SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire-Chapter 38 - Tainted Virtue_1
Chapter 38: Chapter 38 Tainted Virtue_1
Chapter 38 -38 Tainted Virtue_1
Something’s escaping at eleven o’clock!
Although Colin saw and smelled nothing, he trusted his instincts, decisively pulling out a bone spur filled with cracks and charging towards that location!
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This was the item that had pierced his side in the last incident.
Once stabbed by it, one’s organs would rapidly fail due to swelling, even in his Beast Transformation Syndrome State, he couldn’t withstand it.
Ratatat…
Just as he came within ten meters, he heard the sound of the Time Stop Effect coming to an end.
But, he had already reached the position in front of the target!
Relying on some kind of combat intuition, Colin gripped the handle of the bone spur tightly and stabbed forcefully into the “air” ahead of him.
Crack—
Vaguely, it felt as though the sharp end of the bone spur had penetrated a layer of hard protection, then smoothly stabbed into something with the texture of flesh.
In the blink of an eye, without time to think, an image suddenly appeared in Colin’s head…
In the picture, his head flew off, as if he had undergone a beheading once more.
Right then, before the Time Stop Effect completely faded, Colin decisively let go of the knife and rolled to the left.
Hum…
A fatal, yet secret sound flew over his head.
Colin didn’t immediately get up after the roll but instead lay flat on the ground, instantly drawing his gun and aiming at an area that seemed to be empty.
As the trigger was pulled, the flame flashed, and several bullets flew out, then disappeared instantly.
“Did it hit?”
Colin didn’t hear the sound of bullets hitting anything, and normally, they definitely would hit the building behind.
There was only one possibility for this.
The bullets had hit…
But, since he couldn’t see the target, he had no idea what the effect was.
“Damn, this feeling of punching cotton is really frustrating.”
Colin cursed softly, then pushed himself off the ground with his right hand, getting up while cautiously reloading his revolver and staying alert all around.
Being stabbed by that dagger would definitely have an effect!
All he had to do was wait.
Sure enough, after a dozen seconds, there was a sound of liquid dripping at three o’clock!
Colin immediately turned his head, seeing a human silhouette emerging in the air, becoming increasingly visible.
The opponent’s ability akin to invisibility was failing!
Colin’s spirit lifted, realizing that this was because the bone spur was taking effect!
With guarded attention, he saw a being clad in broken armor, with a clean bone spur sticking out from its chest, gradually take shape.
Under its armor was not flesh and blood but a mass of black, eerie gelatinous material; no helmet, its head was wrapped round and round with a filthy burlap like that of a mummy, with dark blood seeping out from the cloth, obscuring any features.
In its only remaining left hand, it held a rusty, broken sword.
Colin even saw the holes his bullets had made in its body, but those holes seemed to have almost no effect on it.
At this moment, perhaps because the dagger was still having an effect, its body was becoming more swollen and filled with water, resembling a body that had floated up in a pool after being soaked.
The air was thick with a sickening and putrid stench.
“It should no longer belong to the living.”
Colin’s eyelids drooped slightly, his body leaning forward, with a Golden Card in his left hand and a gun in his right, striking a hunting leopard’s pose ready to attack.
It was then that this creature in broken armor, dragging its rusty, broken sword, started walking towards him, step by step, preparing for a final charge.
However, before it could take two steps, its body, swollen from edema, seemed to reach its limit, like an overinflated balloon; black pus oozed from its pores, mixing into streams dribbling onto the ground.
With a body swollen like Giant’s Lookout, charging would be difficult, let alone walking.
Nonetheless, to avoid any accidents, Colin used the Golden Card once more when it was within effective range.
This time, the loaded bullets again fired, leaving six holes on the surface of the monster.
After the Time Stop effect ended, Colin first felt an intense disorientation from the distortion of time, and then he noticed that the humanoid monster had fallen to the ground at some point, with black pus that made one’s stomach churn oozing incessantly from the six holes.
It was like a rotten watermelon poked with holes…
The foul-smelling liquid spread all over the ground…
“Does getting stabbed by this dagger result in such a miserable fate?”
Colin’s breath hitched, he estimated that even if he did not finish it off with another stab, the monster wouldn’t last long before exploding.
The first combat use of this dagger had left him feeling deeply alarmed.
Meanwhile, as it fell, a mission update flashed in Colin’s mind.
[You have successfully slain a “Fallen Virtue Knight”.]
[Event 7 “Slay the Guardian Monster Outside the Gate” is completed. The reward will be settled upon return.]
“Fallen Virtue Knight?”
Colin finally learned the name of the monster, and he also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the exchange, excluding the ten seconds of Time Stop, lasted less than a minute in normal time, the psychological pressure it brought was quite significant.
It wasn’t that it was very strong, but its abilities were just too strange…
Luckily, everything was now over.
However, after glancing at the corpse on the ground, Colin’s eyes flickered, and he turned his head, wanting to signal his cheap subordinate to help pick up the bone spurs.
But when he turned around, he saw that his subordinate’s expression was off. Staring at him, his lips moved a few times as if trying to say something, but before any sound could come out, his head suddenly dropped from his neck.
With a thud, it smashed into the ground.
Blood sprayed from the severed neck like a cloud of mist, splashing high into the air, as if a blood rain had fallen.
This… didn’t make it in time to save him!
Colin was stunned. He felt that his reaction at that moment had been fast enough, possibly just one-tenth of a second.
But even then, he failed to save Li Ming…
Was the sword that fast?
And why did it take so long for the head to fall off?
This makes no sense.
However, the blood rain did not continue for long. Li Ming’s body quickly disintegrated into grey mist, sweeping toward the flames inside the church.
“Going back to respawn?”
Colin guessed the reason and didn’t know how long the process would take. Out of helplessness, he turned back to look at the mushy corpse on the ground and took out a monocle from his pocket.
[This was a being that could actively lower its own presence and converge its breath, making it difficult to be perceived. In life, it could indeed have been called extraordinary.]
[Judging from the formal name “Virtue Knight”, one can guess its ability is associated with the “eight virtues”, perhaps representing “Humility”.]
“Does ‘Humility’ here refer to an actual force rather than just a moral honor?”
Colin reflected thoughtfully. He now noticed that, with the creature dead, there was actually a large number of footprints and a distinctive smell present at the scene. It had not only reduced its own presence but also lowered the presence of all related things.
Compared to mere invisibility, this ability would be much more troublesome to deal with.
“Tch, if one virtue represents one power, then I wonder what other kinds of effects the other virtues have. One is already this terrible; what if someone had all eight combined?”
Colin felt a headache considering the possibility.
At the same time, he also felt curious about whether the world’s eight knightly virtues had any connection to the eight virtues on Earth.
Is it just a coincidence? Or is it something an ex-employee created?
Unfortunately, limited by his insufficient knowledge of this world, Colin could not speculate much.
It was then that another message suddenly appeared in his mind.
[Agree to hand over the “Fallen Virtue Knight” corpse to receive an additional one thousand points, as well as an item characteristic of it.]
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