I'm afraid of non-human beings

The sound of bones snapping was particularly crisp.

When the Thousand-Maw Beast's body slipped off, Lin You even saw its tongue slipping over the top of SCP-173's head——

Perhaps because of this reason, she always felt that this time the figurine twisted the neck extraordinarily hard, definitely exceeding 180 degrees.

Lin You dared to bet that if SCP-173 had the ability to think, it would probably want to kick the heads of everyone present, especially herself as the culprit.

But who cares, anyway, it is now trapped in sight and unable to move, she likes the joy of repeatedly spreading its wings on the verge of death, and the other party is so angry that she can't do anything about it.

—Maybe this is how the devil thinks.

The thousand-throated beast fell limply to the ground after its neck was broken, and its huge body over two meters long was still undulating weakly, occasionally twitching, which made people have to marvel at its powerful vitality.

Guan Chuchu hadn't realized that she had created all this with her own hands through a miracle. She leaned against the wall in shock and gasped, but unconsciously stared at the statue as the boss said.As for the skull—it was also dumbfounded.

Skull: "Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah—"

"So this guy can teleport and break other people's necks?!" The skull yelled in shock, "How amazing this is! Think about it, it's a good research object, ah no, please be I didn't say anything. But compared to this, if it suddenly came over and gave me a 'click' on my neck, wouldn't it be—"

It suddenly realized "Oh".

Skull: "I don't have a neck now, hehe."

Lin You: "..."

"Stop it, stop it," she interrupted it grimly, "no one wants to hear your bad jokes now."

If it still had flesh, it would definitely be able to see this guy pouted—for some reason, Lin You inexplicably had such a strange intuition.

"I also want to liven up the atmosphere." The skull, which was still dangling back and forth in the glass box, said in an aggrieved tone, "Speaking of which, the little guy is still lying on the ground and is not completely dead. Do something?"

Lin You couldn't tell for a moment whether it was calling this vicious monster "little guy" or calling it so affectionately but asking if it was more weird.

That's a real problem.

But Lin You didn't plan to take care of this now.

After all, when she squats in front of her to study, if it is not straight—no, it is certain—a statue will move behind her at high speed and let her know whether her neck bone is lacking in calcium or not.

"Hey," Lin You sighed, "Let's discuss it."

She puts a smile on SCP-173's shoulder.

"How many times have you met each other back and forth? We are all acquaintances. Don't make up those falsehoods. Do you agree to give a letter?"

The living statue was so motionless that it was odd to see it move at such close range.

If it could talk, it would be [-]% cursing right now—who the hell is your acquaintance? !

Locking other people in the cupboard every day, what kind of acquaintance is this, who stays where it is cool!

But it can't, no matter how many MMPs it wants to talk about, it can only hold them all in its heart, and a pair of short hands are stretched forward in vain, almost holding back internal injuries.For a moment, Lin You felt that the concrete surface under her hands seemed to vibrate slightly, but the slight movement was fleeting, and she blinked.

Ah, it must be an illusion.

Seeing that there was no movement for a long time, Lin You turned her head and waved to Guan Chuchu, preparing to move it back into the cabinet with the two of them working together.

It just so happened that the agents of the Foundation thoughtfully and efficiently allocated a key. As long as you find a way to move the cabinet and arrange its position, it is not a dream to use SCP-173 at any time.

I believe it will also be able to adapt to the life of repeatedly coming in and out of the closet, and achieve a happy ending for everyone.

Guan Chuchu's footsteps were flimsy, and she floated over in a daze. She didn't come back to her senses until she really got close, and stretched out her hand in a hurry.

However, after they really started to push, the two of them felt a resistance at the same time.

The resistance that shouldn't exist is very ethereal and weak, and you can only feel a little when you push forward, and disappear without a trace as soon as you let go.

So much so that Guan Chuchu wondered if it was just her own psychological effect, and felt the last point of SCP-173's futile resistance.

But look at the concrete humanoid statue in front of him. It didn't move at all and couldn't move. It was facing the open cabinet door.

It may be because it has been in it for a long time, and the walls of the locker are covered with red and black mixed with unknown secretions, which is so weird that it makes people get goose bumps all over their bodies.

Guan Chuchu looked at the person next to him hesitantly, and silently asked her opinion with her eyes.

Lin You thought for a moment.

"in spite of."

She said decisively, "Keep pushing."

