Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

No...impossible, do these drinks mean anything to him? Not at all, is he still short of this drink?

"What the tasker provided him was the matter itself. This opportunity for equivalent exchange."

Wu Jian looked at Fei, then at Mu Jiashi, and asked in confusion, "What... what do you mean, why didn't I understand?"

Fei seemed to understand, and slowly reasoned her thoughts: "You mean that the equivalent exchange in our eyes is the exchange of information. But in fact, the information we provided to him is worthless in his eyes. . Of course he knows all about nightmares.

"The exchange of equal value in his mouth must be beneficial to both parties. The benefit he gave us was information about the nightmare, but the benefit we gave him was..."

Fei suddenly stuck.

Mu Jiashi said affirmatively: "He is pushing us to solve the nightmare. He is like a puppeteer, and we are his marionettes.

He pointed us in the right direction and followed his script..."

Fei said, "This is equivalent exchange."

She and Mu Jiashi looked at each other.

Wu Jian rubbed his head, thinking, is it necessary? If the bookstore owner really knows everything about nightmares, then do taskers need to be his puppets...

Can't he act on his own...

yes! He can't act on his own!

Only then did Wu Jian suddenly realize.

Compared with the taskers, these narrow building residents are obviously subject to stricter shackles.

Under such circumstances, of course Xu Beijin can only indirectly control the direction of the nightmare and the actions of the taskers through an "equivalent exchange" in a certain sense.

In the nightmare of the ruins, it was true.

And it was the same in the nightmare they had just left. As for the secrets hidden in the library, Xu Beijin had already hinted at it from the very beginning.

He said that if they have any books they want to look for, they can go to the westernmost computer on the first floor of the library to look it up.

However, when the taskers found Lu Chengzhe later, they ignored this clue.

Later, when Wu Jian relayed the information, he just casually mentioned this information, and the taskers didn't pay attention at all.

In fact, in the third round of the nightmare, if Ding Yi and Mu Jiashi could directly go to the computer to search for relevant information, maybe they could find more clues.

Only then did Wu Jian fully understand what Fei and Mu Jiashi meant.

Mu Jiashi went on to say: "Moreover, this phenomenon does not only exist in Xu Beijin's body. I reviewed the nightmares I encountered before, and found that the owner of the nightmare and the residents of the narrow building in the nightmare are basically like this. .

"What I made clear is that when we ask them about clues about nightmares, they usually tell us very frankly that they know clues about nightmares.

"Before, we always believed that because this is a game, there is no need for NPCs to lie.

But what if that's what they need to do? What if they just give us clues and push us to solve the problem?

"I didn't realize it until... the bookstore owner said, 'Equivalent exchange'.

What is equivalent exchange? Is what we give him the same as what he gives us? "

A few years ago, when Mu Jiashi used some drinks to exchange a clue about the nightmare from Xu Beijin, he thought he was following suit.

After all, Su Enya told him that her neighbor likes to drink.

But Mu Jiashi only realized at this moment that the premise that Xu Beijin likes to drink drinks is that of course he has drinks, otherwise Su Enya would not be able to see him drinking drinks. Then those drinks he gave to Xu Beijin, can they catch his eyes?

So, Mu Jiashi's "follow what he likes" is to use drinks?

No.

What Xu Beijin needed was precisely the matter of "providing clues about the nightmare" itself!

He needs these taskers to do things according to his prompts, this is what he really wants!

This is what these narrow-building residents are doing. This is the real "equivalent exchange".

Mu Jiashi said with a complicated heart: "Equivalent exchange..."

These four words seemed to really pull them out of the fog and let them understand what was going on in the narrow building.

Previously, they had realized that the residents of narrow buildings had problems. However, they didn't know what these narrow building residents were doing.

They seem to be just living in this foggy building, waiting for the taskers to solve their nightmares.

The questers are solving their nightmares, but what are the residents of the narrow building doing?

——The residents of the narrow building are letting the taskers solve their nightmares! They are secretly promoting this matter!

At this moment, Mu Jiashi felt a sense of confusion.

This is like someone who likes another person and pursues them actively, only to find out that the other person has already tried their best to make this person see him, like him, and pursue him.

The confusion of status, the exchange of identities, and the change of hands of the initiative.

The taskers thought they had done enough, but at this moment, they realized that they were just puppets. They still don't know anything about the narrow building.