SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 124 - 124 124 This is a slide that must not be

Chapter 124: Chapter 124 This is a slide that must not be touched!_1 Chapter 124: Chapter 124 This is a slide that must not be touched!_1 “Dog Brother, spill the details about your special discovery…”

“It’s nothing much, just that in the small room next to mine, where my aunt stays, I saw a message that must’ve been left by a previous employee. He mentioned that unknown dangers could arise tonight, and if we want to survive, we should head to a place called ‘Rain City’…”

“Rain City? What’s that?”

“I’m not sure, I didn’t get the chance to look more closely, my aunt came back…”

Meanwhile, hearing Dog Brother’s words, Colin paused, reminded of the note he’d just received—

Could this be the rainy place mentioned on the note?

It mentioned the same location, “Rain City”…

Just as Colin was about to ask for more details, the bell for class rang.

“Damn it, did we even get five minutes of break?” Dog Brother’s pretty face showed anger as he cursed softly.

But curse as they might, they dared not delay, hurrying into the classroom and back to their seats, fearing anything that might be triggered by lagging behind.

Before entering the door, Colin, remembering something, pulled everyone aside and reminded them, “Right, later, check your textbooks to see if there’s anything tucked inside.”

The others didn’t say much but nodded their heads.

Just as he returned to his seat, Colin saw the bespectacled girl in front of him turn around.

“You and that girl… no, what were you guys just talking about?” she began, then remembered it seemed to involve several others.

[The girl named Liu Yun tried to cover up the slip in her speech. Of course, that’s not the point. The point is she’s showing a tinge of jealousy towards the girl you were chatting with. If you can’t produce a plausible explanation, perhaps something dangerous might occur?]

Do I need to give explanations for speaking now? What’s up with this new yandere twist…

Colin looked at the narrator who had just settled down and was now stirring things up again, somewhat speechless, but he noticed from the information above that it finally decided to give the girl a name after such a long time.

Before, it was just “sister,” “class beauty,” “female cop,” “female teacher”—it couldn’t even be bothered to come up with a name…

And it seems like Liu Yun has somehow become attached to him.

Colin could clearly feel the difference between her and the other “NPCs”; compared to the beginning, she had become more spirited…

Was it because the “Narrator” was constantly setting her up with characteristics?

After pondering for a moment, Colin carefully said, “Nah, I had an emergency earlier and borrowed twenty bucks from him. I was just paying him back…”

The sense of impending danger hadn’t been triggered, which likely meant that the person before him didn’t possess special abilities like the female cop.

There was no need to worry about being cut for lying.

“Oh, is that right?” The quiet Liu Yun with glasses looked dubious.

“What else could it be?”

Colin pursed his lips, slightly annoyed by her skepticism. What, did she really think he could have an inappropriate relationship with Dog Brother, a straight man of steel?

Thinking about the two sets of equipment Dog Brother was carrying, just the thought made Colin’s skin crawl.

“You know, you…”

“The teacher’s coming, stop talking.”

Seeing Liu Yun finally turn obediently back around, Colin breathed a sigh of relief. He truly felt as if he were on the verge of being confronted with a Divine Skill at any moment.

Without further thought, with another command for the students to stand up, what was supposed to be PE class now officially began as a math class.

Seeing the female teacher raise the ruler in her hand, only a very small portion of “top students” in the class showed no reaction. The others, especially the “illiterate” group led by Colin, all shifted uneasily…

They quickly reviewed the bare essentials, knowing that if called up to solve a problem, it would likely spell trouble.

Although it seemed okay just now, if they were called up again, it was uncertain whether troubles would arise.

‘Damn it, I’m an outstanding employee who has made commendable contributions to the Bonfire Company by entering and exiting the Other World three times, and yet I’m afraid of solving a math problem…’

Colin felt his mood inexplicably a bit subtle and shitty.

Fortunately, the icy-tempered female teacher didn’t make everyone do exercises this time; instead, she picked up the ruler, tapped it on the blackboard, and continued the content from the last lesson.

Seeing this, Colin and the others all breathed a sigh of relief, feeling lucky to have survived a disaster.

Then, as the dry and tedious lecture resumed, Colin quietly lifted his right hand, propped up his chin, and pretended to study attentively.

“Yukionna, Yukionna, please tell me, what is ‘Rain City’?”

Colin asked in a low voice, not knowing what “Rain City” was, but “Yukionna” should know…

A chill slid up from his middle finger.

Corresponding thoughts unfurled in his mind…

“A very dangerous area within ‘Passionate Paradise’ that one can travel to whenever it rains? One of the locations where the initial invasion occurred?”

Colin was stunned. How dangerous must it be for “Yukionna” to consider it a threat?

“Let’s not worry about the danger for now. Is there really a way to escape that place?”

Colin’s current guess was that “Passionate Paradise” had become inoperable for some unknown reason, preventing a mechanism akin to “Descent Protocol G-2” from triggering and allowing one to return to reality…

Therefore, if one wanted to go home, they had to rely on their own Divine Skills.

Soon, a cold message came through.

“You don’t know? You only know that there is an important factor there that caused the loss of control in ‘Passionate Paradise’?”

Colin was somewhat surprised by this but not overly so. Thinking it over, he changed the question.

“Right, do you know what ‘Crimson’ is? It was mentioned on a note I just saw, something about ‘Crimson’…”

No sooner had the words left his mouth did Colin feel the “Yukionna” ring squeeze tightly, reacting violently as if poked in a sensitive spot, turning his finger red from the pressure.

What’s happening? Is this necessary? It’s just a name, could it be going mad?

Colin’s brow furrowed slightly. He could sense that “Yukionna” was experiencing an intense fear of the name “Crimson,” so much so that even mentioning it caused such a reaction.

Several minutes passed, and not until his finger had swollen to a purplish hue did the ring slowly relax its grip.

However, before Colin could ask again, he felt a cool breath arrive, bringing with it a message that almost seemed like a plea.

Don’t mention anything related to “Crimson” anymore!

In Colin’s mind, it was as if a scene formed of “Yukionna” kneeling and kowtowing to him—

Stop talking, I’m begging you!

For the sake of staying alive, don’t speak of it again!

This is a topic not even to be touched upon!

‘Not even to be mentioned? Is it that dangerous? This… it’s a bit like that old ‘Hunger’ and ‘Tyrant’…’

Colin rubbed his darkened fingers, encouraging blood flow to return them to their normal color.

He remembered, back in the Other World, that “Hunger” and “Tyrant” were so intense that a mere glance could nearly explode, and they forced everyone to not dare sleep or dream at night, almost to the point where sleep meant death…

But at least they could be spoken about, while this “Crimson” seemed even more special, too dangerous to even be mentioned…

Just mentioning a name had frightened “Yukionna” into such a cowardly state.

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