In the Trees - Full Series

Day 1, MC Day 1
It all happened on one boring summer day. Despite it being summer, the skies were covered in thick gray clouds. There was no trace of the blue sky anywhere, just endless gray. Cold wind was blowing, swaying trees back and forth. The street was absolutely empty of any living creatures. There were no humans in sight, everyone was inside their cozy homes, hidden from the unforgiving cold wind.

All my friends were unavailable too. Three of them were currently on a sleepover, and were enjoying their time together. My best friend Derek was on a holiday somewhere in Egypt. All others were either away on holidays, or simply offline on Skype and everywhere else.

On that boring day, I made a decision to play Minecraft. It has been a few days since I played Minecraft, mostly because I used my time more wisely with my friends outside. However, on that day I was very bored, and I decided to boot up Minecraft and make myself a survival world.

After booting up Minecraft, I pressed the "Create New World" button. I named my world "Survival World", and turned on Cheats. I was planning to not use them, but I wanted them on just in case I someday needed commands.

After the world generated and all the chunks around me loaded, I scanned my surroundings for any interesting features. The first thing I spotted was that I was on a small grassy clearing in middle of a forest. There were quite a few dandelions and poppies scattered around, along with tall grasses. I also noticed that there was a small water lake on the edge of the forest and the meadow. I couldn't see the end of the forest, with trees upon trees reaching as far as my render distance would allow me.

I walked up to one of the trees on the edge of the forest, and punched it a few times until the block smashed and one wood log item appeared in its place. I repeated this until the entire tree was destroyed and I had five oak logs in my inventory. I repeated this for a few more trees up until I possessed 41 logs.

I swiftly converted the logs to planks, and created myself a crafting table and 24 sticks. I placed down the crafting table next to the lake and constructed a wooden pickaxe. Afterwards, I dug myself a small hole in ground. I transported the crafting table into the manhole, and closed the opening using a pair of newly crafted doors.

Now that I had a simple shelter, I was finally able to start doing some other things. I constructed a set of basic stone tools, expanded my cave, and cut down some more trees for more wood. I also slaughtered a few cows for their meat, and by the time I was done, the sun was already setting behind the horizon.

However, as I was about to open my doors and enter my shelter for the night. I noticed something.

A tree.

For some reason, a lone oak tree appeared in front of my shelter.

I slowly walked closer to it. Even in the dark of the Minecraft night, I could see that there was nothing off about it. It was just another typical small oak. But for some reason, it just... appeared. I never planted a sapling in that world, I never saw one. It just kind of appeared out of nowhere.

I did not really care about it. I simply took out my stone axe and cut the tree down, before finally entering my little cave home.

Day 1, MC Night 1
Unfortunately for me, I did not kill any sheep that day, so I did not have a bed. Therefore, I had wait my night out.

After a few seconds of thinking, I made the decision to spend the night doing something useful instead of just waiting. I first dug a steep staircase leading down into the depths of my world. I stumbled upon a decent-sized coal vein, along with a few smaller iron veins. This in total added up to 32 coal ores and 13 iron. Afterwards, I climbed back up into my base to craft myself a furnace. I placed it down, stuffed my coal in the bottom slot and inserted my iron ores in the top one.

While my iron was smelting, I decided to get outside to check my surroundings. As I opened the doors, I noticed something strange.

Another oak tree.

I quickly sprinted out of my home and scanned the oak tree. It was just another generic oak. In fact, it was exactly the same as the first one, block to block. It was even in the same spot as the first one.

But there was something behind it.

I could barely see it. It looked like it had the player model, but I was not able to spot any recognizable features of the entity. All I noticed was that various gray colored lines streaked all across its body, randomly crossing eachother at random points.

I sprinted towards the oak as fast as I was able to. I quickly looked behind the trunk, but there was nothing there. I heard footsteps from the forest, but when I turned around, all I spotted were dirt particles as the entity sprinted away into the forest. I followed it as fast as I was able to. I sprinted deep into the forest, not observing any living creatures. No zombies, skeletons, creepers or anything. And neither the entity. It just disappeared into nothingness. Nowhere to be seen.

When I returned back to my home, the oak was gone.

Day 1, MC Day 2
After the odd experience from yesterday, I was much more wary of my surroundings, and I started noticing that things in this world were... a bit off.

First of all, I noticed that after yesterday night's encounter with the strange entity, the water lake next to my home drained. In fact, no water was visible anywhere near my home. Any lakes that I spotted were all just drained basins. I even noticed a huge, winding river bed, absent of any water.

