…How can a human brain circuit grow like this? ? ?

In the live broadcast room, the audience had already lost their laughter.

Who could have imagined that Xu Bei's detours, trying to wash himself off the suspicion of murder without losing his image, would steal the chicken instead of loosing rice?

"Beibei, forget it, forget it."

"Beibei, you...oh, accept your fate."

"Beibei, I am a little self-aware of what I look like."

"Beibei, look at how people are scared by you."

Xu Beijin: "..."

He hasn't escaped from the shadow brought by the bald shout, and the barrage of the audience has caused him tons of damage.

After the audience laughed and joked for a while, they still said something serious.

"This group of players preoccupied Beibei as the murderer. No matter how Beibei explained it, it would be useless. Beibei was really miserable."

"...Then Beibei also grew a bad face..."

"Hey! I think the villain's face is so fashionable! This group of players has no aesthetics at all!"

"Compared to this, I am quite curious about where the murderer is."

Xu Beijin caught a glimpse of this barrage and thought, yes. The murderer-where is it?

At this moment, Xu Bei adjusted his mentality with great difficulty, but the taskers were all stunned by the bald voice.

They didn't even care about talking with Xu Beijin, and hurriedly looked at the bald head and asked him to explain what he was talking about, and what did "Tiantai" mean.

Among them, the most active ones are naturally collectors.

The bald head was half-dead by the collector's yin and yang words, almost gritted his teeth and told him the information Xu Beijin had told him before.

After a while, all the taskers thought about what the bald head said.

"Tiantai and... the bookstore?" Wu Jian turned to look at Xu Beijin, and hurriedly turned around because of the slight smile at the corners of Xu Beijin's lips. "The bookstore is understandable, but Tiantai...why?"

They just blatantly evaluated his bookstore in front of Xu Beijin.

No matter what, even if this group of narrow-floor residents has a terrifying and scary appearance and identity, in the eyes of the task force, they are only narrow-floor residents after all, just a group of NPCs.

Mu Jiashi paid little attention to Xu Beijin, but at this time he was also attracted by what the bald head said.

He thought for a moment, then suddenly looked at Xu Beijin, and asked, "Do you know someone will die?"

Mu Jiashi realized part of his purpose, which made Xu Beijin very gratified; but Mu Jiashi's hidden saying that he could not save him made Xu Beijin a little helpless.

Where does he know that someone will die! He even came to this nightmare for the first time to play!

He recalled it carefully and thought to himself, it was indeed the first time.

The bald head suddenly said: "The last time we came to this nightmare, we didn't meet him." He pointed to Xu Beijin, as if suddenly realized the strangeness of this matter, "How could this be?"

Fei said, "Because, what will happen to let him leave here?"

Xu Bei was stunned.

Although this group of taskers were discussing him, in fact only Mu Jiashi was really communicating with him, and the rest of them completely ignored his existence.

He said to Mu Jiashi: "I don't know exactly who will die. However, the rooftop is indeed a scene worth exploring." He looked at the rest of the taskers, "If there is nothing else, you can leave. "

The taskers were shocked by Xu Beijin's saying that they drove people away.

Xu Beijin felt a little sleepy. He narrowed his eyes slightly, smiled and said, "If there is anything to find me, I will wait for you here."

He only meant to say that if you don't want to talk to him now, then come back later, because he's always here anyway. He was a little sleepy, so he didn't want these people to stay in his bookstore to get in the way... well, it was a bit noisy.

He can watch remotely from the perspective of the live broadcast room.

But what he said is quite subtle.

The taskers hesitated for a moment, and their bald heads wanted to leave the bookstore first.

But at this time, the collector said with great interest: "However, I remember you just said that you follow the principle of equivalent exchange. So, can we make a transaction now?"

At this moment, he didn't show any face to shaved head at all, even deliberately shaking his face.

The bald head stopped and looked at this guy with some resentment. Hua arm hesitated for a moment. He didn't want his companions to have such frequent conflicts with other taskers, but he was a little at a loss.

After all... he never knew, why would a bald head do this? Is there any benefit to conflict with collectors? Just because you feel uncomfortable at first glance, so you will be so tit-for-tat?

