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

Finally, they succeeded in isolating the group of lunatics, but the three taskers in the elevator were all bitten by those lunatics on their faces and hands.

The teenager frowned and looked at the wound on his arm: "Is this nightmare related to viruses or diseases?"

The man in a suit shrugged.

The goddess looked at the bite marks on the back of her hand in a daze. It was bitten out by a madman who couldn't see the age, and blood oozes directly, and the tooth marks are left on the back of her hand, as if it was bitten by some animal mercilessly.

She shuddered involuntarily and said to herself: "It's crazy, everyone here is crazy..."

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

After a while, the boy wrote something on his white paper. Then, he thoughtfully said: "The seventh and twenty-ninth floors correspond to the same actual floor... Do you think it will really be? Is that so?"

The man in a suit said, "Just tell your conclusion."

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

The man in the suit touched his chin: "It is possible, but in this case... it is a bit too difficult for the taskers on the ground floor of a narrow building? And, if it is really completely random, the possibility of randomly arriving on the same floor , Isn't it smaller?"

"But, how could it be the same level?" The teenager muttered, and denied his guess. Regular, but that is the law of machines, computers, and artificial intelligence."

The man in the suit glanced at him and said, "Stop talking about your'personal views', we are in a nightmare now."

"...I mean, the only reason that can explain our randomness to the same level is," the boy said, "this is pseudo-random."

"So?" said the man in a suit impatiently. "It's still unexplainable. Why did we come to the same floor for the second time..."

Suddenly, the goddess interrupted their words: "Why do you think this is the same floor?"

The boy and the man in a suit were startled.

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

The man in the suit frowned, then nodded in agreement: "What you said makes sense."

The young man glared at the goddess, and said angrily: "You guessed it a long time ago, and then deliberately let us discuss the possibility of mistakes, and watch the show for yourself?"

The goddess ignored the yin and yang of these two people, she just muttered to herself: "This building is filled with...the breath of madness...in the true sense, madness."

The young man sneered. People like him who value rationality and objective laws have always hated gods like goddesses.

Of course there is a madness in this building, all the **** are lunatics!

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

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

The men in suits pressed the 32nd floor. The last time they pressed this button, they went to the 24th floor, safely and stopped at No. 2 elevator.

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

"It's still safe." said the boy who had turned around on the 20th floor. "Except for the blood on the ground. The blood is quite fresh, and the source is in the elevator car... Does this mean that there are all dead bodies in an elevator? "

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

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

The boy sneered and said, "It means this button must take us to a certain floor with an elevator?"

He turned his head to look at the goddess, with a little bit of teasing and ridicule, and wanted the goddess to express his opinions on this more metaphysical thing, but found that the goddess was standing in front of a certain wall, looking at something on the ground. .

The boy walked over.

It was a large group photo. It was originally hung on the wall, but it may have fallen down because of the recent catastrophe, and even the glass frame was shattered.

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

With clues, he doesn't bother to care about the goddess.

He murmured a few words from the photo: "Gorge... what company, all employees and some family members of the sales department took a photo." With the dim light, he squinted his eyes and carefully identified the person on it." Hey, isn't this the little girl? Her mother next to her? Why is this picture here?"

The little girl’s hiding place is clearly on the 31st floor, but this photo appeared on the 20th floor... It’s unreasonable to be so far away.

and……

The boy looked at the photo a little weirdly, then suddenly glanced at the goddess: "Hey, goddess, do you think..."

This woman in the photo looks a bit like you?

In addition, on the little girl's wrist, she wore a bracelet similar to the one given to her by the goddess.

But... isn't this just the thing in the nightmare? Why does it appear in this photo? Is it a coincidence, or is it... this nightmare is a deliberate fusion of these things?

A chaotic and unreasonable dream world?

As the goddess said, in this nightmare, the true sense of madness has been flooded? That is, madness that is not controlled and driven by reason?

The boy looked at the goddess.

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

She let out a scream, then shuddered for two steps, still staring at the photo, the corners of her eyes had already started to twitch, and her complexion became pale in an instant.

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

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

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

When the shocked man in suit and the boy chased them, they saw that there was only one elevator in the elevator on the 20th floor, and the goddess had no idea where they had gone.

"Damn it!" the boy cursed, "Is she sick! NE's tricks can scare her to this extent?!"

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

The boy sneered and said, "Even so...she is still a higher-level tasker." He looked at the elevator with a critical look, and suddenly frowned, "Did she enter the elevator parked on the 20th floor?"

After speaking, he cursed: "Fuck!"

The man in the suit didn't care much, he shrugged: "That's fine, someone will explore the way."

The teenager said with a loud voice: "Do you think she can find the way in that state?" He shook his head, took out the paper for himself, and then worked hard to write and write, he finally brought up the business, "You I think that picture..."

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

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

On the one hand, besides this group of survivors on the 16th floor, there are actually no clues worth exploring.

On the other hand, it was because Ringo held the view that the master of solving nightmares was to solve nightmares, and was determined to find the master of nightmares as soon as possible.

