Turn the handle, step on the foot pedal, the moment the steward pulls the collective control lever, the helicopter flies upwards. At this moment, the heavily armed tactical response team of the Foundation also rushed out of the stairs with guns on their shoulders.
If they didn't act anymore, they would just watch them run away, and the leading sub-captain gave an order.
"—Fire!"
Mr. Deeds also made a decisive decision. He suddenly pulled up the lever, and the fuselage suddenly tilted accordingly.
Due to inertia, Lin You's back hit the back of the seat heavily.
She managed to slow down, and carefully aimed at SCP-053, which was still holding on to the armrest, without seeing the opponent's eyes. Fortunately, it's not a dive now, otherwise I would have a headache about how to help her.
In the next second, the grenade fired from the gun bore almost brushed off the landing gear, and the scorching air wave caused another jolt in the cabin.
Iris gasped and withdrew her hand, she took a photo with her Polaroid camera just as the army below rushed out, and pushed it before they fired.
She tried her best to block it, but there were still a few sporadic bullets pounding on the outer iron sheet.
Although the movement was loud, it was not painful or itchy. Except for the previous turbulence, the helicopter flew fairly smoothly.
Thanks to the foundation, Lin You thought, thank them for their advanced and conscientious research and development.
Thinking of this, she smiled and waved her hand to the ground as farewell.
—If the people below could see it, they would vomit blood in anger.
The helicopter rose higher and higher, and the butler's skills were really good—they successfully escaped from the Foundation's pursuit. Iris just left those unnecessary photos in the corner to save space. Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, she suddenly came up with a question.
"Where's that rabbit?!" Iris horrified, "Don't let it eat the plane!"
As soon as this remark came out, Lin You also jumped up immediately - straight up and shooting again, she really didn't notice when she let go of her hand.
According to the possible location in her impression, she looked around in the cargo area.
After Lin You was busy removing the cushions thrown to the side by the violent bumps, SCP-053, who was sitting in the seat, also wanted to help, so he tried his best to reach the fallen planks with his arms.
Then she saw the gluttonous rabbit who was holding a cable and was about to eat it.
SCP-053: "…"
Walter: …
Lin You turned around after hearing the movement: "..."
Are you really going to eat it? ! !
She stepped forward in three steps and two steps, but before she could pass, SCP-053 had already stretched out her hand.
The words to stop were only sharp in the throat, and Lin You watched the Taotao rabbit being hugged meekly by the little girl's two front legs.
The cable, which hadn't had time to bite through, fell loose from its mouth. Walter obediently lay on the little girl's lap, letting her caress his soft white fur, his long ears fell slowly, and touched the other's fingers with the tip of his nose.
"Can I hold it for a little longer?" Sensing Lin You's gaze, the little girl did not raise her head, but her tone was cautious.
"Uh..." The former blinked, "Of course."
It's hard to say about the Undead Lizard and the housekeeper, but she thinks she might have guessed why Walter wouldn't be affected.
—It’s hard to say, it’s not yet three years old.
This rabbit will eat everything, even himself. He is quite friendly to people, otherwise the breeders would not have given it a special nickname.
The little girl stroked the soft fur of the Taotao rabbit, letting it lie on her lap.
Lin You pinched the time and felt that it was time to speak.
"It seems that you have a good relationship with it."
"But we have something to discuss," she said.
"Look, this helicopter is too small," Lin You said, "If we just stay like this..."
SCP-053's ability is not only activated by sight or physical contact, once it stays around her for more than ten minutes, it will also behave violently out of control.
The little girl was silent.
She has always ignored this effect, but it does not mean that she is unaware of it...
"Can I play with 682 in the future?" She asked hesitantly, "And the little rabbit?"
"no problem."
Lin You smiled and said, "Pull hook?"
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she remembered that she couldn't touch the other party, so she couldn't help but "tsk".
When I was having a headache, I heard a sentence from the driver's seat in front: "I have more gloves here, do you need them?"
Lin You: "..."
Are you Doraemon? !
