"Alright, I understand."
This kind of running-into-love-around-a-corner situation was quite common in horror films and TV dramas.
"Wait here. I'll go take a look ahead."
Makuku was left where he stood while she went forward to explore. It was repayment for all the information Makuku had told her.
The manager had to step up.
Not to mention, in just this short time,
she had practically heard every last detail about the Foundation. Makuku had even told Xiao Huasheng about several extremely important entities.
Those were existences she could not defeat.
They were utterly shameless rule-based entities. Some did not even have anything that could be fought; they were simply rules themselves.
Xiao Huasheng's understanding of the Foundation's mysteries was being overturned more and more.
Makuku quickly hid himself, curling into a ball.
"Wuwuwuwu..."
The closer she got to the end of the corridor, the more miserable the crying became.
It sounded just like a grieving child sobbing.
After passing the corner of the corridor, Entity 096 was less than a meter away.
It still had that gaunt, pallid body, its strange hands covering its face.
Xiao Huasheng's gaze focused on its face.
The moment it realized that,
its crying stopped and turned into a shrill scream!
Entity 096's current state was rather peculiar.
Ordinary humans looking at its photographs would no longer trigger a reaction.
But as long as someone looked at it in person, it would tear them to pieces just as it had before.
No one knew how that worked.
"AAAAAH!"
Its jaw stretched wide as it rose from the ground. It let out a terrifying roar at Xiao Huasheng and raised both hands!
Xiao Huasheng stood with her hands behind her back, calmly watching it.
She was ready to snap its neck the moment it came near her.
Unfortunately, that was as far as things went.
The red-haired Angel helplessly stepped forward, ready for another hearty round of unrestricted combat with it.
Its pallid eyes seemed to catch sight of Xiao Huasheng's appearance, and its earthshaking cries gradually weakened.
"Ah... wuwuwu!"
The cry turned into deafening sobs. Then it spun around and fled! In the blink of an eye, it vanished down the end of the corridor.
It looked exactly like a bullied child running off to complain to its parents.
Xiao Huasheng could not make heads or tails of it.
"Not fighting anymore?"
She was completely baffled.
Wasn't it supposed to be a fight to the death?
The reason 096 no longer attacked people who looked at its photographs
was because Xiao Huasheng might be among those people...
EW Cult
Outside the Foundation, the gates of A Zone had already been breached by SCP-682. Its suddenly enlarged body charged into the Foundation's carefully arranged traps as though no one was there.
At the top of the facility, old 682 roared madly. With a single sweep of its tail, it could send an armed helicopter constantly circling overhead flying!
Countless bullets and shells poured in from all directions like an endless web!
Its dense scales were instantly shredded by the gunfire and kneaded into its flesh.
Normally, old 682 would have spent seventy or eighty percent of its strength by this point. Yet right now, it remained as vigorous as if it had been pumped full of stimulants.
A rocket was fired from beneath a helicopter, streaking toward old 682!
After drawing a brilliant white line through the air, the warhead slammed viciously into old 682's body.
It was like a torpedo had detonated in deep water. The shell struck its body and unleashed an incredibly violent shockwave!
BOOM!
Steel exploded and flesh flew everywhere. Nearly half of old 682's body vanished beneath that shell!
The armed helicopters nearby were blasted away by the shockwave. Even the armed personnel beneath the facility could feel the terrifying power of that shell.
The smell of smoke filled the entire area.
"ROAR!"
An enraged roar spread across every inch of the surrounding land, and even the ground began to tremble.
It was angry!
At the very moment it let out that roar, the gates of B Sector were suddenly torn apart!
A massive opening was ripped through them without any resistance.
"Wuwuwuwuwu!!"
Miserable crying drifted over.
The Foundation immediately unleashed suppressive fire on the source of the crying.
Bullets descended like a yellow curtain, yet the figure's speed did not slow in the slightest.
It left behind only muscles and organs scattered across the ground, with nothing but a skeleton still sprinting.
Then, at tremendous speed, it leaped across the entirety of B Sector.
That pallid figure jumped off the nearly fifteen-meter cliff beyond B Sector's elevated platform, smashed through the railings, and ran off in one direction...
