SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire-Chapter 140: The Mysterious Bonfire Company. _1
"Escape? How exactly should we do it? Oh, right, I forgot to ask, what should I call you?"
Dog Brother subconsciously asked, curious about what the other person meant by escaping, given that they hadn’t seen any possibility of escape so far.
"Level 6 ’Agent’ Gao Haiwen, former leader of an international special action group dispatched by the state..."
Fuck, he seems to be really impressive... Dog Brother and the others were startled when they heard the man introduce himself—
Even though they couldn’t understand, he still seemed really impressive.
"Wait, are you...official people?" the Warden suddenly thought of something, his gaze shifting evasively.
"In your terms, that’s correct..."
The square-faced man pushed his black-framed glasses up his nose. "As for the method of escape you asked about, we will need some assistance from you ’Bonfire Company’ employees, but the method is special... You’ll understand once we reach the base."
After pausing, the square-faced Gao Haiwen also asked out of curiosity, "How many years have you been with this so-called ’Bonfire Company’?"
Dog Brother and the others fell silent for a moment before reporting a close but not entirely accurate number of years: "I’ve been around for about two years."
"Two years, huh..." Gao Haiwen mused.
"Is there a problem?" "Loafing Immortal" asked curiously.
During the conversation, he glanced outside the bus covered in barbed wire, saw the raindrops sliding down the window, and beyond that, only the mysterious mist and the dim outlines of buildings could be seen.
In front of the bus, on the armored vehicle, the sound of gunfire transmitted intermittently, as if it were engaged in combat.
"Don’t worry, it’s still safe at this time; otherwise, we wouldn’t dare to come out."
Gao Haiwen explained a bit but did not specify why it was safe, and instead returned to the previous topic: "The ’Bonfire Company,’ as far as I know, should have no small number of people. I don’t know if it’s over ten thousand, but over a thousand is for sure, and from interacting with some of your other employees, I’ve learned that you’ve been active for quite some time, the furthest back being five years ago. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
"Moreover, thinking about it now, many things seem to be intricately related to the ’Bonfire Company’...
"But until I entered this secret realm, well, what you call ’Passionate Paradise,’ I hadn’t received any information about you through any channels. You really keep yourselves well hidden..."
They’ve never seen us before?
Dog Brother and the others blinked at these words, confused, as this seemed different from their understanding—they had always thought that "Bonfire Company" had official backing and could even be connected to mainstream countries around the world.
After all, the company clearly had some "in-the-know guys" who appeared to be official personnel, but what this man was saying seemed to suggest otherwise...
"Could it be that your level is too low, so you lack sufficient information?"
Dog Brother had once participated in a team mission, assisting people with "D Level authorization," so comparing that, he felt that the so-called "Level 6 Agent" with a bunch of titles in front of them should be at about a D Level strength, maybe even not as good as D Level personnel, falling into a stage above E Level but below D Level.
In other words, a high-level within the middle-level of the low-level employees, slightly better than them, but not by much...
What kind of secrets could such a low level know?
However, after considering, he thought such a comment might seem insensitive, so he ultimately didn’t voice it and instead suggested, "Maybe we’ve just been missing each other."
"That’s also possible," Gao Haiwen didn’t refute the possibility but secretly decided that if he had a chance to get out, he must report this bizarre, unknown, and dubious organization to his superiors...
"By the way, you guys must’ve come in the last few days, right? What’s the situation outside? Still normal?"
Upon hearing this, the group thought for a moment before Dog Brother spoke up, "It’s fairly normal."
During the conversation, as he thought about various things, he added, "It should still be considered normal, at least I haven’t seen anything strange on a daily basis."
"That’s a relief..." Gao Haiwen let out a long sigh of relief on his square face.
However, as if something had come to mind, he spoke up again, "Right, how’s the situation on the Never-Setting Sun’s land?"
"It seems pretty good... I heard something about a split with Ireland or something, they’ve gone into military readiness," Dog Brother said, recalling recent events.
Wandering Speedy Lad laughed gleefully beside them, "What split? That’s just the state of affairs in Great Britain, isn’t it? The people of Ireland are voicing their blood and tears to fight for their rights, it’s just a beautiful sight to see."
But unlike the others’ laughter and merriment, Gao Haiwen frowned slightly as if he had more information.
At that moment, Dog Brother exchanged a look with a colleague beside him, who immediately caught on.
"Right, Big Brother Gao Haiwen, about the ’Passionate Paradise’ matter, how much have you learned? Can you share any of it? That way, if there’s a new discovery, it might make it easier for us to escape later."
"Loafing Immortal" asked, as they still had a mission to investigate and gather intelligence waiting to be completed.
"It’s your mission, isn’t it? Although ordinarily orders aren’t to be disclosed, the current situation is obviously not ordinary. An exchange of information is indeed necessary..."
Gao Haiwen glanced at him and then looked away, pondering for a moment, "Regarding this place, we’ve kind of forgotten why we came here, because... Don’t look at me like that, I’ve actually died many times already."
"Died many times?" Dog Brother was startled; he indeed hadn’t noticed anything about Gao Haiwen that suggested he had died before.
"Yes, each time we die by accident, we lose a bit of memory and then get reborn in that city of ’Passionate Paradise,’ continuing that kind of... whatever romance."
"And then we have to figure out how to enter ’Rain City’ during the interval between sunset on Friday and the arrival of night."
"Otherwise, if the time exceeds seven days, we’ll be taken away by that ’crimson’ thing. It’s unclear where exactly, but anyhow, people disappear.
"Besides, during these seven days, there’s also a chance to be turned into one of those characters by the ’Narrator,’ becoming a puppet of the script...
"The other team from Lighthouse Kingdom that came in with us, a squad of five, turned into quintuplet sisters...
"Furthermore, I remember from your last batch of people, several became puppets, but exactly where they’ve been placed is not very clear. Some of the female characters you fancy might be your colleagues transformed..."
Quintuplet sisters?!
Wandering Speedy Lad’s pupils contracted, and he suddenly felt his heart sink, unable to help interrupting:
"Weren’t all the people who came in men?"
He had indeed been attracted to several characters, and the thought that the original person was a robust male colleague, possibly even more well-endowed than him, made him feel quite unsettled.
"Heh, you can accept monsters turning into people, but you can’t accept people changing?"
"This, this is different..." Brother Xu’s face went red.
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