The situation seems a bit strange.
The young man named Shen Yunju thought so.
He stared at the cat's eyes tightly, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead and penetrated into his eyes, causing a tingling pain.
The cat's eyes look normal. But that look...
A black shadow was made up in his brain, lying behind this door. The black shadow stared at him through the cat's eyes with his bloodshot eyes widened and with a vicious and cruel emotion.
After a long time, Shen Yunju walked stiffly to the door and stretched out his cold hand to cover the cat's eye on the door.
In an instant, that gaze disappeared.
… Maybe he should meet the cat's eye with his eyes to see what is hidden behind the door, but he dare not. Therefore, he could only tremble like this, covering the cat's eyes with his hands, as if it could block the invisible sight.
Afterwards, he fell into a deadlock and didn't know what to do.
"Damn..."
He seemed to squeeze these two words from between his teeth.
In the same predicament as him, there are all taskers except Ringo.
Gaze... gaze. They all felt that they were clearly in a quiet and warm small apartment, but there seemed to be one, or even several invisible eyes at home, staring at them anytime, anywhere.
Like what Shen Yunju encountered, it was fairly simple, and it was gone after covering it up. But there are still taskers, the sight they meet is staring at their backs.
Humans cannot see their backs. Their fragile spine couldn't be constrained at all.
So, when they turned, turned, turned, turned... In any case, they couldn't get rid of that line of sight.
At this time, half an hour has passed since they entered this nightmare. After the taskers went through a useless search and search, almost all came to the door of the apartment, wanting to see when they could leave the damn apartment.
Only Shuangmei Jiang, she shrank in the corner of the apartment bedroom, her back pressed against the wall tightly, her eyes widened, and she looked around nervously.
She dared not move. Because as long as she leaves this wall, or as long as she exposes her back, then that invisible gaze will instantly stick to it.
It was cold and sticky, full of insidious and resentful sight, as if glued to her back.
The only solution is to shrink in the corner and let your back press tightly against the wall. Even so, she felt as if someone or something was staring at her all the time.
A small bug appeared on her back, digging into her skin.
Jiang Shuangmei hugged her knees. She thought blankly—sister, sister, save me, save me...
I don't know if it was the telepathy between the twins. At the same time, Sister Jiang was a little restless.
She tried to open the door with some anxiety, but the door was still locked. Obviously, the door handle can be pressed down, but the door seems to be fixed in the wall and cannot be opened at all.
She stomped her feet in a hurry, wondering what the nightmare was about, why the taskers were separated in different rooms, and they were not allowed to go out. It is impossible for this empty apartment to have any danger. …
Sister Jiang's heart seemed to fall into the abyss in an instant.
That line of sight... That line of sight... When she turned around and focused on the door, her back was unobstructed and exposed in the direction of the balcony.
Then, that line of sight, like an invisible ghost that appeared at the same instant, stared at her back again.
But compared to her younger sister, Sister Jiang is even more fortunate that the gaze she faced did not seem to be malicious to her. Just staring at her all the time, that's it, staring calmly and silently...
… Damn, why can she feel so clearly! She can even perceive what kind of emotions are in that sight!
This is not scientific at all!
Just like the audience in the live broadcast room, when faced with such an unscientific situation, Sister Jiang’s first reaction was, will there be ghosts in this nightmare
However, there are tens of thousands of nightmares in the narrow building, and it seems that no quest person has experienced a real nightmare centered on ghosts.
In the nightmares of the residents of the narrow buildings, there are murders, lunatics and perverts, and unreasonable nightmares collapse. However, that kind of truly unscientific events, such as ghosts or magic, seem to have never occurred.
These nightmares are almost all dreams based on the reality of the residents of narrow buildings.
If they can meet the owner of the corresponding nightmare in the narrow building, the taskers can learn some clues about their lives from their mouths, and the nightmare is built on these trivial but true details.
From this point of view, a nightmare is a real nightmare that conforms to the worldview known to mankind.
Therefore, in this nightmare, even if these inexplicable sight lines look like ghosts, the questists ruled out this possibility for the first time.
… But if it’s not a ghost, what can it be
When the taskers were in trouble, Xu Beijin's painting style was obviously different. He has taken the audience from the live broadcast room to the entire commercial area.
This commercial area, even though it was in a nightmare, really made Xu Bei feel in a trance as if he had really returned to the earth.
