"Iris?"
The girl who had been dragging her feet suddenly stopped, and the well-trained agents noticed her movement and turned around suspiciously.
Once inside the site, they split into groups of two or three—as they had done before. The captain of "Pandora's Box" is Abel, but it can be further subdivided into the Abel group and the Iris group.
The groups are different because of the different functions of the two, but this does not mean that her group's combat effectiveness is inferior.
Adrian and Beatrix are both old members of the Iris team. Although they have their own reasons for joining Omega-7 - the former was forced into the team by Abel because he won a game of chess A former counselor, but it does not hinder the establishment of a deep friendship with each other.
The two of them were watching her worriedly.
The younger ones always receive more attention, and Iris is the youngest one in the team, she just turned seventeen. And when the Foundation took her under the code "SCP-105", Iris was less than fifteen years old.
But what caught their attention now was not only her sudden stop, but also a photo pinched in her hand.
"Did you find anything?" Beatrix asked, she remembered that the photo seemed to be taken when they were on the first floor, "Iris?"
"No!"
Iris replied reflexively.
"I, uh," she said naturally afterwards, "just wanted to check on the situation, but unfortunately I didn't see it."
Andrian—the former master of psychology always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't find any trace of lying on Iris' face. He watched her slip the photo back into her pants pocket with ease.
Less than ten minutes ago, they received a message from another group that a new anomalous person had appeared on the site. The agent who witnessed all that with his own eyes described the appearance and behavioral characteristics of the other party to his companions, and the superior asked them to contain the new SCP as soon as possible while containing those high-risk creatures.
Because they followed closely to determine that the approaching armed squad to the north bore the emblem of the Chaos Insurgency group.
In this world where supernatural things are rampant, of course there is more than one organization like the Foundation.
The Chaos Insurgency is a long-standing rivalry with the Foundation, and has previously planned numerous attacks to snatch SCPs. Now that they're here, they might be responsible for this containment breach.
The new SCP is suspected to be inextricably linked with SCP-106 and SCP-682, and she must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Chaos Insurgency.
"If you notice anything."
Andrian finally said: "Let us know in time, please?"
"Of course." Even though she was worried, Yuan Wei just smiled.
She supported the camera hanging around her neck, followed by taking a step, and stuffed the photo into it without any trace.
In fact, she'd just seen a young woman who fit the description—even though, for some reason, the subject was followed by a butler-looking guy—flash across the picture.
But she won't say it.
and…
Iris carefully observed the two agents walking in front, and tried to take a step back.
… When should she act
To say that this is really evil.
When she was hiding from the group of people in Pandora's Box, she could run into them everywhere; now that she had made up her mind, she wished that two people would take her to another site of the Foundation, but she would never see anyone.
"Weird."
Lin You muttered.
"Where did it all go?"
She wandered around upstairs and downstairs for a long time, let alone a person, not even a shadow. The housekeeper followed her, hesitant to speak, and he almost forgot what he wanted to say.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" He finally asked.
"Yes," Lin You replied without hesitation, "What a chance!"
"this… "
The housekeeper said solemnly: "I advise you to think twice."
Lin You: "Huh?"
"I have stayed at this site before," he considered his words. "It was not like this at the time. I have seen how they used strict measures to monitor SCPs that were considered difficult to contain."
The object of his allegiance has always been the person who rang the bell, and at this moment he naturally confessed all the information about the Foundation that he knew.
For example, the occupancy mask is kept in a lead-shielded room with triple locks, and the glass cover it is placed in is also fully four inches thick, and no one can enter the room at any time; SCP-682 is soaked in strong hydrochloric acid throughout the day, and the inner wall of the container The walls are also lined with steel plates with a thickness of two decimeters; the horror of the old man is even more exaggerated. He is enclosed in forty layers of walls of the same material, and there are sixteen spherical rooms equipped with lighting systems on the outer layer.
After such a large-scale containment failure, the Foundation will inevitably learn a lesson. At this time, it is an unwise choice to pretend to be an SCP by mistake.
"I'm confident I can escape."
Lin You waved her hand indifferently, "Besides, even if the situation is unusual, wouldn't there be you?"
Butler: "...!!!"
