In the end, it was the dead ghost who broke the deadlock.

He is not as arrogant and overbearing as the selfish ghost, he is not as resourceful as Mu Jiashi, the third child, and Ding Yi, and he is not out of the ordinary like the boss, the second brother and Ringo.

He wanted to leave this nightmare. If possible, even go to a higher floor.

So, he took a deep breath and said every word: "So... shall we wait here for the man in black to come over?"

After a period of inactivity, the youngest still couldn't stand it anymore, and he hesitated to answer: "What else, is there any information we haven't found?"

He looked at Mu Jiashi.

Mu Jiashi took a deep breath, whispered sorry, and then said: "I have a problem." He pointed to the little boy, "When you saw this little boy in the narrow building, he had What special place?"

This question made the eldest, second and third stunned.

The third child looked at the little boy, was at a loss for a moment, frowned and replied, "Nothing special."

"Did he say anything?"

"Neither." The third child shook his head, "That's it. When the three of us met this little boy, he shrank in the corner and shivered. We bumped into him by accident, and then he ran away.

"Because we heard a string of numbers in his mouth, we thought it was a clue to a nightmare, so we chased it up, but then he disappeared when he ran to... near Lord Ringo's house."

Mu Jiashi asked with some doubts: "Then how do you know where his portal is?"

"Coincidence coincidence. Later, we were unwilling to reconcile, and we drove around where the little boy was squatting before, and then just saw him run out of the house." The third child explained, "I tried it at night and entered a nightmare. "

Mu Jiashi was silent.

The third child asked tentatively: "Do you think there is any problem in this?"

Mu Jiashi shook his head, and he looked at Ringo again, because Ringo was standing a little far away at this time, so he raised his voice slightly: "Big brother... Have you ever met this little boy before?"

Ringo returned to his senses, glanced at the little boy, and nodded: "I have seen it."

"Did he say anything?"

"I remember... he said that there was a supermarket in his nightmare, so I thought about coming to his nightmare." Ringo said, "I want to see what drinks he has."

This sentence can be described as shocking the few taskers present. Some were surprised that Ringo said about drinks, some were surprised, the little boy actually said that there was a supermarket in his nightmare?

The third child was nervous again and asked anxiously: "Big brother, what on earth did he say, can you elaborate on it?"

Ringo nodded. In his nightmare this time, his temper was quite good-Xu Beijin was rather desperate about this.

Ringo said: "The little boy ran over and I was about to go out. He hit me and apologized to me. I said I was going to buy a drink and told him to let the road go; then he said, the day my mother died, It was also because I was going to the supermarket to buy drinks, so I quarreled with my dad.

"Then he started crying, as if reading a string of numbers. Then someone came after him and he ran away."

Mu Jiashi's eyes lit up and looked at the little boy. The little boy still looked at all the adults timidly.

The boss has a bit of a disintegration: "We chased this little kid for half an hour, and he was there chanting a series of numbers. As a result... he was so behaved in the face of the boss?! And apologize?!"

At this time, a sentence could not help but emerge in his mind: These days, even the NPCs in the game are bullying and fearing hardship.

Although he knew that the reason might be because Ringo mentioned the drink, which triggered the boy's mechanism to answer questions, and thus obtained such a piece of information, but...

But still very grumpy!

Does even such a child know how to do it!

The boss's mentality is not broken, others can't control it.

Mu Jiashi muttered to himself: "That's right. Why did they come to this service area? Why would there be a supermarket in the boy's nightmare.

“If it’s just because the parents quarreled in the supermarket, the supermarket might not appear in the nightmare. However, it is precisely because the mother wants to buy drinks for the son, which indirectly leads to the parents’ quarrel, so...the little boy’s nightmare, there will be a supermarket. This scene.

"He's here, blame yourself."

All taskers focused on the little boy.

The little boy has always had that timid expression, hiding behind Ding Yi, as if he felt excessive fear and resistance to everything in this world.

The master of his nightmare is actually very special. The owner of many nightmares is a wicked person in his own right-most of the actors acted as heinous existences.

But there are also a small number of actors whose scripts are pure and innocent victims like little boys. Fear, restlessness, tension, panic, they are silent and harmless most of the time in nightmares, and sometimes even help the tasker.

