SCP Foundation: Exusiai, Containment Breach! (Volumes 1-8, Chapter 16)
Chapter 42

Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach!

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They spread like ripples, sweeping more wreckage into this endless dance of destruction.

"Suicide attacks?"

The captain muttered to himself, and before long, he understood the Imperial Navy's reasoning.

As long as that enormous moon was attacking with its bizarre weapons system, the Void Shield would naturally deactivate.

That would be the best window to attack.

As long as ships kept getting captured, destroying that Battle Moon would only be a matter of time.

But doing so would bring endless sacrifice and a terrible price.

"That planet made of scrap metal—is that the Orks' work too?" Xiao Huasheng looked at the megastructure and could not help asking.

An artificial celestial body as large as a real moon would definitely be treated as a containment object in the Foundation.

At that moment.

"Yes." The captain answered firmly.

After their friendly exchange with the Ultramarines, the Ultramarines had accepted that she was harmless and released her as well.

At the same time, the Blood Ravens had also been forgiven as battle-brothers.

As for those things he had stolen?

Never mind that. These were extraordinary times, and extraordinary measures were needed.

"We do not have much time left. Everyone, prepare to board the Orks' planet!"

As the captain spoke, The Thinker, the shipboard computer, also provided the probability of success for this operation.

[Certain Death]

Yet even with such odds, these Ultramarines still wanted to burn themselves for humanity without hesitation.

Even if they were destined to become nothing but dry bones in this vast cosmic war, they did not care.

Just as they were about to launch a mass boarding action, Xiao Huasheng stopped them and spoke.

"Wait! I have a better idea!"

If they all jumped over there, what was she supposed to do?

Was she supposed to become a star in this universe and lose the ability to think?

Even if she could survive in the depths of space, no one would help her.

Through her conversations with the Ultramarines, she had gained some understanding of this world.

It was a world filled with aliens and terrifying daemons. The Orks and Khorne Daemons she had encountered earlier happened to belong to those two groups.

If she had not borrowed the Silent Orchestra's power to kill them, Xiao Huasheng would never have escaped until now.

War was already cruel enough. No one would care about a Cement Angel blasted into outer space.

She desperately wanted to keep these Space Marines from leaving.

Because of her earlier feat of wiping out an entire planet of aliens, every warrior stopped.

The captain asked bluntly.

"What idea?"

"Wait a moment."

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Huasheng closed her eyes and turned into a motionless statue in front of everyone.

The moment she arrived here.

The deaths of so many souls here had directly recharged the blind box.

Angela sent Xiao Huasheng a message.

[There is a new Abnormality.]

After entering Lobotomy Corporation, she found herself in that cold surveillance room again, with the two employees on the monitors still praying to One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds.

Along with the temporary worker—the Quack Doctor—the three of them were all working on One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds.

But clearly, they did not possess much sin.

Thus, they could not provide Xiao Huasheng with much energy.

That was also why Xiao Huasheng had been reduced to chewing Space Marines' energy bars to restore her energy.

When Xiao Huasheng arrived at the company.

Angela understood the urgency of the situation and did not hesitate.

She directly displayed the blind box's attributes.

[Anger: 13%] [Sorrow: 25%] [Joy: 50%] [Fear: 12%]

"There is still so much joy. Is it because of the Orks?" Xiao Huasheng curiously looked at the blind box.

Angela merely nodded slightly, confirming Xiao Huasheng's guess.

"There is joy on both sides, among both the humans and the Orks."

"Is that so..." Xiao Huasheng sank into thought.

Likewise, despite the deaths of so many people, not a single employee had appeared, surprisingly enough.

Perhaps none of them had any regrets before dying?

Was it the same for both the humans and the Orks?

It was unlike the Foundation, where a containment breach that killed merely thousands had immediately produced two employees with deeply rooted obsessions.

Among these hundreds of millions of dead, were there truly none who did not want to die? Could everyone have been fanatical zealots willing to die as martyrs?

At that moment, Xiao Huasheng deeply felt the terror of faith.

Even as she thought that, she opened the blind box and drew a brand-new Abnormality.

A girl with pale blue hair like Angela's appeared before Xiao Huasheng—

O-01-04: Queen of Hatred

Level: WAW

[In the name of love and justice, magical girl?—Making a dazzling entrance!!!]

