Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Xie Zhijin felt a blur in front of his eyes, and then the door disappeared.

His wife asked strangely beside him: "What's the matter with you? I called you several times, but you didn't respond?"

She paused, and then said, "There is no real physical problem, right? It just so happens that you are resting today, why not us..."

"Do not……"

His wife stopped talking.

Xie Zhijin said to himself, "The door in the gray mist... I know. Where have I seen it... I've heard of it."

His wife really felt baffled.

Xie Zhijin closed his eyes, as if remembering something.He suddenly said, "Hasn't it been a long time since I had dinner with the old man?"

His wife said suspiciously, "Yeah..."

Xie Zhijin smiled strangely, and then a line of tears flowed out.

He said: "I can't... I can't be together anymore, I can't eat with grandpa anymore."

He opened his eyes, "Sorry, I can't go home with you either."

His wife stared at him blankly.

Xie Zhijin hugged her, then turned and left.

"Where are you going?!" His wife was startled and scared, and caught up with him, "What the hell is going on with you today? Why are you so strange?!"

Xie Zhijin seems to be answering her question, or just talking to himself: "I don't know... no, I know. But my brain won't tell me the answer.

"But I guess someone will tell me."

He stood still, and his wife looked at him blankly and panicked.

Xie Zhijin thought for a moment, then said to her, "Go home. I have something to do."

"Old Xie, you can't do this." His wife was already angry, "What the hell are you doing? Do you know what you are doing?"

Xie Zhijin was puzzled for a moment, then said, "I know."

"you sure?"

Xie Zhijin nodded affirmatively, and he said, "Trust me. Just like you would say "I do" when I propose, trust me. "

He didn't think he should mention the marriage proposal at this time, but he did it anyway.

He felt that maybe he would never have the chance to talk to his wife about the proposal again.

Back then... once, in the past.It's all things that can't be undone.There is no way to go back to that point in time.

So he can only use pale words to mention and miss indiscriminately.

And his wife was silent for a moment, and then said: "Do what you want to do."

She said, "You have been crying. Wipe your tears. You are my husband, don't embarrass me outside."

"I know."

Xie Zhijin smiled embarrassedly, wiped away his tears, then said goodbye to her, and hurried back.

A few minutes later, he caught up with Wu Jian and Ye Lan.

"The two in front! Wait for me!"

Wu Jian heard a familiar voice, looked back almost subconsciously, and said in surprise, "Old Xie?!"

Xie Zhijin followed, and when Wu Jian called him, he couldn't help but pause.He said, "You know me? ... Forget it, it doesn't matter now."

Wu Jian was a little overwhelmed.

Xie Zhijin said, "You just stopped me, why?"

"There's something wrong, but..." Wu Jian paused and glanced at Ye Lan.

Ye Lan understood it, and interjected at the right time: "I can ask first, you said you didn't know us just now, but why are you chasing us now?"

Xie Zhijin was silent for a moment, and then said: "It's foggy..."

Ye Lan and Wu Jian were startled.

They have all been to Xu Beijin's nightmare, and they all know... what the gray fog means.

As soon as Fei and Wu Jian left the nightmare, they passed information about Xu Beijin's nightmare back to their organization—mainly to pass it on to Xie Zhijin.

Theoretically speaking, if there is enough time, Xie Zhijin may have seen this message.

Wu Jian suddenly understood something.

Xie Zhijin is... a very special person in their organization.At the beginning, because he was in the nightmare, he immediately noticed the déjà vu that the nightmare brought to him, so he established their organization with the purpose of finding the truth about the narrow building.

And now, maybe Xie Zhijin also has the same sense of déjà vu—even if he is already lost in this nightmare.

On the side, Ye Lan also thought of this, and she directly thought of the man she met with Shen Yunju in that office building in Xu Beijin's nightmare.

Also sinking into the nightmare, also losing self and sobriety, but it seems that he still retains part of his sanity.

Perhaps Xie Zhijin is in a similar situation.

But at this time, Xie Zhijin hadn't finished speaking, he continued: "And... in the fog, there is a looming door."

"The door?!" Wu Jian exclaimed, "Are you sure?!"

Xie Zhijin hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "I'm sure."

Wu Jian and Ye Lan looked at each other, and then said worriedly: "It's over. Why did the gray mist get mixed into the ultimate nightmare... It's not right..."

After thinking for a while, Ye Lan said: "The gray mist takes care of those crazy taskers and cosplayers. If... I mean, if there are a lot of lunatics in the ultimate nightmare, then...

