The dilapidated room she stayed in had low ceilings covered with unknown protrusions, potholes everywhere, and corners full of thread balls and tattered debris. I don't know where SCP-106 picked up so many messy things.
"Pocket Dimension" is of course more than this place. You can see a closed door on the wall. As long as the scary old man wants to, it has the ability to extend into endless space.
The human beings caught by him as prey must run forward desperately until they can no longer run, or he is tired of chasing.
Playing peek-a-boo with him in the "pocket dimension" of halls and rooms doesn't work. He is the all-knowing god here, he can have as big a territory as he wants, and there will be an exit wherever he wants to open an exit.
Of course, the old man would know everything that happened in the "Pocket Dimension" clearly when he was there, but he would be fine if he was walking outside.
Lin You felt that he didn't know, otherwise he would have jumped out to stop her when she was openly talking about the idea of demolishing the house.
SCP-106 probably never dreamed that the toy he caught would try to turn his house upside down—ordinary people don't have to be so scared that their legs are weak.
Not to mention that he would destroy the mobility of the prey first, no matter whether it is organs, muscles or bones, there is always the same thing. Who would have expected Lin You to be such a wonderful flower that does not need to be done by himself.
The room was dirty everywhere, she dragged her injured leg around a pile of debris that looked like auto parts, and sat down in a cleaner space beside it.
The skull tried to lift his chin up so that he would not be next to the rotten cloth hanging down beside him.
Even though it has only bones left, it is still very particular.
"Eh."
It suddenly noticed something, "What do you see that is?"
Lin You: "Huh?"
Before she had time to spread out the illustration book, she followed the sound and looked over. What the skull was talking about was a piece of paper sandwiched between heavily corroded iron plates. Lin You reached out and grabbed the corner, and pulled it out little by little.
It's a photo.
A long time ago, the photo paper is a bit rough to the touch, and the color has faded badly. The light from no source in the "Pocket Dimension" is like the shining green light in the deep sea, so dim that it is difficult to recognize the image in the photo, only vaguely looking like a woman.
Skull: "This photo..."
Lin You turned over the back and saw a few letters scrawled there. But just like the photo itself, only the first of these characters can be seen as a capital "A", and it is difficult to see the others in a blur.
"Do you know?" She said after a moment of silence, "SCP-106, it is said that it used to be a doctor of the Foundation."
"ah?"
"I had an accident while researching a stabilizing device, and I was sucked into a dimensional gap similar to a wormhole—oh, it later became the predecessor of this place—and I stayed there alone for five years and eleven months."
How does it feel to be alone in a small dark space
I don't know where I am, and later even I am slowly rotting away, and I also don't know when this kind of life will end.
"However, no amount of words can change the fact that he has started to kill others at will after mastering this power." Lin You slowly brushed off the non-existent dust on the cover of the illustrated book, "If I don't take some measures, I will wait a while' Cat and mouse, I'm the one to die."
SCP-106 is no longer the old Dr. Scranton who will seriously record data when he finds himself in trouble. What he likes most now is to watch the prey run desperately in front, and he follows unhurriedly. There is always a time when a person runs out of strength, and he just has to wait for the last time they fall weakly, and then peel off their skin and tear their bodies to pieces under the hopeless eyes of the other party.
One agent ran away alive for four days, and in the end he was not only torn to pieces.
"Wait," the skull realized, "do you know who is in this photo?"
"Hard to say."
Lin You replied.
"It may be someone related to his past, but it may also be brought in by other victims. Anyway, put it away, the things that can be found here are probably not simple."
After putting the photo in her backpack, she opened the illustrated book. After holding the card that popped up due to the drawing, Lin You raised her eyebrows and looked at the card.
It's him.
She raised her hand.
A hideous murderer appeared in front of her dragging an axe. Before waiting for orders, SMILE silently looked at Lin You for a few seconds, turned her head and walked away, found a corner by herself and started hitting the wall with an axe.
... It's actually quite self-conscious.
His strength is really not a vegetarian, and a gap was cut in the wall within a few strokes. Seeing that the demolition project over there was progressing smoothly, Lin You twisted out another card.
That's the real deal.
The huge son of the evil god almost occupied most of the room. It wriggled its sticky tentacles, and the black and green slime made a tsk-tsk sound as it rubbed. The black goat cub "stared" at Lin You, growled like a beast from several mouths on its tentacles, and dared not move around in fear.
Obviously, it still has a lot of hostility towards her.
Lin You remembered the instructions on the card.
- If it doesn't behave, scaring it with someone's name may work well.
So, she smiled and said, "Nyarlathotep?"
Black goat cub: "..."
The next second, another lazy voice sounded, "What do you want from me?"
Black goat cub: "!!!"
