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

Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach! Chapter 42

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

"Suicide attacks?"

The captain muttered to himself. Before long, he understood the Imperial Navy's method.

As long as that enormous moon was attacking with its bizarre weapon systems, the Void Shield would naturally shut down.

That would be the best window to strike.

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

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

"That planet made of scrap metal... was that also the Orks' work?" Xiao Huasheng asked as she looked at the megastructure.

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, Blood Ravens had also been forgiven as a battle-brother.

As for all the things he had stolen?

Don't worry about it. These were extraordinary times, and extraordinary measures were necessary.

"We don't have much time. Everyone, prepare to board the Orks' planet!"

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

[Certain Death]

Even with odds like that, the Ultramarines still wanted to burn themselves for humanity without hesitation.

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

Just as they were about to launch a collective boarding assault, Xiao Huasheng stopped them and said,

"Wait! I have a better way!"

If they all jumped over there, what about her?

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

Even if she survived in deep 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 xenos and terrifying daemons. The Orks and Khorne Daemons she had encountered before happened to belong to those two categories.

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

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

She desperately wanted to keep these Space Marines from leaving.

Because she had previously wiped out an entire planet's worth of xenos, all the warriors stopped in their tracks.

The captain asked directly,

"What way?"

"Wait a moment."

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

The moment she arrived here.

The mass deaths of souls in this place had directly finished charging the blind box once again.

Angela sent Xiao Huasheng a message.

[There is a new Abnormality.]

When she entered Lobotomy Corporation, she found herself in that gloomy surveillance room once again. On the monitors, two employees were continuously praying to One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds.

There was also the temporary worker—the Quack Doctor. All three were working on One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds.

But they clearly did not possess much sin.

As a result, they could not provide Xiao Huasheng with many resources.

That was why Xiao Huasheng had been reduced to chewing on Space Marine energy bars to restore energy.

When Angela saw Xiao Huasheng arrive at the company,

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

She directly displayed the blind box's attributes.

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

"There's still a lot of joy. Is it because of the Orks?" Xiao Huasheng asked curiously as she looked at the blind box.

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

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

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

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

Perhaps none of them had any regrets before dying?

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

Unlike the Foundation, where a containment breach that killed merely a thousand people had directly produced two employees with deep obsessions.

Among the hundreds of millions who had died, were there truly none who did not want to die? Could they all have been fanatical 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?—Make a shining entrance!!!]

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

Queen of Hatred had the appearance of a young girl. Her skin was quite fair, and she had long pale blue hair, a pair of yellow eyes, and large anime-style eyes.

Her hair was adorned with a heart-shaped ornament with a black center and pink trim. She wore a pink-and-white lace dress, a pink bow around her neck, white stockings, and a pair of small pink shoes.

Floating beside Queen of Hatred was a "magic wand." A thin white-and-pink rod connected a pink pentagram to a pale blue heart.

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

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

Magical girls were born to eliminate evil, whether or not that evil had been created by them.

Abnormality, get daze!

After obtaining this Abnormality,

without another word, like a child who had found a treasure,

Xiao Huasheng instantly returned to reality and shouted,

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

"Ah, that's very rude."

Queen of Hatred timidly emerged and spoke.

Magic and Miracles Do Exist! [6th Update]

"My Terra, what is that thing?"

The captain could not help crying out as he looked at the girl before him, who was bright enough to nearly blind him.

Queen of Hatred pouted slightly and looked at the captain with a serious little face. "What do you mean, 'what thing'? I'm a magical girl! I'm a great hero! 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 by anything.

The Space Marines looked at one another as they stared at the magical girl.

Xiao Huasheng then said,

"Actually, there's 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. She asked urgently, stomping her foot, "Where? Where, where, where are the villains?"

Xiao Huasheng led her to the 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 proclaimed that they would punish villains 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 created by the Orks."

"Orks? But Orks are people too. They haven't done anything bad. Why should I eliminate them?"

In Queen of Hatred's world, everything was black or white. There were only two judgments.

Evil and good.

Xiao Huasheng turned to the captain and said,

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

"Let me find some. That'll take a bit of work."

The captain quickly brought up a holographic recording. In it, the Orks' massive war machines crushed through humanity's defenses, while the green tide swept through cities like a plague.

Crude axe blades split open soldiers' armor, and blood became scarlet droplets of mist in the low gravity.

Ork warriors laughed wildly as they tore civilians apart and hurled severed limbs high into the air, 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 tightened 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 severed head rolled through the ruins. Its empty eye sockets happened to face the camera, silently accusing her.

The magical girl's chest heaved violently.

"This, this..." Her voice suddenly became soft, so soft it was almost like sleep-talking.

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

Simply witnessing those atrocities seemed to awaken something within her.

"These aren't people!" Her scream nearly tore through the bridge's air. "They're monsters! They are monsters!!"

"I'm going to eliminate them!"

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

She suddenly leaped onto the windowsill and transformed directly into a petal, passing through the viewport.

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