Being an Extra Actor Volume 6 - Ch 99.2

X Beijin makes a sowhat tired yawn. So of his accumulated emotions are roiling again.

This Nightmare This Nightmare, is a recreation of so of the past.

A recreation completely true to the original.

What this Nightmare depicts, once also happened on Earth, at so period of its past.

Even if both the Missiontakers and Actors have forgotten, X Beijin hasnt.

He once told Dai Wu, mories, sotis, end up as a curse.

Its true.

If he could, he would also prefer to forget.

X Beijins mouth makes a sad upturn for a bit.

That is when the familiar, calm and magnetic voice of Lin Qin speaks up besides him, if you dont want to smile, then you dont have to.

Then X Beijin notices a warm touch at the corner of his mouth.

Lin Qin is putting his finger on his lips, and gently brushing the bitter angle away.

X Beijin turns to look at Lin Qin on reflex.

He can see Lin Qins eyes. Its not easy to tell what Lin Qin must be feeling, because they are too close together. It is when X Beijin has realised for the first ti, that Lin Qin is already soone that can step into his social comfort zone at will, and he will remain at ease.

He looks at him blankly.

Lin Qin tilts his head, and suddenly asks, should I be kissing you at a ti like this?

X Beijin

He imdiately snaps out of the mood hes fallen into, and sternly pushes Lin Qin away, answering with a stoic expression, no, you must not.

You said must not, instead of should not. That ans, I should have kissed you Lin Qin goes analysing, but you would not grant permission?

X Beijin

How could soone as frustrating as Lin Qin even exist!

Lin Qin has successfully pissed X Beijin off, once again.

Though this ti he decides to keep his frustration in check, and simply says, thats right. I would not grant permission.

Then at what ti, would it be when I both should, and you would permit And then, that is the ti I can kiss you, right?

X Beijins ears are flushing red.

Hes going to ignore Lin Qin now.

While Lin Qin, looking at X Beijin like this, thinks he has an answer, even if X Beijin wouldnt answer.

And he believes, that ti, would be soon, right?

At least, his instincts says so.

He cheerily smiles at the thought.

Fei has walked away from the premises of the Space Agency.

Behind her, the group of astronomy enthusiasts are still bickering.

Fei has already managed to acquire information from them.

For example, the thing they observed, would be making imminent contact with the planet in 20 minutes to half an hour. The impact wave would pulverise everything in the vicinity in no ti.

Which ans, depending on where it lands, this may be the last monts of their lives.

Also, after the thing was observed, many people have decided to lump it together with whatever it was that drove humanity mad a year ago or so.

Maybe the thing approaching has undetectably ssed with the magnetic fields and how human brain signals work sohow.

Soone was advocating that theory loudly earlier, even though no one else buys it. Fei doesnt believe in it either.

If it directly affects the brainwaves, then how could it be that so are left unaffected, but so are completely transford into soone else?

But then, could it also simply be, that all the people who still are sane, are rely looking like it?

Fei doesnt want to entertain that possibility, so she forces herself to turn her attention back onto the Nightmare at hand, murmuring, so basically, we dont have much ti in this Nightmare anymore.

The Missiontakers originally planned to assemble back at the library building to share findings after they individually finish their explorations. Feididnt even suspect this Nightmare might have had a ti constraint.

Since starting from the library, it took them about 20 minutes on foot just to reach here, and that is without counting ti lost dealing with all the mad people on the way.

They probably wouldnt have ti to hurry back to the library before whatever it was in the sky falls down.

Suddenly, Fei thinks she realises why, in this Nightmare, Mu Jiashi would keep looking up at the sky subconsciously.

He probably knows whats coming.

Fei and Mu Jiashi share a look, and knows what the other person is thinking, and worrying about.

Mu Jiashi seems like hes about to speak, but then the sounds of a vehicles horn interrupts them from not far away.

Its a bus sounding its horn.

Mr Suicide sounds tired enough when he asks, so can we just get back to the library by bus?

Fei answers quietly, I dont know. We can try asking

Mr Suicide nods.

Although Mr Suicide is quite the perverted individual in other Missiontakers eyes for chasing after death, but in this Nightmare, he might actually go mad from all the different insanities playing out.

He was going to just seek out fresh new ways to die in this Nightmare, but then

He sure is feeling down in the dumps.

He doesnt really rember either when his obsession with death began; it wasnt exactly accurate to simply describe it as an urge to die, either.

He enjoys the differentwaysin which he dies, its like a way of proving or pursuing sothing.

When he heard those enthusiasts ntion sothing falling out of the sky, Mr Suicide can feel a sudden grip on his heart.

Its like a voice yelling in his ears, thats it! Thats it!

Yet even Mr Suicide himself cant exactly tell, why that was.

Hes been looking for an experience. A particular feeling. A certain experience in death.

The mont of a death, which he has been chasing after all along, searching for all this ti, but has always failed up to this point.

So many people have died and co back to life in Nightmares in fear, because of the pain afflicted at the mont of their death.

But it is different for Mr Suicide. He enjoys death, not because there is pain in death,

But because when he is resurrected after death, there was like one single mont, a mont of daybreak, like awakening from a bad dream.

He feels like he has once experienced that before, too.

Not long ago, at the ntion of the falling object from the sky, and the ntion of how everything would be pulverised in an instant when it makes contact with the planet So feelings were stirred inside of him.

It might be fear, but possibly, there is also an expectation among that fear.

He is, therefore, standing there in quite the daze. He is still trying to figure out his feelings.

Of course, neither Fei nor Mu Jiashi have ti to focus on Mr Suicide; all Missiontakers agree that Missiontakers who pursue death are effectively insane. No communication is possible. They just want to die.

No one would try to rationalise or sympathise with such a twisted, sick mind.

The Tower has already forced the Missiontakers to twist the tranquil garden in their hearts for the much, much worse, and it was all so that they could fight against these maddening Nightmares.

They have no ti to care for others ntal processes, or psychologically analyse others states of mind.

They might lose their own lives soon enough. What ti do they have to care for soone elses?

You could say, that theyre simply automatons trying to prolong their own lives.