Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Sister Jiang Shuang felt that she had encountered the most ridiculous thing in the world.

A light—a light in the hallway, fucking asking her for help!

She stared blankly into the corridor, wondering for a moment that she was dreaming—ha, wasn't she?Isn't she just in a nightmare?

She took a deep breath to calm herself down.She tentatively said, "Are you... are you asking for help? If so, then flash the lights..."

Before she could finish speaking, the light in the corridor flickered.

...Fuck it, it's really just a shot!

Sister Jiang was dizzy for a moment, and she couldn't understand this supernatural phenomenon.

Besides...a lamp...why ask her for help? !

"I..." Sister Jiang swallowed, feeling her throat was very dry, "I want, how can I save you?"

In the corridor, one person and one lamp fell into silence.

The lamp can't speak, and Jiang Shuangjie can't understand what the flickering of the lamp symbolizes.She only knew the SOS distress signal, and didn't remember other signals at all.

Morse code?

She is not the kind of genius who is well-informed and knowledgeable.

Finally, the hallway lights maintain a steady light output and seem to have given up.

Sister Jiang took a deep look at the light in the corridor on the eighth floor, and thought of what Jiang Shuang said incoherently before, that the light in room 408 seemed to remind them... She wondered if there was any commonality among them Woolen cloth?

They're all lights, they're all biased toward friendliness...

She couldn't figure it out for a while, and glanced at the elevator room again.

She took a deep breath and finally chose to take the stairs.In any case, safety comes first.Whether the elevator is aggressive to them, no one can guarantee.

A few minutes later, several taskers gathered in the lobby on the first floor again, except for Ringo and the muscular man.

The thin man didn't care if the two of them didn't show up.Xu Beijin looked obsessively at the whereabouts of these two people, and found that Lingo had already left the apartment building, wondering if he planned to come to the business district.

And Muscle Man... Muscle Man...

Xu Bei was stunned for a moment, and found that the muscular man appeared in a place that no one expected.

807.

... Isn't this Sister Jiang's apartment?

How did he get in?Xu Beijin remembered that during the first round of nightmares, Sister Jiang tried to go back after leaving the apartment, but the door could not be opened.

Are only taskers who are not the owner of the apartment allowed to enter other people's apartments?Or is there something wrong with Jiang Shuangjie's apartment door lock?

Xu Bei all leaned towards the latter.

However, there seems to be no danger in Sister Jiang's apartment...except for the curtains fluttering for no reason, and the door lock that keeps the owner out.

In any case, the fact that a muscular man appeared in Sister Jiang's apartment seemed a bit strange.What is he doing here?

Wait... He didn't think that Sister Jiang could put the item card in the apartment, did he?

Xu Beijin thought a little speechlessly.

And Muscle Man really thinks so.In the last round of nightmares, after he stole Sister Jiang's item card, he decisively hid it in his apartment.

He knew what the two item cards were used for, and thought that these two item cards were indeed very precious.Sister Jiang Shuang will inevitably become more cautious after being stolen once.

Therefore, the muscular man thought that maybe she only brought one item card with her, and left the other one in the apartment to prevent it from being stolen again.If he can get into her apartment, maybe he can get the item card without any trouble?

From a certain point of view, the reasoning of the muscular man is not wrong. Sister Jiang has indeed become more cautious after the theft.It's just that he is too self-conscious about others.

In the final analysis, what value would item cards be worth if they were not used in nightmares?

In short, Muscle Man came to 807.

He doesn't have a public password, so it's just a chance.

But when he came to the door of 807, the door of the apartment seemed to be closed, leaving a gap.The muscular man was ecstatic, thinking that even the heavens were helping him——Sister Jiang didn't close the door properly when she left!

He stepped into 807 and closed the door.

The door clicked shut.

Jiang Shuangjie didn't know that the muscular man had entered her apartment.If she knew, it was probably just a moment of silence.

Only card dealers, who treat item cards as commodities, would hide precious commodities in a safe place.And taskers like Jiang Shuangjie, who are trying to survive, will of course carry useful props with them.

What if you need to use it at some point in your nightmare?

Ordinary taskers can't understand the psychological state of card dealers who are obsessed with profit, and card dealers can't understand, how can anyone be willing to use things like item cards that can sell a lot of money?

Neither of them could understand each other, and the reality was that the cardmongers were increasingly ostracized and disdained.However, even though some sanctimonious taskers will spurn the card dealers on the surface, they will still do business with these card dealers in private.

In any case, at least in this nightmare, the attitudes of the missionaries towards the card dealers were very unified - rejection.

This may be because Ringo doesn't need item cards, the inventory left by the Jiang Shuang sisters a few years ago is enough. The "zombie" Shen Yunju was almost stolen, so naturally he disdains to be with muscular men.

And the thin man and the little girl...

