Leina's Application to Join the Ball Game. Jiang Chen Plans to Establish a Men in Black Organization to Manage Aliens! (Continued)

As Leina expected, General Pan Zhen thought over her words for only a moment before agreeing to her proposal.

Then, in the name of Liyang Star, General Pan Zhen sent the SCP Foundation a request through the Myriad Races Livestream.

He asked whether the SCP Foundation would allow Leina to enter Earth.

"President, we've received a private message from Pan Zhen of Liyang Star."

As Jiang Chen sat in his classroom devising the next Containment Object, Kuroto's voice sounded at just the right moment. "Pan Zhen is asking whether we'll permit the Sun God, Leina, to enter Huaxia."

Jiang Chen considered this for a moment, then said slowly, "Agreed. I'll send you a Code of Conduct shortly."

"Pass it on to Pan Zhen."

"As long as Leina doesn't violate it, she can go."

With that, Jiang Chen spent one thousand Popularization Points in the system shop to obtain a Code of Conduct. He sent it to Kuroto in a private message for him to pass on to Pan Zhen.

With that settled, Jiang Chen resumed devising the next Containment Object: Plague Doctor.

At the same time, he wondered whether he should establish an organization like the Men in Black to manage powerful visitors from other worlds.

After all, as time went on, more and more aliens would want to come to Earth.

If he had to approve every one of them personally, he would have no time for anything else.

There was no rush, of course.

He would deal with it after he finished devising the next SCP Containment Object.

"They actually agreed! But she has to follow the Code of Conduct!"

Pan Zhen had not expected such a swift reply from the SCP Foundation. He had barely sent his request before Doctor Kuroto responded.

Still less had he expected the SCP Foundation to approve Leina's application and send him a Code of Conduct as well.

Seeing the bewildered look on Pan Zhen's face, Leina smiled. "Uncle Pan, I told you."

"The SCP Foundation was bound to approve my application."

Pan Zhen nodded, then cautioned her, "This is an opportunity for Liyang Star."

"You must make the most of it."

"And you must not violate the Code of Conduct."

"Otherwise, no one will be able to protect you!"

"Spend the next few days studying the Code of Conduct. You can go to Earth after SCP-096 has been contained."

Leina wanted to argue that one scan of the Code of Conduct would be enough for her to know it by heart.

She could leave for Earth right now.

But when she saw the uncompromising look in General Pan Zhen's eyes, Leina relented.

I've already waited thousands of years. What's a few more days?

What Leina did not know was that Pan Zhen wanted her to wait so he could see whether the SCP Foundation truly was as extraordinary as Doctor Bai Ting had claimed.

What if Doctor Bai Ting had been bluffing?

Just then, the SCP Foundation's livestream changed. Doctor Bai Ting's figure gradually faded, replaced by the strangely twisted form of SCP-096.

Judging by its surroundings, it appeared to be on the moon.

When SCP-096 appeared in the SCP livestream, the viewers instinctively avoided looking at its mosaic-covered face.

Some were so worried that the SCP Foundation might be playing a trick that they simply closed the livestream.

Missing one broadcast meant little to them. There was no need to risk their lives just to watch it.

One group was different, however: the intelligent species of the Giant Wolf Civilization.

After hearing Doctor Bai Ting's words, they had descended into panic. In an instant, their homeworld was plunged into unprecedented chaos.

Everyone scrambled to flee the planet.

Where to?

It did not matter. What mattered was scattering across the universe and silently hoping the SCP Foundation would keep its promise and, within twenty-four hours...

Step in to contain SCP-096.

Then they might just survive.

Of course, some Giant Wolf Warriors remained convinced that the SCP Foundation was bluffing.

Whatever else could be said of the Giant Wolf Civilization, it served under Death God Karl and had waged war across the universe for three or four thousand years in the name of researching death.

Yet they had never heard of anything called the Heavenly Principle Consciousness.

Much less an attack that used a Containment Object and the Heavenly Principle Consciousness to purge an entire species.

Was that not pure fantasy?

[Sengoku: Is it starting? I'd never heard of the Heavenly Principle Consciousness before. I didn't expect the Foundation could already use it to launch attacks.]

[Giant Wolf Leader: Of course you've never heard of it. The SCP Foundation is lying. There's no such thing as the Heavenly Principle Consciousness. They made it up!]

[Pain: Even if the Heavenly Principle Consciousness doesn't exist, I still support the Foundation purging you. Every invader deserves to die!]

[Kakashi: Then you deserve to die too!]