"Could it be that the gray fog is coming towards the narrow building instead of the taskers in the narrow building?"

Wu Jian said with a strange expression: "You mean, there are too many lunatics on our side, which attracted Hui Wu? Hui Wu came to pick up these lunatics?"

catch……

Ye Lan's expression was blank for a moment, and for a moment she felt that she seemed to understand Fei's mentality a little bit.

But Ye Lan replied nonchalantly, "Yes, that's my guess."

I can't help but sigh.

In Xu Beijin's nightmare back then, they heard Shen Yunju say that he and Ye Lan faced the sky fire descending into the world in a huge square. When Ye Lan mentioned the "passage" and "trajectory", the taskers would I think Ye Lan is indeed a very imaginative person.

But now, Wu Jian once again sighed at Ye Lan's whimsical ideas.

But he thinks it's very possible.

At least... No matter what the reason is, whether it is because of the possibility Ye Lan mentioned, or any other special reason, the gray fog is rushing towards this ultimate nightmare.

And the door in the fog.

Wu Jian said: "If the door also appears, that means we can enter the gray fog?"

As he spoke, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

He couldn't tell what was wrong, but he always felt that what he said just now was worth discussing...

He thought for a moment, then said, "Into the gray fog?"

He suddenly looked at Xie Zhijin.

Xie Zhijin looked at the two of them blankly, not understanding what the two of them were talking about.But he has been listening quietly.

"Old Xie, let me ask you a question." Wu Jian said seriously, "When you saw that door just now, did you want to go in?"

"Go in?" Xie Zhijin hesitated, "No..."

"Really do not have?"

"Not at all." Xie Zhijin said affirmatively, "I never thought about going through that door."

Wu Jian murmured, "That's weird..."

Ye Lan thought for a while, but she didn't say what she thought—her idea was, if the people outside didn't want to go in, would the people inside want to come out?

In other words, could it be the gray fog that enveloped this nightmare instead of them going to the gray fog?

Doors are, after all, two-way passages.

But she wasn't going to mention that possibility.The situation they now face is hopeless enough, let them go on with those little hopes.

His personality is as cold as Ye Lan's, and he doesn't really want to face the group of lunatics in the gray mist.

She thought again of that half-crazy and half-sane man in the elevator room of the building.

Then she said, "Let's keep going."

Wu Jian nodded, and said to Xie Zhijin: "Old Xie, let me tell you about our current situation."

In the vast scenario of the ultimate nightmare, people may never meet people they know, but they may, too, soon.

Mu Jiashi and Shen Yunju got together.

The two of them froze for a moment when they saw each other, and then breathed a sigh of relief in unison.

In the current situation, being able to meet a companion is not to say that it is very helpful, but it can still feel better psychologically.

"Have you met anyone else?" Mu Jiashi asked proactively, "I know them, or they are still sober."

Shen Yunju shook his head, and added: "I have met people I know, but they are all unconscious."

Mu Jiashi sighed: "Me too."

He met Jiayi, but this guy was holding a mobile phone, playing games with his head down, and happily walked past Mu Jiashi.Mu Jiashi didn't even know how to greet him.

After thinking for a while, Mu Jiashi shook his head. He said, "It seems that we only need to obey Xu Beijin's request. In this nightmare, we must stay awake and rational. Maybe this is enough for us to pass the level."

Mu Jiashi doesn't have any self-motivated intentions... It might be better to say that he just pursues an excellent choice with the greatest possibility.

For example, at this moment, ensuring one's own safety and living soberly and rationally in the ultimate nightmare seems to be a little more realistic than pursuing the truth and finding the way to pass the level in the ultimate nightmare.

Shen Yunju nodded silently.

They are outside a university at the moment.Mu Jiashi came out of this university, and Shen Yunju passed by this university.Shen Yunju's gaze unconsciously looked at the name of this university.

Qucheng University.

Mu Jiashi noticed his gaze and explained: "This is my university. I am a graduate student at this university... I don't remember the specific major, maybe it is biology, chemistry, etc. I just graduated from Get out of the lab."

Shen Yunju was a little surprised, he hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Do you still remember?"

"I don't remember..." Mu Jiashi said, "Maybe I became a graduate student during the end of time... However, after I just woke up, I learned about the situation, and then I got some information."

