tkworld #296 - The finale of "A Security Guard's Night", the truth is revealed, and the game
#296 - The finale of "A Security Guard's Night", the truth is revealed, and the game
This time, Chun Hei once again demonstrated the talent of a gaming area UP master, directly swaying his body and flashing past the red-clothed woman, escaping from the emergency exit to the 10th floor.
Turning his head, he noticed that the red-clothed woman had disappeared without him knowing when, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Chun Hei took off the VR headset, took a sip of water to calm down, and exclaimed:
"Brothers, honestly, at that moment, I felt like I was in a real horror maze. Every detail of this game is lifelike. This feeling of horror and excitement is definitely not something that previous flat-panel display devices could present."
"Moreover, the sound design in the game is amazing. Every note is just right, making my spine chill, as if there really is a female ghost beside me!"
"To be honest, before playing this game, I had no concept of the technical level of Taoyuan Township. Now I admire them immensely. Really, you'd better buy a set of equipment and play it yourself."
"The immersive effect is even better than watching a live broadcast!"
The barrage complained:
"Damn, the more the streamer says, the more I want it. Damn Taoyuan Township, why limit purchases?"
"Yeah, isn't this just whetting our appetites?"
"Maybe it's because this isn't the final model, just a test machine?"
"The effect of the test machine can reach this level, how awesome will the official version be?"
"I'm afraid the machine will be hard to grab by then."
After a short break, Chun Hei continued the game.
The rooms on the 10th floor were even more dilapidated and dim, with chairs on the ceiling and the ceiling underfoot.
Chun Hei: "It has the feel of 'Outlast', but unfortunately there are no lockers."
Barrage: "Hahaha, the young master has sequelae from playing 'Outlast', he looks for lockers in every horror game."
Chun Hei wiped his cold sweat and began to analyze:
"I think this red-clothed girl is actually quite pitiful. She's probably a victim of workplace harassment, right? Is it because no one understands her that she keeps hurting people? She hopes the security can understand her pitiful experience."
Barrage:
"Then she killed those two female colleagues, right?"
"Judging by the degree of blood splatter in the corridor, it's hard to say who's harassing whom..."
Chun Hei: "That was after she became a female ghost, so, as long as we persuade her with reason and emotion, and do some talk therapy, we must show that we are the kind of people who understand her best. I think we can try."
The barrage laughed: "Try and die."
Finally, Chun Hei chatted with the audience while completing the patrol and entering the elevator, pressing the button for the 11th floor.
"Great, after finishing this last floor, I can go home! I didn't feel anything when I left home at first, but now that I think about it, home is the best."
Just then, the elevator turned blood red, and Chun Hei could feel the elevator starting to fall rapidly!
He was shocked again:
"Damn, family, the most awesome thing about this VR from Taoyuan Township is that it can perfectly simulate the feeling of weightlessness when the elevator falls!"
Some knowledgeable people in the barrage analyzed: "It should be using some way to trick the brain, right?"
Suddenly, the button panel and car of the elevator began to show splashing blood.
The lights in the elevator also turned dark red, and Chun Hei could even smell a faint bloody smell through the VR device's smell simulation.
The elevator kept descending, and after an unknown amount of time, it finally opened.
Before his eyes was a true hell of Shura, beyond any description.
Chun Hei stepped out of the car, as if entering a distorted nightmare. The blood stains on the walls spread like wriggling snakes, spreading around to form various irregular twisted patterns.
"Resentment"
"Anger"
"Revenge"
......
All kinds of bloody characters were randomly scattered on the walls, as if curses were deliberately smeared by ghostly hands.
The red handwriting was twisted and ugly, and each letter exuded a disgusting bloody smell. Some fonts were like ghosts crying and howling, while others were like desperate cries for help, forming a hideous picture.
And the blood stains on the walls kept flowing, like tears of blood, making the whole space even more absurd and terrifying.
The barrage was also frightened at this time: "Damn, this is the real deal."
Chun Hei continued to move forward and saw a TV at the end of the corridor.
On the TV, a girl's face appeared.
Someone in the barrage recognized it:
"Isn't this the girl in the black and white photo printed by the printer before?"
"It seems to be the red-clothed girl with disheveled hair, working in this company in her work clothes."
The red-clothed woman kept moving forward in the picture, kept moving forward.
Finally, she climbed directly out of the TV screen!
"Ahhhhh!"
Chun Hei screamed again in fright and turned to run forward.
The blood characters on both sides and on the ceiling kept twisting.
Even the fluorescent lights turned blood red!
This floor had all the facilities a company should have, vending machines, printers, water dispensers...
But they were all blood red...
This atmosphere combining illusion and reality is the most capable of arousing fear in people's hearts.
After running for an unknown amount of time, he turned into a corner and, after briefly getting rid of the other party, gasped for breath.
The game popped up a prompt: [This is the last floor, please continue to complete your work.]
"There's no way now, I can't get out anyway, so I can only finish the work first and then see."
Chun Hei continued to explore the surrounding rooms, and when he entered a certain room, he noticed the wall clock.
