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Chapter 119 Restoring memory
Mu Jiashi and Fei successfully escaped from the small village under the mountain.
For them, there was some element of luck in their successful escape this time.
The people in the village failed to find Fei by the small waterfall, but they didn't expect to go to their yard to find Fei again. Instead, they went directly to the farewell meal at the old village head's house to explain the situation.
So Mu Jiashi, who said that Fei went to the small waterfall, became the target of public criticism, but he denied his question, only saying that he guessed that Fei went to the small waterfall, and he was not very sure.
However, they had already walked around the village, and the others hadn't seen Fei's whereabouts at all. Where could she go?
At this time, someone tremblingly raised a possibility: "Will she... be taken away by those people?"
Mu Jiashi took a sneaky look at this person and found that it was a villager he didn't know, so he secretly thanked him.
As expected, the other villagers present immediately became excited.
In order to prevent this living sacrifice, they thought of preemptively killing these outsiders, but the group of cultists still succeeded?
So, almost immediately, they rushed out angrily and rushed towards the gathering place of the group.After a while, there were only a few people left in the old village head's house.
Seeing the timing, Mu Jiashi used the toilet as an excuse to go around the old village head's house, and accidentally found a small locked door.
He opened the small door violently, and after seeing the shivering and terrified people inside, he instantly understood what happened.
The child who was called "White-eyed Wolf" was imprisoned here.
But why?
He was imprisoned in this place, but he was still alive, and there were even remnants of food next to him.He is... the child of the old village chief?
But when did he show up here?He still wears seasonal clothes from the outside city, which are quite different from the village.
Maybe it hasn't been long since he came back.Maybe he also regretted graduating, so he returned to his hometown?
If so, is the madness spreading in the village because of the other group of outsiders, or because of... him?
Mu Jiashi stood there, countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
At this moment, he suddenly heard some strange noises behind him.He turned his head in surprise and found Fei actually appeared behind him.
"Don't ask yet!" Fei said eagerly and quietly, "I thought of something!"
Mu Jiashi was a little surprised, he thought, what clue did Fei actually think of?
Fei said: "I thought of a detail. When we came here, we took the shuttle bus on the other side of the mountain. It was a minibus with [-] seats, and we came here full of people.
"But... Twelve foreigners, plus seven college students from this village... are still short of one seat!"
Mu Jiashi listened, nodded quietly, and turned sideways to let Fei look at the people in the small door.
"He's..." Fei was astonished, and then suddenly realized, "He's the one...he came back with us? He was locked up here?!"
Mu Jiashi nodded: "I suspect so."
Scarlet felt a deep chill.
She stared blankly at the man, who huddled in a corner, trembling because of the stranger's appearance.
One of his hands was firmly pressed to the ground, as if drawing strength from it.
She whispered: "It's ridiculous..."
Who is ridiculous?This "white-eyed wolf" who regrets his choice again, or is it a person in this village?
Fei shook her head, then said, "So, this door is the one we're looking for, right?"
Mu Jiashi nodded.
When they walked through the door, gray mist gushed out, and Mu Jiashi was stunned.
They came to a passenger station.There are people coming and going around, and it is extremely lively.Fei was standing beside him, whispering in a confused tone: "Are we... are we going to take a car?"
But Mu Jiashi didn't answer Fei.
He felt a very subtle atmosphere, which had nothing to do with his current experience, but because this scene, this area, triggered a special signal, as if his body was saying, "That's right! It's here !"
He has been here!
Fei looked at Mu Jiashi worriedly: "What's wrong with you?"
"I've been here!" Mu Jiashi said in a very urgent voice, "I've been...no, not here. It's...a nightmare."
When the word "nightmare" appeared on his lips, a deeper trance invaded his brain.
He stood there blankly for a long time, then he said, "Damn..."
Scarlet looked at him blankly.
Mu Jiashi rarely had a violent moment: "Why...why did his nightmare look like this!"
He looked at Fei anxiously, knowing that Fei hadn't thought of anything at all.
But he remembered.He thought of everything in the narrow building, he remembered why they entered this nightmare, and he finally understood why Xu Beijin would ask him to find missionaries who had been to as many nightmares as possible to participate in this nightmare .
Because this is the only way for them to find themselves in this nightmare.
exploit a bug.
Theoretically speaking, if missionaries appear in the gray mist, their state is "sinking", losing themselves, and completely lost in a nightmare.They will be trapped forever in a cellular nightmare in the gray mist.