There is nothing more gratifying than being recognized for one's work. Diz saluted solemnly, and once again put on his usual gentle smile, "Please rest assured, everything will be on me then."
"Okay, very good, just keep this drive." Before he could realize what he promised, Lin You immediately said, "I like you!"
Facts have proved that walking in this building with large-scale containment failure and monsters running all over the place, it is not surprising that a thousand-maw beast will come out of its corners in the next second. Lin You is also a person who has seen the world. When she turned the corner and saw a few drops of blood, she didn't even blink her eyes.
The semicircle of pools of blood was one pool after another, and finally the tick-tock merged into one piece. Two people fell at the end of the string of intermittent bloodstains. They were all wearing the standard equipment of the task force, and the guns beside them were twisted into twists.
Lin You stopped the housekeeper and signaled her to come by herself. As she approached, she observed the movement around her, and when she knelt down and felt a piece of ice cold, she knew it might take a while. And when she turned over the man's body, she saw that the blood-soaked front had dried up, and further up she could see blood clots clotted between the cut throats.
The wound seemed to have been slashed by a sharp blade, killing him with one blow. And to evaluate that technique, besides "stable, accurate, and ruthless", I really can't find any suitable adjectives.
—Abel did it.
Lin You came up with this idea almost immediately. She looked at the corpse next to her again. The agent obviously lived ten seconds longer than his colleague, and it was he who dragged out a section of blood, but it was a pity that he was still killed by Abel's knife.
Her ears picked up scattered movements, and it sounded like someone was walking in this direction—after waiting for so long, she finally met a living person. It's just completely different from the sound of iron-toed boots trampling on the ground she heard before. Lin You guessed it was an ordinary player, and there was a housekeeper standing behind her, without even turning her head.
"If I were you."
She said, "Wouldn't be here at a time like this, God knows where Abe's going to—"
The familiar voice interrupted her.
"...youyou?"
Lin You was taken aback.
She turned her head and saw a man standing at the end of the corridor with a look of astonishment. The other party was also wearing the iconic orange uniform of the D-class personnel. Although the face could not be seen clearly from a distance, but looking at the stature and listening to the voice, after so many years of getting along, he could recognize who it was at a glance.
"God—"
Jian Mingjia sighed heavily, "I finally found you, you can never imagine what I have gone through."
"It's okay," Lin You said with a smile, "You must not have imagined what I went through."
Jian Mingjia: "..."
No, is that something you want or not? You are thinking about whether there will be psychological shadows in the future!
Lin You looked at the other party up and down, Jian Mingjia's clothes were also stained with some blood, but it seemed that either it was not her own, or she had already bandaged it and it would not affect it anymore - the only suspicious thing was the hesitation at this moment He opened his mouth, as if he had something to say but didn't know where to start.
"Are you the only one coming this way?" Lin You asked proactively, "Have you seen Geng Qinghe?"
Jian Mingjia frowned.
"That's all I wanted to say."
She was silent for a few seconds, and continued: "You know, basically the players who entered this dungeon were scattered. I just met him not long ago—"
She was stupid then.
"Anyway, something happened. It's impossible to leave it alone. I found an empty room nearby and finally stuffed him in. I thought I couldn't stay in the same place all the time, so I just came out to see if I could find someone to help …”
This is a good time, and I met my own hair in a short while.
She only glanced at the butler-looking man in the back, and didn't ask any more questions. Lin You mentioned to her about receiving the reward from the butler bell event.
"I've been talking for a long time," Lin You asked curiously, "What's going on?"
Jian Mingjia looked complicated.
"never mind."
She hooked her fingers, "You can just come and see."
She saw Lin You within two steps after she came out, and it would not take a minute to lead her back now. When Jian Mingjia opened the door, Lin You's eyelids jumped.
This is a very small office, and the staff who used to work here may not have high authority. Geng Qinghe is quite tall, but right now he is huddled next to a whiteboard with his hands and feet huddled.
He looked dazed and motionless with a piece of bread in his mouth.
I don't know where the bread came from.
After observing Geng Qinghe for almost two minutes, but still seeing no movement from him, Lin You blinked, "...what's the matter with him?"
"According to my observation," the corner of Jian Mingjia's mouth twitched, "he may think he is a toaster now."
Lin You: "..."
"Stay still because I want to wait for the slice of bread to pop out by itself."
