Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach! Chapter 22

Ku Tang: "As an A-Class personnel, I'll never be able to come into contact with anomalies again for the rest of my life, right?"

"Precisely."

Kou Xi—Can We Reconcile?

"Then please allow me to refuse. Only by deeply understanding the entities can one learn their true nature... Perhaps I can no longer leave them behind. And... and..."

Faced with the A-Class opportunity she had dreamed of, Ku Tang hesitated at this moment.

She stared at the red-haired Angel's file and sank into thought.

Even if she learned the truth behind her hometown's destruction, what could she change? What could she do?

The lives that had died could never return.

Her eyelids lowered as she stared blankly at the document in her hands...

"After all, I still want to manage this facility with Mr. Jin Li. Please let me manage this facility with him for the rest of my life."

The man in the red hoodie held the file. Upon hearing her reason, he did not try hard to persuade her otherwise.

"Then, B-45, you will receive management authority over most of the local Foundation's entities."

Poof!

After saying that, the man in the red hoodie turned into a cloud of black smoke and vanished from where he stood.

Ku Tang watched the file before her, her expression shifting unpredictably.

Her hand gripped the document tightly.

The struggle in her heart must have been exceptionally complicated.

Yet she did not regret it.

She believed she had found a breakthrough with the entities. This opportunity stood right before her.

"Angel, you can surely erase the suffering in this world, right? That's why you descended into this world."

After that astonishing beam of light, tiny sparks of hope had been buried within Ku Tang's heart.

The Light Seed had been planted in her heart, no longer leaving her tangled over the answer she sought.

Now, she only wanted to know whether people could truly find happiness in this cruel world.

No more bitterness like candy.

White hair fell from beside her ears as her snow-bright eyes stared absentmindedly at the surveillance feed.

She activated the monitor and looked outside Entity 096's containment chamber.

The Mobile Task Force waited in the distance, while bullets periodically flew out from the doorway.

The battle must have been fierce.

Inside the containment chamber.

An angry, delicate shout rang out.

"If you won't sign the contract, then don't hit people! If you think the terms are too overbearing, then just don't sign it!"

Actually, this had absolutely nothing to do with the contract.

Xiao Huasheng rolled, and the submachine gun in her hand sprayed bullets over Entity 096 like a downpour.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!

Under the thick beam of light, the muscle tissue on Entity 096's body was rapidly blasted apart.

Only its skeletal frame remained, utterly motionless and completely unscathed!

"Aaaahhhhhh!!"

It roared and rushed right up to her face, swiping with one claw and leaving a claw mark on the wall.

When it struck Xiao Huasheng's shoulder, it made a crunching sound like stone.

With a muffled groan, she was slammed into the wall.

Entity 096 turned its head, stretched out its claws, and screamed as it charged at her again.

Bullets were useless!

She had to twist its bones apart!

In the instant she considered it, Entity 096 was already in her face.

Its two claws reached for Xiao Huasheng!

"Hmph!"

Frowning, she reached out, tossed aside her submachine gun, and pushed back against Entity 096's claws with both hands.

Yet because of that, Xiao Huasheng was pinned against the wall by an overwhelming force and could not move.

Entity 096 pressed tightly against her and roared face-to-face with her.

Its strength had been suppressed!!!

When it was being watched.

Entity-173's strength would be drastically reduced.

To a human, it might still have enough strength to snap a neck.

But for an anomalous entity, this was a tangible change.

"In a horror game, jumpscaring someone is bad civilization!" Xiao Huasheng looked at Entity 096's disgusting face, mere inches away, and cried out tearfully.

Both her hands were firmly pinned against the wall by Entity 096.

It restrained Xiao Huasheng in an embarrassing position.

"Sorry..." Xiao Huasheng could only say this after seeing how powerful Entity 096 was.

She felt that if she did not make a move now, it might cling to her forever.

Fortunately, Entity 096 could not restrain her for too long either.

Its lower body was simply too light. It looked as though one kick could topple its stance.

And that was exactly what she did!

"Hah!"

With a bang, a visible shockwave erupted, followed by a foot driving into Entity 096's crotch!

Accompanied by a move that brought tears to every man's eyes.

Entity 096 was sent flying, no longer able to restrain Xiao Huasheng.

Taking advantage of that instant, Xiao Huasheng swiftly gave it a beautiful shoulder throw.

Boom.

Entity 096 lay on the ground with its back to her.

The suppression of her gaze vanished.

Crack! Crack!

Its neck, wrists, ankles—everywhere it had bones, Xiao Huasheng snapped them cleanly. There was not a single place left that could be twisted further.

Yet even so, Entity 096 stood back up in an eerie posture. As long as its bones had not completely broken apart, it could still fight.

"Aaaahhhhhh!!"

It charged at Xiao Huasheng again like a madman, without the slightest hesitation.

With a machine gun in hand, she would no longer give Entity 096 a chance to get close.

Bang bang bang!

Machine-gun rounds, more powerful and faster-firing, rapidly struck the joints of Entity 096's broken bones.

The bullets passed through those joints as easily as cutting tofu, first breaking both of its legs.

Entity 096 wailed on the ground, its cries incomparably shrill.

But it was not that simple. Its powerful regenerative ability meant it was not deprived of mobility so quickly.

Like two pieces of paper stuck together with double-sided tape, the two bones fused whenever they touched.

And it happened incredibly fast.

At least, by the time Xiao Huasheng had broken its legs, the bones in its upper body had nearly healed.

SCP-682's healing ability was hundreds of times stronger than this. Compared with that, this did not seem so hard to accept.

Its legs were rebuilding bone and muscle at a visible speed.

It was terrifying.

Its pale eyes turned toward Xiao Huasheng.

Bang! Bang!

Two more shots, and its vision disappeared for a moment.

Crack! Crack!

This time, she started snapping it from the cervical vertebrae. Who knew how many times Xiao Huasheng twisted its neck around.

Another barrage of bone-setting shots broke Entity 096's neck, and its screaming skull rolled onto the ground.

By now, her once-clean clothes were covered in Entity 096's filthy blood. The halo over her head and the wings of light behind her reflected a bloody gleam.

Compared with Entity 096, she now looked more like a contained anomaly.

At the very least, she had snapped off Entity 096's head. But then something frightening happened.

Xiao Huasheng had originally thought the bones and muscles would regrow downward from its head, but that was not what happened.

The body lying on the ground slowly began growing heads and legs from both sides.

"A plus version of Ajin?" Xiao Huasheng was deeply shocked.

This was bad.

Extremely bad.

From the looks of it, even grinding its entire body into powder might not be enough to kill it.

This method of regeneration was simply too terrifying.

Perhaps not even a nuclear bomb could kill something like this.

Within the few seconds that thought passed through her mind.

Entity 096's pale body extended outward and restored itself, and a complete Entity 096 appeared once more.

As if the skull on the ground had been nothing but a joke.

Hiss.

This was not funny.

"Um—can we reconcile?"

A cute Angel, begging for mercy online.

Can People in Pain Be Redeemed?

But once someone saw Entity 096's face, it would tear that person's body apart at all costs.

At all costs, until the other party died.

There was absolutely no possibility of survival.

Since that was the case, she could only stake her life on this fight.

They would see whose life was tougher!!

After this dangerous thought arose in Xiao Huasheng's mind, a crazed gleam flashed through her eyes.

Entity 096 screamed as it charged at her, glaring with its pale eyes.

Bang bang. Two shots rang out.