I'm afraid of non-human beings

After she answered the call, the radio went silent.

Now those behind-the-scenes thought it was nothing more than a joke to see how long the sacrifices could last, leaving them here staring at SCP-173.

Fortunately, there are three of them.

It is difficult for a normal person who has not undergone deliberate training to forcibly endure for more than a minute without blinking, and it is easy to overturn. It is always no problem to last for ten or twenty seconds.

By gesturing to each other, they set the order of taking turns to blink, making sure that even if they take turns, another person will be watching from the sidelines.

"Hold on, hold on..."

His eyelids were so sore that he could blink tears in the next second, Geng Qinghe kept muttering, even he couldn't tell whether he was reminding his teammates or himself.

He held the armpit of the statue numbered "SCP-173", and the bumpy texture of the concrete surface reminded people of how it used these "arms" to break people's necks.

"Crack" sound——

Does it sound good?

A good sound is a good neck.

His overly rich imagination made goose bumps on his arms.

"This, this is too heavy——" Ren Yueyu's voice squeezed out between his teeth, and he tried his best not to blink while supporting the other arm of the statue, "How heavy is it? !"

"There is no clear record of this."

Lin You tilted her head, "But it's made of steel and concrete, so it must weigh seven to nine—one hundred kilograms?"

Maybe, if there is someone who is physically stronger than ordinary people, he can hold it on his shoulder with one hand.

"Just this cabinet." Standing in the office with the door wide open, she stared warily at SCP-173, which was set up one by one on the left and one on the right, and patted the door of the locker with the key inserted behind her. "Keep going, we'll be there soon."

They are not interested in playing one, two, three wooden men's lives with SCP-173 now. The ability to teleport is really incomprehensible, but fortunately, it has a limitation that it cannot move while watching.

The two of them moved around for a long time, without any trouble on the road, until they pushed the statue in together, locked the cabinet door with a bang, and pulled out the key. Then they all rubbed their sore eyes.

But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the sound from inside the cabinet suddenly tensed up the spirit that had just been relaxed.

Once, again, someone seemed to be scratching the metal cabinet wall with a stone.

Think about what material SCP-173 is made of...

Ren Yueyu's voice was trembling: "It, it won't—"

"I remember that there are records in the official documents. When its containment room is empty, there will be a sound of scraping stones. It is a normal phenomenon." Lin You paused, "...but it's hard to say, let's leave here first."

Without further ado, the three of them left the office and closed the door firmly, barely counting as a double insurance.

Then I saw Lin You draw a big red cross on the door with the marker pen that just came out from inside.

Geng Qinghe was a little confused.

"Sister Yu, you—"

"Ah?" Seeing them suspiciously looking at the mark she had just made, Lin You suddenly understood, she explained, "in case of emergency."

Geng Qinghe: "..."

He didn't dare to ask her in case of any emergency.

Ren Yueyu seemed to understand this as preventing them from breaking into the office where SCP-173 was closed by mistake, but knowing the nature of the boss, he knew that things were definitely not that simple.But under the strong desire to survive——

He, he chose to shut up.

The hallway was so bright that the lights were a bit glaring, and Lin You knew that she didn't have to struggle to decide whether to meet Naia—anyway, she had put the shining trigonometric cube back into the wooden box, and he would always appear when he should appear. appeared.

"They said they would release those 'nightmare' in turn..."

Ren Yueyu said nervously: "I don't know when."

"They can't see the scene here, but there must be a way to confirm our life and death." Lin You said.

It is not known whether it is infrared temperature sensing or other methods.

"Sacrifice has a time limit in all likelihood, and they should want to get rid of us in the shortest possible time," she said, "so the interval won't be too long. But it won't be too short, because there are still things to consider. The problem of recycling later..."

"Five to seven minutes."

She finally said: "It should be in this range."

"Wait a minute," thinking about the fact that they had wasted the boss' effort in moving SCP-173 just now, after counting the time, Ren Yueyu broke out in a cold sweat, "Isn't that just——"

Lin You said "hmm".

"--Now."

In the distance, there seemed to be a "ding" sound.

-

Right in the middle of the hall.

Between the slowly opened elevator box doors, the first thing to stick out was a shoe heel.

It moved back quickly, the other toe propped on the ground, and then changed quickly.The visitor danced a moonwalk and slid out of the elevator backwards.

... It's easy to tell which two hundred and five it is at a glance.

Geng Qinghe held the phrase "Fuck" in his throat and didn't say it, he muttered for a long time: "Why is it him?"

The plague doctor wore the pointed beak mask, held his top hat with one hand, and held his equally sharp wooden crutch with the other.With a little excitement that couldn't wait, he looked around enthusiastically, and after finding that there was no one around, he actually showed a little disappointment.

Lin You slapped herself on the forehead.

Failed.

"Maybe it's because he's being active," she said dryly. "Don't forget, he just saw us."

Not only have I met him, but I have also said to his face that he is a quack doctor. No wonder he wants to prove himself now.

As soon as they arrived in a hurry, they quickly hid behind the wall. After watching SCP-049-J search but failed, they wandered to the other end of the corridor.

"They don't want to use this elevator to transport the monsters against us, do they?" Ren Yueyu looked at the only elevator door with a special material, and hesitated, "If we try to destroy it..."