Therefore, they decided to start on the 16th floor and explore each floor down. After all, they have already walked the stairs, and the nightmare has not restarted, indicating that the rest of the taskers are still looking for clues.

With Ringo, it was natural to see that there was an instant sense of security overwhelming.

In fact, Ringo originally wanted to take Xu Beijin away. After all, in this nightmare, he realized for the first time that Xu Beijin would be uncomfortable too—except for the psychological drowsiness caused by lack of sleep.

This situation made Ringo inexplicably want to pay attention to Xu Beijin at all times, wishing to take him with him.

But Ringo also considered that since Xu Bei was not feeling well, let him rest on the 16th floor. At present, the 16th floor seems to be the same as the refuge of this building.

So he left with Wu Jian, leaving Xu Bei to sit there, quite dumbfounded.

However, although Xu Beijin didn't say anything, he was actually quite useful in his heart.

It's always good to have someone caring.

... Xu Beijin secretly wondered if he had been boiled by Ringo's warm water.

But soon, the experience of the rest of the taskers in the live room screen made him forget about Ringo's affairs and concentrate on the clues about this nightmare.

To be honest, even though he revealed the clues to Mu Jiashi that made Mu Jiashi succeed in the true ending of this nightmare, in fact Xu Beijin is not particularly clear about the true ending of this nightmare and what the truth behind it is.

The clue he revealed to Mu Jiashi was actually very simple, that is, "the 16th floor is a safe area, there are clues."

After all, his most basic understanding of this nightmare, as well as the part that the mastermind allows him to reveal and suggest, is only this.

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

He once had some communication with the owner of this nightmare, but that was also caused when some taskers found the narrow-building resident and then brought her to the 16th floor. Then, the taskers did not pay attention to it. Some conversation.

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

As a result, after two successive occurrences of "subtle sense of sight", especially after the face of the goddess appeared on the company photo, he felt a little surprised.

This nightmare... It seems interesting?

The audience in the live broadcast room is arguing fiercely.

"This is not the first time! There is no more than three incidents. There is absolutely a reason for this phenomenon, and it can't be a coincidence!"

"You have finished speaking... but the question is, what's the point? How can this solve this nightmare?"

"Uh, if everything implies the ending and truth of the nightmare, will it be, to some extent, allowing the taskers to reproduce the actions of the original nightmare owner, thereby implying the whereabouts of the nightmare owner?"

"!!! Makes sense!"

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

"In that case, the owner of the nightmare is the little girl's mother? Her nightmare is that she took her daughter to the company, but something happened outside. She left her daughter in the office by herself and ended up gone forever?"

"The details of emm still seem to be much worse, Yazi."

"It seems, it's not just that? My daughter's affairs may have caused her regret or self-disgust, but the core image of the nightmare is still fear, right?"

"So she still fears this building?"

"From the scenes encountered by the taskers, I can understand this fear..."

"...Thank you, I'm scared again."

"You are the viewers of the live horror game!"

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

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

However, he saw the voice of the audience in time, and after thinking about it for a while, he said the problem he was considering.

He said: "I agree with the audience just now. But the question I am considering is, when the taskers enter the nightmare, is the owner of the nightmare already experiencing everything, or is it in progress?

"In short, did they come to the nightmare master's past or the present?

"If it is the former, then their final destination should be the location of the nightmare owner; however, when things with a sense of'disrespect' appear in the nightmare, it is as if they have also participated in the experience of the nightmare owner. middle.

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

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

"Everything in the nightmare happened in the past, and it is the memory of the nightmare owner. When the nightmare owner has this nightmare, it seems to be re-experiencing everything in the past, but he clearly knows that this is what happened in the past.

"Therefore, taskers can participate and not participate."

Xu Beijin hinted at some clues in his words.

The audience seemed to understand but not understand.

"It seems...makes sense?"

"...In other words, to some extent, the taskers'intervened' in the experience of the original nightmare master? They did not participate completely, but only occasionally intervened, and the time of intervention was,'the sense of sight '."

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

"Damn, I finally understand. This group of taskers seems to be playing a role-playing game! Their ‘sense of vision’ is like participating in the main storyline of the game!"

"This analogy is really simple, crude and easy to understand. This game is like the kind of gameplay that shuttles through someone's dream, looking back and repeating the things he has encountered before, so as to understand and solve the knot...? "

"...I knew it at first, but I don't understand it when you say it."

"? I never understood. My brain hurts."

"!!! What Beibei said makes sense, I realize it!"

"The reasoning boss has realized what, ah, ah, ah, hurry up and tell me the ball!"

"Cough, sorry, I was typing just now. What Beibei said suddenly awakened me.

"I was thinking before that the three taskers in the first elevator found a large piece of fresh blood on the ground on the 20th floor with their heads in the elevator room.

"If this is the case, does it mean that this is the trace of the previous missions from the second elevator?

"The second elevator found dried blood on the ground on the 21st floor, then went up one or two floors and found a sea of ​​blood, and then went down for a while, pour out the blood in the elevator.

