Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

The boy quickly pressed the door close button, while the man in the suit tried his best to kick the group of lunatics out of the elevator, and the sorceress was also helping him.

Finally, they managed to isolate the group of lunatics, but the three mission workers in the elevator were scratched and bitten several times by those lunatics on their faces and hands.

The boy frowned and looked at the wound on his arm: "Will this nightmare involve something like a virus or a disease?"

The man in the suit shrugged.

The sorceress looked at the bite marks on the back of her hand in a trance.It was bitten out desperately by a lunatic who couldn't tell the age, blood oozes out immediately, and the tooth marks are left on the back of her hand, as if being bitten mercilessly by some animal.

She couldn't help shivering, and said to herself: "Crazy, everyone here is crazy..."

No one paid attention to what she said, the boy and the man in the suit stared at the elevator control panel.

After a while, the boy wrote something on his white paper, and then he said thoughtfully: "The actual floors corresponding to the seventh floor and the 29th floor are the same... Do you think this is really the case? ?”

The man in the suit said, "Just state your conclusion."

The boy nodded, and then said, "Could it be random?"

The man in the suit touched his chin: "It's possible, but in this case...it's too difficult for the taskers on the bottom floor of the narrow building, isn't it? And, if it's really completely random, the possibility of being randomly on the same floor , isn't it smaller?"

"However, how could it be the same layer?" The young man muttered, denying his guess, and said, "...This is a game, a purely data-based world. The so-called complete randomness, in the final analysis, has its own meaning. Regular, but that is the law of machines, computers, and artificial intelligence.”

The man in the suit glanced at him, then said, "Stop talking about your 'personal opinion', we're in a nightmare now."

"...I mean, the only reason we're randomized to the same floor is that," said the teenager, "it's pseudo-random."

"So?" The man in the suit said impatiently, "It still doesn't explain why we came to the same floor for the second time..."

Suddenly, the witch interrupted them: "Why do you think this is the same floor?"

Both the boy and the man in the suit were startled.

The sorceress said: "What if the different floors are full of lunatics?"

The man in the suit frowned, then nodded in agreement: "You are right."

The young man glared at the sorceress, and said angrily: "You guessed it a long time ago, and then deliberately asked us to discuss the possibility of being wrong, so you can enjoy the show yourself?"

The sorceress ignored the yin and yang of these two people, she just muttered to herself: "This building is filled with... an aura of madness... In the true sense, madness."

The young man sneered, for a person who values ​​reason and objective laws like this, he has always hated such a nagging guy like a sorceress.

Of course, there is an atmosphere of madness in this building, all of them are fucking lunatics!

The man in the suit became even more irritable after knowing that the boy had been slapped in the face. At this time, he simply turned his head and ignored the guy. He looked at the elevator control panel, and then said, "It seems that it is still necessary to try again."

This is a normal decision, and the other two taskers nodded.

The man in the suit pressed the 32nd floor. When they pressed this button last time, they went to the 24th floor, safely and stopped at the No. [-] elevator.

But this time, after the elevator opened, what they saw was not the 24th floor, but the 20th floor with large bloodstains on the ground.

"It's still safe." The boy who turned around the 20th floor said, "Except for the blood on the ground. The blood is quite fresh, and the source is from the elevator... This means that there is an elevator full of dead bodies? "

The man in the suit shook his head, indicating that he was unclear, and then turned to another clue: "There is also an elevator on this floor."

He said "also" because the last time they pressed the button on the 32nd floor, they had harvested the second elevator; and now they have harvested the third elevator.

The boy sneered and said, "Does this mean that this button will definitely take us to a certain floor with an elevator?"

He turned his head to look at the witch, with a sense of ridicule and sarcasm, and wanted the witch to express her views on such a metaphysical matter, but found that the witch was standing in front of a certain wall, looking at something on the ground .

The boy walked over.

It was a group photo, which was originally hung on the wall, but it may have fallen down because of the catastrophe not long ago, and even the glass frame was smashed to pieces.

The teenager picked up the photo and spread it flat on the wall.

With clues, he didn't bother to care about the witch.

He murmured a few words on the photo: "Gaoge... what company, all the employees of the sales department and some family members took a group photo." In the dim light, he narrowed his eyes and carefully identified the people above, " Hey, isn't this the little girl? The one next to her is her mother? Why is this picture here?"

The little girl's hiding place is obviously on the 31st floor, but this photo appears on the 20th floor... It doesn't make sense to be so far away.

and……

The young man looked at the photo a little strangely, and then suddenly glanced at the old lady again: "Hey, old lady, do you feel..."

The woman in the photo looks a bit like you?

In addition, on the wrist of the little girl, she wore a bracelet similar to the one given to her by the sorceress.

But... isn't this just something from a nightmare?Why is it on this photo?Is it a coincidence, or... is this nightmare a deliberate fusion of these things?

