Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Xu Beijin realized one thing in astonishment.

The restart of this nightmare is not based on death, but on the degree of memory loss!

This was the first time Xu Beijin encountered such a nightmare.He had never played an inch in such a nightmare, let alone heard about it.

Everyone knows, whether it's the tasker or the player, they all know the iron law - death means the restart of the nightmare.

But in this nightmare, that iron law seems to be broken?

Xu Beijin felt something was wrong.

He thought again, maybe the meaning of bald head was not what he understood?Perhaps the bald head is not meant to be a restart of the nightmare, but simply the cycle of the nightmare itself.

Xu Bei knows that some nightmares repeat endlessly in each round, and this has nothing to do with whether the nightmare is restarted or not. It is just some settings, stories, etc. in this nightmare, which will happen repeatedly.

But the bald head used the word "restart".For missionaries, this term has always referred to the restart of nightmares, or in other words, the restart of these copies of the game.

Xu Beijin was a little hesitant, because the identities of the tasker and the actor were different, and he couldn't ask bluntly what kind of "restart" the bald head was talking about, so the bald head's words led to two results:

Either, this nightmare itself is an infinite loop of nightmares, and the loss of memory is not just a loop; or, the conditions for restarting the nightmare have changed from death to loss of memory.

Thinking of this, Xu Beijin couldn't help thinking, in fact, what is the difference between memory loss and death?

It might be said to be a complete death.

He didn't know what he thought of, and his expression suddenly became gloomy and indifferent.

When the bald head and the flower arm were terrified by his sudden change of expression, Xu Beijin restrained the emotions he showed, and nodded calmly: "This message is very interesting."

His uncertain appearance made the two taskers in front of him more wary and wary of him.

Xu Beijin was not interested in laughing at them at the moment, he sighed wearily, and said, "As a condition of equivalent exchange, let me tell you one thing."

The expressions of the taskers suddenly became serious.

Xu Beijin said: "In this building, there is nothing worth exploring."

The bald head was suddenly disappointed, because this was something he already knew.

At this time, Xu Beijin added slowly: "Except for the rooftop." He glanced at his bookstore again, "By the way, there is also a bookstore."

The bald head and the flowery arms were a little uncomfortable being suffocated by Xu Beijin's heavy panting.

But Xu Beijin's words opened up a new way of thinking for them, because...

"The roof?" the bald man muttered to himself, his eyes became confused and puzzled, "Can the roof go up?!"

The last time they came to this nightmare, they didn't go to the rooftop, because they didn't realize that the rooftop is also an area to explore.

They walked around the building and left.

On the contrary, it was the bookstore. Although there was no NPC Xu Beijin in the bookstore at that time, they also took a general look at the bookstore, but found no useful information.

Hua Bi stared at Xu Beijin, and couldn't help but ask, "Boss, is there anything worth exploring on the rooftop?"

"This is the second question." Xu Beijin smiled slightly, "Can you provide any interesting information?"

The bald head hesitated for a moment.

His hesitation made Xu Beijin realize that they were indeed hiding something.

...Wait, what the bald head said earlier was that he didn't tell the other taskers the most important information, and then he said "they will forget sooner or later".This means that the most important information is not related to forgetting?

What could it be?

Xu Bei stared at the two men.

Hua Bi was obviously a little more impatient, just as he couldn't help asking why the bald head revealed the information before, now he couldn't help but want to tell Xu Beijin what he knew, in exchange for Xu Beijin information over there.

He said, "One thing..."

But he was stopped.

The bald head grabbed his arm and made him stop.Afterwards, the bald head looked at Xu Beijin, and tried to show a friendly smile: "Boss, we... go to verify the matter on the roof first, okay?"

Hua Bi also reacted, and nodded again and again: "That's right! Boss, we'll come back later!"

Xu Beijin: "..."

"Hahahaha Beibei's white prostitution failed!"

"Beibei: Why don't you cooperate at all!"

"White wolves with empty gloves also need skills, I am Dibei."

"Bold! Are you saying that my North has no technology!"

Xu Bei glanced at the barrage in the live broadcast room, and was speechless... What happened to his failure to prostitute for nothing!Whoring for nothing... How can an exchange of equal value be called whoring for nothing!

However, the bald head and the flower arm did not want to exchange with him in equal value.

What else could he do but smile calmly and nonchalantly and say, "Looking forward to your next visit."

This plain sentence made the bald head and the flower arm heave a sigh of relief.

In fact, they were afraid of angering Xu Beijin.Bucun, the owner of the bookstore, seemed to have a much better temper than they had imagined.

