"Electrical appliances..." Xu Beijin murmured these two words softly, "No, it should be said that it is, smart furniture."
After the nightmare restarted, Xu Beijin still sat in the bookstore. The scene that just appeared in the live broadcast room made him a little slower, and the audience also exclaimed.
Who would have thought that the bathtub could kill people? Who would have thought that the smart furniture at home would seem to be refined
At this time, Xu Bei recalled the strange behaviors of the taskers, and it seemed that it became understandable.
The corner of the curtain suddenly raised when Sister Jiang was facing; the cat's eye that Shen Yunju covered with her hand; the toilet that was treated with caution by tall and thin taskers; the sweeping robot and the bathtub that caused the death of Shuangmei Jiang...
Also, Dai Wu said, "Be careful behind."
These taskers are all in the apartment. What's behind them? It is the "home" set by the nightmare, these furnitures in the home.
And I am afraid that the taskers would not have thought that those ordinary furniture would suddenly come alive one day, staring at their backs with gloomy or vicious or hateful or indifferent eyes.
Even if Sister Jiang encountered the most positive sight, it was just indifference.
The furniture that has come alive seems to have ten thousand malice towards humans. Even, like Jiang Shuangmei, wanted to kill her.
However... it seems that it is not incomprehensible.
The curtains are fortunate to say, the toilet... Think about it, it seems natural that the toilet hates humans.
In the live broadcast room, the audience also comprehended Xu Beijin's words, and showed horrified expressions.
"Hug my rag doll tightly."
"Your rag doll has become refined too [cute], and will pat your little cheek after you sleep [cute]"
"... Don't scare me!!!"
"I, this, that, no... I'm sitting on the toilet."
"Raise your toilet to brush and defend yourself! We won't laugh at your [狗头]"
"Are you actually watching the live broadcast on the toilet? Be careful..."
"Today, did you mention it?"
"I'm mentioning it, thank you, thank you."
"No, why does the furniture become refined? Then can I make a wish that a refined bed becomes my boyfriend?"
"More likely, your bed can no longer stand you lying on him every day and snorting, so you suffocated you in the quilt in the middle of the night with sheets and quilts."
"... Grass. Let me go."
"It's over, the reasoning chief is not there. In our live broadcast room, there is only a serious person in Beibei."
Xu Beijin: "..."
He sighed quietly.
Once, he thought he could learn the information of the outside world from this group of audiences. Even, he still holds a deep vigilance towards these audiences, always feeling that he is an unknowing actor, and these audiences are watching their good shows.
Maybe, he is the experimental product lying in the nutrition cabin, and these audiences are senior researchers.
As for now...
Hahaha.
If these sand sculpture spectators who laugh all the time can be regarded as a researcher, then Xu Beijin can be regarded as a young scientist, right? !
Xu Bei could not help but feel helpless.
At this time, in the live broadcast screen, the nightmare restarted again, and the taskers also tried to leave the apartment again-the same as the last time, failed.
This means that they may have to wait another hour before they can leave the apartment. This caused anxiety for some taskers who had achieved nothing in the previous nightmare.
Except for Jiang Shuangmei, the viewers and anchors in the live broadcast room, none of the other taskers knew why the nightmare restarted, nor did they know where the danger came from.
They only know that the person with the task is dead.
However, the time of death was one hour after they entered the nightmare, in other words, after they could leave the apartment. So, did the mission's death happen in the apartment or outside the apartment? Even, did he (she) leave the apartment building
These are all unknowns. Although these unidentified taskers have secretly increased their vigilance, whether they can realize that it is the furniture in the apartment that kills the taskers... This is also an unknown number.
There may be some suspicions, but they cannot be defended.
Xu Beijin also saw the whole process of Jiang Shuangmei's death with his own eyes, and decided that there was indeed something wrong with the furniture in this apartment building. And how can these taskers in this mountain find out
At least, Xu Beijin was observing the task force from different perspectives in the live broadcast room at this time, and no one seemed to be aware of the problem with the furniture in the apartment.
There are even people—the tall and thin tasker who goes to the toilet again.
Xu Bei wished him his best wishes.
But I'm afraid the toilet still won't kill people... Probably.
Human beings are just hurting each other with the toilets of Cheng Jing...
Among these taskers, the most restless person is probably Sister Jiang. In the last round of nightmares, she reunited with the muscle man and exchanged information.
The muscular man said that at the beginning of the nightmare, he also appeared in the apartment and noticed the invisible sight. This kind of commonality made Sister Jiang think a lot.