I also spotted the entity a few more times. Around three times, it was behind a tree, hidden in the shade of the forest. But not any tree. The exact same oak tree. The one that appeared in front of my home three times. It was always that one oak tree, with the entity behind it. One time, the entity appeared in middle of a dried up lake, behind an - you guessed it - oak tree, the same one as I spotted in front of my manhole. Whenever I tried to get closer, the entity disappeared into thin air.

Another weird thing I noticed was that there were no animals in the world since my first encounter of the entity. Wherever I went, I spotted no cows, pigs, sheep or similar. Not even nighttime enemies such as zombies. The entire world was a deserted wasteland, devout of any water or mobs. Only me and the entity.

Day 1, MC Day 4
Day 3 went exactly as day 2, just me doing my things all along with the entity observing me from afar. However, on day 4 everything changed.

I was just returning from my mineshaft. On the previous day I had expanded it, so now there were roughly 6 shafts leading away from the main staircase, with more smaller strip mines branching off. As I was walking up the staircase, I heard a sound which did not fit in.

My front door closing.

I sprinted up as fast as I could, and when I came up, I noticed that my chests, bed and furnaces were gone. I quickly checked everything, from my basement to the surroundings of my house. Nothing. My chests and all the items in them were just gone.

This made me mad. I did not care much when the entity was simply observing me, but now it was taking my things. I did not want this. I crafted the best armor I was able to create using the items in my inventory. I had an iron chestplate, iron leggings, and leather boots, along with a diamond sword. I sprinted out of my home and into the forest, searching for that oak tree. I ran and ran, passing tens upon tens of oaks and birches. Brown, brown, white, brown, brown, brown, brown, white...

I heard footsteps.

I stopped running. I turned around, and there, I noticed the entity behind an oak tree, the same one where I always observed it.

As fast as I was able to, I made my way towards the oak. However, the closer I got, the weirder things around me got. Trees started skyrocketing, their trunks growing until the leaves were up in the sky and not visible. The ground rapidly changing between grass and weird blocks like iron, red stone blocks, trapdoors and other weird things. The sky changing colors between blue, green and red. All while the entity was staring at me, behind the intact oak tree.

Suddenly, the entity sprinted from behind the oak and right at me.

Then, my game crashed.

I was back at the launcher, with the crash log visible. I quickly copy pasted the top part which caught my attention the most. Other than the typical coding blabber at the bottom, instead of the typical witty message that appears at the top, this was the message:

The witty message was replaced with some binary code, along with the description. I quickly loaded up a binary converter, and after converting the first message, I got yet another binary string, this time "0100111001101001011000110110010100100000011101000111001001111001". After decoding that message from binary again, I finally got the real answer I needed. The words in binary were "Nice try".

The entity was mocking me.

I then quickly popped the second message into the converter. After doing so, I got a second binary message of "010011000100010101000001010101100100010100100000001011010010000001101111011000010110101100101110011001010111100001100101". After converting this one, the words were finally translated to English. The second message was "LEAVE - oak.exe".

It was telling me to leave.

But I would not listen.

Day 1, MC Day 5
I managed to load up the world. When the chunks generated, I found out that the oak, along with the entity were nowhere to be seen. I was standing in middle of the forest all alone.

And that is where I remembered the "oak.exe" file the crash report was talking about.

I loaded up my .minecraft folder and searched it for the .exe file named "oak". I managed to find it hidden within my saves, in the save for my "Survival World".

The file was not running.

I decided to open up Task Manager to see which apps or files were running. I also kept the .minecraft folder open in the background while I played my game. I chopped down a few trees, and used up a bit of my cobblestone to create a small outpost in middle of the forest. It was not anything big, just a twenty blocks high tower with a small base at the top. I did not place any chests anywhere, because now that I was aware that the entity was capable of stealing my goodies, I kept everything with me.

That's when I noticed that my Task Manager displayed the "oak.exe" file as running.

I quickly switched back to Minecraft and scanned my surroundings. After a few seconds of looking around, I noticed the oak tree on a hill roughly 50 blocks away, with the entity behind the oak trunk, looking right at me.

I swiftly sprinted down from my outpost and over to the hill. Once again, the closer I got to the entity, the weirder the glitching got. That's when I noticed that my task manager was now filled with running files titled "leave.exe". They kept duplicating. The save file for my Minecraft world also filled with those files. The closer I got, the more there were.

I slowly approached the gray entity, with the world around me warping into obscure messes of blocks and colors. As soon as I touched the entity, my game experienced a lag spike. My FPS suddenly dropped down to zero, and the weirdest part was that my .minecraft folder got filled with files titled "mistake.txt". I quickly dragged one onto my desktop. Then my Minecraft crashed again, and all the leave.exe and mistake.txt files disappeared.