However, when Mu Jiashi and others appeared in the gray mist and encountered the nightmare they had experienced, a paradox would arise——
They have experienced this nightmare before and did not sink; then, how could they encounter this nightmare for the second time in a state of "sinking"?
If they sink, they will be trapped in this nightmare forever; and if they don't sink, how could they come to the gray mist?
In the final analysis, entering the gray mist through Xu Beijin's nightmare is a shortcut.
In addition, the "door" rules in Xu Beijin's nightmares allow these taskers to travel between different cellular nightmares.
If they are lucky enough to run into the nightmare they have experienced, then a bug has been generated.
As a result of this bug, the taskers were expelled from the label "Sinking".They regain their sense of self.
This bug shouldn't exist.Xu Beijin should have entered this nightmare due to sleep on the first day he obtained this identity, and completely disappeared from this world, and then the taskers had no way to enter the gray mist through the nightmare.
However, no one thought that Xu Beijin could actually never sleep since he entered the narrow building.
Therefore, this peculiar bug was kept until the group of them decided to break the boat and enter the gray mist to fight for their lives.
Even if they are fighting for their lives, there is actually a prerequisite, that is, they must use this special bug to remind themselves of memories about the narrow building, about nightmares, and so on.Otherwise, they'll just get lost in these cellular nightmares.
And when Mu Jiashi understood this, he couldn't help cursing secretly.It's a matter of pure luck, unless...unless NE is on their side.
It was at this time that Mu Jiashi also suddenly realized that this was only the third scene he had experienced, and that he had regained his self-awareness in such a short period of time, which meant...
There was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
NE was indeed on their side, he thought.
But then, he slightly overturned this conclusion.He thought, if NE is really on their side through and through.
Then they should regain their self-awareness when they enter the gray fog, or when they enter the first door.
But it was after the third door that he encountered the nightmare he had experienced.
Is this...a test?Or, NE itself is also limited?
But this is Xu Beijin's nightmare!
Mu Jiashi fell into deep confusion at this moment.
Who can control the specific scene they go to after stepping out of that door?
This is Xu Beijin's nightmare. In theory, he certainly has complete control.
After realizing the problems of the residents of the narrow building, Mu Jiashi once completely replayed the performance of the residents of the narrow building in their nightmares.
He has realized that their actions may be under the complete control of the nightmare master.
Therefore, nightmare owners often use some methods to help and push them to solve their nightmares.
In other words, since Xu Beijin is the master of the nightmare, he must have a complete understanding and control over the scenes in his nightmare, right?This is his nightmare!
But another thing contradicts this fact.
If Xu Beijin could really control the final scene where they went, then why did he arrange the scene after the third door to allow Mu Jiashi to regain his self-awareness?
NE's position is not clear, Xu Beijin is clearly on their side after all, right?Why did he delay like this?
Therefore, it is more likely that NE, who is in charge of the entire narrow building, participated in this nightmare.
So here comes the question again... NE, when did you get so deeply involved in the nightmare of a certain Narrow House resident?there has never been!
In everyone's impression, NE is a lofty, fair but cold existence.
Although every tasker and every resident of the narrow building knew of its existence, they knew nothing about it except that it was the mastermind who controlled the game.
They don't know its image, don't know its specific ability, they just guess that it is omnipotent in the narrow building.
Besides, it is not known from which half-truths even the name came out.
All in all, is NE really going to be so actively and proactively involved in some mundane nightmare?
So Mu Jiashi once again thought of the guess: What is the relationship between Xu Beijin and NE?
This question first came from Fei's mouth. She didn't know what kind of association it was based on, and somehow came to the conclusion that Xu Beijin was NE.
When he first heard about this idea, Mu Jiashi didn't really believe it.
But after that, because Xu Bei knew that the exit of the narrow building was in the ultimate nightmare, and he also knew how to open the ultimate nightmare, so Mu Jiashi thought, could Fei's guess be true?
But now, Mu Jiashi realized with certainty that Xu Beijin must have a certain relationship with NE.
It's hard to say exactly what it is; but think about it, this nightmare they are currently living in--
Is this gray fog, the garbage dump in this narrow building, something that ordinary narrow building residents can have?
For a game, it's almost like all the past data archives, and it's just some useless garbage data!
If he hadn't known that this was Xu Beijin's nightmare, Mu Jiashi might have thought that this was NE's nightmare.
