Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

The first problem Jiang Shuangmei faced was to choose which button to press first in the No. [-] elevator.

On the control panel of the No. 25 elevator, there are three illuminated floor buttons, including the thirteenth floor and the twenty-fifth floor, but the most eye-catching one is undoubtedly the illuminated "[-]st Floor".

... When Jiang Shuangmei saw the lit button, she seemed to hear the sharp laughter of the devil in her ears.

No doubt she was moved.

Of course she knew that the button on the first floor certainly did not represent the real first floor, and it might even be deliberately tempting the tasker. Maybe something very dangerous would appear immediately after reaching that floor and the elevator door opened...

However, none of this can stop Jiang Shuangmei's eager ambition.

What if that's really the 1st floor?Maybe, isn't it?

You see, if you press it down, you might be able to escape directly from this terrible nightmare, this terrifying maze made up of elevators...

If that's the case, those two missionaries from higher levels will not look at her with disdainful and contemptuous eyes, but will recognize her wisdom and courage...

When Jiang Shuangmei saw the lit button, all kinds of thoughts and fantasies flashed in her mind, confusing her mind like a beautiful dream.She was about to press it almost without thinking.

But the second she touched the cold button, she forced herself to withdraw her finger with a great willpower.

She took a deep breath, almost unbelievable, those thoughts that seemed to be possessed in her mind just now appeared in her brain...

It was a mix of arrogance, shallowness, selfishness, impulsiveness, and more.Although Jiang Shuangmei has been living under the blessing of her older sister—once—but the habit of being cautious has long been integrated into the flesh and blood of the pair of sisters.

Taskers like them who shuttle through the bottom floor of the narrow building and the slightly higher floors have always been cautious.

Jiang Shuangmei knew that the impulsive and incredible decision to directly press the button to go to the first floor just now could not be said to be her original intention.

... "The Devil's Mask".

Just now, the man in the suit mentioned a concept, that is, the cost of using item cards.

This kind of price is usually effective immediately, and will affect the user's personality invisibly, and subtly change the user's mental state.The costs are usually mental, but there are also costs that have strange physical effects.

For example, Ding Yi's item card will turn her hair blue.

The price of an item card is often explained or implied in its interpretation, but whether it can be clearly realized or felt depends entirely on the user's own sensitivity.

And Jiang Shuangmei has already learned from the memory of the previous owner of this item card, how powerful its price is.That is a powerful side effect, not a blunder like a sorceress.

Jiang Shuangmei silently pondered in her heart, considering whether this item card would secretly affect her when she first entered the nightmare.

For example... why should she care so much about the arrogance of those two missionaries from higher levels?

She has long known the virtues of this group of higher-level taskers!

It's not that she hasn't been to a higher level, even if it's only the second level, the group of taskers still have a lot of contempt for the taskers at the bottom, as if one more true ending can make them superior.

As for the group of taskers going up, when they leaned over and stared at the taskers at the bottom, they seemed like gods in the sky condescending to communicate with the ants on the ground.

It's always been like this.It seems that the floor number in the narrow building also represents a certain level of respect.

Therefore, Jiang Shuangmei has already become numb.

Now that she has become numb and knows that this is normal, and apart from the young man's exaggerated words about the map, the two questers did not act too exaggeratedly, and they are just the appearance of the higher-level questers in her memory ...

Why is her reaction so big?Even secretly feeling angry?

This nightmare is the point, she clearly understands this, at least she confirmed it before she entered the nightmare.

So in the final analysis... She has already been affected by the price of that item card without knowing it.

Almost instantly, Jiang Shuangmei figured out these things.She decided to do this kind of introspection more often, so she wouldn't get stuck with that damn item and didn't realize it.

No matter how powerful its ability is, it is useless, and its side effects are equally powerful, and there is no trace.

... Sure enough, this item card is just as disgusting as its former owner.

Jiang Shuangmei sneered in her heart, buried all her thoughts, and then turned to look at the other two taskers: "Which floor should we choose?"

Shen Yunju remained silent as usual, his dead face remained expressionless in a trance, as if he was still thinking about something that fascinated him just now, and he didn't want to participate in the discussion at all.

Jiang Shuangmei also knew his temperament, so she didn't pay attention to him at all.

Fei hesitated for a moment, looked at the control panel, and finally said: "Floor 25?" She said more realistically, "We are now on the 24th floor, which is almost the same as the 25th floor. Corresponding floor section."

Jiang Shuangmei nodded in agreement, looked at Shen Yunju, who also nodded silently.

So Jiang Shuangmei pressed it.

The elevator started with a buzz, and after running down for about five seconds, it slowly stopped.