I noticed that the crash report was exactly the same as the yesterday's one. I also noticed that the "mistake.txt" file I dragged onto my desktop did not disappear with the rest. I opened it and was surprised by a huge wall of binary.

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I quickly loaded up an online binary converter, before pasting the huge wall of numbers in there and converting it to text. The result did not make much more sense than the first one:

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After converting the second binary string to text again, I finally got my answer. The binary converted to text said:

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A few rows of pure nonsense.

Day 2, MC Day 24
I figured out what the gibberish rows meant.

I took the rows of letters, and read out the first letter of each row. The letters spelled out "LEAVE TZHIS WORLD".

But that was not the worst thing that happened on that day.

For the sake of safety, I decided to check the world save for my "Survival World". I spotted that there were now four "oak.exe" files located within that one save, just with numbers in their names in order to separate them from eachother.

I booted up Minecraft and loaded up the world. Task Manager immediately showed that four oak.exes started up. And sure enough, I noticed four identical okas in the distance, with three identical, gray entities standing behind them. They were observing me. Judging me.

I decided to try to play like I would do on an usual day. However, that proved to be an almost impossible feat, because now with four entities stalking me, it almost always encountered them in the forest, or just watching me from the distance, always from behind that one oak.

I did not even realize up until later on, but Task Manager showed that the entities multiplied again, this time the count of oak.exes being eight.

I only spotted this when I climbed up into my cobblestone outpost, and noticed five entities watching me. I looked around the visible world some more, and noticed eight entities observing me from the distance.

This scared me. Now with the power of multiplying, what could these entities be capable of?

I decided to ask them a question.

I created a new .txt file. I wrote down the message of "What are you?", before double-encoding it into binary, saving the file as "message.txt" and dragging the file into my "Survival World" folder. I then climbed down from my outpost and trekked around the forest until I spotted an entity relatively close. I checked Task Manager, it now displayed 16 oak.exes.

I had to be quick. As fast as I was able to, I sprinted towards the entity, ignoring the weird glitches, and touched it, causing my game to crash.

Before anything could have went wrong, I checked my world forlder for my survival world. And just as expected, I noticed another .txt file there, titled "00110000001100010011000100110001001100000011000000110001001100000011000000110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000000110001001100000011000100110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000100110000001100010011000100110001001100000011000000110000001100000011000000110001001100010011000000110001001100010011000100110001001100000011000100110001001100000011000100110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000100110001001100000011000000110001001100010011000000110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000000110001.txt". After translating this, I found out that this actually meant "response".

The content of the file was also encoded into double-binary, but the original was too long to be here. After double-decoding the binary, I uncovered their response:

"We are oak.exe. We can spread. We multiply. And we can get into places where you would not expect us at any times."

Day 2, MC Day 46
I took a short break after the last message. It scared me. I did not want to deal with these oak things. I wanted to end it once for all.

I booted up my PC. To my horror, there were 8 oak.exes on my desktop. I checked all my folders. Each one contained at least one oak.exe file within. Every oak.exe file had the icon that looked like the entity's face. They spread everywhere.

As fast as I was able to, I sent every single oak.exe I was able to find into trash. I then cleared the trash multiple times. I made sure to get rid of each and every one of these virus cells. I destroyed them.

Unfortunately, I made the large mistake of booting up MC. As soon as I opened up my world, oak.exes appeared everywhere. They multiplied onto my desktop, along with one text file titled "00110000001100010011000100110001001100000011000000110001001100000011000000110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000000110001001100000011000100110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000100110000001100010011000100110001001100000011000000110000001100000011000000110001001100010011000000110001001100010011000100110001001100000011000100110001001100000011000100110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000100110001001100000011000000110001001100010011000000110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000000110001.txt". I realized that the filename was the same as the last one, meaning that the name of the title was actually "response.txt". When I opened the file and converted the binary to text, I was able to read out the message:

"You have made a terrible mistake."

I was scared for my life.

I opened my .minecraft and removed all my saves. I wanted to get rid of this virus once for all. I got rid of all the oak.exe files I was able to find. I cleared my trash three times. I deleted .minecraft and my Minecraft app. I reset my PC multiple times. I just wanted to get rid of it once and for all.

Day 3
Today, I booted up my PC again. I logged in, and the first thing that I spotted was that my desktop was literally filled with oak.exe. There was no other file there. I checked my entire PC, nothing. Everything was changed. All my contacts, all my progress everywhere... gone. My friends, passwords, everything were gone, deleted or sent to someone on the other side.

