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After the notebook hit the security team leader, it fell to the ground.
The next second, a gorilla with a body size comparable to King Kong’s appeared at the entrance of Zone C without warning.
The crowd screamed and scattered.
The six security team members immediately picked up their weapons and began shooting at the gorilla, trying to suppress it with firepower and force the monster away from the door, allowing more people to escape from the building in Zone C.
“Quick, to the parking lot! Hurry to Zone C parking lot!”
Amidst the deafening gunfire, the security team leader shouted hoarsely, “Everyone, head to the parking lot!”
Ji Dong grabbed Fan Luming’s arm and, following the floor plan in his mind, ran towards their destination.
The researcher rescued by Ji Dong also followed behind the two.
He covered his injured arm and tried to talk to his benefactor:
“That–That’s the [Nightmare Illustrated Notebook]! It’s SCP 284!”
While running, the researcher continued, “Designation SCP 284!”
Ji Dong and Fan Luming both turned to look at him.
The researcher smiled apologetically and continued speaking.
“The [Nightmare Illustrated Notebook] will actively make contact with individual humans. After touching the person’s body, it can transform into a creature from that person’s past nightmares—usually the most terrifying and powerful one, and it will attack nearby humans.”
He gasped for breath, trying to make his words coherent:
“Only by destroying the creature it transforms into, or waiting for time to pass, will the [Nightmare Illustrated Notebook] return to the form of a notebook.”
Fan Luming turned around and asked the researcher, “What does ‘waiting for time to pass’ mean?”
The researcher replied, “The creature summoned by the [Nightmare Illustrated Notebook] can only exist for two minutes. After two minutes, it will return to the form of a notebook.”
He had already noticed that the two people in front of him were not like most of the people on this site who were familiar with the famous SCP item [Nightmare Illustrated Notebook] contained in the site. Before today, they might not have even heard of it.
However, there were many peculiar practitioners in the SCP Foundation, and judging from the special abilities that Ji Dong has demonstrated, he might be a recruit for a special task force.
The researcher deeply understood the importance of being knowledgeable about current affairs and just wanted to cozy up to them, without intending to dwell on their identities.
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Even after surviving the gorilla encounter, the [Nightmare Illustrated Notebook] would quickly find its next target and manifest the creature seen in the person’s dreams.
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Ji Dong, Fan Luming, and the researcher ran through the passage in front of Zone C, following the crowd, and then around a warehouse.
According to the floor plan, the parking lot for Zone C was behind the warehouse, where there would be special vehicles to evacuate the staff.
However, they were not heading to the parking lot. For them, and perhaps for everyone, one of the most dangerous places was the Alpha containment center.
To reach the Alpha containment center, Ji Xiao’niao and Fan Luming had to pass through a sealed, tube-like corridor next to the warehouse and then through a semicircular hall.
So, the two of them decisively ran toward the tube-like corridor.
“Hey! Hey!?”
The researcher who had been saved by Ji Dong was startled. “You’re going the wrong way!”
He raised his uninjured hand and pointed to the left, “This is the way to the parking lot!”
Ji Dong waved to the researcher who kindly reminded him, “We still need to find our other companions, so we won’t be going to the parking lot for now!”
He paused for a second, then added, “You hurry, don’t delay!”
The researcher hesitated, at a loss for words.
At this moment, the roar of propellers and engines came from the sky.
The three of them looked up and saw a helicopter rising from a nearby building, heading straight for the sky.
Naturally, the first to board the helicopter must be the personnel from the protected site.
However, as the helicopter had just taken off, the glass dome of the Beta containment center exploded, and a winged creature with two heads, covered in glass shards, leaped into the sky.
“Whoa!”
The researcher exclaimed, “It’s a two-headed dragon!”
The dragon with two heads was not in a hurry to escape from the containment site that had imprisoned it, but rather, it was more interested in something in the sky.
The dragon lunged at the helicopter, and just before the aircraft could attempt to climb higher, it grabbed onto the landing gear with its legs, tilting the body a full ninety degrees, and then, with a powerful swing, it tossed the entire helicopter as if throwing a bowling ball.
Following that, with an earth-shattering roar, the helicopter crashed on the east side of the site.
Although the location was a bit far from Ji Dong and Fan Luming, it didn’t stop the two from seeing the flames rising into the sky.
The researcher gasped in shock.
