Chapter Summaries

After devouring a giant snail, the tentacled creature broke into another containment chamber, frightened a flower-like anomaly, and continued toward the Alpha Office Area. The Lava team tried to stop it in Area C, but their suppression rounds failed and one sniper was injured.

• The tentacled version of "Zhou Ze" devoured the giant snail as the containment chamber began to collapse.
• The creature broke into a chamber containing a flower girl, who recoiled in terror as it passed through the wall without attacking her.
• The Lava team reported that the target was heading toward the Alpha Office Area and gathered in Corridor C to intercept it.
• The team's snipers fired XR-7 Biological Suppression Rounds, but the creature deflected them and hurled one back, dislocating a sniper's shoulder and knocking him unconscious.

At Site 108, Dai Yong'an realized D-87465 had become a divine-level entity as the creature rampaged through the facility. Zhou Ze killed Dai Yong'an, then froze and began to collapse as an ominous force gathered around his remains and storms engulfed the world.

• Dai Yong'an learned that the creature in the containment corridors was generating immense Akiva radiation and concluded that D-87465 had been divine all along.
• The monster tore through Site 108, destroying surveillance equipment and leaving the containment team screaming over the radio.
• Dai Yong'an tried to escape the surveillance room, but Zhou Ze burst through the ceiling in monstrous form and impaled him with a tentacle.
• Zhou Ze ripped Dai Yong'an in half, then froze as his body collapsed into sludge after Dai Yong'an's heart stopped.
• An unseen force drew Zhou Ze's remains together as black clouds, violent winds, lightning, and earthquakes swept across the world.

Zhou Ze fought his way out of a sea of blood after Alice’s voice and memories urged him to keep going, while time at Site 108 reversed the disaster in Biological Containment Zone 23. At Site-17, Alice recorded that she had revived Colin and feared Archwizard Clive would kill her, ending her diary entry by hoping someone would save her.

• Zhou Ze heard Old Yang and Alice calling to him in the blood sea, then grasped Alice’s hand and struggled back toward the light.
• Time reversed at Site 108, restoring the destroyed area, healing Zhou Ze and the containment squad, and drawing Dai Yong'an’s remains back together.
• The giant snail stopped moving, and the alert for Biological Containment Zone 23 was lifted.
• At Site-17, Alice wrote in her diary that Colin had died in her arms and that she had brought him back to life.
• Alice feared Archwizard Clive would kill her and imprison her soul, then wrote that she hoped someone would save her.

Clive’s growing compulsion to kill SCP-239 nearly made him send a warning, but he instead publicly posted an execution proposal under the influence of her reality-altering power. At Site-17, Kane and Dr. Gears recognized that Clive’s apparent mistake meant they faced a serious problem.

• Clive developed an escalating urge to kill SCP-239 and began drafting an email warning personnel to secure her and stop him.
• Clive’s resolve shifted before he sent the email, and he decided to plan SCP-239’s execution instead.
• At Site-17, Kane took over duties after Dai Yong'an disappeared and reviewed a report about D-87465’s anomalous blood and survival of an experiment with Number-075.
• Dr. Gears’s public proposal log showed that Clive planned to kill SCP-239 with an SCP-148 implement and SCP-668, volunteering to act as executioner.
• Kane questioned Dr. Gears about the post, and Dr. Gears confirmed Clive was likely serious and that Site-17 had a problem.

Zhou Ze woke to find Old Yang gone and learned that Alice was in danger after Dr. Clive threatened to execute her. Dr. Kane recruited Zhou Ze to help rescue Alice and retrieve something from Kane’s lab that could defeat Clive, while Site-17’s containment chambers had begun opening.

• Zhou Ze woke alone in the Site-17 dormitory, unsettled by the unanswered questions Old Yang had left behind.
• Dr. Kane, a talking Golden Retriever, entered Zhou Ze’s room and told him that Alice was in grave danger because Dr. Clive had announced he would execute her.
• Kane explained that Site-17’s Central Control System had malfunctioned and several intelligent anomalies had escaped their containment chambers.
• Kane gave Zhou Ze a Tactical Belt, a dagger, a longsword, and a specially authorized keycard, then asked him to find Alice while Kane confronted Clive.
• Zhou Ze followed Kane toward the lab, where Kane said they could find the key to defeating Clive.

