SCP Foundation: Exusiai, Containment Breach! (Volumes 1-8, Chapter 16)
Chapter 34

Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach!

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She fired a shot right at SCP-682's feet.

Even SCP-682 failed to react before it was blasted away.

Who knew where it had flown off to.

But that probably had nothing to do with Xiao Huasheng anymore.

It had nothing to do with her.

Thinking that, she repeatedly teleported toward the Terra portal marked deeper inside, feeling a little guilty.

Xiao Huasheng's plans for what came next were simple.

She just wanted to settle down on Terra, live an ordinary life, and survive.

She had no great ambitions. She only wanted to be happy.

"Greater power, lesser responsibility" was her motto.

No ambitions in her chest—and no chest, either!

But a peaceful life was probably going to be quite difficult.

The fluorescent light above her head was no joke.

She would just have to work at it slowly!

So where had SCP-682 gone?

Outside Earth's atmosphere, high above the ground.

The massive lizard floated through space, its body slowly spinning as it leisurely drifted farther into the void.

It continued roaring without pause.

"You damned concrete statue! When I get back, I'll get you first, then—damned concrete statue!!!"

It seemed genuinely furious.

Hopefully the lizard would be okay.

Ignoring SCP-682's gradual transformation into a star, ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with Kars as an Ultimate Life Form.

Xiao Huasheng soon arrived before the door marked by the computer, amid the flickering warning lights of the nearly defunct Foundation and the wide-open doors of every containment chamber.

She suddenly realized that something seemed off about this door.

"Huh? Isn't this the strange portal I saw when I first escaped? So this was the Terra portal?"

Looking at the strange skeletal remains scattered around the portal and the dented blue helmet, she had the feeling she had been tricked.

But in the end, she merely shrugged and walked in.

If it said this place was Terra, then it could not be wrong.

She would trust the computer this once.

Her figure quickly vanished into it.

Then she heard the first words spoken after she entered the portal.

"Skulls for the Skull Throne, blood for the Blood God! Hoo-ha!!!"

A huge brass axe came chopping straight at her without a word.

The red-haired Angel's eyes widened.

What kind of Terra was this?!!

The axe was incredibly fast, far beyond what an ordinary person could block with speed alone.

Xiao Huasheng could only watch as the axe hacked into her.

One strike shattered her armor! Two strikes shredded her clothes! Three strikes left her completely naked!

"Do I have some kind of grudge against clothes?!" she shouted, once again meeting the world with nothing on.

At the same time, she was sent flying, smashed straight into a pile of corpses, and vanished from sight.

She fell into a heap of Khorne Daemon corpses, hugged her head, and stayed still.

The Khorne Daemon sensed that something felt wrong with the axe in his hands, but seeing that Xiao Huasheng had stopped moving, he immediately became blood-mad and wrestled with an Ork nearby.

The iron sky was torn open with a bloody wound.

The Reality Veil peeled away like rotting flesh, revealing a churning crimson vortex behind it.

The stench of sulfur and oxidized copper surged out first, followed by the battle cries of countless greenskins.

"WAAAGH!!!"

The Green Tide swept in from the other side.

Three million feet shattered the concrete ground, while rusty metal and crude gunpowder formed a moving tide of steel.

Ork warboss Skullshatterer Grom stood atop the killing can he had personally modified. His single eye reflected the Khorne warriors descending from the sky, filled with excitement.

Countless Orks yearned for this endless war.

"Red-skinned humies are falling from the sky!" an Ork Boy cried excitedly. "I'm gonna twist off their heads..."

Splat.

Before he could finish.

The shriek of a blood axe tearing through the air cut him off.

The Ork's head spun into the air, its face still frozen in ecstatic delight.

A Khorne Berserker wielding a massive axe emerged from the blood mist. The exposed muscles beneath his brass armor resembled red-hot iron, every chunk twitching.

Behind the vanguard, more crimson figures squeezed out from the rift.

They came in all shapes and forms, each one different, but all carried the same hungry gaze.

Skullshatterer bared his fang-filled mouth in a grin.

He pressed a control lever, and the multi-barreled cannon atop the killing can began to spin.

"Fire! Fire! Blow every moving red thing into scrap! Hahahaha!!" Skullshatterer roared, the Ork warboss's voice even drowning out the cannon fire.

