I'm afraid of non-human beings

"What I said just now... remember it?"

Less than a minute was left for them to discuss. In the shadow cast by the overlapping scaffolding, Lin You lowered her voice by the wall.

Another bang.

Just three meters away.

Guan Chuchu couldn't help breathing shallowly, so she exhaled slowly without daring to make a sound, and just nodded.

Han Fei didn't even look away, staring at the door not far away.The iron gate looked solid at first glance, but the successive bangs just now were enough to prove the astonishing destructive power of that thing, making people's nerves stretched to the tightest.

The storage room behind the door was completely silent, perhaps because of this, the low, illogically repeating ravings on the other side were heard.

"...suffering...punishment..."

Han Fei swallowed.

That thing can still talk.

Then, at that moment—

Guan Chuchu seemed to have a premonition, screamed and rushed forward, and Lin You, who was brought down by her, was pulled away by a distance of two or three meters, only Han Fei stayed where she was and suddenly turned her head.

The iron gate crashed down.

A small shadow stood on the bumped and deformed steel—but before the smoke and dust dissipated and he was able to see its whole picture clearly, he felt the impact directly on his waist first.

There was no pain, or he hadn't had time to feel the pain, he could even only see a flash of an afterimage, followed by the whole upper body leaning back, but he still watched those two legs standing in place.

Blood splattered.

Dazed for only a moment, Han Fei took a deep breath, and cold sweat dripped down his forehead.Only he himself knows best that the severed appearance just now is not an illusion. The reason is that the human-shaped paper with the upper and lower body separated is lying lightly on the concrete of the ruins.

At the moment of experiencing death, swapping himself with the pre-installed paper doll - using this ability as bait is a luxury and a great risk. He can only hold so many for a long time. A piece of human-shaped paper, with one less chance to escape.The timing also needs to be cautious, if you receive a fatal injury that you can't even activate your ability, then it will be a one-hundred-and-a-half-year-old.

But that's the only way to do it now.

--feasible.

After seeing the sudden distance between himself and SCP-058, he thought of this for the first time, turned around and sprinted without hesitation.

Even though the "Heart of Darkness" would attack and destroy everything in front of it, it was the living creatures running around that first attracted its attention.It muttered with its unknown vocal organ, and several sharp tentacles pierced forward at the same time!

Just for a moment.

Han Fei clapped his hands vigorously, and instead, what fell from the air was a piece of tattered paper covered in holes.He didn't even dare to take a breath, and rushed forward recklessly.

Last time.

This is the last chance, he told himself with his Adam's apple rolling, if he missed this time, there would be no hope at all, his eyes suddenly fixed on the shelf with a red cloth strip tied to the iron rod.

That's a pre-appointed mark to do.

It's now!

At the moment when the ominous aura approached, there was another "snap", and Han Fei switched sides with the piece of paper pasted on the opposite side.He leaned against the wall in shock, touched the chest that should have been pierced, and watched the shelf that he pulled down forcefully before the transfer crashed down, burying SCP-058 at the bottom together with the goods on it.

Granted, this doesn't hold it back.

But the moment it "breaks the ground," his mission is complete.

"laugh--"

The milky white mist gas poured out, spraying on the black and red heart that broke out of the "encirclement" without any leakage.

But even though it has become sluggish, it still seems to retain the ability to resist.Seeing that the thorn was about to sweep towards her, Lin You cursed secretly, and without hesitation, she raised the air vent and at the same time her whole body leaned back, the thorn almost rubbed against the position only one centimeter away from her eyeball. past.

Moisture formed on the skin of the heart and tentacles, and—

Finally stopped moving.

"……call."

Lin You symbolically wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, and tentatively kicked SCP-058, which was completely frozen.After confirming that it would not respond, she did not relax her vigilance, but bent down and put the hose on the ground, aiming at the heart-shaped creature.

——Continue to blow on it.

If this thing really has the ability to think, he probably hates her by now.

But anyway, it can only say a few illogical words, and besides, she doesn't really care, how many people hate her?

... She's still a little self-conscious about what she's doing.

"Okay," she turned her head away, "You can let go of that too."

Fortunately, it was a success.

Guan Chuchu, who was nervously squatting next to the storage tank, breathed a sigh of relief as if she had recovered.

"Ah, ah? Good!"

She got up in a hurry, and didn't dare to get too close after walking, carefully looking at the strange heart that almost drove them to a desperate situation.

