If you talk about "Latent", most people's first reaction will be to think of the spy drama in which Sun Honglei had a poker face.

However, on an online game platform called Orange Light, there is a man named Fantasia

(Fantasia), who made a game of the same name.

If you don’t compare it with this TV series that is popular all over the country and even in North Korea, the praise and praise received by "Latent in Red Road" (hereinafter replaced by "Latent")

The impact far exceeds the author's imagination and the original goal of the work.

The game has been updated for 1 year and 4 months, with a total text of 180,000 words, 3 main endings, and 930,000 runs.

Because of its ending, Liang Huan, the music director, posted on Weibo, the old pig who wrote "Purple River"

Weibo, which has not been updated in a year, posted a According to the introduction, RC Da Da, who became a member of Tsui Hark's crew by drawing fan art, also posted a Weibo.

Most of the comments on Zhihu and Weibo said, "What a masterpiece! It's not like there are no good screenwriters in China!" "In China, where

AVG games are underdeveloped, you can rely on your own efforts To achieve this level is already very impressive. I admire the author very much!” However, such a magical work was completed by one person.

How did this post-90s PhD candidate in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University complete such a work? When Mr. Fantasy first walked in, you could see many qualities in him at a glance: the slovenliness of a man in science and engineering, the youthfulness of a student, and the cautiousness of unfamiliar surroundings.

If I didn’t have a general understanding of his image in my mind before, it would be difficult to imagine that a work like "Latent" was made by such an introverted and shy man from science and engineering.

But when he sat down and started talking about his works, he talked relatively much.

When asked why he did "Latent", his embarrassed face began to look surprised, "Eh? Don't you know? This was during my internship. "It's a task!" He said that this was the work content of his internship at Orange Light during the summer vacation before starting his Ph.D. life in August 2013. The requirement at that time was "to spend 2 weeks to write a project of about 10,000 words. If you choose the wrong one, you will die." A survival spy game."

However, this game took more than a year to be made, and the word count far exceeded original expectations. The grandness of the entire story far exceeded the original plan.

Mr. Fantasy said that when he wrote the third chapter in September 2013, when the protagonist’s boss wanted to kill the protagonist, and the boss’s son took over the protagonist’s place to receive the reward, he realized that this The story has gone far beyond the original imagination and plan. He had to spend a week to reorganize the follow-up ideas of the entire story.

But judging from the complexity after completion, this one week can be called a lightning speed.

As for why Yuan Shu, a little-known figure, was chosen as the prototype of the protagonist, the answer given by Mr. Fantasy was even more concise and jaw-dropping. He said that he was the first to search for lurking characters. The first search result was this person, so I wrote it.

So since the material selection and overall design were so fast, why did it still take more than a year to complete the production? Mr. Fantasy's face was full of shame and he said: "Because I am lazy."

Compared with the amount of text in the work "Latent", the number of characters can be said to be overwhelming. Many characters appear, say a few words, and then die, so many characters actually fail to make a deep impression.

However, there are four very important female characters in the entire game that run through the main line of the entire story. Among them are your first love, your confidante, the friend you can trust with your life, and the The person who accompanies you throughout your life

.

Your first love was your teacher's daughter. In order to survive, you had to kill her father. From then on, she hated you to the bone; your confidante was the daughter of your Japanese boss, who came to China just to Looking for the real history; your

friend is a partner who is in a different camp from you. Sometimes you will feel that she will kill you in the next second, but sometimes you will feel that you can take your life. Entrust it to her; and your partner is your cover when performing tasks, but you don't want her to spend your remaining years with you in the end.

The personalities of these four female characters are very different, but each represents a unique beauty, much like Han Han's portrayal of women in "The End of Time".

Talking about why he uses this method to depict female characters, Mr. Fantasy seemed a little shy, "Maybe I always think that first love should be beautiful. , a girl should be kind.”

When talking about the overall plot design, when the first Happy End came out, the unanimous comments on the Internet were “ "Waiting for the author's water meter to be checked" and "It's so dark that I'm about to bleed", because this ending depicts the chaos from 1960 to 1970 in such a time and space.

But when the final True End (true ending) was released, the comments instantly went to the other side, "I was in tears, I didn't expect it to be a big reversal.

Transfer" "Author It’s well intentioned.”

In the ending part of the game, Mr. Fantasy repeatedly emphasized the words "***" and "idealist" through the mouths of several characters.

When asked why he understood our party so well

, Mr. Fantasy smiled shyly.

He said that his grandfather was a staunch old party member, so he received a red and professional education since he was a child. But when he entered university, he found that the party members he came into contact with >

It’s not like in the stories of my childhood.

He said that in fact, when the protagonist found out that his boss was planning to kill him in Chapter 3, it was actually the feeling he had when the education he received began to collapse.

However, this 90-year-old boy who likes to play "Civilization" and watch "A Song of Ice and Fire" and Higashino Keigo did not deny everything before. He still did An ending full of future and hope.

Although he did not dare to tell his family about playing this kind of game

, we believe that he has not become a devout believer, nor a radical rebel. , he is using his

We trust the matchmaker so much, but he wants to harm Fang Bu and take away his achievements. He returns to Yan'an just for himself and his son to become famous.

We have seen Li An's ability and coldness, but he actually blessed Fang Bi, "I hope we will have no regrets when we reach the end."

We have seen the face of the traitor Wang Weitao, but he also has his own reasons: "We must strive for what we like with all our strength, so that when we fail, we can blame the times to our heart's content without having to hate ourselves."

We have seen Zhang Xiaomeng, a female spy who is cold and cruel, but she will also fall in love with him and be willing to take risks, violate the principles of being a spy and die for him.

Especially in the last two chapters, the true face of this kind of character is even more confusing, and at the same time more exciting.

On the surface, the leader of the Qinghong Gang, who appears to be sophisticated, calm, powerful, and loves to amass money, is also so kind-hearted and willing to entrust you with important matters.

Hong Enshan, who kills people neatly and neatly, and can kill the protagonist in seconds with one careless move, is actually a man who values ??love and justice.

Hong Yihai, who is gentle and has no strength to restrain himself, turns out to be a ruthless hypocrite who will do whatever it takes to gain power.

I have to admire the author’s profound design skills.

And when we make choices for each other, in order to pass the test, we sometimes "lose our conscience", such as killing our teachers, killing our schoolmates, killing Okayama love (a certain ending), framing innocent people, killing many teammates on the same front (and there are always many seemingly reasonable words to justify our actions), and sometimes we do a lot of weak, kind, and emotional things choices, such as revealing his secret to Gangshan Ai, or desperately trying to save Zhang Xiaomeng.

During the game we have to interpret this complexity ourselves.

It is worth noting that these multi-dimensional characters all have their own desires and purposes.

The matchmaker supports you, protects you, and advises you, seemingly for the sake of your comrades and the interests of the party, but in fact, she hopes that all your achievements in life and death will be attributed to him and his son.

Hong Enshan looks notorious and murderous, but in fact, like you, he endured humiliation for the sake of loyalty, and in the end he was beheaded by his own brother.

Only when the characters have desires will they take action, and because reality will not let the characters succeed easily, the gap of expectations/contrast creates drama.

However, for ordinary works, the pen and ink will focus on the protagonist's pursuit of desire, while Latent gives the same preferential treatment to most characters.