SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 857 - 857 579 The Covert Attack from Behind

Chapter 857: Chapter 579: The Covert Attack from Behind Chapter 857: Chapter 579: The Covert Attack from Behind A massive block of ice enveloped the area he was in…

Through the hard, semi-transparent ice, Colin saw that this must be a rather spacious room…

And on his body, the flame that had once covered him had now grown markedly weak.

“Is ‘Yukionna’ using this to preserve me?”

Colin pursed his lips and then moved his body. Amidst the cracking sounds of the ice shattering, he broke free from some of the frost’s binding, only to find that his body had also accumulated many irregular, pitted wounds.

The culprits of these injuries were some strange insects.

They were like beetles the size of fingernails, penetrating the surface flames and nibbling at his skin in wriggling motions as though they were munching on leaves and twigs.

However, it seemed due to the activation of the finger bone at his chest, most of the insects had already perished.

A few were still wriggling under his skin…

Colin inserted his fingers into the wounds, dug around in the flesh, and removed all the now almost inactive insects, crushing them to death—

These creatures were not fatal to him, but were just slightly uncomfortable, compounding the severity of his injuries.

“It’s a bit like some kind of plague. The reason I couldn’t wake up just now seems to be because of them, but fortunately, now that I’m awake, that’s not a big problem…”

“It’s just that after so many battles, there are so many enemies that I can’t even remember where these insects came from or who attacked me…”

Colin rubbed the insect corpses in his hand, wiped them aside, leaned against the ice wall, and tried to get up, planting his legs on the ground, but felt somewhat powerless. His previous attempt to reach the ocean had not been successful, and to escape, he had spent a lot at the cost of using numerous items.

Moreover, for fear of using the bonfire and melting the seal set by Old Master Wu on his aura, which could make him reenter the sights of those higher beings, he could only use items throughout.

As a result, his body was now in an extremely weary and adverse negative state…

Gently shaking his head, Colin recalled the luminous hand in the darkness and the words still ringing in his ear that gave a strong sense of security…

“Shana?” Colin uncertainly looked down at the necklace made from her finger bone that he wore on his chest.

He felt like he had heard Shana’s voice, but was not entirely sure…

Because logically, she should be in “World Code-13,” which made it unlikely she would appear here.

Yet, just before he opened his eyes, he harbored a certain expectation, but upon opening his eyes and stabilizing his condition, once he calmed down and saw the coldness all around, not a single shadow he wanted to see was in sight, everything seemed like a dream.

The sense of discrepancy made Colin feel an indescribable discomfort and regret.

However, he couldn’t afford to spend more energy on this now…

At this moment, a strange commotion suddenly erupted.

A gust of cold wind accompanied by a howling roar faintly made its way to his ears.

Colin, who had just barely managed to stand up, staggered a few steps forward, pushed open the room door, and looked through the hallway towards the outside, belatedly realizing that it seemed some enemy had followed them.

And “Yukionna” was about a hundred meters away, engaging the enemy together with “Mountain of Smiling Corpses”…

The roar from just now was emitted by “Mountain of Smiling Corpses.”

At this moment, it was larger than any he had seen before, composed of three house-sized black mass of corpse mounds. As it moved, the ground vibrated, but it seemed that due to the enemy’s attack…

One of the corpse mounds had half chopped off, motionless.

As for “Yukionna,” she hovered in the air, creating widespread frost and ice spikes among other methods, attacking from the side and occasionally using the massive body of “Mountain of Smiling Corpses” as a shield.

The enemy’s strength was not particularly weak this time.

It was a female figure in a gray hooded cloak, and beneath the hood was a rather delicate face, but at the very bottom, instead of feet, stretched out were numerous worm-like shadows, acting as roots to support her body…

“Is this something similar to those fishmen that underwent a transformation like before…”

At a glance, Colin recognized the situation of the opponent.

Such enemies, within the usual heretic groups, are typically of statuses like High Priests or God’s Favored Ones, with very formidable powers…

Had “Yukionna” not strengthened herself significantly, they would have probably already lost.

At that moment, the cloaked female figure held a long sword in her right hand, its blade wrapped with numerous “threads,” which connected to a terrifyingly menacing ancient specter, puppeteering it to launch attacks on Yukionna.

Meanwhile, in her left hand, she wielded a silver cup, brandishing it now and then, from which new imps appeared in twos and threes…

“Yukionna” focused primarily on freezing these dark spider-like imps that crawled everywhere before taking the opportunity to launch sneak attacks on the main body.

“Where is he? Where is he! Hand over that damned man to me…”

“Why would you help a sinner who has caused the world to be destroyed to such an extent…”

“Hurry up, hand him over, or you all shall die…”

The cloaked female figure murmured to herself while fending off attacks.

From her own body, there were also frequent outpourings of mental attacks, causing “Yukionna” to sometimes scream in agony…

Right now, facing the joint attack of “Yukionna” and “Mountain of Smiling Corpses,” she even showed signs of counter-suppression!

It was foreseeable that if things continued this way, defeat was almost certain.