Volume 7 - CH 118.2
After Ye Lan’s physical altercation with the drawer to gather the clues within, their erstwhile companions seems to have taken inspiration.
They stop following along the usual rules of Escape Rooms. Instead, they proceed by breaking down the scenery and tools, taking shortcuts.
It means they are proceeding extremely rapidly, even if Ye Lan and Shen Yünjü still have no idea what kind of mystery this place is.
And, the more they proceed along this locked house, the more Ye Lan and Shen Yünjü feel that they’re going around in circles. The number of rooms and scenarios in this Escape Room seems unusually big.
Finally, they end up stuck in some room. They do not find a key to leave this room, or more accurately, they do not even know where it might be hidden.
So they stand there, expressionless.
Ye Lan and Shen Yünjü look at each other, and are about to go search for it themselves or simply kick the next door open, or maybe just go root through everything not nailed down. They’re not going to remain in this room.
However, something seems to have entered their minds, suppressing their thoughts. They feel dazed and their heads are throbbing. It’s like the whole world is twisting and twirling in front of their eyes. Their vision is blurring.
They stand there, blanked out, for a long time.
Did they do something wrong?
While their minds remain muddled, Shen Yünjü tries his best to keep thinking despite everything. He tries to work through everything they’ve done carefully, to see if any of them might have been a trigger.
Until Ye Lan points out quietly, “we may have missed something, when we simply knocked everything over…”
Shen Yünjü gets it.
The dizziness is gaining in severity, until finally, he finds his consciousness lost in a sea of noise. He can only stand there, just like everyone else in the room, like a mannequin, forever locked up inside this room.
Some time passes, when suddenly, the lock clicks. It opens up.
A few people pour in from outside. They complain that these customers have broken the objects, and they’ll have to reimburse them for the losses incurred.
They appear to be the staff of this Escape Room.
When they walk into the room, Shen Yünjü can feel his mind suddenly coming back to him. It’s like waking up from a drunken stupor.
Though he continues to act like he’s knocked out, while listening to the conversation and thinking about this scene.
If there are still staff members in this place, then that must mean, that only these customers here have ended up treating the Escape Room as a real murder case in progress. These staff members are still lucid… or, not?
Shen Yünjü listens to the staff complaining.
“What a mess, they’ve broken whatever they could get their hands on.”
“It’s not like the audience don’t like it this way… You know they’re not excited enough by people being intelligent anymore.”
“They should just pack it up and go watch cockfights then! We run on people being intelligent.”
“Shit. They’ve got the Damage Report in. You might as well rebuild this whole damned place with that figure, fucking hell!”
“It’s lucky we stopped them in time… I wish we could just leave these people here. Not like they’re even sane anymore…”
“Hey, we can’t, you know they’re that, ‘victims of the madness.'”
“Oh please, that again? What else are these mad people good for if not being streamed for the audience’s pleasure? And it’s not like they hate this, either. We’re not even treating them inhumanely, right?”
“They’re probably not exactly liking this place either, are they? At least, I wouldn’t like it.”
“These people are convinced this place is real, though… like, actors being immersed in their roles, whatnot?”
“As long as it makes money. Who cares? They’re helping to pay our bills.”
“I heard management found some new people… They treat some entire action adventure game about saving a little girl as real… I bet it’s far more impressive than these dingy escape rooms. Maybe we’ll lose our jobs sooner than we think.”
“Damn it, are the audience not happy even with that Battle Royale Livestream in that wherever? I thought those were popular?”
“There are always people who like other kinds of games, why else would there be so many genres… If nothing else, if just one rich guy likes a genre, then they can choose to make whatever streams. Who knows which ones they’ll choose?”
During their idle chatter, the staff quickly moves the unresponsive people inside the room out. By sheer coincidence, they’ve left Shen Yünjü and Ye Lan who are standing around on their own for last.
And just when they’re finished moving everyone else and are coming to get these two people last, they suddenly look at each other and immediately run for their lives.
When they run through the original entryway to this room, a grey fog suddenly bursts out.
Shen Yünjü yells, “when we know the truth hidden behind the scene… We can leave through any door?”
They already went through that door to enter, but the grey fog didn’t appear then.
When they understood the truth behind the scene, the door immediately became their ticket out.
The truth here, is that this is a real-life Escape Room attraction, where the mad people have treated it as reality.
Others, somehow, saw this ‘verisimilitude’ as a selling point, and started broadcasting their struggles as if they’re mere entertaining clowns, and are making dosh off of it.
How many people have gone mad in the world already? How many audience would be willing to dish out ungodly amounts of money just to watch their suffering?
Shen Yünjü does not know the answer to the question.
He is simply lamenting, that no wonder there were proposals to ensure the rights of the mad people——Wait, rights of the mad people?
How did he know this? Is it part of the memories he has forgotten?
A familiar confusion takes over him, as he glances over at Ye Lan.
She has the usual heavy tone. It seems she isn’t particularly excited or glad to be able to leave the scene.
She responds to Shen Yünjü’s shouting from earlier, “perhaps, this door simply means, ‘this is the truth.'”
“Like a door of truth?”
Shen Yünjü mutters.
If so, then he can’t help but wonder, what would that first door that led them to these endless, bizarre scenarios, mean?
If Xü Beijin could hear Shen Yünjü’s thoughts, then he would certainly answer, that that is equally, a door of truth. Of the truth to the grey fog, beyond which, they will learn of the most tragic of the circumstances of the Tower.