Shen Yunju nodded, he was used to silence, but at this moment he thought for a moment and explained his situation: "I should be...an office worker. I have been working for several years. As for what happened at the end of the day... …I don’t know, and I don’t intend to find out.”

Mu Jiashi said: "I am the same." He was silent for a moment, "Seeing other people's painful experience in a nightmare is different from my own painful experience."

They continued walking, walked past Qucheng University, and quickly changed the topic to something else.

Mu Jiashi thought about it, and said: "We'd better find a safe place, stay there, and then try to find other companions.

I just tried it in school, the network is still available, but I don't know when it will be cut off. "

"This scene is huge, and the time may not be enough for us to meet up." Shen Yunju said firmly, "Maybe we can only be scattered everywhere."

"It's okay. As long as you can keep awake."

They discussed the next actions, their tone was very calm and flat.

So far at least, they've simply treated this ultimate nightmare as a repeat of the apocalypse.

They haven't realized why this nightmare is called... "The Ultimate."

They come to a crossroads.

At this moment, they suddenly heard a scream coming from their ears.The two turned their heads subconsciously, and found a person limping out of a passing bakery in panic, and the glass of the bakery was already covered with blood.

The person who escaped noticed Mu Jiashi and Shen Yunju, and the three couldn't help but looked at each other.

The next moment, the man said: "You are sober, aren't you?! You still know about the narrow building, you also know about nightmares... and you also know that this damn scene is fake!!"

The man was so excited and terrified that he was almost incoherent, but his meaning had been clearly conveyed to Mu Jiashi and Shen Yunju.

The faces of the two taskers changed almost instantly.

The man begged, "Please, my colleagues don't believe me, they want to keep me in the bakery, I managed to escape..."

He showed his bloody calf, "They cut my leg..."

Behind him, someone from the bakery has already chased him out.

Mu Jiashi made a decisive decision and pulled the man's arm, while Shen Yunju grabbed the other one, and the two pulled and pulled the man away.

They ran for a moment.It was a cloudy day in this area, and the sky was drowsy.After a while, they stopped outside the walls of a residential area.

The man thanked him repeatedly, and grinned in pain because of the wound on his leg.

Mu Jiashi looked at this person. This was the first tasker they encountered who was still awake since they entered this nightmare...or a cosplayer?

This is a young man in his twenties, with an ordinary appearance, but Mu Jiashi was deeply impressed by the panic and fear of this man when he escaped from the bakery.

He asked: "So when you opened your eyes in the ultimate nightmare, you were in that bakery? Why didn't you leave immediately?"

The man smiled wryly: "I just... didn't react. I know the ultimate nightmare, but I don't know that the ultimate nightmare will be like this, which will let us... go back to the past."

He was silent for a moment, and various complex emotions flashed across his face.

Then, he continued: "It happened that my colleague called me to make bread, and then I listened in a daze, and was scolded for doing poorly..."

Mu Jiashi frowned, not wanting to hear these meaningless narrations.He asked, "When did you realize that something was wrong?"

"That's right, the atmosphere." The man said, "They all behaved strangely, they were very focused...to the point that something was wrong. It made me feel like they fell in love with bread...

"I felt goosebumps, and then I said I wanted to leave. They didn't want to, and said how could I get off work early, no... sorry for the bread... or something.

"Then I just wanted to go and someone took a knife and slashed at my leg and said I couldn't go... I was really scared. Do you know what it feels like?

"At first, the aroma in the bakery made me feel very comfortable, and made me feel like that place. But... But in an instant, the smell of blood woke me up.

"I just... escaped. They were all stopping me, but I didn't dare to stay any longer."

A strange confusion gradually appeared on his face, and he murmured: "I think, if I stay a little longer, I will be like them, liking the smell of the bakery... liking the softness of the bread ...

"Like... obsessed... deeply in love..."

he murmured.

Mu Jiashi interrupted him calmly: "I understand."

The man was stunned for a while, then his face changed, and he said in horror again: "What happened to me just now?! Damn, haven't I got rid of the influence of that place? Crazy...crazy, already infected Did you kill me?"

he whispered in horror.

Shen Yunju frowned, and said to Mu Jiashi: "This means that we can't even stay in a certain place for a long time, is that right? A certain place means crazy penetration..."

Mu Jiashi said: "Do you still remember the scene where He Shujun and the witch went there in Xu Beijin's nightmare?

Ruins Exploration... It seems to be called this way, those who explore the crazy ruins will bring out the madness in the ruins. "

Shen Yunju said in a low voice: "This is like a virus."