She said with a strange expression: "...Fortunately, he hasn't thought about giving himself a call yet."
"Wait a minute, I remember—'I'm a toaster' is also an SCP." Lin You looked at Geng Qinghe's stiff look, "Everyone who gets close will be affected, try to imitate. The previous victims were Some were electrocuted to death, and some swallowed bread until they were alive."
Jian Mingjia made a "tsk".
"Anyway, I didn't see a toaster around here." She looked around, "Maybe he resisted for a while, but he still couldn't resist."
"It shouldn't be impossible to save."
Lin You said: "Maybe he's slowly waking up by himself, but let's look for it..."
She stood up while speaking, but the voice disappeared.
She stared intently at the corner of the whiteboard.
The entire whiteboard was originally covered with complicated and obscure equations, but at this moment, there was a sentence written abruptly in a nearby corner.
— [Don't go out].
Lin You stared at the line of words. It was as if seeing her doubts, as if an invisible hand in the air grabbed the eraser in the groove, quickly erased the numbers on the side, and wrote a few more words.
-[he came].
"'He'?" Jian Mingjia also noticed the movement here, and she wondered, "Could it be the Abel you mentioned?"
I don't know, Lin You thought, and she didn't know whether to believe these two lines or not.
But after thinking for four or five seconds, she had already made a decision. With a glance, the butler who followed in closed the door with discernment.
He did it just in time, and almost at the same time, they heard someone turn around the corridor and approach slowly.
No need to remind, Jian Mingjia immediately bent down. Thanks to her preparations, she also dragged Geng Qinghe to a blind spot where she couldn't see the window.
Ordinary people don't have Lin You's psychological quality and concentration. Hearing the undisguised footsteps outside the door one after another, Jian Mingjia's scalp is about to explode. And when the man stopped at the door, her heart hung in her throat.
Abel stared at the door in silence.
The saber he was holding was still dripping blood, and his clothes were covered in spray-like blood. The previous aggrieved depression was swept away, and the happy smile brought by the killing still remained on his face.
He felt a little strange.
But if you look carefully, there is no sign of anyone. Abel only thought for a few seconds before taking another step to find new prey.
In Abel's own words, he was a warrior, not a general. He doesn't think about it that much.
I also have to lose this.
Holding back until he walked away, Jian Mingjia's heart suddenly returned to its original position, and she panted heavily with lingering fear.
"I think I should be thankful that Xiao Geng thought he was a toaster," Jian Mingjia said angrily, "If it was an electric kettle, wouldn't it be troublesome?"
If when that guy passed by, he suddenly felt that the water was boiling, wouldn't he scream "呵—"
Lin You: "... Poof."
She looked at the smeared whiteboard again, and found that just as they were carefully avoiding Abel, two more words had been added to it.
—[Go downstairs].
"This..." Jian Mingjia couldn't help frowning.
She knew from a young age that Lin You's words were easy to surprise, but now she was shocked by what the other party said, "I know who did it."
"I met other teammates before," Lin You summed up the previous experience in a few words, "I wanted to see if I could find survivors to find out what was going on, but I ran into reinforcements from the Foundation. Mobile Task Force is a 'Pandora's Box' with humanoid SCPs involved, Abel you just saw, this is another handwriting."
SCP-105, "Iris", capable of listening to and manipulating objects through the air.
Nine times out of ten, she happened to take a few photos around here, so she saw Abel and their tracks and was able to warn them in advance.
But the question is... why is she helping them
It is true that the purpose of the foundation is "control, containment, and protection." Since they want to contain her, they must ensure that she will not be killed by Abel on the way.
"Are you going?" Jian Mingjia had already guessed her thoughts from her expression.
"Of course," her intuition told Lin You, it's better not to mention to the other party that she wants to pretend to be a new SCP and be contained, she just said slyly, "It's a help for us, what can we do if we don't go and see."
"Just stay here for now."
Lin You said again: "Look at the situation, I may be back in a while."
Now that the foundation has misunderstood her as an SCP, it may have changed their opinion of her, but under special circumstances, their attitude towards D-class personnel has always been shoot-to-kill.
If Iris was leading her there at the behest of the foundation, it's better not to ask Jian Mingjia to follow her.
