This chapter is free.
Seven or eight readers in the group messaged me privately and asked me to release the outline.
I thought about it for a while. Although this book cannot be written for some reason, I will release the plot setting of the VR version of "Dark Forest" to everyone, which can be regarded as having a beginning and an end.
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Anyone who has read the previous article knows that the VR version of "Dark Forest" incorporates the settings of 4000 Forbidden Forest.
That is to say, creatures, places, buildings and other things in the forest cannot be specifically named, they can only be described, and cannot be described twice, otherwise it will be counted as naming.
Once it is regarded as a name, extremely terrifying dangers will occur.
This is why in the prologue, the doctor uses the words 'east', 'forest', 'place with oil', 'strange area', 'damned forest', 'weird forest' to describe a certain place. .
There are also disposable descriptions such as 'bastard lean meat', 'bastard from the government', and 'little lean meat' when the werewolf calls the protagonist.
In addition, in the VR chapter of "Dark Forest", a new mysterious organization will surface.
——Chaos Insurgency.
The word Chaos Insurgency first appeared in the chapter "Control Failure". It was casually mentioned by the No. 2 protagonist of the parallel world when he left a message to the real protagonist through the 'old AI' when FBC was purging humanity, and was then known to the players.
original:
After that, the incident in the Oldest House subsided, and neither the Director nor the Supreme Council provided an explanation for the incident. We privately believe that the group of people who committed suicide and resigned were undercover agents planted by the Chaos Insurgency, the opponents of the Control Bureau, but unfortunately they were caught and executed by the Director. '
At this time, players still don’t know what kind of organization the Chaos Insurgency is, they only know that they are opponents of the Control Bureau.
Then, in the DLC "Secret Laboratory", the Chaos Insurgency once again came into the public eye. Players can play the Chaos Insurgency to fight against security and anomalies.
But I still don’t know what this organization is.
It was not until the VR version of "Dark Forest" was released that this organization was truly known to players.
When I was writing the main text, I buried a few pits.
That is, the protagonist has lost his memory and does not know who he is.
But the strange thing is that in the prologue, 'Mr. Jun' knows the protagonist and tells him in a strange way of death that the protagonist will suffer retribution.
original:
[Then...how...are you going to...escape from here...]
[This forest... do you think... you can... do it on your own...]
[You will... suffer retribution...]
[You will...pay the price...]
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Then, the first NPC werewolf we met at the end of the prologue actually knew the protagonist, and said that the things the protagonist had done were enough for him to eat the protagonist alive.
original:
[Of course I know you...]
[You also know me...]
The werewolf pointed at the wolf-shaped face under the hood, with sticky saliva dripping from his grin.
[The me before I met this person...hehe...hehehe...]
The werewolf continues to circle and observe the protagonist.
[Based on what you have done... I should have eaten you... your lean meat...]
[But look at you now as a walking dead...how pitiful you are...I really don't have any appetite...]
[You should be thankful...bastards from the government...]
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From these two points, are there other NPCs who know the protagonist in the game?
The answer is right.
Not only that, but many.
So why do so many people in the forest know the protagonist?
Who is the protagonist?
Let’s take a look at what the doctor in the prologue says about the protagonist.
original:
[It turns out...it turns out that the government has known about the situation inside for a long time...]
[You have connected the entire 'forest' with tunnels... You can even come and go freely... You have also established secret entrances and strongholds...]
With that said, during real-time calculations, the village doctor took out the No. 21 key found on the protagonist and stretched it out.
[You are watching us...You are watching us...]
[You watched us indifferently as we were infected...watched us mutate...and then died in pain...]
[You want to study this 'strange area'... so you treat us as a living experiment...]
[You obviously have the ability to save us...but you didn't...]
[You...you...really deserve to die...! ]
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To sum up, most readers may think that the protagonist is a government official, but in fact he is not.
In Chapter 197: The Unnameable Forest, it is clearly stated that those who entered the forest were people from the FBC Federal Control Bureau.
original:
The FBC immediately took over the responsibility from the small country and began to send agents to investigate on the spot. However, all contact was lost.
Considering the quality of the agents, the second investigation operation was changed to Mobile Task Force Zeta-9 'Mole'.
However, it was discovered that the mutated towering trees formed a high wall that could not be entered.
The helicopter also suffered mechanical failure due to magnetic field chaos and was unable to transport people at high altitudes.
In the end, the FBC had no choice but to dig tunnels into the forest to conduct investigations.
This is the crucial 'Underground Passage No. 21' in the game.
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So why does the NPC in the forest say that the protagonist is someone 'from the government'?
Players and readers really thought that the protagonist was a government official.
In fact, this is written to limit the knowledge of forest NPCs.
They don't know what the Control Bureau is, they only know that the protagonist is an official.
Officials are generally from the government.
Therefore, in the prologue, the NPCs who know the protagonist all call the protagonist 'a person from the government'.
In fact, the protagonist is the one who controls the Bureau.
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Then the problem comes again, in Chapter 197: The Unnameable Forest.
It was clearly mentioned that only three groups of people entered the forest.
The first batch of agents from the Bureau of Control ended up losing contact.
The second batch, the Mole Team, is still missing.
In the third batch, the investigation team led by the protagonist ended up with only the amnesiac protagonist left.
Since there are only forest natives and people from the Control Bureau in the forest, what role do the Chaos Insurgency play in this chapter?
Before analyzing the Chaos Insurgency, let’s take a look at the original text of the actual gameplay demonstration of Chapter 206: Dark Forest:
[We are trapped... by this forest...]
[We lost contact with the outside world...no one responded...]
[Everyone else is dying...becoming food for the trees...]