Suddenly Hua Arm felt something was wrong.

Xu Beijin didn't pay much attention to the surging undercurrents of the taskers. He said calmly: "Of course."

…The conversation with the taskers made him a little tired.

So the collector thought for a while, and said: "Not long ago, we found the old playground site in the middle of the ruins. There was a group of people gathered there, and there seemed to be some secret."

Xu Bei said in a low voice, "What's the secret?"

The collector said: "This information itself is what I want to exchange with you." He shrugged and said with a smile, "I don't know what secrets there is, but I know there are.

"It's like a treasure map. No one knows what the treasure is, but it can't be said that the treasure map is worthless, right?"

Xu Bei laughed and said, "There is a man in black robe in the middle of the playground. He knows what the secret is."

He replied with the words of the collector.

"Eh..." The collector clapped his hands regretfully, but still smiled, "Actually, you know—that secret?"

Xu Bei yawned boredly.

…That’s why he likes to deal with people like Ringo who are simple and straightforward. What's the point of getting along with a riddler who talks like a collector?

He might as well say directly, what price he has to pay if he wants Xu Bei to tell the secret.

But collectors don't.

Such a young man who has always smiled and has a jumpy personality seems very deep in his mind.

So Xu Beijin said coldly: "If you want to know, just use your secret to exchange it?"

"…what?"

The collector was taken aback.

Xu Bei's deep gaze seemed to have penetrated his heart. He said: "Treasure map exchange for treasure map, secret exchange for secrets, this is the real equivalent exchange."

The collector opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

His secret...what's his secret?

Inexplicably, he remembered a scene from a nightmare.

Doom...The collector glanced at the ruined scene outside the window, thinking for a moment.

Fei said impatiently: "Don't waste time!" She glanced at the bald head and the collector, "I don't care about your conflict, but please note that we are in a nightmare, not a kindergarten!"

kindergarten…

The corners of Mu Jiashi's mouth twitched.

He looked at the woman and thought, it's great that he can paddle.

Paddling expert Mu Jiashi listened to the conversation of the taskers.

After the collector returned without success, Fei finally used the message she saw "A survivor walked into the fog" to exchange a slightly useful message.

Xu Beijin said: "I have been sitting here. I have neither seen anyone come in nor leave." He glanced at the bald head again, "but these two people have been here before."

For a moment, the taskers were taken aback.

Fei couldn't help asking: "You mean... the two people, the dead and the murderer, didn't you see them coming in and out?"

Xu Beijin nodded. He added: "About fifteen minutes before the deceased fell from the building, I once went to the rooftop. But at that time, there was no one on the rooftop."

At this time, he felt inexplicably that he was actually in a mystery novel. You see, a homicide similar to a murder in a secret room, with only one suspect, the whereabouts of the murderer and the victim are all a mystery...

The suspect knew that he was innocent.

He looked at Fei and could even imagine Fei's next problem.

Fei said, "Why did you go to the rooftop?"

Xu Bei couldn't help but chuckle, which made several taskers feel strange.

He replied: "The view of the rooftop is very good."

He resignedly realized that this reason would never let the tasker abandon his suspicion, but he couldn't always say that he deliberately went up to see it because there was a rooftop in the scenes listed in the live broadcast system, right?

…Forget it, as the audience in the live broadcast room said, he needs to be self-aware.

But to his surprise, Fei did not show too much suspicion because of his answer. Xu Beijin didn't want to continue to answer, and said again: "The transaction is over, you can leave."

The taskers left one after another.

Mu Jiashi glanced at him hesitantly.

Xu Beijin nodded gently at him, which was regarded as a greeting, but this seemed to make Mu Jiashi more entangled.

Soon, the bookstore was calm again.

Xu Bei breathed a sigh of relief.

Inexplicably, he felt that perhaps it was the years of living alone that made him lose part of his communicative ability, so the scene of talking with multiple taskers at the same time just made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Through the external glass window, he saw the taskers standing beside the corpse for a while, and then gradually leaving the building, as if intending to explore other places.

