SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 242 - 242 242 The 2nd Firebearer_1

Chapter 242: Chapter 242: The 2nd Firebearer!_1 Chapter 242: Chapter 242: The 2nd Firebearer!_1 “However, this feeling of not stepping in, but just watching from the side, sometimes feels even more disgusting than a direct outbreak of conflict.”

Colin took a deep breath, the unsettling feeling of being watched from the sea always temporarily vanished when the lighthouse’s light flickered, only to reappear soon after, making one feel anxious and extremely irritated…

Without much thought, Colin calmed the anger in his heart and then arranged for everyone to go upstairs.

After climbing the austere spiral staircase to the top, they unexpectedly discovered that the space at the top of the lighthouse was much larger than they had imagined, almost close to three hundred square meters.

Xia Liufang couldn’t help but exclaim, “Is this some special technique for compressing space?”

Looking up at the lighthouse from the ground, this space would be at most fifty square meters, impossible to be this big.

Clearly…

The interior space was different from what they had observed with the naked eye.

“Forget about how it’s done for now, just call everyone up first,” Qin Chuan reminded.

Since there was so much room above, there was no need to keep people squeezed in the narrow stairwell anymore, and as they called for the others to come up, Colin walked toward the center of the lighthouse.

There was another staircase, only about two meters tall, with a small platform on top, which seemed to have some glowing objects placed on it.

Invisibly, upon entering this spacious hall, Colin felt that the attraction was growing stronger.

Soon, when Colin climbed the stairs and saw the item placed on the platform, he couldn’t help but gasp.

It was actually a person!

No, to be more precise, it was a corpse.

A corpse almost indistinguishable from a skeleton due to desiccation, with clothing and skin that seemed to have weathered away long ago, leaving only the mottled and unclear remains of bones.

“Looking at the shape of the bones, it seems to be the body of a female…”

Although he had no medical training, his extensive practical experience allowed him to quickly determine the gender of the skeletal remains.

However, Colin’s surprise was quickly followed by confusion.

If the item placed here was a corpse, then what was the glowing thing?

Thump…

The sound of a heartbeat abruptly rang in his ears.

Startled, Colin instinctively looked towards the source of the sound, only to notice that at the chest area of the female skeleton, marked by signs of weathering, there lay a dark red object cracked like a heart.

At that moment, it pulsed like a heart, its bark-like skin bursting with a bright flame beneath.

The light of the flame spread outwards through Colin…

For a moment, from the perspective of the lighthouse, the bright and clear flame nearly illuminated an entire area, including both inside and outside the lighthouse.

All the unsettling and maddening feelings of being watched, like a chopped flow of water, retreated for the time being.

And at the same moment, Colin, upon realizing the source of the light, also understood why the flickering light in the lighthouse gave him an indescribable attraction…

Because lying within was a “Firebearer”!

The properties harbored within her heart did not fade with her passing but continued to shine incessantly in the lighthouse beside the Dark Sea, guiding the lost.

“Hiss, the gravity of the firelight just now seems much stronger than the flame I hold within me, doesn’t it?”

Colin, recalling the fire that had brushed past him, knew that if it had been aimed at him, he would probably be dead by now.

But beyond that, he suddenly remembered that as the firelight flickered, it seemed he had noticed a line of text casually carved with a blade at the edge of the platform—a brazen and confident inscription—

‘I will stand guard over humanity here, ignite myself and overlook the Sea of Lightless, preventing them from reaching the shore even a single step, even if my soul extinguishes and my body has died.’

“Is it because of this that those things from the sea haven’t come ashore? Is it…is it that powerful?”

Colin clicked his tongue in wonder, curious as to who this person was—if she was indeed an employee of the company, then in life she must have been at least C Level, truly a high-ranking employee, and not a fake like Luo Yiming.

But perhaps he had sacrificed himself here in the end to prevent a disaster.

Afterward, Colin saw a small line of writing next to the wild handwriting: “This message will always apply before the end of 2044. Those who wander here need not worry, they can leave by jumping off the Lighthouse after ‘daybreak’…”

“Again, 2044…”

Colin muttered softly, feeling as if the whole world knew about the end coming that year, except for them.

However, he was already accustomed to such things and had planned to ask Miss Bunny about it later without giving it much thought…

Then, Colin noticed a familiar Octagonal Star Copper Badge next to the body.

He hesitated for a second, leaning forward to take the copper badge tinged with some weathered bone ash for a closer look.

The badge was severely damaged, presumably due to the battle, but if one paid attention, one could still vaguely make out the pattern of a right hand holding up a burning heart, as if it were a torch, illuminating The Night.

Turning the badge over, Colin saw several mottled and unclear characters on the back of the damaged copper badge.

Even though the words were missing, making them practically unreadable, Colin still recited them silently in his mind—

“When The Night comes, there should be someone to light the Flame and illuminate in all directions.”

Holding the badge, he slowly looked up at the Firebearer’s remains and felt a rare surge of admiration.

With respect, Colin saluted the body and put the badge back where it was.

He dared not covet anything from this place…

Lest taking anything away might trigger the disaster here and bring about an early end of the world.

“Did you find anything special up there?” Qin Chuan’s voice came from down the stairs.

Everyone was already brought up; they just didn’t know what Colin had been doing upstairs all this time.

“It’s nothing.”

Colin shook his head, withdrew his hand from placing the badge, and turned to glance at the Sea of Lightless. He keenly felt intermittent sensations of indistinct scrutiny coming again, but this time he was much more at ease.

Protected by the residual fire of the honorable Firebearer, those things in the great sea could at most watch from a distance but did not dare to come ashore.

“Truly formidable…”

Colin internally remarked while descending the stairs.

He thought that if a catastrophe erupted, it wasn’t certain whether he could survive, but if he didn’t, he hoped to exit life in a similarly formidable manner like his precedent.

Be immensely strong in life and still able to suppress a realm in death…

“Speaking of which, if the world really does end, I can’t say for the others, but I’ll need to make some arrangements for the Dean and the people at the orphanage…”

Colin wasn’t very concerned about many things, but he couldn’t just ignore those at the orphanage who had raised him.

After returning to the normal world this time, besides financial matters, he would have to leave something for the orphanage.

However, at that moment…

“Hmm~hmm~hmm~”

A soft hum broke through Colin’s thoughts, as if a child was humming a tune.

There had been humming on the train by the children, so he wasn’t particularly surprised, and found it rather pleasant to the ear.

But, the next instant, realizing that the sound was coming from downstairs, not upstairs, Colin suddenly snapped awake—

“Who’s singing?”

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