I'm afraid of non-human beings

……never mind.

Lin You stared at the R card in his hand, which could be called an N card, for a long time. He didn't want to lose it, and he didn't want to lose it. Finally, he silently put the card away.

This is a strong buy and sell!

she thought angrily.

But things have become like this, and it is a done deal. There is an old saying that what comes is what comes, and although it is somewhat awkward to apply to the current situation, it is still reluctant——

She was still convincing herself painfully, the other two were already nervous enough listening to the continuous smashing sounds coming from inside, and they were even more frightened when they heard the sound of suspected impact.

"Sister You," Guan Chuchu repeatedly waved her hands in front of her, "Sister You?"

Lin You: "Ah."

She came back to her senses, facing the worried expressions of the previous two, she made a decisive decision, "Let's go first."

The three hurriedly left the corridor that left countless memories for SCP-682, the sounds of the monsters struggling gradually faded away, and the walls along the way were all destroyed, and it was obvious at a glance that the furnishings of those rooms were nothing special Or worth investigating.

But not all.

A room they passed that also only had half a wall left seemed to be a containment room. Apart from the broken wall, there was still a layer of glass separating the room from the corridor—perhaps thankfully SCP-682 hadn’t broken the glass.

Inside is a small pond, surrounded by coarse sand and stones, and a few pieces of driftwood, on which dozens of large crabs with the length of an adult's forearm are climbing up and down.

They seemed to have noticed them too, and a sound came intermittently from the glass.

"……Hey……"

"...No, come over, take a look?"

The gigantic crab crawling horizontally and vertically utters human words, but the mechanical speech is still so stumbling and discontinuous, which is more thrilling than wonderful.

"This..." Considering the danger of the things being held here, Guan Chuchu touched her bare arm reflexively, "It can't be that kind of man-eating crab, right?"

Lin You said "ah".

"This one, I remember."

"SCP-098," she said, "the sore crab."

"It will imitate the sound of the prey to lure the prey to approach, but if they are too hungry, humans are also within their hunting range."

Lin You still didn't think it was enough, and added: "By the way, it was discovered that they were missing because of a case at first... I think it seems to be an eight-year-old boy."

Guan Chuchu: "..."

Really! !

That is, now...

She shrank eight feet away from the glass wall all of a sudden, and the crabs behind the glass wall saw that the prey they were aiming at was farther away, and they all became restless, and they frightened Guan Chuchu in turn, forming a panic. A closed loop.

But compared with her, the other person's reaction was different.

Lin You stared at the group of crabs that could be as tall as a man when stacked together, thoughtfully.

Although it is extremely dangerous to face these guys directly, risks and benefits coexist. If you can find a way to catch them all, you will find a suitable opportunity to release them in the future. It must be of great use in various aspects——

Then, she saw, or maybe it was because of her sight, that the sore crabs that had gathered around the glass wall and salivated almost instantly scattered away, some of them drilled into wood, some of them went into the water, Not even a shadow.

Lin You: "...???"

Why are you running away? ! !

She was still in the same place, but the crabs who were eyeing tigers dispersed, and Guan Chuchu beside her was relieved.

"Let's go," she quickly took the arm of the person next to her, "Sister You, let's go."

Lin You: "..."

She thought about it for a while, and felt that it would be too time-consuming and energy-consuming to find a way to toss these hordes of crabs, and she might catch up with other monsters in the containment room and break out——

...reluctantly give up.

Lin You turned her head three times at a step, and was finally dragged around the corner reluctantly.She can no longer see the glass wall, which saves her the trouble of turning her head back and forth. Going further inside, she will reach a place where SCP-682 has not had time to destroy. The walls and floors are still intact, which saves them the trouble of paying attention to those Rubble and broken bricks.

"Ah," Han Fei stopped by a bulletin board, "Look at this."

Guan Chuchu and even Lin You turned their heads without knowing why.

He was pointing to a red and black map, and those gray blocks on it were undoubtedly walked along this way—er, office rooms or containment rooms that have been almost destroyed by SCP-682, see Knowing this point, it is clear what the remaining slender red arrows refer to.Obviously, this is an escape route map.

Lin You: "...What a coincidence."

The arrow was pointing in the direction they were going to go, that is to say, walking down like this would directly lead to the escape passage leading to the first floor. In the current situation, it was really a small surprise.