Thinking of this, Mu Jiashi couldn't help but laugh.
Beside him, Fei was still looking at him with surprised and confused eyes.
Mu Jiashi thought for a while, and explained to her in a way that Fei could understand a little: "I mean, I've been here before. It's like a...nightmare."
"Nightmare?" Fei said worriedly, "The scenes we experienced before, are they not nightmares?"
Mu Jiashi moved his lips, but was speechless.
He knew Fei was right.
Soon, he settled his mood and said decisively: "Let's go, we have to find a door in this scene."
When he realized that Xu Beijin's nightmare was actually a so-called "nightmare about nightmares", he realized that the key to solving the problem could not be in these "small scenes".
The final ending must be located in the gray mist of the outside world, which is the scene where they were when they first entered this nightmare.
However, how to leave these small scenes is also a problem.
Besides, Mu Jiashi couldn't help thinking, why is Xu Beijin's nightmare like this?
Why is his nightmare... related to the narrow building?And not like the rest of the Narrow House dwellers, who have to do with Earth, Doom, and Madness?
He couldn't figure it out, and couldn't figure out what that meant.He could only focus on the scene at hand.
While he and Fei squeezed forward in the crowd, he talked to Fei about the scene.
Here... was the first nightmare he entered after entering the narrow building.
That was a very long time ago.However, he found that he was still deeply impressed by this nightmare.Because he failed to solve this nightmare.
When dreaming back in the middle of the night, he would occasionally think of this nightmare, and then maybe because of boredom or curiosity, he thought about how to solve this nightmare.
The source of this incident happened at the intercity passenger station, more precisely, it happened on a bus from a certain city to Cangcheng.
"Cangcheng?" Fei murmured the name, and then said slowly, "I always feel a bit familiar."
Mu Jiashi also suddenly looked at the number of the bus whose destination was Cangcheng displayed on the electronic screen.
After so long, he had long forgotten that this bus was bound for Cangcheng.
However, he didn't expect that he could enter this nightmare again and discover this secret.
A long time ago, it wasn't that he hadn't thought about entering this nightmare again and playing a true ending, which was a regrettable fulfillment.
But then he couldn't find this nightmare, and with all kinds of things running around, and then he became a gold digger, so he didn't have time.
Now he knows, perhaps the owner of this nightmare has completely sunk.
Thus, this nightmare became a member of the gray mist, and would never appear in the narrow building again.
Can such a situation be said to be rare?
Mu Jiashi couldn't help feeling a chilling emotion.
He suddenly understood why Xu Beijin always seemed unwilling to mention his nightmares.
If his nightmare is like this, then he probably wants to avoid talking about it.
He even somewhat understood why Xu Beijin was still unwilling to let other taskers enter his nightmare.
That is a real nightmare, not just a so-called "copy in the game".
Mu Jiashi exhaled heavily, and murmured in a low voice, "Cangcheng?"
Fei asked him, "Does Cangcheng sound familiar to you too?"
Mu Jiashi couldn't help but smiled wryly, he nodded and said, "Yes..." He said, "Maybe we've been there before."
He somewhat hoped that Fei would recall his past memories because of his reminder, but to his disappointment, this did not happen.
From this point of view, they still need to go to the nightmare they have experienced before they can regain their self-awareness.
Apart from counting on NE to show kindness, it is completely a matter of luck.
Besides, in this kind of place, even item cards are useless...
Mu Jiashi couldn't help shaking his head secretly.
As he was thinking, Fei hesitated and said, "Our car...is it here?"
Mu Jiashi looked up at the information displayed on the electronic screen, ignored the noisy and lively voices around him, and said to Fei: "Yes, let's get in the car."
Soon, they passed the ticket inspection and boarded a large bus that runs between this city and Cangcheng on a daily basis.
It was [-]:[-] in the afternoon, a seemingly ordinary afternoon.The weather was a bit hot, and there were not many passengers in the car. There were a total of forty seats, and only one-third of them were filled.
After the driver checked the number of passengers and handed over to the staff at the passenger station, he departed on time.
At the beginning, no one knew what the outcome of this journey would be.
The bus drove for half an hour without incident.Someone asked the driver how long it would take to reach Cangcheng, and the driver replied that it was about an hour.
Most of the passengers in the car were already drowsy. The turbid air was mixed with the strange smell of inferior leather materials, the sour smell of sweat, and the smell of car exhaust on the road. People are insane.