The two left the bookstore, Hua Bi was about to go to the rooftop, but the bald head stopped him.

Hua Yi looked inexplicable: "What's the matter? Didn't you say you're going to the rooftop?"

The bald head gave him a blank look, and he felt that this guy was really getting more and more stupid.He said bitterly, "Look at what time it is now? We should go and join the others!"

They spent five or six minutes in the bookstore, and if the rest of the taskers walked fast, they might be close to the building by now.

The bald head and the flower arm have the shortest journey, so they must arrive early to wait for the rest of the taskers.

The bald head didn't want to arouse the suspicion of the rest of the taskers for the time being—whether it was the information they concealed or their familiarity with this nightmare scene.

Hua Arm is just a little dazed, not really stupid.Hearing what the bald head said, he naturally reacted.He was a little surprised and asked: "Aren't you going to tell others about the rooftop?"

What the bald head means is, pretend they arrived early and have been waiting there for a while.

The bald man said, "We'll see what happens later." There was a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and his bloodshot eyes made his expression extraordinarily ferocious. "Let's see if other people will tell us the truth about what they found."

The last time they came to this nightmare, although it was only a bad ending, they almost explored the entire nightmare scene completely.

In addition, after leaving the nightmare, their forgotten memories naturally returned.

The bald head doesn't know whether the memory of this nightmare will be lost again with the passage of time, but at least for now, no one is as familiar with this nightmare as the two of them.

Therefore, he decided to see if the rest of the questers would choose to tell the truth about the information they found along the way.

The bald head is a person with double standards. He didn't tell the other people the most important information from the beginning, but now he asks the other taskers to do so, so that he can speak again about the rooftop.

Regardless, nightmare collaborations, while beneficial, are not required.

Some lone wolf taskers even deliberately stay away from other taskers.Whether to choose to cooperate—complete and thorough cooperation is ultimately a personal choice.

Therefore, the bald head has such a double standard with confidence.

The two of them walked out of the building.The bald head looked back, and said to himself: "In this way, they can see the bookstore when they come over..."

As he said that, he walked towards the south with his flower arms, making sure that when the other four missionaries came, they could find them, but he couldn't find that there was still a man sitting in the bookstore.

They waited for about 5 minutes before Fei and Wu Jian appeared.But they waited and waited, but neither Mu Jiashi nor the collector showed up. Obviously, the route of these two people was much shorter than that of the man and the woman.

They waited for a while, and suddenly heard a cry: "Hey! Look what we have found!"

It was Collector's voice, Fei and Wu Jian were taken aback by his sudden yell, while Bald Head and Hua Bi looked at each other and frowned in unison.

that direction...

They walked an inch, and as expected, they found that Mu Jiashi and the two found the entrance of the abandoned supermarket.

This is a large store covering a very large area. The first floor is for daily necessities, clothing, home appliances, etc., and the second floor is for fresh food.

After the collapse of this building, the goods on the first floor may only be buried forever, unless large machinery comes to dig it up.However, the food and so on on the second floor, which were urgently needed by the survivors, were scattered everywhere.

It is only required that the living can find what they need from the ruins of those bricks and cement blocks.

The collector happily held up a pack of biscuits, and said with a smile, "Look, I've already picked up a pack of biscuits." He looked at the four taskers, and said with a smile, "I'm afraid you are a little hungry too, right? "

These people nodded honestly.

So they scattered in this area, looking for food on their own, but forgot about the things that should be the first time to collect information.

Apart from them, there are many survivors who are also looking for things here.It's not just food. If you find other useful things, you may also go to the trading market to barter with other people.

No matter how hard it is for them to really observe the survivors carefully, they are all just figures flashing around the corner.

The bald head and the flower arms came together.Hua Bi said indignantly: "That guy... did it on purpose!"

Mu Jiashi didn't even show up, probably just looking for food nearby.But the collector deliberately called them over, seemingly out of good intentions, but in fact...

unknown.

There used to be a large commercial supermarket here. Don't the bald and flowery arms who have come to this nightmare know about it?They must have known, but they withheld this information.

The male and female missionaries must have already become suspicious.

Hua Arm felt very uneasy and angry about this, what else did he want to say.And the bald head bent down to pick up a candy from the ground.He tossed the little plastic bag and said, "They don't trust us, and we don't trust them."

Hua Arm hesitated for a moment, a little confused about what the bald head meant.

The bald head rolled his eyes: "What I mean is, ignore them. Besides..." He kicked the bricks under his feet, "Looking for food?"

