the unique coolness and coldness of the girls' dormitory seeping into her back.

The sorceress murmured in a low voice: "This is a bad position."

"Yes..." He Shujun smiled strangely, "It is indeed unlucky."

She pushed open the door of this bedroom.

The door is not locked.

The sorceress saw a girl, her hands and feet bound to the edge of the bed, and her father holding up a textbook to her.

Her eyelids were forced open by something.Her mother was holding eye drops, and from time to time, she worriedly put a drop of eye drops into her eyes.

The sorceress couldn't help trembling.

He Shujun looked at her fixedly.

The owner of this nightmare, just looking at this scene, is very pitiful.But if he really enters her nightmare and needs to help her escape from school, he will become a companion without bottom line.

She will betray the companions who have been following her.If the taskers are caught by the school, they will also be tied up, and then forcefully required to read and study until the end of the punishment time.

During this period, do not eat, drink, or go to the toilet.And the time is often as long as a day or two.

They will be incontinent in bed, feeling a surge of hunger and thirst.If you struggle, the time is doubled until the teachers confirm that they really want to learn.

How to make teachers confirm subjectively that they are willing to learn is also a skillful thing.

Some teachers are soft-hearted and easy to deal with. If you say good things, you can let them pass the level;

Some teachers are very tough.

Also, if the struggle is too violent, some physical punishment may be scheduled.

The school said they were reluctant to use violence.However, the school also said that some students really do not listen to discipline.

This is the situation.

Some students died, some parents died, and some teachers were tortured and bruised.

But no one cares here.Everyone knows that the college entrance examination is important.It is indeed important, but the advent of madness has changed everything that was originally.

For the students, parents and teachers who tormented themselves and others at this school, every day was like coming out of a nightmare.The same is true for taskers.

Because, if they helped the girl successfully escape from school, the taskers would get a bad ending instead.

If they become puppets of the school and ignore what happened to the girl, it will be an ordinary ending.

He Shujun doesn't know what the real ending will be.Now she guesses that this nightmare may never reach a true ending.

If you help girls escape from school, you go from one cage to a bigger one, so they get a bad ending.So, how to escape that big cage?

How can human beings escape the madness that follows them everywhere?

No one knows.

An unsolvable nightmare.

It's like before the missionaries entered Xu Beijin's nightmare, they talked about some of the nightmares they had experienced, and mentioned the residents of the narrow buildings they met... Afterwards, they mentioned Su Enya's that nightmare.

The well-furnished apartment building.

How to solve that nightmare?How to play the true ending?

Even if you take the nightmare owner out of the apartment building, it's just going from one small cage to another big one.

How are they going to solve the plight of the entire human race?And not just save one of them?

A real, unsolvable, dilemma.

After He Shujun looked at the girl complicatedly, he took a step forward.When she stepped through the dormitory door, layers of gray mist poured out.

She breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously.

The fourth one who regained his self-awareness was Shen Yunju.

He came to a place that both he and Xu Beijin felt familiar.

The crumbling building.

So he regained his self-awareness almost immediately, and after a moment of astonishment, he walked towards the stairs together with Ye Lan.

Ye Lan asked suspiciously: "Have you been here?"

Shen Yunju nodded.

He considered which door might be what they needed.

No, wait a minute.

Subconsciously thinking about the existence of the "door" made him ignore an extremely important issue.

The nightmare in the gray mist is not exactly the same as the nightmare in the narrow building.There is indeed the concept of a nightmare master here, but not all scenes have a nightmare master.

For example, in this crumbling building, the little girl is clearly in the narrow building, how could her nightmare appear in the gray mist out of nowhere?

So this scene is based on a tasker who once went to that nightmare, but completely sank?

Who will be the tasker?From what they knew about this little girl's nightmare, there seemed to be no enough information to scare people into lunatics, right?

Shen Yunju thought a little strangely.

The nightmare scenes in the gray fog are divided into two types. The first is the eternal collapse of the nightmare brought about by the sinking of the nightmare master, and the second is the collapse of part of the nightmare scene brought about by the sinking of the tasker, but in the latter case , corresponding to not a complete nightmare scenario.

These two situations may occur simultaneously or separately.

But... if it is the sinking of the nightmare master and the sinking of the taskers that happened at different times, will they go to the same nightmare in the gray mist?

