Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

He calmly pushed the shopping cart into the bookstore.

Xu Beijin looked up at him, and for a moment, he thought incomprehensibly, what exactly is Ringo trying to do?

Do you need to spend so much just to fight him?

... Fortunately, he at least delayed this matter until after Ringo went to his house as a guest.

Xu Beijin just watched Lingo silently until Lingo pushed the shopping cart in front of him. Ringo pointed to the shopping cart and said very simply: "Here."

Xu Beijin stood up and was silent for a moment, suddenly he didn't want to argue with Lingo anymore. "There are some I don't drink," he said.

Lingo looked at him in shock, which meant to say: Are you picky?

He asked, "So which flavor do you like?" He asked with all his heart, "I will only give you the ones you like in the future."

Xu Beijin: "..."

He kind of wanted to laugh.

It's just... I was amused by Ringo's behavior.

He finally realized so clearly that Ringo's world is very simple, so simple...for him to understand at a glance.

His purpose is clear, his actions are clear, and his words are clear. He was as calm as if he didn't need to lie to the world at all. He... He and Xu Beijin are two opposite extremes.

Xu Beijin was in a daze.

Seeing that he didn't answer the question immediately, Ringo frowned, and casually picked up a can of drink from the shopping cart. He took a closer look—peach soda?

Didn't drink at all.

Maybe Xu Bei would like it?

Ringo asked, "This one, do you like it?"

Xu Bei regained his concentration, glanced at it, and replied: "No, the taste of this brand is very sweet." He added, "But sometimes I drink it, if I'm in a bad mood."

Lin Poping said flatly: "Okay, I remember." He picked up another bottle, "What about this one?"

"I don't like it." Xu Bei tried to imitate Ringo's frank and straightforward tone, "It's hard to drink, and the price is not high."

Lingo glanced at the beverage bottle in his hand strangely—beer-flavored soda, would it be difficult to drink? He pouted, threw the bottle into the trash can beside him, and picked up another box of soft drinks: "This?"

"I quite like this."

Lingo looked at the apple juice in his hand: "...you seem to like fruity drinks very much?"

"I'm a little sugar intolerant." Xu Beijin said helplessly, "Although I also like to drink milk, but drinking too much will make me feel uncomfortable."

Lingo gave him a strange look, he thought about it, and finally expressed his thoughts honestly: "You live very...real."

Residents and outsiders of Zhailou, these human beings, rarely live as real as Xu Beijin.

It’s a game, meaning that even if they don’t shower or brush their teeth for a month or two—exaggerating—it doesn’t really affect their personal hygiene.

They won't be hungry or thirsty, and they don't need to eat or drink. Although they will feel greedy and sleepy, as long as the energy value on the personal panel does not return to zero, then it doesn't matter how hard they try to die.

Their bodies are just strings of data in the game. Maybe this game is very real, but it is just a game.

From another point of view, although the taskers and actors are dying because of the game "Escape from the Sky", in fact, they will not really die, but they will never be able to escape from this game. At least they haven't found a way to escape yet.

Dai Wu's optimism that "we have gained a second life" is not uncommon among others.

Yet the paradox is that they know it's a game. Everyone knows that this is just a game. This is not reality, this is not the real life they are after.

Such a painful comparison, of course, made more people feel deep despair.

Real life in the real world... For this group of human beings, it is already out of reach.

The status of the daily necessities merchant in the narrow building is quite high, indeed. But that's not because the taskers really need daily necessities, but just because this is probably part of the doomsday carnival of those taskers.

They frantically consume some food, drink, and frantically have fun and entertainment. Some taskers may not have entered the nightmare again for several years, and just lived indulgently at the bottom of the narrow building.

That seems to be the doomed life and destiny of this group of people.

But Xu Bei is definitely not like this.

He is obviously just a resident of the narrow building, but he has a more serious attitude towards life than the taskers.

When Lingo heard Xu Beijin say the words "Rǔsugar intolerance", he seemed to feel that he was in the real world and heard a friend complaining about his damned physique.

Ringo was in a daze for a moment. Afterwards, all thoughts went blank.

And Xu Beijin lowered his eyes and smiled helplessly. He could understand the meaning of Lin Po's words, but he could only say calmly: "The matter is already like this."

And what can he do?

They were relatively silent.

Xu Beijin took a deep breath and tried to smile: "Thank you for the drink..."

"Do not laugh."