When the task force was present, Xu Bei couldn't speak at all, but the reasoning boss just helped solve the siege and typed his own inference on the public screen.

"In this nightmare, time has always been a very important factor.

"In a dark bedroom, there is a one-minute interval between each round of reporting; driving from the promenade to the service area, the fastest speed is three minutes; the nightmare collapses, and the indiscriminate killing of the black man causes the nightmare to restart in exactly five minutes. …

"This information requires the taskists to pay attention to the time all the time, and as the nightmare collapses, the fault tolerance rate is getting lower and lower.

"I thought before that in this nightmare, by noticing the tension in time, you can successfully pass the nightmare; but now it seems that it is far from enough to have a true ending!

"Because, as the nightmare collapses, the time of the nightmare itself flows!

"In other words, when the nightmare restarts, everything in the nightmare is restored to its original state; but starting from the fifth round of nightmares, the scenes and events in the nightmare are no longer the initial state, and they will also change!

"In the beginning, the murderer was at large, then the police issued a wanted warrant, and then the police narrowed the scope of the search, and the arrests were being carried out... These were all caused by the passage of time in the nightmare.

"This should be the fifth round of nightmare, and it will change along with the collapse of the nightmare.

"But this brings up an interesting question.

"Why does the man in black start to kill indiscriminately in the fifth round of nightmares? I thought at first that this was caused by the collapse of the nightmare.

"But it doesn't seem to be the case now. If the time in the nightmare starts to flow, at this point in time, the man in black is the murderer on the run... which makes me wonder if he escaped to this service area and then started to kill. ?

"In other words, not only those fixed scenes and information have changed, this kind of time flow can even affect the actions of NPCs (or players?) in the game! Their behaviors will also change!

"In this way, I guess that the next change in the nightmare may be that the police surrounded the service area and prepared to arrest the murderer, while the people in black would continue to resist and continue to kill.

"...It's not good.

"It stands to reason that the magnitude and speed of the changes must be getting bigger and bigger in the future, and it is very likely that the next round of nightmares, the situation will be completely different. This problem is a bit serious.

"Another point is that this change happened after the nightmare collapsed... that is to say, if the nightmare does not collapse, then the tasker is destined to not be able to obtain this information, and it is impossible to get through the true ending!

"Even if it is the second time to enter the nightmare challenge, I still doubt whether a true ending can be achieved when the nightmare is normal and time is frozen.

"...That's pretty much what I thought of."

The analysis of the reasoning boss stunned several viewers in the live broadcast room.

"Damn, I feel the malicious intent of game planning."

"In other words, if you want to get through this nightmare, you have to wait until after the fifth round? What's the difference between this and the nightmare of the doll shop owner who had to get the item card before you can play the true ending? It's all conditions that I can't even think of. what!"

"It was really lucky..."

"I want to ask, if this kind of change will also affect the actors, why don't we have any changes in North?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

...Because he is just a group acting!

The cashier in the supermarket and the man in black are obviously important supporting roles in the nightmare; Xu Beijin is just an insignificant group performance, a tool man who takes care of the newspaper and sends the information in the newspaper to the hands of the taskers. .

Xu Beijin believed that there must be a group performance like him at the gas station, and he just sat there watching TV in a daze, in order to let the taskers notice the news on the TV.

This is just a way for the main brain to prompt the tasker, and there are clues here.

Xu Beijin has been playing in countless nightmares, paddling and playing fish in the water, and he knows everything like this.

However, when the audience in the live broadcast room raised it up, he still felt a little embarrassed and touched his nose unconsciously.

Seeing his performance, the audience laughed again.

However, this barrage and Xu Beijin's reaction seemed to prompt the reasoning boss.

He replied a little surprised: "Yes...Why hasn't Beibei changed. So, the actors are also hierarchical?"

Xu Bei thought to himself, you guessed it.

Because the reasoning boss always insisted on guessing some settings of this game by himself, other audiences were also led away by him. At this time, they discussed the game settings of "Escape from the Sky", including their north in this game. What is the status of China?

Xu Beijin did not participate in their conversation. On the contrary, he raised his head and looked at the two taskers in front of him.

Mu Jiashi said: "...time."

He also realized the problem of time, and thought of another problem further.

He said: "But this is a nightmare." He muttered to himself, "The time of the nightmare is flowing, but it is absolutely impossible to exceed the time of reality...that is, although the event is going on in the nightmare, it is still in the past. Things that happened."

He thought in silence.

The selfish ghost suddenly said, "What do you think will end?"

Mu Jiashi returned to his senses: "What?"

"The man in black is the kid's father." The selfish ghost shrugged and said, "Didn't the police arrest him? Is he caught?"

