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Next, Dr. Roland showed everyone the current situation of Site 7.
It was footage that was taken and transmitted back by a drone about twenty hours ago.
The video was very similar to the teaser trailer that Ji Dong and the others had seen in the [Peach Blossom Spring], but it was longer and the scenes were more fragmented.”
Everyone saw that nearly all the buildings in Site 7 were completely wrapped in a layer of gray-green unknown shells.
The drone entered the site and hovered at a low altitude around the perimeter for about ten minutes. After capturing a clear view of the hexagonal honeycomb structure of the shells, it flew into a building through the gaps in the windows.
Because the windows and doors were covered in a grayish substance, the lighting inside the building was dim even though it was daytime.
To ensure clear footage, the drone had to take a risk and turned on a light source. After flying for a minute, the camera captured two “people,” a man and a woman in their thirties. They had average appearances and could easily blend into a crowd with their nondescript faces.
They were wearing rough white robes, and were sporting strangely eerie smiles on their faces.
The two of them were slowly walking down the hallway as if they were taking a stroll. However, they quickly noticed the drone, stopped, and immediately changed direction, walking briskly toward the location of the camera.
The drone immediately flew towards the depths of the corridor, attempting to distance itself from the two individuals in white robes.
However, it didn’t manage to fly very far. Soon, it was intercepted by three more smiling figures in white robes, who had approached from a different direction. They brought the drone down and swiftly destroyed it.
The footage ended with a scene of a man smiling as he crushed the camera. For a moment, nobody spoke, and the conference room fell into a brief silence.
Ji Dong sat at the far left of the long side of the rectangular conference table, which was the position of the “team leader.” Sitting next to him was Dr. Roland, who was hosting the meeting.
Across from them was the “captain” of another group of people. Although they were all participants from the [Peach Blossom Spring], Ji Dong found the five people opposite him to be unfamiliar. It was clear that they had never crossed paths before.
The leader of the “Poseidon Team,” Hai Diao, was a middle-aged man approaching fifty. He had a messy beard, a strong and tall physique, thick eyebrows, and big eyes. He also had an old scar on the corner of his left eye that looked like a tear mark, giving him a completely classic villainous face. He could easily play the role of a gang leader in a crime film without needing any makeup.
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The four companions beside him were all young people in their twenties or thirties. Regardless of their appearance or physique, you could tell just by the way they sat with straight backs, that these people had accumulated some serious training.
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When they saw the task given to them by the [Peach Blossom Spring] to “find the participants from Group A,” they privately discussed who the other group of people could be.
The number of participants in the [Peach Blossom Spring] varied each month, sometimes suddenly increasing by one or two hundred newcomers, but it was also possible to hear about several teams experiencing tragic accidents in a single month.
However, in general, the unfamiliar faces that joined were usually newcomers who could only linger in low-level difficulty worlds. Participants who could endure the A-level difficulty were at least seasoned individuals who had been in the [Peach Blossom Spring] for one or two years.
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The five members of the Poseidon Team had already completed four A-level difficulty [Films] and had gained some reputation in the [Peach Blossom Spring].
They had their guild, but since all the members had a military training background and had developed an irreplaceable team synergy, they preferred to operate as tight-knit groups. After the guild leader learned about this, they understood and agreed to let them enter each month’s [Film] with a fixed team roster.
So when the Poseidon Team encountered Ji Dong and the others at the meeting table, the surprise and confusion in their hearts was much richer than the expressions on their faces.
Firstly, besides Fan Hemian and Fan Luming, the other three members of the Poseidon Team had never seen them in the [Peach Blossom Spring] before. They were either uninformed, or the people in front of them were indeed newcomers who had just arrived.
Secondly, these five people could easily be underestimated based on their appearance alone. Their “leader” was too young-looking, with curly hair that made him look like a high school student. The others either looked like runway models or twins who didn’t seem particularly formidable. Only the muscular guy with a fighting spirit seemed to have some combat ability.
As the PoseidonTeam looked at Ji Dong and the others, they couldn’t help but feel a bit dismissive, but a question arose in their minds:
——Are they capable of challenging the participants at an A-level difficulty?
——Could it be that they mistakenly chose the wrong difficulty and entered to meet their doom?
“I think everyone has seen the current situation at Site 7.”
Dr. Roland’s gentle and soothing voice broke the silence in the conference room.
“We believe that Site 7 is now fully occupied by SCP-104, and the majority of SCP objects are presumed to have breached containment.”