[In the end, I was left alone...alone...]
[But...not long after...the dead came back...]
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The above original text is the protagonist’s own tone.
It can be known that the protagonist's investigation team has died, been resurrected after death, and has come back to find the protagonist.
Combined with the prologue, the protagonist was injured and fell into a coma in the forest, but was rescued by a doctor.
Can it be understood that the dead teammates come back to find the protagonist, the protagonist runs for his life, and finally falls into a coma in the forest due to injury and exhaustion, and then is rescued by a strange combination of circumstances by the doctor in the prologue, and the game begins.
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It’s very strange, why would someone from the protagonist’s team come back to look for the protagonist after they died? Did the protagonist do something?
Why do so many NPCs in the forest know the protagonist?
What are the Chaos Insurgency doing inside?
Now, let me reveal to you what the protagonist did in the VR chapter of "Dark Forest".
In this setting, the protagonist is a spy placed in the Control Bureau by the Chaos Insurgency.
Just like Dr. Maynard and Skinner Security in "Control Failure."
Therefore, in an investigation team, the protagonist is a member of the Chaos Insurgency, and the others are all members of the Control Bureau.
Will the protagonist do nothing?
Therefore, only the protagonist is left in the investigation team, and everyone else is dead.
So what method did the protagonist use to kill the rest of the team?
It's very simple, using the "unnameable" feature of the forest, allowing team members to trigger the death mechanism one by one because of naming.
The question comes again, how does the protagonist know the 'unnameable' properties of the forest?
Who told him?
This is all thanks to the personal experience of Team Mole.
As the second group of people to enter the forest, the Mole team has a total of 6 people.
During the exploration process, the sacrifice of one team member after another allowed the leader C-1 to finally understand the characteristics of the forest.
But the truth they discovered could never be passed on to the outside Control Bureau.
Because the Mole Team will eventually all die in the forest and transform into houses and furniture, allowing players to experience this despair firsthand in the form of side missions.
Therefore, the protagonist learned about the characteristics and secrets of the forest from the Mole Team's camera records, and then used them to kill members of his own team.
Then, as the first person in the whole forest to know the characteristic of "cannot be named", the protagonist began his work as a Chaos Insurgency.
As a behind-the-scenes person, he secretly monitored the forest residents, encouraged them to cause trouble, and turned them into monsters step by step.
for example:
The doctor was kicked out of the village by the villagers, which was secretly operated by the protagonist.
The bloated mutation of Ms. Qiao was also caused by the protagonist taking advantage of the characteristic of "cannot be named", and then blamed the doctor for the mistake.
Mr. Jun walked out of the village alone to find a doctor to settle the score for the pretty lady, which was also instigated by the protagonist.
The werewolf was originally a hunter and the pretty lady's husband. Because of the protagonist's exploiting characteristics, he turned into a werewolf after his death.
So, why do so many NPCs know the protagonist?
Because the protagonist has been secretly controlling their life and death before the game starts, that is, before he loses his memory.
Just like that, everything was going smoothly.
Unexpectedly, the investigation team who were originally killed were resurrected from death because of a spore in the forest, and came back to seek revenge on the protagonist.
While escaping, the protagonist was hit hard on the head and seriously injured. He fell unconscious on the prologue map and was rescued by a doctor.
The doctor originally wanted to save people, but found the diary and keys on the protagonist.
He understood that he and the entire forest residents were being monitored and became experimental subjects for the outside world.
He became angry and directly injected the protagonist with some kind of medicine developed from spores, then took the key and left.
After the protagonist was injected with this medicine, and the forest could invade the mind, he began to have frequent horrific hallucinations.
In this way, while the protagonist is searching for his own memory, he discovers what he has done and the truth about the mutation of the forest in the process.
Finally, according to the player's choice, the protagonist can use a flamethrower to burn the alien life forms in the forest, trigger a fire, burn everything, and atone for his sins.
Or forever unable to sleep in the dreamland woven by the forest.
The game also has two easter eggs.
Easter egg one:
That is when the protagonist is doing the side mission of 'Wedding', he will meet an NPC policeman, Ellis.
It was learned that Ellis and his colleagues were searching for a missing child in the forest, and learned about an urban legend about a forest witch.
This led to the horror game "Blair Witch".
In other words, the forest in "Blair Witch" is the same place as "The Dark Forest".
Easter egg two:
The protagonist will receive a phone call during the process, from a man named Dwayne.
This person is the protagonist of "The Face".
Dwayne said that he hated the protagonist, why he couldn't think of joining the Chaos Insurgency with the protagonist.
As a result, he caused disaster to a small town named Riversdale, causing countless happy families to be destroyed.
And now, he was arranged into that house by the Chaos Separatists. In the end, he couldn't bear the pressure and dragged his family to die together.
The protagonist is very scary, because after losing his memory, he doesn't know this person named Dwayne at all.
And from what I heard on the phone, it seems that this guy named Dwayne is dead?
Only then did the players understand why the FBC organization, which was established for the continuation of mankind, would commit such heinous human experiments in "The Face".
After working on it for a long time, it turned out that it was not the Control Bureau, but the Control Bureau's opponent, the Chaos Insurgency!
The protagonist of "The Face" is not a researcher from the Bureau of Control, but a member of the Chaos Insurgency.
Now, the explanation makes sense.
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The above is the plot flow and settings of the VR version of "Dark Forest".
I'm really sorry, but due to some mysterious forces, this book cannot be written for the time being.
Really sorry!
I will summarize my experience and lessons in my new book to avoid this happening.
I hope new and old readers can support the new book.
"I use word games to contain the weird"
Back room + word game + behind-the-scenes flow + urban weird stories + weirdness.
