After the vision you meet a lone villager called Ethan who is friendly and wants to protect you from the crazy people. From him you learn that the woman whose murder you’re investigating was his daughter, Anna Lee. She was raped by the prophet Knoth who got her pregnant. Knoth then wanted Ethan to slit Anna’s belly and kill the child. Ethan made up some stories to give Anna time to run away. As you learnt during the initial helicopter ride the police report said she had a lot of mercury in her blood and concluded that she strangled herself to death. Her murder remains unsolved.
Blake finds shelter in the basement of Ethan’s house. He must then witness how Marta, a very hostile old hag, murders Ethan with an axe. Blake waits quietly in the basement and then escapes.
Again Blake must escape some Christian search parties until he reaches the chapel. In the chapel he encounters a man who had his eyes cut out and is strapped to a wheel. His name is Josiah. The reason why he is being tortured is because he didn’t give up the location where the heretics are hiding Lynn.
幻觉过后玩家会遇见一个名叫Ethan的友好并想保护Blake的村民，得知Blake开始想调查的那个孕妇就是Ethan的女儿Anna Lee，Anna Lee被先知Knoth强奸并怀孕后Knoth想把Anna Lee肚子撕开把孩子杀死，但是Ethan拖住了Knoth让Anna跑掉了。在游戏开始的直升机里玩家也得知了孕妇是因为血液水银含量过度并得出了孕妇让自己窒息而死的结论。孕妇的死亡仍然是个迷
Blake躲在地下室里看见Ethan被Marta老巫婆用斧子干掉然后Blake逃跑了
Blake又被基督徒追杀然后来到一个小教堂，他遇见了一个双眼失明，被捆住的男人Josiah，他被折磨的原因是他不愿意透露heretics藏Lynn的地点

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Blake hides in the chapel’s confessional box. Now he witnesses Knoth and his followers torturing Mary in front of Josiah. Mary is Josiah’s yokemate (spouse). Eventually Josiah gives up the location of Lynn to stop Mary’s pain, but Knoth kills them both anyway. Blake overheard the conversation and learned that Lynn is being held by the heretics in the mines. His goal is now to get to the mines to rescue Lynn.
Blake makes his way through some other hostile areas and has a new vision of the school, this time not proceeded by the bright light. After the visions he finds himself on a hilltop. He tries to go over a broken bridge but an insect swarm comes flying at him and he falls down into the trees below. Now he goes through these dark woods and encounters Laird (a midget archer) and Nick (a bigger guy who is the archer’s mount). Laird is sitting on Nick’s shoulders and fires arrows. Blake escapes, has another school vision. After the school vision he is suddenly in the camp of Nick and Laird.
Blake藏在教堂的confessional box(忏悔箱？)里。。目睹了Knoth和信徒折磨Josiah的配偶Mary，最终Josiah说出了地点但是Knoth还是把这俩人都杀了。Blake得知了heretics把Lynn藏在了矿井里
玩家接着探索之后Blake又进入幻觉，但是这次并不是被强光袭击进入幻觉的。幻觉过后他发现自己在一个小山头，当他尝试越过断崖的时候被一群虫子袭击掉进灌木丛里。穿过灌木丛遇见了Laird（侏儒弓箭手）和Nick（一个长得大一点的人，Laird的坐骑）Laird坐在Nick肩膀上射箭，Blake逃脱，又进入幻境，幻境结束他发现自己在Nick Laird的营地里

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/5089644091?see_lz=1
突然发现了这个帖子，基本剧情都在这里可以找到，那楼主就不继续翻译剧情梗概了，接下来翻译对游戏的解释，强光，任务，孩子之类的令人费解的地方

The bright light that crashes your helicopter and shows up before school visions is coming from a radio tower / microwave relay by the lake. It emits a strong microwave signal that controls people’s minds (this is explained via a document called “Old Traveler” found at the lake from one of the scientists). That’s why everyone has gone mad (except Ethan for some reason, the guy who protects you). Below is a picture of the full document explaining it:
这里的解释部分就会很奇幻。。很多通关的玩家都会很懵逼的，因为没有收集完文档很多重要信息都不知道，所以游戏故事本身会很费解。
导致玩家幻觉的强光来源是一个无线电/微波塔，释放强微波控制人类的意识。这就是为什么所有人都和疯了一样。
Ethan是个例外。