This little boy, who has always been shy, introverted, and fearful, is one of them.

Mu Jiashi was trying to say something when suddenly, a faint scream came from outside the service area.

…Outside?

There are only highways and gas stations outside!

And of course there are people in the gas station!

There was an ominous premonition in Mu Jiashi's heart, and he walked out the door of the service area quickly, scanning the scene outside. The rest of the taskers followed behind him.

They saw a black figure being massacred at the gas station.

The man in black went to the gas station? How could this be? ! Shouldn't he come directly at the service area?

For a moment, Mu Jiashi's brain was like a jammed gear, and suddenly stopped turning.

Ding Yi whispered beside him: "The nightmare broke down. Then, will the situation be different from the fourth round?"

"Damn it, the time is wrong!" The third child exclaimed, "Time has moved forward!"

Hearing this, Mu Jiashi, who was also surprised by the sudden appearance of the man in black, made a sudden turn of his brain, and suddenly reacted to a problem—just now Ringo said, "The day he said his mother died."

However, if for the little boy, his route now is the time when his mother has not yet died, why would he not respond?

In the fourth round of nightmares, after the little boy came to the service area, he also said about the death of his mother.

He also said that he had met the cashier in the supermarket before, but if that was the time when his mother had not died, why would he have met Dai Wu?

From this point, it is possible to completely break the previous statement that Mujiashi said that when the little boy walked out of the dark bedroom, his mother was still alive!

He made a mistake in judgment. He was wrong.

His analysis and research on this nightmare, full of confidence just now, was so wrong!

Mu Jiashi's face suddenly turned pale.

In the latter part of this nightmare, he was alone. I have to say that this aroused his vigor and self-confidence. For a long time, he almost forgot the previous tragic experience.

And now, he failed again.

When he said he was a waste, a loser, his tone was half-truth, self-deprecating and relieved. He is more like saying that since he is a trash, then as long as it is a slightly better performance, it is satisfactory enough.

...But is he?

He is a well-known gold digger with a 100% success rate on the bottom of the narrow building.

He fell to the cloud due to a failure, and a crack appeared in his diamond-like solid and brilliant self-confidence. Since then, he complained about himself and used self-deprecating words to resolve.

Of course he can go to a higher floor again. At least he believed it.

Failure is never difficult to tell. But-he thought, would he fail again?

Mu Jiashi was silent.

At this time, the third child had already ignored Mu Jiashi's ideas.

He murmured to himself: "The man in black went to the gas station...killed his wife, escaped, rounded up... he drove into the service area while fleeing, and was blocked at the gas station when rounded up... No, he might. Hidden in the gas station?"

He sorted his thoughts.

In fact, he also reacted at this time that Mu Jiashi's previous statement should be a little bit problematic.

The problem is not in the front, but starts with his analysis of the paths of the little boy and the man in black. The little boy’s route is not just the cycle of his mother’s death road, but is superimposed on his father’s escape road.

Although Mu Jiashi said that the man in black did not take the little boy on his way to escape, this is the little boy's nightmare after all, and the little boy's route will inevitably include all the factors that appear in this nightmare.

And the little boy's performance in the face of Dai Wushi also proved that when he left the dark bedroom, it was actually his mother's death.

But... in that case, why did the man in black suddenly disappear when the man in black and the little boy appeared in the service area at the same time?

Why can't they appear at the same time?

Wait, at the same time? !

…When this question suddenly jumped into the brain of the youngest, he suddenly understood.

Why can't they appear at the same time?

Because at this time, they shouldn't appear at the same time!

The paradox is that in reality, when the little boy’s father fled to the service area, the little boy might still hide in the dark bedroom, as the newspaper said, waiting for the police to come and find him.

Therefore, it is of course impossible for the man in black to meet the little boy in the service area.

This is the contradiction between nightmare and reality.

In fact, it was the taskers who took the little boy out of the dark bedroom after the count was over, that is, after the death of his mother, which changed the sequence of events in the nightmare.