The man across from them looked at them in horror and bewilderment.

Mu Jiashi pondered for a moment, then asked him: "Are you a tasker or a cosplayer?"

"Tasker, I'm a tasker." The man said quickly, "Who are the actors? Those narrow building residents?"

Mu Jiashi didn't answer his question, but just said: "Now you are safe, let's separate."

The man hesitated to speak, but finally agreed.

Mu Jiashi told him: "Don't stay in one place for a long time, avoid other people, try to stay sober and rational, and don't... be infected by madness."

The man nodded vigorously.

Shen Yunju followed Mu Jiashi and left. When he couldn't see that person, he said, "Why didn't you act together with that person?" He paused, "You're still worried..."

"He has been infected by madness." Mu Jiashi's tone was very cold, "Maybe he can stay awake at this moment, but he will be completely crazy the next moment. It is impossible for us to act with such a person all the time."

Shen Yunju hesitated to speak, but finally nodded silently.

He looked at Mu Jiashi and thought, yes - Mu Jiashi has always been like this.

Sober, sensible, cold.He can make the most suitable choice, even if this matter seems very cruel.

When Mu Jiashi told that person to avoid other people, maybe the other person was thinking that he had to avoid those lunatics.But he may not have thought that he himself would soon be a lunatic.

Shen Yunju thought for a moment, but in the end he could only smile wryly."Hopefully other people realize this too... Crazy, it's contagious," he said.

"hope so."

They kept going.

Behind them, there seemed to be an indistinct mist, obscuring the way they came.

Xu Beijin and Ringo finally found the second data port.

They realized for the first time that there are actually so many empty houses on the ground floor of the narrow building.

The so-called bottom floor of the narrow building is not a real "one floor", but a large area composed of many interconnected floors. It should be said that it runs through several floors, and is collectively called the bottom floor of the narrow building.

Therefore, even at Ringo's speed, they still took a long time.

The location of that port changes every minute, and sometimes it is possible to go directly from one location to another at the farthest end.Even if Ringo flies, it is too late to fly over.

It's like a game of hide and seek.And the guy who hid can change his hiding place every minute.

Fortunately, Xu Bei has the perspective of God.

Ringo looked at the thing in his hand with some strangeness—the data port.

Just looking at the appearance, he definitely wouldn't think this thing is a data port.But it really is.

This is an ordinary doorknob, which has now been dismantled by Ringo with violence, so the port can only stay in it safely and cannot be moved.

"A doorknob is just a normal doorknob, but with a data port lurking inside," Xu Beijin explained.

Ringo nodded, and asked curiously, "What is this port used for?"

Now he knows that the previous update log was used to record NE's updates to the game and let outside game designers review it.

So, what about this doorknob?

"This is the port for new players to log in." Xu Beijin said, "It will keep changing positions in the empty house, waiting for new players to come to the narrow building, and assign them an initial location. Therefore, its position is It will be on the ground floor of the narrow building."

Ringo suddenly realized.

He couldn't help asking: "This is a port for new players to log in, so what about old players?"

Xu Beijin was silent for a moment, and then said helplessly: "You forgot, the old players are us humans. We only need to log in once, and then we don't need to log in again."

After all, they can't get out either.

But Lingo said, "But, didn't you tell me before that there was a so...an anchor? He also entered this game."

Xu Beijin was taken aback, hesitated for a moment, and found a blind spot in his thinking, he said: "Yes...you are right. Veteran players should also have a login port..."

However, Xu Bei tried his best to think about it, but he couldn't remember what the data port should be for this login method.

He frowned, his eyes fixed on the doorknob in Ringo's hand.Could this doorknob be more than just a port for new players to land on?

Perhaps when old players log in, the doorknob will also assign them to a given house?

Xu Bei thought about it, but he wasn't sure.

Like Ole, when he first entered "Escape from the Sky", he didn't even enter the narrow building, and forcibly exited in a nightmare;

And the second time he naturally still logged in as a new player.

But after that, he must have logged in again, leaving a message to Xu Beijin that he had completed the task.

So there must be a port where old players log in.

However, Xu Beijin doesn't even know how old players log in, and where they will stay when they enter the game.He himself has never logged in as an old player.

From another point of view, when a new player enters the game for the first time, since it defaults to go to the nightmare instead of the narrow building, then this doorknob...is it really a port for new players to log in?