Zhou Ze and Kane headed through the alarm-lit Containment Facility corridor toward the containment sector, hoping to rescue Alice and escape. They encountered a hostile winged giant hound, and Zhou Ze narrowly dodged its first charge while striking at it with his longsword.

• Zhou Ze considered using Alice’s incident as a chance to escape the Containment Facility, though he had no plan for evading pursuit.
• Kane told Zhou Ze that he had survived a fatal accident in the body of a golden retriever and described how his new body’s instincts had affected him.
• Zhou Ze and Kane heard heavy footsteps and labored breathing near the end of the corridor.
• A giant winged hound appeared and became hostile when it noticed Kane, prompting Kane to urge Zhou Ze to help kill it.
• The hound lunged at Zhou Ze, who dodged aside and swung his longsword as metal clashed against its claws.

Zhou Ze killed the giant dog with its own corrosive blood but suffered a severe shoulder wound that also corroded his clothes. As he recovered with Kane’s help, a security guard charged toward them, prompting Kane to warn Zhou Ze.

• Zhou Ze wounded the giant dog with his dagger, then used his corrosive blood to blind it and stabbed its abdomen with the Longsword.
• The giant dog died, and Zhou Ze wondered whether his corrosive blood meant he was still human.
• Kane tore away Zhou Ze’s damaged uniform and instructed him to press two points to stop the bleeding.
• A battered security guard appeared and charged at them, and Kane warned Zhou Ze to watch out.

Zhou Ze killed and dismembered a reanimated security guard, while Kane explained that the corpse was likely the result of Designation-049, the Plague Doctor, recently brought to Site-17. They realized the Site’s control system had failed, and Kane hinted at the conflict between the Containment Facility and the GOC before Zhou Ze asked about the giant winged dog.

• A reanimated security guard charged Zhou Ze, who cut its throat, crushed its neck, and dismembered its still-twitching body.
• Kane explained that the corpse no longer relied on ordinary human physiology and that entities like it were usually destroyed in a high-temperature incinerator.
• Zhou Ze recognized the guard and asked what anomaly might have transformed him, while Kane concluded that Site-17’s central control system had malfunctioned.
• Kane recalled that Site-19 had brought Designation-049, the Plague Doctor, to Site-17, and described his hostility toward humans he believed were afflicted with pestilence.
• Kane contrasted the Containment Facility’s approach with the GOC’s policy of eliminating anomalies, then dismissed the giant winged dog as a beast that deserved to be put down.

Zhou Ze and Kane reached Kane’s lab, where Kane prepared his Invincible Tyrannosaurus Mecha as a weapon against Clive. Meanwhile, Clive approached Site-17 and began his mission to investigate and confront the threat surrounding SCP-239.

• Zhou Ze and Kane made it to basement level nine without encountering further trouble.
• Kane brought Zhou Ze into his lab and showed him the Invincible Tyrannosaurus Mecha, explaining that he still needed to install its weapons module.
• Zhou Ze rested in a corner of the cluttered lab while wondering where Clive was.
• Clive approached Site-17 by helicopter and recorded a declaration that his actions were his own, while warning that SCP-239 might cause a world-ending scenario.
• Clive said he had prepared mind-shielding weapons and arranged to transmit mission data to the Global Occult Coalition, then announced that he would reach Site-17 within ten minutes.

Clive broke into Site-17 and headed for Sector B while Zhou Ze chose to protect Alice. In the B9 Containment Zone, Zhou Ze encountered Shi Yaming, who warned that security personnel had turned into dangerous monsters.

• Clive blinded and incapacitated the guards at Helipad 8, then headed toward the western entrance to Sector B.
• After the security system announced an intrusion, Kane told Zhou Ze to protect Alice or pursue Clive, and Zhou Ze chose Alice.
• Zhou Ze reached the B9 Containment Zone and nearly fought Shi Yaming when the elevator doors opened.
• Shi Yaming said he had become separated from the Instructor and explained that anomalous security-team members had turned into zombie-like monsters.
• Zhou Ze told Shi Yaming he had already killed one of the monsters, and Shi Yaming asked why he was there.