I hit the roof.

I hit it and went straight through it.

I screamed. I took my PC and slammed it onto the ground. I took out the hard drive, before smashing at all around my room. I tossed it downstairs. I placed it on the ground before smashing it with a hammer until the whole thing fell apart. I covered it in alcohol, before burning the entire fucking thing. I screamed on top of my lungs. They were everywhere.

THEY

WERE

EVERYWHERE

?
I walked up to a window in my room. I wanted some fresh air. But when I opened it, I found something much better.

There was something off about my backyard.

Was it the fact that everything was warped and disfigured? The ground was changing from grass to iron, wood, glass, sand to even weirder things.

Was it the fact that there was an odd tree in my backyard? A tree that I had seen before, but not here? An oak tree, perhaps? A tree that was somehow intact by all the disfiguring going on?

Was it the fact that my parents were dead, hanging from one of the lower branches of the tree? Their eyes popping out of their skull, faces pale purplish, feet dangling above the ground?

Or was it the fact that there was a skinny and tall humanoid figure of the color gray behind the tree, staring right at me with its cold, glowing red eyes?

Oaks (Unfinished)
A few months ago I heard about a weird event on the internet. I discovered it using a website called "minews.com", that reports on interesting news all related about Minecraft. Last time I tried to look the website up it was gone, so I assume that it was hacker or someone posted sensitive material there, prompting the site host to shut it down.

Anyways, I only vaguely remember the story, but apparently a boy was discovered in his home, sitting on his gaming chair and emptily staring into the wall. The police were called on him, after onlookers spotted two people hanging from a tree in the house's backyard.

When the police forces arrived, they discovered the insides of the home trashed. Glass and porcelain items were tossed at a wall in one spot until the paint began chipping. Electronic items had water and milk poured over them. Tables and chairs were flipped over and hit several times with a blunt object. There were blood marks on some walls and the floor.

After the police scouted the house, they discovered a boy in a room. The boy was around 15 years old when he was discovered. The only piece of furniture in the room was a single gaming chair, which the boy was sitting on. Everything else was discovered in the yard after the boy tossed several items out of the window, and the cabinets were pushed down the home's stairs. The boy had a pale green t-shirt, black shorts and wore red Crocs shoes. The police tried interacting with him, but discovered that the boy was unresponsive to their commands and words. He was alive, breathing and moved around, but simply did not listen to the police or didn't talk. They also discovered blood and scratch marks on the boy's hands and arms, indicating that he committed the murders.

The police lead the boy into the house's yard to study the corpses. It was discovered that the two people were in fact the boy's parents. The two adults were first strangled by the kid, who then cut multiple incisions all over their bodies, before hanging them from a single oak tree the family owned in their backyard.

The police tried to communicate with the boy some more, but discovered that he only repeated the words "oak", "tree" and "glitch". He appeared to be in some sort of a trance, not looking at any specific area, just walking around and repeating those three words. The police took the boy to their car and drove to the police station, after which the story becomes hard to follow due to several differing sources.

One source indicates that test conducted on the boy indicated that his brain was completely functional and not in any way different from an usual human's brain. A different source state that the boy became increasingly violent after being taken away, even clawing and punching the police officers. There is a chance that both of those claims are false.

The police also took the remnants of the boy's computer from the crime scene at his house. The PC was repeatedly hit with objects, burned, smashed with several chairs, thrown out of a window and left to lie in the yard.

An autopsy on the parents indicated that the initial strangling only knocked them out. The parents died unconscious after the boy hanged their bodies.

During the investigation, police discovered a blog online. The blog detailed the experiences of what was presumed to be a young individual, who enjoyed the online sandbox game Minecraft. Initially the blog was relatively innocuous, featuring several accounts of the boy playing the game and his life stories. However, at one point the boy began detailing his experiences in a new world that he had created. He reported seeing a strange entity hiding behind an in-game oak tree, which observed him from afar. When the boy approached the entities his game began getting glitchy, eventually crashing if he got too close. Over time, the amount of entities increased, and the boy discovered weird files named "oak.exe" appearing on his PC. The boy also received unusual cryptic messages in double-encoded binary, as the amount of entities increased.

Eventually, the boy seemingly got so angry at the game, he destroyed his PC, which was his last blog post. Afterwards, the boy seemingly disappeared from the internet, not posting anything since.

The police reported eerie similarities between the boy's blog and the murder case they received. Both featured destroyed computers and a seemingly insane boy. Their suspicions were confirmed to be true, after the boy's phone was restored and it was discovered that he wrote the blog posts.

