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Just as Ji Dong and the other four escaped Site 7 through the [Door of Wonder], another group of participants from the [Peach Blossom Spring] were still in the midst of a dangerous situation.
There were a total of six people in their group, all with backgrounds in special training.
Among these individuals were active-duty soldiers or veterans, police officers, and firefighters. Since entering the [Film], they have shown exceptional performance compared to most participants due to their superior physical fitness and experience handling danger.
These individuals didn’t enter the [Peach Blossom Spring] at the same time. However, after meeting in different [Films] and experiencing similar situations, they decided to merge due to their compatible personalities. They eventually formed a guild called “Team Poseidon” and referred to each other by code names.
Being composed of powerful participants, this team was naturally much sharper than the average team.
On average, these individuals only took one year to rise from F-level to A-level. Although there were a few casualties along the way, their death rate was relatively low compared to other teams.
So far, Team Poseidon had successfully cleared four A-level [Films] and they planned to challenge an S-level difficulty [Film] after this month.
But this time, they experienced what it meant to “open the door to kill.”
The six members of Team Poseidon were scattered in Zone A and Zone D.
When they woke up in the [Film], their situation was no different from Ji Dong and the other four. They only knew that they had obtained an identity that allowed them to move around Site 7, but other than that, they had no knowledge of any SCP-related information in this [Film].
After seeing the task [Escape from Site 7] and the countdown of less than ten minutes, the group immediately found a way to communicate with each other.
They quickly exchanged information and decided to split into two small teams, each with their own escape plan.
The members of Team Poseidon were all skilled individuals. Unfortunately, none of them discovered the [Door of Wonder] in the basement of the Alpha Containment Center. Instead, they chose to forcefully break out like regular site staff members.
Later, one of the four-person teams encountered a group of SCP creatures, nine little monsters that looked like badgers.
If Team Poseidon had the time to check the information on their computers, they would know that these creatures were called [Gluttonous Badgers].
[Gluttonous Badgers] were not very large, about the same as a 20-kilogram dog, and individually, their aggression wasn’t that fierce.
But the front limbs of the [Gluttonous Badgers] were much longer and they had a thin membrane, resembling bat wings, folded beneath their bodies. Although they couldn’t truly fly like bats, they could glide at a short distance, much like a flying squirrel, using the height difference.
In addition to their gliding ability, the [Gluttonous Badgers] had two canine teeth that contained venom sacs, similar to a cobra. While the toxin may not be lethal to humans, it could paralyze the prey’s motor nerves, quickly rendering them immobile.
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The [Gluttonous Badgers] were skilled at hunting collectively. They would eat anything their teeth could chew, from wood to human flesh; it was all on their menu.
Moreover, they had a ferocious temperament and an insatiable greed. Even if they couldn’t devour their prey immediately, the [Gluttonous Badgers] would still kill it.
Site 7 contained the [Gluttonous Badgers], keeping them in a massive electrified cage for 24 hours a day, providing them with a certain amount of food daily. During the breeding season, their population was strictly controlled.
After the large-scale containment failure incident that affected the entire facility, all containment centers were destroyed by numerous SCP objects, including the cage where the [Gluttonous Badgers] were kept. Shortly after the power outage, they found its weaknesses and broke free.
Once the more than 40 [Gluttonous Badgers] escaped in groups, they went on a rampage, killing people along the way.
Then, they were exposed to the special light wave emitted by the [Queen Bee], resulting in the birth of new individuals.
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Although the [Queen Bee] controlled these nine newborn Gluttonous Badgers, they still retained some of their original abilities, such as gliding over short distances and their venomous anesthetic glands, as well as excellent teamwork abilities.
As servants to the [Queen Bee], these [Gluttonous Badgers] had lost their survival instinct and become fearless, slaughtering without hesitation.
This time, this small group of [Gluttonous Badgers] targeted the members of the Team Poseidon.
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After the two members of Team Poseidon took down the nine Gluttonous Badgers and rescued one of their injured comrades, the other person had already become a heavily wounded and mangled corpse, with no chance of saving them.
“Report, Albatross! Report, Albatross!”
They lifted their injured companion onto a stolen vehicle, opened the radio, and spoke to their captain, who was not present:
“Albatross is dead.”
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At 3 a.m., in the Redwood Lake Mountain Forest Nature Reserve, inside the storage room of the SCP Foundation’s investigation team’s cabin.
Mo Tiangen, Fan Hemian, and Fan Luming were all wrapped in clothes or blankets, sleeping directly on the floor. Meanwhile, Ren Jianmo was seated in a corner, keeping watch and reviewing the information provided on the SCP Foundation’s laptop.
