Infinite Doomsday Escape

Chapter 438: Hiding the Truth

The lighting engineer nodded, his eyes tired. "Not long after I was teleported here, the director showed up. He first made me witness a disastrous performance to intimidate me before telling me the lighting engineer's rules."

"What rules?" the ruffian asked impatiently.

The lighting engineer stared at the group of restless dark audience members with dead fish eyes. His expression fluctuated slightly but soon returned to calm.

"It's probably about letting me control the lighting. The better the lighting effects on the stage, the more time I can rest. Otherwise, my rest time will be shortened."

"The director forced the lighting equipment and my life to be linked together. If the lighting is destroyed, I will die. And I can't leave the console, otherwise I will die."

The lighting engineer pointed out a series of relatively harsh conditions, which answered some of everyone's questions.

Lan Xiaye speculated based on what the lighting engineer said: "You can definitely extend the lights-out time, right?"

The lighting engineer nodded.

Everyone was instantly ecstatic, and the lighting engineer spoke calmly, pouring a bucket of cold water on them, "Don't waste your time, you can't escape."

A shadowy audience member who had been chanting a spell in a low voice since entering the dark room stopped talking at this moment and asked the lighting technician: "Donor, why do you say that?"

This person's voice was a somewhat vicissitudes of life female voice. Her voice was compassionate and peaceful, with a hint of Buddhist music. Just hearing her voice was enough to wash away everyone's anxiety.

Lan Xiaye had a deep impression of her. She remembered that she was a kind middle-aged woman who wore a plain cotton and linen gray robe, with a string of Buddhist beads hanging around her neck. She also held a string of small Buddhist beads in her hands at all times, turning the beads and chanting mantras.

But Lan Xiaye was impressed by her not only because of her appearance, but also because of the bloody and life-and-death stage in the early days. The middle-aged woman relied on her powerful strength to directly suppress the whole scene, resolve the conflict, and forcibly create a book where everyone survived.

She is very powerful and doesn't like killing, which is why Lan Xiaye wants to recruit her into the gang.

Facing the middle-aged woman's question, the lighting engineer did not keep her in suspense, "I didn't come here at the same time as you, but so far, I haven't seen anyone escape from here."

"What?!" Everyone was shocked, especially the impatient man, who asked anxiously, "No one?"

"How long have you been here?"

A series of questions came out of his mouth, which were the questions in the minds of the actors at the moment.

The lighting engineer shook his head, his eyes like a pool of dead water, "None of this is important. Since you can find this place, you must know the result of the death of all the staff in seven days."

"It's useless for you to find me. I don't have any clues to escape. The most I can do is to help you extend the lights-out time."

There was silence.

In the darkness, Cai Cai mingled silently among the crowd, activated her special ability, opened her bright green eyes, and explored the entire dark room.

Suddenly Cai Cai saw something and pulled Lan Xiaye without making any sound.

Lan Xiaye understood what he meant and stepped forward to continue questioning. Qiu Yulong also stepped forward in tacit understanding. Together with the reckless man who was originally standing next to the lighting technician to restrain him, three large black shadows surrounded the lighting technician, blocking his view.

"Then you've been a great help. I'll trouble you to help us extend the lights-out time when the time comes." Lan Xiaye smiled brightly and looked at the lighting engineer gently, as if he regarded him as a close friend.

The lighting engineer's attention was diverted. Although he couldn't see Lan Xiaye's face, he received the friendliness from the other party. "It's nothing."

As he spoke, the lighting engineer moved his body uncomfortably, trying to escape from the three people's encirclement, but was held down by the reckless man. "Be quiet!" the reckless man warned him.

The lighting engineer raised his hands helplessly, "I have cooperated with you very well, please don't burn the bridge after crossing the river."

Lan Xiaye nodded, "Don't worry, I just want to ask you a few questions."

"Since you've been here for a long time, you should know some useful information, right?"

Lan Xiaye looked at the lighting technician with a smile. Although the lighting technician clearly couldn't see her expression, he seemed to see a fox-like cunning smile through the disguise of the audience under the shadow.

The actors behind him pricked up their ears, totally unaware that a small black shadow quietly crouched down and fumbled among the buttons of the equipment.

The lighting engineer finally couldn't hold back anymore. He stared at Lan Xiaye closely, a trace of solemnity appeared in his eyes, and then he deliberately hid his nervousness in an instant, "What do you know?"

Lan Xia Ye just smiled and said nothing.

The lighting engineer laughed awkwardly, "I'm just staying in this small console. I can't go out. How can I get any clues?"

"Don't know? I guess you don't want to tell us!" Actress Fu Han couldn't help but ask, "You've been here for so long. Even if you can't go out to explore, you can still see what's going on outside. What happened outside in the previous rounds?"

Everyone can see that there is a small window in front of the lighting engineer's position, through which you can clearly and completely see the entire stage.

The lighting technician said that he had been in the Dusk Theater for several rounds, and then said that he knew nothing. Such an answer was obviously not convincing.

Groups of dark shadows approached, all of them eager to know the answer.

"I really don't know anything." The lighting engineer rubbed his hands awkwardly and smiled helplessly. "I can only see the situation on the stage in my small area. This is also for my convenience to see the stage and light it."

"You can see that I can't see what's going on in the audience from this window. How can I know so many clues?"

What the lighting engineer said sounded reasonable, but the actors were smarter than each other, so how could they not see that the lighting engineer was deliberately hiding some clues and didn't want to tell them.

The little black shadow with the boy's voice stood up and spoke in a pitiful voice, saying that he was still young and wanted to survive and go out to see the world.

The lighting engineer touched the boy's head helplessly and said, "Uncle, there's nothing we can do."

The other party refused to respond, and everyone felt helpless.

Lan Xiaye and the middle-aged woman chanting Buddhist mantras did not participate in the actors' coercion and inducement.

They saw it clearly. The lighting engineer was obviously trapped at this console. Perhaps he would never be able to escape from the twilight theater for the rest of his life.

The helplessness and resentment of being trapped here distort the lighting technician's psychology, and it is easy for him to have such thoughts - "Why should I be trapped here for the rest of my life, while the actors have the hope of escaping!"

Such resentment and jealousy continued to ferment, and as the actors progressed more smoothly, they became more intense. So even if the lighting engineer knew any clues, he would definitely not tell everyone.

Unless the lighting technician also sees a glimmer of hope and finds a way for him to escape from the dusk theater.