"Anyway, you can really try to leave along this route—"

Halfway through Han Fei's thoughtful chanting, he was suddenly interrupted by Guan Chuchu's soft "Huh".

She looked confused, tilted her head against the wall, and didn't know what she was listening to. She didn't come to her senses until she noticed the surprised eyes of the other two, and she also retracted her hand as if taken aback.

"Sorry, sorry," she quickly explained, "I just feel that I heard a strange sound."

Han Fei: "Huh?"

"How strange?" Lin You asked.

"That...it's hard to describe."

Guan Chuchu stroked the broken hair beside her ears in distress, "I just heard that I was drilling something, no, it should be digging compared to drilling... I was still here just now, and now I am moving forward..."

Her conditioned reflex was about to take a step forward, Han Fei couldn't tell what he was thinking at that moment, and somehow had the urge to stop her - and someone was faster than him.

Lin You pressed her shoulder.

"Wait," she said, "don't move yet."

She also didn't know where the ominous premonition came from, maybe it was the intuition she had cultivated for a long time, or maybe it was... the spider web-like crack that suddenly appeared on the wall.

Out of that unknown intuition, she subconsciously withdrew her hand and moved the person back——

Human eyesight can't capture more, only the lines spread across the entire wall in an instant, and then...

The eardrums trembled for a moment.

White smoke filled the air, dust choked the nostrils, and smashed concrete mixed with steel bars scattered all over the ground.The walls that were originally intact collapsed in an instant, and not only that, but the broken bricks and stones were also stained with a mysterious tar-like liquid, making a suspicious "sizzling" sound.

——Guan Chuchu, who was about to be submerged in the rubble, turned pale.

When the dust that occupied the entire field of vision gradually dissipated, only the shadow standing on it became more and more clearly visible.

It was obviously only the size of a heart, but the tentacles behind it stretched several meters away, covered with razor-sharp thorns, trembling slightly in the white ash floating like gunpowder smoke.

...Lin You made a rare swear word.

"Why are you still standing still!"

"Run!" she cried.

Before the bloody tentacle that could be seen at a glance swept over at lightning speed, they rushed back without looking back-it was the other wall that suffered, and anyone who saw the heart-shaped creature with their own eyes People with a large size can't imagine that there might be such power in the slender tentacles.

The overwhelming cracking sound echoed behind, and several people seized the opportunity at the last moment and rushed forward.His body hit the ground heavily, even though his viscera were hurting from the fall, but when he looked back, he was still rejoicing and terrified.

—they almost snapped in half along with the wall.

"This--"

Han Fei finally couldn't help it anymore, and stared at the destructive creature in horror, "What the hell is this—"

"..." Lin You took a breath, then calmed down and replied, "SCP-058."

"This is going to be a big problem," she said.

They didn't have time to hesitate, and the little gap gained by the advantage was only enough to hide in the nearest room-fortunately, it was not a dead end, and there was a small door on the opposite side for them to escape, and the three of them kept going Dash forward.

It wasn't until the time when the door was about to be opened that Guan Chuchu found a gap and had time to ask in panic: "...so what is that?!"

"'Heart of Darkness'."

Lin You hurriedly said.

"Have you seen its tentacles? The speed can reach up to 200 kilometers per hour, the attack range can reach [-] meters, and the 'venom' secreted is flammable-if it causes a fire or an explosion later It's all over."

——And the most troublesome point is that it can almost avoid all trauma.

In one of the escapes of SCP-058, even a certain agent drove a tank to hold it down and immobilize it to complete the re-containment management. The problem is now...

Where are they going to find tanks? ! !

"That's not the problem!"

Guan Chuchu screamed: "Even if you find a tank, no one will drive it?!"

Han Fei: "..."

Not this!

"It's dead, it's dead," he repeated repeatedly, "How long can this go on, did you hear that, the voice just now—"

Before he could finish speaking, his face suddenly changed again. The sound of the wall collapsing, which was still faintly audible just now, suddenly became much closer. There was no doubt that the other party was still following their tracks.

And the room they had rushed into, of course, had no next door leading elsewhere in the wall.

This seemed to be the end, the storeroom where some supplies were scattered here and there, but not even half a weapon.

He was heartbroken.

"Or else I..."

A voice next to him suddenly interrupted him.

"It's ok."

Lin You looked at the jars in the corner and suddenly smiled.

—she knew what to do.