Wang Xiaobin continued to look at the character designs of the main characters.
The protagonist played by the player was called Qin Yi, the captain of the AS-371-45 team.
His Skylark combat uniform also had a special coating, but it was different from the other people's fancy feeling. He only painted the word 'Yi' on the right shoulder of the combat uniform in seal script.
The meaning of the ancient word was written 'Yi', above it was the word 'Yang', and below it was the word 'I'.
The team's serial number meant that this team belonged to Starship 371 of the Asian Fleet (AS), numbered 45.
Apart from Qin Yi, there were four other members in the team with different personalities.
Xu Kaile, optimistic and positive. He was a young man with delicate emotions. The painting on his combat uniform was all kinds of cute girls from two dimensions.
Meng Yu, short and silent, but very reliable at critical moments. The painting on his combat uniform was camouflage.
Zhao Yongxiu, sometimes childish, clumsy, a little prideful, and very good at adjusting the team's atmosphere. The painting on his combat uniform looked like a mecha, highlighting his handsomeness.
Wu Shaojun, tall, straightforward, the oldest, and the most trustworthy teammate. There was no special painting on his combat uniform, but there were many scratches that were not specially repaired.
The general flow of the plot was written clearly in the story outline, but some details were not complete enough, including the lines and so on.
This was only the first version after all. It needed to be continuously improved later. Wang Xiaobin's opinion was also very important.
The structure of the plot was very simple. It was divided into five parts, each of which was composed of real-time CG and in-game battles.
Time was very tight because it was only a downloadable content attached to the game Ocean Stronghold. There was no need to make particularly detailed CG. Real-time calculations would do.
First part:
The AS-371-45 team successfully infiltrated the nest and cleaned up the larvae and worker bees on the periphery.
There were very few Zergs on the periphery of the nest, so it did not matter if they were discovered by the larvae or worker bees. The battle was relatively simple.
During the mission, all team members could communicate in real time through voice communication. They would discuss the operation and look forward to killing the Zerg Queen to end the war.
Artificial intelligence would constantly give orders to the protagonist, analyze the battlefield situation, and guide the protagonist to make the right decision.
Second part:
After going deeper into the nest, they started to encounter even more powerful insects, including the incubating Zerglings and Self Exploding Insects. The difficulty of this stage gradually increased. Most of the time, they had to adopt the correct strategy. For example, they had to be careful when dealing with the Self-Destructing Bugs. Otherwise, when the Self-Destructing Bugs exploded, the acid that splashed over a large area would cause serious damage to the team members.
At this point, the team members began to encounter some problems and needed to help each other. However, their overall mentality was still relatively positive.
The artificial intelligence would still guide the protagonist to make the best decision. Following the artificial intelligence's advice would significantly reduce the difficulty of the battle.
Part Three:
The swarm of bugs continued to increase, gradually exceeding the limit of the team's combat ability. In the process of going deeper into the nest, they discovered the broken limbs or battle suits of the other teams. The time to catch their breath after the battle became extremely precious.
Some of the team members began to lose their minds. After wandering around the nest for a long time, they still could not find any trace of the Queen. Instead, they saw too many other teams that had died. Without any supplies, they began to question the success rate of the battle calculated by the artificial intelligence, thinking that they would die here.
However, the team members encouraged each other and persisted in moving forward.
The artificial intelligence continued to analyze the data and command the battle as usual. Faced with the doubts of the team members, it stuck to its original statement.
Part Four:
The team's actions had already alarmed the swarm of bugs. Although the main force of the Zergs was not in the nest, even the worker bees, zerglings, and self-destructing bugs were enough to pose a huge threat to the team as long as there were enough of them.
Countless bugs surged from all directions. The path of retreat had been completely cut off. They could only keep moving forward. In order to block the swarm of bugs behind them, a seriously injured team member detonated the miniature reactor in his chest.
After finally getting a breather, Qin Yi realized that there were very few teams that had survived the mission with him.
What was even more terrifying was that the team accidentally found fragments of combat suits in the depths of the nest. These were fragments of the Skylark II combat suit. This meant that the humans had already carried out the decapitation operation before but did not succeed. The artificial intelligence had concealed this information.
The team members were in complete despair.
The protagonist questioned the artificial intelligence but still could not get an answer. The team members realized that there was no way out. They could only continue forward and decided to complete their mission at all costs.
Part Five:
The team followed the artificial intelligence's analysis in despair and moved forward in a roundabout way. In order to cover their teammates, the team members died one by one.
The protagonist was prepared to die and wanted to complete the last wishes of his teammates. However, in the end, he and another surviving teammate were drowned by the endless sea of bugs.
