The Felusian Worm Incident

Author's Note: Pasta is a W.I.P (Much more is on the way)
NOTE: If you discover this entity in your Minecraft world, you have very limited time to act. You must kill it before it can kick you from your world. If you are kicked from the game before you can destroy it, it is vital that you gain access to the virus host world and kill it before it can take control of your device and use it to multiply. DO NOT LET THIS THING MULTIPLY.  Please. I recount my encounter so that others may not make the same mistakes as I did. I repeat: DO NOT LET IT MULTIPLY.
== My Experience with The Felusian Worm virus: ==
Hi. My name is Hussein Boyle and I’m an amateur coder with experience in dismantling and examining the code of various common computer viruses. 
Too few people online are discussing this advanced computer virus, one that I’ve never seen the likes of before (or since). I’ve searched and searched the internet for other encounters with this virus but so far have found nothing. This may seem promising but I can assure you it is very unsettling. And so I’ve decided to be the first and recount my experience with the Minecraft Felusian Worm virus in hopes that it could prove helpful to others whose Minecraft worlds are displaying similar symptoms.  
Whilst I have no actual evidence to prove it, I am quite sure that this virus had been lying dormant on my PC for several weeks, long before the incident. I cannot be certain of this but one day (a few weeks before the incident) I ran a computer scan to check for any malware or viruses. My antivirus software came up negative however it did mention it was detecting strange activity coming from within one of the system’s folders. I examined these folders thoroughly but didn’t detect anything out of the ordinary. I ran the scan again, but this time no malicious activity was detected. 
Leading up to the incident, I had also been extremely wary of downloading dodgy files from the internet, more so than usual. For those wondering, my virus examination and dissection hobbies all took place on a separate older (and at that point heavily infected) laptop which I’ve been extra careful to ensure has had no contact with my personal PC in any way at all. 
Anyway, on one completely random day, with both my parents out of the house and all by myself, it just so happened that I decided this was the perfect time to postpone working on my upcoming school science assignment and instead boot up Minecraft for a relaxing session of classic survival gameplay. And so that’s what I did.
I was about an hour into my gameplay when I noticed something floating a few chunks away in the distance. At the time, I was in a plains biome overlooking a dark oak forest in the distance when the black speck caught my eye. At first, I internalized that it was just bizarre world generation. But upon inspecting it closer, I realised I was looking at another player; another user inhabiting my world. This shouldn’t have been possible, as the world was not open to LAN, and this is the only way an outside user could have access to the world. By this point, I was more curious than nervous. I was convinced it couldn’t have been an outside user. The best way I can describe it was that I believed that I was bearing witness to a completely random, one-in-a-million anomaly; a single digit glitch in the game’s code, resulting in the creation of this entity. It felt legitimate, for lack of a better term.
Convincing myself that this was the case, and overwhelmed with an aura of awe, I paused the game and scoured the internet, searching for any similar bugs or errors occurring to other people’s Minecraft worlds. I found nothing. I checked Reddit, YouTube and other Minecraft discussion pages. I used search terms such as ‘ghost users’, ‘pseudo players’ and ‘shadow’ players, but still nothing came up. It seemed no one else had encountered this bug in their worlds. This filled me with an immense sense of pride and so I hastily began screenshotting the entity. In my mind, after the survival session I would create a post on the official Minecraft Reddit to share the bizarre glitch with the Minecraft community, and garner quite a lot of karma for it. Here are a few of the screenshots (Right and Below). 
After taking several pictures and recording all necessary information, I was about to leave the site of the discovery when, upon turning my back to the entity, a strange feeling welled in my gut. It came without warning, like an icicle making my hairs stand on end. I got the strange feeling that I was being watched. I turned around in game but the entity remained motionless. Its eyes had moved.
In a moment of panic I reached down under my desk and ripped out the Ethernet cable. Its eyes fizzled like hot white embers in the sun. I leapt out of my seat, left my room and ran down into the basement to turn off the WiFi. I had now completely isolated my PC from all nearby networks. I breathed a huge sigh of relief. I want back to room, sat back down in my chair, unpaused the game and stared up to the ceiling as I calmed myself down. After a few moments, I sat back up right and looked at my screen. 
In a moment of panic I reached down under my desk and ripped out the Ethernet cable. Its eyes fizzled like hot white embers in the sun. I leapt out of my seat, left my room and ran down into the basement to turn off the WiFi. I had now completely isolated my PC from all nearby networks. I breathed a huge sigh of relief. I went back to room, sat back down in my chair, unpaused the game and stared up to the ceiling as I calmed myself down. After a few moments, I sat back up right and looked at my screen. 
The entity remained motionless staring off into the distance, gazing across into the etherworld. Yet something was different. Something wasn’t right. As I sat there fixed at my screen, it gradually dawned on me that an ominous, oppressive atmosphere was rolling in over my room. The entity’s stare seemed to intensify. Its black shape took on that of a blackhole; dark, heavy and suffocating. I found that I was struggling to breathe and the urge to flee was intensifying. All was deathly silent. Gradually, a low rumbling began emitting from my speakers. The rumble jumped and swelled until it burst into an ear splitting roar. The sound was so deafening that I sprinted away as fast as I could away from the entity back the way I had came. The screams grew duller and dimmer and duller and dimmer until eventually they subsided completely, swallowed up by the distance. When I could no longer hear the screams, I abruptly exited the world and quit the game. 
I sat there tensely crouching over the monitor, my mind racing a million miles an hour. I struggled to process what had just happened, struggled to comprehend that such a thing had taken place in my Minecraft world. The air was eerily still. I sat there for almost ten minutes without moving a muscle. Suddenly, a notification sliced through the silence and popped up on my screen. 
