SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
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Chapter 727: 522 Chapter 727: 522 Under the condition that the “Logic Point Blockade” didn’t take effect, the two naturally started discussing some matters related to Points earnings. Afterward, as Shana shared some details, Colin’s mouth slowly dropped open.

“Huh? How, how much?”

Colin froze, “You’re saying you earn just a few or at most a dozen points per task?”

“Yes, usually it’s like that, just a few points. But after meeting you guys, I often get tasks that are worth a dozen or even several dozen points…”

As she mentioned this, Shana, who was sitting properly on the chair, couldn’t help but recall the time she had planned to exchange a “200+ Points” fortune for a Bone Spur…

Instantly, she felt a bit embarrassed and curled her toes beneath her feet.

“A dozen points…”

Colin muttered to himself, a dozen points for someone of Shana’s capabilities?

His first reaction was nearly disbelief, as this was much lower than he had thought—the small tasks a few hundred points, the large tasks only one to two thousand points for the lowest threshold…

As incredible as it was, what Colin was very clear about was that Shana was never one to lie—it was a guaranteed reputation.

By comparison, that wild and unpredictable “Subsidiary” was another story entirely.

Then, Colin suddenly thought of something, “Do you… do you remember your reward for the first time you helped me repel enemies and the blessings effect you added afterward?”

“The first meeting? I have some impression. I remember it was a dozen points and some black bread. The second time, it was 50 points plus some loose points, approximately…”

“Fuck! Beast!”

Colin couldn’t help but curse out loud, interrupting Shana.

50 points?

He could remember very clearly, in oppression by the “Twilight Angel,” he had reluctantly paid out five thousand points for the summoning cost, and then he had to renew the BUFF every half day or so at several hundred points per person each time…

But to Shana, it ended up being only about a hundred points?

At that moment, Colin desperately needed a word more aggressive than ‘beast’!

It was also at this moment that he finally understood why there was such a huge disconnect between Shana’s actual persona and the “greedy” image when summoned…

In a certain sense, the keywords greed, money-grubbing, and looting weren’t wrong, they’d just been applied to the wrong person.

“What the hell is the origin of this ‘Subsidiary,’ skimming ninety-nine percent?! As far as I know, even the forum with the highest tipping rate I know of only takes nine out of ten…”

“What an unscrupulous, blood-sucking subsidiary!”

Colin couldn’t help but recall the “transparent consumption” posts on the employee forum.

That was the highest skimming rate he knew of…

But he hadn’t realized there was a bigger player at hand. From what Shana implied, this skimming wasn’t even disclosed to them.

In that moment, Colin felt an inexplicable sense of relief.

Relief that this “Subsidiary” hadn’t forcibly taken him to be one of its employees…

Based on this compensation reward, Colin guessed that by now, he might have just managed to gather enough to buy the “Widow Yukionna”—

No, skimming ninety-nine percent was too harsh; he might not have been able to gather enough at all.

‘Come to think of it, this subsidiary has always been suspected of being Rosen’s, but I heard Rosen was somewhat stingy, paying low wages, but it didn’t seem stingy to this extent. Has the… subsidiary gone rogue?’

If not so, Colin really couldn’t understand its unsustainable and exploitative approach.

Then, he glanced sideways and looked at Shana, noticing that after learning she had been given tens of thousands of points but only ended up with a hundred in her hands…

Shana suddenly fell silent, her ice-blue eyes like the surface of a mirror-like lake, her delicate face unexpectedly calm, without a single ripple.

But Colin, sitting opposite her, inexplicably felt a sense of alarm.

He thought for a moment, preparing to say something comforting…

It was at that moment, as Shana, who was motionless and seemingly lost in thought, made a move. She took out a parchment from her sleeve, held it in her hand, and stared at it blankly for quite a while.

Suddenly, she blinked her eyes and shook her head, as if muttering to herself:

“Actually, I might not care so much about the loss in this regard, nor about some deceptions,

“It’s just that if… if it had taken a little less, then, there would have been more choices to make back then, and more people would have survived the disaster until today…

“Why do this?”

Upon hearing her words, Colin couldn’t help but feel moved—Shana’s heart was truly pure. He could sense that she really didn’t mind her own loss, but rather cared more for those who couldn’t be saved…

Unfortunately, faced with her probing questions, Colin guessed that the “Subsidiary” would probably play the ostrich.

This time, it relied on its own earnings of several hundred thousand Points, feeling like it had sucked enough blood…

Perhaps it would just play dead until the next generation of Saints came along.

After all, the “Light” Saint wasn’t passed down from generation to generation but emerged when special circumstances arose.

If this generation was seen through, the next generation would simply be exploited in the same way.

However, to Colin’s surprise, after this thought surfaced, the parchment in Shana’s hands actually gave some sort of response!

[“World Code-13” is unique, many confidential matters and functions require a significant amount of Points, and the Points acquired are also used in maintaining some necessary powers…]

[If some related functions are not maintained in time, the condition here will be far worse than it is now.]

[In the allocation of related domians and the use of Points, there is ample necessity, with no waste.]

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Reading this response, Colin’s intuition told him it was true information, but whether it was all the information was hard to say.

Because the “transparency” was really quite low…

The whole thing was about “related”, “relevant”, and such, and Colin was not well-versed in the workings of this mechanism; who knew if there was any trickery involved.

But he was 80 percent certain there was some hidden reason why the parchment was so desperate for Points.

Just didn’t know what was being concealed.

‘Now, if there was a chance to bring over ‘Lady of Thorns’, who is also a ‘World Administrator’ and a clerical officer, maybe the situation would be clear, she undoubtedly knows a lot.’

As this thought flashed through Colin’s mind, he glanced at Shana. There was no change in her expression; one couldn’t make out any emotions like joy or anger…

Through Bonfire’s sensitivity to human emotions, he could only feel that her mood was relatively stable.

Just a bit too stable.

At that moment, Shana suddenly looked up at Colin, “Mr. Colin, do you have anything you would like to ask it?”

“I really haven’t thought of anything to ask for the moment…”

Halfway through his sentence, Colin suddenly got curious, “Speaking of which, what essentially are Points? Why does it seem, aside from its monetary value, that it has other substantial uses?”

Before this, Points in Colin’s view seemed just to be an internal digital currency, but from the parchment’s description of “maintaining some necessary powers,” it appeared they were not just a credit currency but had intrinsic practical value like gold.

Yet, faced with Colin’s question, the parchment had no intention of responding.

It seemed to be biased against him.

‘What the hell, it’s having a temper tantrum, huh?!’ Colin grumbled to himself.

Seeing that the parchment was not responding, Shana’s grip on it tightened slightly, and streaks of light seeped into the parchment, then she repeated Colin’s question.

[“Bonfire Points”: A form of currency that circulates within the company and can only be utilized by ‘Bonfire Company’ and the like, it can activate certain company protocols and powers, similar to how energy operates and maintains…]

[Note: Its production and related interpretation are classified for employees below A Level, and cannot be known.]

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“A Level and below are classified items?!”

Colin’s eyes widened slightly; was this thing’s classification level so high?

The “Stupid Robot” remembered “Lady Rabbit” saying that the security level seemed to be only B- at best, but it turned out that some fundamental aspects of Points were classified above that?

Suddenly, Colin got the feeling that the company was full of pitfalls.

After asking about that, he tried to understand a bit about the “Seed of Light.”

Previously, in the middle of the night, when it came asking for items in exchange for 300,000 Points, it had offered this as a choice—

Which meant that, in its view, this thing was extremely valuable information.

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ps: There’s one more chapter coming up.