SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire-Chapter 141 The Reason for the Change in "Passionate Paradise" _1
"For such things, isn’t your gender something it can change at will? Compared to the true form of monsters, the number of transformations into humans is not large, and they are also difficult to find..."
Gao Haiwen smiled at him with an ambiguous meaning.
"Indeed..."
Dog Brother took over the conversation and asked, "Then what about the situation on ’Rain City’s’ end?"
"’Rain City’? We are not very certain about this place..."
Gao Haiwen thought for a moment and said, "Based on the information I have gathered so far, we can roughly deduce that ’Rain City’ should be a living entity, an extremely large living entity..."
"A living entity?"
Dog Brother and the others were stunned, not understanding for a moment.
"Yes, according to my understanding and knowledge, the creation and establishment of ’Passionate Paradise’ were likely for the sole purpose of containing ’Rain City.’ Before the last incident, ’Rain City’ did not exist. It was only after that event that ’Passionate Paradise’ got destroyed and ’Rain City’ began to appear gradually..."
When Gao Haiwen mentioned "Rain City," his face carried a faint, indescribable meaning.
"The invader is that ’crimson’ one. It seems to want to capture ’Rain City,’ but it appears it hasn’t succeeded yet. Otherwise, we wouldn’t still be able to hide here."
"And according to what I’ve gathered from your colleagues—it’s your ’Bonfire Company’ that established this place."
What? Another mess caused by "Bonfire Company"?
Dog Brother and others were somewhat shocked; they had not known this.
No, to be more precise, they were not sure of it.
"You don’t know?" Gao Haiwen, leaning against the bus seat, asked curiously.
"Don’t know..."
The group shook their heads in unison. They were only F Level Employees; how would they know these things?
Not to mention this, even what "Bonfire Company" truly is, they knew very little.
Gao Haiwen did not ask further but continued to share his knowledge:
"The design of ’Passionate Paradise’ is quite ingenious. It achieves the ultimate effect of mutual containment between ’Rain City’ and some ordinary anomalies by balancing them against each other. The original ’Rain City’ was like a giant piece of paper nailed firmly to the ground, and the nails were those NPCs whose true forms were monsters.
"’Script Book,’ or rather ’Narrator,’ continually uses its power to deepen the human aspects of NPCs, attempting to ultimately transform ’Rain City.’
"However, simple as I make it sound, in practice, this is all very difficult, extremely difficult...
"To this day, I am still unclear on how ’Bonfire Company’ managed to turn monsters into human forms and even endow them with human traits, let alone how they achieved a balance between ’Rain City’ and the NPCs..."
As he spoke, a strange expression appeared on Gao Haiwen’s face: "Did you know? After these monsters are forcibly shaped into humans, they begin to ’contain’ themselves because their human side will fight against their instinctual madness...
"Just as you and I would not want to lose our minds, they feel the same...
"If not for accidents, some anomalies that could have caused great harm might have truly been transformed into humans. Even so, there are still many anomalies that, aside from odd behaviors, have almost become harmless ’new humans.’
"I’ve made some attempts to learn the technology, but all have failed...
"The ins and outs of it are just like an atomic bomb. You feel like you understand, but when you really try to apply it, you find yourself surrounded by darkness."
With that, a look of regret appeared on his face. Today, many anomalies can be suppressed but not solved, difficult to eradicate like weeds.
If they could master this ability, then these troubles could be easily resolved.
’To completely transform an anomaly into a human?’
Dog Brother and the others found it somewhat unbelievable, wondering which genius had come up with such a bizarre solution.
The issue was, these shaped personas were not exactly suitable for children; the junior employees simply couldn’t handle it...
As they listened to Gao Haiwen, they secretly checked the progress of their task to investigate "Rain City."
Then, they saw that the task progress bar, which had been at only four percent, had jumped to thirty percent after a series of conversations...
This indicated that the information from this supposed official’s mouth was likely true.
Or at least most of it was true.
Meanwhile, as they were talking, a ring set with a large eyeball on Colin’s finger occasionally emitted piercing chills, as if very angry upon hearing this information.
"By the way, what’s the situation with this colleague of yours?" Gao Haiwen suddenly turned to look at Colin, who was lying on another row of seats.
There had also been a medical team accompanying them earlier, who had done some examinations on him.
The result was that, apart from the ring finger of his right hand being bitten off due to insufficient protection, he was largely unharmed; looking only at the test reports, Colin should not still be unconscious.
But to say there were no other issues would be incorrect; his cerebral cortex was found to be unusually active... extraordinarily active...
So active that it seemed it might boil over at any moment.
"He should wake up soon," Dog Brother said, not very certain himself.
Colin had been unconscious for at least an hour now, and no sign of him waking up had been seen.
The more troublesome part was, they were still unclear about the cause of his unconsciousness...
"Seems like we need to take him back for a more thorough examination."
Gao Haiwen’s eyes behind his glasses stared at Colin, and he dropped his crossed leg, seemingly intending to get up and approach, but then, as if he thought of something, he abandoned the corresponding move.
"Yeah, okay... by the way, didn’t you say there were other colleagues?"
Dog Brother remembered the other party mentioning that he had seen colleagues from a previous round...
"They? Don’t worry, they are all back at headquarters. If nothing unexpected happens, you’ll be meeting them soon."
"Is that so..."
Dog Brother had a vague premonition that things might not be very good—if they wanted to come to them directly, wouldn’t it have been better to send a colleague along with the team?
With this in mind, he was about to say something, but suddenly, a message appeared in his mind—
’Be careful, there is something not quite right about these people... delay, don’t get off the bus... wait for me... to wake up...’
Dog Brother instinctively wanted to glance at Colin, as the sender of this message was Colin himself!
However, in order not to be noticed, he kept a nonchalant face, revealing no sign of surprise, and instead started talking about other things.
It was at this moment that a medic in the vehicle suddenly spoke up:
"Captain Gao, is our route a bit off? It’s been so long and we still haven’t arrived..."
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