Entity 096 sprinted away at high speed, vanishing beyond the Foundation's controllable range.
In the blink of an eye, the gate had become utter chaos again.
The Mobile Task Force members stationed in B Sector were dumbfounded. They picked up their radios and reported the situation.
"Report! Entity 096 has breached containment at the B Sector gate."
"What? Damn it. Forget it, don't worry about it. Take down Entity-682 first."
The Mobile Task Force turned their attention back to old 682.
Firepower sufficient to destroy a large position continuously bombarded its body. The previous shell had been an armor-piercing missile developed by the Foundation, and its effects had been remarkable!
Yet it still had not brought 682 down. This situation simply defied common sense.
No one knew how many tons of bullets had been fired!
Old 682 endured the hail of gunfire and tore three armed helicopters to pieces.
"Damn humans!"
It roared in extreme fury, consumed by rage.
Another series of attacks tore open the facility's ceiling. Massive chunks of stone were flung up and hurled at one of the armed helicopters!
THUD!
The stone struck the armed helicopter with perfect accuracy, smashing both its rotor and fuselage into two pieces!
Another fireball fell from the sky, crashing into the forest beside the Foundation facility and setting it ablaze!
But this was not a solution.
Even after one armed helicopter was destroyed, more and more armed helicopters flew in from the distant sky!
The Foundation's determination to contain old 682 was plain to see!
Secure, contain!
That was the Foundation's specialty!
While the armed helicopters drew 682's attention, the inconspicuous people also began to play their part.
Mobile Task Force members carrying rocket launchers continuously climbed onto the facility.
The instant they came up, they dropped to one knee. Rocket launchers loaded with specialized shells fired from eight directions at once!
The air hummed.
Eight brilliant white trails streaked across the sky.
The specialized shells struck old 682's head once more.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
One! Two! Three!
Ice bombs! Acid! Glass rounds!
Of the eight rockets, old 682 dodged five, but it was still inevitably hit by three.
These special weapons instantly cut old 682's mobility in half!
"ROAR!"
Half of old 682's body was frozen, acid coated its head, and glass rounds filled its insides.
They were all objects that could not absorb energy and inflicted severe damage on it!
If the Foundation dared use high-energy radiation, old 682 would show them what cruelty truly meant!
It began struggling violently. Chunks of concrete flew everywhere, and it even tore out steel reinforcement bars to spear the helicopters in the sky!
The personnel who had just fired the shells were also killed by the splashing aftershock.
Maxed-out regeneration, peerless strength, incredible speed.
A terrifying monster—wasn't this exactly what that meant?
Inside the Foundation's B Sector gate,
Xiao Huasheng stood with Makuku at the breach Entity 096 had smashed open, looking at the exit that had been reduced to a tangled wreck by the stones.
Severed human limbs, blood, and internal organs were scattered all over the ground. Blood even dripped continuously from the flat roof overhead.
At the gate, keeping her promise, Xiao Huasheng had brought Makuku here.
The price was that the next time Xiao Huasheng saw Makuku, he had to become a department head at her company.
Looking at the roaring artillery outside and the sky stained blood-red,
"Terrifying..."
Xiao Huasheng timidly shrank her head back. The scale of this scene was truly immense.
Makuku looked at the shattered platform and broke out in a cold sweat.
Escaping from here really was as difficult as reaching the heavens.
Fortunately, the Mobile Task Force had suffered heavy losses as well, and a gap had appeared in their encirclement.
Xiao Huasheng patted Makuku on the shoulder.
"Alright, I've brought you this far. I'm about to be in trouble myself. Mr. Department Head, see you next time."
Then another contract appeared in Xiao Huasheng's hand. She raised it and took a look.
She found that the clauses had not changed, but the term had become permanent. At the same time, an additional clause had been added—if Makuku died in the real world, he would automatically belong to Lobotomy Corporation while retaining his memories. At that time, regardless of the distance, the company would enforce the extradition clause.
In other words, after Makuku died, Lobotomy Corporation would bring him back even if it had to expend energy.
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