Xu Bei stared at Ringo in confusion.

They are in the bookstore, and the sky is shining. The gray fog outside the window seemed to have been shocked by Ringo's words, quietly engulfing the deep and heavy haze in the early morning.

Ringo watched Xu Bei not speaking at all, and even urged to ask: "Say it quickly, don't you feel anything?"

"It feels..." Xu Bei said slowly, "Do you like me?"

Ringo nodded naturally, "So do you feel it?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

He felt itchy hands, and wanted to slap Ringo's head with a slap to make this guy a little more awake.

However, considering the difference in the strength of the two sides, Xu Bei gave up this idea with regret.

He sighed, got up from the chair, and moved his stiff limbs. Probably because he had been sitting all night, he felt a little stiff and sour, but it could also be just a psychological illusion.

Ringo tilted his head, "Why don't you answer me?" He narrowed his eyes, "Why do you seem embarrassed?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

you ask me? You actually asked me? ? You are so embarrassed to ask...!

He was **** off by Ringo again.

Xu Beijin moved his wrist to calm himself down. He took a deep breath, and then said, "Why did you say this all of a sudden?"

Ringo looked at him suspiciously, but finally did not expose Xu Beijin. He thought for a while, and suddenly mentioned another thing: "Remember those two people who used to wander outside your bookstore?"

Xu Bei was stunned, and for a moment he couldn't figure it out: "I remember. What does it matter?"

"I warned them before, and then they should go to a higher level now. Before going, they told me that some people are interested in your nightmares." Ringo calmly added a drama to himself, "I decided to start again. Warn those people."

Xu Bei looked at him speechlessly. After a moment, he said, "Thank you."

But he was thinking in his heart, is this warning really counterproductive?

And... he remembered what Mu Jiashi said to him in the nightmare, and suddenly he had some understanding.

No wonder Mu Jiashi told him that Ringo liked him. I'm afraid that Ringo's "furious crown as a beauty" has spread all over the bottom of the narrow building.

...Xu Beijin was restless once again, always feeling that his reputation was messed up by the little apple in front of him.

He thought distressedly while listening to Ringo to continue.

"No thanks. Anyway, I went to warn those people." Ringo said flatly, "Later someone told me that I was busy with your business, just like your performance."

Xu Beijin: "..."

Good guys.

Unexpectedly, Xu Beijin warned Mu Jiashi and told him not to tell Ringo his brains, so as not to misunderstand Ringo. As a result, after he looked forward, the tasker in the narrow building misled Ringo for some reason!

Xu Bei couldn't help sighing deeply, he was a little hesitant.

The embarrassment at the beginning has slowly dissipated, and he started to have a headache how to explain this to Ringo clearly.

Leave the rumor outside for the time being-how can this group of taskers gossip? ——How to straighten Ringo's bent world view is a very difficult thing.

... After all, Ringo was just doing him a favor, so why was it confirmed by the group of taskers as evidence of liking him! Is there a problem?

Xu Bei thought about it for a long time, and finally figured out what should be said: "You don't like me. You just kindly helped me do something, and then I was misunderstood by others."

This is indeed the case.

Xu Bei looked at Ringo, wondering how Ringo would react after he said this.

Ringo blinked blankly. His face that looked horribly well-behaved at this time highlighted his confusion and incomprehension even more. He said in confusion: "Is that so...? Just a misunderstanding?"

Xu Beijin said: "Of course it is a misunderstanding."

Ringo was silent for a moment.

Xu Bei thought to himself, in Ringo's simple world, he might not know what love is. If someone told him that it was love, then Ringo might be really misled.

He has no memory of the earth, he is like a piece of white paper, and only reveals his secrets to Xu Bei.

And Xu Beijin didn't want to twist Ringo.

If Xu Beijin was more malicious, hoping to take the uncrowned king at the bottom of the narrow building in his pocket, then he might have recognized the matter at this time, and even coaxed Ringo to become his lover.