Or is it that if you sink one, a nightmare scene will appear inexplicably in the nightmare?

Both are possible, but based on the time difference... Shen Yunju still prefers the latter explanation.

That is to say, every sinking will form a brand new nightmare scene in the gray fog.

But if this is the case, how many nightmare scenes will there be in the gray fog?

A sinking will refresh a new nightmare here?It's like endless garbage data.

Shen Yunju thought sincerely, this is not Xu Beijin's nightmare, it has to be NE's nightmare, right?

For an artificial intelligence, the appearance of gray fog would be such a huge and useless burden.

But then again, they were already speculating about the relationship between Xu Beijin and NE.

But if Xu Beijin is NE, it will bring many strange problems.For example, Xu Beijin obviously doesn't look like an artificial intelligence.Can artificial intelligence also have love?

Besides, Xu Beijin didn't want to let other people enter his nightmare because he didn't sleep for so many years; but if he was really NE, would he have this kind of trouble?Can't he just set his nightmare as forbidden?

After all, NE can do whatever he wants in the narrow building.

After entering Xu Beijin's nightmare, they will be in a state of pseudo-depression, which is obviously NE's trick.

And NEs are already powerful enough to change their brains and wills, how could it be possible to be trapped at the bottom of a narrow building like Xu Beijin?

In short, Xu Bei is full of NE's guesses, with a lot of supporting evidence and many contradictions.

Shen Yunju had heard other taskers mention the nightmare about the birth of the skyfire, and he especially noticed the contradiction in the identity of the owner of the nightmare.

He was thinking that Xu Beijin and NE seemed to fit the situation of Ke Xu and Xie Ji to a certain extent.

However, what kind of weird reason would that cause such a special state of one body with two sides?

In any case, Shen Yunju couldn't figure it out.

But he didn't force it.He is not a man with a rich imagination and a powerful and unconstrained style.

Sometimes the truth is already in front of his eyes, and he may not accept such a cruel truth.

He is used to being quiet, silent, and reticent, immersed in his barren and desolate world.

When he heard Mu Jiashi, Ding Yi, Fei and Wu Jian talking about the possibility of Xu Bei being NE in a serious manner, he felt incredible.

NE Isn't that an artificial intelligence?And Xu Bei is full of residents of Zhailou, isn't that human?

How could the two of them get together?

To this day, Shen Yunju still prefers that Xu Beijin is not NE.

At this point, the nine taskers have their own opinions and ideas.

Besides, of course they discussed this issue behind Ringo's back.They dared not let Ringo know what they were talking about.

Moreover, they are also very curious about the relationship between Lin Biao and Xu Beijin.

Although they dare not show it.

Thinking of this, Shen Yunju was rarely gossipy and curious, if it was Lingo, how would he behave in Xu Beijin's nightmare?Will it be all right?

Thinking of the nightmare he was in now, he couldn't help but think, with Ringo's character, maybe it would be solved by violence?

However, Ringo has this ability, but they cannot.

Shen Yunju sighed secretly, and then began to think about a question: If the current scene is from a fallen tasker.

So, is the door they need to look for related to the truth of this nightmare, or is it related to what happened to the fallen tasker in the nightmare?

Obviously, the answer to this question points to a completely different location.

If it's the truth of the nightmare, then they just need to head downstairs.

According to what they found in this nightmare before, if they keep using the elevator to go to the ninth floor, maybe the moment they step out of the elevator door, a gray fog that symbolizes leaving will emerge.

And if it's what happened to the quester, then they have to continue to explore in this building to figure out what the quester went through.

In comparison, the latter possibility will definitely cost them more effort.

Seeing that Shen Yunju stopped after taking two steps and was still lost in thought, Ye Lan inevitably asked, "What's the matter? Did you remember anything?"

Shen Yunju knew that Ye Lan hadn't recovered the memory in the narrow building, and he didn't understand their current situation.

He thought about it carefully, and then described their current situation in another way: "Do you think the door we are looking for is related to this scene, or is it related to the people in this scene?"

Ye Lan asked in surprise: "Does it matter?"

Shen Yunju said: "If it is related to the building, then we should go below the ninth floor. The people there transformed the building into a realistic version of the game location.