Flower Arm understood what he meant.

On the other side, Wu Jian bent down, trying to remove a stone.The veins on his forehead were tense, and his face was flushed with suffocation. It took him a long time to finally remove the heavy stone, but he was disappointed to find that there was nothing but a plastic bag underneath.

Fei watched his actions, and suddenly said: "You can stop."

"what?"

Fei said: "We are not real scavengers. The mastermind let us enter this nightmare. It is impossible for us to pick up garbage, find food, and really come to survive the apocalypse."

Wu Jian also reacted instantly.

Although they, a group of conspiracy theorists, have a problematic way of looking at the world, their brains and thinking are exceptionally flexible, and sometimes they are even very open-minded.

Wu Jian murmured, "It's impossible for the main brain to torment us deliberately... This means that there must be a stable channel to obtain food."

There were other survivors—those NPCs—holding something in their arms, probably food, walking past them vigilantly and vigilantly.

Wu Jian saw them, so he had an idea: "Can we grab food from these survivors?"

"Maybe there is a way." Fei said, "but don't forget what is the key to this nightmare. Even if you get a lot of food, what's the use? It's pointless to carry food with you, as long as you come to this place when you're hungry area, and then finding some food to eat is enough.”

Wu Jian also sighed, said with a bit of a headache, "Yes, you have to eat it right away if you find it, otherwise you'll forget it..."

He suddenly realized his slip of the tongue, so he turned his head and looked around quickly, and he was relieved to find that no one noticed what he said.

Fei sneered, and taunted the man mercilessly: "This is the second time you have slipped your tongue."

Wu Jian knew that Fei was a rather strict person, so he could only admit his mistake with a bitter face, and then said, "I will try not to talk in the future. You will be in charge of communication."

How could he keep a secret with such a big mouth?

Before Fei and Wu Jian came to this nightmare, they had already made sufficient preparations.They may not know the scene map of this nightmare as clearly as the bald couple, but they are clear about the inside story and the possible ending of the nightmare.

Because they once obtained part of the information from another tasker who had come to this nightmare.

That quester was even better than the bald head and the flower arm. They played a normal ending, and Fei and Wu Jian also knew the mystery of it.However, they also failed to make a real ending.

In the frenzied atmosphere of the recent period, countless taskers entered the nightmare frantically and frequently.This nightmare they are now living in is no exception.

However, no quester has ever played the true ending of this nightmare, including some questers who struggled with this nightmare, and finally had to give up in frustration and choose to start with other nightmares.

Such a special example naturally made some taskers use it as a joke for talking and bragging when they went to higher floors.They exaggerate the peculiarities of this nightmare.

Doomsday, ruins, tall buildings, fog, impurities...

Survivors, food shortages, lost memories, and, bookstores...

It's a complex and messy nightmare.In this nightmare, there are the most missionaries, and they just played a normal ending.

There are many rumors about this incident on the higher floors of the narrow building. As a special product passed on by people, it is just like the heat of Xu Beijin's nightmare at the bottom of the narrow building, and it also caused many tasks. attention.

They were a little curious about the true ending of this nightmare.

And everything about this nightmare also reached Fei and Wu Jian's ears.They also climbed up from the bottom of the narrow building, but they have never been to this nightmare.

Almost instantly, they thought of many things, and they matched up with those conspiracy theories - inferences - they had.

So they immediately found a quest player who had played a normal ending, coerced and lured him to obtain some information, and then hurried to the bottom of the narrow building and entered this nightmare.

When the bald head told the group of taskers about this nightmare, among the six people present, in fact, only Mu Jiashi and the collector knew nothing about this nightmare.

But when the bald head let the two people's route pass through the playground, maybe they had some more unique information instead.

After the collector called the taskers over, he went back to find Mu Jiashi with great interest.

This "treasure house" formed by the collapse of a large supermarket occupies the southeast part of the entire ruins.It is hard for people to imagine what kind of catastrophe it was, so that these foods were scattered in different corners.

The collector had an obvious smile on his face, and he said, "As expected, those two people have something to hide from us."

Mu Jiashi shook his head.

Exposing the deceitfulness of the bald head and the flowery arm—that was the Collector's word, and it was also his proposed course of action, right after they had stumbled across the area.

After they went around the playground area with all their troubles, the route turned slightly southerly.They continued to walk eastward, intending to turn north to reach the location of the building, but they encountered a survivor holding something in his arms.

Those survivors were covered in dust and sweat, as if they had just done some physical work.