With Ringo's trust in him and Ringo's white-paper-like emotional world, Xu Bei certainly has the ability to deceive him for a lifetime and let him be his thug in peace.

To do this, in the future, Xu Beijin can really do whatever he wants on the ground floor of the narrow building.

However, Xu Beijin didn't want to do that. To put it bluntly, he is really a good person, although many people don't believe it.

So he chose to be honest.

Besides, he didn't think much about Ringo, so why bother to lie to Ringo?

It's just that Ringo rushed over so excitedly and asked him what he liked or not. Maybe he had waited all night, which made Xu Bei feel more or less subtle.

It is a feeling of being valued and taken seriously. Ringo was carefully and carefully verifying something, and the core of that matter was Xu Beijin.

Although Xu Bei was rational enough and even pessimistic, he still inevitably developed a little vanity at that moment, and more importantly... the feeling of being touched by Ringo.

He really likes to interact with people like Ringo.

For Ringo, Xu Bei is full of abrupt light spots appearing in his dark and abyssal world, but for Xu Beijin, why is it not like this?

In this narrow building where despair has been solidified and standing in the gray mist, Xu Beijin and Ringo are both anomalies at the bottom of the narrow building. Ringo is not tolerated by the questers, and Xu Beijin is also incompatible with the actor.

And by chance, they actually had an intersection with each other.

Xu Bei sighed secretly.

...And Ringo seemed to be silent for a while.

In fact, Ringo's mood at this time was a bit complicated, and it was difficult for him to explain the complexity to Xu Bei, so even he himself was at a loss.

The first thing that came to my mind was a rather rebellious mood.

He may not know that there is a kind of creature on earth called Kong Jing, but his mood at this time is really quite similar to Kong Jing.

Of course he trusted Xu Beijin, but Xu Beijin’s understatement seemed to not care about "like" at all. He directly characterized it as a misunderstanding, and made Ringo suddenly think-you say I don't like you, I I really don't like you anymore?

You know? Are you so sure that it is a misunderstanding? ?

...Then he sat in this bookstore all night, nervously, restlessly, and excitedly waiting for Xu Beijin to wake up and tell him an answer—whether he likes it or not—what's the point?

When this man with a completely blank emotional world heard that he liked this thing, when he thought it was a positive thing rather than a bad thing, when he was dubious but still came to Xu Beijin's side and wanted to inquire clearly... …

What he hopes to get is an affirmative answer, and that "affirmation" has nothing to do with his original intention.

He has heard of a novel thing, so he hopes he owns it.

That's it.

So at this time, after he was silent for a long time, he just gave a dull "Oh" without much reaction.

Because Xu Beijin said it was a misunderstanding, he thought it was a misunderstanding. He said in such a conclusive tone that Ringo really didn't like him...That means Xu Beijin did not really feel that Ringo liked him.

At least Ringo believed that Xu Bei should know more about this matter.

So Ringo agreed with Xu Beijin's statement.

But he still wondered, if he really likes Xu Beijin, what kind of scene would it be like? If this is true... what kind of emotion should it be like?

What kind of performance can he make Xu Beijin feel that he likes him?

Ringo was a little curious, just as he was curious about Xu Beijin's life not long ago.

In addition to curiosity, there was also a little disappointment and unhappiness.

Because Xu Beijin denied the possibility that he liked him... Although this matter was related to Xu Beijin, in the final analysis, it was the changes in Ringo's inner world.

After all, how could Xu Bei think that Ringo brought him to his bookstore with anticipation, curiosity, and confusion, waiting for him to wake up and waiting for his answer?

Ringo had already preset an answer for himself, but Xu Beijin denied his answer.

And Ringo could only choose to believe Xu Beijin's answer, because he didn't even know what it was like to like this situation.

But the unwilling emotions still boiled in his heart. That is his business after all. Whether he likes Xu Beijin or not, that is his business. And why does Xu Beijin deny him?