The first and second floors are full of food, the first floor is beauty and clothing, the second and third floors are clothing and food, and the fourth floor is a cinema and gym. When Xu Beijin reached the fourth floor, he walked around outside the cinema, his eyes stopped on the movie poster on the wall.
… The memory of sleeping is slowly waking up. That seems to be the few popular movies that were being shown in the cinema before he entered the narrow building.
In the cinema, the actors shuttle back and forth. Everything is just like yesterday.
Xu Beijin held a cup of milk tea and looked at this scene in a daze. Afterwards, he couldn't help but walked in.
"Hello... Oh, why are you again."
Behind the popcorn counter, a familiar face reminded Xu Bei.
That is Dai Wu. He is working as a cashier again.
There are at least a few hundred actors in this nightmare, and Xu Bei is not surprised to meet familiar people. However, he cautiously replaced the sound source on his side with the tasker's side, so as not to reveal anything in the conversation with Dai Wu's for a while.
The audience in the live broadcast room didn't react much, probably because they thought Xu Beijin had met an acquaintance player, so he wanted to talk privately. The audience still respects the privacy of the anchor.
However, although the audience was very considerate and even though they met acquaintances, Xu Beijin's mood was not too high, so facing Dai Wu's greeting, he just said flatly and politely: "Meet again."
Dai Wu looked at him strangely, and said, "Aren't you wondering what happened to this nightmare again?"
Xu Bei was silent for a moment in embarrassment.
Can he say that he actually wants to re-experience the feeling of wandering around the earth? Drink milk tea, watch movies... Although he was a single dog from the beginning to the end from the earth to the narrow building, at least his life on earth was comfortable and comfortable.
Narrow building...
Ha ha.
Who would like to live a life without hope
Therefore, seeing such a bustling commercial district in front of him, even if he knew it was an illusion, Xu Beijin let himself be a little immersed in it, coupled with the noisy barrage of the audience in the live broadcast room, as if it would be able to disperse him. The loneliness in the soul.
Moreover, apart from the nightmare, there seems to be no other channel to experience this feeling.
As for the nightmare itself, it seems that there is no useful information when the taskers are trapped in their respective apartments.
So, facing Dai Wu’s question, Xu Bei hesitated for a while and nodded, but he added: "If you still didn't tell me like the last nightmare, just treat it as I didn't."
Dai Wu couldn't help laughing: "Brother, you are quite grudges." He shrugged, "But this time I really don't know. In this nightmare, I'm just a small group performer."
Xu Beijin looked at him suspiciously.
"Trust me, buddy." Dai Wu said, "Although my level is a supporting role, this nightmare requires too many actors, so I just came to be a group performer."
Xu Bei nodded dubiously, his gaze slipped down again, looking at the popcorn in the glass cabinet, he was about to move for a while. The sweet smell has been lingering on the tip of his nose for a long time.
Xu Bei knows a psychological effect called the Proust effect, which refers to the fact that smell can awaken certain memories in the human brain and is more vivid than memories awakened by other sense organs.
Although there is no complete scientific basis to explain this phenomenon, at least at this time when Xu Bei smelled the sweet and greasy smell of popcorn, he thought of going to the cinema with friends on the earth, he would definitely buy it. Have a cup of popcorn.
However, when the movie is over, he may not be able to finish it.
That is too long a memory. But at this time, just like the near-real business district scene on the earth in the nightmare, the memory of his awakening also seemed to make him return to the earth again.
Dai Wu said, "Want to eat?"
Xu Bei hesitated for a moment, then nodded honestly. He smiled embarrassedly and said, "I want to recall it."
"Earth?" Dai Wuyu shoveled a cup of popcorn and handed it to Xu Beijin, "Eat whatever you want. Have you tasted the fudge you gave you last time? That's pretty delicious. Now, the things on earth are the most. You can recall it in the nightmare. It's really ironic."
When he talked about "sarcasm", he was lighthearted and not serious at all, which made Xu Bei feel somewhat uncomfortable.
He drank his milk tea, so he threw the plastic cup into the trash can and ate while holding the popcorn bucket. He is used to eating one by one, cautiously and slowly.
Xu Bei praised and said, "It tastes very good."
Dai Wu showed a slightly strange expression. He said, "It's rare to see you like this. Do you still miss life on earth?"
Xu Bei took two bites in silence. He didn't want to face this problem, so he changed the subject abruptly: "Do you treat the narrow building as a second life?"