One, chaotic and unreasonable dream world?

Just like what the sorceress said, this nightmare is already full of real, crazy?That is, madness that is not controlled and driven by reason?

The boy looked at the witch.

But the witch showed a frightened and terrifying expression.She may not have imagined that one day her face would appear in a photograph in a nightmare.This kind of thing...this kind of thing...how could it happen?

She uttered a cry of surprise, then shivered and took two steps back, her eyes were still fixed on the photo, the corners of her eyes had already started to twitch, her complexion turned pale in an instant.

She seemed to have seen something unbelievable, and she didn't even think that it might just be a trick used by nightmares.

She was stunned for a moment, then turned around and ran out suddenly, as if she was trying to escape some evil spirit.She almost instinctively thought of the elevator. This small place, where they had just stopped, made her feel a little safe.

So she rushed to the elevator room immediately, desperately pressed the door open button, and then hid in the elevator.

When the shocked man in suit and the boy chased after him, they saw that there was only one elevator staying in the elevator room on the 20th floor, and the sorceress no longer knew where she had gone.

"Damn it!" the boy cursed, "She must be sick! Can NE's tricks scare her to this extent?!"

The man in the suit excused the witch: "You know, the witch has become crazy after using that item card."

The young man sneered, and said, "Even so... she is still a higher-level tasker." He looked at the elevator critically, and suddenly frowned, "Did she enter the elevator that stopped on the 20th floor?"

After finishing speaking, he cursed: "Fuck!"

The man in the suit didn't care much, he shrugged: "That's fine, someone is going to scout the way."

The young man snorted, "Do you think she can explore the way in that state?" He shook his head, took out the piece of paper by himself, and then wrote and wrote, he finally brought up the matter, "You I think that photo..."

The audience in the live broadcast room paid attention to the whereabouts of the sorceress, but at the same time, they were particularly surprised because of the existence of that photo.

At this moment, Lingo and Wu Jian had already left the 16th floor.

On the one hand, it is because apart from these survivors on the 16th floor, there are actually no clues worth exploring.

On the other hand, it is because Ringo adheres to the view that the master who solves the nightmare is the master who solves the nightmare, and is determined to find the master of the nightmare as soon as possible.

Therefore, they decided to explore each floor starting from the 16th floor.After all, they have already finished the stairs, and the nightmare has not yet restarted, which means that the rest of the taskers are still looking for clues.

With Lingo around, Wu Jian naturally feels a sense of security in an instant.

In fact, Lingo originally wanted to take Xu Beijin away with him. After all, in this nightmare, he realized for the first time that Xu Beijin would also be uncomfortable sometimes—except for the psychological sleepiness caused by lack of sleep.

This kind of situation made Lin Biao inexplicably want to pay attention to Xu Beijin all the time, wishing he could carry it with him.

But Lingo also considered that since Xu Beijin was not feeling well, let him rest on the 16th floor.From the current point of view, the 16th floor seems to be like a refuge in this building.

So he left with Wu Jian, leaving Xu Beijin sitting there, quite dumbfounded.

However, even though Xu Beijin didn't say anything, he actually felt quite useful in his heart.

It's always good to feel someone cares.

… Xu Beijin secretly wondered if he had been boiled in warm water by Lin Po.

But soon, what happened to the other taskers in the live broadcast room made him forget about Lingo's matter and concentrate on thinking about the clues about this nightmare.

To be honest, although the clues he revealed to Mu Jiashi at the beginning made Mu Jiashi successfully achieve the true ending of this nightmare, in fact Xu Beijin is not particularly clear about the true ending of this nightmare and the truth behind it.

The clues he revealed to Mu Jiashi at the beginning were actually very simple, that is, "the 16th floor is a safe zone, and there are clues."

After all, his most basic understanding of this nightmare, as well as the part that the mastermind allowed him to reveal and hint, was only this.

As for how Mu Jiashi played the real ending, he didn't have a live broadcast system to let him cheat, so it was impossible to open his eyes and see it directly.

He once had some communication with the owner of this nightmare, but it was also when some taskers found the resident of the narrow building, and then brought her to the 16th floor, and then it happened without the taskers not paying attention. Have a conversation.

His understanding of this nightmare is more about the whole than the details.

So, after two "subtle déjà vu" happened one after another, especially after the witch's face appeared in the company photo, he felt a little surprised.

This nightmare... looks quite interesting?

The audience in the live broadcast room was arguing fiercely.

"This is not the first time! There are only three incidents. There must be a reason for this phenomenon, and it cannot be a coincidence!"

"You've said it all...but the question is, what's the point? How does this solve this nightmare?"

"Uh, if everything hints at the ending and the truth of the nightmare, will it be to some extent that the taskers will be able to reproduce the actions of the original owner of the nightmare, thereby hinting at the whereabouts of the owner of their nightmare?"