这是关于无线电塔的文档，解释了什么心灵控制之类的信息

The brainwashing experiment is part of Murkoff Corporation’s secret program. They are the same company from the first game that reopened Mount Massive Asylum under false flag to experiment on humans. In the above document you can see the scientist referencing a bet he had with “Jenny Roland”. He means Jennifer Roland, who is known from Outlast 1 to be Murkoff Corp’s Pathologist. This proves the connection to Murkoff and the MKULTRA mind control program.
洗脑实验是Murkoff公司的一个秘密实验项目，Murkoff公司是逃生一里开巨山精神病院的那个公司。。。在楼上图里提及了一个科学家与所谓Jenny Roland的赌注，Jenny Roland就是Jennifer Roland，逃生一里的病理学家。
这里解释了Murkoff和MKULTRA心灵控制计划的联系，逃生1和2的联系

In the beginning you (Blake) are still somewhat sane. But as you get closer to the tower and spend more time in the area you lose your mind more and more, get hallucinations and weird dreams of early childhood because the microwave brainwashing signal gets stronger. Blake blames himself for Jessica’s death because he didn’t love her, didn’t protect her when she needed him (she was fooling around with him but Blake liked Lynn. He also left her alone with the bad teacher who assaulted her, even though she asked him to stay because she was scared).
故事开头Blake还是清醒的。但是人离无线电塔越近，在这个区域里呆更多时间就会开始发疯，开始出现幻觉和奇怪的关于童年的梦。Blake觉得Jessica自杀是自己的错因为Blake不爱Jessica，Jessica需要帮助的时候Blake没有保护她（幻觉里有关于这部分的解释，Blake说了自己喜欢Lynn但是Jessica还是跟Blake嘿嘿嘿，**老师骚扰Jessica的时候Jessica求Blake留下Blake也没留下）

The demon that haunts you in the school visions is Father Loutermilch, the teacher who violently assaulted Jessica. This can be seen by the scar above his right eye – the demon has the exact same scar. The memory of this event haunts Blake to this day, that’s why he sees Father Loutermilch as a demon in his visions (because Loutermilch was the bad guy and ultimately the reason Jessica committed suicide)
在学校幻觉里袭击玩家的就是那个**老师Loutermilch，他们右眼上方都有一样的疤痕。过往记忆导致Blake认为**老师是恶魔（因为**老师导致了Jessica自杀）

In the end the microwave signal has gotten so strong that they all just murdered each other (brainwashing experiment, possibly gone wrong). The document speaks of anomalies in the signal strength and mentions that the signal is particularly strong at certain spots. There’s also a mention of the “feedback loop” which causes affected people to do crazy things.
结局时，无线电信号越来越强（结局时的大太阳）导致所有人自相残杀，文档里说明了在某些地点无线电信号会异常强大，并且会导致一种自反馈回路导致人变成疯子做疯事

这就是作者给出的解释，游戏本身也有很多解释不通或者没有解释的地方。
Lynn是真的怀孕还是所有人的幻觉？
如果真的怀孕了，Blake每次晕倒出现幻觉是不是晕倒的时间很长？比如几个月之类的。。
为什么Ethan不受洗脑信号影响？
在文档里有写Val（异教徒首领）是男的，但是游戏里是女性
为什么所有人都认为Blake的孩子是基督的敌人？
为什么有些结局Jessica脖子上没有痕迹有时候有？

最后结局解释只是推论，有可能要等一个DLC出来才会有更多的解释。不过作者解释了关于强光和逃生系列之间的关系，为什么所有人都疯了等等。
主要剧情在楼上这些解释后多多少少应该更清晰了一点，但是还是有很多地方不清楚，或许以后会有更多的大神能解释清楚故事脉络，毕竟这游戏只出了没多久。

感谢看完第一次尝试翻译和发帖。。平常从来没做过翻译所以很多地方有可能不好懂，看不懂的地方可以直接评论区发问，我会尽量解释

很关键！正好现在看的一脸懵逼