SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire-Chapter 148 "I...have been contaminated."_1
Dog Brother and the others exchanged a glance, then asked, "What kind of intelligence?"
"Some reports about this operation. We’ve compiled the specific details into files and put them at the base location. When the time comes, we will hand them over to you..."
"Understood."
In response to Gao Haiwen’s words, Dog Brother and his companions didn’t say anything more.
After all, even if they left now, they really didn’t know where they could go.
The most crucial thing was that with Brother Shunzi playing dead and the others lacking strength, they didn’t even have the ability to protect themselves.
As for what the other party said about the chance to go out and carry a message to the outside...
The group neither refused nor agreed—because within the Bonfire Company, all employees were very protective of their own information.
Carrying messages was almost like revealing one’s identity...
After ending the conversation, everyone sat back down in their raincoats, and for a while, the bus turned quiet except for the sound of the engine.
By then, as time ticked away, Dog Brother and the others started feeling that something was amiss.
"Do you feel as if we’re missing something..."
"Loafing Immortal" murmured. He felt as if something that had been following them seemed to vanish after a period of time.
But for the moment, he couldn’t remember exactly what it was...
"It’s like... indeed, there’s a sense that we’ve been overlooking something."
Brother Xu scratched his head, looking puzzled. He felt that it should be easy to remember this thing, but there seemed to be some invisible force pushing it back down every time he was about to recall it.
The other two also frowned, clearly troubled.
They looked at each other for a moment, feeling forcibly forgetful, unable to remember no matter how hard they tried...
"Let it be, it doesn’t seem like a big deal. Compared to that..."
Dog Brother glanced at the people at the front of the bus, leaned forward, his pallid, pretty face’s red lips parted, and he spoke in a voice only they could hear, "What we’ll encounter later is what truly matters. We should at least prepare a little."
"Indeed."
"I hope Brother Shunzi wakes up soon..."
"Hopefully."
Dog Brother shook his head, then took out a bag of blood from the "Storage Room" to transfuse a few hundred milliliters into himself before anything else.
At another spot, in the ragged, worn-out front part of the vehicle, Gao Haiwen’s retinas flickered with lines of information now and then. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
[Because a substantial number of matters had demanded their attention, they had failed to notice that the "Narrator" seemed to have disappeared without their knowledge. However, clearly, this was not a matter worth much contemplation.]
[After a bout of fruitless contemplation, they ceased wasting energy on it and shifted their focus to the matters at hand...]
[Clearly, while they had relaxed a bit internally after experiencing an incident with you, they weren’t entirely trusting and were making preparations, planning to face any potential encounters a bit less passively.]
[This was the correct and sensible response.]
[Moreover, the fact that the young man lying still hadn’t provided any information, without any orders prohibiting it, had relaxed them somewhat.]
[But what they didn’t know was that by forcibly suppressing the transmission of information to the outside world, his condition had deteriorated again, forcing him to withdraw and leaving him without the energy to interfere with the external world.]
[If he had had the energy to view the information sent by his other colleagues using special means, he would have surely spotted some issues.]
[Regrettably, for the next hour, this was unlikely to happen...]
[As for the information appearing before your eyes, you didn’t care much about it. It was just ordinary text; what ill intentions could it possibly have?]
[It was just a trick of the eyes...]
[Instead, what you were pondering was how to make them lower their guard and cooperate smoothly in a little while.]
[After all, only by working together could you find a way to leave this place.]
At some unknown point, the "Narrator’s" text had become increasingly active, clearly laying out every aspect of the situation.
And as they neared the destination of their journey, the "Narrator’s" content involved more and more details.
Yet, faced with the information flowing before his eyes, Gao Haiwen didn’t seem to care much...
He looked up at the rearview mirror and glanced back at the group behind him, beginning to contemplate how to ease the tension between them.
Another fifteen minutes passed, and just as everything was about to unfold systematically...
A walkie-talkie suddenly crackled to life, followed by a voice emerging from the device.
"Hello, hello, hello, is this Mr. Gao Haiwen? Can you hear us speaking?"
"Who are you?"
Gao Haiwen furrowed his brows, reaching out to pick up the walkie-talkie.
Upon hearing his words, the people on the other end seemed to heave a sigh of relief before speaking again, "We’re Special Operations Team Three. Not long ago, we received a distress signal from your area, then found out that your area had been overrun, and everyone fled...
"Mr. Gao Haiwen, you have left the safe zone. Please stop, we have come to find you specifically at your request."
"Distress signal? Area overrun? When was it overrun? And Special Operations Team Three..."
Gao Haiwen was taken aback, not understanding a word of what the other party said.
"When did I ask you to come find me?"
He couldn’t remember anything like that at all.
"We saw an envelope in your office stating that if you suddenly left, be sure to retrieve you in a timely manner and ask about the reasons for your abrupt departure..."
"Is that right...?"
Gao Haiwen said subconsciously, but mid-sentence, he abruptly paused, his pupils contracting as if struck by lightning.
He remembered that during a previous period, he vaguely sensed something was amiss with himself, and managed to evade that thing by taking some measures, leaving behind a letter discreetly...
Since then, his mind would often go blank, forgetting things as if his cognition was continuously being tampered with.
Not until he encountered the group of employees from Bonfire Company did his memory become coherent again. He recollected that they had come out specifically to "search" for these people...
However, with the sudden connection to this call and the thought of that letter...
He finally spotted the issues, realizing a multitude of things that were not right...
The biggest issue was that he didn’t have the information of the Bonfire Company employees, nor was he certain of their location. Why had he specifically come out to pick them up?
"I’ve been contaminated!"
Gao Haiwen murmured to himself, clutching the walkie-talkie, when suddenly he remembered something and tried to speak. But just then, a line of text appeared on his retina.
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