Jiang Shuangi already knows that Lin Qin is trustworthy and Shen Ynj is also largely reliable, but she is unable to say the sa for the five other people present.
There is a man and woman pair that is clearly a pair, and they look rather nervous and agitated; of the three remaining, two n are also clearly companions, one is going with full formal attire with a suit even in the Nightmares, the other one appears to be a teenager. He looks seriously young.
The last person
Jiang Shuangi falls into thought seeing the last woman.
She looks almost like so kind of dium, wearing a long, black robe that covers all the way to her ankles. She also has heavy, smokey makeup on. Her long hair is slightly curly, and while she looks calm, she is murmuring sothing.
Jiang Shuangi listens, only to hear her saying, to end up in this Nightmare after all I see, it must be that my connection with the bottom floor is yet to entirely dissipate
Jiang Shuangi
Oi oi, is she really alright in the head?!
Jiang Shuangi has so many disses in her mind, so she can only try to cheer herself up, thinking, at least everyone else looks vaguely competent.
If she knew that, right now, Lin Qin is worrying over his relationship with X Beijin, Fei and Wu Jian are entirely preoccupied thinking about the Apocalypse and the Tower and the exit, then she would probably go back on her thoughts.
She does not, of course, and so she is very blindly optimistic.
The image she chose in this Nightmare for herself is one of an average-looking, taciturn woman. She gives a fake na, Liang Shuang.
The first one to speak up to them is Mr Suits over here.
He, and the young Teen beside him, take over the initiative with veteran ease. They imdiately set everyone on tasks to be done later, which is truly a relief to hear for Jiang Shuangi, who has already beco used to how chaotic the bottom floor Missiontakers can act sotis.
She also learns another thing, that these two n co from higher floors. They perhaps thought this is the Ultimate Nightmare, and so entered on purpose, to look for an exit to the Tower.
anwhile, the Missiontakers have already exchanged nas and what they know about this Nightmare; however, on the stream, Fei and Wu Jian do not reveal that they are from the higher floors, or that they have acquired information from Mu Jiashi. The strange woman is the last one to introduce herself.
She gives them no na, and instead, just identifies as Mystic, even though she doesnt actually know fortune-telling, or divination for that matter. She says she just enjoys the mystique afforded.
She also tells them she is from the higher floors, but after having co up with nothing thus far, she is still not ready to give up just yet. This is going to be her last fight; if she still fails to make any aningful gains, she may return to her journey upwards, climbing the Tower.
Then, she starts blabbering sothing, but sothing feels strange in this Nightmare Its, yeah, a feeling, she takes a deep breath, and looks slightly absent-minded as she continues, sothing the truth, or so other thing is hidden in this Nightmare
So of the Missiontakers
Wow. Is this what Missiontakers from higher floors look like?
Jiang Shuangi and Shen Ynj, both regulars of the bottom floor, are glancing over at Suits and Teen who also introduced themselves as having from the higher floors with slightly complicated gazes.
The pair
The 36thfloor of the building, is currently enveloped in an offputting atmosphere.
In the stream, the viewers are all having a great ti laughing.
whats with the ntal image in my head!
are these the pros of the higher floors? colour
impressed
reality is always cruel [cry emoji]
Looks like the Missiontakers have no idea the building will be tumbling in three hours? They should have been looking for a way out instead of talking otherwise, right, Beibei?
eh? that tone
dalao! the detective dalao is back! we really missed you, so so much!
sob sob, when the dalao is not here, we get our brains fed inside out by Beibeis iq!
Haha, its
again! Im back to Beibeis stream! I got sothing going on at ho these two weeks, so I was pretty stressed out. Finally got so free ti now, and I saw Beibeis stream is on~ Happy~!
X Beijin also notices the dalaos comnt, and before he can even feel relief or curious that he is back, sothing else draws his attention.
These two weeks?
Only, two weeks?!
X Beijin suddenly cos to realise a problem.
There is a difference in the flow of ti between the Tower and the world outside the Tower? Ti is quicker here in the Tower, and slower outside?
Between now and the first ti X Beijin ever stread, if they go by the number of tis the outside scenery of the Tower has brightened and dimd, then it should have been close to two months already; within which the detective dalao has disappeared for over a month already.
According to him, however, it has rely been two weeks.
Then X Beijin recalls how it has actually already been twenty days between his last stream and the stream before that.
Any normal livestrear with such an irregular, infrequent schedule would normally have been completely forgotten by the viewers. They might not even rember why they followed the strear in the first place.
However, X Beijins viewers never reacted halfway as dramatically.
Theyd go long ti no see, but their long ti no see, doesnt actually seem to be as long a ti as X Beijin understood it to be.
If he goes by the more than a months ti that the detective dalao has been gone and the two weeks he himself admitted to, and calculate, then the ratio of tis passage between reality and within the ga is at least1:2.
What could this an?
X Beijins line of sight slowly lowers onto his own hand. He cant help but form a fist, and then dig his fingernails into his palm, to feel the very real sense of pain coming from it.
This can only an that, he thinks, that they are definitely trapped in so hyperrealistic ga, which is the only possible explanation for the flow of ti being different; its a setting not unheard of in creative dia like novels and movies and such.
But, what about their physical bodies?
They should have been projected into the ga through so kind of device, maybe one of those pods the viewers ntioned in the very beginning, which is what it takes to support them as their consciousness spends an obscenely long amount of ti in the ga
Of course, another possibility exists.
Their bodies have perished a long ti ago, in the Apocalypse that befell Earth. Only their consciousness, in what could be a pattern of electrical signals in the brain, has been saved in a ghost-like manner, and then deposited into this ga called Escape.
X Beijin looks closely at his released fist. He can see the patterns on his palm clearly, without any telling technical artefacts.
Then, he slowly rolls his hand back into a fist.
If we are already dead, he whispers to himself, so quietly that no voice cos out for the stream to hear, then is there even aning in putting us into this ga?
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