Guan Chuchu: "...it looks like a spider."

Lin You: "Spiders can't secrete explosives - let's go, before it resumes its actions."

She came up with a plan after seeing the jars in the corner—according to the notes on them, it was a refrigerant that worked faster than liquid nitrogen, and then used the limited time Han Fei had won to make some preparations. If something goes wrong, several people will all die together.

Oh, and there are those who can't die.

The skull that was thrown in the corner repeatedly "tsk tsk" in amazement: "It would be great if I could take it away, maybe it can become some rare experimental material."

Lin You: "...Is that how you were killed?"

Skull: "..."

Why are you still killing people?

Seeing it go silent—and start bang-bang-bang-bang its head against the glass instead, Lin You suspects that if there is a handkerchief now, it must be the one that bites and cries the most.

Then, instead, the Lizard Cthulhu, who was lying on the box and swaying, was not happy, "Hey, buddy! How can I treat you like this?"

"Both of you need to calm down," Lin You angrily picked up the box, and turned to the two teammates who were also dumbfounded, "Let's go to the stairs and have a look first."

The three of them kept a certain distance, bypassing the temporarily immobile SCP-058.Even though they all knew that this obstacle was nothing, they were still relieved when the sound of "chi chi" puffing disappeared behind them.

... Then when I went out, I broke into a cold sweat because of the too tragic scene outside.

The suspicious liquid secreted by the Heart of Darkness was mottled everywhere on the ground. No matter how careful we were to avoid it, the soles of our shoes were inevitably stained with tar.The bricks and concrete fragments were piled up so that there was no place for them to step on. Coupled with those uneven sharp steel bars, they had to trek through all kinds of difficulties before they finally came to the stairs.

"...Yes," Han Fei looked down, and said in a bitter tone, "It's just a waste of time."

Lin You: "It can't be said that it's all for nothing—"

Although she was already mentally prepared, she didn't expect to be able to dismantle it so thoroughly.

Not to mention the deformed elevator doors that passed by on the road, and the stairs leading downstairs were also cut off at this time—not only this floor, but also through the big hole in the middle of the steps that could not be crossed by manpower. It can be seen that the bottom is also damaged badly, even if it is hung by a rope, it may be difficult to find a foothold.

She is now convinced that SCP-058, "Heart of Darkness", is definitely a good hand for the demolition team.

"There's nothing to see here," she pointed, "Go up and have a look?"

Guan Chuchu: "Go up..."

Her eyes turned hesitantly to the other end, which was also broken into deep pieces and shallow pieces. Although the degree of damage was indeed lighter on that side, although it had long been hoped that she would not be able to get out by ordinary means, even so——

If you really do this, if there is something, is there still time to turn around?

"It's not up to us whether to go back or not."

Lin You made a final decision, "Come on, give me a hand."

As the absolute center of several people (things), no one would object to what she said. The three of them worked together to climb over the gravel blocking the front step, and the evil lizard god also helped to add some Floating "thought power".After crossing the most difficult section, the road behind was not so difficult. They climbed the last few steps and found that the stairs came to an end.

"...This is the highest level?" Guan Chuchu whispered as if she was afraid of disturbing something.

No wonder she was like this. After such a disaster, the quiet and tidy floor seemed like another world.

"Ah, no," she suddenly said while looking not far away, "There is still a staircase over there."

Lin You looked away.

What Guan Chuchu said is true, just a few meters away from the entrance of the stairs, there is a section of narrow and small steps that can only be passed by one person. At the end is a door that can be seen everywhere in this facility. Titanium doors.

Look at the lock, it seems to be locked at ordinary times, but now for some reason it twisted into a shape that should not exist in this world.The door was not closed tightly, leaving a gap.

Lin You: "Go over there and have a look."

She cut off the indecision of the other two with one sentence. Even if she didn't know what the "reality bender" was, she should understand most of it after seeing this scene.

After making a gesture to them to lower the volume, Lin You gently pushed the door open.

"What we're going to see is—"

When he saw the figure clearly, Han Fei's voice stopped abruptly.

The breeze is coming.

Behind the door is the roof.

The fresh air that rushed in washed away the dust that had filled the lungs due to the collapse. Although it was already shrouded in darkness, this side of the roof was not too big, and the shadows in the farthest corners could be seen at a glance.

Sitting on the edge of the terrace with her back to them was a little girl with shoulder-length blond hair.