SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 498 - 498 416 Dont worry its basically impossible

Chapter 498: Chapter 416 Don’t worry, it’s basically impossible for anything to go wrong. Chapter 498: Chapter 416 Don’t worry, it’s basically impossible for anything to go wrong. ‘Ah, this…’

‘If I didn’t know we were on a mission, just by looking at your log, I’d think we were out here sightseeing or on vacation, what with camping and barbecuing and all. Full bellies lead to lustful thoughts, you guys seem to be making good progress…’

‘If you’d brought a camera, you’d probably have taken a few ‘V’ sign group photos.’

Colin was silent for a moment. He was slaving away here while that group was out there having fun…

The people the company recruited this time, it’s hard to say how capable they are, but their mindset is pretty solid.

‘Speaking of which, the strongest mindset at the moment should belong to that guy in the hospital, calling for help day after day without going mad or suffering a psychological collapse. Just don’t know… if that guy is still ‘human’ or something else now.’

His thoughts drifted for a few seconds, then Colin interrupted the group’s ‘vacation’, asking everyone to be ready.

The big event was probably coming…

According to Night Owl’s intel, when the time came, “Time Reversal” would return to reality from some special spatial domain that did not belong to the present and its appearance would leave only a few places on the starship unaffected.

‘So far as I can see, even being cloaked in bonfire, it’s easy to fall prey without realizing it. I fell for it before, but unlike some weaklings who never realize it no matter how many times it repeats, I caught on rather quickly…’

Colin pinched his forehead, being the holder of “The Sealed Right Hand”, he wasn’t too worried about it.

It was just the D Level staff outside that he didn’t know about…

‘With a temporary Bonfire Sacrificial Site in place, even if there’s a problem, it won’t be too big, and once I collect the items, this phenomenon will be resolved, and everything should be fine.’

Thinking it through, Colin felt that his logic should be correct.

After reminding the group that seemed to be on vacation, they also got themselves ready, waiting for the arrival of that team.

It didn’t take more than about ten minutes for Colin to see the support team mentioned by the others.

A fully armed elite squad of about thirty people.

Their uniform was black covering armor, but the various weapons they carried on their backs were a bit different, consisting of standards of plasma, laser-class weapons, and they were equipped with thermal knives for close combat.

‘Cool gear…’ muttered the Little Chicken, unable to help expressing his admiration.

‘Pure human physique, without a hint of mysticism, but their quality is surely much stronger than the average person on Earth. With that special armor, even their individual combat strength is quite impressive.’

Colin looked them over with curiosity, surmising roughly, although he didn’t sense any special artifacts, the standardized weapons they were equipped with.

If used against D Level Personnel, they would likely stand a good chance.

Night Owl’s gaze swept over the team, then looked toward Colin, “They’re the ones who’ll be working with you shortly. Different from those grown in three months, these have all been trained over a year to be elite units, all at the peak of their abilities at three years old…”

‘Uh, when I was one I had just started walking, and at three I was only just starting to talk clearly a bit…’

Colin muttered to himself, keeping a straight face, “So, are we going now?”

“Right, I’ll accompany you for a bit, but I won’t enter the core with you; when the time comes, you look for her—let’s call her Nightingale—she’s the captain of this team…”

Night Owl called out the squad leader of the small team.

They communicated among themselves, since they had special auxiliary systems implanted that enabled them to quickly identify one another.

But to outsiders, they probably all looked identical…

After a brief exchange, the operation commenced. Colin and his group followed the thirty-plus-member squad and started heading toward the core layer.

“There’s a main gate pathway leading to the core layer, but now, it’s certainly impassable, so we can only advance through some special passages that were reserved long ago…”

“These passages are regularly checked by our people, and under normal circumstances, nothing unexpected happens.”

“You just need to follow the preset route to get in.”

At this, Night Owl seemed to remember something and added, “But should something arise, when it’s time to give up, do so decisively and don’t worry about us.”

“To us, death is merely a return to ‘bonfire’, it doesn’t mean the end of everything.”

Considering the beliefs of this group sent by the company, he was very worried that they might ‘lose the big picture for something minor’.

‘Isn’t it a bit bad to say such things in front of others?’

Colin glanced at the other members of the elite team, but regrettably, they were motionless, showing no sign of any unusual emotions.

He neither nodded in agreement nor did he refuse, but Colin asked about other matters:

“What’s in the ‘core layer’? What has happened there?”

“It’s not very clear, we only know that every so often, a lot of abnormal things and contamination seep out of there, and our existence is to ensure that this overflow of contamination doesn’t exceed a certain threshold…”

Is that so… Colin nodded, “Then, if I retrieve that item, will it affect this in any way?”

It’d be quite inappropriate to take it if the place collapses right away.

“Yes, but not much, because the spacetime here has long been altered in some special way by the first batch of people; whether this item is here or not doesn’t affect the bigger picture…”

“On the contrary, it might be better without it.”

“Because ‘Time Reversal’ was originally one of the defensive mechanisms of the starship, meant not to affect our own people, but due to this out-of-control item, it started causing confusion between friend and foe and disrupted the original setup. After it’s gone, we won’t have to worry about it causing additional ‘Time Reversal’.”