If the nightmare repeats itself in a chronological order without the participation of the tasker, it should be:

The little boy’s family of three went out to play. While in the service area, his mother went to buy drinks for the little boy and talked and laughed with the cashier in the supermarket. So he was found cheated by the little boy’s father. The two had a quarrel, and his father angered the service area. Other people within.

After they returned home, the father killed the mother and forced the little boy to count. After the mother died, the little boy hid in the bedroom closet, and his father fled to the service area. The neighbor called the police, and the police came to find the body and the little boy.

Subsequently, the police issued a wanted order. The father slaughtered in the service area and attracted the attention of the police. The police narrowed the scope of the search, and his father fled into the gas station (or was hidden in the gas station before), and then killed him in the gas station.

In the end, whether the father was arrested and the boy's experience after being discovered by the police are still unknown, and the taskers have not received a clear answer.

The only information is that Dai Wu once said that during the murderer's escape, the little boy seemed to have disappeared.

But apart from these ambiguities, the nightmare should be circulating in this order-the death of the little boy's mother and the escape of his father are the same.

Because of the participation of the task force, they took the little boy out of the dark bedroom and changed the sequence of the development of the story. This caused the man in black to see the little boy in the service area where he shouldn't have seen the little boy.

But the nightmare is centered on the owner of the nightmare.

Therefore, when the little boy came to the service area, the owner of the nightmare could not disappear. Naturally, the man in black could only disappear.

The disappearance of the man in black was stuck on the node where he had just fled to the service area. What did he do after he disappeared? On this point, the third child agreed with Mu Jiashi's point of view.

That is, the other people in the nightmare should be attached to the owner of the nightmare; the route after the man in black disappears should also be the route of the little boy, at least under normal circumstances.

However, Mu Jiashi believed that the path of the little boy was that his mother was not dead, and the killing of the man in black after arriving in the service area was because he was the incarnation of a murderer, and could explode anytime and anywhere. This explanation was somewhat far-fetched, but at the time they were all Having been brought into Mu Jiashi's thinking, no one thought of a better explanation.

In fact, the little boy’s route is that his mother is dead. In this way, the process by which the man in black sets off from the dark bedroom and finally arrives at the service area is not the process of a family of three traveling as Mujia Shi thought, but after the murder. The road to escape.

So, when he arrived, he was naturally going to kill.

This is his route, enough to explain everything that happened during the fourth round of nightmares.

However, the nightmare collapsed in the fifth round. The time in the nightmare flows. To be precise, it should be the time outside the dark bedroom. The time in the dark bedroom is always fixed in the eight minutes of the mother’s death. Thinking of this, the youngest’s mind There seemed to be a glimmer of light.

Because of the flow of time, they hadn't figured out the problem in the first place. Under the chaotic scenes of the fifth and sixth rounds, they had no time to figure it out.

When they first started this nightmare, the time point was when the father killed the mother.

Inside the dark bedroom is the ongoing killing; outside the dark bedroom is the escape process of the man in black after the murder. This also explains why there is an error in reporting the number, and the person in black cannot appear in two places at the same time.

However, since the fifth round of the nightmare collapsed, a subtle change occurred at the time of the nightmare, and it was pushed back to the moment when the man in black fled and arrived at the service area.

In the dark bedroom, the mother's death is still the process; but outside the dark bedroom, there is a quick beat.

And this fast beat is like a wrong gear; if you took a step faster before, it will always be a step faster after that. The collapse of the nightmare had a very bad effect on the circulating gear that was originally precision-running.

So when the man in black disappeared again, he did not re-fit the boy’s route, but continued his own route—just as the TV news said, the police were rounding up the man in black, so the black clothed People went to the gas station.

He started killing again.

And this time, no one had time to stop him.

In the sixth round of nightmare, the lethality of the man in black has become very powerful.

When the taskers heard the screams, blood was already flowing down the gas station, and they didn't even have time to guess how long the men in black had been killing there.

Nightmare, restart again.

At the beginning of the seventh round of nightmares, the atmosphere seemed particularly weird.

The few people in the dark bedroom were naturally still reporting. Xu Beijin pointed the camera of the live studio at a few people on the promenade. Not to mention Ringo and the dead ghost, Mu Jiashi's face was dark, and the selfish ghost sneered again and again.