Mu Jiashi was startled, and a guess faintly emerged in his heart.

At this time, there was a noisy sound from the central flower bed outside, mixed with the scream of a little boy.

Mu Jiashi immediately put aside the rest of his distracting thoughts and hurriedly left the bookstore—the third child and they arrived with the little boy!

The little boy screamed because he saw the man in black, but the moment he appeared, the man in black suddenly disappeared. This peculiar scene made the little boy's scream choked in his throat, bewildered.

The youngest's eyes lit up and said to himself: "Eleven minutes!"

In the fourth round of nightmare, when the little boy appeared in the service area, the man in black also disappeared, and then it took twelve minutes to reach the deepest supermarket in the service area again.

In the view of the third child, the man in black should have restarted from the dark bedroom, waited for the eight-minute count time to end, and then spent another three minutes rushing from the promenade to the service area via the road, which is a total of eleven minutes.

In the fourth round of nightmares, the man in black still needs to walk from outside the service area to the supermarket, so it takes another half to one minute to walk, a total of twelve minutes.

But now they are in the central flower bed, so it is more appropriate to calculate the time based on eleven minutes.

In the nightmare that this time must be extraordinarily accurate, the youngest doesn't want the slightest error.

Hearing the third child's muttering to himself, Mu Jiashi asked strangely: "What eleven minutes?"

He noticed the disappearance of the man in black—and Ringo. After the man in black disappeared, he walked inside by himself. After all, the open space at the central flower bed at this time was too crowded.

Not only crowded, but chaotic. The conversations of taskers, the cries of injured residents of the narrow building, and the men in black who suddenly disappeared.

The intricate information made Mu Jiashi too late to think about the reasons for the disappearance of the man in black and what the third child meant. He is still considering the question of time and the question raised by the selfish ghost—has the man in black been arrested?

The third child explained to him that he guessed his whereabouts based entirely on the time of action of the man in black. He added: "However, I don't know why, as soon as the little boy arrives at the service area, the man in black has to start from the beginning."

A certain factor in this sentence touched Mu Jiashi's nerves.

He looked at the little boy abruptly.

The little boy was still hiding behind Ding Yi timidly. At the age of ten, he is not like a little man because he is timid and crying. But if he considers what happened to him, such a performance is also pitiful.

When Mu Jiashi looked at the little boy, the man who had devoted himself to the nightmare puzzle-solving process did not care about his pitiful encounter at all, but finally wanted to understand one thing.

After a moment, he took a deep breath, nodded to the third child, and said, "You said there is a safe time of eleven minutes, so let's analyze the current situation."

The taskers didn't pay attention, Dai Wu leaned on the railing of the corridor and looked at them with interest.

Mu Jiashi first explained the two findings they had just made in the service area—including the changes in the news in the newspapers and the news reports on the TVs of gas stations.

The third child and Ding Yi nodded thoughtfully.

Mu Jiashi said: "And what you just said, when the little boy arrived in the service area, the man in black started from the beginning, which reminded me of the third-level definition of time in this nightmare."

The task force, including the audience in the live broadcast room, looked at him blankly.

Only a few people, their eyes brightened, could not help but secretly exclaimed.

Mu Jiashi continued: "Three-layer definition... Rather, it is three-layer connotation.

"The first level, the urgency of time.

"In this nightmare, everything we do has a corresponding and definite length of time. One minute, three minutes, five minutes, seven minutes and eight minutes, all of which are accurate to the second.

"Therefore, in our actions, we must pay special attention to the issue of time. This is also the easiest layer to notice.

"The second layer, the fluidity of time.

"The nightmare comes to the fifth round, and the time in the nightmare will move forward. The police will issue a wanted warrant, the murderer will kill innocent people during the escape, and the police will start to arrest the fugitive.

"In addition, the residents of the narrow building will also restore their memories. This is also a point worth studying. Why does he restore his memories now, but not in the previous rounds?

"Because the time of the previous rounds was fixed and fixed at one point in time. Each round of nightmare is a new beginning, so of course he will not remember us.

"However, when time changes and jumps to the next point in time, then the previous rounds of our questioning will become the established past, and will not start again and will not change. Naturally, the residents of narrow buildings will also have This memory.

"However, the chaos of the nightmare may make his memories complex and confusing; for example, the cashier, he remembers at the same time what happened in the third and fourth rounds.

"The fluidity of time will give us more information, but it will also increase the risk. Anyway, this meaning will be discovered naturally when we enter the fifth round of nightmare.

"The third layer, the cyclicality of time.

"This level is the third child, you reminded me, I didn't realize it before.

