Hearing X Beijins hesitance, Dai Wu cant help but chuckle, replying, pretty good at rembering grudges, arent we? Then he shrugs, telling him, I really dont know this ti though. In this Nightmare, Ive been assigned as extra instead.
X Beijin gives him a suspecting look.
Believe in , bro, Dai Wu explains, my level might be side character, but this Nightmare needs way too many Actors. I was just conscripted.
X Beijin nods for now, then his gaze slides down over at the popcorn in the glass container. His appetite is restless again. The sweet sll has been troubling his nose for a while now.
He knows about a psychological phenonon called theProust Effect, referring to the fact that particular slls could awaken so mories in the human brain, more vividly than mories triggered through other senses, too.
Although science is yet ill-equipped to explain it completely, but at least, when X Beijin is taking in the scent of the popcorn, he is recalling his days back on Earth, when he went to the movies with his friends, he definitely bought popcorn with him.
Hed most likely not be able to finish a bucket by the ti the movies finish, too.
Those are mories of the distant past, yet, just like this comrcial complex in the Nightmare that has such a verisimilitude, he can almost feel his awakened mories dragging him back to Earth, too.
Dai Wu asks, want so?
X Beijin pauses before nodding honestly. He awkwardly smiles, telling him, I just feel like rembering the past.
Earth? Dai Wu gives him a cup of popcorn, answering, here you go. Did you eat that candy I gave you? That was pretty tasty; how ironic it is we can only try to rember the Earth through these Nightmares.
The tone when he said the word ironic is so light and insincere that it makes X Beijin slightly uncomfortable.
With his bubble tea finished, he throws the plastic bottle into the trash. Then he starting dropping the popcorn into his mouth one by one; that is how he used to eat them. This ti, he is especially slow and careful, too.
He praises, its delicious.
Dai Wu has a slightly odd look when he asks, its pretty rare to see soone like you; still reminiscing about the ti back on Earth?
X Beijin eats a few more popcorns in silence. He doesnt really want to dive into the question, so changes the topic in the end, you treat the Tower as a second life?
Yeah, Dai Wu, picking up on the cues, just lets it go, answering, the fact is, nobody knows if we can leave this damned Tower, so might as well just try to find our own enjoynt sohow. In this world that is also a ga, there are actually more possibilities around than reality, dont you think?
Then whats with defeating NE?
Eh, you know, Dai Wu says, looking slightly frustrated, never mind the Missiontakers, but so of the Actors He points to the nurous Actors hanging out in the corridor, do you think they are really clear on treating this as a performance instead of their actual lives?
I told you clearly this is thesecondlife; I know how to distinguish reality from a ga. These people, though, are already treating the ga as the first life already.
X Beijin looks where the finger is pointing, chewing his popcorn in silence.
A second life
Well, if he put it that way, he is really just chewing on data. Garbage data. Bits in a server that looks like popcorn, tastes like popcorn, slls like popcorn, but is not, in fact, popcorn.
He loses interest almost imdiately.
Dai Wu is still passionately continuing over there, Im not as dumb as them. My principle is that, live and stay awake, and at the sa ti, live and find enjoynt.
We cannot just treat the ga as our first life and just lie flat on the floor like salted fish, close our eyes and just forget where we ca from, spending our days like dumbasses.
However, it also would not do if we just wallow in it forever, always pessimistically thinking how we are trapped forever in the Tower and how it is all hopeless and it is all over Dont you think?
Defeat NE is an ideology
An ideology that, NE trapped you in this ga. So, rember that. This is just a fucking ga. Do not confuse the ga with reality.
X Beijin quietly mutters, a ga with no escape.
Dai Wus smile collapses, then says, dejected, did you really have to put it like that?
X Beijin smiles.
Dai Wu gives him a deep, profound look. He looks like he wanted to say sothing, but in the end, he just says, bro
What?
Youdoknow sothing, dont you?
X Beijins eyes widen slightly. Hes not sure he understands.
When you smile, it just feels like Dai Wu is knitting his brows, struggling to co up with a description, it makes
feel like, you seem to know a lot.
X Beijin
Thats why hed say Dai Wu and Lin Qin really do fit each other!
One feels like his smile suggests he knows everything, one feels like he is hiding big, big secrets inside What do the two of them even see in him?!
X Beijin doesnt want to comnt on that, and instead, just shakes his head and waves goodbye to Dai Wu.
When he is so distance away, Dai Wu suddenly recalls sothing, apparently, and yells at X Beijin, watch out behind you!
X Beijin stops and turns around to look at Dai Wu, confused.
Dai Wu is smiling brilliantly, waving at him from afar with his usual, unbridled optimism, but does not say a word more.
X Beijin
This guy definitely doesnt know exactly nothing. An extra? Him? Really
Still, what does he an by watch out behind you?
Although he is sure that the Actors scripts wouldnt specifically contain instructions to harm an extra like him, but since Dai Wu reminded him, X Beijin decides to tread more carefully.
Besides, while the Missiontakers are all still gathered in the Luoke Apartnts, aning none of them are here, but who knows if their actions might indirectly cause sothing to happen here?
Nightmares are often devoid of sensible logic.
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