Jiang Shuangmei and Fei looked at each other, and secretly calculated, then Fei hesitated and said, "Probably... between the 19th and 21st floors?"

The elevator door opened slowly, and what came into view was a quiet and dark floor.

"There doesn't seem to be any danger..." Jiang Shuangmei's voice trembled slightly, "Go in and take a look?"

Fei took a deep breath: "Let's go."

Three taskers stepped out of the elevator.

Almost at the same moment, the other three taskers also stepped out of the elevator.

They chose the button on the eighteenth floor in the No. [-] elevator.The problem they faced was to choose one of the two, and almost only by luck, they chose the eighteenth floor at random.

They were silent all the way.

The elevator also departs from the 24th floor, but their elevator is going up.After about ten seconds, the elevator finally stopped.

The boy said in surprise, "Why do I feel that we are going back to the top floor soon?"

The man in the suit made a guess: "It's about the same. It must be more than thirty floors."

The young man shook his head and snorted softly: "The floor that was so hard to go down is in vain again." He said with a headache, "Is this nightmare a test of memory?"

The man in the suit said: "It's good to write it down, at least it can help memory."

They chatted casually, the boy wrote something down on his piece of paper, and then the elevator door opened.

They looked out - it was quiet, but there was a slight murmur.It seems to be... sobs?

The man in the suit and the boy looked at each other, slightly surprised.

They stepped out of the elevator and confirmed that there were no other elevators on this floor.The sorceress followed them, and slowly came out of the elevator. She muttered: "I feel it, it's fear and a faint hope...the power of crying..."

"Stop rambling, sorceress." The young man called out to her, "Let's go together, we have to see the freight elevator."

Together they went to check the freight elevator, again, no stops.

During this period, the faint cry lingered in their ears all the time.But it's just that the witch's face was a little nervous, and neither the man in the suit nor the boy changed their expressions.

The boy even sneered: "Pretending to be a ghost. Is this the trick of NE at the bottom?"

The man in the suit glanced at him, but said nothing.

He knew the boy's character.This companion of his has always been like this cynicism, not to mention the taskers at the bottom of the narrow building, even the taskers at the higher levels are sometimes scolded bloody by him.

At first everyone thought that this might be a rebellious teenager.

Later, everyone thought that the appearance of this young man was just the appearance of this man when he entered the narrow building. How many years have passed, and he must have matured, right?

So in the end, it's just that he has a bad temper and doesn't know himself yet.

The man in the suit has been with him for so many years and is used to it, but sometimes he can still get angry with him, and he even gets infected with this guy's bad temper.

When the man in the suit didn't speak, the boy also stopped talking.

They went to the stairwell.

"The 31st floor..." The man in the suit stared at the floor sign in the stairwell, "So there is no pattern at all. This nightmare..."

The teenager said: "From the perspective of the owner of the nightmare, this nightmare is the story of the owner of the nightmare trying desperately to escape from the building, but was trapped by the elevator, didn't know where to go, and got lost on different floors?"

"It's possible, but we can't make a conclusion right now." The man in the suit said thoughtfully, "So where is the owner of the nightmare? In the elevator?"

The boy nodded and shook his head again: "It may also be trapped on a certain floor. The main scene is still this building after all."

If the missionaries on the bottom floor of the other narrow buildings heard their conversation, they would be immediately shocked by their sensitivity.

The higher-level taskers have a better analysis of the nightmare.From the perspective of the owner of the nightmare, it is something they are used to, but the taskers at the bottom of the narrow building will not do this.

The latter is always exhausted by all kinds of dangers and changes in the nightmare.

They can't answer the question raised by the man in the suit for the time being, but now everything that should be done has been done, and there is only...

The boy showed a slightly cold smile: "Let's go and see where that annoying crying sound is coming from."

Xu Beijin was watching the live broadcast peacefully.

Wei Lezhang has bothered him for a long time, and now that he has finally left, Xu Beijin intends to pay close attention to the situation of these missionaries.

After the six taskers who originally formed a team separated, he had to separate out different shots. Fortunately, there are only four shots in total, and the ones from him and Ringo can be ignored, so he can barely see it.

However, what I didn't expect was that after a while, the actors on the 16th floor exploded, as if something incredible appeared.

Xu Beijin thought that the taskers had found the 16th floor, but after thinking about it carefully, he looked at the lower left corner of the live broadcast room...

Good guy, it was Ringo who came here.

...The question is, why did Ringo find him?His intuition is really so strong that even the sorceress should feel ashamed?

Xu Beijin was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't help but stand up, even though the mastermind popped up in the next second, reminding him to sit still.

