Is it really normal to contain these anomalies?

"It's safe inside the containment chamber!"

"We can hide in the containment room!"

On the other side of the surveillance camera, several employees seemed to suddenly realize this. They screamed as if they had grabbed the last straw... They picked up their employee ID cards and rushed towards the unknown containment unit.

But without the permission from the central control room, they couldn't get in using normal procedures...

They struggled to swipe their employee ID cards against it, but there was no response.

"Damn, why is this thing so reliable now!"

They fell into despair again, but also into madness...

As the worker bees gradually approached, they unwillingly began to use various weapons to attack the verification platform in the containment room.

If it were any other company with strict management, this kind of behavior would simply result in the containment chamber being completely locked down, but this is... Lobotomy Corporation...

Angela smiled slowly.

This is the World Wing Energy Company, which manages monsters called Abnormalities born from humans and extracts energy from them.

Abnormalities like extreme emotions. The more extreme they are, the more energy can be extracted from their bodies...so letting them escape is also a good way to let them absorb extreme emotions.

In this process of repeatedly extracting energy, humans are merely materials...

As they wished, they succeeded. The doors of the attacked containment chambers were now open to them, and similarly... this scene was also presented to the eyes of the abnormalities inside.

It was a giant humanoid creature wearing a straitjacket, but still bent over and kneeling. Its head was originally intact, but the moment it saw these employees, its hatred turned it into a giant iron spike.

It quickly knelt down in front of the employee who opened the containment room... It wanted to vent... It wanted to let these people know who was the poor guy who was restrained!

"Wait! No!"

The huge iron spike smashed down fiercely.

Amidst wailing and blood, the unfortunate guy's head was smashed to pieces.

How to do?

There are worker bees behind them and abnormalities in front of them. Even the escape corridor has been blocked by the supervisor with a partition wall. What can these employees, who are generally only level 1~2 and don’t even have EGO equipment, do?

...The massacre can only continue.

"Feel sorry."

In the security director's office, listening to the wailing of countless branch employees, Angela still sighed lightly for them.

After hundreds of thousands of years of painful reincarnation at the headquarters of the Brain Probe Corporation, Angela should have been accustomed to such scenes... and now, expressing her feelings for her employees in this way is a very humane behavior of her.

But this is the price...

The price I paid to escape from Hell...

Angela lowered her eyes. As before, in her database that connected the entire branch...the Queen Bee and the Forgotten Killer, the energy production index of these abnormalities was growing rapidly.

"So... wanting a good branch management is actually no different than wanting to manage the headquarters... They just ignore the employees' cries for help..."

Yeah, that's why she was a terrible assistant to the director in the first place.

Because in the past she would try to save these troubled employees, but after being forced to restart the 'script' again and again, she gave up...

"Okay, that's enough. The out-of-control situation should only be contained within the training department..."

Angela, whose observation time was slowed down 100 times, was a little tired. She waved her hand and wanted to switch the surveillance to Hall No. of the Training Department.

"Let me see our protagonist. Will you, like Ain, enjoy the stage I've set for you..."

But before the surveillance footage changed.

Along with the flashing red light, the alarm in the room suddenly changed its tone.

It changed from a shrill scream at the beginning to a strange tone... as if someone was singing... praising the coming of death...

'This is... Alert Level 3?!'

Angela was also surprised.

As the most outstanding AI in Lobotomy Corporation and even in the city, she has assisted Headquarters Director X in managing Abnormalities for hundreds of thousands of years. Of course, she knows what this means...

This means today is another day to restart!

'But this is impossible! Why would this branch trigger a Level 3 alert?!'

Even the second alarm was barely in Angela's emergency plan...

The upper limit of the alarm level is 100 points. Level 10 alarm requires at least 50 alarm points, level 80 alarm requires at least points, and level alarm requires at least points!

The calculation of alarm points is: employee panic +2 points, employee death +4 points.

Z级异想体出逃+5点、T级异想体出逃+20点、H级异想体出逃+40点、W级异想体出逃+60点、A级异想体出逃+75点...

"The worker bees produced by the queen bee are not counted towards the alarm calculations, and the deaths and panic among the training department personnel are far from enough to reach the 80 points required for a Level 3 alert!"

Angela began to think rapidly - at least two H-level abnormalities had to escape at the same time before the third-level alarm would sound.

But...excluding the two Abnormalities she transferred a few days ago, this branch only has 3 Z-class Abnormalities, 5 T-class Abnormalities, and 1 H-class Abnormality.

Among them, the Snow Queen and Terrestrial Anglerfish from the Control Department, the 1.76 MHz and Scorched Girl from the Intelligence Department, and the Broken Armor from the Security Department, these Abnormalities will not break out of containment on their own... The only one who escaped from the Training Department was the Killer who was abandoned by the T-Class Abnormality just now!

"Not enough... The alarm points are not enough... Where exactly is it..."

While Angela was still thinking, a communication from the central control room of the training department came directly to her.

"Bull! Abnormality G-01-12 just broke containment! What should we do?!"

G-01-12?

Angela then remembered that there seemed to be several unknown abnormalities in this branch that she had no information about.

She quickly switched the surveillance camera to the P6 containment room and the corridor outside it...

A hooded doctor with a bird's beak, holding a black pointed stick, stood quietly at the door of its broken containment room. Its figure looked particularly eerie under the illumination of the red alarm light.

The inside of the containment room was already in a mess. Apparently, it had used some unknown method or force to break through the containment unit.

