Fortunately, the rescue came in time, and Fan Luming's injury was not serious.
He was hypoxic due to suffocation, two ribs were fractured, multiple blunt bruises all over his body, a hole was opened in his forehead, and he was knocked out with a slight concussion.
If such injuries were placed on ordinary people in peaceful times, they would have to lie in the hospital for a week. There is still one breath left to hold on.
After taking "Dr. D's Universal Strengthening Potion", Fan Luming's abilities were significantly enhanced.
However, he never imagined before that after his ability was strengthened, the first object he would use would be himself.
It took about ten minutes for the younger brother of the Fan family to heal his fractures and wounds on his head. After making sure that the action would not be affected, the group decided to continue their journey.
At this time, it had been more than an hour since the five people put on the "mind blocking device", and they still haven't found a single SCP item that can be contained.
According to the use time limit of the "mind blocking device", they must complete the containment of the three SCP items within less than five hours left, and leave the control area of the queen bee's spiritual influence.
Although there are no other conditions attached to the mission of "Peach Blossom Spring", if they can't complete the mission within these six hours, they probably won't get the equipment and intelligence support provided by No. 9 site, and want to enter No. 7 site again It will also become more difficult.
So in a sense, Ji Thrush and the others only have one chance, they are only allowed to succeed, not to fail.
According to the original plan, at this time, the five people should have returned to the elevator shaft, climbed down one floor to reach the fourth floor, and searched for SCP266, the Dionysus's lamp stored in the No. 17 containment room—that is No matter what kind of liquid is poured into it, it will gradually transform into a certain kind of wine within 20 minutes.
It's just that after being attacked by the beautiful snake, everyone didn't really want to go back to that cramped and dark elevator shaft.
So after some discussion, they decided to take a short detour to see if they could go down the stairs on the other side of the building.
There are not many newborn humanoid individuals on this floor. Ji Thrush and the others walked all the way, only met eight white-robed men, and they didn't even bother to smile, so they shot directly and killed them all.
Just when the five of them came to the east side of the building, Ji Thrush suddenly stopped.
"wait."
He stopped his four companions, "I have found something here."
When the others heard this, they all turned to look at him.
Ren Jianmo walked to Ji Thrush's side and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
"Look at this."
Ji Thrush showed the pocket watch in his hand, and asked Ren Jian to look at the dial silently.
"The cursor on the 'space' column moved."
Ren Jianmo took the pocket watch and looked at it carefully.
Sure enough, the pointer inlaid with emerald green jade on the third ring of the pocket watch did leave the zero scale line, and deflected less than ten degrees clockwise.
"I just noticed it."
Ji Thrush said: "Whether it is the staff at the site or the beautiful snake, this pocket watch has no such reaction."
If it is classified according to the perception of various energies of SCP items by this "energy meter", the attributes of the queen bee itself are "power" and "control".
Then, the queen bee’s creations, including the nest and newborn individuals, are also her power and control, which is reflected in the quarter thrush’s pocket watch, that is, the closer to the core area of No. 7 site, the deflection of the two hands of “power” and “control” It will become more obvious, so along the way, the thrush can only constantly adjust the readings of these two rings and manually reset them to zero, so as not to affect the sensitivity of its perception.
And this is the first time that Ji Xiaoniao found that the pointer other than power and control has deflected.
"Since the rotating pointer is 'space', it means that there is some kind of SCP item nearby..."
He frowned, and searched hard in his mind for the information he had read, "What the hell is it?"
"Are you sure it's this layer?"
Fan Luming thought about it seriously for a moment, and said in a firm tone: "This layer should contain some not particularly dangerous humanoid and non-humanoid creatures... Of course not including the beautiful snake just now, she should be from another place after breaking through the containment. slipped in."
He counted with his fingers, "Dragonfly Girl, Canned Man, Phantom Killer, Snow Bunny, and Self-healer."
Then he said, "But, they should all have been affected by the light waves of the queen bee, and they should have been killed by their own newborn individuals."
According to the SCP files given to them by Site 9, the biological SCP items in Site 7 have all been neutralized by default, that is to say, they no longer have the value of re-containment.
"I am also not certain."
Ji Thrush took back the pocket watch from Ren Jianmo's hand, turned it around again, faced different angles, and studied the changes of the pointer, "However, according to the instructions of the energy meter..."
He raised his hand and pointed towards the corridor, "The energy of 'space' came from that side."
"In that case."
Ren Jianmo stretched out his hand and gently put it on Ji Xiaoniao's shoulder, "Then let's take a look."