Xu Bei stared at the back of them leaving, his eyes gradually thinking.

His gaze shifted to the corpse-being pushed down from the roof. From beginning to end, no one saw the murderer and the victim come to the building, and no one saw the murderer walk out of the building.

The only moment they appeared was that moment on the rooftop.

Xu Beijin regretted that he did not move the view of the live broadcast room to the rooftop at that time, because everything happened too fast, and the taskers gathered together again. Of course he chose to see what the taskers wanted to say. .

But... the fall of a building is too weird.

He was lost in thought.

He once said to Ringo that in all the mystery novels that make up mystery, the murderer, the victim, the crime scene, the time of the crime, the method of the crime, the clues, the witnesses...there will always be a problem.

In this fall, the murderer-I don't know where he went.

Victim-I don't know him, but he has died.

Crime scene-no one saw it, they all looked at it from a distance. Even if Xu Bei tried to adjust the live broadcast perspective now, he did not find any abnormalities.

The time of the crime, the method of the crime-very clear.

Clue-can't see clearly. They also don't have a forensic doctor here to examine the corpse.

Witnesses—the taskers, Xu Beijin, and the audience in the live broadcast room, clearly saw someone pushing another person down from the rooftop.

After careful analysis, Xu Bei has no clue. But he did analyze a few problems.

The first question is, why do you want to kill? What is the purpose? What is the identity of the murderer and the victim?

The second question is even more important. In this nightmare, what does this death mean? Why does this death not bring a restart of the nightmare?

Xu Beijin couldn't think of anything.

At this time, he missed the days when the reasoning boss was there, and at least he could discuss with him.

Xu Beijin sighed quietly, then yawned.

He didn't find water or anything to drink in the bookstore, but he found a roll of sugar in the drawer. He prayed in his heart that this thing hadn't expired, and then he thought that there is nothing in the narrow building that hasn't expired.

With emotions that he didn't know whether it was fortunate or depressed, he peeled off the wrapping paper and ate a piece of candy, barely cheering up his emotions.

He thought, to some extent, he had already actively intervened in this nightmare.

Perhaps Mu Jiashi, a person who knew him, still had doubts about his identity in the nightmare, but the rest of the taskers had obviously regarded him as an important role.

In fact, he is not. He just used some of the information he got through the live broadcast system, and used the time difference and information gap to create a mysterious and powerful image.

It seemed that he did a good job, and even allowed the taskers to rule him out of the suspicion of killing in a short period of time.

Although the bald head is a possibility, it is indeed too demonizing Xu Beijin's character. After the real contact, the taskers will naturally find that Xu Beijin's temper is actually quite gentle.

However, Xu Beijin didn't really know much about this nightmare. In this case, he will show up sooner or later.

After eating a candy, he felt that his mental state had improved a lot, so he recounted the information he had obtained in the first round of nightmare in his heart.

He was thinking, and suddenly, another person walked in outside the bookstore.

The man walked to the counter of the bookstore and knocked on the counter to make Xu Bei regain his senses and looked up at him.

Then Xu Bei was taken aback: "Dai Wu?!"

Is there a lot of acquaintances in this nightmare?

"Ahem, logically speaking, you shouldn't know me now." Dai Wu shrugged, "but whatever. Come with me."

Xu Beijin was inexplicable and asked, "Is this part of the nightmare?"

"Of course. The game plot, you can't escape." Dai Wu said, "But there is no danger."

After they had a few conversations, the main brain seemed to determine that they had completed the plot-anyway, there was no tasker here-so they put relevant information to Xu Beijin.

After a while, Xu Beijin's face changed slightly.

Dai Wu smiled and said: "In this nightmare, the role of the bookstore owner is important and important; if you say it is not important, you can replace it with any actor. I didn't expect it to be your turn this time. Of course, my current one The role is the same."

Xu Beijin stood up and left with Dai Wu.

He thought that this might be the reason why the bald head and the flower arm did not see the bookstore owner when they came to this nightmare last time.

Because in this nightmare, over time, the bookstore owner will leave the bookstore at a certain moment.