Xu Beijin: "..."

He could only sit back, pretending to be in a trance with a concussion, thinking secretly in his heart.

After another moment, the noisy voices in front gradually subsided, and no one spoke.Inside the dark floor, Lingo slowly walked over, Wu Jian fell not far behind him, and the rest of the actors slowly parted a path to let him pass.

Xu Beijin looked up at him.

Ringo walked to his side and couldn't help saying, "I found you."

Xu Beijin: "..."

Then... praise you?

He asked helplessly, "How did you find it?"

Ringo said frankly, "I heard voices on this floor, so I guess there must be someone here."

Xu Bei was astonished at Lin Po's sharp eyes and ears, but thinking of this guy's inhuman strength...he immediately calmed down.

For Ringo, this is normal operation.

Wu Jian poked his head in the background, a little confused.He recognized Xu Beijin. During the last nightmare, he was deeply impressed by this narrow building resident. Later, when he went back to the bottom floor of the narrow building, he heard all kinds of "legends" about him.

Of course, in these "legends", there must also be the... romance of the bookstore owner and boss Ringo.

... But Wu Jian never expected that the relationship between Lin Biao and Xu Beijin had reached such a point that Lin Biao rushed over to look for Xu Beijin excitedly after only hearing a few voices.

This is love!

Invisibly, Wu Jian was moved by their "love".

Although he was also a little annoyed, after all, they were in the process of exploring the stairs.I don't know if the boss will continue to go down, what if he is immersed in the gentle country?

The main reason is that when Wu sees him going back to the dark corridor alone, he is always a little... scared.

Yes, be afraid.

So Wu Jian stood there confidently, waiting for Ling Po's reaction.

But Ringo didn't bother to talk to him.

He just looked at Xu Beijin with shining eyes, as if he saw a dog with a Frisbee, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.He said: "You are also in this nightmare... I thought you would not be here."

Xu Beijin: "..."

Ringo is talking nonsense.

He glanced at the guy in a trance.

It wasn't all an act based on his mood, but because the nightmare required him to act like this.

But when Lingo saw his appearance, his expression suddenly changed slightly.

In fact, Xu Beijin has always looked like that, with expressionless face and dull eyes, as if he was always in a daze and distracted.But... But Lingo can't say well, he always feels that Xu Beijin's appearance at this time is not quite right.

Even if Xu Bei asked him a question quite normally just now.

So Ling Po hesitated for a moment, then asked him, "Are you feeling unwell?"

Xu Beijin was silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head.

"...You really don't feel well." Ringo said to himself, "Do you want to drink or eat something?"

Xu Bei twitched the corners of his mouth and tried his best not to speak.

Ringo asked him: "Is it the setting of the nightmare? It's not that you are really unwell."

Xu Beijin was startled, and looked up at him.

Lin Po stared at him for a while, his eyes were wide open, revealing a meaning that even Xu Beijin couldn't figure it out.Ringo's facial features are very good, but he always has no expression, as if he is too lazy to show any emotions to the outside world.

But he always seems to be different when it comes to Xu Beijin's affairs.

...What is this little apple thinking?

Suddenly, Ling Po rolled up his sleeves: "I understand. I'm going to deal with the owner of the nightmare now, lest you continue to suffer here." He couldn't help but said, "Why do you still have such a nightmare, but why do you want your body to die?" uncomfortable."

Xu Beijin: "..."

He held his forehead dumbfounded.

Ringo said nervously, "Are you okay?"

"Lin'o, Lin'o..." Xu Beijin said, "I have already said that if you really want to fight with me, your attitude cannot be so good, you have to be more aggressive, and you have to really let me fight. Just be angry."

Lingo was startled, and then let out a muffled oh.

At this time, he seemed quite obedient, but he couldn't help but say, "But..."

However, he seemed unable to act aggressively towards Xu Beijin.

At this time, there were no actors around them, only Wu Jian was standing not far away, barely able to hear their conversation.

...Then, Wu Jian's eyes began to widen.

Hastily!What did he hear!

melon!

Although he is a member of a mysterious organization, Wu Jian is obviously still an ordinary person, and he obviously still has a side that loves gossip.And the conversation between Lin Po and Xu Beijin made Wu Jian sigh.

Brother Ringo, I love you so much.

Wu Jian touched his eyes a little exaggeratedly, always feeling that he was about to be moved to the point of tears.

But Xu Beijin's last words made him startled.

fight?A bit more aggressive?

Wu Jian's mind was subtly filled with some not-so-clean things...

He subconsciously coughed, breaking his inappropriate reverie.