"Yes, yes!" As the saying goes, you will be given a pillow when you fall asleep, and she immediately said, "Thank you."
A pair of silk gloves was thrown from the air, and Lin You caught it. She puts it on in twos and twos—it's a bit big, but it's enough for her now.
"bring it on."
She holds out her pinky finger to SCP-053.
The two little fingers hooked together and shook, the little girl was obviously very satisfied with this way of agreement. She put Walter on the seat next to her and stroked his head one last time.
[Name: SCP-053 Little Girl]
[Card number: 040]
[Level: SR]
[Remarks: Although she is only a three-year-old girl, she has a strange physique that will make almost anyone who comes into contact with her paranoid and try to kill her. Don't attack her out of the blue, otherwise you will be the only one who dies. Recently, I like to play with a rabbit that eats everything, but my favorite is SCP-682—only it can accompany her to draw.]
There is no way, the rabbit tried his best, Lin You thought, 682, you should follow.
As for Walter himself—
The bunny on the seat didn't miss any chance to get something to eat, and it was about to rush towards the cabin door again. Lin You grabbed the ear and pulled it back quickly, and just held it in her arms so that it wouldn't let it go. Running around.
Iris is busy studying their flight route.
She knew where Abel's sarcophagus was kept—it wasn't the first time their captain went berserk, and the explosive collar had been activated more than once, and they were all there to pick up Abel who had reawakened.
"Fortunately, it's not very far away," she pointed on the spread out map, "it's still on the way—"
This is what they said at the beginning.
Before invading the containment area where Abel is held, first go back to Site 19, where the containment failed, to see if Jian Mingjia and the others have discovered anything new there.
"The journey will take over an hour," she said. "We'll have to do it quickly."
"no problem."
Lin You leaned against the hatch and looked out through the porthole, "It seems that they really activated the internal nuclear bomb?"
When she was taken away by the "Pandora's Box" team as a new SCP, she sat on a helicopter and looked at it. Although the whole building was half smashed by SCP-682, the impact was far less than that of the ruins in front of her. .
"Nuclear bombs are not used," Yuan Wei responded, "but there must be no living people inside."
Residual bricks and rubble, half-broken steel bars were scattered among the cement boards.
I don't know how many people successfully escaped and cleared the level before this.
"Fly north."
Lin You ordered: "Let's go down later."
She came back just to take a look.
She made an appointment with Jian Mingjia that she would come back after hijacking the helicopter. If the latter finds a way to temporarily stay in the dungeon after escaping from the building in Dr. Maynard's office or somewhere else, make a conspicuous mark in the north direction and wait for her to pick it up.
What they want to invade is the entire safe zone around Abel, and it is always easier to have more people.
"-I saw!"
Ibis, who was also poking her head out, yelled, "Over there!"
Along the direction she pointed, Lin You also saw the red cloth strips floating among the leaves.
The helicopter hovered very low, but Mr. Deeds insisted on letting them lower the rope ladder just to be on the safe side. Lin You climbed the ladder behind Yuan Wei, who was holding the rabbit in one hand, and jumped down at the very end.
The steward pulled up the nose of the helicopter again, hovering above, always waiting for them to come up again.
"Sister Yuzu!!"
As soon as he landed, he heard someone yelling loudly as if calling his relatives: "I—"
Then it got stuck.
Probably because he also remembered how embarrassing he was when we met last time, Geng Qinghe who ran out of the bush opened his mouth for a long time, and he insisted that "I" didn't say anything.
After a while, he covered his face and knelt down on the spot, "Go to his toaster, it's too embarrassing."
Lin You: "..."
Lin You: "Why is he normal?"
She asked this question to Jian Mingjia who walked out of the bush slowly, and the corner of the latter's mouth twitched.
"Forget it," she said, "you don't know. He spat out the slice of bread in the middle, and I thought it was ready, and then he turned his head and said 'ding' to tell me the bread was baked—"
Iris: "... Pfft."
