SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire-Chapter 93 - Lost Containment Subject Shadow Stone
Chapter 93: Chapter 93: Lost Containment Subject “Shadow Stone Buddha” _1
Chapter 93 -93: Lost Containment Subject “Shadow Stone Buddha” _1
“Wait, thirteen ‘Books of Fate’ in a row?”
Colin was startled when he heard the name, and immediately raised his hand to interrupt Hu Xiaoyuan’s speech, “Are you saying that the ‘Frontier Guard’ squad captain used thirteen ‘Books of Fate’?”
Thirteen of them! Aren’t the official forces being a little too extravagant?
You should know that he didn’t manage to get even one for his mission this time.
“Yes.”
The tall vice-captain of the Cleanup Squad nodded, “That anomaly was very dangerous before; what we are encountering now has been weakened at the source, which is why their movements are so stiff and slow. Otherwise, it would be very troublesome to deal with.”
After a pause, she added, “Later, that squad captain sent out a team to break through and send a distress signal, but the breakout team disappeared, and we thought it had failed until the remaining ‘Books of Fate’ were used, and then we knew it was successful.
“From the ‘Book of Fate’, we learned that in three days, you would appear from the predesignated direction on time…”
Sure enough, they weren’t suspicious of me because of the ‘Book of Fate’…
After hearing about the ‘Book of Fate’, Colin immediately understood the reason, so he was not surprised at all.
What really made him curious was the relationship between the official forces and the Bonfire Company?
“Could it be that the ‘Books of Fate’ are so scarce because there are also official personnel in the company, and so they were all taken? No wonder I couldn’t find any these past days; an individual can’t compete with a group…”
Colin muttered to himself, he had a simple reason for not guessing that the Bonfire Company was an official force.
If that thing belonged to any country on Earth…
With those few “agreements”, Earth would most likely have entered the interstellar era a long time ago, and spaceships might have been heading toward other worlds one after another, gathering resources, instead of fighting amongst themselves in the Solar System every day.
Various thoughts flashed through his mind, but Colin did not say anything on the surface. Instead, he asked,
“So, what’s the deal with those anomalies? You just said that once stepping outside under the light, one would be immediately attacked, so why was the light kept on all the time?”
“That’s the biggest problem here…”
Hu Xiaoyuan gave a wry smile, “Turning on the lights leads to trouble that we can resolve, but turning them off brings even weirder issues. In the dark, our bodies grow cold, and usually, we can’t last for more than a minute…
“The only luck we have now is that these dangers only occur at night, and as long as you stay inside a completely enclosed building, you won’t be subjected to unknown attacks.”
That mysterious, huh? Turning on the lights leads to attacks, and turning them off does too…
Colin was somewhat surprised to hear this, but he suddenly remembered that during his time in “World Code-13”, strange things seemed to happen at night too.
“Mr. Lin, we learned from the last prediction that you resolved this crisis, may I ask how you plan to resolve it? Although we don’t have any special means ourselves, we will try our best to provide some cooperation if needed.”
How to resolve it? How would I know how to resolve it…
Colin felt a headache coming on when he heard this; the Cleanup Squad member in front of him didn’t know what was happening inside the underground temple.
After the arrival of the “Frontier Guard,” her responsibility was to help evacuate the periphery; she actually knew very little.
Whether it was the identities of the cultists or the specifics of the underground temple, she knew very little.
To get a clear understanding of the situation, it might be necessary to go deeper into the construction site and find that group of “Frontier Guards” to learn more.
However, just as Colin was about to suggest going to the core area where the problem erupted to take a look, a piece of information suddenly popped up in his mind.
[Single Player · Trial Task (2/3) — “Anomaly in the Township” has been completed.]
Huh? It’s completed just like that? Colin stopped in mid-sentence.
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[Single Player · Trial Task — “Recovery of Lost Low-risk Containment Subject ‘Shadow Stone Buddha'” has been issued.]
The message in his mind made Colin pause, then he quickly made an excuse to go to the restroom. He stepped back a few paces, sat on the toilet, and pulled out the parchment from his pocket.
[Single Player · Trial Task — “Recovery of Lost Low-risk Containment Subject ‘Shadow Stone Buddha'”.]
“Description”: An item that was lost within the company a long time ago, its actual form is a shadow-type strange entity in a bizarre city, sealed by a monk through special means into a stone Buddha sculpture and placed inside Bonfire Company’s containment hall, but due to a previous invasion incident, the containment subject was lost.
“Requirement”: Carry a “Level 2 Containment Sphere (already placed in the ‘Storage Room’)”, and collect all shadows by shattering.
“Hint”: Shadows can only be observed when under the light.
“Event Reward”: “Bonfire Points * 300”.
“Note”: This task has a time limit. If containment is not completed by six o’clock tomorrow morning, when the sun rises, it will be considered a task failure.
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“Nice one, so the problem here is actually related to you, huh?”
Colin couldn’t help but make a snide remark internally.
He initially thought it was just an emergency caused by the mysterious resurgence of an ancient evil deity and that some cultists wanted to seize it, but he hadn’t expected there to be such hidden details…
“Wait a second, does that mean the real masterminds are actually a group of cultists? So, that underground temple was just a trick to fool the eyes devised by those cultists? Was their actual target the ‘Frontier Guards’ who happened to pass by?”
Colin had a sudden flash of insight, as if guessing many things.
If it weren’t deliberately arranged, this group would have definitely been discovered by the ‘Book of Fate’ by now, so their aim is obviously at the official forces.
Wait, could they have been the ones who invaded Bonfire Company? Otherwise, how would they possess a containment subject lost by Bonfire Company?
Colin was terribly alarmed by the idea but quickly dismissed it, because if that were the case, this task wouldn’t be an “F Level” trial task—it would have to be “C Level” or above.
And now, Bonfire Company, knowing about the existence of the cultists, still hadn’t dispatched reinforcements.
That must mean the situation isn’t too serious…
Everything is still within his capacity to handle.
“However, why would those cultists attack the official personnel? They can’t possibly just be bored, can they? Why do I have this eerie feeling that I’m being sucked into a much bigger vortex?”
Muttering to himself, Colin opened the “Storage Room” and took out the “Level 2 Containment Sphere”.
[“Level 2 Containment Sphere”: Capable of containing a large number of Level 2 low-threat non-physical special entities.]
The “Level 2 Containment Sphere” was roughly the size of a fist, divided into an upper and lower section, the upper part red, the lower part white, with a line in the middle, and on that line, a small circular button featuring the number 2—
This is basically an Elf Ball, isn’t it?
Colin stared at it, unable to stop himself from pondering.
Such an offbeat design could only be a product of some company’s manufacturing department employee’s bad taste in humor.