The police reported that they are now aware of a possible virus let loose, named "oak.exe". They do not understand why the boy committed the crimes he did, or why he seemingly went insane. The case is still being investigated, and the boy will likely go to a mental institute very soon.

After reading this story I became interested in it. I wanted to investigate what happened to the boy, and why it did. And so I looked online to find a way to get the oak.exe file on my computer. I bought a spare Windows XP computer just for this purpose, so that my real PC would not be damaged by the virus replacing files, and downloaded Minecraft to observe the weird tree entities myself. I was ready to investigate for myself. At the time, I had no idea what a mistake I was making...

As I mentioned, I had purchased a spare computer just for the task of investigating this oak.exe stuff. So I bought myself a Minecraft account off of a weird website. The account cost $5 dollars, so it was a good deal. I downloaded the Minecraft game, and decided to try and get the virus on my computer.

I tried googling "oak.exe", but all it gave me were links to lumber businesses and articles about oaks themselves. It also popped up with a few weird articles about an OAK.EXE virus, but I knew that it wasn't what I was looking for.

So I booted up Minecraft, and thought that perhaps a certain seed could trigger it. So I generated a new world, with the seed "oak". Nothing new appeared on my PC. It was exactly the same.

I then created a new world, but with the seed "oak.exe". Nothing. Tried several other seeds like "trees", "oaks", "entity tree" and "oak creature", but all my attempts were futile.

I tried for several hours to get a correct seed. I went through various random tree-related words, then just random words I though of. After roughly 4 hours of making worlds, I finally got it right. I set the seed to "gertie" and generated a new world. At the same time, a lone file appeared in my new world's folder, titled "oak.exe".

Now I had no idea why the word "gertie" triggered the file to appear. I had no idea how the file even detected that I used the seed "gertie". But, I just thought "great, it worked" and began experimenting.



I first tried double-clicking the "oak.exe" file. I got an unusual blank error message. After thinking for a few seconds I clicked the "Okay" button and tried opening the file a few more times. Each time I got an empty error box.

After a few minutes of trying I gave up on trying to open the file and instead decided to play Minecraft. I chopped down a few trees, created a pickaxe, dug a little hole in the ground and within a few minutes I had myself a decent underground base located in a plains biome, with an oak forest nearby. By the time the first in-game night began, I had two iron tools and a decent base to survive it. I covered the entrance to my house with a trapdoor.

During the night, I checked outside several times. Other than multiple mobs I didn't notice anything, so during the second half of the night I just remained inside and expanded my base.

As the sun rose up into the sky I decided to explore my surroundings a little bit. However, as soon as I ascended the ladder to my base and closed the trapdoor behind me, I noticed something off.

There was a single oak tree around 50 blocks away from me.

I was very much aware that this was the result of the oak.exe file. I also observed the unusual gray-white entity with reddish eyes standing behind the tree, watching me. This was my chance to try to communicate with it.

 Hello?

I tried to initiate a conversation with the entity. All it did was stare blankly forwards, not moving one inch. It was so still, that its arms were not swaying like the arms of all other players do. It was just frozen.

 Hello?

 I would like to talk to you.

 I'm a friendly person, do not worry.

Complete silence.

 Would you like to talk to me?

 I am not evil in any way.

The entity was completely still. I tried to move as little as possible. The entity just watched me.

I decided that this was not leading anywhere, and checked my desktop. To my surprise, there were two new files located on my desktop. One of them was titled "001100000011000100110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000000110000001100010011000100110000001100000011000100110000001100010011000000110001001100010011000000110000001100000011000000110001001100000011000100110001001100000011000000110001001100000011000000110000001100000011000000110000001100010011000100110000001100010011000000110000001100000011000000110001001100000011000100110000.txt" and the other one was titled "00110000001100010011000100110000001100010011000100110000001100010011000000110001001100010011000000110000001100010011000000110001.txt". I double-decoded both the file names, and found out that the longer one spelled out "read" and the shorter one spelled out "me"

I decided to first read the "read" file. After opening the file, I was greeted with a wall of binary. After I double-decoded the text wall, I was staring at a short message in English:

''no talk. won't talk. don't talk. no response will given''

The text confused me, but I decided to just open and translate the second file, in the hopes that it will make more sense that the first one. After copying and double-decoding the second text file, I was looking at an even more confusing message:

will not speak to mortal

bring gertie

now

At this point I was just confused. Who was this "Gertie" person? Why did the seed "gertie" attract the entity? How did it even get on my computer? I never remembered downloading any oak.exe files, it just appeared there. I wasn't scared, merely confused.