"The cyclicality I am talking about here does not mean the restart of the nightmare, but rather... the several scenes we have experienced, dark bedrooms, promenades, parking lots, highways, and service areas. This is a linear cycle process. In fact, they are arranged according to the process of the death of the little boy’s mother.

"The dark bedroom can point to home. The family started from home, passed the promenade, drove from the parking lot to the highway, and took a break when passing the service area. Then the husband and wife quarreled, continued to drive on the highway, and returned home—and then The death of the mother.

"In the little boy's nightmare, such a process loops infinitely. His nightmare is the death of his mother, and his nightmare is the endless cycle of death. And home is the beginning and the end.

"Then we can analyze the behavior patterns of the little boy and the man in black.

"The boy's starting point is the bedroom, and it is the bedroom where the murder is in progress. This can be verified by the screams of women we heard during the second round.

"But when he came out of the bedroom, that was after the murder, that is, the mother died, and the road to death was restarted again. When the little boy set off, the mother had not been killed yet.

"Then look at the man in black. The starting point of the man in black is the promenade. This may be before he killed his wife, or after he killed his wife. Judging from the situation that he was chasing us directly with a machete, this should be It was his escape route after he killed his wife.

"There is a question here. Why does the little boy's route not include his father's escape route after his mother's death? I'll talk about this later.

"In short, the escape route of the man in black is also from the promenade to the parking lot, driving to the service area, and then mostly hidden in the service area.

"The fifth round of the nightmare changed. The black-clothed man slaughtered in the service area. This is proof of the fluidity of time. The purpose may be to retaliate against his wife's derailment. Then the police discovered his whereabouts and began to arrest him. action.

"This is the course of action of the little boy and the man in black. But this creates a contradiction.

"When the little boy and the man in black appeared in the service area at the same time, the little boy's route on this side, the mother was not dead; but on the side of the black man, he had already killed someone and started to flee!

"The little boy is the owner of the nightmare. His route is fixed and the only thing that can change is the man in black. The man in black needs to match his route to the boy’s route, that is, the boy’s mother There is no case of death.

"So... I think, in this ten minutes' time, he didn't go back to the dark bedroom to report the count for eight minutes—that is, the process of killing. He must match the boy's route before he can return to the service area.

"In this case, he should have repeated the process of packing their luggage, preparing to set off, and getting from home to the service area, and this process may also take more than ten minutes!"

Hearing this, the youngest hesitated for a while, and still asked: "However, when he came here, he went straight to the murder..."

"In my opinion, the man in black does not completely symbolize the little boy's father." At this point, Mu Jiashi couldn't help but pause, and some thoughts flashed in his mind, "He still has a mask under his mask, which means he is just The product of the nightmare of the little boy, his image has been fixed as a murderer, and he will definitely carry a machete all the time, ready to kill at any time."

The third child frowned, but stopped talking. He felt that Mu Jiashi's explanation for this matter was somewhat far-fetched, but it seemed that there was no better explanation.

However, in response to Mu Jiashi's previous statement, he still put forward a bit of his own opinion: "I think the flow of time should only occur outside the dark bedroom. In the fifth and sixth rounds of nightmares, we still need to report. "

"It's true." Mu Jiashi nodded confidently, "Just like I said, the bedroom is the starting point and the end point, and it's frozen at the moment when the little boy's mother died."

The youngest nodded thoughtfully and maintained his approval.

The rest of the taskers also showed expressions of amazement and convincing.

In the live broadcast room, the reasoning boss nodded wildly.

The rest of the audience: "My mind is knotted."

Such a sharp contrast made Xu Bei couldn't help but tolerate his laughter.

"Beibei, don't laugh anymore. When you smile, I think I am the number one idiot in the world."

"I'm not the same. I thought I understood a little bit, but Beibei smiled and I suspected that I didn't understand."

"I can't say that, I think I've been despised by Beibei for IQ."

"Beibei's smile is really... hugely lethal."

Xu Beijin: "..."

Is this his intention?

this is not!

But anyway, he understood Mu Jiashi's words.

Everyone was convinced, but the selfish ghost said, "I have a problem."

"what is the problem?"

The selfish ghost scratched his hair: "I said... the nightmare itself is illogical? Is it useful for you to analyze so much?"

Mu Jiashi: "..."

He just wanted to clarify everything that happened in the nightmare!

The second brother rolled his eyes and sneered, "I know why you are a lone wolf."

The selfish ghost laughed: "Why, it's not enough to point out the mistake?"

Mu Jiashi took a deep breath, and didn't bother to bother with selfish ghosts—seriously, thanks to the narrow building, taskers couldn't kill each other.

