SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 739 - 739 530 The 15th Loop Task ._2

Chapter 739: Chapter 530: The 15th Loop Task ._2 Chapter 739: Chapter 530: The 15th Loop Task ._2 When his silhouette became solid, Colin looked around to make sure there was nothing strange in this fire-red world. Then, holding his revolver, he walked step by step to the edge of an empty well behind the ancestral temple and peered into it.

“It seems there’s no water…”

Colin’s finger flickered, and a large amount of flame, obedient like an extension of his limb, poured into the well. Through these flames, which felt like his own tentacles, he quickly discovered a spiral staircase leading downward about fifty meters, ending in a bluestone passage.

The passage was clearly man-made, cut into the rock. As he moved deeper, he could see a hall filled with ancient pots, jars, and some steles and inscriptions displayed around…

If not for the flames filling it up, completely illuminating the interior, it would have been rather cramped and oppressive.

“Is it an ancient tomb?”

Colin had a hunch, feeling that the style of this tomb seemed quite old, possibly from the Tang Dynasty?

In any case, the style was quite different from above; it was likely not built by “Little Food Manor”.

However, not paying much attention to this, Colin controlled the flames to cover all places. While permeating continuously, he quickly got a clear picture of the specific situation of the underground area…

Soon, deep within, he saw a brass door that had endured an unknown number of years.

The brass door stood eight meters tall, constructed entirely of pure copper, engraved with profound and incomprehensible patterns that, in the light of the flames, reflected a dull glimmer.

With a thought, Colin once again performed a Flame Leap, materializing ten meters away from the large door.

Immediately, his gaze fell on the slightly ajar brass door which exuded a sense of heaviness. The door, nearly half a meter thick, was open about the width of two fists, with a hazy grey behind the gap…

“Gurgle.”

Colin couldn’t help but swallow, not knowing why, but he felt a strong desire to enter.

So fragrant… so delicious…

He always felt that there might be something tasty inside?

“Could it be ‘Hunger’s’ collection of ‘snacks’ from back then?”

Colin murmured to himself, took a deep breath, and suppressed the sudden urge that had sprung up.

But since he was targeted by “Lady Bunny” and specifically instructed to toss a hand inside, it’s safe to say that behind that door, things probably aren’t as peaceful as they look from the outside…

Although he was curious about what was inside, it was clear that entering was not an option.

Under these circumstances, to find out what was inside, he either had to send fire into it or use the “Book of Fate: Fragment”…

“Whichever I choose, either would guarantee an accident, and certainly a very tricky one.”

Colin hardly thought about it before he outright gave up the idea.

After all, “Lady Bunny” hadn’t asked him to go inside to check, and one characteristic of her missions was that they were fine until an accident happened, and if it did, it would become particularly troublesome.

Afterward, he withdrew his gaze from peering inside and, without hurry to throw the hand in, he took a second look at the brass door.

“The purity seems quite high. In normal history, even the recent few dynasties, casting such a thing would be difficult.”

Colin raised his head and scanned the door from top to bottom. The door could be said to be genuinely antique, and its age far surpassed that of the sacrificial offerings inside the tomb by many times.

But the problem was, the solid doorjambs about a meter beside the door were not something ancient people could easily make.

To create those, it seemed that Extraordinary Power must have been involved…

Looking at it this way, the appearance of extraordinary abilities might have to be dated back by several hundred years more than previously thought.

Colin pondered for a moment but did not dwell on it too much, for the oddities of the ancient past were more serious than those of the “previous generation’s” lost era…

It reached the point where they were known only by name but not in detail.

“It must have been rectified by the ‘Bonfire Company’ at some point. If time truly restarted again, then during the last rise of the Bonfire Company, the first unfortunate ones were probably the immortals and gods on Earth, as well as whatever buddhas and gods from outside…”

Colin felt that this was probably not far off from the company’s modus operandi.

Thinking this, he shook his head, took out the “Token” from his pocket, and threw it towards the gap in the door from a distance.

The light of the flames flickered and fell behind the door.

Immediately afterward, some horrific entity was awakened by this action, seemingly not expecting that upon waking from its years of slumber, it would set eyes on such a treasure, letting out a howl unbearable to mortals.