Anyways, after thinking for a minute or two I decided to explore the world to see if there were any anomalies other than the entity. I set off towards the east from my house, keeping track of the direction I was moving in so that I could locate my house easily.

The first anomaly I spotted right after departing from my house was that despite me being in a plains biome, there were no animals anywhere nearby. Normally there would be a few herds of animals, such as pigs, cows, chickens or horses. But this time, the entire biome was completely devoid of any mobs. It was very unusual.

After walking for a few more minutes the sun began setting, but I decided to continue walking. If I saw any mobs I would dig into the ground and stay in a small hole for the night. However, as the sun set and the moon moved into my view, I noticed that no mobs spawned at all. There were no hostile mobs nor peaceful mobs. I was quickly running out of food, so I needed to desperately get some food. In the end, I quickly located a few oak trees and chopped up their canopies, getting around 7 apples altogether. It wasn't much, but it was enough to refill my hunger bar and allow me to continue walking.

As I walked through the barren plains biome, I noticed a winding, wide trench in the ground. The bottom of it was made entirely out of clay, sand and gravel blocks, with a bit of dirt occasionally sprinkled in between. After a second of thinking, I realized that it was a completely empty river bed. There was no water in the ex-river, it was just dried up. I didn't think much of it at the time, as I crossed the trench and continued walking. On my way, I spotted two holes in the ground that looked like empty lakes.

As the sun began to rise again, I decided to settle for the day and created a small shack out of the wood I brought along for the journey. It wasn't much, but it was enough to survive in and be safe from the outside (despite there being no mobs). I created a small mineshaft and found a cave with a decently large iron vein and a bit of coal. I crafted myself a furnace and began smelting my iron. And that's when everything became much weirder.

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<> 0011000000110001001100010011000100110000001100010011000000110000

<> 0011000000110001001100010011000000110001001100010011000100110001

<> 0011000000110001001100010011000100110000001100000011000000110000

My chat was suddenly filled with messages. I was startled at first, but decided to just go along with it. I swiftly double-decoded each of the messages, and found out that every message contained one letter. When combined, the letters spelled out the word "stop".

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This time, it was a different string of numbers. After a few seconds of thinking, I realized that it was a hex code. So I popped the numbers into a hex decoder and found out that the message simply said "leave this world".

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<> 0d76899c2d59b194db8e4ac137d67534

Now I was confused. I had absolutely no idea what those messages meant. I knew that they were encoded in some way, but I didn't know how were they encoded, and how to decode them.

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I just decided to ignore any subsequent messages that were corrupted like these ones. I knew that there was no way for me to decode the nonsense. I looked into my furnace, grabbed my iron and made a chestplate and a helmet from it. Suddenly, my game began lagging.

I quickly looked on my world's folder, to see that there were now two oak.exe files located there, titled "oak.exe" and "oak2.exe". Upon seeing this I swiftly opened up the Task Manager. Both the oak.exe files were running, and were taking up roughly one seventh of my total CPU usage. I returned back to my game, ran out of my house, and noticed two oaks roughly 50 blocks away. The trees weren't previously there, and I never planted any saplings. I also noticed two identical entities behind the oaks, staring at me. The two trees were also like carbon-copies, being exactly the same height, width and had the same pattern of leaves.

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I decided to do some final investigating before going to sleep in real life. I placed any of my valuable items in a chest, only keeping a single iron sword and a few blocks in my inventory. I also placed blocks around my chest, just in case something were to happen to my items. Then, I walked out of my house and towards the oaks.

As I approached the trees, the world began getting glitchier with every step. Initially, only my FPS began dropping, from an average of 60-100 to around 30-50. As I moved closer to the two trees, I began noticing that random blocks on the ground began disappearing and reappearing rapidly. Other grass blocks around me began changing textures randomly, from grass to gold, stone and even things such as red stone comparators. They were only texture changes, I could walk on the redstone comparators as if they were solid blocks. The closer to the tree I got, the laggier and more distorted my game got. I realized that I no longer saw the entity behind the tree.



The world became basically unrecognizable as I slowly made my way towards the plant, with blocks springing up and down from the ground, forming large pillars that shot up into the skies. The floor was completely randomized, with random textures replacing nearly every block. I moved a final block, before the entire world just corrupted itself. It looked like the sky was replaced with the missing texture blocks, and the ground shifted around randomly, when my game suddenly froze. I tried everything to get it to unfreeze, but nothing worked. After around 5 minutes of waiting, I just force shutdown the game.

My desktop was unchanged. However, when I checked my Minecraft folder, I saw that there were now four oak.exe files, along with a next text file.

The file had the simple name of "01100111.txt", which I found surprising. I double clicked it to open it, and I was greeted by a large wall of jumbled letters.

