In this windowless room, Lin An couldn't tell the difference between day and night.

Due to the presence of Herman with an axe, Lin An did not dare to sleep at all.

He was lying on his back, but he kept his eyes on Herman on the other side.

Lin An noticed that although Herman was also lying on his back, his body would move from time to time.

From this, it can be judged that Herman did not dare to sleep at all.

The two were at a stalemate.

Lin An has reached the state where he will slowly close his eyelids without knowing when, but he will be awakened immediately.

Finally Lin An sat up, he rubbed his face vigorously, but the tiredness of his body did not improve.

Lin An had to get up, came to the water pipe, and kept washing his face with water.

After Lin An tossed for a while, Herman on the opposite side also sat up.

"How long are you going to be locked up?" Lin An asked first.

Herman lifted his tired face and said, "Two years, what about you?" ”

Lin An thought for a moment and replied, "Unless I can find a way to escape from here, I will never be able to get out." ”

Then the two didn't talk again, and the scene was very awkward for a while.

Because these two people who can't get out for a short time are torturing each other on the floor where they basically don't go hungry.

"It's not good for anyone to go on like this." Finally Herman spoke.

Lin An turned off the faucet and sat back on his bed.

Herman continued: "I said that I would never do anything to you if there was plenty of food.

I don't know how you know so much about this prison, and I don't know if it's true or false that you've been here before.

But on a floor like this, it wouldn't do me any good if you did my hands. Why can't we...."

Before Herman could finish speaking, Lin An suddenly said.

"We're facing a prisoner's dilemma, we all want to trust each other and we can't.

I want to spend this month in peace, but I want to start first.

This is a dilemma for which there is essentially no solution. ”

Lin An looked at Herman and continued, "I can choose to trust you.

But I can't help but think that when I fall asleep, you kill me with that axe.

You're facing the same considerations, so in the end, the best thing to do is to kill the other person first. ”

Herman sighed and sat on the edge of the bed rubbing his eyes.

"So you have any good ideas?" Herman asked helplessly.

While Herman was asking this question, Lin An was browsing through the plot introductions and movie reviews given by the system.

Here's what one of the film reviews says:

It's not a work with a particularly satisfying story, it's just a novelty in the setting.

If you ignore the large number of loopholes in the plot and only treat it as an allegory that reflects real problems,

There are certain places that can indeed be thought-provoking.

Lin An suddenly realized that he was in a movie world.

There are many plot holes in any movie.

What's more, this is a semi-sci-fi movie that can't be explained by common sense in many places.

Lin An suddenly stared at Herman, and then said to him.

"The biggest problem we face now is if we are assigned to the lower levels.

In order to survive, we have to kill each other. ”

Yes, this is one of the main settings of the film in order to be able to highlight the theme.

But with a little thought, this setting, which is forcibly adhered to in the movie, can be broken.

"What if I told you that we didn't have to kill each other in order to survive?" Lin An said.

"What does that need to be done?"

"Once we got to the ground floor, we started waiting for the moment and going down that platform.

Your axe can help us fight most of us,

It is more likely that people lower than us have already started killing each other.

We don't even need to kill people to eat people who are already dead. ”

After Lin An finished speaking, Herman stared at him, thinking about something.

"There's another way, we go directly to the bottom of the platform,

There are people who jump to commit suicide every day, and we don't need to starve to death at all. Lin An said again.

"But isn't it more dangerous to go down on the platform?" Herman said.

"If you want to go down, you need to meet two conditions.

The most important one is that we are assigned to the lower places.

But as long as you can eat a little bit of food, you don't think about falling on your own.

The second point is that as long as you and I trust us enough, we can starve for a few weeks.

In the lower class environment, many people below will die every day, I think you can understand this truth. ”

Herman looked at Lin An and didn't speak, but his eyes were no longer as cold as before.

"Anyway, I said this just to show a problem,

Even in the lower classes, we will not starve to death.

There are many better ways to solve the problem of hunger than you and I killing each other. ”

"I've never killed my roommate." Herman suddenly placed the axe on the side of the bed and whispered.

"I've been here for two months and have had two roommates. But I didn't kill them.

At first I was on the 32nd floor and my roommate was an old woman.

She lived with me for a week and jumped on her own one night.

The next month I went to the 168th floor, and my roommate was a man.

We endured each other for a week, and then an Asian woman came down on the platform.

He wanted to kill the Asian woman, but was killed by the woman.

The woman left me half of the body so that I could live until now.

I don't want to kill anyone, the reason I came in here was because of a car accident.

I didn't mean to hit someone else, but my car was out of control.

They gave me the choice of either I was going to jail for more than ten years or I was here.

I chose here. Herman told Lin An about his experience.

Lin An didn't know whether he wanted to trust the person in front of him, but at this time he had no choice.

"I haven't killed anyone, and I've never been here.

I was just with a friend who went out from here and learned the rules here. ”

Lin An made up a reason and told Herman.

"Okay," Herman said, nodding, "Looks like we have to trust each other anymore, don't we?" ”

Lin An also nodded, and then the two of them lay down as if they had agreed.

Dozens of minutes have passed, and Lin An can still see Herman moving his body from time to time with his peripheral vision.

Lin An understood that it was impossible for two people to trust each other so quickly.

It was in this kind of thinking that Lin An could no longer bear the feeling of sleepiness.

I don't know when, I fell asleep.

He was awakened by the cacophony of mechanical prompts as the platform moved.