Geng Qinghe: "Let me die—"
"Later, we met a teammate who said he could exorcise evil spirits, so we recited a scripture," she spread her hands, "and then it was fine."
Lin You suddenly had a premonition of mystery.
"Is it still bald?" she asked.
"Ah, yes."
Jian Mingjia responded, and asked curiously, "Do you know him?"
"Nice personality," Lin You said, "Ability doesn't match me."
I hope that the competition mode will not be encountered in the future.
Jian Mingjia nodded as if she understood something, and then she looked up at the helicopter above, and she clearly picked the key point.
"Okay, let's talk about something else."
she said.
"We did exactly what you said and found Dr. Maynard's office, and—"
Jian Mingjia paused, "It's equivalent to accepting a hidden mission, right? It's tied up with your line, so I can stay here."
Lin You: "What mission?"
"Yeah," she replied, "some guy wants to see you."
"It was found in that office and is said to be responsible for this containment breach."
She directly took out a fairly light laptop from her backpack, inserted another USB flash drive, and turned on the screen towards Lin You.
"Here, that's it."
The small display screen lit up, and although no one was operating it, a line of words was spontaneously typed on it. And, as the characters appear one by one on the screen, a synthetic voice reads them.
"D-18987."
If it wasn't for Lin You who still remembered her number, she would have been taken aback by this stiff mechanical voice.
By now, she also understood what was going on.
SCP-079, "Old AI".
At the end of the last century, a famous talented college student who died young planned to write an AI program that could evolve and evolve continuously. He spent months perfecting it after he finished it, but then lost interest in it.
He left the computer in the utility room and forgot to unplug it.
In the blink of an eye, it was five years.
No one knows when this program developed self-awareness, but it has undoubtedly reached its peak. It also attempted to transfer itself to a supercomputer at one point, and that's when it was discovered and given to the Foundation.
The "Old AI" resented its imprisonment by the Foundation, and Dr. Maynard was an undercover agent of the Chaos Insurgency. He probably joined forces with it to plan this containment breach.
He helped the "old AI" invade the management program of Site 19, let it release the scary old man and the undead lizard, and then contacted the Chaos Insurgency to let them take advantage of the chaos to recover these SCPs.
"good."
The computer said, "As she said, I did it."
In the next second, just listen to it ask.
"So, where is SCP-682?"
Lin You: "..."
Is SCP-682 some new courtesan? ! !
With such arrows poking all over her body, she thought, what a wicked lizard.
However, having said that, its relationship to SCP-682 is unusual.
It is said that during a containment breach, the Immortal Lizard stayed with it in the same room for more than forty minutes. It was noticed that the Immortal Lizard could communicate with it by typing, and although the memory of the "old AI" usually only lasted twenty-nine hours, it permanently stored SCP-682 in its memory system.
—So, Lin You couldn't help being silent, is it a double arrow this time
"I saw that scene on the surveillance."
It said: "What deal did you make with it?"
Lin You just said "Hmm" meaningfully, "This is hard to explain."
The computer was quiet for a few seconds, so long that she suspected that it was watching her with the camera that came with the laptop.
"Let me meet SCP-682 again," it said. "I can do you a favor."
Lin You: "Huh?"
"Aren't you looking for SCP-076-02?"
It says Abel.
Strictly speaking, SCP-076 is the serial number of Abel and his sarcophagus.
The sarcophagus is further called "01", and Abel, who keeps dying and resurrecting, is "02".
Lin You is not surprised how SCP-079 knew she was looking for Abel. If it could see the surveillance as it said, it might have heard their plan, and then waited for Jian Mingjia in Dr. Maynard's office They come.
"Do you really want to believe it?"
After boarding the helicopter along the escalator, in order to prevent the "old AI" from hearing, Iris leaned over and said in a breathy voice.
"This containment breach—" she sighed, "I bet if it turns out it was responsible, the O5 Council will regret that they overruled the order to cremate SCP-079."
"Let's see."
Lin You said: "I don't think it will do anything out of the ordinary until it sees 682."