The people in charge of making up their minds had said so, and Guan Chuchu simply didn't think too much about it.Her strength in waking state is quite different from that in the state of rampage. However, the two of them exerted strength at the same time. Although it was very difficult, they managed to slowly move the heavy concrete statue towards the cabinet door. a little.Only then did they let go of their hands and took a breath, clenching their teeth, ready to work together again.

Then, at the moment when it was pushed into the cabinet with all its strength——

Both of them had empty hands at the same time.

Guan Chuchu: "...!!!"

Grass!

The statue that was pushed with all her strength suddenly disappeared without a trace, and she couldn't even take it back. She fell forward under the inertia and couldn't stop. It hit the stainless steel door frame.

Lin You's side wasn't much better either, and managed to stabilize her body just a second before she fell down.As soon as she stood firmly, she immediately moved away from the secretions of unknown composition that came from SCP-173. Before she had time to catch her breath, she lowered her head and realized that just now, there was a thin film in her hand. Paper.

That is a card.

Lin You raised an eyebrow.

That's it.

"Anyway."

Looking at Guan Chuchu who was puzzled by Huan Zhang Er Monk, she smiled and said: "It seems that it is not willing to go back into the cabinet even if it is killed."

[Name: Statue of SCP-173]

[Card number: 017]

【Level: SR】

[Remarks: The mysterious statue that came and went without a trace, as the origin of everything, suddenly appeared in the Foundation's storage station one day.In an indescribable "accident", he hit it off with another SCP- (coding) who did not want to be named, and made a joint debut.Later, because of my own experience, I hated the closed environment very much. It is recommended to open the door of the cabinet to give the child a free world. 】

Lin You: "..."

She stared at the two short hands of SCP-173, which were abstractly smeared on the card, stretching forward, as if wishing to strangle her holder to death, and the brightly colored face. Time fell silent.

Guan Chuchu wiped the cold sweat off her forehead. She didn't care if the final result was that SCP-173 changed the card, she just knew that this solved once and for all the risk that someone might come and twist her neck at any time.

"It's done?"

When this sound came, the two of them remembered that there was another guy who had been forgotten by the side.The glass box containing the skull was placed on the ground against the corner of the wall, and it just turned around in it boredly, glancing at the half-dead Thousand-Maw Beast from time to time.

Lin You: "Almost."

Skull regained his spirit immediately.

"Then I won't be sleepy anymore, hurry up and hurry up," it said excitedly, "release me quickly, even if I don't need to breathe, I will be smothered to death by this box."

"But your glass doesn't look like it can be broken."

Lin You had already scooped up the heavy glass box, put it in front of her eyes, and clearly felt that the material was very special, "Well, let me try—"

Skull: "...?"

She let go suddenly.

What the hell! ! !

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

Lin You: "..."

Lin You: "Stop howling."

"You landed," she said dumbfounded, "nothing happened."

Skull: "Eh, eh? Yes!"

As long as it was not damaged at all, the over-strong glass box was what it was before it fell, and it is what it is now, not even the slightest crack.

Even Skull himself knew it, so it was difficult.

There was still a thousand-throated beast laying there like a dead fish. Guan Chuchu was still on guard against it rising violently, until she saw Lin You turning her head thoughtfully, as if she was estimating the monster. Can the jagged row of fangs in the mouth be a qualified can opener?

...You can be a human being! !

Lin You regretfully gave up on this idea in the end. There was no other reason. The bite force of the Thousand Throat Beast is amazing, and it can bite off a person's head as easily as eating tofu.

Of course, you can try to use it to break the glass, but what is more likely to happen is that under its strong hatred, even her own arm will be lost.

"Let's go," she said.

The Beast of Thousand Throats itself lacks many necessary organs to sustain life, so it is not too unexpected that it can still survive with a broken neck bone.

Anyway, it had already lost its ability to move, and Lin You didn't bother to do anything else. After all, the "little poor" who had been victimized to this point obviously didn't want to become stuck, and wished he could move a little more to bite off the opponent's head.

Too bad it doesn't have that strength.

The thousand-throated beast who couldn't rise again was left behind, and there was an empty and white corridor in front of him, Guan Chuchu suddenly felt a little dazed.

"Sister You," she said, "Then let's go now..."

Lin You: "Ah, I don't know either."

Guan Chuchu: "..."

Grass, as expected!

"We don't know where we live," Lin You said briskly, "It would be weird to say we know where to go."

"and many more."

She changed the subject, "What about this?"

Skull: "Huh?"

Holding the glass box, Lin You pointed to the hand bone that Guan Chuchu was holding, dumbfounded, "We can't let us keep holding it like this."