She also shared her experience with him, and not long afterwards, the nightmare restarted.
Despite obtaining some useful information, Sister Jiang is still worried about her sister. After the palpitations, it was hard for her not to doubt whether the death of the tasker that caused the nightmare to restart happened to Jiang Shuangmei.
Sister Jiang was anxious and kept trying to go out, but they all failed.
"Damn it!" She couldn't help cursing, "Why are they scattered in different apartments... Wait!"
apartment
She suddenly turned and looked at this apartment. As she thought, this is more like a hotel apartment than a private residence. Although the decoration is high-end, it does not have the slightest personal touch.
In a brief meeting with the muscle man, she once saw the appearance of the muscle man’s apartment through the open door, which was exactly the same as the apartment she was in.
If it’s a serviced apartment...
She whispered to herself: "There should be a security room on the first floor... Maybe there will be property management, and you can find the check-in record..."
This is her guess, based on some information originally on the earth. She didn't know whether this nightmare would really fit her mind completely... The nightmare is something that cannot be judged by common sense after all.
Even if there is, whether it will react according to the list of people who enter the nightmare task is also a question.
However, she has no other way. Is it really necessary to inspect room by room
She pressed the fourth floor in the elevator before, just to try the water. She originally thought that being able to get out of the apartment was just the beginning of the nightmare. Who would have thought that the nightmare would restart soon after leaving the apartment
She believes that the rest of the taskers must also think so, and they will inevitably explore the entire apartment building as much as possible in the process of looking for other taskers.
But since the first round of nightmare ended so quickly, it shows that there is an unknown danger in the apartment building. This will prompt taskers to converge as soon as possible to exchange information.
In this case…
Sister Jiang thought for a while, and decided that after waiting for a while to leave the apartment, she would immediately go to the first floor of the apartment building without any pause in between.
In this way, one can search for possible check-in records, and the other is to find other taskers who may also go to the first floor to meet.
Now Sister Jiang only hopes that her sister will be smarter, knowing that after leaving the apartment, she will go to the first floor to meet her...
She thought, Shuangshuang should still be able to think of this, right
If Sister Jiang knew that in the first round of nightmares, Sister Jiang didn't even go out, or even knew that the door could be opened after an hour... Then she might not be so confident.
But she didn't know.
The nightmare restarted, and Xu Beijin left the bookstore again.
Since the first live broadcast, Xu Beijin appeared to be more and more accustomed to this kind of free action after he went out of the bookstore with trepidation.
In fact, the main brain does not completely restrict the actor's activities, but requires the actor not to reveal his identity on the side of the tasker, and to play a perfect role as a resident of a narrow building.
Most of the original actors were also eager to defy NE. It is a pity that the long years and hopeless future have smoothed the hearts and minds of most actors.
Even Xu Beijin, he has become more and more accustomed to the life of the narrow building. Calm, desperate, no future.
Dai Wu said to him that he should treat the game as a second life, while at the same time not forgetting the real life... Xu Beijin thinks he can't do it. Dai Wu's fearless optimism sometimes makes Xu Bei almost envious.
But he can't do it. In other words, he did succumb to NE. He confessed his fate.
The only thing he insists on is that he doesn't want any tasker to enter his nightmare. For this, he had to find various ways to refresh himself, and from this he gained a small, harmless addiction.
But that's it.
And when he harvested the live broadcast system, and left again and again—when he escaped from the bookstore, he finally realized that freedom...When people are trapped in mud and trapped, then suddenly the sky and the sky are widened and the clouds see the sun...
Freedom is really nostalgic.
It seemed to awaken a part of Xu Beijin's silent soul.
… Well, the final performance was probably Xu Beijin involuntarily went to queue outside the milk tea shop.
What can he do. He can't control his feet.
Xu Bei thought desperately and frustratedly.
When he once again saw his milk tea with plastic film sealed by the machine, he was suddenly taken aback.
He noticed that there seemed to be a gaze behind him looking at him. The gaze was calm and indifferent, but it clung to his back firmly, keeping every step of the way.
Xu Bei lowered his eyes slightly, and the happy expression on his face instantly faded. He took the milk tea from the clerk, thanked him, and then turned and looked behind him. As expected, no actor was watching him, but that gaze followed him.