And now, it just glanced at the surveillance camera, and seemed to know that someone was watching it, but it didn't care. It just walked silently and quickly towards the chaotic area of the training department.

'H-level? W-level?'

Angela frowned slightly as she guessed the level of this Abnormality from deep within the database.

"It shouldn't be W-class. Without my influence, the personnel assigned to the W-0001 branch wouldn't make such a low-level mistake!"

but....

If this is just the H-class, what about the other one?

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Appendix: Lobotomy Corporation alert level.

Level 1 Alert: Some Abnormalities have breached containment and caused minor damage to the facility.

Level 2 Alert: The situation in the facility has become dangerous, but there is still room for recovery, but some sacrifices are inevitable.

Level 3 Alert: Most employees will die tragically in the chaos, and the escaped abnormalities will be almost impossible to suppress. It will be almost a miracle for the supervisor to save the situation under such circumstances.

.....

There is basically no chance that any branch supervisor will hear an alarm of the following level.

Level 4 Alert: This branch's containment procedures have completely failed. Burial procedures have been initiated...

Level 5 Alert: All branches will receive alerts starting from this level. It means that a large number of branches have sounded the Level 4 alert and the vast majority of abnormalities have escaped from the facility and entered the city.

Level 6 Alert: If this alarm sounds, Lobotomy will no longer be a member of the "World Wings." Furthermore, this alarm may not necessarily be caused by the Abnormality itself, but could also be caused by other "Wings" or other factors. Regardless, the situation is out of control.

Level 7 Alert: Everything is over. Human civilization in the city can no longer continue. There is no hope anymore. The situation has become extremely bad.

Chapter 70 Encounter

W-0001 Branch, Hall of the Training Department.

Now, shake off the yellow-brown juice on the black blade of the Death Heart.

Although he was not injured, Bai Yu's face still looked a little ugly.

Several dead worker bees were lying in front of him, and behind him were the group of newcomers who had just joined the Lobotomy Corporation.

These guys have absolutely no idea what is going on with this 'Wings of the World'.

They just felt like they had just listened to half of the class on "How to Deal with Abnormalities" when it suddenly turned into practical training.

Alarms rang all around, and panicked clerical staff and employees continued to pour into the corridor.

Then?

Then these monsters rushed in, but fortunately, Senior Bai Yu seemed to have EGO equipment that they didn’t know about, and he successfully solved them after a little effort.

However, before they could sincerely admire their predecessor's heroic act, their predecessor rushed out at an extremely fast speed.

Bai Yu's doubts grew more and more serious.

'Why are worker bees here?!'

After all, as someone who had played Lobotomy Corporation, he certainly recognized what these giant, nearly 2-meter-tall Abnormal creatures were.

Worker bees, these derivatives produced by the WAW-class Abnormality Queen Bee, each of them is classified as a HE-class Abnormality.

Whether it's the ability to reproduce or its own combat power, it is definitely not something this small branch can bear now...

But why...didn't he get any notification from Branch W-0001 about the Queen Bee's containment?!

Bai Yu's grip on the Death Star has tightened even more...

If he knew which bastard had hidden this from him, he would rush into her dormitory with a determination to die and kill her with a knife!

However, now is not the time to think about these things. In the current situation, there is only one fact that Bai Yu wants to know.

'How many people are infected with the spores?!'

He was not only worried about the queen bee, but also about SCP-049, which was imprisoned at the deepest part of the corridor.

Just as it says in its management instructions.

[When SCP-049 senses a 'large-scale plague' spreading within the facility, or senses a large-scale death toll within the facility (more than 10 people), SCP-049 will immediately breach containment and provide 'emergency treatment' to all employees (regardless of whether they are dead or alive).]

Honestly, it was just like the first time I talked to Yulia about SCP-049.

If SCP-049 were to be released, without the deployment of organized armed forces like the MTF or the Rabbit Squad, he would have no idea how to suppress it with just the few employees of Lobotomy Corporation...

And those SCP-049-049 that can be strengthened by SCP-2's "multiple operations"... can definitely be said to be more difficult to deal with than worker bees.

What's more, he also counted the combat power of 049 itself...

Well, Bai Yu has developed a strong bad premonition. The scene in his dream a few days ago where the training department was filled with SCP-049-2 may soon become a reality!

And it seemed to be in response to this ominous premonition.

In the corridor of the training department, he heard the three-level alarm sounding throughout the W-0001 branch.

Like Angela, he also knew what this meant...

"Bai Yu! Some of my employees have gone crazy! They just opened up all the containment units along the way!"

"Land anglerfish, 1.74 MHz containment breach... Control is the only one who can maintain order. This place is a complete mess!"

"Damn it! The 1.74 MHz anomaly has spread to the surrounding area, and everyone in the corridor has gone crazy!"

The voice of Leons, an elite member of the Intelligence Department, began to emerge continuously from the opening of his collar.

Yulia didn't come to see him, but the situation in the Control Department was probably not good either...the chaos was about to spread to the entire W-0001 branch.

And in the third-level alarm that seemed to be mourning the death of everyone, Bai Yu's footsteps gradually stopped.

It's already like this, it seems 049 has definitely breached containment...

'...'

An inexplicable feeling of irritation suddenly crept into Bai Yu's heart, and all around him were the strange howlings of the group of civil servants who had gone crazy and fallen into despair.

But he managed to think in the chaos.

Every branch of Lobotomy Corporation has a burial procedure. If the branch manager truly determines that the branch is beyond saving, then no matter how hard he tries, he will have to sleep deep underground with these abnormalities.