"Yes." Dai Wu probably saw that Xu Beijin didn't want to talk about this topic, so he continued along with his question, "The situation is, no one knows whether we can leave the damn narrow building, so... it's better to... Lie down and enjoy. In this game world, there are actually more possibilities than the real world, right?"
"Then you still want to defeat NE?"
"Hey, brother, you should understand." Dai said helplessly, "The questers are fine, but there are some actors..." He pointed to the many actors in the business district outside, "Do you think they really Do you treat this as an act instead of real life
"What I just said was Second Life. I know the difference between reality and games; but they, they already regard games as'first life'."
Xu Beijin looked in the direction he was pointing, and was silent, chewing popcorn in silence.
second Life…
He thought, he was actually eating a bunch of garbage data. A bunch of popcorn looks like popcorn, tastes like popcorn, and smells like popcorn, but in fact, it's not popcorn at all, network data.
This made him suddenly lose his interest.
And Dai Wu still enthusiastically said: "I'm not so stupid. The philosophy I advocate is that you have to live soberly and at the same time, live happily.
"You can't think of games as your first life, you really lie flat, and forget where you came from when you close your eyes, and live your life like a fool.
"However, I can't blame myself for a deep grievance. I feel that I will always be trapped in a narrow building in the future, and there will be no hope for life. My life will be over... Are you right
"Down with NE is a concept. This concept means that you are trapped by NE in this game. You must remember clearly that this is a fucking game. Don't confuse the game with reality."
Xu Beijin whispered: "A game we can't escape from."
The smile on Dai Wu's face collapsed, and he said sadly: "Does it have to be so dismantled?"
Xu Bei smiled completely.
Dai Wu gave him a deep look, then stopped talking, and finally said, "Buddy..."
"what?"
"Actually, do you really know something?"
Xu Beijin was startled, a little puzzled.
"The way you laugh is..." Dai Wu frowned, not knowing how to describe it, "It just makes me feel like you... know a lot."
Xu Beijin: "..."
So Dai Wu and Ringo really have a tacit understanding!
One thought he knew a lot when he laughed, and the other thought he had a great secret hidden in his heart... How did these two people think of him!
Xu Beijin didn't want to say more about this, he shook his head and said no goodbye to Dai.
When he walked away, Dai Wuxiang suddenly remembered something, and said loudly to Xu Beijin: "Be careful behind!"
Xu Beijin stopped and turned around to look at Dai Wu with some confusion.
Dai Wu smiled brilliantly, waved at him from a distance with the look of optimism that had always been heartless, but said nothing.
Xu Beijin: "..."
This guy really didn't know anything. I was still pretending to be there just now... It's really...
And, what does it mean to be careful behind
Xu Beijin frowned, thinking in confusion.
Although he believed that in the script of the actor, there should be no need to hurt him as a group performer, but since Dai Wudu reminded him like this, Xu Beijin became more cautious.
Besides, although the taskers are all at Loko's apartment now, and there are no taskers here in the business district, who knows whether the actions of the taskers there will indirectly affect this side
Things like nightmares are always unreasonable.
So the cautious Xu Beijin returned to his bookstore in a self-knowledge, and he was truly relieved.
Of course, he got another cup of milk tea on the way, and he put it on the counter of the bookstore happily at the moment. Even just a glance can make Xu Beijin's mood shine.
He likes the breath of life in this business district, the food and the scenes like yesterday on the earth. Although this did not affect his quick return to the bookstore.
The live broadcast system gave him the ability to control the overall situation in real time, so Xu Beijin felt that he did not need to take unnecessary risks. Plan and act later, this is his motto.
…Not because of counseling.
In short, Xu Beijin took his audience for a walk for more than half an hour in the commercial area, and then sat back behind the bookstore counter once again, concentrating on the live broadcast system, carefully watching the actions of the group of taskers.
Ringo remained unmoved, still trying to use every electrical appliance and furniture in the room curiously. The audience has even become accustomed to his appearance.
The rest of the task force, to be honest, was no different from the scene Xu Beijin saw not long ago.
The female tasker who first appeared on the screen of the live broadcast room was staring at each other with the curtain that had been inexplicably raised before.
There was also a female tasker who curled up in the corner, burying her head in her knees, as if this way could resist the unidentified gaze staring at her anytime, anywhere.