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

"From this perspective, the taskers are actually ‘creating’ this nightmare scene; what is the point of this?

"If you explain it in Beibei's words, or the so-called'role-playing game', the taskers are like participating in the'main storyline', then everything will be understandable!

"After the elevator's floor button is pressed, the floor to which it goes is completely random-this is a guess on the surface. What if the floor to which the elevator goes is determined in the order of the owner of the nightmare?

"The whereabouts of the nightmare masters are their'main storyline' and their road signs, and the floor buttons in the elevator have absolutely no effect on the floor they are actually going to!

"In other words, if they actually have to go to the 12345 floor in order, no matter if they go to the 12345 floor in the order of five, four, three, two, one or two, four, five, and one, they will eventually go to the 12345 floor. And this '12345' is a nightmare. The whereabouts of the original owner.

"In other words, the so-called elevator buttons are completely random when they are pressed, which is actually an illusion of confusion! Even if they press them casually, the floor they will actually go to will not change. It is'destined'."

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

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

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

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

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

Based on this logic, everything the tasker encounters in the nightmare has a purpose, so their experience so far cannot be "completely random", and there must be some rules.

And this rule, if you apply the story of the nightmare itself, then people can't help but think, maybe their experience is the experience of the owner of the nightmare?

This can also explain why there is that kind of inexplicable and very subtle sense of sight.

However, some viewers also thought of a question: "However, there are already three elevators now, which elevator is the whereabouts of the owner of the nightmare?"

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

He looked at the other actors on the 16th floor, lowered his voice slightly to ensure that he would not be heard when he was speaking, and then answered this question: "I think you should only pay attention to those things that bring subtle visual perception. It's okay.

"That is, for example, the three people in elevator No. 1 dropped the little girl, the three people in elevator No. 2 splashed blood on the ground, etc. This is actually the core event they experienced, or as the audience just said Yes, the'main storyline'.

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

"The lunatics, the corpses on the ceiling, and the sea of ​​blood seem to be this nightmare, or some horror scenes that come with this building, which can also be said to be a'branch line'. There should be no direct connection with the truth of this nightmare. .

"In addition, there is another angle to prove this, that is, the actions of the taskers are actually unable to be completely controlled. Maybe the floor they go to is fixed, but what they do on the floor, there is no one at all. Will know.

"But the two things mentioned above are different.

"Meeting a little **** the 31st floor, out of rational considerations, they are unlikely to take the little girl; and even if they want to take it, perhaps the main brain will arrange for the little girl not to go with them.

"In other words, this matter can be guaranteed to proceed in accordance with what happened in the beginning.

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

"From this perspective, in fact, after the tasker presses the elevator button, the floor he goes to is still somewhat random, but it will inevitably allow them to'reproduce' what happened in the first place, to experience the nightmare of the owner. encounter.

"Through these'reappearance' things, they will be able to find the position of the owner of the nightmare with a high probability, and then solve the nightmare.

"and……"

Xu Beijin pondered for a moment, and said: "It is very possible that the sequence of the nightmare master's experience is not in the order of the actual experience of this group of taskers, but is scattered.

"As for the law, it's hard to say. Maybe we will know when they experience all the scenes of the elevator'reappearing'."

Xu Beijin roughly said his thoughts again.

"What Beibei said!"

"I got it! Beibei and the big reasoning guy made me get it!"

"It seems that I can understand what it means, but I don't understand too much..."

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

"Actually, you don't have to sit all over again... It still depends on the planning and arrangement of the game process."

"I think according to the malicious planning of this game..."

"To put it simply, this group of taskers are experiencing the scenes of the masters who used to have nightmares!"

"That's right! I understand the word'fragment' as soon as I hear it!"

"...Suddenly a bit of a chill. I feel that the actions of this group of taskers are actually under the control of the main brain NE."

"Nonsense, haven't you heard of psychology? [狗头]"

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

"I still have a question... What Beibei and the reasoning boss said can indeed explain the two very visible things just now, but in that photo, the face of the goddess appeared there, and there was a little girl. The bracelet I am wearing... this is too strange."

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

"I think it's only possible for the main brain to deliberately scare people, right?"

"Laughing to death, maybe the goddess is the actor? She got into the group of taskers?"

"If I hadn't heard that the goddess was a higher-level tasker and had a small reputation, I would have believed what you said."

"Hey, trouble. One problem has been solved, and new problems have emerged."

Xu Bei was silent.

He has his own opinions on why the face of the goddess appeared in that photo, but he could not share it with the audience in the live broadcast room.

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

The doomsday realm where the sky fire descends...

He was slightly lost.

On the screen in the live broadcast room, the audience had completely given up on thinking about this issue, and they continued to discuss the speculation made by Xu Beijin and the reasoning boss just now with great interest.

That is indeed a very reasonable possibility.

"But," said the big reasoning guy regretfully, "the taskers don't have a God's perspective like ours. I don't know when they will discover this.

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