"!! Makes sense!"

"My mother, the new reasoning boss has stepped up!"

"So, the owner of the nightmare is the little girl's mother? Her nightmare is that she brought her daughter to the company, but something happened outside, and she left her daughter alone in the office, and she never returned?"

"The emm details seem to be a lot worse."

"It seems that it's not just that? What happened to my daughter may have caused her regret or self-loathing, but the core image of the nightmare is still fear?"

"So she is still afraid of this building?"

"Judging from the various scenarios encountered by the missionaries, I can understand this fear..."

"...Thanks, I'm starting to get scared again."

"You are ashamed to be the audience of the horror game live broadcast!"

"By the way, do Beibei have any ideas?"

In front of the live broadcast room, Xu Bei regained his composure.In fact, he has been watching the audience's barrage, thinking about the content of their discussion, but he is also thinking about other things, which makes him a little distracted.

However, he still saw the voices of the audience in time, and after thinking for a while, he spoke out the question he was considering.

He said: "I agree with what the audience said just now. But the question I'm thinking about is, when the taskers enter the nightmare, is the owner of the nightmare already going through everything, or is it in progress?

"To put it simply, did they come to the past of the nightmare master, or the present?

"If it's the former, then their final destination should be where the nightmare master is; however, when things with a 'déjà vu' appear in the nightmare, it seems that they have also participated in the experience of the nightmare master middle.

"And if it's the latter, then they may not be able to find the owner of the nightmare immediately, but should collect clues along the way; but this also cannot explain why the little girl has been left behind by her mother.

"So a more appropriate explanation is that these two conditions actually coexist.

"The things in the nightmare happened in the past, and they are the past memories of the nightmare owner. When the nightmare owner had this nightmare, it seemed that he was re-experiencing everything in the past, but he clearly knew that this was what happened in the past.

"That's why taskers can both participate and not participate."

Xu Beijin hinted at some clues in his words.

The audience seemed to understand.

"It seems... makes sense?"

"...That is to say, to some extent, the taskers 'intervened' in the experience of the original nightmare owner? They didn't participate completely, but only occasionally intervened in it, and the time of intervention was, 'the sense of déjà vu '."

"The tasker is not just a player's role in the nightmare?"

"Damn, I finally understand. This group of taskers seems to be playing a role-playing game! Their 'déjà vu' seems to be participating in the main plot of the game!"

"This metaphor is really simple, crude and easy to understand. This game is like the kind of game that travels through someone's dream, goes back and replays the things he has encountered, so as to understand and untie the knot...? "

"...I understood it at first, but when you said it, I didn't understand it again."

"? I never understood. My brain hurts."

"!!! What Bei Bei said makes sense, I understand it!"

"What did the reasoning boss realize, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Cough, sorry, I was typing just now. What Bei Bei said woke me up immediately.

"I was thinking before that the three missionaries in the No. 20 elevator found a large area of ​​fresh blood on the ground on the [-]th floor that originated from the elevator room.

"In this case, does it mean that this is the trace of the mission workers of the No. [-] elevator before?

"Elevator No. 21 found dried blood on the ground on the [-]st floor, then went up one or two floors, found a sea of ​​blood, and then went down a section to pour out the blood in the elevator.

"If the place they go to for the second time is the 21th floor below the 20st floor, then the problem of the elevator running for the same length of time can be solved.

"From this point of view, the taskers are actually 'creating' the scene in this nightmare; and what's the point?

"If you interpret it according to Beibei's words, or the so-called 'role-playing game', if the quest players seem to be participating in the 'main storyline', then everything is understandable!

"After the floor button of the elevator is pressed, the floor it goes to is completely random-this is superficial speculation. What if the floor the elevator goes to is determined according to the order of whereabouts of the owner of the nightmare?

"The whereabouts of the nightmare masters are their 'main plot' and their road signs, and the floor buttons in the elevator have no effect on the actual floors they go to!

"That is to say, if they actually want to go to floor 12345 in order, then no matter whether they press 12345 or 12345, they will eventually go to floor [-]. And this '[-]' is a nightmare The original whereabouts of the owner.

"In other words, the so-called elevator button will be pressed completely randomly, but it is actually an illusion that confuses the eyes! Even if they press it casually, the floor they will actually go to will not change, it is 'destined'."

Speaking of this, many viewers suddenly realized, and even Xu Beijin felt that his thoughts had been clarified a lot.Sure enough, it is very helpful to have someone to think and talk with.

In fact, just now, the boy's words also reminded him.

Nightmare is still a data-based game in essence. The so-called "completely random" is still pseudo-random.

Moreover, the logical direction of the nightmare itself must be for the tasker to solve this nightmare. Therefore, what the tasker sees and experiences must have its meaning.