He waved to Ji Dong and Fan Luming, wished them to take care, and then, without further delay, ran straight towards the C area parking lot.
“We need to leave too!”
Ji Dong pulled Fan Luming up and turned into the pipeline corridor.
“While SCP 104 hasn’t activated its power…”
Unfortunately, Ji Xiao’niao didn’t even have time to set up a complete plan, and the unexpected happened again.
With the Omega containment center at Site 7 as the center, a circle of silver-white light waves spread out like ripples in all directions, until they crossed the entire Site 7 and slowly dissipated at the edges.
The speed of this light was not fast, the color was bright and soft, just like a gentle moonlight, appearing gentle and non-aggressive.
However, this circle of silver light could penetrate through any solid barrier—whether it was a person, a car, or a building, nothing could stop its spread.
Then, all living beings touched by this light uncontrollably shivered.
Immediately after, everyone saw another version of themselves in front of them.
SCP104, Queen Bee.
In the SCP item file of this [Film], the record about it was as follows:
SCP 104 was a creature approximately five centimeters in size, resembling a bee, but with a human female face on its head.
It was a carnivorous insect, particularly fond of human flesh and blood.
The Queen Bee could emit an unknown energy, appearing as a silver-white light wave, and this wave could penetrate through all solid barriers. Initially, it could cover an area with a radius of about ten kilometers, and later the range would gradually expand, with the recorded maximum diffusion radius being about twenty kilometers.
Any living being illuminated by the light wave would produce another identical individual, with extremely similar physical qualities to the original entity.
The newly-born individual would engage in a struggle with its original self until one of them was killed by the other.
If the victorious one was the new individual, after killing the original, it would regard SCP 104 as its “queen” and would drag as many living creatures as possible to the nest where SCP 104 resided, for it to consume.
After consuming enough food, SCP104 would secrete a large amount of biological glue, begin to expand its nest, and through the continuous emission of light waves, capture more servants and food…
……………
Just as Ji Dong and Fan Luming entered the corridor, they watched the light wave pass over them, feeling a chilling sensation that struck their souls.
Afterwards, a sticky substance appeared in front of their eyes, and in a brief moment, it took the shape of a person, with the same face as their own, ultimately transforming into a replica of themselves.
At this moment, the only difference between the new individual and the original was that the new one was completely naked, from head to toe.
As the other self took form, Ji Dong had already drawn his longbow silently, and as the other gained a face, the arrow was already on the string.
As it reached out towards the original with open arms, attempting to attack, Ji Xiao’niao mercilessly shot an arrow into the chest of the new individual.
With a “whoosh,” the arrow pierced through the chest, pinning the new individual to the wall of the corridor.
What flowed from its wound wasn’t blood, but a grayish-white sticky substance.
Then, its eyes closed, limbs relaxed, and in a position leaning against the wall, it lost its “life.” The copy of Ji Xiao’niao’s body, like heated wax, began to dissolve, ultimately turning into a mass of inorganic grayish-white adhesive, slowly flowing down the wall and sticking entirely to the floor.
The process of the new individual’s “death” was not something Ji Dong had time to observe closely, as he still had to rush to rescue Fan Luming.
Although the new individual could almost perfectly replicate the physical qualities of the original, it couldn’t obtain their abilities.
So Ji Xiao’niao felt that when facing their clone, the participants from the [Peach Blossom Spring] had almost a 100% chance of winning.
However, Fan Luming’s ability was healing, and his combat level was also the weakest among everyone. When facing his clone, although he should be able to win, they would inevitably have to struggle with each other.
So Ji Dong had to take action himself and kill the clone for Fan Luming.
“Let’s go!”
Ji Xiao’niao once again grabbed Fan Luming’s hand and ran forward according to the map in his mind.
For ordinary people, a complete copy of oneself was already very deadly, but for Ji Dong and the others, the most dangerous thing was the other SCP creatures on the site, such as the double-headed dragon they had seen outside.
After being exposed to the silver light, these SCP creatures would also produce new individuals, and engage in an endless battle with the original host—once they killed the original body, they would become “super worker ants” and start searching for and storing food for the “Queen”!
“What we’re looking for is on the basement level!”
Ji Dong said, “It can help us leave here immediately!”
The author has something to say:
The SCP items and numbers in this world are original!
Of course, some of the setting inspiration will come from some well-known SCP items, and they will be noted in the author’s notes when they are written!
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