"And if it's related to the people in the building, then we have to find someone... who might be incompatible with this scene. That's my guess."

Ye Lan thought for a while, and seemed to vaguely understand Shen Yunju's meaning: "You mean, that person is likely to come here from the outside world like us, and then couldn't leave?"

Shen Yunju said hesitantly: "It's almost... Maybe this scene appeared because of him. It's like, he first branched out from the mainstream, and we came to his branch."

"Then we should go to him." Ye Lan came to this conclusion, "Maybe he can tell us more... about this place."

Shen Yunju thought, no, maybe he has completely lost himself.

But Ye Lan was right.Their initial exploration in this nightmare was limited to above the ninth floor, and they didn't actually touch much on the situation below the ninth floor.

And even though what happened in this building was a bit depressing, Shen Yunju thought it was more disgusting than crazy enough to sink into it.

Perhaps, what happened below the ninth floor really drove the tasker crazy and made this scene appear in the gray fog.

After thinking about it carefully, he said, "Let's go, let's go to the 16th floor."

"Will he be on the 16th floor?"

"It's possible..." Shen Yunju said, "In this building, the 16th floor is like a safe zone."

"Safe zone?" Ye Lan couldn't help being surprised, "There is actually a safe zone in this scene, which means...are other places dangerous?"

Shen Yunju said: "It is possible, but if it is just a tributary, it may not be as rough and turbulent as the original mainstream. However, it is safer to take the stairs."

"So elevators are dangerous?"

Shen Yunju replied flatly: "Yes..."

Ye Lan couldn't help shaking her head, feeling a little scared.

When it was mentioned that she was going to the 16th floor, she almost instinctively took a step towards the elevator hall, completely unaware of the possible risks of the elevator.

She followed Shen Yunju to the stairwell, and said, "This seems to be deliberately using people's inertial thinking."

"Danger is always hidden in daily life." Shen Yunju replied dully, "In places we are used to."

Ye Lan nodded in agreement.

They walked downstairs in silence and came to the 16th floor.Shen Yunju found that this journey was not dangerous, and from the window of the safety door in the stairwell, there was no problem at all with those floors.

Until they came to the 16th floor.

In that nightmare, this is the safe zone, and there are many survivors gathered here, waiting for an opportunity to rush out of the building, although they did not succeed.

And when Shen Yunju and Ye Lan walked in, they didn't find anyone here.

Shen Yunju almost subconsciously looked at the chair beside him, but there was no man named Xu Beijin sitting there either.

There is no one here.

They looked at each other, but suddenly heard a strange noise, right there in the elevator.

So they ran over quickly, and just happened to see a person lying on the ground, stretching his neck, trying to look into the elevator shaft through the outer safety door of the elevator.

This look is really weird and stubborn, which made Ye Lan ask a little strangely: "Could it be this person?"

Shen Yunju said: "Let's go and ask."

They approached the man.

Looking closely, this is a man in his 30s, his whole body is dirty, he seems to have struggled to get here from the outside, his eyes are wide open, like a frightened bird.

When Ye Lan and Shen Yunju approached him, he didn't notice it at first, and he was still staring at the elevator door intently.The sound of their footsteps was swallowed by the sound-absorbing carpet on the floor.

It wasn't until they came close that the man suddenly noticed the two uninvited guests, and immediately let out screams of astonishment and fear.His legs seemed useless, and he could only crawl with difficulty.

Ye Lan frowned seeing how embarrassed he looked.

Shen Yunju said: "We have no malicious intentions, just want to ask you a few questions."

Hearing this, the man looked at them suspiciously, but suddenly he laughed strangely.

Shen Yunju felt that his appearance was different from the previous one.

The man said, "You're from outside too? Oh, it's too bad. It's over, it's over, hahaha..."

He smiled desperately, as if he had exhausted the strength of the rest of his life, just to make Shen Yunju and Ye Lan feel his gloating mood at the moment.

Shen Yunju asked: "What do you mean?"

"You'll never get out of here," the man said nervously. "Forever. Just like me, you'll be stuck here forever."

Shen Yunju was stunned for a moment, and almost subconsciously asked: "Why forever?"

The man said displeasedly, "Are you an idiot? I mean, this place is doomed—and neither are we—" He laughed, "No! It's done!"