They have their own way behind them, and they don't need to deal with a solo card dealer like a muscular man.

At this time, the few people didn't care about the muscular man's whereabouts, and began to discuss various information about this nightmare.

Jiang Shuangmei shared what she and Jiang Shuangmei have gained without reservation, including that she has recovered the item card, the problem with the light in room 408, the idea of ​​trying to talk to the elevator, and the corridor lighting on the eighth floor. distress signal.

All missionaries were taken aback by the last message.

The thin man said thoughtfully: "The eighth floor...? The corridor on the eighth floor? Do you remember the complaint letter?" He paused slightly, "I remember that the owner who wrote the complaint letter was the one on the eighth floor Residents also mentioned that the lights in the corridor on the eighth floor are always flickering."

"But..." Sister Jiang said awkwardly, "Why did the lamp ask us for help? He was trapped? But... isn't he the lamp?"

The little girl suddenly said, "Maybe..."

They all looked at her.

The little girl's voice was cold: "Do you know the story of the water ghost catching the dead ghost?"

The missionaries were taken aback.

The thin man was the first to react, but he felt that he couldn't say anything. He said dryly: "You mean...these refined furniture want living people to be his scapegoats? In this way, he doesn't have to be confined to the place of death." Among the furniture?"

When the little girl raised this point, the thin man immediately thought of the toilet in his apartment...Damn it, he didn't want to become a toilet!

Sister Jiang trembled even more: "So, the so-called "distress signal" is just... just to attract people to go, and then he can take this opportunity to arrest people and act as scapegoats?"

She couldn't help being afraid, after all, she really thought just now that the lamp was friendly to people.

The little girl nodded and shook her head: "I just put forward an idea, and it may not necessarily be the truth of this nightmare." She looked at Jiang Shuangmei and Shen Yunju again, "People have died in the previous two rounds of nightmares, why didn't they become scapegoat?"

"Maybe it's not the time yet!" the thin man said, and then his voice slowly lowered, "If the nightmare collapses..."

He and the little girl looked at each other.

They all know that the taskers who have come to this nightmare have disappeared for no reason.What if those mission-holders who disappeared were captured to act as scapegoats?if……

What if the refined furniture they are facing now are those missionaries who have disappeared?

Inexplicably, the thin man felt a heavy pain.

He thought that perhaps after entering this nightmare, his companions had been thinking about the behind-the-scenes truth behind the furniture becoming spirits in the nightmare they were facing, and where the disappearing missionaries went.

And taking the place of the dead ghost may be the result of her thinking.

The taskers couldn't help but fell into a moment of silence, each with their own thoughts and thoughts.

And Jiang Shuangmei looked left and right, feeling a little dazed for a while.She hasn't had time to say the rules she thought about before, but these missionaries have already started to worry about other things?

She scratched her hair, and asked with some puzzlement: "But, for the dead ghost or something... There has never been a ghost element in the nightmare of the narrow building?"

It was only after she reminded the rest of the taskers that they suddenly realized.

Yes, the nightmare in the narrow building has always been more realistic, and there will be no too fantastic things.

Sister Jiang retorted weakly to her younger sister: "However, it is already a fantasy to make furniture into fine pieces..."

The atmosphere that had been relaxed for a moment became tense again.

The thin man said helplessly, "It's useless to think so much...let's go and see the elevator first."

A few people walked towards the elevator.On the way, Jiang Shuangmei shared her experience from the last round of nightmares.

The thin man glanced at Shen Yunju thoughtfully: "Are you the same?"

Shen Yunju remained silent, but nodded.

So among the five taskers present, except for Jiang Shuangmei and Shen Yunju who had already died once, the expressions on the faces of the remaining three were a little solemn.

They all thought at the first time that with the increase in the number of restarts of nightmares, the danger and uncertainty will be greater in the future. If they really want to use this special rule... This round of nightmares may be the last great opportunity.

But, death... who would dare to really use their own death to test the rules of nightmares?They can't afford to try.

The missionaries came to the elevator room.

The thin man stopped, thought for a moment, looked at the little girl again, and after receiving a slight nod from the other party, he said, "I won't hide it anymore, let's be honest. Before entering this nightmare, I actually learned something. information."

He did not say that the little girl had told him.When the two of them entered the nightmare, they habitually made the little girl appear as a smart but weak girl to the outside world, so as to reduce the vigilance of other missionaries.

On the other hand, the thin man is thin and tall, with a little nervousness, so it is difficult to simply win the trust of others, so it is better to simply express himself actively and strive for the initiative and leadership in the nightmare.

They have always dealt with nightmares like this, one light and one dark, and the effect has always been good.

At this time, the thin man habitually took everything on himself.

The rest of the taskers listened carefully to what he said, but the audience in the live broadcast room sighed: "Everyone, they are all old-fashioned."