"Although I want to tell you to be careful..." Jian Mingjia didn't know such a layer of cause and effect, and he didn't doubt him under the trust of instinct, "but now I feel that it is not you who should pay attention to safety, but the ghost."
After so many dungeons, she realized that everything was at home for Lin You, and she really didn't worry much now. Furthermore, there was a butler following him, so it was easy to get out if there was any situation.
"But be careful anyway," she added.
Lin You responded, and she carefully observed the outside, making sure that there was nothing unusual before she came out decisively. The butler always abides by his duty in everything he does, and is polite. With him carefully leading the door, Lin You also turned around and walked away.
The message Iris left her was only to tell her to go downstairs, and she took it as the nearest stairway. Abel was going in a very different direction, so don't worry about that. Even so, Lin You lowered the sound of her footsteps as much as possible.
Stepping down the last step, she looked around, but she didn't see the agents.
"Strange," Lin You said to himself, "Where's the person?"
"only me."
At first, Lin You couldn't find where the voice was, until she turned around and saw a narrow, open door.
Apart from Abel, the only task force member she had seen who didn't wear a uniform—Iris was pale and hid behind that door.
"Come here," pleaded the blond, blue-eyed girl, "I don't want them to find out."
Lin You exchanged glances with the butler, and even though it was a bit unexpected, they followed him in.
Ibis did not lie, the room was empty. At the same time, she was also extremely vigilant, so that she was a little panicked. After Lin You and the others came in, she immediately closed the door, more afraid of being discovered than Lin You, who was scheduled to be contained.
"I beg you."
As soon as the door was closed, Yuan Wei immediately said, "Take me away."
Lin You: "... eh?"
"I escaped while they were not paying attention."
She could hear that she was very nervous, "If she is found out, she will definitely be taken back."
"I heard about SCP-682," Iris choked up, "Can you help me in the same way?"
"I really don't want to be there anymore. People are nice to me, but I can't stand being under surveillance all the time, it's torture—"
She took a deep breath.
"I thought about it for a long time before and came up with a plan, but I didn't know if it would work."
Lin You didn't make a sound.
She had heard about Iris, and also knew the result of that escape plan.
A doctor who sympathizes with her in the Foundation will issue a report for her that she has lost her special abilities and let her go. But Iris was blocked by the agents at the airport just before she was about to leave, and was forced to prove her ability before being taken back.
It's just that she didn't expect her to start planning so early.
"Now that you've appeared," Yuan Wei begged, "For the sake of helping you hide your whereabouts and not tell others, can you..."
Lin You: "Uh—"
"But I just want to be found," she said.
Otherwise, how can it be tricked
Iris was stunned.
"… ah?"
Maybe it was because she never dreamed that anyone would be taken in voluntarily, so she looked at Lin You in confusion.
The latter coughed.
"This—of course I have my reasons for doing this, but don't worry, I will help you with this." There is no reason not to refuse the card that was delivered to your door, not to mention Yuan Wei's ability is very good, "It's just that you have to cooperate with me .”
Ibis hesitated a little, "... how to cooperate?"
"I'll talk about it later."
Lin You pointed down, "Accompany me downstairs now?"
Her original plan was to throw herself into the trap, let the Foundation recover SCP-173, and figure out a way for herself later.
Unexpectedly, Yuanwei voted sincerely unexpectedly. Since there are more people, the three of them will take turns to blink, which will allow more time to face the statue. Lin Youxin said that he can try again and find a way to accept it. SCP-173.
She clearly remembered the way to that staircase, and even if she didn't remember, the housekeeper could explain everything clearly.
Lin You silently recalled the route in her mind. Seeing that she was only a wall away from her destination, she saw a few figures wandering nearby from afar.
—If the Foundation is alright, she immediately went to pat her chest and said that I am the new SCP you are looking for.
But the emblem on the uniforms of the crowd is not Foundation.
"These guys..." She narrowed her eyes.
Yuan Wei's complexion turned pale again.
"It's the Chaos Insurgent." Iris murmured.
Unexpectedly, they really broke in.
Lin You's eyelids twitched.
She knew that it was an organization that was completely hostile to the Foundation, "The containment breach this time is related to them?"
Iris made a "hmm".