When they saw Mu Jiashi and the collector, they immediately showed vigilant expressions, quickly hid in various hidden corners, and disappeared like shadows.

So, Mu Jiashi and the collector took a few more steps in the direction where these people came.The collector then luckily found a stick of chewing gum.

In exchange, he asked a survivor present about this area.The survivor was unwilling to communicate with them face to face, but after accepting the stick of chewing gum, he loudly said something about this place.

Afterwards, they knew that this place was called the "treasure house" by the survivors. It used to be a large supermarket.

In an instant, Collector realized that the bald head was targeting him.

If their route was to go around the Cun Cun Playground from the north, they would not have passed the treasure house at all.However, Fei and Wu Jian's route happened to pass here.

If the bald head and the flower arm knew about this area - how could they not? ——and the route makes Fei and Wu Jian inevitably pass by here, so among all the people, only these two will ignore this place.

And here is a great place to find food.

Coupled with the repulsion and hostility of the group of people in the playground, the collector immediately felt the maliciousness of the bald head.

He touched his chin, but was a little puzzled: "Is it necessary...?" After thinking about it, he smiled again, "Oh, I don't care if it's necessary for you. If you cheat me, I have to cheat you once."

Collectors are undoubtedly a person who must take revenge.

What he doesn't know is that as the nightmare develops, they will gradually forget the past memories.It was precisely because the bald head knew this that he deliberately tricked this person he didn't like.

In addition, it also means to let collectors explore the way.

They didn't know much about the group of people in the playground.

Not only targeting the people they hate, but also getting some information - at least the bald head thinks that Mu Jiashi and the collectors are not in the same group, so they can still get the results of the pathfinding from Mu Jiashi - isn't that killing two birds with one stone!

At this moment, the taskers in the treasury have their own thoughts and are not in the same mind.

Mu Jiashi: "..."

He sighed deeply.

He suspected that since returning to the bottom of the narrow building, the nightmare he had entered was cursed.

This must be the mastermind's malice!

Mu Jiashi doesn't care what information the bald head reveals, because this information will always be known as the nightmare progresses.hide?People always have selfishness, how honest do you expect the tasker to be to you when you meet for the first time?

As long as it's not like the lone wolf we met last time, who formed gangs secretly and deliberately concealed information, Mu Jiashi would be thankful.

And even the lone wolf we met last time, after his behavior was finally exposed, resigned himself to his fate and chose to cooperate with them—although his attitude was not very good.

After all, at the bottom of the narrow building, after the mission workers entered the nightmare, they were naturally in the same camp, whether they cooperated or not.

And now, the bald head and the collector seem to... match up?

Mu Jia was really bored.He hates encountering such taskers in his nightmares the most, who don't distinguish between public and private, and do whatever they want.It would be terrible to have one, but this time the nightmare also encountered two.

He thought to himself, well, that's great, God also made him a waste.He decided, and he paddled in this nightmare!

As for the clues to investigate the nightmare, in exchange for information about a certain narrow building resident... Let's talk about it later!

Mu Jiashi, who secretly decided to paddle, probably has a lot in common with the former Xu Beijin.

Xu Beijin used to like to paddle in nightmares. As long as the taskers don't come to him, he can stay in a daze for eternity in the nightmares, and leave the nightmares until dawn.

But after obtaining the live broadcast system, his once ordinary fishing life seemed to be gone forever.

He even planned to take the initiative to intervene in the nightmare.

He raised the angle of view in the live broadcast room and looked down at the taskers who were searching for food in the treasure house.

They each gained something, but because they couldn't take it with them, they met again after a short while, came to the road between the treasure house and the building, and started the discussion again.

And what Mu Jiashi was worried about did happen.

The collector and the bald head are at each other's throats, not giving in to each other.Whenever the bald head said a word, the collector would add it with a smile on his face; whenever the collector satirized the bald head, the latter immediately showed an angry face, his eyes were bloodshot, and the muscles on his arms bulged.

They looked like they were about to fight.

At this time, more than half an hour had passed since they entered the nightmare.

Fei suddenly exclaimed, pointing at the building in front of her, she shouted, "What is that?!"

Every tasker looked subconsciously, even the collector and the bald head who were still arguing.

They saw a figure standing on the roof, and there was another person standing behind him.

The man seemed to be pushed by the person behind him, so he fell from the roof of the building, and fell to the ground with a bang within a few seconds, blood spattered, then twitched twice, and then fell silent .

The taskers looked at each other, waited for a moment, and then showed shocked expressions in unison.

— A man was pushed off the roof and died.

However, the nightmare did not restart.