She paused for a moment and continued, “But as you know… if we just leave SCP-104 alone, there’s a high possibility of a K-class species reconfiguration scenario, leading to an end-of-the-world scenario.”
The so-called “K-class end-of-the-world scenario” referred to a major event caused by an SCP object that would result in the death of over 99% of the world’s population.
According to the files that Ji Dong and the others had seen, SCP-104, the [Queen Bee], was an extremely dangerous and difficult-to-contain creature.
The [Queen Bee] could emit a unique silver light wave, which would create new clone-like organisms of all living beings within its range while killing the original beings for its consumption.
After consuming a sufficient amount of food, she’d secrete a large amount of sticky gray-green substance to construct her nest and “reconstruct” a new body – usually, a massive creature resembling a centipede made up of countless segmented limbs.
In the SCP files, the recorded maximum length of the [Queen Bee’s] reconstructed form is forty-eight meters, with a total weight of seven tons.
Once the [Queen Bee] grew to such a colossal size, the energy and range of the light waves it could emit would continue to increase. It is estimated that it would have the potential to cover an entire metropolis with a population of tens of millions.
If it reached that point, countless slaves would be generated in an instant.
These newly created “worker ants” would stop at nothing to search for food for their queen, leading to a species reconfiguration disaster that could engulf the entire world.
And what’s even more deadly was that even after the containment of SCP-104 failed, the simplest and most brutal methods, such as highly destructive weapons, would be useless against the Queen Bee’s nest along with her hundreds or thousands of copied subjects.
Even if the existing [Queen Bee] died, a new [Queen Bee] would regenerate from a random hornet’s nest at a location approximately 2,000 kilometers away, resuming the widespread massacre and destruction that occurred before.
So far, the only known containment method to deal with the [Queen Bee] was to keep the main body in a low-temperature environment below 20 degrees Celsius, forcing it into a state of “hibernation.”
After hibernation, SCP-104 would stop emitting the widespread light waves. However, if it went without food for more than eight months, it may die from starvation.
So the SCP Foundation could only awaken it once every six months and then recontain it after providing a small amount of food, ensuring that no harm was caused during the [Queen Bee’s] lifespan of approximately a hundred years.
“So, we just have to figure out a way to contain SCP-104.”
Dr. Roland’s gaze slowly swept across the people at the conference table:
“All of you have worked at Site 7 before and have a better understanding of the site than we do. I hope you can join our task force and help us recontain SCP-104.”
Upon hearing Dr. Roland’s request, Ji Dong immediately recalled the trailer he had seen in the [Peach Blossom Spring].
Back then, the line he heard was: [Task force, prepare to go to Site 7 for the recontainment of SCP-104.]
——Here it comes, this is the key!
Ji Dong lowered his eyelashes, pretending to casually glance at the watch on his left wrist.
Sure enough, the progress bar on the dial jumped forward significantly at this moment, leaping straight from one-third to the middle position.
He looked up and exchanged a glance with his teammates.
It wasn’t just him. Ren Jianmo, Mo Tiangen, and the Fan siblings also noticed the change in the watch, so they all nodded slightly toward him.
“We agree to join the task force.”
Ji Dong expressed his team’s stance.
The five members of the Poseidon Team across from them also gave a positive response.
“That’s great,” Dr. Roland breathed a sigh of relief. “Thank you for your loyalty and dedication to the SCP Foundation…”
“Wait a minute.”
At that moment, the bearded man sitting across from Ji Dong raised his hand, interrupting Dr. Roland’s words.
“While I agree to join the task force, we can’t just go like that.”
He crossed his arms, his fierce tiger-like eyes glaring at Dr. Roland.
“From what I know, the [Queen Bee’s] abilities go beyond emitting special light waves, right? It can also exert a certain level of mental control, can’t it?”
According to the SCP-104 file records, the [Queen Bee] not only created new individuals with light waves, but its “nest” also emitted a form of mental control. This control would make any living creature that approached it feel an intense urge to get closer, just like bees drawn to flowers. But, the closer they’d get to the [Queen Bee], the stronger the mental influence would become.
If the file records were accurate, then when they entered Site 7, these individuals will also be affected by the mental effects and will desperately want to get close to the [Queen Bee], regardless of their safety.
“Of course, we absolutely won’t allow you all to take unnecessary risks.”
Dr. Roland stared back at the bearded man’s intense gaze and smiled as he replied:
“We will provide mind-blocking devices to ensure that no one from the special forces team will be affected by the [Queen Bee]’s mental control.”