Xu Beijin glanced at the time subconsciously—almost an entire hour passed.

An hour after the nightmare started, Xu Bei followed Dai Wu's and left the bookstore.

The taskers did not know that the mysterious bookstore owner in their hearts had left the bookstore.

They came to a clearing a little closer to the "treasure vault." There are no other survivors around, but the ashes accumulated on the ground are still being swept by the gusty wind, and they are arbitrarily engulfed in the ruins further away.

Several taskers were a little silent.

The collector’s lips were still smiling, and he said, "Are you in trouble? Why not start using the item card at this time, if you run out of times..."

"I just tore the item card directly!"

The bald-headed grumpy voice made the rest of the taskers give him a strange look.

Huabi hesitated for a moment, then said: "Brother, you...?"

The bald head glanced at him, closed his eyes, and then slowly calmed down. He stopped talking.

The collector stared at him with his smiling eyes for a while, and then murmured, "An item card."

Everyone on the scene understood what he meant: Maybe the bald head was aimed at him so much because an already effective item card had an impact on the bald head's mental state.

It is precisely because of the existence of this prop card that collectors often irritate the bald head whenever they mention the prop card, making him more displeased with collectors.

This is indeed the case.

"Brand Name: Mad Scientist

"Panel pattern: (an image of an exploded head wearing strange glasses and a white coat)

"Interpretation: You are the product of a mad scientist's transformation. You will gain countless times stronger memory, but at the cost, you will become painful and sensitive because of the unforgettable memories. Your emotions will become extreme and extreme. impulse.

"Number of uses: 2/3 times (the duration is constant as the length of a complete nightmare)."

This is a retrofit card.

The transformation card is a relatively rare type of prop card. Its function is to temporarily (or permanently) transform a part of one's body into another shape or state of existence.

However, the modification card does not actually provide a fixed modification effect, but only an empty card.

The task person who gets the modification card needs to decide the reference object during the modification when using the modification card. The final effect of the transformation, the number of uses, the duration, etc., are also determined according to the reference object.

After Bald had obtained this modification card, he had not used it until he entered this nightmare this time before he made up his mind.

He went to a nightmare he once went to, using a certain narrow-building resident in the nightmare as a reference object, and finally generated this transformation card.

The reference object is naturally an experiment of the mad scientist. The mad scientist made some inhumane actions on the brain of his experiment, which eventually made the experiment suffer from hypermemia.

After taking this as a reference, the bald head has not acquired the powerful (and painful) memory ability of hypermemia, but it has also been enhanced. This is exactly his purpose.

However, he did not imagine that the side effects of this prop card were equally powerful, making him unconsciously in this nightmare, conflicting with the discarded card collector he disliked.

Even though he had realized that he was affected by the prop card at this time, his mouth seemed to be still blocked by something, and he couldn't say "I'm sorry" at all.

Even more, a burst of anger rose in his heart—why? Why is it his fault?

The bald head was startled, and quickly pinched the flesh on his arm with his nails, calming himself down with pain.

He regretted it a bit. If you knew that there would be a nuisance like a collector in this nightmare, plus the effect of the item card you used...

Can their nightmare still have a true ending?

He couldn't help but once again developed a strong anger and resentment towards the existence of the collector.

Fei bit his lip, leaving a deep tooth mark on his lower lip. The pain slowly calmed her down, but there was still a little irritation in her heart.

She thought, damn, they obviously came down to investigate, how come they got into this kind of trouble!

What she originally thought was not to ask these taskers to have a real ending or something, but to ask them to investigate well, and then they would collect some information by the way.

But... Damn, they won't be trapped in this nightmare, will they?

No matter how confident Fei was, she was not a self-defeating Mu Jiashi.

So she couldn't help but sighed deeply, and after looking at Wu Jian, she took the lead in this nightmare by mistake.

...And originally this task should belong to the bald head...

She said: "Let's reintegrate the information we have obtained.

"First of all, this nightmare scene is the ruins after the end. We are all survivors. Hunger will force us to collect food, which can be found in the ruins.