“Connection to WiFi unsuccessful”
My heart dropped into my stomach. I quickly closed the notification. I sat in silence for a few moments in tense anticipation, waiting. Waiting. Another notification popped up on my screen. 
“Enter the network security key to access Andrew’s Wi-Fi Network” (This is my neighbour’s wifi). 
My suspicions had been confirmed. Hastily I dismissed the notification, my heart rate starting to increase dramatically. I wondered what I should do, how I should respond to these notifications.
Suddenly the Mojang logo appeared on my screen. The bright red screen gave way and dissipated into a swampy marsh. An empty chest boat sat floating in the water. A white frog rested on a lilypad. The splash text boundfully exclaimed “Also try Terraria!” The singleplayer button awaited patiently. I knew what it wanted me to do but I didn’t want to do it. I hesitantly hovered over the button before clicking. All my worlds loaded up before me. Sitting right at the top of the pile was a survival world named “My Survival World.” A radiant energy emitted from that icon, beckoning me to open it up again. I knew what would be waiting for me on the other side, I knew what it was going to ask me to do, something I wouldn’t want to do. But I couldn’t help it. I took a long, hollow breath. Then I moved my cursor over the icon and opened up the world. 
The world loaded up slowly, the pixels gradually expanding at a snail’s pace. At 43% completion, the loading screen disappeared and I was shot into my world. <Felusian Worm> stopI found myself right beneath the entity again, right where I had been the moment the screaming began. It was speaking to me.Me: <HussinCussin293> What do you want with meA few moments of eerie silence.<Felusian Worm> stopMy breathing began to waver but I held myself together.<HussinCussin293> What do you mean
<HussinCussin293> What are you doing on my Minecraft worldA few more moments. The entity’s glazed eyes looked lifelessly upon the treetops below. Unseeing. Unfeeling. Hot.<Felusian Worm> resume?I was taken aback. I didn’t understand what it meant.<HussinCussin293> What?A few more moments.<Felusian Worm> resume?Now I was beginning to lose it. I chuckled nervously as my breathing began to waver further. I knew what it wanted.<Felusian Worm> resume?
<HussinCussin293> no
<HussinCussin293> Get off my Minecraft world right now
<HussinCussin293> I mean it.
<Felusian Worm> resume?I lost it. I dirt-towered up to the creature till I was face-to-face with it. Its white gaze simmered in the sun. I pulled out my axe.
Its eyes moved.<Felusian Worm> resume?I left-clicked. I hit the entity. As soon as I did, a whining scream erupted from my speakers as the frame froze on the creature’s flickering eyes, the pixels distorting and swirling. Like a jolt of electricity I flung myself off of my chair and I tumbled into the floor. The whirring shrieks continued blaring from my desk. I scrambled back onto my seat. The frame was still frozen yet suddenly all sound had ceased. Just when I thought it was safe to move, the screams roared once again and suddenly the game closed. 
My desktop was in shambles. Glitching. Spluttering. Colors flashing. Programs were opening and closing all over the place. My computer was struggling to hold itself together. 
Immediately I sprung to action, typed away on my keyboard, swiveled my cursor around to try and contain the chaos. My goal was to force stop all applications currently running on my PC. I tried manually doing this but closing applications individually, however this proved fruitless as they’d just open back up again. My cooling fans blasted to the max, my bedroom roaring with the sounds of a jet engine. It struck me to use the Task Manager application and try to force stop all running apps. 
When I opened up Task Manager, I was greeted by this image (below):
I had never seen this program in my life. My skin crawled just knowing that this thing had been on my computer for god knows how long. How did it get onto my computer? How had it evaded detection for so long from my antivirus software?  
I attempted to find the program’s file location, however with each attempt my computer would buffer and lag heavily, and eventually the computer would say it could not locate the file. It is interesting to note that with each search attempt, the unnamed program would use 100% CPU processing power, with all other applications using 0%. This clearly wasn’t working, and the progressively deteriorating state of my control over my PC reminded me that I had to act quickly.
I managed to do a little magic and managed to trace the unnamed program’s activities to another application: Minecraft.exe. It was all starting to make sense now. I tried to delete the program, but nothing happened. I tried to open Minecraft; the location of most of the program’s activity. Access denied. I tried to delete the game. Nothing happened. It was using all of its strength to keep me from getting to it. 
I reached the point where I decided to wipe my PC. I was very close to doing so too, but it picked up on what I was doing right before I could reset my computer. I found I was stripped of my administrative controls. Then it began to fight back. It began blocking me from using other programs on my computer. My antivirus software was abruptly deleted right before my eyes. Then my desktop files began systematically disappearing from my home screen, gradually being plucked away one by one. My cooling fans roared like they’d never roared before. I was losing control of my computer. I sat there, trying to contain everything and get a handle on the situation, but it was completely useless. Then the wifi tabs appeared at the bottom right of the screen. 
My neighbour’s WiFi network was brought up again. A network key was required. Something started typing letters and numbers into the textbox. I watched in horror as the typing stopped. Enter. Access denied. The code was deleted and another was typed in. Access denied. It was trying to escape my device by accessing another network! 
I could not let this happen. God can only imagine what would happen if it managed to escape. I took one last attempt at gaining the upper hand by cracking my way into the game files. After a few simple work-arounds I managed to get inside and upon initial inspection nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The neat assortment of folders, json and txt files were as I remembered them to be. Everything was as it should have been except for one easy-to-miss unnamed folder nestling amongst the game assets. I clicked onto it…
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