Is his performance not enough to make Xu Beijin feel that he likes him?

... After a long time, when Xu Beijin had already stood by his bookshelf and had chosen the book he wanted to read today, Lin Xiao suddenly said inexplicably, "But I think my answer is the best. important."

Xu Bei gave him a puzzled look.

"'I like you.'" Ringo said, "the subject is me, right?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

He was silent for a moment, then looked at the little apple in front of him.

He said slowly: "The object is me. So I also have the right to participate."

Ringo frowned, feeling that Xu Bei's words made sense, but the uncomfortable feeling became more and more obvious and clear...

Finally, he knew why.

He once desperately wanted to fight Xu Beijin, and Xu Beijin seemed to reject him with similar excuses.

Yes, "Lingo wants to fight Xu Beijin." The subject is Ringo, and the object is Xu Beijin. The subject wants to do this, but the object doesn't let him do it.

...The situation is exactly the same.

The problem is that "fights" are still risky at least, do you like it? Isn't liking entirely a one-sided thing for Ringo?

So Ringo was filled with indignation. He said, "I want to fight with you and you refuse. Now I like you—and you refuse?"

Xu Bei was speechless. After a while, he said, "Ringo, you don't like me...really. This is a different matter from the previous fight."

He frowned almost distressed.

"But...but..." Ringo hesitated for a moment, "Do I want to fight with you, and I like you, shouldn't it be the same mood?"

Xu Beijin: "..."

Please, isn't the fight you thought I thought was the fight?

Xu Beijin could only sigh and said, "Lingo, I think you are a idiot. You still don't think about it, you don't understand. Just remember, you really don't like me, really."

Ringo: "..."

……What do you think.

Xu Beijin is really getting too much, even if he is not allowed to fight, now he doesn't even like him...why!

Besides, why can't he figure it out? Why should Xu Bei look down on him? Isn't this just... isn't it, isn't it just what you like? ! Doesn't he understand such a simple thing? !

Ringo felt very upset!

He gloomily looked at the man standing in front of the bookshelf, thinking, he was angry, he didn't want to see this man, he wanted to please him, he wanted to fight him, to please...

Xu Beijin said, "Come and get the book."

Ringo replied: "Here."

Recently, there have been new rumors among the taskers on the ground floor of the narrow building.

Of course, on the ground floor of the narrow building, there are always all kinds of rumors, whether true or false conspiracy theories, or news from unknown sources, the taskers are always immersed in various rumors and are inevitably engulfed in them.

Not long ago, there was a rumor that "someone successfully left the narrow building" from the higher floors of the narrow building, so the taskers at the bottom of the narrow building desperately went to the higher floors. Even the taskers who had not entered the nightmare for many years finally finally Took his own steps.

And many of them have broken this experience of struggle and desperation into pieces and scattered them in different conversations and exchanges. They went to higher levels, so they spread rumors about the "ultimate nightmare" at higher levels.

Therefore, the higher-level task person decides.

After some time, the layout of the ground floor of the narrow building was completely different from before.

After another period of time, the atmosphere on the ground floor of the narrow building became more subtle.

Numerous taskers from higher levels in the narrow building found themselves deceived. The so-called "ultimate nightmare", the nightmare related to the doomsday, memory, and gray fog, is not related to the narrow building.

It was just a nightmare for a resident of a narrow building.

That may indeed imply the truth about the narrow building, but who knows, is it the setting of this game, or in the true sense, the truth about the earth they need?

The taskers are discouraged.

Even, a large part of them simply chose to stay on the ground floor of a narrow building. Many of these people came from very high floors. They abandoned everything and returned to the original floor, hoping to find an answer.

And maybe that's just the product of bragging and concocting?

Many taskers, either because they were not reconciled, or because they were unable to work hard, they stopped at the bottom of the narrow building.