In Colin’s mind, vague abstract images came through, which, if translated into reality, would be like a person sleeping soundly suddenly feeling a disturbance and upon opening their eyes, seeing a swarm of roaches crawling all over, then frantically getting up and “going mad.”

The terrifying vibration kept attacking the thick brass door…

The breath that penetrated the grey-white haze twisted the sounds, sights, and the very space here.

With a “bang”,

Colin stepped forward, placing a foot on the door, leaning forward with his muscles tensed, and forced the door shut with one kick.

Suddenly, the scene fell silent.

And the vibration behind the door, from its initial intensity, gradually weakened after thirty or so seconds…

Soon, all the anomalies had disappeared.

“Struggled for fifty-one seconds, the longest struggle to date,”

Colin muttered to himself, the previously very loud “South Sea Bodhisattva” was just loud in its cries; in reality, it barely lasted twenty seconds before rolling its eyes back.

And many others didn’t last even ten seconds.

The way here was actually so quiet, I thought it was a minor affair, but it managed to howl for just over fifty seconds before quieting down.

It just goes to show, the dogs that bite really don’t bark…

At the same time, the words “Task Completed” popped up.

Colin didn’t hurry back. Instead, he reappeared outside the clan temple, watching a little world burning fiercely. With a wave of his hand and a call to arms, flames from all directions began to converge here…

In about ten minutes or so, the firelight gathered here to form an enormous fireball.

“Request to establish a ‘Bonfire point’…”

Colin sent out his request, exercising the authority granted in the “Outstanding Talent Plan.” He couldn’t establish a “Bonfire point” with special features, but a general one was still possible.

It was just that it wasn’t needed before, so it hadn’t been dealt with.

Now I feel, this place could be remodeled a bit…

Before long, the giant fireball began to shrink bit by bit, turning into a ten-meter-tall but incredibly bright Level 1 Bonfire.

“Looks good but not very useful; can’t even reach Level 2…”

He complained, but a Level 1 Bonfire was already sufficient. Whenever Colin needed, he could sense and monitor this place from any region on Earth, and use the special channel within the Bonfire to leap quickly to this location…

After confirming this, Colin didn’t linger; he went back home directly through the prompt provided upon task completion.

Upon opening my eyes, it’s the familiar ceiling again.

Colin shook his head and sat up, looking at the parchment, the Eighth Ring’s delivery task popped up.

“The transitions are really seamless, they didn’t waste a second; the ‘Flextime System’ is just amazing…”

Colin shook his head. After staying at home for a while, he became a numb task worker and began preparing for the next event.

Time flew by quickly amid the “monotonous yet thrilling” cycle of delivery tasks…

In the blink of an eye, more than twenty days had gone by.

A weary Colin was almost finished with this lengthy series of fifteen delivery tasks…

At the moment, aboard the “Train in the Fog” for six stops, he arrived at a broken world with disordered gravity. After creating havoc, expelling an incarnation of an Outer God, and freeing a large group of enslaved silicon-based humans, Colin completed the fourteenth ring task by dropping the “Token.”

“In the company’s eyes, as long as you consider yourself human, then you really are human…”

Colin looked at a crowd of unknown brown Crystal Stones forming a roughly human shape—Stone People—and reflected.

The fact that fishmen counted as people was one thing…

But that a bunch of Stone People could also be considered human was unexpected to him.

Shaking his head and gathering his scattered thoughts, he returned to the Earthly world amidst the kowtows and worship of the Stone People.

“Finally, the last task…”

Colin sat up and widened his eyes, feeling a mix of anticipation and nervousness, rubbing his hands as he murmured prayers for an untroublesome task, while opening the parchment to look at the final event.

When he saw the name of the task slowly emerging on the yellowed paper surface, his heart skipped a beat…

[Event: Go to the “Nonexistent Hospital”…]

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ps: Updating first then editing.

The day before yesterday, it suddenly dropped from above 20 degrees to 2°C, and I caught a cold, feeling a bit under the weather…. I’ll take a leave tomorrow, and everyone also take care to stay warm.

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