[0:00]Whatever you do, at the crossroads, don't turn left. This is the first line in a book that Avery claims he did not write. Two weeks ago, a YouTube channel called Avery the Mayo uploaded a YouTube video titled Weird Book I did NOT write, where he shows us a mine that supposedly he never built. Inside the mine is a chest that Avery did not place, and inside the chest is a book that Avery did not write. Inside the book is a very strange message. Whatever you do, at the crossroads, don't turn left. Don't be fooled. It's listening. You can't outsmart it. It's listening to me. It's watching me. It isn't from this world. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. Over and over, followed by a sequence of numbers. And that's it. It seems impossible that a whole mine just appears in your world without your knowledge, but Avery explains in the description of the video that the laptop he's playing on is from a storage locker. It already had Minecraft installed, and this world already existed, but when Avery first loaded it up, it was just a normal world. He only now discovered this mine a few hundred blocks from his house. So, in that case, what is this book? The contents are strange and it's not evident what they refer to. If anything, they just sound like some crazy rambling. But the numbers at the end are clearly some sort of code, so maybe we can solve it and figure out what this book is talking about. Except we can't. The numbers go higher than 26, so it's not any alphabetical code. There are four sections, not three, so it isn't coordinates, and in fact, there's not a single cipher that comes up as a good match for this code. If it is a code, it's unlike any code I've ever seen, and I wasn't able to decipher it. So, is that it, a strange one-off YouTube video and a dead end? Not quite. Because for two frames at the very end of the video, Avery's inventory flashes a random pattern of blocks. And this time, there is a code, because taking the first letter of the name of every block and capitalizing it if there is more than one, you get a string. A string that perfectly matches the length of a Google Drive link, that when you enter, takes you to a folder. And this is where the true mystery begins. The mystery of a Minecraft world that doesn't exist. Opening the video named footage one, we can see a player in the exact same spot Avery was in the last video. Except now he has way more items than he had last time. Presumably, this is from his house, and he's come to use this mine in survival as part of this world. The book is now gone from the chest, but it could be that Avery just burned it because it crept him out. Or it's just this book in his inventory. Regardless, Avery lines up with the other strip mine and begins to start a new one into the wall, but when he does, he finds this.
[3:31]Nothing weird, it's just a cave, and Avery walks in to begin exploring until he stops and sees this.
[3:44]It's hard to make out, but as he walks closer, we can see what it is: moss and grass. This is immediately a red flag because this kind of terrain does not generate in caves. Avery checks underneath it, but there's nothing else either. And when he runs back to grab his torches, he notices yet another patch of moss in the corner of the cave. Again, not natural, but not leading anywhere either. It's only when he heads back down the cave, does he see it: a tree. Avery approaches the clump of greenery, and there it is: a tree unlike any other oak tree in the entire game. Whatever this is, it isn't normal. Avery backtracks a bit, and we get a better look at this shrub for a lack of a better word. And after some hesitation, and circling around it, Avery decides to try and mining the tree, and he does with no problem. It looks just like a normal tree, except normal trees don't generate underground, and it's not the only one. As Avery goes deeper and deeper into the cave, he passes larger and larger patches of greenery, coming across more shrubs and even more trees, and even more moss. He pauses to talk at one point, but instead of commenting on the trees, he brings up something else. It's weird we've only seen stone. And I guess he's right. The walls of this cave don't have any diorite, granite, andesite or ores, but come on, there's a bigger elephant in the room here. At some point, though, Avery's wish gets granted and the cave turns into terracotta, tough, and deep slate. The greenery gets larger and larger with the trees growing bigger and bigger until finally, Avery reaches the end.
[5:46]Avery stops for several long seconds, just taking everything in. The room is a giant cave of green with strange, unnaturally large trees forming a staircase on the back wall. The floor is covered in a massive field of moss, scattered with the strange trees we saw earlier. Avery slowly heads down the cavern wall, being careful not to take too much damage while maneuvering his way to the bottom. He looks around in awe as he explores the chamber, and from closer up, we can see a tunnel right between the massive tree gates. Avery searches around the trees for a few minutes, seemingly mesmerized by the build. And we can see that these gates are made of trees stacked on trees stacked on trees, made of spruce, mud, and oak. But the question here is obvious. What is this place? This kind of terrain, obviously, doesn't generate naturally, so who made it and how does it just appear in Avery's world? Well, if there's any answer to that question, it's through this tunnel. Because finally, Avery decides to stop sightseeing and heads down the tunnel at the center of the room. Avery walks through the mud brick tunnel, turning to glance behind him every few steps. But of course, nothing is there. The world is set to single player, at least, it seems that way, until this happens. Something is wrong. It's almost impossible to notice, but at the far edge of the tunnel, the first pair of torches have suddenly been wiped out. Avery stares for a few seconds and continues walking.
[7:33]I'm not scared of torches turning off.
[7:42]And then another. I don't know what kind of practical joke this is, but I already heard you in the cave.