He took a sip of milk tea and frowned, thinking, is this the situation faced by those taskers
As soon as he noticed that gaze, Xu Beijin thought of Dai Wu's warning to him. He realized that if there was a problem with the furniture and electrical appliances on the Loko apartment building, would there be a problem with the business district as well
Compared with the horror caused by the unknown, Xu Beijin calmed down a lot. Although that gaze has been stuck on him and made him a little uncomfortable, as a resident of a narrow building who once gathered hundreds of taskers at the door of his house, Xu Beijin thinks that this is just a small scene now.
It's just—he bit the straw, thinking a little distressed—if he waits for him to return to the bookstore, this look will follow him... that's a bit annoying.
He walked a few steps to the side, so as not to block other actors. His calm eyes searched among the various decorations, electrical appliances, and objects in the room, hoping to find the lingering sight.
He was on the first floor of the business district. There was a milk tea shop at the entrance. He hadn't had this brand before, so he came in line.
Now, he is standing aside, looking thoughtfully at the entire business district, from the automatic glass doors at the entrance, to the elevators and escalators in the atrium, to the small appliances in the milk tea shop...
There is also air conditioning.
Xu Beijin raised his head subconsciously and looked at the outlet of the central air conditioner in the business district.
This is an electrical appliance in a business district that is often overlooked. People tend to focus on those glorious shops without paying attention to the air-conditioning outlets above the white walls.
But it is everywhere.
The moment Xu Beijin looked at the air vent of the air conditioner in front of him, the line of sight that had been staring at him, disappeared in an instant.
Xu Bei subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt inexplicable again.
He is an actor. Moreover, he is not the master of this nightmare, and what he insists to say is no different from the NPC in the nightmare.
So, this refined air conditioner... What does it look at
Xu Beijin tilted his head somewhat incomprehensibly, and muttered to himself softly: "Well, maybe it's because... Haven't seen me like this?"
He laughed contentedly. Perhaps he himself realized that a actor like him, who was not doing his job properly when he was "working", went to drink milk tea with other actors, this was completely fish-catching behavior.
Other actors may think that his script is just wandering in the business district, but Xu Bei knows to his heart that he was just stunned by the audience in the live broadcast room, and then he was out of control.
Moreover, that was a real hour. If you just wait in the bookstore, it would be too boring.
… Xu Beijin didn’t have the concept of boredom before. He was just doing a conscientious paddling group performance in a nightmare. Unfortunately, he now has a live broadcast system.
From frugality to luxury is easy.
He glanced at the air-conditioning outlet at the front side for the last time. Although I didn't understand why this line of sight would be fixed on him, since it had already appeared, and Dai Wu had reminded him before, "Be careful behind," Xu Beijin decided to be more cautious.
He took the milk tea and went back to the bookstore.
That strange look did not appear in the bookstore.
In fact... Xu Beijin suddenly reacted. In the bookstore, he didn't see any electrical appliances at all.
Wooden bookshelves and counters, old antique books, mottled peeling walls... No TV, no air conditioning, no common household appliances.
The only thing that can be called electricity is a lone light bulb on the ceiling. But he couldn't even find the switch that controlled the light bulb. It seemed that the purpose of setting up this light in the nightmare was just to create an atmosphere of horror.
Xu Bei was fully aware of the weirdness of things. He put the milk tea on the counter casually, and then went around the bookstore. He could not find any valid information.
For the first two nightmares, he had newspapers in his bookstore, but this time he didn't. The bookstore is full of dirty old books, and some even the words on them are blurred.
But there is something weird.
Xu Bei stared deeply at this antique bookstore. He thought that the bookstore didn't have the materials that provided nightmare information, but it was like a... a safe house.
According to the information obtained so far, the danger in this nightmare comes from those refined household appliances. By the way, there are some other facilities. But anyway, it's a gadget for electricity.
And there are no electrical appliances in his bookstore. The only thing that is energized is just a small light bulb. Even if this bulb can be refined, what can it do? Blast yourself to kill with glass shards
In any case, this bookstore does not seem to be dangerous.
For the taskers, they will inevitably come to the commercial district to look for clues; and then the electrical appliances on the commercial district will also begin to attack them. Nightmare does not give an unsolvable problem, so they must have a way to avoid those attacks.
"...That's why there is a safe house." Xu Beijin murmured, "This kind of safe house can't be the only one."
He is so sure because he is the owner of this bookstore, but in fact he is only a actor at the group level. If something like a safe house only belongs to a group performance, it sounds a bit strange.
Thinking about it, he glanced at the time.
Twenty minutes have passed since the nightmare restarted.
So Xu Beijin left the bookstore again without hesitation, centered on the bookstore, and started looking for a "safe house" similar to his antique bookstore.