"Oh oh oh!" Skull suddenly realized, "Just put it in."

Put it in?

Guan Chuchu was a little confused for a while.

The skull began to try to hint with the black eye sockets.

... Can you see a ghost? !

Its eyes hinted that it was the same, but Guan Chuchu inexplicably understood, and hesitated to touch the glass with that hand bone.Immediately afterwards, as if passing through a transparent air membrane, they watched with their own eyes that the bone disappeared into the air after touching the skull.

"Just find my bone and put it in," it said happily, "I'll get it, I'll get it, and I won't bother you."

Lin You: "I have a question."

Skull: "Ask, you can ask."

"Since you can do this," she said, "why don't you come out yourself?"

Skull: "...human beings have limits!"

Lin You can roughly guess what's going on. Now that it has only one head left, it still has self-awareness.

She said "ah" and stopped teasing it, "Let's get back to the topic."

"Just try your luck."

After solving such a small episode, she said seriously: "For the time being, it's still the same as before. When you see a room, go in and look for their employee access card."

If you're lucky enough to meet someone with a high level, it's enough for them to move freely around the building.

Guan Chuchu couldn't think of a better trick. However, they searched through two offices along the way, and the most special thing they found was a lamp on a certain desk that could twist and turn on and off automatically.

It's not even an anomaly, so it's no wonder it's put here as an office supply.

Guan Chuchu has always had a good habit of closing the door casually. As soon as she let go of the handle at this end, she saw Lin You go straight into the door directly opposite, and then said "Huh" softly.

"here……"

Lin You took a step back as soon as she entered, and looked at the small electronic screen by the door—although she saw it just now, she didn't think much about it because the door was open, and when she entered, she found that the inside was completely different from the office they turned over.

"What's the matter?" Guan Chuchu approached quickly and asked curiously.

Lin You pointed in, and walked in without waiting for her to lean over to look.

In this empty circular hall, there is only one small table standing alone in the center.

It doesn't take much to wonder what a room like this means in an SCP Foundation containment site.

Although it can be seen from the layout, the items or biological hazard level inside will not be too high.But this containment room should have to swipe a card to prove your identity before entering, so if the door is opened so aggressively, either it has already escaped or it cannot escape at all.

Lin You approached.

——Apparently, it’s the latter.

A small piece of snow was spread on the table.

It was a white scribbled note.

A young woman is drawn on the sticky note. She is composed of black and white lines, wearing a summer dress, leaning on an old car that is also drawn, her ponytail swings back and forth with the movement of looking around, as if she has not noticed anyone near.

She turned her head unconsciously, startled when she first saw the stranger.

Guan Chuchu let out a small exclamation, and before she saw "Cassandra" in the small print next to it, Lin You suddenly understood who it was.

—SCP-085, "The Man in the Picture".

Known as "Cassandra," but she prefers to be called "Kathy," she exists in a two-dimensional world and can interact with any object drawn on paper as if they were real.

Ordinary people can communicate with Kathy by writing on paper, and she is also positive and friendly, and she will write the same or reply with writing—just like now, after the short-lived surprise is fleeting, Kathy hurriedly starts gesticulating Get up, as if eager to convey something to them.

however--

It's over, Lin You thought, she doesn't know anything about sign language.

Skull: "I come, I come, I come!"

Lin You: "Do you know sign language?"

"Don't look at me like this now," the skull said proudly, "you have to ask me what I can't do."

"Oh My God."

It sighed: "What a polite girl, 'Although I don't know who you are, I think I should tell you'..."

"'I don't know what's going on here, but there seemed to be a commotion before the researcher who came to visit me disappeared out of thin air'—huh?"

"'I heard that a particularly dangerous guy has escaped. It has escaped several times before and caused a lot of casualties every time. It must be more serious now'... It sounds a little scary."

The skull paused.

"—she told us to run."

"Dangerous creature..." Lin You lowered her voice thoughtfully, and just when the rest of the people thought she was thinking about the escape route, she raised her head.

"Isn't that better?" She said with a smile.

Skull: "..."

Guan Chuchu: "..."

? ? ? ? ?

-

In the hall, several corpses were randomly overlapped and spread on the ground, and a big hole was broken in the wall, which looked as if it had been smashed open violently.The only living thing in the hall was the huge lizard-like reptile.

With extreme loathing, it poked its head through the gravel hole.

"Human... damn human."

It hissed, "I'm going to..."

"Rip you all to shreds."