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I looked at the wall of characters for a few minutes, before I began trying to decode the text wall. After a few minutes, I finally got something recognizable. I used a Base32 decoder on the text, and the result was what seemed to be more Base32-encoded text. I used the decoder again, and got another large mess of jumbled letters and numbers, with some colons thrown in between. I tried a few more decoders again, before an Ascii85 decoder resulted in a bunch of zeros and ones - binary encoded text.

I put the binary numbers into a decoder and translated it. What came out of it, was a weird message:

"don't do that don't do that don't do that don't do that never again never gertie bring back don't do that"

I was as confused as before. I had more questions than answers. Who was Gertie? Why did my world glitch out so much? How did the file detect when I used the "gertie" seed? What was going on?

As I said before, I went to bed afterwards. However, all I could do while lying on my comfy bed, was think about all of this weird oak.exe situation. I didn't get much sleep that night.

The following day, I decided that I needed a companion on my world. If the world had two people there instead of one, we would be able to observe more areas of it at once, thus possibly exposing things which I wasn't aware of. Plus, it would be less lonely in the world.

I decided to message a long-time friend of mine, Jared. After explaining the situation to him, he agreed to join the world with me. I asked him is he had a virtual machine, or a spare computer with no important information on it. Jared told me that he had a spare laptop in his room, and that he would bring it out and download Minecraft on it.

I waited a few minutes, until Jared messaged me, saying that he had Minecraft installed and was ready. I told him to install Hamachi, so that we could play on the world together. After setting everything up properly, I opened the world to LAN, and we both successfully joined.

 Hey

 hello

Right after Jared joined, I asked him to check his .minecraft folder. And sure enough, he told me that there were 4 oak.exe files in there, the exact amount that was currently in the world. I told him that his spare laptop was now infected with a virus. He responded that he doesn't care, as he doesn't use the laptop.

I told Jared the directions in which I moved, as I was hundreds of blocks away from the spawn. I directed Jared towards my current residence, and within a few minutes he found my house and me with it. I gave him some basic things - blocks, food, some armor and weapons.

 tf is that behind a tree there

 That's one of the entities

 As there are 4 of those weird files, there are four entities around the world

 i just looked, theres another one in the nearby froest

 nvm i see 3 now

 one behind the tree there, another one in the forest, and the final one on that island

 I see

<ExoticFizzGino> Just took a screenshot of the plains one.

<xJ4red_249> kk

I looked around, and Jared was right. The entity in middle of the grassy plains was obvious, as it was peeking from behind it, staring at us. The entity was completely stationary, just watching us from afar.



The second entity was hidden by an oak tree in the birch forest. It was not a very good hiding stop, as the oak was the only non-birch tree in the large woodland. I couldn't actually see the creature, but I saw the oak tree, and it was identical to the other one.

The final entity was located on an island on the edge of my render distance. The island was very small, likely no more than 10 blocks wide. There was a single oak growing there, identical to the other two. I could see the entity hiding behind it, also watching me.

<> 0MODX-8Sn/06/dW>;feK@pW,L3,C3</20dU0.&J@4XVO2?r[

<> 0MODX-8RqO,?m$,<E!Zo@pW,L3,C3</20dTBP]Ij4sO8i<*9

<xJ4red_249> the fuck?

<ExoticFizzGino> It occasionally says things like this.

I knew that the messages were encoded into Ascii85. After decoding both the messages completely, I got the short sentence "see me?"

<> lÖœg õòf noWß

<ExoticFizzGino> Log off now?

<xJ4red_249> i dont like this

<xJ4red_249> at all

<xJ4red_249> it sounds weird

<ExoticFizzGino> Meh

<> wwwwwwwaddaddafgiresmnjxbh

<> ôôäô.

<> 0110110001100101011000010111011001100101

<ExoticFizzGino> The last message says "leave

<> â°bTâÌ~�ì!ï÷ì�½èék´âÌ~Äì

<> s

<> spto

<> stop

<xJ4red_249> dude what thefuck?

<xJ4red_249> *the fuck

<ExoticFizzGino> I have no idea.

I checked the world's folder, and noticed that there were now 7 oak.exe files in there. Along with that, there was a single one on my desktop, the first time the virus spread outside of my .minecraft folder.

<ExoticFizzGino> fuck, I now have one of those oak.exe files on my desktop

<xJ4red_249> dude, same

<xJ4red_249> its now on my desktop wtf

<xJ4red_249> luckily this is only a spare pc

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<ExoticFizzGino> This is getting weird very quickly

<xJ4red_249> indeed

<xJ4red_249> we should move on

<xJ4red_249> like, from this loctaion

<ExoticFizzGino> Give me a few seconds.

