Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

Curious about the man, Ding Yi is standing in front of him and tries to ask, hello?

The man snaps back to reality, without seeing who it is, simply furrows his brows and yells, who? Leave me alone!

Ding Yi cant help but think that this man sure is hard to talk to.

When the man sees that it is a young lady in front of him, his attitude doesnt improve any. He is still impatiently going, Im busy. Go bother someone else.

Busy?

Ding Yi eyes the mans empty hands suspiciously.

The man reflexively flushes with red.

Ding Yi realises that the mans temper and mood seem to be severely affected by something. She wonders what it could be.

Of course, the possibility still remains that the man is simply a wrathful man who lazes about on his job.

Ding Yi says, we just arrived at Cangcheng, and so we came to the Museum. We wanted to know

The Museum? The man smirks, saying, what are you even doing here when theres nothing to see? The stuff they have are all being moved, the heck you walking about for?

Are you in charge of that?

The man sounds less willing to answer now, so what, whats it to you? Why should I tell you?

The mans temper is quite a lot for Ding Yi to take in. Thanks to her utility card, the man still answers Ding Yis questions and trusts what she says implicitly, but its hard to deal with the attitude.

She isnt sure what to do, but Mu Jiashi helps her out.

He dryly says, we came to the Museum because we met a woman, she told us her fianc is at the Museum.

The mans expression goes blank.

Ding Yi immediately presses on, did you argue with your fiance?

Seeing the mans reactions and how he kept rubbing his engagement ring, Ding Yi has concluded that his anxiety probably relates to his fiance.

The man looks quite irritated now. He doesnt deny what Ding Yi said, possibly somewhat thanks to the utility card.

Regardless, he just tersely tries to end the conversation, it has nothing to do with you.

Why did you argue, though? Ding Yi then borrows what Mu Jiashi said and tell him, we saw your fiance. She asked if we could talk to you.

The man, instinctively trusting what Ding Yi says, smoothens up a lot.

Mu Jiashi watches the changes intently, and is once again impressed with the effectiveness of that utility card.

If she could make this terribly irritable and unfriendly man warm up to her in but a few words, he can scarcely imagine any Missiontaker or Tower resident being able to resist it.

No wonder Ding Yi was able to garner a great wealth in such a short period of time.

Meanwhile, the man that stands in front of them suddenly smiles rather coldly after a brief silence, perhaps finding what his fiance did amusing, and tells them, she wants you to talk to me? Tell her why not just think about it carefully herself.

Ding Yi is slightly baffled.

The man continues, visitors from the sky? Flying UFOs Shes not 8 anymore. Is she for real? She thinks we might all die today Dont you think its insane?

Im already so bloody busy working every day, and when I get home shed keep droning in my ears about some Apocalypse and how were all going to die I dont know if shes tired saying it yet, but I bloody well am. Rather than talk to me, Id rather you talked some sense back into her instead.

Ding Yi finally understands why the man looks so irritable and distracted.

His fiance is in deep with the conspiracies of the newspapers that claim that whatever is in the sky will result in the doom of humanity. Shes fallen to despair.

This is affecting the emotional state of her fianc. Hes become increasingly irritable.

Although judging from his current reaction, he seems lucid and sane enough.

Though his fiance is sure making him increasingly troubled. He doesnt believe in those visitors nonsense, nor does he want to know whats going to fall on top of their heads.

He tells them, our wedding is next month already. Can you tell her to focus on that instead of all those baseless rumours? Shes not the smartest tool in the shed, so just stop acting like she is.

The word choices are still quite unpleasant, but the tone has become audibly gentler when he mentions the upcoming wedding.

He probably wants the two of them to convey this attitude to this fiance.

Though Ding Yi remains unsure here.

Should she tell him that his fiance is right, and something really is coming down to this planet?

Humanity will, as expected, face an unprecedented crisis in this terrible catastrophe?

And their wedding will never happen.

The man will probably lash out at them if she said any of that.

So Ding Yi remains silent.

The man misunderstands the silence, though, and gives them a cold glare, saying, looks like you still believe in her.

He sarcastically mocks them, visitors from the sky? Armageddon? Those experts sure have you completely fooled!

Experts?

Ding Yi suddenly notices that they actually didnt know that much about the unidentified object hurtling to Earth. If there are already experts talking about it, is it like some topic of research at this point?

The man tells them, yeah, the kind that popped up ever since humanitys gone crazy, with all their theories and conspiracies, bollocks like that.

I dont get what makes any of them different, so I just call them all experts. At least they style themselves like that.

A few days ago, when news broke out that something was observed in the skies, those experts all dramatically overreacted.

Lets see Gods Punishment? Coming of Christ? The appearance of whoever drove us all mad in the first place? Humans going to die in complete ignorance?

I dont buy any of that. Bunch of smart-asses.

The man ends his tirade with a snide remark.

Ding Yi, though, is saying inside, that itiswhat humans end up as in the future The end of humanity, in absolute ignorance.

They dont even know what killed them in the end.

Even the Missiontakers, during the Raining Hellfire from earlier, had no idea what fell towards them either. They just know it caused gigantic shockwaves and made the city a living inferno.

They know nothing about the source of the disaster itself still.

Ding Yi cant help but feel discouraged.

A discouragement not stemming from the Nightmare in particular, because she knows the Missiontaker by her side already knows the truth and how to resolve this Nightmare, but more, a feeling that wonders, if they could ever truly rescue humanity from this predicament.

That is what really troubles Ding Yi.