SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
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Chapter 691: 506 Chapter 691: 506 A future she wouldn’t have dared to imagine just a few years ago.

That is…

With Bone Spur and that Shield Emblem, Shana felt it wouldn’t be easy to ask for them back.

“Really, these Points, I don’t know how to thank you enough,” Shana couldn’t help but whisper softly.

‘Is she happy because the money arrived just in time?’

Colin, sensing something, was moved by her emotions and couldn’t help but suggest, “How about a dance?”

Upon hearing this, Shana almost immediately shook her head, “That’s not possible, I can’t do that…”

She pursed her lips, not saying that dancing for others was also inappropriate.

After a pause, she tilted her head curiously and asked, “Is the amount of Points this time because of that ‘Hunger’ fragment?”

“Roughly speaking, yes.”

Colin nodded, sensing the desire for knowledge in Shana’s icy blue eyes, and said, “This task with ‘Hunger,’ it’s worth around fifty thousand Points…”

Out of eighty thousand Points, after deducting his own and Lady Bunny’s appearance fees and such, that was about the number.

But no sooner had he finished speaking than he felt something was amiss.

When really calculated, the “Hunger” fragment should be worth more than one hundred thousand Points. It’s hard to say exactly how much, but in terms of Points, that “Wildfire Affliction” could be seen to some extent as a partial compensation.

Or a significant compensation!

Hiss…

He hadn’t realized until he actually did the math, and then Colin felt even more apprehensive.

However, Shana didn’t notice this. Right now, upon hearing Colin mention the value of “Hunger,” her eyelids fluttered slightly and her pupils shone brightly—

It was so valuable!

This “Hunger” fragment was much more valuable than the Ancient God that had beaten her to the point of vomiting blood and lying in bed for half a month!

It’s just a pity that the “Hunger” she could feel seemed to have been reclaimed. No, there were three in total, two have been collected, and one she had come into contact with a long time ago was more like a concept than the other two, but then it disappeared…

Latter on, when she sensed that part again, it had already taken root inside Mr. Colin.

Thinking of this, Shana couldn’t help but glance at Colin, giving him an inexplicable shiver.

‘Feels a bit dangerous.’

Colin wondered if this might be a subtle warning from Shana?

But at that moment, he suddenly heard the increasingly beautiful lady in front of him saying:

“Mr. Colin, if I detect a ‘Hunger’ fragment, can I still work with you on it?”

She felt that if it was a task issued by her parchment, she wouldn’t be able to get more than fifty thousand Points, which according to her observations of late, might be several times less!

“Of course, that’s fine…”

Colin didn’t know if she was teasing or what, but he nodded anyway. After he spoke, however, he suddenly noticed something and said in surprise, “You know the whereabouts of other ‘Hunger’ fragments?”

“Not sure, but I’ve encountered some during descent missions in the past…”

Shana nodded, recounting an experience from about six or seven years ago.

Back then, the mission was, in some world, being summoned by a queen or something similar. She was asked to help in a war, emerge as the final victor, and claim a battle prize.

Other participants, akin to her, from different worlds, were summoned into this war.

One of those who descended held power similar to that of “Hunger”…

‘Good grief, they’re staging their own Holy Grail War, huh?’

Colin mumbled to himself and listened as Shana continued, “Among those I know, it seems you’re the only one who can wield ‘Hunger’s’ power. Was that person you?”

“No, it wasn’t me… I don’t even know them,” he shook his head.

Six or seven years ago? If nothing unexpected had occurred, he would have just been starting eleventh grade back then…

It was unexpected that, at that time, Shana had already started working for the company.

After thinking for a while, Colin asked for some more details and was basically able to confirm that person indeed held some power bestowed by a “Hunger” fragment…

But it was unclear whether the power was a gift from “Hunger” or harnessed through a method similar to “Bonfire.”

There was a significant difference between the two.

“Who ended up with that battle prize in the end?” Colin asked curiously.

