Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

He fell to the clouds in a failure, and a crack appeared in his self-confidence, which was as solid as a diamond, shining brightly. Since then, he has complained about himself and used self-deprecating words to talk about it.

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

Failure is never something difficult to talk about. But—he thought, would he fail again?

Mu Jiashi remained silent.

At this time, the third child could no longer take Mu Jiashi's thoughts into consideration.

He muttered to himself: "The man in black went to the gas station...killed his wife, fled, rounded up...while fleeing, he entered the service area, and when he was rounded up, he was blocked at the gas station...no, Maybe he hid in a gas station?"

He organized his thoughts.

In fact, at this time, he also realized that what Mu Jiashi said before should be a little problematic.

The problem didn't lie in the front, but began when he analyzed the respective routes of the little boy and the man in black. The little boy's route is not only the cycle of his mother's death, but superimposed on his father's escape.

Although Mu Jiashi said that the man in black did not take the little boy with him on his way of escape, this was a little boy's nightmare after all, and the little boy's route must include all the factors that appeared 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 who had died.

But... In this 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 third child's brain, 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 be hiding in the dark bedroom, as the newspaper said, waiting for the police to come and find him.

Therefore, it is certainly 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 missionaries who took the little boy out of the dark bedroom after the counting ended, that is, after the death of the mother, thus changing the sequence of events in the nightmare.

If without the participation of the taskers, the nightmare repeats itself in chronological order in reality, then it should be:

The little boy's family of three went out to play, and when the mother went to buy drinks for the little boy in the service area, they talked and laughed with the cashier in the supermarket, so the little boy's father believed that he had cheated, and the two had a quarrel, and the father blamed the service area others within.

After they returned home, the father killed the mother and forced the little boy to tell the count. After the death of his mother, the little boy hid in a wardrobe in the bedroom and his father fled to the service area. Neighbors called the police, and the police came to the house and found the body and the little boy.

Subsequently, the police issued a wanted warrant. The father went on a killing spree in the service area, which attracted the attention of the police. The police narrowed the search, and the father fled into the gas station (or had been hiding in the gas station before), and then killed in the gas station.

Whether the father was arrested in the end, and what happened to the little boy after he was discovered by the police, are still unknown, and the taskers did not get a clear answer.

The only information is that Dai Wu once said that while the murderer was fleeing, the little boy seemed to have disappeared.

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

It was because of the participation of the taskers that they took the little boy out of the dark bedroom and changed the order of the story development. This caused the man in black to see the little boy in the service area where he should not 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, it was impossible for the owner of the nightmare to disappear. Naturally, the man in black could only disappear.

The disappearance of the man in black was stuck at 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.

In other words, 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 that fits the little boy, at least under normal circumstances.

But before Mu Jiashi thought that the little boy’s route was that the mother was not dead, and the killing of the man in black after he arrived at the service area was because he was the incarnation of a murderer, and could erupt anytime and anywhere—this explanation was somewhat far-fetched, but at the time They have all been brought into Mu Jiashi's thinking, and no one has thought of a better explanation.

In fact, the little boy's route is that his mother is dead. In this way, the process of the man in black starting from the dark bedroom and finally arriving at the service area is not the process of a family of three traveling as Mu Jiashi thought, but the process after the murder. way of escape.

So, when he arrived, he naturally started killing.

That's his line, enough to explain what happened in the fourth round of the nightmare.

However, the nightmare collapsed in the fifth round. The time in the nightmare has flowed. To be precise, the time outside the dark bedroom should have flowed, while the time in the dark bedroom has always been frozen in the eight minutes of the mother's death. Thinking of this, the third child's mind There seemed to be a glimmer of inspiration.