"It's obviously the information provided by that little girl... Oh, I understand, so this is the team strategy?"

"It's interesting. These two people don't seem to show that they knew each other before."

"The escape game can be played by you as a werewolf. I am really not suitable for this kind of game, woo woo woo."

"I'm so cute, why do I have to have an IQ?"

While watching the situation on the live broadcast screen, Xu Beijin watched the laughing and laughing of the audience on the bullet screen. For a while, his heart was full of ups and downs, he was solemn and wanted to laugh, and finally couldn't help but cry.

The laughing and laughing of the audience is really good if it is used to adjust the atmosphere.

On the screen of the live broadcast room, the thin man had already told the information he had learned, and the rest of the taskers immediately thought, could the refined furniture be the taskers who had been lost in this nightmare?

The so-called "rule" of exchanging death for safety is likely to be a trap?

Is this a nightmare where even if you play a normal ending, you may be trapped in it forever?

For a moment, their faces turned livid.

The thin man sighed, hesitated to speak, and finally said simply: "Let's solve this nightmare earlier."

They all nodded.

The audience in the live broadcast room didn't understand what they meant, and Xu Beijin didn't think about how to explain the concept of "the nightmare of eternal collapse". In the end, he just said vaguely: "Maybe I think this nightmare is too weird. gone?"

As expected, the audience went astray following his train of thought. Afterwards, the taskers opened the door of the elevator again, so the audience didn't care about the unclear conversations of the taskers just now.

Xu Beijin was once again thankful that the reasoning boss was not there.

If the reasoning master is not there, he can fool the audience's IQ like this; if the reasoning master is there, this round of nightmares will not be so easy to explain.

Maybe...he still has to plan ahead.However, without knowing the external situation, he did not dare to act rashly.

Thinking about it, Xu Beijin felt a little dull.

On the screen in the live broadcast room, the taskers have already started communicating with one of the elevators.

After the elevator door opened, the thin man tentatively asked, "How are you?"

The calm and mechanical male voice actually responded to his greeting: "... hello."

Immediately, all the taskers breathed a sigh of relief.

They chose the elevator on the left side of the building, near the lobby.This is the empty elevator that Sister Jiang, the thin man and the little girl saw at the door of 1104 before, and it is also the elevator that used to play tricks on Sister Jiang on the first floor.

If nothing else happened, this should also be the elevator that always goes to the top floor empty and gets down by itself.

According to the previous complaint letters, court summons, etc., among the six elevators, two elevators are the most special; one is the one they chose.

And the other one was the one where the residents on the eighth floor wrote to complain, and suddenly started to fall for no reason, and then scared the residents to a heart attack and died on the spot.

Judging from their respective performances, the former should be more harmless, so the taskers chose this one.

And the elevator responded to them with a very normal tone.

The thin man smiled wryly, thinking, the elevator can talk!

What a funny thing.

...but elevators can talk anyway.It's just that when taking the elevator, no one has ever thought that there is really a "person" talking, not the mechanical audio that has already been recorded.

From another point of view, maybe someone in the ATM is actually handing you money?

The thin man tried his best to let go of all thoughts about the toilet.

He pondered for a moment, and finally asked a question: "When did you have self-awareness?"

"A long time ago." The elevator responded, "However, I am a good elevator."

Jiang Shuangmei widened her eyes angrily: "Then you still scared me before?!"

The elevator said tactfully: "That's just to say hello to you. I saw that you seemed to be frightened when you came down from the stairs, so I made a joke with you and let you relax."

Jiang Shuangmei: "..."

Are you kidding me?You are killing people!

Sister Jiang held back her younger sister dumbfounded, and then asked a new question about the elevator: "You said you are a good elevator, so others like you are not good?"

"Some of them are really different from me." The elevator commented objectively, "Some of them really hate you and want to kill you. Well, I am an elevator that can entertain itself."

... Is this why you always go up the stairs empty-handed, and then come down empty-handed?

"Alas..." the elevator sighed, "But, I am also very tired if I have to carry you guys every day. Do you know that as long as you are not overweight, people will squeeze in even if they die. This is too difficult for me. .

"Can't you hear the creaking sound of the elevator when it's running? Oh, well, I'm afraid you can't hear it. The steel rope—can you not hear the sound of the steel rope being worn?"

The elevator babbled and complained.

The thin man was speechless.He really didn't want to listen to the elevator's complaints at this time.

Who can empathize with elevators?Like... who wants to empathize with toilets?

"Okay, okay." He could only say nicely, "Do you know anything else? For example...why you suddenly..."

"...waking up?" said the elevator. "I call this process 'waking up.' Too bad I'm an elevator, otherwise... I'd always have something else to do. Too bad I can't leave this place myself, just Can go up and down.

