SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 398 - 398 376 I Sit Atop the Corpse of God._2

Chapter 398: Chapter 376 I Sit Atop the Corpse of “God”._2 Chapter 398: Chapter 376 I Sit Atop the Corpse of “God”._2 Such a strange situation arose on the battlefield…

Whether it was employees of the Bonfire Company or the members of the Heretic Races Coalition, everyone was killing indiscriminately, but only the “Followers of the Red Moon” were being killed in the chaos…

However, looking at the fearless “Red Moon” followers…

Sensing a strange and indescribable “activity” on the battlefield that seemed to grow stronger with the deaths of the “Red Moon” followers, Colin could not help but feel that they were playing a very big game…

“Whoosh!”

A swishing sound suddenly came from the sky.

In the sky above, a flock of strange winged eyeballs swooped uncontrollably toward the train carriage halfway up the mountainside.

Colin squinted his eyes and drew out a Bone Spur, ready to make a move.

But before he could truly act, all winged eyeballs seemed to touch some vortexes of floating light in this area and melted away, falling from the sky, only to be shredded into pieces by the chaos of the battlefield below…

“Didn’t expect this to be a no-fly zone,”

Shaking his head, Colin did not think too much about it and withdrew his gaze from the battle below. He took a few steps forward to a spot about three meters in front of the pink chairs at the food stall.

Then, he directed his gaze towards the person sitting at the edge of the cliff—

A very rigid person.

This was the first impression that came to Colin’s mind upon seeing the person’s appearance.

Unlike the expected desiccated corpse, the person before him was not overly rotten but rather seemed more robust due to the skin being tightly stretched over muscles that had not shrunk or decomposed too much.

However, on the body were also many vortexes and spiral crystals emitting traces of a twisted space.

“This muscle… it doesn’t feel human, is it specially modified?”

As the thought crossed his mind, Colin glanced at a broken sword beside the seat, covered with Crystal Stones, then his gaze moved to the chest area of the person, where, under a faded and open brown coat, he saw an opening in the bare ribcage area.

Through the opening, he could see something inside emitting a scorching red light…

A heart.

“The target for this harvest seems to be this heart… So does that mean this is a ‘Flame Bearer’?”

With the help of the mission sensor, Colin confirmed one thing.

Then, he licked his lips and couldn’t help but mutter to himself about why missions about “Flame Bearers” are always about harvesting various organs.

While others traveled through different worlds overcoming all hardships to save worlds like a messiah, he was just collecting all sorts of body tissues.

This made Colin feel like he was some kind of organ smuggling criminal…

If it wasn’t collecting skulls, it was collecting hands, and now a heart was needed; actual containment missions were few and far between.

“Speaking of which, back at the seaside, that domineering female ‘Flame Bearer’ also left a heart behind, but at that time, the company didn’t seem to want to retrieve it? Is it because that heart still had the mission to suppress evil spirits…”

As he thought about this, Colin looked at the man on the seat once more, and silently apologized with a “no offense” in his heart, all the while maintaining respect for the elderly, he cautiously reached out towards the gap between the ribs on the man’s chest.

As he started to move, he also prepared himself to deal with a situation in which nearly 50 “Divine” powerhouses nearby might wake up as soon as he removed the heart.

After all, taking away the heart would undoubtedly disrupt the scene.

Without the power of the “Flame Bearer” to suppress it, everyone would most likely wake up…

Even the fearsome source of pollution, now hardly noticeable, might reappear.

However, just then, a sudden jolt went through Colin’s heart…

He felt his outstretched hand, as if it was grabbed by something—

A grey-and-white hand!

Tracing the hand backward…

Colin saw that the man who should have been dead on the seat actually moved!

In an instant, Colin’s pupils shrank to the size of needles, wanting to withdraw his hand, but he found that the man’s grip was as unyielding as a vice.

“Has no one told you not to disturb the rest of the dead?”

An indifferent voice came from the man.

Under Colin’s horrified gaze, the Level C Employee slowly raised his head, and on a face half-swallowed by a vortex, with just one eye remaining, the eyelid slowly opened to reveal a silent and rational pitch-black pupil.

Rattled, Colin’s flames burst forth, lunging straight at the man in front of him.

“Thump.”

The heart, beating like a battle drum.

A deeper hue of flame also erupted from the man in front of him.

The two sets of flames collided head-on through their touching hands, causing an extremely violent collision.

‘Hiss, this is the true flame of a ‘Flame Bearer’? The purity is so high, if not for the grease, it probably wouldn’t even hold up…’

Colin was shocked once again.

Then he quickly reacted, intending to use “Time Freeze” and the Bone Spur to strike down this old relic.

But just at that moment, he suddenly felt the man’s grip, as strong as steel, loosen.

Right after that…

The man, along with the chair, appeared a few meters away, as if by Flash.

Colin had a feeling that even if he used Time Stop, he probably wouldn’t be able to react faster than the other man and secure him…

“Ah, does he have ‘Deadly Insight’ or some such ability to foresee the outcome? But then again, does this not also suggest that the gear in my possession still poses a threat to him?”

Colin’s thoughts raced as he likewise prepared for combat.

However, the Level C Employee sitting not far away did not hurry to make a move but instead stretched out his right hand, brought it to his face, and inserted it into the vortex swallowing half his face, pulling hard…