The transparent glass cover on the clock face had been completely contaminated by blood stains. Chun Hei took off the cover and obtained the "blood-stained cover".
He analyzed: "According to my game experience, there should be a way to remove the blood stains on the cover."
As soon as he turned around, he found that in this room, various computer desks and blackboards were arranged densely, like a Bagua maze.
Chun Hei complained: "It's obvious that there will be a chase next, who would be idle enough to make a maze here?"
He continued to come to a room, where the computers were arranged in a circle.
In the very middle was still the old-fashioned cathode-ray tube TV for viewing videos, with a video recorder next to it.
But the connection line between the two disappeared.
The screen popped up a game prompt:
[The connection cable is lost, there is nothing on the screen, please find the cable first to use the video player smoothly]
Chun Hei held up a flashlight and began to rummage through the room.
When turning around to open the last cabinet, suddenly, a man's corpse in a suit, hidden in the cabinet, popped out.
His face was horrified, as if he had seen something terrible before his death.
Chun Hei: "This is a mummy, how long has he been dead?"
The man was holding the cable tightly in his hand, and Chun Hei plucked up the courage to take the cable from his hand.
Chun Hei guessed: "Looking at his clothes, this man's status is not low. Is this the superior who was sexually harassing, or Qin Fenjin, the boyfriend in the black silk mature woman's mouth?"
After connecting the cable back to the TV, Chun Hei continued to explore and found a small safe on the cabinet next to the TV.
The safe's combination lock has two layers and requires entering two numbers.
Chun Hei analyzed for a while and found that he still had the bloody cover in his hand that he hadn't used, so he ran to the bathroom and turned on the faucet.
The surface of the clock cover was cleaned, and after washing it off, there were indeed two lines drawn on the cover!
After installing the cover back on the clock, the two lines on the cover, one long and one short, just acted as the hour and minute hands, pointing to the numbers [9] and [6].
The barrage praised:
"The streamer is smart."
"Worthy of being a game master."
Returning to the safe, Chun Hei turned the dial and entered the two numbers 6 and 9 respectively. After opening the safe, a box of videotapes appeared inside.
Put the videotape into the video player that has been connected with the cable.
The screen began to show the picture:
The picture seemed to be a corner of the office, with only the slight ticking sound of the computer host running,
There were panicked voices and fleeing sounds in the background, which seemed to be made by the middle-aged man in the cabinet before he died.
After an unknown amount of time, the BGM became gloomy, and the sound of opening the door and footsteps came from a distance.
"Spare me, please... ah..."
Then, the computer host was turned off.
The picture switched to the bathroom, and the sound of dripping water kept ringing in the background.
"No entry" police warning tape appeared on the floor of the bathroom.
There was a running sound outside, and the red-clothed woman appeared in the picture.
She said to the screen, "I love..."
Before she could finish speaking, the screen turned into snowflakes again.
After watching the video, Chun Hei felt a chill down his back and his hair stood on end: "I can't stay here any longer! Let's go back early."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Chun Hei opened the door, he encountered a door kill!
The red-clothed woman rushed in again with her hair disheveled.
"I love you... Aishiteru..."
The barrage complained: "Good guy, this female ghost also knows Chinese and Japanese?"
Chun Hei was frightened and returned to the room where the blackboards were arranged like a maze, and started Qin Wang's pillar winding with the red-clothed woman.
While winding, he said with a crying voice:
"I knew it, Taoyuan Township couldn't have designed this complicated room without any use."
The barrage went crazy:
"The streamer really has an enlightened mouth, hahahaha!"
Chun Hei continued to run wildly in the corridor. With the experience of the last chase, he was obviously not so panicked this time.
The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ is ⊥ at ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥⊥ books ⊥⊥ bar ⊥⊥ first ⊥ hair!
"Door! Emergency door!"
Chun Hei ran to the end of the corridor and burst into tears of joy after seeing the door.
The barrage continued to laugh: "Hahaha, this is not a door, this is a dear father!"
However, the heart he had just put down was raised to his throat again, because the door was completely locked, and a combination lock was embedded in the door.
Next to the combination lock, there was a crayon drawing of a family of three.
Chun Hei was directly stunned: "Damn, what should I do, who knows the password..."
At this time, the red-clothed woman behind was getting closer and closer. Under the panoramic atmosphere of the VR equipment, he could feel the other party's breath on the cold hair on the back of his neck.
He had to run into the next room and continue Qin Wang's pillar winding with the other party.
Chun Hei tried to walk from other directions, but found that there was another door opposite the emergency door.
With the female ghost chasing after him, he panicked and just stepped in, and the red-clothed woman rushed over from under the stairs in the darkness...
"Ahhhhh!"
Chun Hei screamed again at a high decibel.
He saw himself falling helplessly to the ground, the surroundings getting darker and darker, the VR equipment began to adjust the ambient temperature, he felt his body gradually becoming cold, and the red-clothed woman silently approached him, revealing the fangs in her mouth...
Chun Hei: "Damn, this experience is too real, right? It seems that you really can't take shortcuts for the sake of convenience."
[Achieve ending: BAD END Resentful Love]
......