"I know that some of them can move. For example, the robot vacuum cleaner is really happy. There are also some that can't move, but they are also very happy, such as TV sets. They can turn themselves on and watch TV. so good.

"Some are very miserable, like the fresh air system or something. Not only can't move, but they also cough all the time, and they have always been in a sub-healthy state... Tsk tsk, how pitiful.

"It's the same here... I'm actually the same here. There's nothing. No one talks to me. I don't dare to talk to other people, for fear of scaring them... Ha, I'm such a good elevator."

The thin man hesitated to speak.

He thought, this elevator is full of nonsense.No matter how nice the voice is, the self-pitying whine is tiresome.

After another moment, he finally found a chance to interject: "So, why did you wake up?"

"Ah...that's a good question."

The thin man vaguely heard a condescending comment from this sentence.

And the elevator smiled vaguely: "However, I won't tell you."

Sister Jiang Shuang couldn't help asking: "Why?"

The elevator said: "Because... this is the rule. You know, even if I'm from the lawful good camp... Oh, I don't know if I count, I just treat myself as I am, after all, I don't want to kill people.

"I...although I'm a good elevator, but some are not like me...I didn't name certain ones. If I tell the truth, they will be angry. I'm very scared... ..."

The little girl caught a loophole in his words: "You are an elevator, and many others are immobile...Why are you afraid of them? They can't do anything to you, right?"

The elevator was silent for a while: "...Oh, I slipped my tongue." He paused, "Okay, I won't say anything. Anyway, I hope you can take care of yourself."

After speaking, he fell silent.No matter how the missionaries called him, he no longer responded.

After a while, he directly closed the elevator door and went to a higher floor by himself.

The missionaries looked at each other.

The thin man frowned, and said to himself: "So, he did reveal something?" He showed a confused expression, "But why didn't I realize it?"

The little girl said calmly, "He just said something. He said, 'Okay, I won't say it.' It was like...in response to something else..."

"There's something stopping him from continuing to communicate with us." Sister Jiang said affirmatively, "But...how did they get in touch with these spirited, apartment facilities?"

She looked at Jiang Shuangmei.In Jiang Shuangmei's previous narration of her death, the cooperation between these strange facilities was also reflected.Sweeping robots will deliberately bump people into bathtubs filled with water...

But how does the sweeping robot know that the bathtub is already full of water?

The little girl nodded, and she added: "Another point is that at the entrance of this elevator, he knows the situation of other things like him very well. However, he is just an elevator, and he can only go up and down. Next, how did he know so much information?"

"Yeah..." the thin man muttered to himself, "How could he know so much?"

It seems that there is something invisible that builds a communication platform for these sophisticated apartment facilities.

invisible...

Thinking of this, Xu Beijin suddenly raised his head and glanced at his bookstore.

In his concept, this is a safe house.Like the other safe houses that he also found, there are not many electrical appliances here, it is relatively remote, and there are few tourists.

But just like this, it seems that it cannot be called a safe house.After all, even this antique bookstore does have a single light bulb shining on the ceiling.

What is there, or what is not, that makes it a safe house...?

Xu Bei thought about it, and slowly, his eyes became deep and gloomy.He lowered his head slightly, his expression unclear.If his appearance is seen by other people at this time, then maybe others will regard him as a terrible villain hiding a big secret.

After a while, he came back to his senses, and silently changed the perspective of the live broadcast room to the muscular man.

At this time, the mission workers on the first floor hadn't spoken for a long time, so the audience didn't think it was strange for Xu Beijin to change the scene.

However, as soon as they turned the angle of view, they were immediately taken aback.

Because the muscular man was fighting against the curtain that seemed to be alive.

He fell on the sofa, his neck was entangled by the curtains, his face turned purple.His feet were hooked on the sofa, trying to keep himself from being pulled by the curtains.

He desperately reached out to reach any place where he could borrow strength, but he couldn't reach it.In the end, his hands tore at the curtains furiously.Under the action of a strong desire to survive, the nails were so hard that they cracked and bled.

"Ahhhhh!!"

He roared with all his strength, his muscles swelled up, and the veins on his forehead burst out.That icy invisible gaze stared at him firmly, with the cold meaning of snakes peeping from the corner, it was particularly terrifying.

The threat of death made him tremble and sweat.

Finally, the curtain loosened slightly.He immediately seized the opportunity, ripped open the pile of curtains wrapped around his neck, and rushed forward.

In a panic, he slammed his head on the TV cabinet, with such force that he knocked the router on the cabinet to the ground.The power to the router was loosened as a result, and the green light on the router indicating normal use disappeared.

In the next second, that icy gaze disappeared out of thin air, and the curtain that was swinging like a lunatic also fell calmly on the corner of the wall in an instant.

Dumbfounded, he thought, the router...

The internet? !