The strange thing was that these bugs did not kill them. Instead, they brought them deep into the nest.
The protagonist finally saw the Zerg Queen. Its bloated and huge body was disgusting.
The two of them wanted to detonate the miniature reactor on their bodies and perish together. However, for some reason, the artificial intelligence seemed to have been disconnected or had been strangely interfered with. It could not be used to control the detonation.
The surviving team member was brought to the Zerg Queen's side. He did not know what the Zerg Queen did to him, but he immediately let out a sharp scream and died in just two minutes.
The protagonist was also brought to the Zerg Queen. He also let out a blood-curdling scream as if his brain was being pierced by countless needles. However, he did not die immediately like the other team members. Instead, he stubbornly persevered.
He insisted on taking a pistol from the Skylark combat suit. He wanted to insert a bullet into the crack in the breastplate caused by the battle to completely destroy the miniature reactor and cause an explosion.
However, he still did not succeed. The Zerg's horny claws pierced his right hand, and the pistol fell to the ground.
In the dying moment, the protagonist felt as if there was a blank space in front of him. The sharp sound that made his brain sting slowly faded away from him, as if it had turned into a low murmur...
At the last moment, he felt a sudden violent vibration around him. The roof of the deep underground cave suddenly collapsed. He seemed to see many soldiers in the Skylark combat suit breaking in, and there was also a large drilling machine...
The story ended here, leaving an open ending.
In addition, the story outline also emphasized that there should be a lot of lines in battle or in a state of rest. Everyone's lines had to match their character.
As the emotions changed in the five stages, the lines of each character would also change. At first, everyone thought that they could complete the mission, but as time passed, they began to become pessimistic and even desperate.
In addition, the story outline also specifically emphasized a key piece of information:
At the beginning, the information that all the team members had was that this was the first time that humans had carried out a decapitation plan against the Zerg. At the same time, there were hundreds of teams carrying out this mission. The artificial intelligence had roughly locked on the location of the Zerg Queen, and the main forces of the humans were fighting the main forces of the Zerg on the planet, ready to support at any time.
Therefore, the team members believed that the success rate of this mission was very high. Once the Zerg Queen was successfully beheaded, the war between humans and the Zerg would usher in a dawn.
However, as the battle continued to deepen, the team members' beliefs were constantly shaken.
In the battle, they also encountered members of other teams. Some had already sacrificed themselves, leaving only a few pieces of armor, and some had died together with the Zerg in despair.
In the nest, they found some fragments of the Skylark combat suit. Many of the fragments were obviously not leftovers from this operation, which meant that it was obviously not the first time that humans had carried out a decapitation operation.
The team members gradually felt that they might not be able to hold on any longer. They became more and more desperate, but there was no turning back. They could only continue moving forward.
The team members chatted about the life form of this creature during the break after killing the Zerg:
The Zerg almost did not have a single consciousness. In order to carry out the Zerg Queen's consciousness, they did not care about the life and death of an individual. They could use telepathy to share information in a large area. The Zerg Queen's intelligence was very high, so the Zerg's tactical level was not inferior to that of humans.
In addition, the Zerg's weaponized organs had extremely simple logistics requirements, and they reproduced very quickly, so a war of attrition was meaningless.
Only by beheading the Zerg Queen could they fundamentally change the current unfavorable situation.
Therefore, even though all the team members fell into despair in the later stages and felt that they could not return alive, they still carried out the mission firmly. That was because the only meaning of their lives was to kill the Zerg Queen.
As long as the mission was completed, they could end the war. It would be a worthy death.
However, it was obvious that this mission was destined to fail. That was because there would not be a story of Mission and Choice if they succeeded.
…
After reading the entire story outline, Wang Xiaobin had a rough idea of what he had to do.
This story outline explained the entire game process, character settings, and even some details of the dialogue very clearly. Next, he only needed to refine the entire process and fill in the dialogue.
However, there were still many mysteries in this story outline. What's more, there was an open ending.
Did the Zerg Queen die in the end?
Did the protagonist survive?
This was clearly not the first decapitation operation. Why did artificial intelligence hide this fact?
What did the protagonist in this downloadable content have to do with the protagonist in Mission and Choice?
Obviously, these contents were related to the future plot of Mission and Choice. Zhu Xiaoce did not want to reveal them at this time.
Ocean Stronghold's downloadable content was to warm up the new game. It could be considered a primer. These questions would make players discuss continuously to maintain popularity.
He could only wait for the plot of Mission and Choice to be revealed if he wanted to answer these questions.
Wang Xiaobin suppressed his curiosity and immediately began preparing to develop it.
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