Once the laptop was removed from Site 7, connecting to the SCP Foundation’s network became impossible. However, if you had your account details, you could still access the system by fingerprint and iris verification to view the archived data.
They found the basic information of Site 9 on the computer and discovered that it was located on the remote edge of a desert, disguised as an industrial research institute. It was approximately 1,000 kilometers away from the Redwood Lake Mountain Forest Nature Reserve where they currently were.
After discussing it, the five of them decided to borrow an off-road vehicle from the investigation team. As soon as dawn came, they would set off, leaving the forested area and finding another way once they reached the city.
“What are you looking at?”
Ji Dong, wrapped in a blanket, quietly approached Ren Jianmo with a cup in his hand.
“Here, have some hot tea,” he said, extending the cup.
Ren Jianmo took it, brought it to his lips, and took a sip.
It was a strong, well-brewed Pu’er tea.
He handed the cup back to Ji Dong and gently patted the spot next to him, gesturing for him to sit down.
Ji Dong sat close to Ren Jianmo.
“What are you looking at?” he asked again.
“I’m looking at the SCP item catalog for Site 7,” Ren Jianmo replied in a low voice.
“Unfortunately, I cannot perform a second identity verification since we are no longer connected to the Foundation’s network. Some files cannot be accessed, while others only display partial information.”
He pointed to one of the entries on the screen as he spoke, “Just like SCP-078 [Door of Wonder] that you looked at before, I can’t open it now.”
Ji Dong leaned in closer, “Really?”
He tried tapping at it lightly, and immediately a prompt popped up, stating: [Current account permissions restricted. Unable to access this SCP item file.]
“Well, okay then.”
Ji Dong pouted in disappointment, “So, have you seen anything interesting then?”
“Well, overall, there are quite a few interesting things,” Ren Jianmo answered.
He turned the laptop towards Ji Dong so that he could see more clearly.
“You can think of Site 7 like Jurassic Park, where many fierce carnivorous dinosaurs are all kept together.”
According to the data in the computer files, Site 7 has a total of 29 SCP items.
With Ren Jianmo’s researcher privileges, he was able to view partial or complete information on 27 items without the need for a second identity verification. However, SCP-078 could only be accessed by its name [Door of Wonder], while SCP-323 was anonymously labeled as [***].
The two of them sat together, reading through each of the 27 items except for 078 and 323, while fervently discussing them in a whispered tone.
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“We’ve already taken care of the Eight-Tailed Fox… Its illusions didn’t affect me, but I still got a headache.”
“We’ve encountered this [Nightmare Illustrated Notebook] before, it’s troublesome! If only we knew it was afraid of fire, we would have just burned it!”
“Seems like the humanoid SCP items like Dragonfly Woman, Beautiful Serpent, Phantom Assassin, and Can Man won’t be able to escape the influence of the Queen Bee’s light beam, right?”
“You’re right. Unless they can kill their own newly born individuals and escape the site, they’ll likely become puppets of the [Queen Bee].”
Ji Dong paused for a moment.
For some reason, he thought of the researcher he had saved without much thought. “Sigh, I wonder… how many people had made it out…”
After all, that was an enormous site containing a total of 29 SCP items, most of which were extremely deadly. If they were all released, the devastation would be a hundred times scarier than a group of rampaging carnivorous dinosaurs.
Moreover, the [Queen Bee] possessed the ability to control a group. Whether it was humans or other creatures, if they couldn’t escape the site within a certain time, they’d ultimately face two outcomes—either be killed by their duplicates or by the [Queen Bee]’s puppets.
Even though this was Ji Dong’s fifth [Film] experience, he still couldn’t bring himself to be ruthless in the face of so much death.
As Ji Dong gained more experience, he began to realize that the [Films] he encountered were not just virtual data in an online game, but actual realities of different dimensions. He came to understand that every person they encountered was a living, breathing individual with their own unique life.
“Life and death are predetermined.”
Ren Jianmo understood the child’s thoughts and reached out to embrace his shoulder, kissing him on the forehead. “It’s just how things are, there’s nothing we can do about it.”
Ji Dong tilted his head back and pecked Ren Jianmo’s lips.
“I know.”
He looked straight into his lover’s eyes, his own eyes shining brightly.
“I will become stronger.”
As long as they’re still in the [Peach Blossom Spring], they would surely encounter tasks that were more dangerous and challenging than escaping Site 7. Only by being strong enough could they protect themselves, their companions, and the people around them.
Ji Dong earnestly promised Ren Jianmo:
“So, I will never hold you back.”
For the SCP items that are biological, like the badgers, why not just let them starve to death in the cage?
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