His voice triggered something deep within the Orks' genes. The greenskins' eyes filled with blood, their muscles swelled, and their already towering bodies expanded another size.

They no longer needed orders. Like sewage bursting through a dam, they charged toward the daemon horde.

At the center of the battlefield, the instant the two torrents collided, they became an endless meat grinder.

When a Bloodletter's axe blade sliced through an Ork's throat, more Orks were already using iron claws to rip open the daemon's chest.

Both sides had completely lost themselves to bloodlust.

The red-haired Angel secretly wriggled along the ground, terrified of being noticed.

"What kind of messed-up Terra is this?!"

Xiao Huasheng muttered under her breath as she hid among the corpses and secretly peeked outside.

What she saw was a far grander spectacle than the Foundation containing SCP-682. Everywhere she looked, close-quarters combat raged, while ammunition screamed continuously through both sky and earth.

Without question, she had been dragged into an extremely intense war.

[Manager, my suggestion is that there is no need to get involved in this war. It appears the company's development is secure. It would be better to enter Lobotomy Corporation and slowly arrange the employees and the other blind-box containment object.]

Angela's voice rang out.

Honestly, a war like this was a fine opportunity for their growth.

Seeing the artillery fire filling the outside world, Xiao Huasheng nodded timidly. "I think that sounds good too."

But clearly, the chaotic reality here would not give her that chance.

BOOM!!

A stray shell struck the very center of the corpse pile without mercy.

In the blink of an eye, the pile of corpses burst open like a blooming blood chrysanthemum.

"Ahhhhh!"

Xiao Huasheng screamed as she was blasted straight into the air, spun several times, and crashed to the ground.

Her figure, light wings, and halo undoubtedly became the most eye-catching sight before the greenskins and Khorne warriors.

When Xiao Huasheng came into view again, the battlefield fell into a brief silence.

Both sides quietly stopped fighting and watched the smoking red-haired Angel slowly climb to her feet.

Realizing that she had been dragged into the very center of the battlefield.

She silently swallowed.

"I feel like countless eyes are staring at me."

The next second.

The battle cries of Khorne's side and the greenskins erupted at the same time.

"Offer them to the Blood God!!!"

"WAAAGH!!!"

"Ahhhhh!!"

Two different kinds of hulking brutes instantly swallowed the Angel whole.

Xiao Huasheng was caught in the middle and forcibly dragged into the battle.

Before Xiao Huasheng could steady herself, the first axe came whistling toward her.

She took the blow directly with her head, only to be knocked off her feet by a second massive brass axe from behind.

"Wait, wait! I'm not—"

Her explanation was drowned out by the roar of colliding metal.

A Khorne Berserker's massive axe sent her flying like a golf ball, tracing an arc before dropping into a crowd of Orks.

The greenskins let out excited howls as five crude choppas came down at once.

"WAAAGH!"

They hacked her straight into the air.

But before she had flown three meters, a daemon engine's tentacle struck her waist like a pool cue.

With a dull bang, she crashed like a cannonball through two ruined walls and plowed a ten-meter trench through the rubble.

"Cough, cough, cough." She spat out the sand in her mouth, then her pupils suddenly contracted.

Another Khorne Daemon's brass axe was chopping down at her head.

Finally, Xiao Huasheng got angry. She immediately pulled out the RPG and aimed it at the Khorne Daemon before her.

"You're finished!!!"

With the Angel's shout, she pulled the trigger.

BOOM!!

The earth trembled!

A magnificent firework blossomed before her. The Khorne Daemon was blown apart so thoroughly that not even scraps remained, while the shockwave sent the surrounding Orks and daemons flying together.

But both sides once again surged madly toward Xiao Huasheng.

Amid the chaotic battlefield, she shouted wildly.

"Angela! Leave me 10% of the energy! Use everything else to blow these bastards to death!"

[Manager, think this through. You must be prepared to be beaten after exhausting your energy.]

"I! DON'T! CARE!" She grinned savagely as her light wings spread open in an instant.

The next second, dozens of Vulcan Gatlings, rocket launchers, and energy grenade launchers appeared around her. All of these weapons could fire at Xiao Huasheng's command.

Without the Reality Stabilization Anchor keeping things stable, there was still much more she could do.

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