So it’s hard to say, whether having lost their memories, is a strictly good or bad thing for these Missiontakers.
They stop following along the usual rules of Escape Rooms. Instead, they proceed by breaking down the scenery and tools, taking shortcuts.
It means they are proceeding extremely rapidly, even if Ye Lan and Shen Yünjü still have no idea what kind of mystery this place is.
And, the more they proceed along this locked house, the more Ye Lan and Shen Yünjü feel that they’re going around in circles. The number of rooms and scenarios in this Escape Room seems unusually big.
Finally, they end up stuck in some room. They do not find a key to leave this room, or more accurately, they do not even know where it might be hidden.
So they stand there, expressionless.
Ye Lan and Shen Yünjü look at each other, and are about to go search for it themselves or simply kick the next door open, or maybe just go root through everything not nailed down. They’re not going to remain in this room.
However, something seems to have entered their minds, suppressing their thoughts. They feel dazed and their heads are throbbing. It’s like the whole world is twisting and twirling in front of their eyes. Their vision is blurring.
They stand there, blanked out, for a long time.
Did they do something wrong?
While their minds remain muddled, Shen Yünjü tries his best to keep thinking despite everything. He tries to work through everything they’ve done carefully, to see if any of them might have been a trigger.
Until Ye Lan points out quietly, “we may have missed something, when we simply knocked everything over…”
Shen Yünjü gets it.
The dizziness is gaining in severity, until finally, he finds his consciousness lost in a sea of noise. He can only stand there, just like everyone else in the room, like a mannequin, forever locked up inside this room.
Some time passes, when suddenly, the lock clicks. It opens up.
A few people pour in from outside. They complain that these customers have broken the objects, and they’ll have to reimburse them for the losses incurred.
They appear to be the staff of this Escape Room.
When they walk into the room, Shen Yünjü can feel his mind suddenly coming back to him. It’s like waking up from a drunken stupor.
Though he continues to act like he’s knocked out, while listening to the conversation and thinking about this scene.
If there are still staff members in this place, then that must mean, that only these customers here have ended up treating the Escape Room as a real murder case in progress. These staff members are still lucid… or, not?
Shen Yünjü listens to the staff complaining.
“What a mess, they’ve broken whatever they could get their hands on.”
“It’s not like the audience don’t like it this way… You know they’re not excited enough by people being intelligent anymore.”
“They should just pack it up and go watch cockfights then! We run on people being intelligent.”
“Shit. They’ve got the Damage Report in. You might as well rebuild this whole damned place with that figure, fucking hell!”
“It’s lucky we stopped them in time… I wish we could just leave these people here. Not like they’re even sane anymore…”
“Hey, we can’t, you know they’re that, ‘victims of the madness.'”
“Oh please, that again? What else are these mad people good for if not being streamed for the audience’s pleasure? And it’s not like they hate this, either. We’re not even treating them inhumanely, right?”
“They’re probably not exactly liking this place either, are they? At least, I wouldn’t like it.”
“These people are convinced this place is real, though… like, actors being immersed in their roles, whatnot?”
“As long as it makes money. Who cares? They’re helping to pay our bills.”
“I heard management found some new people… They treat some entire action adventure game about saving a little girl as real… I bet it’s far more impressive than these dingy escape rooms. Maybe we’ll lose our jobs sooner than we think.”
“Damn it, are the audience not happy even with that Battle Royale Livestream in that wherever? I thought those were popular?”
“There are always people who like other kinds of games, why else would there be so many genres… If nothing else, if just one rich guy likes a genre, then they can choose to make whatever streams. Who knows which ones they’ll choose?”
During their idle chatter, the staff quickly moves the unresponsive people inside the room out. By sheer coincidence, they’ve left Shen Yünjü and Ye Lan who are standing around on their own for last.
And just when they’re finished moving everyone else and are coming to get these two people last, they suddenly look at each other and immediately run for their lives.
When they run through the original entryway to this room, a grey fog suddenly bursts out.
Shen Yünjü yells, “when we know the truth hidden behind the scene… We can leave through any door?”
They already went through that door to enter, but the grey fog didn’t appear then.
When they understood the truth behind the scene, the door immediately became their ticket out.
The truth here, is that this is a real-life Escape Room attraction, where the mad people have treated it as reality.
Others, somehow, saw this ‘verisimilitude’ as a selling point, and started broadcasting their struggles as if they’re mere entertaining clowns, and are making dosh off of it.
How many people have gone mad in the world already? How many audience would be willing to dish out ungodly amounts of money just to watch their suffering?
Shen Yünjü does not know the answer to the question.
He is simply lamenting, that no wonder there were proposals to ensure the rights of the mad people——Wait, rights of the mad people?
How did he know this? Is it part of the memories he has forgotten?
A familiar confusion takes over him, as he glances over at Ye Lan.
She has the usual heavy tone. It seems she isn’t particularly excited or glad to be able to leave the scene.
She responds to Shen Yünjü’s shouting from earlier, “perhaps, this door simply means, ‘this is the truth.'”
“Like a door of truth?”
Shen Yünjü mutters.
If so, then he can’t help but wonder, what would that first door that led them to these endless, bizarre scenarios, mean?
If Xü Beijin could hear Shen Yünjü’s thoughts, then he would certainly answer, that that is equally, a door of truth. Of the truth to the grey fog, beyond which, they will learn of the most tragic of the circumstances of the Tower.
So it’s hard to say, whether having lost their memories, is a strictly good or bad thing for these Missiontakers.
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