SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 349 - 349 347 The Saintess is Greatly Shocked_1

Chapter 349: Chapter 347 The Saintess is Greatly Shocked_1 Chapter 349: Chapter 347 The Saintess is Greatly Shocked_1 “Really, truly just bringing the five thousand points, just, just, just to exchange for its seven days of usage rights?”

Shana stood up straight, her lips slightly parted, her eyes wide open, her ice-blue pure eyes filled with an undeniable shock.

According to the task “hint,” the other party had already given out the points!

Shana looked over the content of the task again to confirm it wasn’t fifty or five hundred but five thousand!

This…

This simply made no sense!

And both the task and her intuition were telling her that as long as she agreed, she could immediately get her hands on this massive sum of money that she had never seen before in her lifetime!

“Not even the legacy left by the previous Saint Heir and Saintess amounted to that much.”

The Saintess murmured to herself, her face still somewhat distant.

She remembered, when she first got the parchment, it still had some of the predecessors’ legacy on it.

These were the various tasks the predecessors completed, saving up as much as possible to leave for those who came after them.

But all together, it was barely under three thousand…

It was only about half of what this seemingly ordinary and completely safe task offered.

Even for herself, after striving for ten or eight years and adding up all that she had used, it barely amounted to just over ten thousand, yet this very ordinary task was equal to half of her entire Saint career’s efforts…

This stark, blunt comparison caused her usually swift thinking to come to a halt.

Snap.

The sour and stiff black bread involuntarily fell to the ground.

Shaking her head, Shana came back to her senses from the shock, bent down gently, picked up the black bread, wiped off the dust on it with a piece of clean cloth, then stored it in the Storage Room before looking at the parchment task again.

“There couldn’t be… something wrong with it, right?”

Shana wore a doubtful expression.

The payment for this task was completely disproportionate to what was being offered.

In the past, the largest income she received from a task was two years ago when she entered an unknown world and hunted a part of a special intangible rule-based Ancient God creature.

In that battle, she had to face attacks from multiple mythical creatures and fight with the main enemy.

She eventually succeeded, but she also sustained severe injuries, nearly spending a month lying in bed resting.

And the income from that was…

800 points.

Shana remembered coughing up blood every day but still being very happy because it nearly caught up to what she could earn in a year.

And this time, merely lending something out for seven days could earn her such an amount.

To her, it was simply incomprehensible.

However, with the guarantee of the parchment, she knew this was very likely real…

But after confirming that both the parchment and her own judgment were correct, Shana began to wonder if the “Bonfire” agent’s brain and sanity might have issues?

‘If he made such a decision due to some temporary problem with his brain, wouldn’t it be… somewhat unethical for me to take advantage of it?’

What if this was all he managed to save over a lifetime, and in a moment of irrationality, he traded it away, might he suffer a mental breakdown after “sobering up”?

Shana gradually calmed down.

This act of taking advantage of someone whose wisdom might be momentarily weaker than normal didn’t seem quite right…

But… from that first glance observation earlier, his mind seemed to be functioning normally, didn’t it?

Could it be that during the battle just now, she accidentally hit too hard and caused his brain to malfunction?

While she thought this, the large sum of points still greatly tempted her.

If she could get her hands on this fortune, she would have the chance to save even more people.

At this moment, as Shana hesitated, a voice came from the side:

“Your Highness, what’s the matter?”

Shana turned to look back and saw a woman with blue short hair dressed in female armor.

This was her current First Knight, Helena’s sister, Dianas.

“I’m fine…”

Shana said, then seemed to think of something. She patted a stone beside her, signaling for the other to come sit and began,

“Dianas, would you… If you met a friendly but irrational person, who had something you wanted, would you try to take advantage of their irrational state to acquire that necessary item?”

What kind of bizarre question was this? It was almost as strange as the previous one about whether to save many or save few with a single slap…

Unable to help it, Dianas murmured in her heart. She detested these kinds of brain teasers the most.

While pondering, Dianas glanced at Shana.

On the surface, Shana undoubtedly appeared saintly and beautiful, clad in simple yet elegant white with golden edges. Her pale golden hair was coiled behind her head, surrounded by a holy light, her demeanor gentle. Just sitting there, she seemed like a beautiful painting crafted by a divine hand.

However, upon closer inspection, beneath this superficial gleam, lay an extremely gaunt girl who was still beautiful, but with scarcely any flesh on her face, and pale skin that seemed stretched over bones—

If she were any thinner, she could be described as a skeleton blessed by the holy light.

Dianas remembered that ever since Shana had entered the disaster area over half a year ago, she had scarcely eaten anything.

To the point that, at this moment, the saint herself looked so emaciated that it was disconcerting.

No matter how frail and weak her body was, her eyes shone as bright as ever, flickering with the same pure and kind aura that had made people involuntarily revere her at first sight.

It was only now, nearly able to leave this hazardous area and seeing that there was surplus, that the saint began to eat a bit.

Yet, for some unknown reason, she saw the saintess’s light flicker, standing there confused, even forgetting to maintain her facade, seemingly witnessing something incredibly shocking.

Worried, Dianas approached.

“Dianas?” Seeing her silent, Shana spoke up.

“Ah… Regarding your question…”

Dianas tried her best to exercise her mind, aiming to provide a sensible explanation.

After a while, Colin, who was far on the other side, finally received a response.

“Decide whether to agree to the trade after three days if nothing changes?”

Colin watched ‘The Light Chaser’ fade away, his ‘Shield of Fairness Adjudication’ taken by another, confused in his heart.

He felt that ‘The Light Chaser’ must have agreed, but the agreement wasn’t very decisive.

There might be variables.

However, the other party didn’t mention the Bone Spur this time…

‘Could it be that the points offered were too low?’ Colin wondered if it was possible. The right to use a powerful Golden Artifact could be employed to take the enemy’s head in a multitude of armies. And his next promotion task involved those former D Level employees from the ‘Ghost Train.’

If unlucky, he might even encounter that C Level.

With this item, perhaps he could overcome each one and avoid a lot of trouble…

So, to say 5000 points— even 10000 points wouldn’t be unacceptable.

Initially, Colin started with 3000 points, merely wanting to leave room for bargaining, but unexpectedly, just as the negotiation reached half the psychological expectation, the “seller” suddenly went “offline” due to a network interruption.

They waited quite some time to reconnect, only to say that the trade would proceed after three days.

Colin raised his hand, looking at the bonfire burning beside him, stroked his chin, “Does this imply that the points I’m offering now are too low and he’s not satisfied? Suggesting I should figure it out?”

Of course, Colin, who was considering how to appropriately raise his offer, couldn’t possibly imagine at that moment; his upfront offering of five thousand points had dramatically shocked ‘The Light Chaser’, who was now suspecting him of being a fool…

So much so that he needed to leave three days open to properly calm down.

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Chapter two will be posted later.