Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

But his mind was still immersed in what Xu Beijin had just said.

Dai Wu's words seemed to still be echoing in his ears.

He heard the voice of the bookstore owner, the tone was indeed calm and calm, but it seemed to contain the sea, deep and vaguely uncertain.

"How many nightmares about the end of the world have you harvested? I don't think there are too many, otherwise, you would not be entangled in the truth, but just immersed in this second life.

"...Maybe it's because I put too much of my thoughts on other people's heads. I think there are indeed many people who want to know the truth.

"In short... I know a nightmare, and I plan to let some questers who want to know the truth go to that nightmare. You should have a way to make some questers think that they have learned about this nightmare 'unintentionally' ?

"You are already at the supporting role level, so you should be very familiar with this behind-the-scenes means of promoting the development of nightmares.

"...Many people may want to know what I know. But...that is not a good thing."

Dai Wu heard the man show a complex expression that is difficult to describe with exact words, and then said in a particularly solemn or desperate tone: "Sometimes memory can also become a curse."

Dai Wuxiang, what memory? what does he know

Is it the memory of how they entered the narrow building?

Dai Wu could only think of this. Because when you mention memory, you will think of that memory. Neither the tasker nor the actor knows, they don't remember, or they are "forced" to forget that memory. They never knew how they got into the narrow building.

But Xu Beijin remembered?

Although Dai Wu didn't know whether his guess was right or not, he suddenly felt sympathy. After all, if everyone else has forgotten, but Xu Beijin remembers, and keeps the secret for so many years alone...

Then he could really understand Xu Beijin's gloomy and deep aura.

It is even a kind of pain brewed by the years.

Therefore, Dai Wu quickly took a deep breath and stopped imagining Xu Beijin's dark years for so many years. That sounds pretty miserable.

Moreover, forcing him to reveal this secret sounds cruel enough.

...But that does involve the freedom of other taskers and actors.

This was a dilemma. Dai Wu hesitated for a while, and then felt that he seemed too reckless to show his cards with Xu Beijin.

But the chaotic atmosphere in the narrow building now really made him feel that the time had come. He hoped to take advantage of the situation, go down the river, learn the truth, and escape from the narrow building.

So he just sighed, and then thought of Xu Beijin's request.

If you want to know the truth, let some taskers enter the nightmare that Xu Beijin said.

What kind of nightmare was that?

Dai Wu was a little curious, but Xu Beijin didn't say it clearly. He only said that after this nightmare was over, he would let Dai Wu go to his bookstore and talk about it in detail.

In this way, Dai Wu could only suppress his curiosity.

However, apart from the nightmare itself, Xu Beijin's purpose for doing this also confused him a little. He could see the suppressed emotion in Xu Beijin, but he didn't understand where it came from.

If Xu Beijin had really spent so many years guarding the truth alone, then Dai Wu seemed to be able to understand his mentality a little bit. But that's not enough to fully explain the matter.

To put it bluntly, why is Xu Beijin so persistent in bearing the truth alone?

Judging from his appearance just now, it seems that he didn't want to escape from the narrow building, nor did he want to prevent others from knowing the truth. It was more like a deep fear and exhaustion.

After all, it comes down to... What exactly is Xu Beijin's nightmare?

When he said his nightmare wasn't the ultimate nightmare, did he mean that the ultimate nightmare had a different destination, or that there was no ultimate nightmare at all?

Thinking about it, Dai Wu grimaced and rubbed his hair. He thought, it would be fine if he raised the goal of "defeating NE" just because he wanted to live a good second life, as he said to Xu Beijin before.

It was true in the beginning, but then things gradually changed.

After all, who wants to be immersed in the false reality all the time?

They are like prisoners imprisoned in this huge prison. However, they don't even know what crime they committed to be imprisoned here.

What if they are innocent? What if they shouldn't be here?

So why can't they know the truth behind the scenes? Why not try to escape this damn cage?

For Dai Wu, Xu Beijin's concealment and forbearance may be a kind of self-righteous compassion and pity. He was alone with the secret, and what was the point? Torture yourself and torture others.

But maybe... maybe he really couldn't say it?

In those conspiracy theories, NE is always the image of a high-ranking watcher. Perhaps Xu Beijin is the top priority of its monitoring targets.