If it was just shivering when it heard the name, it jumped up almost instinctively when it saw the real body at this moment, and its head hit the ceiling suddenly, shaking the whole room. SMLIE was taken to a stagger, almost crashing into the gap cut by himself.
The black goat cub hated and was afraid of this guy who framed it in front of the mother god, but he couldn't afford to offend him in terms of identity and ability, he was really wronged. It gritted its teeth and stomped its feet, and the floor trembled twice. It didn't dare to do anything else, and even rolled and crawled, it kicked the door as if to vent its anger.
"Although I also want to ask you to come out," Lin You blinked, "but I didn't expect it to be so fast."
She didn't count Nyarlathotep into those two places from the beginning to the end, but planned to see what he wanted, anyway, he could come out if he thought of it-even though he still refused to tell her what was going on.
"That sounds interesting."
The corners of Naia's mouth curled up, "Just count me in."
"It's such a small place," the black goat cub kicked the door, and the door panel flew out. Naia only glanced at it, "I don't want to do anything, it's better to let them come."
Before he finished speaking, the servant he was accustomed to summoning flapped his wings and spun out of thin air. A few Shantak birds chirped as piercingly as they scraped through glass. Laughing hoarsely, they flitted into the corridor, tearing the wall with their sharp and powerful claws, scratching the corridor to pieces.
The demolition project was in full swing, and the black goat cub was just trying to express his anger at first, but he found his own rhythm in the process of kicking around, and simply tap danced.
Anyway, the task given to it was to destroy this place. Relying on its large size and many hooves, the black goat cub held up one and kicked the door whenever it saw it. After kicking, he slammed on the ground hard, smashing out layers of cracks like spider webs.
SMILE's side wasn't all fruitless, he was so strong, he smashed through the wall with the back of the axe, opened up two rooms, and then with his exaggerated smile, he chopped everything inside thoroughly.
There was a clatter of kicks, and from time to time it was accompanied by a boom that made the ceiling and the floor tremble at the same time. No one noticed that there was an extra person in the ruins.
The original owner of "Pocket Dimension" stood there blankly, and the old man who came back from a walk was still carrying his newly caught prey on his shoulders, but the field where he used to play chasing battles with the prey had been destroyed.
He looked at the monsters smashing around in confusion.
—He obviously only caught one person back.
SCP-106: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Lin You was the first to hear the voice, she turned her head immediately, and saw the rotting old man trembling with anger. If it wasn't for the fact that he wasn't going to die, it would have looked like a heart attack.
The flesh in his throat quivered. With the help of this piece of flesh that was torn from someone's body, the terrifying old man made a sound similar to "goo". He tried several times, trying to piece together a complete sentence.
"Ah, get out!" He roared violently, "Get out of here!"
He quickly pinpointed the culprit—for no other reason than it must have started with the man he captured.
Lin You felt a strong force pushing her back. The next second, she shook her head, saw the scene in front of her clearly, and was surprised to find that it was a familiar corridor in the foundation.
… She was kicked out.
She was not the only one who was thrown out of the "pocket dimension". After checking the illustration book, Lin You found that SMILE and the black goat cubs had all turned back into Ka, even Nyarlathotep—but Lin You suspected that he was bored and back.
It wasn't just them, Lin You caught a glimpse of someone lying on the ground next to him.
She remembered who was carrying SCP-106 just now, and now she threw it out together. The unlucky player was still in a coma. He didn't know where he was injured. He was moaning intermittently, but he seemed to be fine for the time being.
etc.
Lin You suddenly realized that she was looking at the black mud that was shrinking on the wall, leaving only traces of corrosion.
SCP-106 is probably behind this wall—
She immediately and carefully held the uncorroded doorknob on the side, and as soon as she opened the door, she met the terrifying old man who no longer wanted to take the prey back to play with.
SCP-106: "…"
He turned away.
"Hey, why are you going?"
Lin You knew that she would not be able to use her abilities for a short time, but the terrifying old man didn't know that.
There was a sharp pain in the calf that was attacked earlier, and Lin You gasped. But seeing the walking card in front of her, she insisted on catching up.
The old man speeded up his pace silently, which can be called a fast pace.
"Why are you running away!"
She yelled, "Come on, let's discuss something—"
The rotting old man plunged headlong into the wall, with black marks spreading all the way to the top of his head, apparently running away from there.
No matter how impossible it was for Lin You to pass through the ceiling and go straight to the second floor, she had to stop and "cut" unwillingly.
… Having said that, she only cared about her leg injury and chasing SCP-106 just now, and she always felt that something was wrong.
She turned her head and met the two pairs of eyes by the wall.
The oval-faced girl who led her to join the crowd, and the teammate who boasted that she could chase ghosts all over the place, were standing there in a daze, with a shocked expression and a faint realization.
Teammate: "..."
Lin You: "..."
Oops.
She thought, this time I can't wash it off.