"Andrian and the others suspected that there were undercover agents of the Chaos Insurgency inside Site 19, planning this containment breach, and wanted to take the opportunity to plunder some of the most valuable SCPs."
But having said that, Lin You thought, most of them have changed cards.
——It's a pity that the Chaos Insurgency was busy for nothing, and she took all the bargains.
"Don't worry about that."
Lin You said: "Let's just go around quietly..."
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she suddenly felt something strange behind her. Lin You turned around abruptly, meeting the eyes of the Chaos Insurgency soldiers who appeared behind them at some unknown time.
The latter held a gun, stared at Yuan Wei's face, and yelled: "Found SC—"
The butler's knife slashed at the back of his neck, interrupting the unfinished sentence. Unfortunately, it was too late, his voice had already attracted the group of accomplices on the opposite side.
From Lin You's point of view, they all pointed their guns in this direction after whispering a few words.
"Go straight into that iron gate!"
Lin You quickly turned to the housekeeper again, and said, "Don't protect me."
It's going to be a problem if he blocks a gun here.
No more protective than the Foundation, the Chaos Insurgency fired without hesitation.
The scorching air wave brushed by. After all, Lin You was no better than Zheng Erba, an agent who had received combat training. Even though she tried to dodge as much as possible, the bullet still left a wound on her calf.
Impartially, it was the place where the scary old man had grabbed, and blood was oozing from the bandaged bandage.
Lin You staggered a step, but at this moment the housekeeper quickly turned around and pulled her back, letting her go straight in.
The iron gate shuts abruptly!
The attack did not stop there, the gunshots continued, leaving raised bullet marks on the door, and it was only a matter of time before the Chaos Insurgency broke through the door.
Lin You glanced at Yuan Wei who was panting. Iris is an intelligence officer. Although her experience in Omega-7 has cultivated her combat ability to some extent, it is obviously unrealistic for her to fight with bare hands against the group of guys with guns outside.
However, she had other ideas.
"Can I borrow my camera?" Lin You asked.
"Hey, oh," Yuan Wei was taken aback, and immediately took off the Polaroid hanging from her neck, "Of course."
Lin You carefully took over the old camera she had used for many years.
Iris can take photos that can be manipulated most smoothly with it, but if it falls into the hands of others, it can only take ordinary photos—what Lin You wants is ordinary.
"If only there was glue..." she muttered.
Before she finished speaking, a piece of glue was handed into her hand. Lin You was taken aback and looked at the smiling housekeeper.
——She almost forgot, as long as it's not too out of the ordinary, this guy can get whatever he wants, it's just complicated and time consuming.
"That's easy." She said with a smile.
"With all due respect," asked the butler, "what would you like to do?"
"It's not difficult."
Lin You said: "Since they want the SCP, I can take the initiative to give it to them—it depends on whether they have the guts to accept it."
Butler: "... ???"
Hearing this is a bit of a bad feeling.
"Don't open your eyes for a while, and I will keep them closed the whole time."
She flicked the back of the selected card, then turned to the butler, "Then you have to move the statue out, just stare at a certain part of it and tell me, don't look at other places."
Two minutes later.
The Chaos Insurgency squad leader kicked open the door.
The iron gate had long been shattered by bullets, and now it was hanging crookedly on the side. But they didn't care about this, and walked forward step by step in the darkness with their guns in hand.
SCP-105 is said to be hiding inside, and capturing her would add to their exploits.
There are spies lurking in the Foundation, and they naturally know the contents of Site 19 and some other SCPs.
A point of white suddenly appeared in the field of vision.
Seeing the statue not far away, the team leader was overjoyed, unlike ordinary people's terrified reactions.
"We've found a treasure, it's SCP-173!" he yelled.
SCP-173 stands in front of a tightly closed door with two short arms outstretched. Although I don't know what happened to the mess ahead, but for the Chaos Insurgency, this is enough.
"All eyes on it! Don't let it move, move it now—"
When he got closer, the team leader's voice disappeared.
Looking at the scene in front of them, four big words filled their minds.
- "Heaven will kill me".
The statue, whose neck would be broken if you didn't stare at it, was covered with photos all over the front and back.
Although the shots are not very clear and uniform, the content of the photos is all about SCP-096's face.
While they're seeing those pictures—
A scream broke through the wall.