SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 178 - 178 178 The Invaded Office_1

Chapter 178: Chapter 178: The Invaded Office_1 Chapter 178: Chapter 178: The Invaded Office_1 In a special office, a woman with an indistinct face, dressed in professional attire and long white legs, sat upright behind a desk.

At the moment, she was holding a list of pending incidents, seemingly perusing it.

Within this list, detailed accounts of some investigations that had been completed, yet due to various reasons, no further action had been taken, were recorded.

“Shadow in the Lake,” “Midnight Empty Bus,” “The Nonexistent Hospital,” “Ancestral Tomb No. 773,” “Desert Blood Lake,” “Abnormality at the Seaside Watchtower,”…

Lady Bunny’s gaze swiftly moved from one name to another, looking for a suitable new task for Colin to execute.

After a while, her eyes stopped on one named “The Hospital That Shouldn’t Exist.”

This task had been shelved for quite some time, and now it was worth considering taking action.

Of course, the main reason was that much of the key intelligence for this task seemed to have already been uncovered by an employee; with careful handling, there shouldn’t be any major screw-ups.

After pondering for a brief moment, she decided to assign this as Colin and others’ “entry trial.”

It was just then that a line of information appeared before her.

[This employee is already executing a task, please avoid assigning two separate tasks at the same time, should you wish to continue this action, please obtain permission before attempting again…]

Seeing this message, Lady Bunny tilted her head, as if making a frown,

She reached out and grabbed at the air, then as if pulling out a sheet of A4 paper from nowhere, and on this paper, Colin’s details were clearly recorded.

And it was clear to see that Colin was currently on a task, investigating something about the third layer of the sewer.

It was obvious that this was not a task she had issued.

Seeing this, she seemed to realize something and slowly pulled open a drawer, taking out a stamp, ready to use her authority to forcibly cancel this task.

But it was at this moment that a sharp “squeak squeak squeak” sound began to emerge from the plain office.

Lady Bunny turned to look and saw a gap in the office floor from where palm-sized shadows surged out like a fountain and crawled toward her, seemingly intent on devouring her.

She remained unpanicked, her tone calm as she spoke,

“Returners? Invading my place, are you trying to make an example of me?”

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Meanwhile, Colin and the others had once again arrived at the Black Forest Subway Station and encountered the so-called entrance inside one of the men’s restrooms.

It was at the very back of the restroom, resembling a door that looked unremarkable. The exact time of its appearance was unclear, as no subway passenger paying a visit would notice it.

It was first discovered by a cleaning lady who was responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of the restroom but found an extra door in the afternoon that seemed out of place when opened out of curiosity.

By now, the subway station had been temporarily closed down, and groups of armed personnel thoroughly blockaded the restroom.

“It’s a shame the door is just this size, too small to expand and bring in something more formidable,” Qin Chuan sighed beside Colin, his arms crossed.

If possible, they would like to drive an armored vehicle in, but unfortunately, that seemed impossible.

After breaking through the wall next to the door, everything appeared normal; they didn’t dare to damage the door, fearing it might cause the anomaly to disappear and then fail the mission.

In addition, they had sent some drones and whatnot in there; the signal was fine, but the images were unclear…

Experts behind the scenes speculated that it might be due to some kind of pollution.

“We’ll have to go in ourselves now,” said Colin.

Colin was still seated in his wheelchair, but this time, the officials had considerately switched it out for the electric wheelchair he had wanted to buy while he was ill but had never been willing to splurge on, which could go up to 30 kilometers per hour at its highest speed.

As he spoke, he glanced at the sewer entrance ahead, which was pitch-black. Even the light that shone in seemed suppressed, unable to illuminate very far.

However, unlike the sewers he remembered, there was no smell coming from inside, nor were there any signs of use.

It seemed, it had been abandoned for quite some time…

“It seems so. But it’s not all bad news; at least electronic devices work inside,” Qin Chuan said as he waved to someone behind him. Eight fully armed people approached, their movements faintly giving off mechanical sounds, presumably wearing some kind of exoskeleton equipment.

“Will it be dangerous for us to go in? Cough cough cough…” A middle-aged man with a grey complexion said, unable to suppress his coughing halfway through his sentence.

“There shouldn’t be any danger. In the hour that we’ve been here, someone has already completed their assignment, and the others are almost done too. This suggests that the first task on the job is relatively easy. Plus, we just used some sort of premonition technique to test, and there’s no problem…”

Don’t say anymore, brother; I feel so sick I could puke…

Colin, watching Qin Chuan talk confidently, felt an inexplicable anxiety at the bottom of his heart. Looking at the entrance, he increasingly felt something was wrong, but couldn’t put his finger on what exactly. After all, there was no sense of danger.

Moreover, the nature of this onboarding task was puzzling, suddenly presenting a countdown.

This forced Colin, who had initially planned to choose a better time to enter the next day, to go in now.

After a while, Colin saw the group bring in three nearly two-meter-tall cylindrical robots.

“Hey, Explorer Type 2 Detection Robots, worth millions each, can analyze the physical and mental status of all present, as well as any environmental dangers in real-time… Alright, strap on the protective gear and let’s get moving,” Qin Chuan explained to everyone, then helped Colin and others prepare their oxygen tanks before giving the others the signal to start the operation.

First, the three cylindrical robots entered, followed by six mechanical dogs carrying a significant amount of supplies, then the eight armed personnel, as well as Qin Chuan, Xia Liufang, and three other unrecognizable people. Colin and his group were the last to enter.

A total of sixteen people.

As Colin entered, he just caught sight of the cylindrical robots’ casings cracking open, extending two machine gun barrels to display their professional ethical standards to everyone.

Operating the mechanical wheelchair from behind, Colin pulled his face mask slightly and took a stealthy breath, faintly detecting the acrid smell of gunpowder lingering in the air.

“Official equipment is just different from private gear. The quantity of these supplies could probably cripple a subway station, couldn’t it?” Colin thought to himself, then looked again at the large sewer in front of him.

The originally dark sewer was now completely illuminated by the lights on the robots.

It was more appropriate to call this a massive underground reinforced concrete hall supported by numerous pillars rather than a sewer. The cold and desolate hall was covered with thick dust and some faded garbage bags.

Yet, whether it was the smell or something else, Colin was sure that there shouldn’t be any danger on this level.

However, although there was no danger, no one dared to let down their guard.

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