But no matter what, there are still some people who come down excitedly, leave disappointedly, and regain their strengths, intending to return to higher levels.

The situation that finally emerged was that the atmosphere at the bottom of the narrow building, after a brief period of boiling and enthusiasm, was now calm again.

At the bottom of the narrow building, those who did not leave for various reasons during this round of chaos, and those who came down from a higher level, fell into a subtle state of inactivity.

In such an atmosphere, the situation seems to have changed at a certain moment.

The cause should be that a certain tasker heard something in a narrow building resident. But later, this matter was once again spread through the mouths of many people, and a lot of speculation and speculation were added.

And the core point of that rumor, or one of the supporting evidence, is that since the narrow building is a building, why is its door not on the ground floor, but on the higher level?

Maybe the higher level can see different scenery, maybe the truth must be hidden at the highest level, but...the exit must be at the bottom level, right?

Therefore, the so-called "ultimate nightmare" must be at the bottom of the narrow building.

The previous rumors that "the ultimate nightmare appeared at the bottom of the narrow building" were not wrong. It's just that they found the wrong nightmare.

Many taskers from higher levels believed this news.

When they go to a higher level, when they are tossing and turning in endless nightmares and endless floors, when they have solved countless nightmares, but still can't see the end and hope...

Have they ever suspected that the exit of the narrow building should be below, not above?

In the beginning, all taskers appeared on the ground floor of the narrow building. They take it for granted that going up is the right way, and going up to see the truth.

......Perhaps you can really see the truth when you go up, but you can't leave the narrow building?

The reason why they are willing to believe in this possibility is because when the previous rumor that "someone successfully left the narrow building" appeared, no one knew who left the narrow building.

Even for the taskers on the very, very high floors, the news from them is, "I don't know who it is," or even, "Does such a person really exist?"

They are already a very advanced group of taskers, and they know the names of almost all taskers at the forefront and high-level. And they counted them carefully, and they were all there.

What is even more frightening is that although this rumor is spread with nose and eyes, no one knows its origin, let alone which floor it came from in the first place.

The tasker at the lower level said it was from the upper level, but the tasker at the upper level waited for the tasker at the lower level to go up, and then he was surprised to learn about this matter.

This sudden news seemed to appear out of thin air, and people couldn't help but wonder whether there were ghosts in the narrow building. Perhaps the ghost spread the news invisibly.

So, after searching everywhere to no avail, after hearing the rumors that "the ultimate nightmare appeared at the bottom of the narrow building", the higher-level taskers quickly realized a possibility as soon as they turned their minds.

Did the legendary quest person leave from the bottom of the narrow building?

...Maybe it's possible, isn't it? Maybe "he" and other taskers symbolize two paths; one goes up and the other goes down. And he succeeded, the others failed.

The higher-level taskers know the higher-level taskers, but they never pay attention to the lower-level taskers.

And if someone, or some interest group, is always paying attention to the progress of "him", and on a certain day it is discovered that he suddenly disappeared from the bottom of the narrow building, and he is nowhere to be found...

Then naturally, he would doubt whether he found the exit of the narrow building.

Perhaps these people didn't know whether "he" was successful, so the original rumor came out, hoping that someone could give an answer, and even more hope that "he" would jump out to explain the matter by himself.

Later, these people found that "he" was really nowhere to be found, so they believed that he should have really left the narrow building; but they didn't know how "he" left, only that he disappeared at the bottom of the narrow building. of.

So the rumors about the "ultimate nightmare" at the bottom of the narrow building spread.

In short, someone may have left the narrow building through the "ultimate nightmare" at the bottom of the narrow building, but the people behind him don't know which nightmare it is, so they hope others will find out the nightmare.

This group of people from higher levels who are crazy because of the "ultimate nightmare" may ultimately be a wedding dress for others.

However they are willing. The reason why this group of taskers came back desperately, of course, was to find this ultimate nightmare... to leave the narrow building!