Lin You: "You can try."

To be honest, it was impossible for her not to be secretly happy when she heard the words on the radio.But for card collection, first ensure safety, settle the ledger with those people, and then go find it yourself... It's not impossible.

Ren Yueyu hesitated again and again, but got up first, wanting to get a little closer to see the situation.

He took a step and hadn't gone far when the indicator light above the elevator flickered and changed color.

"No——" Lin You's face changed, "Come back!"

Hearing her words, Ren Yueyu had just turned his head, and within four or five seconds, he heard another familiar "ding".

The elevator door, which was already closed, reopened behind him.

The light from the ceiling light of the car was reflected outside the door. Although it could not be called very bright against the lights in the hall, it clearly cast a suspiciously shaped shadow on the ground.

The dangling "man" was covered with a rag, and stuffed around its head and shoulders—

—It is straw.

The scarecrow lightly stepped out of the elevator, and a face covered with only simple facial features was turned to their direction.

The moment Ren Yueyu caught a glimpse of the shadow, he scrambled and pulled it away for several meters. Now he looked at the murder weapon in its hand, and his chest kept heaving.

Damn it, thinking of SCP-096 behind her, Lin You cursed secretly, but this guy doesn't have real eyes——

Before they could say anything, they turned around and ran away.

Fortunately, this scarecrow, which is taller than ordinary people, looks sinister, but it doesn't run very fast. It follows slowly, and it seems that it will catch up with you sooner or later.

"Sister You," Geng Qinghe had already come to his senses, "Do we have to find something..."

Lin You nodded.

To deal with the straw, of course it is...

"Find--"

Before she could say the word "fire", she turned the corner, and the scene in front of her stopped her voice.

...they caught sight of the guy dressed as a plague doctor at the end of the corridor.

"It's you!"

He stared straight at the three of them and cried out.

This is the first time they've actually heard SCP-049-J's voice.

Lin You rolled her eyes.

"It's over, it's over," Geng Qinghe's face turned pale, "Isn't there a wolf in the front and a wolf in the back—"

"Wrong," she said, "it's because when you doze off, someone will send you a pillow."

What are you looking for?

...? !

Lin You immediately went up to meet her.

"I'm sorry, doctor, I didn't believe in your ability before." She repeatedly apologized, "But compared to us, there are others who are more anxious to wait for you to save."

She said anxiously: "Actually, we met a friend just now, and he is much sicker than us—"

SCP-049-J jerked violently.

"More serious patients!"

"Yes, doctor." Lin You grabbed his hand and said earnestly, "Its disease is really serious, we must find a way to cure it! Only you can cure it!"

——Ju, to be so sincerely asked!

Compared with the last meeting, SCP-049-J received a completely different knowing blow.He stared fixedly at Lin You, not even the bird's beak mask could conceal his emotion.

"Yes, very good, very good," he nodded repeatedly, and said incoherently, "What a kind lady. I have the antidote and I am the most effective, I mean, I am a doctor after all, and I am the antidote. Medicine—what's wrong with the patient?"

"……head."

Lin You paused for a moment, and immediately said decisively: "It has a headache!"

There was some sweat on the beak mask, and SCP-049-J knew he couldn't back down here, otherwise they would find that he didn't have the judgment ability to make a diagnosis.

So he followed the direction the other party pointed, sniffed pretendingly, and nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice.

SCP-049-J: "Yeah yeah I smell the plague—"

Geng Qinghe: "..."

Who are you kidding, you were just really taken away!

Lin You glanced back, only to see a shadow sweeping around the corner.

"Doctor, it's coming!" she said nervously, "Can you really cure him?"

"Yes yes, of course, I am the best doctor."

SCP-049-J responded repeatedly, and began to search in his doctor's bag. When he found something, he seemed to be relieved suddenly, and took out the leather shoe.

……shoe? ? ?

Ren Yueyu: "Leather shoes?!"

"Yes sir," said SCP-049-J a little displeased, "this is the antidote, and it works best for headaches."

Before she finished speaking, she stopped the other two, stepped back, and motioned for him to make room for him.

The gloomy scarecrow had just turned a corner, and before he could grin at his prey, he looked up and saw a black figure rushing towards him.The plague doctor wearing a sharp-mouthed mask was howling loudly, holding——

...a shoe.

Accompanied by incoherent howls, he erupted with unprecedented strength. The strength in his hands was stronger than ever, and he specifically slapped his head, and he just used the upper of his shoes to hit the opponent who was caught off guard until he hugged his head.

The scarecrow, who was stunned at first, just thought of resisting, and was beaten again.

Such a violent beating like a storm makes people completely powerless to parry, let alone the opponent's rhythm and afterimage.It even lost half of its head, yelling indistinctly, but SCP-049-J was obviously abnormally excited, and it didn't mean to stop at all.

Until it was pulled out abruptly.

The straw flew, and the headless body fell down.

Standing in the messy straw scattered all over the ground, SCP-049-J put away the shoe, put his hands on his hips, exuding the joy of accomplishment.

"it is good--"

But he is so awesome, put his arms around his waist for a while.

"Completely cured!"

The quack doctor who beat the "patient" to death said happily.