National Game Producer

Go all the way along the corridor.

On the left and right sides are doors with different numbers on them, as well as workstations with different numbers on them.

...but there was no one around.

The background music is weird and permeating, suddenly creating a rather mysterious atmosphere.

If it weren't for the bright light in the office, Susu would have thought she was playing some kind of horror game.

After walking a few steps forward, the voice of the narrator sounded again.

[All his colleagues are gone. What does this mean?

[Stanley decided to go to the conference room to take a look. Maybe he just missed the work arrangements in the memo...]

Conference room?

Susu walked quickly along the indoor corridor.

Within a moment, she came to an empty room.

On the wall in front of me, there were two open doors.

[When Stanley came to two open doors, he entered the door on the left.]

Hey, why is this narration still there?

Susu feels a little strange.

In general games, shouldn't the narration only appear when the background of the game is introduced?

Why do you still let the narrator interfere with the player's choices now?

Is it some kind of special gameplay?

Susu thought for a while, and finally followed the narrator's instructions and walked into the door on the left.

After turning a few corners, she arrived at the conference room smoothly.

The conference room was empty.

The narration started again as expected.

[However, there is no one here either.

[Stanley felt unbelievable, so he decided to go to his boss’s office, hoping to find the answer there. 】

Susu did not rush out of the conference room, but stopped in front of the projection screen in the conference room.

At this time, a PPT was playing on the screen.

【How not to get fired?

【talk less!

【Contribute outstanding performance every day, while maintaining a mentality of not expecting promotion or recognition. 】

What kind of capitalist statement is this?

Susu couldn't help but curl her lips, and was about to turn around and leave, but found that after lightly clicking on the screen, the content of the PPT on it suddenly changed and became...

[Thank you boss for a minute.

[On your Appreciative Boss One-Minute Worksheet, circle your top 20 favorite characteristics of your boss.

[After completing the form, please submit it in triplicate to your grateful boss department expert.]

"..."

Su Su was stunned.

These are all messy things.

It turns out that ordinary workplace workers experience such a miserable life every day?

The key is, why does this [One-minute Worksheet for Gratitude to Your Boss] look so familiar?

It seems that when she was in middle school, she filled out many similar questionnaires...

Isn’t this too real?

At this time, Xiaoyun next to him suddenly couldn't help but sighed:

"Ha, this narration is too cute, isn't it?"

"Ah?" Susu looked confused.

Isn’t the narration quite serious? How could it be so cute?

Xiaoyun didn't give an explanation and seemed to be immersed in the game world again.

Susu thought for a while, then put her thoughts back and didn't ask any more questions.

The game continues.

After leaving the conference room, Susu followed the narrator's instructions and walked all the way to her boss's office.

After turning a corner in the corridor, she came to the stairs going up and down.

【He came to the stairs and went upstairs to the boss's office.】

The narrator continues to give instructions.

Susu couldn't help but stop.

She was suddenly curious, what would happen to the game if she chose to go down at this time?

Will she go straight into a dead end?

Will the narrator disappear?

Will the game be restarted?

Emmm…

It's a pity that this game doesn't have a multi-save function, otherwise she wouldn't have to worry so much.

After much consideration, she finally decided to follow the narrator's instructions.

If there is still time later, she can do a second tour and try other routes.

Climbing the stairs and passing through a small door, she came to the "territory" belonging to the boss.

This is a spacious space with dark brown wooden boards on the floor and walls. The interior furnishings and layout are full of capitalist elegance and luxury, forming a sharp contrast with the employee office area outside.

When she walked into her boss's office, she even found a piano inside.

‘Does this make the office your home?’

Susu couldn't help but complain in her heart.

At this moment, the narrator's warm and mellow voice sounded again.

[After walking into the manager's office, he was shocked to find again that there was no living person here!

[After a brief shock and awakening, Stanley wondered who planned all this and what dark secrets were hiding from him.