"But I think it's impossible for the mastermind to make us really like survivors. This is a nightmare. Our ultimate goal is to solve the master's heart knot of the nightmare..."

"But we don't even know where the owner of the nightmare is." Mu Jiashi couldn't help but mention, "have you ever met someone who is suspected of being the owner of the nightmare?"

Fei Wei frowned, and then said, "If you say that, the survivor who walked into the mist looks very suspicious."

When she said that, she thought of the information she had obtained before. In the mouth of the tasker who had experienced this nightmare, the ordinary ending they hit was indeed related to the man who walked into the mist.

Mu Jiashi said, "Then let's go there and have a look."

Fei nodded and said, "That's in the southwest corner."

But Mu Jiashi fell silent after saying this. He thought to himself, didn't he say he was going to paddle in this nightmare?

Fei ignored his mental activity. She glanced at her bald head and flowered arms, and after confirming that the two of them had nothing to add, she thought that they had only had a bad ending last time...

Also, if it is a bad ending, many things are not known to be normal.

So she went on to talk about the second thing: "Secondly, it was about the playground. The playground occupies the center of the nightmare scene, and a large number of people gathered there.

"In other words, there must be very important. We should go there later. Maybe we can go to the playground first, through the center of the ruins, and then to the southwest corner, looking for the survivor who disappeared in the fog. "

At this time, Mu Jiashi glanced at the collector, and after confirming that the young man did not intend to speak, he had to say: "We passed the playground before and were stopped.

"People there seem to be very hostile to outsiders, and they keep talking about...impurities."

Fei's eyes lit up, and he asked quickly: "Are you sure it's an impurity?!"

Mu Jiashi didn't know why, but nodded.

"Impurities..." Fei whispered the word.

Mu Jiashi looked at her suspiciously, and raised his eyebrows. He thought, what exactly does Fei know? She seems to know what the words "impurity" actually mean?

He was about to ask, but at this time, Fei had already recovered.

She said: "Sorry, I can't tell you these things now. But when we go back to the playground, we can talk slowly."

Now that she said that, Mu Jiashi had no choice but to temporarily put aside his intention of questioning.

Fei continued, "Then it is the third question, and one that I think is very critical-the death of the person who was pushed downstairs.

"Who is he? Why was he pushed down? Who was the one who killed him? Where did the murderer go? Why, his death will not bring the nightmare restart?"

Fei thought for a moment, then shook his head: "Perhaps this issue can also be discussed later. It is somewhat complicated. If this person's death is really important, we should be able to find some clues from other places."

Mu Jiashi nodded.

There are many possibilities. For example, the death of that person is an inevitable event in the nightmare, and is the source of the psychological shadow of the nightmare's owner.

This is like the nightmare of the little boy that Jiashi Mu had experienced. In that nightmare, the little boy’s mother kept repeating the fate of death, but that was the only way to the nightmare, so it would not cause a nightmare. Reboot.

The only problem is that the death of the little boy's mother is not so intuitively presented in front of them, but instead hints at the woman's death by various means.

But in this nightmare, the death of the person who fell from the building happened under the noses of all of them.

…Will there be such a nightmare?

When Jiashi Mu was thinking about it, Fei skipped this question along the way, and instead of going into details, he talked about the fourth question: "...that bookstore owner."

The tasker present couldn't help being silent for a moment.

At this time, the collector suddenly raised a guess with great interest: "Will he be the owner of this nightmare?"

The others were stunned.

"Look, he is so special..." said the collector, "and he has so much information..."

Fei frowned: "It seems... it's possible."

Mu Jiashi had to speak so that they would not be misled by this speculation: "He is not the master of this nightmare."

The collector immediately turned his gaze to him and asked curiously and seriously: "Why? What evidence do you have?"

The collector who was refuted seemed a little unhappy, although his brows and eyes were still smiling, but the lip line was flattened.

Mu Jiashi glanced at him strangely, he felt that this guy was a bit...unexplainably arrogant.

He didn't bother to talk nonsense with this guy, and looked at the others strangely. He couldn't help being speechless: "Are you really the task force at the bottom of the narrow building?"

The other five were silent for a moment in embarrassment.