[Pain: That's right. Once I've fulfilled my ideal, I'll take my own life!]

[Monkey D. Dragon: Pain, if we lived in the same world, I think we'd be friends!]

[Pain: Mm!]

[Tatsumaki: I believe Doctor Bai Ting wasn't lying. Why would she? There's no point lying about something that'll be verified so soon!]

[Giant Wolf Leader: Tatsumaki, you little brat. You don't know anything, so keep your mouth shut!]

[Hellish Blizzard: Look, everyone, the Giant Wolf Leader is getting worked up! If he really believes the SCP Foundation is lying, why is he so agitated? He's obviously scared!]

[Giant Wolf Leader: Monster World, was it? You'd better not reveal your coordinates, or else...]

[Ichigo Kurosaki: Their world really isn't afraid of you. Even if the entire Gluttonous Legion mobilized, I doubt it could do anything to them.]

[Naruto: Look! SCP-096 is moving!]

[...]

At Naruto's words, everyone turned their attention back to the livestream. SCP-096, which had been curled up quietly in a corner of a lunar crater, seemed to sense something.

Then it suddenly let out a series of piercing, anguished cries.

There was no air in space, so in theory, no sound should have reached them. Yet everyone could hear SCP-096 crying clearly.

The impossible sound made their hearts sink.

The Giant Wolf Leader, in particular, felt an unprecedented fear spread through him.

Just then, SCP-096 pushed lightly off the ground with its long, twisted legs. Its entire body shot upward like a cannonball...

It launched from the moon and headed straight for the Gluttonous Battleships stationed near Pluto.

As it traveled, it moved faster and faster. In the blink of an eye, it accelerated from its initial thirty kilometers per second to the speed of light. And it kept accelerating.

Its speed continued to climb at an unstoppable rate.

Pluto was about six billion kilometers from Earth; even at light speed, the journey would take 5.6 hours. Yet SCP-096 reached Pluto in just three seconds.

Without slowing in the slightest, it charged straight toward the Warships carrying Sirius Clan warriors!

Bang!

The Warship's armor, capable of withstanding a nuclear blast, might as well have been air before SCP-096. It could not delay the creature by even a microsecond.

Under the horrified gaze of the livestream's viewers, SCP-096 burst into the Warship and, in the blink of an eye...

Tore its more than five thousand well-equipped Giant Wolf Warriors to pieces.

It moved so fast that even the powerful figures from the various worlds watching the livestream could not clearly follow its movements.

All they saw was SCP-096 become a streak of light passing through the enormous Warship. Then every Giant Wolf Warrior aboard was reduced to pulp.

Before anyone could react, SCP-096 entered a second Warship and began slaughtering the Julang Clan warriors inside.

Warship after Warship became a charnel house under SCP-096's assault.

Some Julang Clan warriors tried to flee aboard small shuttles, but they were usually reduced to pulp before they could move an inch.

Then the massive explosions turned what remained of them to ash.

Under SCP-096's attack, two thousand Giant Wolf Warships exploded across space like a string of firecrackers. Nearly a million elite Giant Wolf Warriors...

Were utterly wiped out.

And SCP-096 had taken only ten seconds.

That was right. From the moment SCP-096 left the moon to the destruction of two thousand Giant Wolf Warships, less than ten seconds had passed.

Throughout it all, it had not directly killed a single enemy who was not a member of the Julang Clan. Of course, the exploding Warships also claimed...

No small number of Gluttonous Warriors.

But SCP-096 had not once killed the wrong person by mistake.

Such terrifying efficiency, such precise slaughter, such a horrifying way of killing... Everyone watching the livestream was dumbstruck!

Every viewer stood frozen, disbelief filling their eyes.

Their bodies trembled uncontrollably, and cold sweat poured from them. Some viewers with weaker constitutions fainted outright from fright.

They could hardly be blamed!

The livestream's images were just too damn shocking.

Those impossible scenes shattered everything the viewers thought they knew. The whole world began to feel unreal.

Ten seconds. Two thousand Warships. A million elite Giant Wolf Warriors. Put together, those words...

Went beyond anything they could imagine.

Not even their myths contained anything so absurd. Myths still needed some semblance of logic, but Containment Objects did not.

There was a reason Containment Objects were called Containment Objects.

They defied logic entirely. Their very existence seemed meant to break every established rule.

Every law of the universe, every accepted principle, every scrap of common sense failed before them. Once they appeared, they became the laws of the universe. They became logic. They became common sense!

Defy them, and only death awaited you.

And sometimes, faced with a Containment Object, death was a release.