Being an Extra Actor Volume 4 - Ch 61.2

Countless Missiontakers are head over heels for the possibility of the Ultimate Nightmare, but no one has claid that they have actually found it.

In fact, the madness surrounding the bookstore owners Nightmare on the bottom floor in the past, may have partly been fuelled by the Missiontakers desire for the Ultimate Nightmare.

Of course they want out of the Tower, regardless of whether they are Missiontakers or even Actors. Perhaps, that chaos back then might even have involved Tower residents as Acted by Actors, who were also curious about whether X Beijins Nightmare might hold any secrets.

A few years have passed since then, and while there might still be restless bravado in the dark wishing for X Beijins Nightmare, but at least, on the surface, there is not. Especially after Lin Qin has made it clear he is taking X Beijin under his protective wing.

Of course, so people are also guessing at their relationship, even adding so coloured thoughts into their imagination shalessly. It has to be said, though, that the reputation of the crownless King of the bottom floor is still effective.

So what X Beijin was fearing all along has not co to pass.

That said, besides Lin Qins own influence, the sudden prominence of this Nightmare also helped alleviate the pressure from X Beijin so, as so people are suspecting this Nightmare of being the Ultimate Nightmare.

Look, an apocalypse, so survivors, endless ruins, and a fog that surrounds it all All the symbolism and scenes are there, in eerie correspondence with the Tower itself. Add to that, the loss of mory and even the fact that death does not lead to the Nightmare restarting, it is all the more suspicious!

The first group of Missiontakers who failed to ascend through this Nightmare and ended up going up via other Nightmares, dressed these facts up in dramatic words, and retold their stories.

Now, the situation has spiralled completely out of hand, just like how X Beijins Nightmare did it all those years back.

It is like you have thrown a piece of floating log to all those mad, desperate, hopelessly struggling swimrs.

Would it be useful? Would it just sink outright?

Nobody knows.

But these Missiontakers, with no other way out, will never just let the floating log pass.

For example, just counting the ones Fei and Wu Jian know about, besides them, many others have also descended the Tower in search of this Nightmare. At least theyll try.

Those people were here earlier than Fei and Wu Jian, too, because the rumour still took ti to climb the Tower, and they needed ti to descend from as high that floor was that they were at.

So in summary, while the Missiontakers of the bottom floor are trying desperately to go up the floors because of that rumour of soone having escaped the Tower, the Missiontakers of the higher floor are also abandoning everything theyve achieved to fall through the floors for the rumour that the Ultimate Nightmare has appeared on the bottom floor.

Basically, its a good tale about the dangers of unsubstantiated rumours.

Though whether these rumours are actually unsubstantiated or the truth, nobody knows.

The sa way that, even for the secret organisation behind Fei and Wu Jian, who started those conspiraciesOk,deductionsThey could not have imagined that one of those schools of thoughts they had has actually beco an unspoken tenet in the Missiontakers minds.

The one about the Ultimate Nightmare.

In fact, Fei and Wu Jian didnt even actually co here for the Ultimate Nightmare crap.

Because they werent expecting at all that that almost jokingly unrealistic proposal of there being an Ultimate Nightmare would actually be the most widely accepted conspiracy among the Missiontakers, and is now fuelling the crazed wave of them abandoning everything they built up in the upper floors to co back down to the bottom floor.

It only makes one wonder if the unrest a few years back that involved X Beijin and his Nightmare might have actually involved desperate Missiontakers from the upper floors as well.

Mu Jiashi once told X Beijin, that the upper floors of the Tower, are sowhere even more dead and lifeless than the bottom floor of the Tower.

However, picture this

the Missiontakers who really have lost all semblance of positivity, if they had their life reignited, for one last straw, one final, ultimate gamble, one last chance to free themselves, then, the results might actually be quite terrifying as well.

At least, that is what Fei is worrying about.

All these thoughts swirl about inside her head, until ti slowly passes, until

The rest of the Missiontakers, all five of them have returned to the lobby of the building.

There are thirteen storeys, so it took a while to investigate, but the office building was built with largely open office space, and not too much ti was wasted looking at every nook and cranny.

It was perhaps a quarter of an hour after they started searching, and the reassembled Missiontakers all shake their heads.

No one has found the murderer inside the building.

Baldies eyes widen in slight disbelief, the effect being rather ominous given the bloodshot state of his eyes, as he says exasperatedly, but all of us saw soone behind that, and that no one has left the building!

True, even though they have not found any useful clues, Collectors smile isnt at all affected. He continues, or, perhaps, soone found them, but is keeping it secret?

Baldie is visibly irate.

He knows what Collector ans exactlyHes mocking him for having kept information from them earlier.

As expected of soone who can double standard without blinking an eye, he says without hesitation, I can guarantee that I found nothing!

Biceps adds,

neither.

Collector just goes ho, I dont really an that, then he raises his chin to say, look whos there.

So, Fei, who has walked over to et up with them, and the rest of the Missiontakers, all turn to look, through the glass door, at the person behind the bookstore counterX Beijin, with a poker face.

X Beijin

He might really, ever so slightlybe frustrated right now.

As the Heavens are his witness, other than climbing up to the rooftop at the beginning of the Nightmare, he really, never, ever, left his bookstore after that!

Though clearly, that does not allay any suspicion of him from the Missiontakers.

They did see soone push another person off the building on the rooftop. They did not see anyone walk out of the building. They did not find any single other person in the building, besides themselves

Before the Missiontakers are even in front of X Beijin to question him, X Beijin is already out of excuses.

Because the streaming system didnt have any view for the locations in the building outside of the stairwell, the rooftop and the bookstore, so he couldnt even try to look for that murderer himself

No, wait!

That cant be it!

X Beijin suddenly realises sothing.

The streaming system is independent of all this, basing itself, in fact, on the settings of the ga. In other words, this is actually a potential way of cheating by checking the internal files of the ga itself.

So basically, only the scenes that the streaming system offers are aningful to the Nightmare. Where the stream offers no scene, can only an that they are useless background set pieces.

Of course, for a ga as realistic as Escape, the Server would naturally set the scenes as realistically as possible, allowing the Missiontakers to explore the map as they please, aning that, the Missiontakers wouldnt actually know which scenes are worth exploring. They would visit everywhere, of course, but through the stream system, X Beijin can know.

While in the building, there are only three scenes that are worth exploring

X Beijin falls into thought.

Does this anThat the murderer, really isnt anywhere to be found in the building anymore?