SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 244 - 244 244 The Extremely Dominant Firebearer_1

Chapter 244: Chapter 244: The Extremely Dominant “Firebearer”!_1 Chapter 244: Chapter 244: The Extremely Dominant “Firebearer”!_1 The fire ring’s expansion seemed slow but was actually incredibly fast; it almost instantly caught up with the fleeing underwater shadows a kilometer away.

Then, without any sign of resistance, Colin saw some marine creatures turn up their white bellies on the distant waters, seemingly struck by an unknown force, and died instantly…

Others, upon seeing the terrifying fire ring about to catch up to them, ran for their lives with all their might.

Some sea creatures, unable to escape, could only try to fight back, summoning dark clouds in the sky in an attempt to provoke a violent storm to block it; however, where the firelight reached, everything was incinerated, including the creatures and the dark clouds…

“Hiss… It truly has the capital to be arrogant, no, that’s not right, this shouldn’t be called arrogance…”

Colin had not felt it before, but at this moment, he realized that it should be called stating a fact, as the aftermath of her fire was even more domineering than the words she spoke…

Throughout the entire process of the fire ring’s outward spread, within its coverage area, it was nothing but instant kills.

“No wonder she dares to boast and intimidate an entire marine area. I originally thought ‘daytime’ referred to some slightly special astronomical phenomenon, but it turned out to be her. This is far more dominant than ‘World Code-13’…”

Colin couldn’t help but recall the first Firebearer he encountered. Compared to this one, there was quite a gap in every aspect, and the way of death was even more humiliating, to say the least, leaving hardly any traces behind.

However, this does not mean that the Firebearer was weak.

Because, according to the current intelligence, that “Firebearer” had the ability to carry “0-09 ‘Hunger'” alone to the Other World for missions, and his strength was also quite formidable; it’s just that the outcome wasn’t very pretty.

Colin wasn’t clear about their powers before their demise, but he was very clear about “0-09 ‘Hunger'”. So far, apart from being surpassed by ‘Red Moon’, he had seen nothing with a higher standing than it.

With such estimation, and comparing them laterally with the one in the lighthouse, even if they weren’t as impressive, he estimated that they couldn’t be much weaker.

“It’s just like escaping from a poison zone in a game; if you run too slowly and the fire ring catches up, you’re done…”

Qin Chuan and the others were also tongue-tied watching. Standing on the observation deck of the lighthouse and looking down, they discovered that the sea surface, which had been “empty”, was now littered with a dense mass of corpses.

Some had a very sloppy appearance, as if they had grown haphazardly, and others resembled humans, like mermaids, beautiful in appearance…

But regardless of what they looked like in life, they were all dead now, floating on the sea surface with their bellies up, surrounded by boiling, bubbling water like a giant soup.

These were the creatures that instantly perished shortly after the appearance of the fireball, and there were some stronger ones that had already run far away…

But even those that had escaped far didn’t seem to fare well; they, too, suffered severe injuries under the subsequent bursts of fire rings, overturning even larger bellies in the distance.

While shocked, they also couldn’t help but think to themselves—

What on earth is so terrifying on that stone platform?

However, before they could continue to speculate, there was a loud bang, and a wooden door suddenly opened in the upper space of the lighthouse. Outside the door, there was emptiness, with nothing there, making the door seem somewhat redundant.

But with the reminders from Miss Bunny and the “Firebearer”, Colin knew that now was the time to leave.

“It’s time to go, you guys go first.”

Hearing Colin’s words, everyone did not hesitate. Xia Liufang took the lead, came to the door, looked down at the height of tens of meters below, took a deep breath, and stepped out.

With her preparedness, this height was not enough to be fatal…

However, in everyone’s view, as soon as she walked out of the door, her figure disappeared into thin air, as if she had left the area.

“Quick, follow her, we don’t know how long this ‘daytime’ will last…”

Colin urged them on, instructing the children to start moving.