It also broke the stalemate between Xu Beijin and Lin Biao, and interrupted the sentence that Lin Biao couldn't finish.

The two looked at Wu Jian at the same time, Xu Beijin's gaze was flat, while Lingo's gaze was slightly sinister.

...He managed to catch up with Xu Beijin for a few words, and wanted to explain his thoughts, but this guy actually came to bother him? !

Wu Jian gasped, feeling that he was going to be squashed and rounded by Boss Ringo in the next second, he panicked, and hurriedly found an excuse: "That...boss, shall we continue climbing the stairs? "

climbing stairs?

Only then did Ringo remember his unfinished tasks.

Xu Beijin heaved a sigh of relief, feeling that he had escaped from the strange atmosphere with Ringo just now, so he said, "Then do you want to continue?"

Ringo glanced at him, as if to confirm something."Are you feeling all right?" he asked.

Xu Beijin opened his mouth in a daze, not understanding what Ringo was talking about: "It's... alright?"

Lingo looked at him for a while, nodded, and then said to Wu Jian, "Let's go, let's continue down. Solve this nightmare as soon as possible."

Xu Beijin thought dumbfoundingly, Lin Po thought he was not feeling well, so he wanted him to get out of this nightmare as soon as possible?

He was funny and touched at the same time, somewhat soft because of Ringo's actions.

Xu Beijin has always been soft rather than tough.

And Ringo seems to have inadvertently identified this weakness of his.So, it was obviously not Xu Beijin's business, but it gradually caught his attention, making him withdraw his attitude towards Lin Biao again and again.

When the group of mission workers on the ground floor of the narrow building surrounded his bookstore, Xu Beijin's attitude would not be so gentle.

With mixed emotions in his heart, he silently watched Lingo and Wu Jian leave here and continue to climb the stairs.

Before leaving, Lingo suddenly stopped, hesitated for a moment, but still didn't miss this opportunity, and wanted to make it clear to Xu Beijin - let this guy stop ignoring others.

Lin Po turned sideways, staring at Xu Beijin, he said: "You know... like 'I want to fight with you', I don't want to interfere with your thoughts, likewise, 'I like you', It's also mine..."

He hesitated for a long time.

In the end, he said: "It's also my wishful thinking."

Xu Beijin: "..."

...Why are you talking so bitterly?

Xu Beijin felt uncomfortable all over.

He saw the stunned expression on Wu Jian's face who was standing beside him, and felt even more tired for a moment.Can he explain clearly to Wu Jian that the meaning of Lingo's words is not what this guy understands...

he can not.

He's just an "artificial intelligence".

So he could only sigh with a headache in his heart, and nodded expressionlessly.

Ringo said again: "So don't ignore me. Don't be angry with me."

Xu Beijin was silent for a moment, only feeling that the feeling of talking to a duck was getting stronger and stronger.

He suddenly wanted to know what kind of existence he really was in Ringo's eyes?So what does it mean to like it or not?

Could Lingo really like him?

Xu Beijin felt unbelievable, and also felt that some things were developing out of control.

He was silent for a moment, and glanced at Wu Jian who was also present.It's not good to talk too deeply about the private affairs between him and Lingo in front of outsiders, it's better to wait until we get back to the Narrow Building...

So Xu Beijin just said, "I understand."

Lingo was satisfied and left with Wu Jian.

And Wu Jian has been abused by the tragic and miserable emotional experience of the boss Ringo, as well as that sentence of "wishful thinking" and another sentence of "don't ignore me", so that he silently shed tears in his heart.

Fei has always been worried about this member of the organization code-named "Wujian" who is too rich in inner drama and easily leaks secrets.

But she thought that this time it was just letting Wu Jian climb the stairs with Lingo behind, and nothing serious would happen.

however……

The situation didn't seem to be going according to Fei's script.

Moreover, it wasn't until they left the 16th floor and went down several floors that Wu Jian slapped his thigh and realized that they seemed to have missed a lot.

The 16th floor gathers so many rational-looking residents of the narrow building, and Xu Beijin, the bookstore owner, seems to be a very special floor!They should have collected a little more information there!

But it was too late to regret it now, because after they went down a few more floors, they discovered that something seemed to be subtly wrong.

They came to the 9th floor.

And Wu Jian looked down in surprise: "What's going on, the stairs are broken here?!"

In front of their eyes, the stairs leading from the 9th floor to the 8th floor had been completely broken into two pieces and completely collapsed downwards.And even if you can jump over this section of ruins with a cautious jump, the stairs below seem to be completely blocked.

Facing this completely blocked path, Wu Jian couldn't help frowning.