I took a quick look around, and spotted 3 new oaks in weird locations. There were also several new entities. I checked my desktop again, and noticed that there were now several new files. I realized that the amount of those files would grow very quickly.

<ExoticFizzGino> There are now 16 oaks and entities in this world.

<xJ4red_249> shit, this is growing so quickly.

My game began getting very laggy. I checked my Task Manager, and saw that there were sixteen oak.exe files running, and were taking up around one half of my total CPU usage. I realized that my PC would freeze if this continued for any longer.

I turned around to enter my house, when I noticed a new tree, right behind me. And there was an entity there. Staring right at me. And I finally got to see the creature in full detail.



I recognized the glowing eyes, which was the only thing I noticed of the creature before that. However, this time I got to see its skin up close. It was mostly grayish-white, but had several gray stripes criss-crossing across the body, arms, legs and head. The color of the stripes ranged from near black to light-gray. The creature had no mouth, nose, hair, ears or any other distinguishable features, other than its faintly glowing red eyes.

I backed away. The creature only stared at me. It felt like it was staring past my in-game character, out of my computer screen, and into my mind. I turned my character around, only to be greeted by another of the entities. My game started lagging, and I saw the floor glitching out. I was too close to them, if I got too close my game would crash again.

I just stopped moving altogether. I stood as still as a tree, trying to prevent my game from crashing.

<xJ4red_249> FUKC!

<xJ4red_249> DUDE WTF"!

<xJ4red_249> DU

<> 0110000101110010011001010010000001111001011011110111010100100000011011000110100101110011011101000110010101101110011010010110111001100111

<> 01101100011001010110000101110110011001010010000001110100011010000110100101110011001000000111011101101111011100100110110001100100

<> 011100100110100101100111011010000111010000100000011011100110111101110111

I wanted to type something in chat, but my messages wouldn't send. I just watched as the messages piled up in chat. I couldn't see Jared's messages, or mine. All that showed were binary messages, sent by the entity.

I was confused as well, because the blog from the boy did not detail the entity doing anything violent like this. All it described was the creature watching from afar, sending strange messages, never approaching the player. But this time, it actually went up to me itself, trying to trap me.

After a few seconds, I decided to back away from the tree in front of me. But, to my surprise, there was no more trees behind me. I turned around, and realized that the tree (and the entity) behind me was gone. I quickly checked behind me, and saw that the other tree was gone too. I was free from the glitch prison they made for me.

<xJ4red_249> OMG!

<xJ4red_249> DID YOU FUCKIGN SEE THAT?

<ExoticFizzGino> Yes, i did

<ExoticFizzGino> i was right in The middle of it FFS

<xJ4red_249> THIS IS Too much for me, i am leaving

<ExoticFizzGino> No!

<ExoticFizzGino> Please don't.

<xJ4red_249> explain everything

<xJ4red_249> right now

<xJ4red_249> what is this, and why does it happen

<ExoticFizzGino> honestly, I have no idea

<ExoticFizzGino> I used a certain seed, and the file just appeared

<xJ4red_249> that makes no sense

<ExoticFizzGino> I read about the virus online

<ExoticFizzGino> Yeah IK, it makes no sense at all

<ExoticFizzGino> But it is real, and you saw it

<xJ4red_249> yes, i did

<xJ4red_249> but i don't want to see it again

<ExoticFizzGino> So you saw it

<xJ4red_249> it already kind of screwed up my second computer

<xJ4red_249> on a second thought, why did i even agree to do this shit?

<xJ4red_249> it's so stupid, why

<xJ4red_249> honestly, this is all just retarded

<ExoticFizzGino> nopls

<xJ4red_249> i am leaving

<xJ4red_249> goodbye

<ExoticFizzGino> NO

<xJ4red_249> i might come on tomorrow, but i need a break

xJ4red_249 left the game.

<ExoticFizzGino> k

I checked the folder for my world. It had way more files than the last time I checked, i suspected around 64 of them. They were spread all around my PC now: on my desktop, in my photos folder, and in many more areas.

My desktop also had a new text file. All the previous ones were gone. The file was named "01110010011001010110000101100100.txt", which translated to "read.txt". I opened it, only to see a massive wall of text.

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I popped the numbers into the binary translator, and got more binary. After translating the second string of numbers too, I got a message that finally made me scared for the first time during this whole chain of events.

its time to stop this

leave the world forever we have got enough material now

we will get to you soon

just wait

To be continued...

Written by Prism55Writes