[8:58]I'm not scared of a game. I don't know why I just jumped down. I wasn't scared. But I felt compelled. I've never felt like that in my life. What is going on here? Things just went from strange to incredibly creepy in a matter of seconds. This doesn't just happen on a normal world, but Avery did say he found this world on a computer he got from a storage locker. So maybe this is just a world that the old owner of this computer created, and it's just some strange adventure horror map. Case closed. Except it's not, because the video files aren't the only thing in this Google Drive folder. If you remember, there's also this PDF, and opening it, we see this. My exploration into a strange tunnel I found in my Minecraft world. I've been playing this world for a while and just discovered this. This is my documentation of the search. Notably, when I installed Minecraft, this world came pre-created. Always thought that was a little strange, but I'm not really sure. This seems okay enough, but remember what Avery said earlier. He found this computer in a storage locker with Minecraft installed, not he installed Minecraft and this world was there. Admittedly, it's a pretty small difference, but still, why the conflicting stories? Something you may have also noticed that I can't explain is why Avery's name is now censored. He wasn't censored in the previous videos, but now he's both hidden his name and changed his skin. Almost like he's hiding from something. But there's still a lot more of this footage, and if you want to figure out what's happening in this world, why it exists, and what it has to do with Avery, we have to keep watching. As Avery runs from whatever it is that's hiding in this world. Avery says he has to keep moving, even if he doesn't exactly know why, and the only way to go is down. Avery takes a leap into the giant pool of water before him and swims down into a junction of tunnels. After some hesitation, he burrows himself in the left wall for air before swimming down the left tunnel. He continues to navigate through the dark water, the tunnel getting narrower and narrower with no end in sight. Until it opens into a giant cavernous room with just enough space at the top to get a bit of air. When Avery descends again, we can see tunnel openings sprawling across the walls. Avery scans around. There's no marker of where to go, just tunnels upon tunnels as far as the eye can see. And then he hears it. The same sound as when the whispers played previously. Avery rushes to dig into the wall, and as he blocks himself in, we can hear the whispers again.
[12:03]Quieter, but still there, as if they're passing by him. When the coast is clear, Avery digs out, but now what? He has no choice but to gamble on a tunnel and hope it's correct. He scans the walls again. No obvious sign of which one to pick. So finally, he rolls the dice.
[12:29]The tunnel leads to another junction, and again, after a slight hesitation, Avery goes left. The tunnel continues, getting narrower and narrower and narrower and narrower, until finally, Avery exits the maze.
[12:57]Into another giant room with what looks like a cipher above a door, with three levers right in front of it. Avery stares up at it, says he'll need a pen and paper, and blocks up the tunnel where he came from. The footage ends with him staring up at the code, deep in thought.
[13:20]From what I can see, the code at top the doorway looks something like this. It doesn't immediately remind me of anything, and plugging it into a cipher decoder gives me no ideas either. Running each of the candidate ciphers just gives gibberish every single time. Whatever this code is, there's unfortunately no way that I or Avery can solve it. The second half of the footage picks up with 17 minutes of just staring at the wall. And then, he gets it. Avery says it's a good poem, but doesn't actually reveal what it said, only that it uses cipher stacking. A technique where two ciphers are layered one on top of the other to make a code almost undecipherable. How Avery actually solved it with a pen and paper is beyond me, but the puzzle isn't over yet. There are still this gate, which Avery suspects is some sort of combination lock. But instead of a pen and paper, his solution this time is a bit more efficient. Avery just mines the wall.
[14:29]And behind the wall is a long, dark tunnel. Avery walks down the new tunnel for several minutes. At one point, he stops to dig into a wall, but for no apparent reason. Maybe just to hide from a mob, but nothing appears. And the tunnel just goes on and on, but eventually, there's a fork. Avery decides to go left, and the tunnel continues for a few more minutes. And then he finds this, another long, dark tunnel.
[15:05]He goes left again, and he finds this. Avery's in a box. And at the center of the box is a small hole leading down to another tunnel. But at this point, the whispers are back, and they're louder than before. Avery is forced to take a leap of faith down into the tunnel, and as he lands, there's a loud, scary noise. Avery takes another leap of faith, and this time, he's in a larger area with a bit of light at the end. He rushes to the light, and he finds this: a massive, abandoned village inside of a cave. Some of the houses are burnt, most of them have cobwebs, and all of them are dilapidated. But the village itself is very well built. There are houses built into a hill, houses along a river, and a huge, impressive fountain in the middle of town. Avery can't find anything in the houses. No items in the chests, no books in the bookshelves, no signs of life anywhere.
[16:05]He climbs the roof of the fountain and looks around.
[16:11]This whole thing is just inside a massive cave. The roof of the cave is too high up to reach, but just enough light is able to get through to allow for life to grow. The entire village is empty. There is absolutely nothing here, and there's no path to take anywhere. But at the bottom of the fountain, there are three wooden blocks blocking a dark hole. Avery mines through it to find himself in a tunnel. But this isn't a normal tunnel. There's a lever at the bottom. And there are furnaces on the sides, but no furnaces in the middle. And when he walks down, he gets to a dead end. But when he tries to turn back, it's blocked. Avery mines a hole through the floor to get out, and he finds a chest.
[17:03]And inside, there's a book with a message. There's no escape. Whatever you do, at the crossroads, don't turn left. Don't be fooled. It's listening. You can't outsmart it. It's listening to me. It's watching me. It isn't from this world. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. At the crossroads, don't turn left. Avery just woke up somewhere else, meaning there's not just one person, but at least two other people playing on this world, both of whom have written in this book and hidden in this chest. Whatever it is, it's leading them somewhere. To what? I don't know, but whatever it is, it's watching them write this message. The entire map is filled with a bizarre amount of yellow, and at the bottom of the fountain is a hole leading to a tunnel. Whatever is down here, it doesn't want them to come. But he still goes anyway, and the tunnel leads to another chest.
[18:39]And in the chest, there is nothing, meaning that they know that they're being followed, and it's doing something to their game. And this time, it left another message. Run. It's here. But from what I can see, there is nothing special about this map. Nothing. What do all of these things mean? What is this world? What does it mean for Avery? We may never know, but I can tell you one thing, if there's any answers to be found, they're in part two.