In the ending animation, the rewind triangle symbol of the video recorder appeared in the upper left corner of the screen.
Then, Chun Hei saw himself walking backwards along the route he had walked before, and returned to the car again.
It was raining outside, he opened the car door with a flashlight and prepared to get out of the car to start tonight's shift.
The barrage was frantically swiped by a bunch of "??????????":
"What do you mean? Did it rewind after death?"
Just then, Chun Hei saw his work nameplate falling in the van, which was impressively printed with three words:
"Qin Fenjin"
He immediately felt a tightness in his throat and his hair stood on end.
"What do you mean? So I am the missing security guard Qin Fenjin?!"
......
After that, Chun Hei reloaded the archive from the 11th floor.
Because the audience in the barrage reminded him:
"Stupid streamer, the crayon drawing next to the combination lock is exactly the same as the drawing of your daughter hanging on the refrigerator at home when you just set off."
"Indeed, since the crayon drawing shows a birthday scene, the password must be your daughter's birthday, which is February 7."
While walking towards the password door, Chun Hei began to analyze the logic:
"This building is not normal at all, or it is not a real company building."
"Because, do you remember?"
"The male employee who fainted on the ninth floor said: 'You are here every time you wake up'."
"Moreover, there was a strange person who appeared in the toilet compartments on two different floors at the same time, asking me to leave the lights on for him."
"In addition, I clearly just met the living black silk mature woman and short-haired girl tonight, but the surveillance video showed that they were killed earlier."
"This shows that the time and space here is inherently chaotic!"
"As long as Qin Fenjin is killed in this building, he will start a new round of reincarnation."
The barrage suddenly realized: "Damn, the streamer is awesome, this logic is indeed correct."
Chun Hei continued to analyze the plot:
"If I were Qin Fenjin, that woman in red should be the mistress I found in the company, the one who was harassed by her superior's power, gossiped about by the mature woman in black stockings and the short-haired girl behind her back, and subjected to workplace bullying.
Qin Fenjin and the woman in red were lovers in the company, but when his mistress encountered these problems, instead of standing up for her, he severed ties with her to avoid trouble with his superiors, and threw himself into the arms of the mature woman in black stockings.
The woman in red committed suicide in the restroom out of resentment, which is why there are so many police tape lines on the restroom floor.
But the resentment in her heart did not dissipate, so she transformed into a ghost and began to take revenge on everyone in the company…"
While analyzing, Chun Hei entered his daughter's birthday password and opened the password door.
Behind the password door was an emergency escape elevator.
After entering the emergency escape elevator, the surrounding scenery began to crumble and various elements recombined.
The protagonist felt dizzy and fainted.
...
When he woke up again, he found himself lying in a hospital bed.
Above him was an unfamiliar ceiling.
Barely supporting himself, Qin Fenjin found his wife and daughter beside the bed, anxiously calling out to him.
"Dad, are you okay, Dad! Waaah…" His daughter covered her face and wept.
"Honey…" Seeing him wake up, his wife also cried with joy.
Qin Fenjin was overjoyed, and his inner monologue echoed in the VR headset:
"Great, I finally escaped from that cursed loop, great, great…"
He couldn't help but shed tears of joy, struggling to get up, wanting to give his wife and daughter a big hug.
He vowed in his heart to quit his security guard job immediately, cut ties with everything from the past, and start a new, happy life!
However, the next second after he just got up, he suddenly felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, frozen in place.
Because—
The woman in red was standing behind his wife and children, staring straight at him.
A soul-piercing whisper entered his ears:
"I will always be by your side, and be with you…"
[Achieved Ending: TRUE END Eternal Love]
...
Chun Hei and the people in the livestream were obviously shocked by this ending, even forgetting to speak.
The game began to play the ending credits, and the production staff list began to scroll in a dim female voice:
《One Night as a Security Guard》
Co-producers: Lu Yu, Liu Mengyuan
Honorary Production by "Maiden Studio Group"
Producer: Wan Xiaotong
Lead Writer: Wan Xiaotong, Xu Qin
Level Design Lead: Ye Kun, Wang Feifei
Lead Programmer: Du Biao
Lead Artist: Lu Yiguan
Music Production: Zhang Qiqi
Followed by a long list of dozens of people.
Seeing this scrolling list of production staff, many viewers in the livestream came back to their senses from the shock:
"Wan Xiaotong, isn't this girl the producer of 《Hyperdimensional Maiden》?"
"Wow, she just finished making such a cute game, and suddenly she's making such a dark game?"
"Are all the talents in Peach Garden Village like this?"
"However, Miss Zhang Qiqi's music is as stable as ever."
Chun Hei also stared at the ending credits, reluctantly savoring the livestream process.
At this time, the popularity of the livestream had risen to 5 million, ranking first in the single-player game section of D Station.
"Everyone, I will upload the livestream clips to D Station, welcome everyone to come and support me."
...
The next day, Chun Hei cut the entire livestream of 《One Night as a Security Guard》 into videos.
Within an hour of being released, the number of simultaneous viewers of the video reached 60,000!
At the same time, this VR horror game, which was not large in scale, began to quickly break out of its niche at an unexpected speed!