Over a hundred people orderly jumped off the lighthouse under the arrangement of Qin Chuan and others. Two minutes later, after all the children had left, Qin Chuan, Hu Zheng, and the last two remaining began their final evacuation.

Soon, when Colin was the only one left on the scene, he couldn’t help but take one last look at the platform, silently expressing his thanks, before plunging into the wooden door.

And as the last figure disappeared from the area, the fireball in the heavens, as if sensing something, began to shrink and dim.

In a short while, the huge fireball dissipated like a firework.

The marine area returned once more to an eternally solitary darkness…

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At the same time, after walking out of the wooden door, Colin immediately felt a strong sensation of falling and before he had time to do anything else, suddenly felt solid ground under his feet, standing on the surface.

The surrounding scenery also changed, and it was another beach, extremely similar to the world he had just seen, as if it had been copied and pasted.

But what was different was that there was no lighthouse, no dark green sea, and no uncomfortable sensation of being watched…

This was… the real world!

The sun overhead, the wind beside him, the blue sea, and the distant city that was no longer blurred, all his senses were telling Colin one thing—this was the real world!

And the person who had jumped down before was now standing on this beach too.

“We’re back?!”

Qin Chuan muttered to himself as he looked at the world before him, afraid that this was yet another “Other World.”

To be honest, his experiences during this period had started to blur the lines between reality and the Other Worlds for him, as the sensory differences weren’t that pronounced…

However, at that moment…

In their pockets, several special communicators suddenly went off.

“Beep beep beep!”

Before they could take them out, the communicators were forcibly connected, and a male voice came through:

“Connected, connected! Qin Chuan, Qin Chuan, can you hear us?”

“Yes!”

Qin Chuan suppressed the excitement in his heart and pulled out the half-damaged communicator that was still functional, “We seem to be on a beach; can you find out where we are now?”

“Yes, yes! But you might have to wait a bit. Just stand there and don’t move.”

The person on the other end of the communicator sounded even more excited than they were, and as soon as the conversation was over, he seemed to immediately start yelling at others nearby to hurry up and check their location.

“Right…”

Qin Chuan interrupted the excitement from the other end, glancing at Colin imperceptibly to see that he seemed not to notice, then walked away while whispering softly:

“We’ve encountered some issues here. Notify the Eighth Level immediately—no, the Southern Region leader. And also, a critical thing, Li… no, a certain Eighth Level Agent might have defected…”

He had intended to say that the Eighth Level Agent, whose name was “Liping,” might be dead, and the current one an imposter, but hesitated and did not continue to say her name, thinking it was better to hide it while he could.

Meanwhile, Colin, who had been quite happy about returning to reality, felt his heart sink upon hearing those communicators.

However, with Lady Bunny’s words from before, he wasn’t too panicked—

as someone as useful as he was, the company wouldn’t abandon him, would they?

It was amidst these hidden agendas that no one noticed from behind a child’s shadow, a palm-sized black shadow silently leaped out.

It had no substance, looking just like the silhouette of a rat. After appearing, it sprinted away at a terrifying speed, beyond what the naked eye could capture, and disappeared from the place.

In just a few seconds, it had traveled over a hundred kilometers, pausing atop a skyscraper, looking down at the bustling city and letting out a humanlike, maniacal laugh:

“Hahahaha, weren’t expecting this, were you? The invasion was just a feint. I haven’t really escaped yet—this is my true escape route!

“Just wait! Within a year, I will take over this world!

“As a gift for ‘Red Moon’ Mother’s revival!”

Having said this, it spread its limbs and took a leap of faith toward the ground below.

But halfway through its leap…

At the position it had just left, a transparent vortex started spinning, from which a lady’s hand emerged.

An invisible force exploded from her hand…

The next second, the unsubstantial rat silhouette couldn’t even struggle as it was pulled backward into the air, caught by the chubby hand of the rat’s body, and dragged directly into the transparent vortex.

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