Xu Bei thought for a moment, then tapped his forehead with a bit of a headache: "No...not right. New players can also skip the initial default nightmare link and directly enter the narrow building..."

He suddenly couldn't figure it out, and his thinking seemed to have entered a dead end.

Ringo looked down at the doorknob, and then said, "So this is a login port, right? Regardless of new players or old players..."

Xu Beijin was surprised to realize that what Lingo said was correct.

This is the doorknob.Although it stays in an empty house, it may not go to a house with people.

The point where they're looking for this doorknob is when everyone's already in a nightmare, whether it's the ultimate nightmare or something else.

In addition, there are no old players logging in at this moment.

So, of course, it's sitting in an empty house, waiting for new players to arrive - although it may never wait.

Ringo is right, there are no different ports for new players to log in and old players to log in.Logging in is always just a port, so it doesn't need to be so complicated.

But why is the information obtained by Xu Beijin wrong?

Xu Beijin frowned and thought for a moment, then turned his head and looked outside—NE.

What he knows, the information about the port comes from NE.It was part of his countless fragmentary memories, all kinds of memories obtained after he was smashed and reassembled.

His memory was lying to him?

Xu Bei was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes wearily, and sighed secretly.

"North end?"

Xu Bei didn't speak for a long time, and Lingo was a little worried about him.

"It's okay..." Xu Beijin came back to his senses, secretly spurning his pessimism. He thought for a while, and finally told Lin Po the truth, "I was just wondering... Could the information I know be wrong. We will They won't all be misled by NE."

"Misleading?"

"In my memory, this doorknob is just a port for new players to log in. I never thought about the old players logging in..."

"Maybe there is no port for old players to log in, after all, we can't get out."

Ringo said sincerely, "It's just that someone broke in by mistake, so you have to let the doorknob work part-time?"

part time……

Xu Beijin was amused by Lin Po.

There was a strong smile in his voice: "Little Apple...you are amazing."

"Amazing?" Ringo tilted his head in confusion.

"You can make me see the bright side of things." Xu Beijin said, "And I have always been a...very pessimistic person."

Ringo said without thinking, "I can be your optimist."

Xu Beijin listened in a daze.

Ringo said: "Believe me, we can succeed."

"Okay..." Xu Beijin said, he looked at Lin Biao in the picture, then laughed again, and whispered his name, "Lin Biao..."

"what?"

Xu Beijin said, "I love you."

Ringo was stunned.

Afterwards, he was ecstatic, and said again and again: "I heard it! No, no, I didn't hear it. Say it again, Beijin...just say it again, and I'm sure I can hear you when you say it again."

Xu Bei couldn't laugh or cry, and said speechlessly, "Shall I record it for you?"

Ringo said, "That's ok. Quickly record quickly."

Xu Beijin: "..."

It is impossible to record him to death!Ringo thinks beautifully!

In the end, Ringo withdrew his delusion with regret.

He muttered in his heart, why can't it work... What happened to the recording?Obviously it was Xu Beijin who said it himself, he just wanted to listen to it a few more times... Forget it, he still can't piss off his Beijin.

Ringo reluctantly gave up this plan.

Xu Beijin was angry and funny, and in the end he had to change the subject as if nothing had happened: "Next, I have to come down."

Lingo let out a muffled "Oh", thought for a while, and suddenly realized a question: "How do you get down? Will there be any danger when you get down?"

What he was most concerned about was undoubtedly Xu Beijin's safety.

"Don't worry, there's no danger."

Lin Po frowned, still worried: "How did you get down? Step by step?"

Xu Beijin said: "It's almost the same. But I have to get down with this control panel and walk layer by layer, so it may be a little slower."

Ringo asked strangely: "With the control panel?"

"I must have NE permission to pass freely in the narrow building."

Xu Beijin said, "Just one identity is not enough. Moreover, the control board itself is a data port."

Only then did Ringo understand.

It didn't surprise Ringo that the dashboard was a data port. NE itself can be said to have straddled the game and reality, so as a control board whose authority is realized, it can naturally be called a port.

This is the admin port of this game.

Compared to this, Lingo is even more curious. From this point of view, they have already found three ports, so how many more are there?

"There is only one left." Xu Beijin said, "The one located between the narrow building and the gray mist, log out of the port."

Login, logout, update, manage.These are the four data ports that Xu Beijin and Lingo need to find.

Strictly speaking, none of these ports are single-purpose.For example, the update port, the update log in Xu Beijin Bookstore, can actually be said to be the control and monitoring of the game by the Fieka clan.