The male tasker with a strange expression facing the business district, with his cold hands still covering the cat's eyes, was in a dilemma with a solemn expression.
There was a sturdy, muscular male tasker with a frightened expression that did not match his appearance. He kept panting, his eyes beating back and forth on the ceiling of the apartment, extremely disturbed.
There was a female tasker who looked like she was only in her ten years old, but she was still fierce, holding a pair of scissors that she didn't know where she came from, her eyes piercingly confronted the air.
The last tasker...
Xu Bei was stunned.
On the live broadcast screen, he saw a tall and thin young man whose body like a bamboo pole is unforgettable. His face was pale and nervous, he was muttering words, but he held a toilet brush in his hand, with his head facing down.
He was confronting the toilet.
This peculiar scene caused the audience to ask question marks.
"What the hell, what's wrong with this toilet?"
"You should ask, what happened to this player."
"He's crazy (Zheng Zhen)"
"Grass, I thought this nightmare was a bit scary, but now I can't stop laughing."
"I see... He wants to fight the toilet!"
toilet…
Xu Beijin watched this funny scene in the live broadcast room, something faintly flashed in his heart.
In fact, for this tasker, he experienced a very strange thing.
Before coming to the narrow building, he had a special problem, that is, under excessive tension, he would feel upset in the stomach and even diarrhea.
When he entered the game, this problem should have disappeared. For so many years, he has never felt any urge to excrete... They are in the narrow building, theoretically, they do not need to eat or drink Lazard.
But just now, when he was waiting nervously to leave this apartment, he suddenly noticed a gurgling noise from his stomach, as if his stomach was bubbling bubbles. The next second, he felt bad.
… Why does it seem to have diarrhea? !
What the hell... In the narrow building? Diarrhea in a nightmare? ?
The question mark almost broke through his head. He stumbled into the toilet and sat on the toilet with an embarrassed look and stiff movements.
He almost doubted that something was wrong with his brain, and he wondered if he still remembered how to pee.
Fortunately, his body... at least instinctively, as if he still remembers this matter. He held his head with a broken face, but felt a long-lost feeling of being alive.
… But why is it used this way! It's so embarrassing!
A foul smell lingered on the tip of his nose, making him uncomfortably want to vomit. He fumbled back with his hand, trying to touch the flush button to flush down the dirty stuff in advance.
Just when he touched the two flush buttons to tell which one is bigger and which is smaller, he was about to press it...
He suddenly felt that his hand was empty... that button had been pressed.
… But he obviously hasn't pressed it yet! His fingers didn't move at all! ! How can this be? !
"Wow!"
The sound of water had already sounded, accompanied by the huge sound of flushing the toilet, instantly exploding in his ears.
This tall and thin task person, like an electric shock, stood up from the toilet in an instant. He didn't even have time to pull his pants, so he picked up the only weapon in the toilet-the toilet brush, and looked around cautiously and vigilantly.
He whispered: "Impossible...Impossible..."
The cold and bright lights in the bathroom couldn't dispel the fear and gloom in his heart. It seems that everything is still the same. Wash basins, shower rooms, washing machines, toilets... No problem.
But, who pressed the flush button
Numerous conjectures appeared in his mind. While holding the toilet brush cautiously, he cleaned himself, and hurriedly pulled up his pants. When Xu Beijin transferred the footage from the live broadcast room, he was well dressed anyway and did not make a fool of himself.
However, his nervous appearance did not receive the slightest pity from the audience. On the contrary, the audience was laughing stupidly because of his funny behavior.
"Help this little brother must be trying to laugh at me hahahahaha..."
"I see, the power of the toilet brush is simply unmatched! Do you want to have a close contact with the head of the toilet brush?"
"Shut up, I'm going to vomit."
"How do you look like this, have you considered how the toilet feels? You don't, you just think about yourself [狗头]"
"Throughout these taskers, except for the Apple boss who is still the Apple boss, the rest of the taskers have shown the essence of this sentence very well: fighting the air."
"Maybe it's a ghost?"
"How do you know that ghosts must exist?"
"How do you know that ghosts must not exist?"
"Online quarrels are meaningless. Offline duels are recommended."
"My grass! This toilet is really broken! Why did you flush yourself!"
Yes, under the gaze of all the audience, Xu Beijin, and the nervous tall and thin tasker, the toilet flushed out of thin air again.
And the tasker felt painfully that his stomach... began to hurt again.