But there is absolutely no Mu Jiashi and Fei among them.Fei was even a little anxious, constantly looking at the electronic clock above the bus, counting the time in her mind.
Her companion said that the situation would change four to 10 minutes after the bus departed.
Mu Jiashi didn't say clearly what the specific changes were, but he said it was difficult to describe clearly in words.
Fei asked him if he could not get in the car.But Mu Jiashi shook his head and said, this is unlikely.
He also tried to avoid getting on the bus once, trying to escape from the passenger terminal.However, staying at the passenger station is much more risky than getting on this bus.
After all, there are hundreds or thousands of times more people in the passenger terminal than here.
So, their only choice is to take this bus that may take them to their death.
Time passed slowly.Finally, Feiyan watched the time on the electronic clock, and it came to No. 40 minutes when the bus departed.
It was the same at first.
The driver continued to drive, and the passenger continued to sleep.The sun outside is still blazing, and countless cars are still passing at high speed on the road.
Fei heard the wind whistling through the glass of the bus, and then slipped away from her ears.
Then suddenly, a subtle, gentle but quick wind brushed her cheek.
Is there really that gust of wind?She heard no wind, nor noticed any drafts.
She felt as if something had touched her nerve slightly, and made her look around sharply.
It might be the wind, she thought.
The car shook slightly, and Fei's eyes blurred, as if there was something wrong with her brain.In the next second, everything returned to normal.
She felt as if nothing had changed in herself.
Fei subconsciously looked sideways at Mu Jiashi, because Mu Jiashi knew what all this meant.If I had to say it, Fei felt that nothing happened.
But when she looked sideways at Mu Jiashi, she found that Mu Jiashi was looking out the window at a certain car.
That could be a young couple, or a young couple.The man is driving, the woman is sleeping with her head tilted.
But suddenly, on the platform in front of the co-pilot, a small doll they placed fell down.
It was as if there was a crisp sound of broken ceramics, resounding beside Fei.
The man seemed to glance at it nonchalantly.
However, the woman woke up.She blamed the man's driving skills for the doll's damage—perhaps so?
Then, she even fought for the steering wheel angrily.After that, the man simply slapped her across the face.
The woman became even more upset, and simply reached out and pushed the steering wheel indiscriminately.
The car wobbled uncomfortably from side to side, and eventually sprinted out of control into the green belt, bursting into flames.
The bus was right next to this car, and Mu Jiashi and Fei witnessed this scene with their own eyes.
The bus continued on.The strange thing is that none of the cars slowed down or stopped because of this scene, as if they were not interested in it at all.
Fei was dumbfounded, and murmured, "What happened?"
"The initial spread of madness." Mu Jiashi said with an indescribable sadness, "Cangcheng is the starting point, and here is so close to Cangcheng, it is also covered by madness."
"Crazy?" Fei said, "Like what happened in that small village?"
"Yes……"
Fei said something softly, and then said: "So, these scenes all belong to a world view?"
Mu Jiashi nodded and said, "That's right."
"And what about the door?"
Mu Jiashi hesitated for a moment, then shook his head, indicating that he was not too clear about it.
He suspected that this was the rule setting in Xu Beijin's nightmare, but there was no way to prove this conclusion, so he simply didn't mention it.
Fei also didn't expect Mu Jiashi to be able to answer her question.
She was about to continue talking when she suddenly heard some strange sounds coming from the front of the car. She looked up and was immediately stunned.
The passengers who were sleeping soundly just now suddenly began to abuse and fight each other.
When Mu Jiashi and Fei got into the car, they purposely sat at the back of the car. At this time, they stayed away from the chaos and just watched.However, such security may not last long.
Fei couldn't help asking: "Is the door we need to look for the door of this car? Can we get out of the car when it reaches the terminal?"
Mu Jiashi said, "No..."
Fei was a little confused.
Mu Jiashi paused, and then said: "Do you think the driver will be affected by madness? Do you think he will continue to work well after being affected, or will he go crazy?"
Fei fell into a long silence.
Then she murmured, "So, shall we just wait?"
Waiting, this strange bus will take them to an unknown place.
Mu Jiashi is the first tasker to regain self-awareness in Xu Beijin's nightmare.But of course he won't be the only one.
At this time, in another cellular nightmare, under Xu Beijin's gaze, Wu Jian, Jia Yi, and Jia Er also came to a special nightmare.
This nightmare caused Wu Jian to show an extremely complicated expression.