The selfish ghost said: "Sure enough, analysis and thinking are all for nothing. It's all **** wrong."

Mu Jiashi glanced at him, the lifelessness in his eyes caused the selfish ghost's brows to jump suddenly.

in this way…

This can't work. Selfish ghost thought.

He has seen many taskers, entered the nightmare with this appearance, and then never returned, together with other taskers who entered the nightmare together.

Some desperate taskers will even choose to burn the jade and stone, and sink into the nightmare of eternal collapse.

Mu Jia realized that in this way, the selfish ghosts became vigilant.

But thinking about it, he became irritable again.

Damn, how did this become his business in the end? !

Mu Jiashi didn't know what the selfish ghost was thinking. He sighed, calmed down, and said tiredly, "Let's go, go to the service area."

The four people got into a car in silence. Mu Jiashi drove.

Although Mu Jiashi said before that he was not very good at driving, but now the people in black are not chasing them anyway, so Mu Jiashi's technology can handle it.

But at this time, he didn't care about these little things at all.

In the last round, they were divided into two vehicles, which was also proposed by Mu Jiashi; but in this round, Mu Jiashi did not say that the selfish ghosts and the dead ghosts were also happy and effortless, and directly took the back seat.

As the vehicle drove onto the highway, Mu Jiashi slowly calmed down, and the analysis of this nightmare came to mind again.

After he was silent for a while, he said, "Perhaps this time, if you want to deal with the man in black, you need an item card."

Counting on Ringo to make another move, Mu Jiashi would not be so naive.

But his words caused a strong reaction from the selfish ghost.

"What? Item card? You don't have an item card, do you expect me to take it out?" The selfish sneered, "I want to be beautiful."

He had thought about it, now Mu Jiashi's state is not quite right, should he do something. But those thoughts had nothing to do with the prop card, he just wondered whether he had to take the initiative to participate in this nightmare.

Item card?

Don't even think about it.

The reaction of the selfish ghost was in Mu Jiashi's expectation. Mu Jiashi's suggestion is to give it a try. Therefore, facing the selfish ghost who speaks nonsense, Mu Jiashi is silent.

He doesn't know how to take advantage of this kind of tongue, so he doesn't want to talk nonsense with people like selfish ghosts. Among the bosses he has taken, he has encountered many more selfish people than selfish ghosts.

At least the selfish ghosts did not cause any trouble to their normal process of exploring nightmares, and some bosses...

hehe.

Therefore, in the nightmare, Mu Jiashi's mood has been very calm-even too indifferent, both to others and himself.

In a nightmare, keeping calm is indeed the first thing. Because no one knows when they will encounter sudden danger in a nightmare.

Don't look at the selfish ghost's face with terrible excitement, he might be calmer than anyone else.

He is a lone wolf.

A lone wolf who can live a long time in the narrow building is not a good-natured character.

Bottom layer?

The bottom level doesn't mean much, people always make mistakes. Don't people like Mu Jiashi also fall to the bottom of the valley at once? None of them knew what kind of past and identity the "teammates" they met in these nightmares.

The taskers in the narrow building are estranged and guarded against each other.

Mu Jia is really used to seeing this kind of things, so he didn't respond much, and he was much more tender for the dead ghost, and couldn't help but retort: ​​"You want to be shameless? No one has a prop card!"

The selfish ghost attacked him instead: "If you have the item card, take it out!"

Hesitated for the dead ghost.

Of course he has. Anyone with a prop card will inevitably bring a few when entering the nightmare. Even if a card dealer is in a nightmare, he must bring it. After all, no one wants to be lost in the nightmare of eternal collapse.

All taskers in the narrow building know that if they can't leave the nightmare, they will loop indefinitely in the nightmare of eternal collapse, and life is better than death.

The authenticity of this news, and its origin, is no longer verifiable, because it has become the consensus of everyone.

And... this is a topic that cannot be verified.

Just like those who are dead cannot jump up and tell the living what will happen to them after death; it is also impossible for the missionaries who have been lost in the collapsed nightmare to suddenly appear and tell them how the nightmare will turn out.

Digging deeper, the authenticity of the nightmare of eternal collapse is also unknown. But the taskers—and the actors—don’t doubt it.