Mu Jiashi: "..."

Good guy, all the **** came down from a higher floor!

Plus him...

Mu Jiashi suddenly wanted to ask, as for? A nightmare at the bottom of a narrow building, as for the six taskers from higher floors, tossing them into the current state of being at a loss?

He couldn't help sighing with a headache.

He said: "Well, I'm not curious about where you all came from. In short, this bookstore owner used to be very famous on the ground floor of the narrow building. There are many taskers who want to enter his nightmare, but he has never been right. Anyone has ever opened up their nightmares..."

"Wait, you mean," Fei suddenly reacted, "He is the owner of the bookstore "that"?!"

There are many bookstore owners in the narrow building, which is nothing but a profession after all. However, Xu Beijin was the only one who could make all the taskers at the bottom of the narrow building and some higher-level taskers react as soon as it was mentioned.

Fei asked in surprise: "That's him?!"

Fei knows Xu Beijin of course, but she didn't participate in the farce at the time, so she didn't recognize Xu Beijin just now.

At that time, the woman who had come to the higher floors of the narrow building and had obtained the code name "Fei" had a nightmare about going to Xu Beijin.

However, because Xu Bei never opened up his nightmare at the end, Fei could only give up regretfully.

And she didn't expect that in the first nightmare after arriving at the bottom of the narrow building, she would meet this narrow building resident.

Mu Jiashi nodded: "If only this bookstore owner is the most famous in the narrow building, then it is him."

He observed the faces of the other taskers, and it was not difficult to see from their expressions that these people actually knew about the existence of Xu Beijin, but they had not actually seen him.

Even the most casual and casual collectors have a look of interest in their eyes.

Although the nightmare they are in is also known as the "ultimate nightmare", since anyone can enter this nightmare, it is not as mysterious and curious as Xu Beijin's nightmare.

After all, which task person does not want to leave the narrow building?

Mu Jiashi felt a little sorry for the trouble he had caused Xu Beijin, but he quickly put such emotions behind him. No matter what, Xu Beijin's troubles always exist.

and…

Mu Jiashi couldn't help but thought of Ringo who had blocked many dark arrows for Xu Beijin.

Fei said, "Since this bookstore owner is not the owner of the nightmare, we must bother looking for suspicious characters."

The owner of the nightmare may hide in any corner of the nightmare scene, or he may only be found under certain conditions, or... he may appear to be completely different from the image in the narrow building.

Therefore, if "finding the owner of the nightmare" can also be said to be a part of the nightmare, or even the difficulty of the nightmare, then they may have to spend a little bit of trouble.

At this point, Mu Jiashi can fully understand, after all, in the nightmare he recently entered, they still need to crack the "code" to find the owner of the nightmare.

Fei roughly analyzed the clues they had gained after entering this nightmare, and the situation became much clearer, and what they should do gradually became clear.

They were about to leave, but Wu Jian said in a little embarrassment: "Um... don't you feel hungry?"

The rest of the taskers were taken aback for a moment, and then invariably realized that they were indeed a little hungry.

After all, the nightmare has already begun for an hour. The endless changes just now made them overwhelmed, and they had forgotten about hunger, but when it was so elusive to mention it, they immediately felt a kind of hunger that burned their stomachs.

"Let's do it." Fei said, "We are looking for food around here. Ten minutes should be enough, after all, we have already looked for here before..."

"What?" Wu Jian was taken aback, and said without hesitation, "Have we been here?"

The rest of the taskers were originally planning to find food, or they took out the food they found before and ate them, but when they heard this sentence, they stopped their movements for an instant and coincided with each other. Looked at him seriously.

Unexpectedly, his heart is horrified, but also a bit inexplicable.

He said blankly: "We... after we entered the nightmare, we split into three paths, and then we went straight to the building to meet?" His stomach yelled, "I don't remember we've been here, but anyway, I'm fast now. I’m starving, just..."

As he talked, he couldn't go on.

Because the taskers in front of him were looking at him with a very strange look.

He also couldn't figure it out.

—Because he has completely forgotten the memory of their previous search for food in the treasure house.