Mo Tiangen and the Fan family siblings also agreed.
So Ji Thrush walked in the front with a pocket watch in hand, leading everyone to the south side of the corridor.
Compared with the queen bee, a destructive SCP object that can trigger a K-class end-of-the-world scenario, no matter what is causing the deflection of the "space" pointer, its energy can only be described as "pitifully small".
When Ji Thrush and the others stood in front of a door, the pointer on the pocket watch representing "space" only deflected by about twenty degrees.
It was a door made of alloy steel plate, and a peep window inlaid with bulletproof glass was opened on the door.
Ji Thrush reached out and broke off the gray-green sticky substance stuck to the window glass, then turned on the flashlight and looked inside.
The room was pitch black, and Ji Thrush could barely see it. Behind the door was a room with two figures wandering in it.
Startled by his flashlight, one of them moved towards the window, and Ji Xiaoniao saw clearly that it was a naked man.
"Wow!"
The thrush called out.
The white-robed man has been around a lot, and he hasn't seen a newborn individual without clothes for a long time.
He thought for a while before trying to understand the cause and effect.
In this containment room, there should have been two site workers. Under the influence of the queen bee's light waves, they gave birth to newborn individuals and were then killed by them.
Obviously, the IQ or ability of these two newborn individuals has not reached the level that can open this door, so they are still wandering in the room without even a robe.
After Ji Thrush told the others about his guess, they all agreed.
Then Fan Hemian raised a question: "However, if there are newborn individuals in the room, is it really possible for those SCP creatures that are theoretically harmless to be intact?"
You know, not only for the main body, the "worker bees" of the queen bee will hunt and kill all life forms that can be the queen's food.
Sister Fan's family didn't think at all that those little gadgets that were recorded as docile and harmless in the SCP files could escape the siege of these newborn individuals.
Ji Thrush thought for a while, but decided to trust the instructions of the pocket watch, "Let's go in and have a look."
Seeing that the captain insisted on going in, the others had no objection either.
So they pried open the door, quickly killed the two newborn individuals who rushed out facing the light, and then walked into the dark room behind the door.
As soon as they entered the house, Ji Thrush and the others smelled an extremely unpleasant stench.
In the corner of the room lay two human corpses, wearing the uniforms of security personnel. It seemed that they had been dead for several days.
Ji Thrush and the others turned their heads subconsciously, trying not to pay attention to the two decaying corpses.
"Here, there is another door."
Mo Tiangen resisted the stench that made his chest stuffy, and moved the light of the flashlight to the side of the room, "There seems to be another room inside."
Fan Hemian covered her nose and nodded, "This is just a security room, the real containment room is inside."
Ji Thrush looked at the pocket watch in his hand, "The space energy comes from behind the door."
"alright."
Teacher Dagen shrugged, "Then what else is there to say, just pry open the door!"
The door of the containment room was thicker and stronger than the door of the security room, and it took Mo Tiangen a lot of effort to get it open.
Behind the second door is a room of about ten square meters, which is arranged like a Lego toy exhibition room. Many models and building blocks are stacked on the floor to form a beautiful and spectacular city.
It has been more than four days since Site 7 fell.
However, it seems that no one else has ever entered this containment room, and it still looks neat and tidy, and the toy city on the ground has not been damaged in any way.
Everyone scanned the room with flashlights and checked carefully.
Apart from brightly colored models of buildings, they found nothing suspicious.
"Strange… "
Ji Thrush lowered his head again, studying his pocket watch with the light of the flashlight, "Here... the energy of 'space' is indeed the strongest..."
He only spoke half of what he said, and suddenly it got stuck in his throat.
Because just when he lowered his head, the corner of his eye seemed to see something flash past quickly.
— Fuck it, come back!
Ji Xiaoniao, who was almost scared by the beautiful snake not long ago, was going crazy.
His body reacted faster than his brain, and he immediately flew up and kicked wherever he could see out of the corner of his eye.
With a "click", a wooden clock tower was kicked in half by Ji Thrush and collapsed.
"Don't don't!"
Suddenly a high-pitched voice that did not belong to any of them rang out in the room.
Everyone focused the beam of the flashlight on the clock tower that was kicked to pieces by Ji Thrush.
"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
From the ruins of the bell tower, a small man only fifteen centimeters high emerged tremblingly. He raised his hands in surrender, his face was terrified, and he screamed in a high-pitched voice:
"I'm not a bad guy! I'm not a bad guy! I'm SCP624-3!"