[But what he can’t possibly know is: there is a secret keyboard behind the boss’s desk, which guards the terrible truth that the boss has been hiding from him!]

Susu walked behind the desk while listening to the narration, and finally found a keyboard for entering passwords and an electronic display on the wall.

this……

Is this an official spoiler?

She felt like she couldn't understand the game at all.

And just when she was thinking about whether she should find the password next, she heard the next sentence of the narrator.

[So, the boss set a super secret password, 2-8-4-5]

"..."

That’s outrageous!

Is there a bug in the narration of this game?

Is this really a good spoiler?

Susu was confused, but she didn't stop entering the password.

The narrator is still chattering on the side.

[But, of course, Stanley has absolutely no way of knowing this.]

In the next second, Susu finished entering the password.

As an alarm sounded, a hidden passage slowly opened on the side wall.

The narrator's tone suddenly sounded a little surprised.

[However, what is unbelievable is that Stanley just pressed randomly on the keyboard and entered the correct password by luck. It is really incredible! 】

Susu almost laughed out loud.

Isn’t this narration too cute?

After playing here, she suddenly felt a strange feeling...

Or is the narration the essence of the game?

The game continues.

Susu turned around and walked into the secret passage.

At the end of the passage, there is an elevator going downwards.

After pressing the button, the elevator took her to a dark underground space.

The narrator still didn't stop talking.

But Su Su was already a little flustered by the dark atmosphere in the underground space.

——This game looks more and more like a horror game.

If there was no narrator talking, she might not even be able to make it here.

Not long after, she came to a passage illuminated by lights.

A disturbing name is written above the passage.

【Mind Control Facility】

mind control……

Susu vaguely realized something.

Under the narrator's explanation, she continued to move forward, and finally came to a high platform in a huge cylindrical room.

Press the light button to bring light back to the room.

What was displayed in front of her was a black display screen covering the entire wall of the room.

[Stanley thought to himself: What terrible secret does this place hold? Do he have enough courage to dig it out? 】

As the narrator's voice fell.

There is a passage similar to an overpass in front of the high platform.

After walking through the passage, Susu came to the high platform on the other side of the room.

On this high platform, there is a monitoring button.

After pressing the button, all the displays in the room lit up and began to switch back and forth between digital numbers and monitoring images.

Those digital numbers and monitoring screens correspond to the workstations of every employee in the company.

Stanley's No. 427 is among them!

[Every individual’s life is just an image on the screen, and Stanley is one of them, being monitored forever, with no freedom at all.]

Su Su stared blankly at the scene in front of her, and couldn't help but think of reality... This is also hard not to remind people of reality.

Relating to the previous comparison between the employees and the boss, she suddenly realized that the "Fire Bearer" was taking the next big step!

At this time, another overpass channel opens.

Susu collected her thoughts and moved on.

This time, he came to the elevator platform.

Press the elevator button, and an elevator not far away will descend from a high place.

[Is it true that Stanley is always under the control of others? Is this the only reason why he finds boring work interesting?

[Is it because his emotions are controlled by others that he can blindly accept everything? 】

Amid the narrator's questions, Susu boarded the elevator and came to the room above.

At this time, the narrator's voice suddenly became excited.

[Impossible! He refuses to believe this kind of thing, and he cannot accept this thing: letting others control his life? Don’t even think about it!]

Susu came to a darker room.

Directly in front of her, there is a series of control buttons.

It seems that these buttons control everyone in the company.

[But here is the evidence...the core area of ​​manipulation.

[There are control buttons labeled with emotions everywhere: "Happy," "Sad," or "Satisfied."

[Walking, eating, working...all monitoring and command come from this place.

[Stanley began to recall the cruel reality of the past,

[Finally, he decided that this machine could no longer exert its terrible power on other people's lives.

【He will completely eliminate these controls!】

While the narrator was explaining, Susu had already walked along the only passage and arrived in front of the room marked [Facilities and Electricity].

