SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire-Chapter 174: Employees’ Experiences in the Other World._1

Chapter 174: Chapter 174: Employees’ Experiences in the Other World._1

"Is this what the Other World looks like?"

"Lifecoach Kawaii-many" wobbled to his feet, opened his eyes, and looked around cautiously.

This seemed to be the inside of a gloomy church, surrounded by darkness, with the air heavy and stifling, and the ground was crawling with densely packed bodies, seemingly praying to something...

He wasn’t particularly scared by such a scene, his hand brushing over the pendant on his neck—it wasn’t heating up.

"It seems there’s no danger inside the church."

Once he was sure of that, he relaxed quite a bit, but unfortunately, the other dozen or so employees who had entered with him were nowhere to be seen.

It appeared he was alone here...

"But what am I supposed to do now?"

While he was pondering this, a task suddenly popped up in his mind.

[Event One: Use the bodies inside the church to establish a "Bonfire Sacrificial Site."]

[Event Two: Then make contact with the other employees and complete the gathering.]

[Event Three: Attempt to investigate matters related to "Hunger."]

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[The first ten employees to clear this "trial project" will receive the "Tyrant Body·Limited Edition" Talent, and the first hundred will receive the standard version of "Tyrant Body."]

"Establish a ’Bonfire Sacrificial Site’? Is this to strengthen the connection between the company and the Other World? As for the latter events, no clues yet, I’ll shelve them for now, wait, holy crap, the rewards for clearing this instance actually include Talents?"

"Lifecoach Kawaii-many" widened his eyes and checked the attributes of "Tyrant Body"; the contents of the limited edition were hidden, but judging by the standard version’s attributes, it seemed almost as good as purple.

After "Tyrant transformation," one could become a werewolf-like creature, greatly enhancing one’s physique and sense of smell as standard, along with a self-healing ability.

Anyway, it had to be at least of the green tier, much better than the plain gear he was wearing...

"I need to put in an effort to be among the first hundred."

Before long, with the lighting of a flame, the stacked bodies were instantly ignited.

This whole process was devoid of any danger, which made him let his guard down quite a bit.

"The ’Descent Project’ isn’t all that dangerous after all..."

He dusted off his hands and watched the flames grow stronger, and during this process, he gradually sensed the locations of other company employees.

At the same time, voices, near and far, came intermittently in his mind—

"Damn it, help, shit, something is wrong with these refugees..."

"Fuck! I’m so hungry, so hungry..."

"Help, I don’t want to be eaten..."

"At least kill me before eating, damn it, don’t eat me alive..."

"Damn, that Warden is a wolf in sheep’s clothing!"

What’s happening? An ominous premonition suddenly rose in the heart of "Lifecoach Kawaii-many," feeling that if this continued, he would fail the trial task.

"I’m the only D Level employee here, I have to go and save them."

With that thought, he did not linger. He quickly went to the church’s main gate, cracked it open to peek outside, saw no danger, and walked out.

However, no sooner had he taken a few steps than he felt a terrible heat in the stone at his chest.

"Crap! Danger!"

He immediately braced himself, but at that moment, his neck suddenly went cold, and his vision spun as his head flew off.

....

"Fuck! What’s going on? Invisible enemies? Seems like they have a physical form, that’s not too bad..."

"Lifecoach Kawaii-many" woke up and felt his neck, summarizing the situation, and then continued on.

But before long...

"Fuck! It’s not just simple invisibility, it’s impossible to detect it before it attacks, but it reveals itself when it does attack, so I can counter at the critical moment..."

He had some ideas and kept going.

A little while later...

"Lifecoach Kawaii-many" opened his eyes angrily: "What the hell is this? Infinite invisibility? Hit it several times and it still won’t come out of invisibility?! What the fuck..."

After cursing, he got ready to hand over points again, ready to try once more, but the parchment said he didn’t have enough points.

"If it weren’t for this talent, I wouldn’t be putting up with this!"

He muttered irritably and then rummaged through the storage room for an item, listing it on the Trading Path.

However, contrary to his expectations of a quick sale at a low price, no one made an offer for quite some time.

It was only when he opened the communications hall that he realized the place was in an uproar—many people were desperately trying to get into the top hundred to get the talent, having spent all their points...

"Fuck, how could a monk pop up in a Western fantasy world? It was hard enough to kill him, but I couldn’t help eating him, and then my flesh started turning into a robe, turning into a monk..."

"Fuck, that Warden was sporting a big belly and I thought he was a noob, but as soon as I made a move, he turned into a three-meter giant!"

"What the hell is that thing outside the door?! Opening the door to kill, at least let people see what the enemy is, right?"

...

"It seems like the version I went through is a bit different..."

Colin, reading these people’s comments, was surprised—Warden Calder had only turned into a two-meter tall dude, so how did he get upgraded to three meters...

And that monk.

"That guy definitely has some issues, turning into a monk just like him after eating him?"

Colin shuddered at the thought of his previous appetite for that guy, imagining himself bald, skin turning into a robe, becoming a puppet monk, and felt a chill in his heart.

Fortunately, he hadn’t consumed the source of "Beast Transformation Syndrome" at that time, suppressing the urge to eat.

"The event tasks must have been strengthened overall, otherwise, with such a large group of senior employees rushing in, they wouldn’t have been stuck at the first one—it’s this talent. It feels like they turned the Second Order beastification I had collected into a talent, but aren’t they worried about contamination?"

Colin noted from the "Tyrant Body" talent information they shared, that the talent’s limit was the late stage of Second Order "Beastification," with no further advancement possible.

"Beast Transformation Syndrome" had all the expected skills except for "Deadly Insight."

"Whether there’s a ’Limited Edition’ or not, I’m not sure, but what’s the difference between ’Beastification’ without ’Deadly Insight’ and a 3D zone without Tifa?"

Colin felt the effect was mediocre, but to the employees who had been struggling for so long, it was a different story.

Stimulated by the suspected purple-colored talent, everyone was frantically involved in the trial task progress, cursing him casually with each death.

Colin didn’t mind their curses, after all, at this moment, the number of participants had already broken through the 1,500 mark!

Just from this, 20,000 points were accruing, much more comfortable than the exhausting task completion earnings...

"If all goes well, earning about 30,000 points should be no problem. Hey, with so many points, I could really consider getting a purple-colored talent for myself."

Colin mumbled to himself, then started attempting fusion.

Unbeknownst to him, time had moved on to the next day.

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