Twenty minutes later, he found three.
They are a craft shop that makes pottery, a clothing shop that sells second-hand clothing, and a retail shop that sells tobacco, alcohol, and tea. The locations are all near his bookstore, or in other words, around the open-air plaza on the basement floor.
… Xu Beijin doubted whether the taskers could find these safe houses, especially in panic.
Perhaps other locations in the business district will also have safe houses, but it is very likely that they do not exist inside, after all, there is already central air conditioning inside. If it is outside the building, then there are only along the street and near the open plaza.
The only problem is that the taskers seem to have not realized what is wrong with this nightmare.
At least from the live broadcast, Xu Beijin found that, except for Jiang Shuangmei, who had been in an accident before, the rest of the taskers were still not at all wary of the smart furniture.
Xu Beijin confirmed the location of each safe house, then walked through the open-air plaza—and bought another cup of milk tea by the way, intending to drink it for a while—and then returned to the bookstore again.
All of his actions were recorded by the camera in the live broadcast room, and the public screen had already been swiping through various curious barrage, all asking Xu Beijin what he was doing.
To be honest, this live broadcast continues until now, which is actually quite boring. The taskers were trapped in the apartment for an hour, and they had to do this every time the nightmare restarts; and Xu Beijin is not a very lively anchor.
However, he is handsome.
Therefore, the audience is very realistic and patience with Xu Beijin.
Xu Beijin didn't fully explain his actions just now until he returned to the bookstore.
He said: "Since there is a safe house, it means that when the tasker comes to the commercial area, he will face a very serious danger. Besides..." He pondered for a moment, and then said a question he had been worrying about. "This nightmare, no available information has yet been provided."
According to the general nightmare development, when it comes to the second round of nightmares, the task force often encounters residents in narrow buildings who can provide information, or finds other written materials. In short, they shouldn't get nothing.
But now these taskers have encountered such a dilemma.
Seven people were scattered in seven rooms. In the first hour of the nightmare, they couldn't meet. Moreover, even if an hour has passed, they can try to reunite, but the danger in the apartment seems to have gone to another level.
This is a bit annoying.
In the live broadcast room, the audience also echoed.
"Yeah. The nightmare before, by the second round, the players knew that the man in black killed someone in the bedroom. By the third round, they solved the mystery of the count directly. But this time Nightmare... I can't see that the player has any useful information."
"We know a lot of information because we are from the perspective of God and we share information. But the players are scattered in seven different rooms... It's miserable."
"And even if one of the players knew it, he couldn't tell the others."
"Beibei, do you think there is a safe house in the apartment building?"
Xu Bei froze for a moment, thought for a moment, and said, "It's possible. Maybe it's on the first floor of an apartment building."
With that said, he simply started to adjust the angle of view of the live studio, constantly checking the annexes of the apartment building that he hadn't looked at carefully before. Finally, he stopped at the green facilities of the community.
He hesitated for a moment, and then said his guess: "The apartment building is full of electrical appliances, air-conditioning, lights, elevators, fans, etc.... However, it seems that it is safe to get out of the apartment building."
"!!that is true!!"
"However, do the players think that there must be clues in the apartment building, so they have been looking for them, and they are unwilling to come out..."
"I think it's very possible... I feel the maliciousness of game planning again."
"It's terrible... If it were me, I wouldn't want to leave if I didn't find a clue in the apartment building..."
Xu Beijin nodded and said in a low voice, "Human nature is natural."
There must be clues in such a large building here. However, there are so many rooms in the apartment, if you really find them one by one, how can these seven taskers have this time
There is also a huge business district waiting for them to explore!
In addition, they were forced to wait anxiously for an hour in the apartment. This will inevitably affect their mentality, making them unconsciously think that they have wasted an hour and unconsciously speed up their actions afterwards.
Thinking about it, Xu Beijin set his sights on the screen of the live broadcast room.
He couldn't help wondering how these taskers would choose.
In the second round of the nightmare, one hour passed quickly, and the taskers could leave their apartments to explore.
Sister Jiang stood up, and before opening the door, she subconsciously touched the inner pocket on her waist.
… Then her face suddenly changed.
She squeezed the empty inner pocket in horror-where are her two prop cards? ! Why is it missing? !
She instinctively recalled all her experiences in this nightmare.
… That's a card dealer!
That muscular man who looks honest and honest with a good smile, is he a card dealer? !
Sister Jiang's eyes widened angrily.