Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Mu Jiashi first explained the two discoveries they had just made in the service area - including the changes in the news in the newspaper and the news reports on the TV at the gas station.

The third child and Ding Yi also nodded thoughtfully.

Mu Jiashi said: "And what you said just now, the little boy arrived at the service area, and the man in black started from scratch. It reminded me of the third definition of time in this nightmare."

The taskers—including the audience in the live broadcast room—all looked at him blankly.

There were only a few people whose eyes lit up and couldn't help but secretly exclaim.

Mu Jiashi continued: "The three-tiered definition... might as well be the three-tiered connotation.

"Level one, the urgency of time.

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

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

"The second layer, the fluidity of time.

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

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

"Because, the previous rounds of time are fixed and fixed at one point in time, and each round of nightmare is a new beginning, so of course he won't remember us.

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

"However, the chaos of the nightmare may allow him to obtain complex and chaotic memories; for example, the cashier, he remembers what happened in the third and fourth rounds at the same time.

"The fluidity of time will allow us to obtain more information, but it will also increase the danger. In any case, this level of meaning is naturally discovered when we enter the fifth round of nightmares.

"The third layer, the circularity of time.

"You reminded me of this level, third child, I didn't realize it before.

"The circularity I am talking about here does not refer to the restart of the nightmare, but... the several scenes we have experienced, dark bedrooms, corridors, parking lots, roads, and service areas. This is a linear cycle process. , is actually arranged according to the process of the death of the little boy's mother.

"A dark bedroom can point home. The family starts from home, walks down the promenade, drives up the road from the parking lot, takes a rest while passing the service area, then the couple argues, drives on the road, returns home—and It is the death of the mother.

"In the little boy's nightmare, this process is endless. His nightmare is the death of his mother, and his nightmare is this infinite loop of death. Home is the beginning and the end.

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

"The little boy's starting point is the bedroom, and it's the bedroom where the murder is in progress—whether it's the counting, or the woman's screams we heard during the second round, this can be verified.

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

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

"There is a question here, why did the little boy's route not include his father's escape route after his mother's death? I will talk about this question later.

"In short, the escape route of the man in black is also the same, from the promenade to the parking lot, flee to the service area by car, and then mostly hide in the service area.

"The fifth round of nightmares changed. The man in black started killing in the service area, which is proof of the fluidity of time. The purpose may be to retaliate against what he believed to be his wife's cheating. Then the police discovered his whereabouts and began to arrest him. action.

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

"When the little boy and the man in black appeared in the service area at the same time, the route on the little boy's side, the mother hadn't died yet; but on the other side of the man in black, he had already killed someone and started to flee!

"The little boy is the master of the nightmare. His route is fixed, so the only one who can change is the man in black. The man in black needs to make his route match the route of the little boy. There is no case of death.

"So... I think that during the ten minutes or so, he didn't go back to the dark bedroom to continue counting for eight minutes—that is, the process of killing people. He must match the route of the little boy before he can return to the service Area.

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