Game mastermind NE is responsible for updating and debugging the game, but he still has to report to the Fieka tribe after all.

The management port of NE is the control of the game by the mastermind of the game.

In any case, if Xu Beijin hadn't obtained NE authority for these ports, it would be impossible for them to find them all.Especially the login port, its location must only be seen on the control panel.

As for the logout port...

Ringo said, "Is it between the gray fog and the buffer zone of the narrow building?" He said, "Then why can't you follow the way to find the landing port, tell me the location, and I'll come to find it... Do you have to come down?"

Xu Beijin said: "Only when I come down can I find it. It depends on the control panel and the login port in your hand."

Only then did Lingo understand. Although he didn't quite understand the reason behind it, he didn't ask any more questions.

As for the function of these data ports and why they were looking for them, Lingo never asked.

He gave Xu Bei the complete and frank trust.

He was still more concerned about Xu Beijin's body: "Can you come down from the top floor of the narrow building? Will you feel tired?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

It's just going downstairs, does Lingo think he's made of glass, and it will shatter if he falls?

He said helplessly, "I can."

Lingo still said: "But you still have that control panel...is it really okay?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

Did Lingo think he was powerless?And, men can't say no!

Xu Bei helped his forehead helplessly: "The control board has no weight...really."

Only then did Ringo feel relieved in half-belief.

Xu Beijin felt that Lin Po's concern and worries for him were a bit excessive, but it was reasonable.

Who made Xu Beijin suffer from serious physical problems in just a few days?

Xu Beijin was also helpless, he said a few more words to Lingo, then temporarily cut off contact with Lino, stood up and walked out.The control panel automatically shrinks into a small piece and floats on his shoulder.

On the top floor of the narrow building, Xu Beijin circled a small piece of land for himself as a room, and opened a window.

Now, with his departure, the small room has been restored to its original appearance.

NE is still dormant.The streamer on the wall flickered on and off, breathing like a living person.

Xu Beijin stood there, looked at it quietly for a while, and then smiled coldly.

He said to himself: "I hope, after leaving here, I never have to come back...and you no longer exist."

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes slightly.

Xu Beijin hated NE.This hatred may come from his own death, from years of embarrassment, or from the instinct of being a human being.

But in the final analysis, just because, NE stands on the opposite side of them.

As the mastermind of the game, NE hopes that some players will pass the level.It's an instinct that's baked into its code when it's made.

Then the question is - does NE hope that one person will pass the level, or that everyone will pass the level?

As the mastermind of the game, "I hope that players will play this game" is also NE's instinct.

It's just a mechanized artificial intelligence.

It will harshly think that the memories and emotions of Xu Beijin as a human being are useless waste;

It will take the initiative to increase the shipment rate of the nightmare card pool because no players have cleared the level for a long time, and it will even stand on the side of humans.

So, will it allow all human players to leave the game altogether?

Taskers and cosplayers, they never seem to have thought about this issue.

After the first human successfully escaped from the narrow building... Will NE continue to help them?

No, it's impossible. Of course, NE still hopes that the game will continue to operate, and there will continue to be human players repeating the nightmare copy, not all humans can escape.

Therefore, NE's position can be on the side of human beings, or it can change instantly.

It just needs to start the ultimate nightmare, and let those human players play an ending-this is what it needs.

That's why it would rather go dormant and transfer the authority of the mastermind to Xu Beijin, but also let the players enter the ultimate nightmare.

As for whether humans can escape from the narrow building?That's not what it focuses on.Even, it was impossible for all players to leave the game.

Is NE helping humanity?Yes, it does help.

But it is helping humans escape from the narrow building?No, it's not doing that.

It just expects someone to make a game ending.

That's it.

So from the beginning, Xu Beijin didn't count on NE—as the other taskers thought, counting on NE to go crazy and release them from the narrow building.This is impossible.

From the beginning, Xu Beijin, and other human beings, they can only rely on themselves.

Counting on NE is of no use.

Even, when human beings reach their "ultimate goal", NE will become the first line of defense, the first enemy, and the first gap they face.

Instead they need to deal with this, artificial intelligence that they thought was a helper.

For many taskers and cosplayers, this may be a terrible news.

They never thought of dealing with the controller of this game in a game.

And the good news is, they don't have to do it themselves.

——Xu Beijin is the one who really wants to "kill" NE.

He will take some means to defeat NE