He turned to the youngest and said: "The important problem now is that if we can't solve this nightmare in this round, then if we push forward in the round of nightmare time, we will gradually lose the initiative!"

The old third nodded, hesitatingly said: "I understand what you mean, but..."

He also knew that the information they had now would gradually become unworthy as the nightmare passed by, because they had no idea what the nightmare would change next, and what kind of situation they would face.

Mu Jiashi hopes to take the initiative, which means that he hopes to be in front of the nightmare and know in advance what will happen to the nightmare.

But... this sounds very difficult.

Mu Jiashi said: "I just said that there is a question why the boy's route does not include his father's escape route." He paused again, and added, "On the TV at the gas station, it was said that the police were rounding up and killing people. Commit."

The old third nodded, and then he was taken aback and suddenly realized: "You mean, his father was arrested! The road to escape is a path of no return, so it can't be included in the infinite loop!"

Mu Jiashi nodded: "The other thing is that when his father fled, he didn't take the little boy with him. Of course, it is impossible to become a little boy's route without experience."

He was silent for a while, and after thinking for a moment, he said again: "The little boy is the master of nightmares. The scenes, routes, and time of these nightmares are all based on him. Therefore, even if his father is arrested, when he starts to have nightmares again When the time comes, the man in black will also reappear...this is more reasonable."

"Don't worry about reasonableness or unreasonable!" The second brother said impatiently, "In short, what you mean is that in the next round of nightmares, the situation is likely to change again. Is the murderer already arrested?"

Mu Jiashi nodded: "I think so."

The selfish ghost sneered, and he said, "Why can't it be back to the beginning?"

This question made Mu Jiashi stunned, he hesitated for a moment, and did not answer immediately.

Yes, with the restart of the nightmare, the time of this nightmare is also moving forward.

But who can guarantee that the nightmare time will not go back?

As the selfish ghosts said before, nightmares are always illogical. They want to make the nightmares logical and reasonable, but the result is not necessarily what they want.

The selfish ghost said contemptuously: "You really are a trash."

The boss let out a hey, and began to draw his sleeves.

Mu Jiashi stopped him and gave a wry smile: "You are right." He sighed for a long time and wiped his face. The confident look just disappeared from his face and returned to it again. When I first came to this nightmare, I was discouraged, "Don't listen to me, I am a failed tasker."

The third child hesitated but stopped.

He could see that Mu Jiashi might have some knots, but...

In places like the narrow building, comforting words are not so easy to utter. People are always wary, jealous and suspicious of each other.

In the end, the third child remained silent.

In the center of the flower bed, several taskers fell into a suffocating silence.

In the live broadcast room, the audience was at a loss for their performance, and they knocked out the barrage and asked: "They are too serious too! Isn't it just playing a game!"

Xu Bei hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said: "This is not the same, you know, the game "Escape from the Sky"..."

He is testing.

He wanted to know what the so-called "games that only the anchor can play" in the mouth of these audiences really meant.

And the audience was hooked foolishly.

"Ah, too. This kind of game that is not open to the outside world is always more serious."

"I don't know what this game is like... I've heard of similar games before, and I feel that the players are in such a serious atmosphere. It's like there is a life or death event."

"Maybe it was forced to make a living [laughing and crying]"

"It's a pity that the anchor will sign a non-disclosure agreement...Although it can be broadcast live, nothing can be disclosed. Hey, I'm very angry. It's clear that it can be broadcast live, why don't you want to reveal some truth?"

"Maybe the big reasoning guy can reason out?"

"I can't... This kind of confidentiality agreement is very harsh, and the anchor can't speak without speaking. Alas, I suddenly felt that Beibei was so dumb, and he revealed so much information unknowingly."

"The requirements for anchors are so high, in fact, many big anchors are unwilling to broadcast. Only newcomers like Beibei will step on this kind of big pit...uuuu, I love Beibei."

"Maybe Beibei's live broadcast room will mysteriously disappear in the future..."

"Stop talking, I'm scared."

Xu Beijin: "..."

He was crazy.

This group of viewers seems to have said a lot, there are piles of barrage on the public screen, but they are useless!

He wanted to know what the outside world had become now. He wanted to know where the humans who entered the narrow building were going, and whether the outside world knew about them.

The only information available is probably...

Are there other games like "Escape from the Sky"?

But what does this mean? It means that there is another group of people, just like them, who have suffered in other games and have no way to escape?

Xu Beijin felt a deeper despair.

For these ordinary viewers, they don't know what happened, and they don't even know what the game screens they watch, as well as the players, all represent.

And Xu Beijin couldn't reveal the truth to them either.

At this moment, both the central flower bed and the bookstore are all in silence.