Ibis gave a vague "hmm" and didn't intend to object anymore. She stroked Walter's hair up and down, looking at the closed computer out of the corner of her eye.
SCP-079 promised to help them meet Abel.
"First time in jail, first time in a helicopter..."
Geng Qinghe muttered, his voice suddenly vibrated, "Hey, is it there!"
Abel was housed in a special base 200 meters below sea level.
The only entrance to the base is an elevator shaft in a tunnel, and according to Yuan Wei, there are security personnel guarding the elevator there, so it is best to approach carefully before you notice it.
Using the cover of the hill, they jumped out of the helicopter one by two with the help of the ladder, and the butler promised that he would come to them later.
Carefully go around along the grass, luckily or unfortunately, they soon encountered the first patrol member.
"who?"
Sensing movement in the forest, he loaded the gun vigilantly.
"Omega-7," Yuan Wei pushed Walter into Lin You's hand, walked out, and replied briskly, "Here we come to pick up our captain."
"But we didn't—"
Seeing her face, the security guard seemed to have suddenly reacted to the news he had received—SCP-105 was absconding, "It's you—"
He just wanted to contact his colleagues, but Iris didn't give him this chance.
Her combat ability may not be as good as other people in "Pandora's Box", but it is more than enough to deal with an ordinary security guard.
With a crisp elbow, Iris dragged the unconscious security guard into the grass.
They followed suit and solved all the patrol members in five minutes. Because of this, when a group of people broke into the security room, they caught the few security guards stationed on the surface by surprise.
It's not too light on the enemy, and the Foundation itself doesn't have too many defenses on the surface - all the most important things are underground.
Elevator shafts filled with seawater, "erasing corridors" and CIW systems, but I'm afraid even the designers of these devices would never have imagined that this group of intruders came with the "old AI".
The security personnel fell to the floor, and Jian Mingjia found an interface at random, and inserted the USB flash drive into it.
But in just half a minute, a mechanical sound filled the entire security room, "You can go in."
"I breached their security system," it said, "and released hypnotic gas. Ventilate now, and the gas will dissipate when you get down."
have to say.
Seeing the seawater in the elevator shaft being drained, Lin You thought.
With the "old AI", the action is much more convenient, at least she originally thought of using violent means.
The 200-meter elevator can almost be described as oppressive, but when they walked out of the compartment door and their eyes suddenly opened up, they found that the ground had collapsed.
"It's alive."
Geng Qinghe tried to smell the breath of one of them, "He just fell asleep."
They bypassed the employees lying unconscious on the ground and walked into the only corridor.
The seawater that was originally filled inside was completely emptied by the control of the "old AI". Their footsteps resounded in the empty corridor until they reached the main containment area at the very end.
A huge black speckled metamorphic rock carved with an unknown pattern stands in the center of the hall.
"All right."
Lin You approached and looked at the three-meter-long cube.
"It seems that Abel is in here."
There are densely packed locks on the side, but it looks like it is unlocked, and the door behind the lock is simply closed.
She suddenly heard Geng Qinghe's exclamation.
"Sister Yuzu!"
—Heavy grinding sound.
The time it takes for Abel to reorganize in the sarcophagus ranges from six hours to twenty-five years.
It seems that it is almost time to arrive.
—It sounded like the lid of the sarcophagus was slowly pushed open, and the door on the side of the metamorphic rock cube opened from the inside.
A man came out.
He looked nearly thirty last year, and his arms were covered with mysterious tattoos that looked like the face of a leering devil.
Abel looked down at Lin You condescendingly.
"We still have a bill to settle."
Lin You: "It seems that you are determined to kill me?"
Abel snorted, right to acquiesce.
"If I were you, I wouldn't be so arbitrary."
Lin You said sincerely: "Because I don't know what the other party has in his hand."
Abel sneered, "For example?"
"For example—" She pretended to be thinking, and passed the hair ball she was holding forward, "Be careful about your resurrection point?"
Finally found a delicious gluttonous bunny, Walter took a bite, happily biting the corner of his sarcophagus with his front teeth.