SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 737 - 737 529 Super Antique Employee._1

Chapter 737: Chapter 529: Super Antique “Employee”._1 Chapter 737: Chapter 529: Super Antique “Employee”._1 “Hmm, doesn’t seem like anything major…”

“It feels like if the employees of the company go out on a trip, they’re bound to find a few bodies without any accidents, dead in every corner of the universe…”

“If this task wasn’t about delivering a package, I would have thought we were going to recover some limbs again. But speaking of which, what’s the situation with this old guy? His way of dying seems kind of… odd.”

As thoughts flashed through his mind, Colin had become accustomed to encountering the corpses of employees upon stepping outside.

He stood in front of the body and examined the old guy’s corpse, noticing that there were quite a few air roots penetrated into his skin…

Then, he looked up at the thousands of bodies on the giant crooked neck tree, each wrapped in air roots like a cocoon.

His first impression was as if he was using this strange tree to draw nutrients from the bodies to heal itself.

But his intuition told him that wasn’t quite it…

At this moment, the Little Maid suddenly made a sound, “The age of this corpse is at least over a hundred years, with the ultimate cause of death being organ failure induced by fatal injuries…”

Ignoring the latter part of what the Little Maid said, Colin listened to the first part and couldn’t help furrowing his brows, “Over a hundred years… Are you sure?”

“The specific year is uncertain, but he has been here for at least more than a hundred years,” the Little Maid affirmed again.

Over a hundred years ago…

Colin squatted down, his brow deeply furrowed. He knew that a hundred years earlier on this timeline, there was no such thing as the “Bonfire Company.”

So could this be “the previous batch”?

Combining the information he had with official content and discussions among some employees of the company, Colin had long felt that this world might have gone through a reset, and that the reset was incomplete.

That’s why there were all kinds of strange places.

Only this could explain how these “modern people of the twenty-first century” who had died a hundred or even several hundreds of years ago came to be.

However, it was precisely when Colin was staring at the corpse and examining it that he suddenly felt a surge of information from the company, like data in his mind that wouldn’t stop…

It seemed as if he was receiving some information from the corpse itself.

“Is this, decoding?”

Colin inexplicably felt like he was computing an exceptionally complex problem.

But as puzzled as he was, he didn’t shift his gaze and kept staring in cooperation.

About a minute later, everything stopped.

[Information reception and decoding complete, the following is the content left by the former company employee──]

“Current investigation results can confirm that ‘Little Food Manor’s’ generationally worshiped ‘Green-faced Kitchen God’ has an unusually close relationship with ‘The Eater,’ suspected to be one of the sources of turmoil, but it is uncertain whether it is a part of it or some kind of religious follower…”

“What’s certain is that ‘The Eater’ had appeared here and later left from this place, destination unknown.”

“Everyone in Little Food Manor went completely insane after Its appearance, without exception. If they were allowed to go out, they would certainly attract the attention of other calamities, so I have resolved them…”

“Additionally, in the original worship area of the ‘Green-faced Kitchen God,’ there exists a source of contamination, with some prohibitions on top. Although it will not erupt in the short term, in the long run… it still needs to be resolved.”

“Of course, if it is people who have fled here, and they truly don’t have any extra strength, they can ignore it…”

“Most areas here are safe, but not suitable for long-term hiding because it is impossible to grow food, and some weak sources of contamination that induce hunger, so it’s best to find a way to leave within a year…”

“I hope that one day, you can successfully leave and see the sun rise as usual again…”

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“Leftover information…”

After quickly going through the information in his mind, Colin immediately extracted a few keywords.

“Green-faced Kitchen God,” “The Eater,” “turmoil”…

These words made Colin realize that the corpse in front of him might be that of a very early employee, really early, the kind from a long time ago…

He had a premonition that this turmoil was probably the “Black Turmoil” once experienced by humanity, as mentioned by Big C Teacher.

And judging from the content left by this former company employee, the turmoil seemed to be ongoing during his active period, not yet over, and the future remained unknown…

“Hiss, this corpse, really an antique here.”

Colin took a deep breath of cold air and then pondered the meanings of some other words.

“Green-faced Kitchen God,” he had no idea about the situation, but the “The Glutton” Buddha statue was greenish-black. Moreover, the word “The Eater” went without saying—if you just add a “Big” in front of it, it becomes the famous “0-09 ‘Hunger,'” feared by all demons and Outer Gods…

“Speaking of which, it seems that ‘The Eaters’ of this period might not have reached this level? And they haven’t been fully contained and rehabilitated by the company yet, still in a fugitive state? No, a wild state?”

Colin thought thoughtfully, knowing that if it had already been contained, the employees generally referred to it by its code number.

And not by some revered godly title…

This form of address hardly aligned with the company’s prevailing value system that placed humanity above all else.

‘That confidence in dealing with high-level Containment Subjects must have been forged during this calamity…’

With these thoughts flashing through his mind, Colin didn’t continue to investigate; after all, these events were in the past. While they satisfied some of his curiosity, they weren’t of much use to him.

The most critical thing was there wasn’t much mention of “The Source of Pollution” by this employee.

However, having learned there was a certain relation to “Hunger,” Colin couldn’t help but feel a bit relieved…

Lucky he hadn’t asked Yukionna to deal with it directly.

Otherwise, if a real issue arose, with the involvement of a “0” level entity, he might not be able to ensure its safety.

Then, Colin looked at the corpse in front of him, unsure how to proceed…

By his custom, given the choice, he’d definitely plan to eliminate all external threats first and then move inward step by step.

This naturally included the corpse before him…

But such an antique, it seemed a shame to simply burn it.

Perhaps it might yield some key information later on?

Just then, a task suddenly popped up…

[Temporary Event: Recover the remains of a former company D+ level employee.]

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“D+ level employee? The rank is not so low…”

Colin murmured, pulled out a disposable glove from his pocket and put it on, then touched the corpse following the task’s direction, and instantly, some kind of guidance indicated completion.

An invisible whirl appeared, sucking the body and its broken artifacts lying beside it inside.

Task completed.

As Colin was taking off the disposable glove and getting up, he suddenly heard “crack, crack” sounds coming from above in the air.

He raised his head to see that thousands of bodies, once hung up by D+ employees using tree roots, were starting to shake on the crooked trees.

From beneath the roots came the crackling sounds of chewing…

It was like a mouth gnawing at something or a chrysalis about to break open.

Something was about to emerge!

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