The words "Mind control is idle, waiting for input..." are written on the wall in the room.

When she reached the end, the [System Power Supply] facility appeared in front of her.

On both sides of the power supply, there is a button.

【on off】

'Pressing the close button will end everyone's destiny of being manipulated?'

Susu hesitated for two seconds and finally pressed the [Close] button.

The next second, the whole world turned into darkness.

After a long time, a somewhat eerie music slowly sounded.

[Darkness... and a hint of chill brought by the unknown...

【finished?】

Accompanied by a burst of dull music.

A slowly expanding horizontal light gap suddenly appeared in front of Su Su's eyes.

——It seems like a door is opening.

At this time, the narrator's voice was already a bit excited.

【Yes! He won!

[He finally defeated the machine and liberated himself from the control of others.

【Freedom is so close!】

But soon, the narrator's voice calmed down again.

[Although the huge door is slowly opening, Stanley is still reflecting on how many unsolved mysteries there are -

[Where have his colleagues gone?

[How did he free himself from the control of the machine?

[Are there any other secrets hidden in this strange building?

[But when the sun shines into the room, he realizes that these are no longer important.

[Because what he is pursuing is not knowledge or even power, but just happiness.

【...Stanley stepped out of the open door.】

Su Su walked forward in silence and came to the natural world with beautiful mountains and clear waters and infinite scenery outside the door.

She seemed to be free at last.

[Stanley felt the cool breeze blowing against his skin.

[He felt relieved.

[A new path with infinite possibilities unfolded before his eyes.

[This is exactly what should happen at this moment.

【so……

【Stanley is very happy.】

The game camera automatically faces the clear sky.

My eyes slowly turned into white.

That's the "beautiful" white color.

game over.

Susu looked at the screen and thought for a long time.

She knew very well that this was supposed to be a false happy ending.

Because Stanley has always lived under the control of the narrator, and even his own feelings and thoughts are described by the narrator, not owned by him.

He broke away from the shackles of his boss and finally lived in the "free world" described by the narrator.

Susu suddenly realized the meaning of "choice".

Perhaps, she shouldn't have followed the narrator's instructions from the beginning.

She should play the game her own way.

Then connect to reality.

It was hard for her not to wonder whether "Firebringer" was using this ending to allude to those popular stars in the gaming industry.

After all, in her rational thinking, traffic stars are basically puppets of "capital".

Those people seemed to have broken free from their shackles, stood out from a group of ordinary people, and entered a brave new world.

In fact, they just jumped from one cage into another.

"Fire Bearer" really wants to be a changemaker!

Thinking of this, she temporarily took off her VR glasses and turned to ask Xiaoyun beside her:

"how do you feel?"

"It's very interesting. This narration is so interesting!" Xiaoyun replied with a smile.

"You didn't follow the narrator's instructions?"

"No, I've been fighting against the narrator all the time, and it almost got mad at me, haha!"

"As expected..." Su Su muttered in a low voice.

"Why is it really like this?" Xiaoyun asked curiously.

"Well... I think this game may have many different endings, and each ending may have different meanings... It is a fable after all, and 'Firebringer' doesn't express anything through it.

I feel sorry for the name of this game."

"Well, that makes sense."

"Keep playing... Remember to explore more, there may be many hidden details in the scene." After saying that, Susu put on the VR glasses again, ready to start the second game directly.

This time, she planned to contradict the narrator from beginning to end to see how angry the narrator would be.

However, she is a little doubtful...

Can we really get a good ending by completely confronting the narrator?

In other words, by doing this, is she being manipulated by the narrator in another sense?

This game...

It seems that it was only then that it began to reveal its truly "scary" side!

…

at the same time.

Fang Yi on the other side has also purchased and downloaded "The Stanley Parable".

He has always thought outside the box, but when he played the game for the first time, he also chose to listen to the narration entirely, and finally created a false happy ending.

He fell into deep thought.

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Sorry, I am too handicapped...