Description: Queen of Hatred (O-01-04) was a humanoid Abnormality and one of the magical girls.

Queen of Hatred looked like a young girl. She had quite fair skin, long pale blue hair, and a pair of yellow eyes with large anime-style pupils.

She wore a heart-shaped hair ornament with a black base and pink trim. She was dressed in a pink-and-white lace dress, with a pink bow around her neck, white stockings on her legs, and a pair of little pink shoes.

A "magic wand" floated beside Queen of Hatred. Its slender white-and-pink shaft connected to a pink pentagram and a pale blue heart.

The pentagram was hollow, outlining the shape of a heart. A small white wing sat on each side, fluttering up and down with Queen of Hatred's movements.

When evil existed in the world, magical girls would eliminate it. But when there was no evil in the world, she would create evil.

Magical girls were born to eliminate evil, regardless of whether that evil had been created by them.

Abnormality, Get DAZE!

After obtaining this Abnormality.

Without another word, like a fool who had found treasure.

She instantly returned to the real world and shouted.

"Come out, Queen of Hatred! Use Savage Charge on the Battle Moon!"

"Ah, that is very rude."

Queen of Hatred timidly emerged and spoke.

Magic and Miracles Do Exist! [6th Update]

"My Terra, what is this thing now?"

The captain could not help crying out as he looked at the girl before him, who was practically dazzling his eyes.

Queen of Hatred puffed out her cheeks slightly and looked at the captain with a serious little face. "What do you mean, what thing? I am a magical girl! I am a great Hero-class! I was born to save the world!"

The petite magical girl straightened her back and pointed her magic wand at the Space Marines.

In her sparkling eyes was an unshakable confidence that could not be erased no matter what.

The Space Marines looked at the magical girl, exchanging bewildered glances.

Xiao Huasheng, meanwhile, spoke.

"Actually, there is a disaster outside that needs to be eliminated. It is humanity's great enemy. It is our enemy."

"What? An enemy?! A villain!!"

Queen of Hatred's eyes widened as she asked. Stamping her feet anxiously, she demanded, "Where? Where? Where? Where is the villain?!"

Xiao Huasheng led her to the observation window, where she saw countless fleets continuously crashing into the Battle Moon.

"Our enemy is the moon. They are slaughtering us."

"The moon... is evil too?"

Queen of Hatred tilted her head and asked.

Magical girls often shouted that they would punish someone in the name of the stars, but now that she truly had to destroy a star, the Queen of Hatred found herself at a loss.

"This moon was made by the Orks."

"Orks? But Orks are people too. They have not done anything bad. Why should I eliminate them?"

In Queen of Hatred's world, everything was black and white. There were only two kinds of judgment in the world.

Evil and good.

Xiao Huasheng turned to the captain and said.

"Bring up footage of the Orks killing humans. Let her see it."

"Let me find some. It will take a little work."

The captain swiftly pulled up holographic footage. In it, the Orks' massive war machines crushed through human defenses, while the green tide swept through cities like a plague.

Crude axe blades split soldiers' armor apart, and blood turned into scarlet mist under low gravity.

Ork warriors laughed wildly as they tore civilians apart, tossing severed limbs high into the sky as though performing a savage sacrifice.

"This is only a portion of what the Servo-skulls recorded."

Queen of Hatred stared at the footage without blinking.

Her pupils contracted slightly, and her fingers unconsciously clenched around her magic wand.

Those images pierced into her mind like spikes.

The Orks' ugly faces twisted grotesquely, thick saliva dripping between their fangs. They trampled human corpses and crushed children's toys beneath their filthy boots.

A torn-off head rolled through the ruins, its empty eye sockets happening to face the camera, silently accusing her.

The magical girl's chest rose and fell sharply.

"Th-this..." Her voice suddenly became very soft, so soft it was almost like a dreamlike murmur.

But the next second, her magic wand erupted with blinding rainbow light, and countless fine cracks suddenly spread across the gem embedded in its tip.

Merely seeing those atrocities seemed to awaken something inside her.

"They are not people!" Her scream nearly tore through the air on the bridge. "They are monsters! They are monsters!!"

"I will eliminate them!"

Queen of Hatred's skirt fluttered without wind, while crackling arcs of energy danced through her hair.

She suddenly leaped onto the windowsill and turned directly into a petal, passing through the porthole.

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