SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 736 - 736 528

Chapter 736: 528 Chapter 736: 528 Nowadays, Yukionna might be called an item, but as her human-like qualities increased, the restrictions of the Containment Protocol on her seemed to have been reduced…

The so-called possession and lethal freezing “negative effects” on the user by the original Yukionna were pretty much gone.

It felt like there might come a day when the ring could be directly smashed and released.

“No, you can’t release her either…”

Colin looked at the Yukionna who was twiddling the Brain Scepter like a propeller hat and had the dumb look of a foolish child on her face, and suddenly felt that this intelligence increase wasn’t too apparent.

The Brain Scepter spun in circles in the sky like a dragonfly and spread waves of a faint mental ripple.

With a figure as shapely as a young matron’s, and although her intelligence had clearly increased, Yukionna, who still held a child-like mentality, puffed out cold air around the scepter excitedly puffing her cheeks, making it spin faster while absorbing all those mental ripples, as if she were snacking…

Watching her like this, Colin felt that releasing her might easily lead to trouble…

Hmm, can’t release her.

“If the next mission isn’t too difficult, maybe consider letting Yukionna carry it out in full, with me supervising?”

Colin raised his hand to touch his chin, thinking it might not be a bad idea.

A fully unleashed Yukionna had strength that ranked high even among Third Level Containment Subjects…

If he encountered her in the wild, Colin would have to use a set of skills to take her out in a second.

After all, in the early days, Yukionna was a quite strong and able assistant to him; although she had fallen behind somewhat now, that didn’t make her completely useless.

Colin often let her merge with his body to gain some of the Containment Subject’s inherent abilities like levitation and phasing through walls…

“If we find something compatible with Yukionna in the future, we could let her merge with it to enhance her life attribute level. If someday we can raise her to First Level Containment Subject status, then… that seems quite good?”

“Yeah, and if she’s human enough, then maybe when I reach C Level and can have my own team, I could make her my employee to exploit her better, oh no, I mean, guide her to better serve human society…”

Colin felt a bit regretful he had only noticed these things now.

But finding something that could match with Yukionna wasn’t an easy task.

It’s not as simple as finding any item with an “ice” attribute to combine…

After briefly paying attention, Colin turned his focus back to this week’s “delivery” event.

The requirement was to arrive at a small village in the Yungui Mountains after ten o’clock tonight, find a well there, jump into it to reach a special area, locate a door buried deep underground and throw “Rosen’s Amputated Hand Copy” into it to finish.

No mention was made of the risks…

After briefly going over the information, Colin immediately went to Xu Duojin and asked him to bring over some data.

‘A rather remote area, if not for the mission display, the authorities might not even know there had been people living there…’

After briefly going over the data and having a meal, Colin set out directly.

A few hours later, he arrived at the target area alone.

An eerily primitive forest, and the so-called village…

“This doesn’t look like a village. Is it the wrong time?”

Colin looked around, only to see tall trees everywhere, with various loud insect noises non-stop, plus the ominous, almost imperceptible cold mist at night, which was rather creepy.

And in the upper right corner of his vision, a time display provided by the Little Maid.

It was about nine o’clock…

He had arrived a bit early.

He had been standing there waiting until ten o’clock when, suddenly feeling a sense of awareness, Colin turned his head and saw that a few meters away from him, where there had just been a forest, was now shrouded in a cold and misty fog…

One robust tree marked the boundary; in front of the tree was the normal world, while behind it lay something dark and strange.

Deep within the dim fog, with the reflection of the flame on his body, Colin could make out an ancient gate about ten meters tall, its plaque inscribed with faded vermilion, ancient text that was mottled and unclear…

“Little Food Manor?”

Colin murmured softly, though not with certainty. Then he moved his eyes, looking past the gate and into the depths, where he could glimpse the outlines of some ancient, low-lying buildings that were faintly visible through the thick fog behind.

“Hiss…”

Colin felt a shiver run down his spine.

The atmospheres of anomalous events within the country could be intensely creepy and eerie.

Originally, he had considered using this place for “Yukionna” and Little Maid to practice, but seeing the situation, it seemed better to take it easy to avoid any issues.

“Better find a task type abroad next time; they are more straightforward and easier to bully…”

Drawing in a breath, Colin gathered a ball of flame above his head, then strode forward, passing under the gate, entering this secret world.

“An independent inner world intersecting with reality…”

Feeling an indescribable sense of trance, Colin nodded and continued deeper along the path.

Soon, he came upon the village he had glimpsed before.

Dozens of ancient buildings constructed of earth and timber stood, some of them adorned with faded red lanterns and the like…

Following the mission guidance, from a distance, Colin saw a well in a large building resembling a clan ancestral temple; he couldn’t tell if it was dry or not…

He had pinpointed the target of his mission, but he didn’t act immediately.

After all, whether he walked or flew, he was likely to pass through that cluster of ancient and creepy buildings.

“It looks so sinister, makes me want to burn it all down…”

Colin didn’t sense any real danger, but the indescribable eeriness made him want to eliminate any potential threats.

If he were to start a wildfire here and everything was set ablaze…

His sense of security would be at its peak.

However, just as Colin was pondering the feasibility of doing so, he suddenly felt as if his flame had illuminated something bizarre…

Immediately, he turned his head, looking to the side, and his heart skipped a beat…

About a hundred meters to his right, there stood a massive, crooked tree with claw-like branches, from which hung a row after row of Chongzhen, no, bodies.

The number was astonishingly in the thousands…

“There’s not a single sign of life in the village; could they all be hanged here?”

Colin wondered briefly, then with a Flame Leap, he appeared in front of the crooked tree.

As he was about to raise the flame to illuminate and take a closer look at the bodies, he noticed a skeleton seated at the base of the tree, dressed in clothing that seemed almost modern.

And through an item scattered next to the skeleton, which popped up with the information, Colin immediately discerned his identity.

“An employee of the company?”

Colin looked from the skeleton to the bodies hanging overhead, frowning:

“How could an employee end up dead here?”