SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 434 - 434 389 Under a Restless World..._1

Chapter 434: Chapter 389 Under a Restless World…_1 Chapter 434: Chapter 389 Under a Restless World…_1 “Xu Duojin?”

Colin recognized the other party at a glance.

The two had interacted many times; often, the other party was there on behalf of Old Master Wu to speak with him.

After all, even if Ninth Level Personnel had clones, those clones were mostly too busy to spare time.

Thus, they had to find someone specifically to interface with him…

Though using an Eighth Level Personnel for this kind of legwork was somewhat wasteful, Colin’s identity was too special, the stakes too high – so even though there was a significant shortage of high-level combat power in many places, they still squeezed out a senior member to correspond with him.

However, under normal circumstances, Colin remembered, this guy wouldn’t show up so easily; he wondered what he was here for now.

Without any pleasantries, he directly asked for the reason.

At this moment, upon hearing Colin’s words, Xu Duojin, a middle-aged looking man who was actually only in his thirties, nodded.

As he put on his sunglasses, he looked at Colin:

“I’m here to answer some questions about ‘Destiny Propeller’ abilities on behalf of Mr. Wu. Before that, though, may I ask you something first?”

“What is it?” Colin nodded.

“Where did you learn about ‘fate reset’?”

Xu Duojin, confused behind his sunglasses, said, “That’s considered a high-order skill, usually kept secret; even high-ranking members other than ‘Destiny Propeller’ would hardly know…

And it’s a measure only used as a last resort.

Then… among the high-ranking members of ‘Destiny Propeller’, there doesn’t seem to be a traitor, so how does he know about this?

Could it be that someone silently took down a high-order ‘Destiny Propeller’ member?

It’s said, though, that some of the Extraordinary Ones possess similar methods, but if that were the case, Mr. Colin would not have come to them directly…

“It’s related to a train mission I had a couple of days ago; if you’ve been paying attention, you would know that on that train, I encountered many former Bonfire Company personnel…”

Colin didn’t hide much and roughly explained the situation.

“Is that so…” Xu Duojin slightly bowed his head upon hearing Colin’s explanation and showed a look of realization behind his sunglasses, as if he had figured something out.

He then took a deep breath and began to explain, “A similar method to this one is internally known to us as ‘Fate Correction’, a skill that can be used by those who are at least Level Seven…

“The exact method of execution involves observing both friend and foe before the battle, then capturing the moment as if in a photograph as much as possible, afterwards they would close their eyes…

“When the time comes, they open their eyes again to revert everything back to before it all happened.”

Hearing this, Colin couldn’t help but recall the words of that ‘Destiny Propeller’ D rank personnel: “‘Seeing is believing, if I have not seen it with my own eyes, does it mean it’s false?'”

“Hmm?” Xu Duojin, surprised, glanced at Colin through his sunglasses before nodding:

“Yes, that’s roughly the gist. This effect would activate upon his death or whenever he felt it was appropriate…”

“Activation upon death? Then decapitation in advance is pointless? With such a bug, if he can’t win, can’t he just keep resetting indefinitely?”

Colin took a sharp intake of breath; if the opponent’s strength wasn’t too much higher, wasn’t it simply a matter of dragging it out?

“Not really, first of all, the number of uses isn’t infinite. Generally speaking, we Level Seven Personnel can use it once or twice a week, three times at most—Bonfire might have more uses, but certainly not infinite…”

“Secondly, factors like the venue and the enemy’s power affect this thing. The smaller the venue, the better, otherwise ‘recording’ takes a lot of time. As for power, the stronger the enemy, the worse the efficiency of the skill…

“If it’s activated in the midst of battle due to his death, the effect is particularly poor.”

“Also, if the enemy receives reinforcements, the resulting variables can significantly impact the ability, even with a certain probability of breaking the effect completely…”

“However, once successful ‘recording’ is made, those included in the record have a hard time escaping; usually, they can only resort to brute force, fighting it out all over again.”

With a wry smile and a shake of his head, Xu Duojin cleared up the relevant issues before further inquiring Colin for details about that battle.

Then, he roughly confirmed that Bonfire indeed possessed some deeper methods…

For instance, from Colin’s accounts, the adversary clearly had less power, yet the ‘recording’ time was much faster, more than double his speed, and the state after usage was much better than expected…

And more importantly…

The mental and physical state of that Bonfire personnel was still that of a young person.

No whitened hair, no baldness, and the skin hadn’t aged…

Xu Duojin raised his hat with his left hand while his right hand reached in to touch his hair…

But he felt nothing at all.

‘That form, is it the state after having taken ‘Gene Compensation Medicine’…’

Xu Duojin sighed inwardly; unfortunately, he was already Eighth Level personnel, too late to use it.

After letting out a breath, he continued to look at Colin: “You must have noticed, those ‘Destiny Propeller’ users, they talk a lot during a normal fight; don’t think it’s all nonsense…”

“Actually, that’s their way of deepening the connection between you two. How well the various ‘Destiny Propeller’ methods are triggered mainly depends on their understanding of you, as well as the relationship between both parties…

“Because of your overpowering presence at the time, his ‘Fate Correction’ was obviously not perfect enough…”