“It should have been the person behind me. But after defeating the last one, my doppelganger reached its limit. Since it was my first one and I didn’t have good control, I returned, so I don’t know if she got the item or not,” Shana briefly shared the outcome and then shook her head, “Unfortunately, it seems impossible to find that person now.”

‘That’s true, unless he’s an employee of the company and then through internal means, sends a signal to ‘Lady Rabbit,’ just like Lady of Thorns did.’ Colin thought to himself.

‘Other than that, there was one other encounter in a chaotic, terrifying world, which does seem a bit possible.’

Shana took out her parchment, ‘I’ll look back and see if I can find more information about that place. If I do, I’ll let you know.’

‘Okay,’ Colin nodded.

As long as Shana provided the address, ‘Lady Rabbit’ would surely respond—

But looking at it, did ‘Lady Rabbit’ want to take over Shana’s ‘branch office’ because it still had control over multiple ‘Hunger’ fragment regions?

However, from what it had shown before, it probably wouldn’t be that easy.

But they didn’t continue to delve into this matter. After a brief chat, Shana began to examine whether Colin had grown stronger, and they both entered the ‘Nightmare Lantern’ and fought until the night before they finally rested.

After finishing daily training, Colin walked out of the small chapel, ready to also check whether his employees were slacking off late at night.

He also took a look at the harvest of the talking seeds…

Meanwhile, inside the small chapel, Shana split a part of her avatars to follow Colin, with her main body sitting in front of the Bonfire, continuing to heal and repair her various unhealed injuries.

Just as Colin left and she was focused on healing herself, she suddenly sensed something and pulled out a yellowing parchment from under the sleeve of her left wrist.

She then opened the ‘Marketplace’ feature, and was surprised to find that the shelf, which originally only had ‘black bread’ and ‘sour and hard black bread’ and items like drinking water, now had some other things.

[Multi-function Base Vehicle (Specially Optimized Version)]

‘Description’: A deployable mobile base vehicle with an unfolded area of about 50 square meters, which can be powered by injecting points, and has basic function templates such as ‘rest room’ and ‘medical room’.

‘Note’: Can be expanded in a limited capacity through the expenditure of points as well as the appropriate materials.

Price: 5000 Points.

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‘This is…’

Shana looked at it, could it be the very useful ‘Base Vehicle’ that Mr. Colin brought?

But, it’s quite expensive, five thousand points for one…

Yet, if it’s similar, the usefulness would be great!

After thinking it over, she informed Colin through her avatar, who was strolling through the fields with her, to come over to her side to help advise on whether it was necessary to buy it.

But, just as Colin came over and saw the thing on the screen, he was shocked.

This damn thing…

‘I left the Base Vehicle here for two weeks without taking it back, and it went ahead and cracked it?’

Colin was completely stupefied.

What was most ridiculous was that they didn’t just mimic it and crack it, but they were damn selling it in front of him!

Selling it to him!

Colin almost laughed in exasperation.

Was the ‘branch office’s’ way of doing things a little too wild?

‘How about it, Mr. Colin? Is this thing worth buying?’ Shana asked, raising her arm to gently touch him.

‘It’s not worth it.’

Colin came back to his senses from his stupor, decisively shaking his head after seeing the so-called ‘Specially Optimized Version,’ which in reality was more like a cut-down castrated version, he couldn’t help but snicker.

‘500 points might be worth considering, 5000 points, the original version in the Heavy Industry World wasn’t even one thousand points, this price is a serious markup, they must be money-mad.’

‘Besides, the base vehicle we currently have in our territory is pretty much still sufficient, so there’s no need to fuss.’

Colin decisively offered advice against the purchase.

At the same time, he faintly felt that the ‘branch office’s’ nature reminded him of someone…

‘Oh, I see…’ Shana nodded thoughtfully.

But, it was at this moment that a line of a mission popped up on the parchment.

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ps: Revision follows later.

ps2: Happy New Year!