And how many of those taskers who stayed at the bottom of the narrow building originally stayed here because of the rumors of the "ultimate nightmare"?

The atmosphere of dead silence has changed again.

And all of this is due to the original rumor, the message from the residents of the narrow building.

Someone said that he heard a certain narrow-loud resident talking about the end in a trance, so he asked curiously. After some argument and entanglement, the resident of the narrow building took him to another resident of the narrow building.

He heard the latter muttering words such as "It's burning up", "They are all crazy", "Doomsday", "Don't leave me," "It's so dark," and so on.

As a result, this rumor spread slowly, and news related to the ultimate nightmare collided and merged, until someone decided to enter this nightmare and find out.

It was also that night, when Xu Bei was sitting at the desk of the bookstore, he suddenly felt a trance, and his consciousness slowly sank into the deep darkness.

He is going to work again.

Before he really entered the nightmare, a hint of curiosity flashed in his mind. He was a little wondering what nightmare he would enter this time, would it be... that nightmare?

Before this, he had asked Dai Wuzai to secretly spread things related to this nightmare.

Although, Dai Wu did not come to Xu Beijin's bookstore in person, but asked another actor on the ground floor of the narrow building to ask for relevant information, including who the nightmare owner is and where it is located.

This made Xu Beijin guess that Dai Wu should be on a higher floor, or indeed at the bottom of a narrow building, but he was reluctant to come forward in person. There are many possibilities, but Xu Beijin has no intention of delving into this matter.

Earlier today, the actor once again came to Xu Beijin's bookstore and told him that everything went well; maybe there will be a quest person to test one or two soon.

Obviously, this group of taskers could not sit still.

A few days earlier, Xu Beijin once went to find the resident of the narrow building, the owner of the nightmare.

That is a female actor.

Many years ago, Xu Beijin used to play her nightmare and had some intersections with her. At that time, she also asked Xu Beijin casually, hoping that he could tell a reliable tasker of her nightmare.

Later, Xu Beijin did so. He told Mu Jiashi of the nightmare; and Mu Jiashi really ended it, but the female actor did not go to a higher floor.

That was a few years ago. At that time, Xu Beijin himself was frustrated by the chase and interception of those taskers, so he didn't pay attention to the situation of this female actor. In addition, at that time, he really had no mind to do foreign affairs.

After a while, the situation subsided. He once encountered her by accident when he was walking in the narrow building. However, she was already... mad.

No, it should be said that she has completely forgotten the identity of her actor. She has truly become... the victim of that nightmare.

Although there is no nightmare of eternal collapse, how is that different from eternal collapse?

Therefore, this time Xu Beijin only glanced at her from a distance, and did not talk to her. She might not remember Xu Bei's end, but she shrank in a dark corner of the narrow building, buried her head in her knees, shivering.

Only at night, she will return to her residence like a walking corpse, falling into a deep sleep, waiting for the tasker who does not know whether it exists to enter her nightmare.

Xu Beijin feels distressed because of her experience, but can't do anything about it. Those actors who have lost themselves and regard themselves as the role they are playing are not rare in the narrow buildings.

Over the years, Xu Bei has seen countless such actors, even in nightmares, such actors are not uncommon.

And the reason why he was so impressed by the nightmare of this female actor is because...

end.

In the nightmare of this female actor, the doomsday appeared.

... Xu Beijin did not regret his secretly pushing the taskers into this nightmare, but he still fell into contemplation because of the nightmare itself and its symbolic meaning.

After Dai Wu left, Xu Bei sat at the table for a long time, unable to return to his senses.

Until the mastermind drags him into a nightmare.

In the darkness, Xu Beijin opened his eyes.

There was a dim indoor scene, with a dull and disturbing pungent smell. Only the windows farther away showed a scorching fire. The city outside the window is burning.

Xu Bei was stunned.

...He really entered this nightmare.

The doomsday realm where the sky fire descended on the world.