Because they don’t want to use their entire lives to test their authenticity.

It's already very miserable when you come to the narrow building; if you are always lost in those inexplicable and repeated nightmares, then it is the real **** on earth.

Therefore, it is no wonder that many taskers have begun to wear out and despair. They no longer enter the nightmare, but join the doomsday carnival of some taskers.

And even those who enter the nightmare missions, unless the true ending is imminent, otherwise, they are still willing to fight for a while, play a normal ending, and fight again next time, just like the selfish ghost, with the previously obtained The information, come over again.

Prop card, even if you don't use it, you don't need it.

Because of this, the dead ghost will of course hesitate, and of course hesitate and weigh.

The selfish ghost laughed: "I advise you hypocrites, it is better to be real villains like me, at least not to be constrained by rules and regulations. I said I am not willing to take out the item card, but I am not willing to..."

Blushing for the dead ghost: "You...you call me a hypocrite? You are such a shameless thing..."

The selfish ghost and the dead ghost quarreled in the back seat.

"Okay." Ringo said impatiently, "I'm going to go back to the narrow building. I'll directly subdue the man in black in a while."

The inside of the car was suddenly quiet, and all three taskers looked at him in amazement.

I don't know why, Mu Jiashi even breathed a sigh of relief secretly. This nightmare... the whole process of this nightmare made him feel deeply tired.

Whether it's the rush on the road, the quarrels with other taskers, or the annoying time of this nightmare, or his failure, he feels that he will just treat it as a waste.

Really waste. Destroy yourself and never want to work hard anymore.

Therefore, when Ringo said that he intends to directly subdue the man in black, he had to say that Mujiashi even secretly shouted hello for him.

Anyway, I have already obtained so much information. If you really want to make a real ending, come back and try again. The first few times you enter the same nightmare, the nightmare will not change too much, just like the nightmare can't be destroyed immediately in the first few rounds.

Mu Jiashi didn't speak, and the other two taskers didn't dare to defy the boss's will, for fear that they would be subdued first-at this time, the selfish ghost could see the wind sway the rudder.

So Ringo nodded in satisfaction: "It's so decided. Anyway, I don't think you guys will have a true ending."

Three taskers: "..."

Boss, it doesn't have to be so real.

Ringo didn't know how heart-wrenching it was to the three taskers present when he said casually.

He looked out the window, and even desperately wanted to leave the nightmare.

After learning about Xu Beijin's preferences and getting a chance to be a guest at Xu Beijin's home, Ringo actually couldn't wait.

As far as his personality is concerned, he can stay for so long because he wants to carefully consider his actions.

But he probably overestimated himself, and overestimated this group of taskers. Time has passed so long, he didn't think of a way, and this group of taskers didn't think of a way.

Therefore, the impatient Ringo decided to manually end this nightmare.

This is actually something he often does, but only this time, it was not because he was really annoyed, but because he had other things that made him anxious and eagerly wanted to return to the narrow building.

With this sentiment, when the four-person car arrived at the service area, Ringo was the first to get out of the car and strode towards the central flower bed—then his footsteps stopped.

Mu Jiashi, who was following behind him, couldn't help but let out a soft huh.

In the service area, there is no figure in black at all.

Even the residents of narrow buildings, who were originally a large number of them, have disappeared. The entire service area was empty, and there was no **** and brutal killing scene as before, but it was terribly quiet.

Mu Jiashi widened his eyes in shock and muttered to himself: "How could this be? Has the nightmare changed again..."

After a moment of doubt, he gradually accelerated his pace and rushed to the supermarket in the service area. Selfish ghosts and dead ghosts followed him closely.

In the supermarket, only a few shop assistants and cashiers are still working.

Dai Wuhuan stuck to his post and showed a surprised expression when he saw the three of them rushing over.

"Why are you again? Or is it because of the people in black?" He said puzzledly, "But the murderer killed his wife and killed people in the service area. After being caught by the police, he has been sentenced to death. . Didn’t you watch the news?"

This sentence made Mu Jiashi suddenly stop and suddenly realized.

In the bookstore, Xu Beijin saw this scene through the live broadcast, holding his chin, and muttering to himself: "So it's like this..."