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Site 7 had three containment centers: Alpha, Beta, and Omega, each holding highly dangerous SCP items.
During a large containment breach, the containment centers holding a large number of SCP items were the most dangerous places, and most of the staff had already evacuated from various emergency exits at this time.
Ji Dong and Fan Luming ran all the way, encountering only a few surviving site staff. They helped them get rid of the new individuals so they could escape.
After smoothly passing through the corridor, Ji Dong and Fan Luming encountered two creatures entangled in the fan-shaped hall.
Those two things both looked a lot like the legendary pegasus.
Their appearance was very similar to regular horses, except their fur was pure white, and they were three times larger than normal horses. They also had a spiral horn on their heads and strong bird wings on their backs covered with feathers.
Unlike humans, neither of the pegasus’ were wearing clothes, making it difficult to distinguish between the original and the new individuals. The only way to tell was by observing their wounds and the color of their blood.
Whether original or new, they were not tame or gentle creatures, and both were extremely powerful in combat.
At this point, the entire hall was affected by the fight between the two monsters, with broken tiles and debris everywhere from the hooves, and only a few dead bodies of the staff.
Ji Dong and Fan Luming were not real SCP Foundation employees, so they didn’t have the dedication to protect and contain rare SCP items at the risk of their lives, and of course, they didn’t intend to help them determine the winner.
While the two Pegasus’ were fighting, the two of them, like fleeing little mice, scurried along the wall, holding their heads.
“Go, go, go, hurry!”
Ji Dong protected Fan Luming, using a collapsed pillar as cover, and carefully crawled forward while crouching.
At this moment, there was a loud “rumble,” and one of the white horses was kicked in the side by the other, falling from a low altitude with tremendous force, and crashed into a pile of stones three meters away from the two, making an earth-shattering noise.
Ji Dong quickly pressed down on Fan Luming’s head, and with a “swoosh,” flashed to a nearby cover.
The fallen white horse struggled to stand up. It had a large gash on its side from a protruding steel bar, and dark red blood gushed out—apparently, this was its true form.
Seeing the successful strike, the new individual in mid-air immediately swooped down and wrestled with the original body.
For a moment, the broken stones scattered, and feathers flew.
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Ji Dong and Fan Luming felt like they were watching a dinosaur battle in “Jurassic World,” hoping the creatures would get more involved while trying to navigate the dangerous environment.
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Fan Luming leaned over, “How did you get this thing?”
Ji Dong fiddled with the key card and found that the door lock was indeed useless, so he had to figure out a way to pry the door open.
“I was assigned the identity of a researcher by the [Peach Blossom Spring] and participated in the research of SCP 078, the [Door of Wonder], so I can see some of the files about this item.”
He pointed to the unopenable door, “It’s the thing hidden underneath.”
With that, Ji Dong pulled out a handgun—another one-time prop he had exchanged for from the [Peach Blossom Spring], pulled the safety catch, and fired several shots at the door lock.
The malfunctioning electronic door lock was destroyed.
Ji Dong, without any hesitation, kicked the door open.
“Wow, Ji Xiao’niao, what are you doing?”
Mo Tiangen’s voice came from afar.
Ji Dong and Fan Luming turned around in surprise, just in time to see Ren Jianmo, Mo Tiangen, and Fan Hemian running towards them from the opposite direction they had come from.
“Sis!”
Fan Luming cheered and ran towards his twin sister, only to be caught by Fan Hemian, who carefully inspected him from head to toe, relieved to find that, apart from being covered in dirt, he hadn’t even a scratch on his skin.
“I was opening the door.”
Ji Dong replied to Mo Tiangen’s earlier question, but his gaze was fixed on Ren Jianmo. His eyes were shining, which made Ren Jianmo feel a slight tremor in his heart, and took a few quick steps to stand in front of his child.
“Are you okay?”
Ren Jianmo asked Ji Dong, “Are you injured?”
Ji Xiao’niao shook his head, trying to restrain his smile and the urge to hug Ren Jianmo. “We’re fine.”
“Alright, since everyone’s okay, let’s hurry and leave.”
Mo Tiangen approached the door that Ji Dong had kicked open, and peered inside. “What’s down there, anyway?”