And if it is "completely random", it is difficult to control the actual encounter of the player.From this perspective, the game "Escape from Heaven" is similar to other games in reality.

Based on this logic, everything that missionaries encounter in their nightmares has a purpose, so their experiences so far cannot be "completely random", and there must be some patterns.

And if this rule is applied to the story of the nightmare itself, then people can't help thinking, maybe their experience is also the experience of the owner of the nightmare?

This can also explain why there is that inexplicable and very subtle sense of déjà vu.

However, some viewers also thought of a question: "However, there are already three elevators. Which elevator is going to be the whereabouts of the owner of the nightmare?"

This is indeed a troublesome thing, but Xu Beijin also thought about it just now.

He looked at the rest of the actors on the 16th floor, lowered his voice slightly to ensure that no one could hear him when he spoke, and then answered the question: "I think we should only pay attention to those things that bring a subtle sense of déjà vu. OK.

"That is, for example, the three people in elevator No. [-] threw the little girl, and the three people in elevator No. [-] splashed blood on the ground, etc. This is actually the real core event they experienced, or as the audience just said Yes, 'main plot'.

"The node of the core event is the most important, and it is also really related to the whereabouts of the nightmare owner.

"And those lunatics, the corpses on the ceiling, and the sea of ​​blood seem to be all this nightmare, or this building, some of the horror scenes that come with it, can also be said to be 'side lines', which should not be directly related to the truth of this nightmare .

"In addition, there is another angle that can confirm this point, that is, the actions of mission workers cannot be completely controlled. It may be that the floors they go to are fixed, but there is no one at all for what they do on the floors. will know.

"But the two things mentioned above are not the same.

"When they meet a little girl on the 31st floor, out of rational considerations, they are unlikely to take the little girl with them; and even if they want to take the little girl, maybe the mastermind will arrange that the little girl is not willing to go with them.

"In other words, this matter can be guaranteed to proceed according to what happened at the beginning.

"The same is true for the latter thing. The questers must go to the floor with the sea of ​​blood, the elevator must be flooded with blood, and the questers must want to let the blood flow out... So, things happened naturally.

"From this point of view, after the taskers press the elevator button, the floor they go to is still somewhat random, but it will inevitably allow them to 'reproduce' what happened at the beginning, and go through the experience of the nightmare owner. encounter.

"Through these 'recurrence' things, there is a high probability that they will be able to find the location of the owner of the nightmare, and then solve this nightmare.

"and……"

Xu Beijin pondered for a moment, then said: "It is very possible that the order of the Nightmare Master's experience is not in the order of the actual experience of this group of taskers, but is broken up.

"As for the rules, it's hard to say. Maybe we'll know when they experience all the 'reproduced' scenes in the elevator."

Xu Beijin roughly stated his thoughts.

"Beibei's words are wonderful!"

"I've realized it! Beibei and the reasoning boss made me realize it!"

"It seems that I can understand what the general meaning is, but I don't quite understand..."

"Although I don't understand your reasoning process, I understand the result! That is, if you have to ride all six elevators, you will know the truth!"

"Actually, you don't have to sit through all of them... It still depends on the game process planned and arranged."

"I think according to the maliciousness of this game's planning..."

"To put it simply, this group of taskers is experiencing the fragments that the owner of the nightmare once encountered!"

"That's right! I understand the word 'fragment' immediately!"

"...Suddenly felt a bit chilly. It feels like the actions of these taskers are actually all under the control of the mastermind NE."

"Crap, haven't you heard of psychology? [dog head]"

"Even if you haven't heard of psychology, you must know the profession of game planning!"

"I still have a question... What Beibei and the reasoning boss said can indeed explain the two visual events just now, but in that photo, the face of the witch appeared there, and there was a little girl The bracelet you're wearing...that's too weird."

"+1, I also don't understand why this happens."

"It feels like the only possibility is that the mastermind intentionally scares people, right?"

"Laughing to death, maybe the sorcerer is the cosplayer? She got mixed into the group of taskers?"

"If I hadn't heard that the sorceress is a higher-level task force and has a small reputation, I would have believed your statement."

"Hey, trouble. One problem is solved, and a new one pops up."

Xu Beijin remained silent.

He has his own opinion about why the witch's face appeared in that photo, but he couldn't share it with the audience in the live broadcast room.

His eyes fell on the quiet but burning ruins of the city outside the window.

The doomsday realm where heavenly fire descends...

He was slightly absent-minded.

On the screen of the live broadcast room, the audience had completely given up thinking about this question, and they continued to discuss with great interest the guesses put forward by Xu Beijin and the reasoning master just now.

That is indeed a very reasonable possibility.

"However," the reasoning boss said regretfully, "the taskers don't have the perspective of God like us. I don't know when they will discover this.

"The second round? The third round? Or, after the nightmare collapsed?"