Due to a power outage in the building, even the corridor leading to Containment Chamber 1 in the basement was without light. Only a row of emergency signs emitted a dim blue light, leading deep into the underground.
Ji Dong quickly averted his gaze from Ren Jianmo’s face and replied, “There’s an SCP item down there called the [Door to Wonder].”
He pointed towards the stairs:
“Let’s go, we need to hurry down.”
After saying that, Ji Xiao’niao took out a flashlight, adjusted the beam to the brightest setting, and led the way down the stairs.
The others followed closely behind him.
“Containment Chamber 7 was originally established for SCP-078…”
As they walked, Ji Dong explained the basic information about the [Door of Wonder] to the group.
According to the files he had seen, about ten years ago, SCP Foundation agents discovered a miraculous door in the basement of a cult’s chapel while participating in the eradication of a certain cult. The core members of the cult referred to it as the [Door of Wonder].
The door had a compass, with a black jade stone carved into a stake at its center.
By inserting the stake in a specific location and rotating the compass according to a certain pattern, the area within a radius of ten meters from the stake could be designated as a “singularity.”
When someone or something, be it a person or an object, passed through the [Door of Wonder], they would find themselves instantly crossing the limitations of space and arriving at the “singularity” where the stake is located.
To deactivate the established “singularity,” the jade stake must be removed and reinserted into the compass in a specific manner.
Later, the [Door of Wonder] was retrieved by the SCP Foundation. Since it couldn’t be moved, they simply built a containment center on top of it, which gradually developed into the extensive Containment Chamber 7.
“Hmm, since this thing sounds so convenient…” Fan Luming rubbed his chin. “Why not use this as an emergency evacuation route?”
Since there was such a miraculous door, as long as the jade stake was placed in a safe area, in the event of a containment breach, when staff have to run, they just need to open SCP 078 and could immediately escape danger.
Having read the SCP Foundation documents, these people were very skilled at “saving their own lives” by being prepared.
Since there was a teleportation gate in the site, the Foundation must have set up an “anomaly” in a safe and secret place, so it could be used at crucial moments.
Considering that the door couldn’t be used by too many people at the same time, and that ordinary site employees would not know about this, then high-level personnel who held many secrets of the SCP Foundation should be qualified to use it, right?
Fan Luming immediately thought of the fallen helicopter he had just seen.
“Why would those people take a helicopter instead of using this miraculous door?”
Ji Dong turned to look at Fan Luming.
“Because ordinary people can’t use this amazing door.”
As they spoke, the group had already walked through the old corridor and arrived at a small foyer.
It wasn’t big, and with five people squeezed in, one could reach the moss-covered old wall with a raised arm.
“Here it is,” Ji Dong shone the flashlight ahead.
Sure enough, everyone saw a door.
It was a bronze door, about two and a half meters high and about one meter wide with a double-opening mode and a circular compass in the center of the two doors.
Judging from the style of light, this door should have quite an ancient history. Its surface was carved with delicate reliefs and inscriptions, but after years of oxidation, the outer layer had rusted.
Under the flashlight, it appeared to be a dull and lackluster grayish-black color. The large carvings were still visible, but most of the inscriptions had become very difficult to discern, and were barely recognizable as resembling seal script.
“This door has a very strange characteristic,” Ji Dong said.
“It can only accommodate one thing at a time, whether it’s a person or an object, without exception.” He paused, then added word by word, “And, most importantly, the weight of this door is not fixed. After each item passes through, the door will become eight times the weight of the previous item.”
The crowd was first stunned, then quickly calculated in their minds, and immediately understood Ji Dong’s meaning.
“You mean, if it’s me,” Fan’s younger brother pointed to himself, “I weigh 56 kilograms, so if I pass through this door, the next person would have to push 448 kilograms of the door to get through, right?”
Ji Dong nodded.
“Exactly!”
Mo Tiangen finally understood.
Even with such a convenient teleportation door, it was no wonder that the other staff at the station didn’t consider using it.
After all, an ordinary person could already push around a hundred kilograms, which was already considered quite strong.
But an adult, even the smallest girl, weighed around forty to fifty kilograms. After multiplying by eight, that made it four hundred kilograms, far beyond the normal range of a person’s ability.
