Is it really normal to contain these anomalies?

"What is that? These are just the most basic thaumaturgic equipment."

He took a look at the Lobotomy Corporation employees, looking at the cool but obviously unsuitable outfits they were wearing....

In fact, he also had many doubts in his heart.

As he walked, the captain of the Nine-Tailed Fox team kept looking at the nearby containment unit.

In the seven recontainment operations he had conducted in his life, he had never seen a Foundation site so lax in containing these dangerous anomalies.

There are no heavy firepower facilities, no emergency security personnel....

In this corridor filled with human corpses, almost everyone died painfully in fear and resentment.

All this just proves one thing, it seems the management here doesn't care about casualties...

"That's... strange, Station Master. Could you please explain the location of the facility we're currently in?" E11-1 continued forward, but turned to Bai Yu beside him, asking, "This isn't Site-CN-36... SCP-049, which disappeared from the site, also appeared here..."

He did not doubt Bai Yu's identity as the webmaster.

Even though he was wearing the blood-stained EGO equipment, he never revealed his identity from beginning to end.

Everything is just as it should be.

It seems that this is what everyone should know.

"You call me webmaster, but do you know my name?" Bai Yu suddenly asked E11-1.

"Stationmaster, you're joking. Of course I..." E11-1 was about to answer, but found that he could not remember the name of the person in front of him.

No, the highest position within the Foundation has always been Supervisor... There has never been a Station Master...

"My name is Bai Yu, an employee of Lobotomy Corporation. I'm glad you're here," Bai Yu smiled. "Captain, don't worry too much. I agree that you should record everything you see and hear and report it to the Foundation, but for now, let's put an end to this trouble..."

Lobotomy Corporation?

E11-1 still didn't quite understand, but the sense of inevitability in his mind and the voice in his headset brought him back to the action at hand.

That's the A1 fireteam's communication.

"Captain, we've found SCP-049. It's currently... battling some hostile entity?"

"Understood. We'll be there soon." E11-1 gripped the gun again, temporarily burying the previous anomaly deep in his memory. "Everyone, speed up. We have to suppress this floor within 15 minutes."

Chapter 79 Rapid Suppression

Supported by the Foundation's thaumaturgic equipment, they advanced at a rapid pace.

Now they came to another corridor. E11-1 looked at the containment room in front of them, which was constantly emitting yellow spores, and gave instructions.

"E11-4, deploy the portable anti-anomaly device."

Soon, Aika and Komini, two employees of the Brain Corporation, had a deeper understanding of thaumaturgic equipment.

Thaumaturgy, simply put, is industrialized magic, and thaumaturgy equipment is the special weapons and equipment created by the Foundation using alchemy and mysticism.

When a Nine-Tailed Fox operator placed the square device in his backpack on the floor of the corridor.

The patterns on its surface emitted a brilliant blue light, and a fluorescent field with a radius of 15 meters opened up.

These yellow spores that were still spreading wildly in the corridor lost their abnormal properties and turned into ashes when they entered this area.

"These things also have anomalous properties..." E11-1 followed Bai Yu into the entrance of the containment room, surveying the surrounding scene through his perspective. "Stationmaster, what exactly is contained in the containment unit?"

Despite asking, he walked to the observation window and saw the shape of the monster.

This bee-like behemoth would drive a normal person crazy upon seeing it.

But for the Nine-Tailed Fox team members who have seen more and more bizarre anomalies and have installed cognitive filtering systems, it only falls into the category of "very disgusting".

“Abnormality.”

Bai Yu began to operate the blocking program in the entrance hall.

"Of course, you can also think of it as an SCP object you have never seen before. Some of them do not exist in reality, and most of them are just extracted from the human spirit..."

Completely closing the first security door does not require complicated procedures. In this case where the branch has lost control and the control room is unresponsive, Bai Yu can manipulate it using the authority of his employee ID.

"Similar to the prisoner in straitjacket we defeated earlier?"

E11-1 wasn't too surprised. After all, they had just physically subdued the anomalous 'abandoned killer' that was repeatedly hitting the corpse of a civilian in the corridor.

And at the moment of being defeated, the guy with the iron spike on his head actually... turned into an egg?!

Well, this is indeed unusual....

When he thought of this, even the usually serious E11-1 found it funny.

A containment object that was still ferocious a second ago shrank into an egg, and was then handed over by the station chief to a researcher known as a "civilian" to be sent back to the containment unit.

"Ahem... This place's containment facilities are truly astonishing..."

E11-1 wasn't too nervous. With the stationmaster's reminder, the conspicuous flower in the corridor, the anomalous entity called 'terrestrial anglerfish', had also been suppressed... The only anomalous item in the facility that their team needed to deal with was SCP-049.

This was much easier than some of the operations he had participated in before...

He breathed a sigh of relief and planned to go out with his gun to be on guard, but just as he turned his head.

He saw the stationmaster's 'researcher' standing next to him, staring intently at the person who existed behind the glass window...

Komini's hand tightly grasped the Terra Blade, her eyes reddened, and she seemed unwilling to give up...

Kuisi died because of this thing...

And now, the blockade door is slowly closing completely.

She really wanted to rush in and chop the queen bee into pieces, but she knew she couldn't do it, and it would only cause trouble for Senior Bai Yu...

"..."

E11-1 saw the sadness in her heart.

"I'm not familiar with the specifics of this so-called Lobotomy Corporation site you're talking about. Are you a researcher here?"

"Um...."

Comine didn't know the difference between the 'researcher' the soldier was talking about and the employees of Lobotomy Corporation, but she still responded to him in this way even though she was in a trance.

"If any of your friends have died while researching these anomalies, please accept my condolences," E11-1 patted her shoulder. "Anomalies are like this, but it's also because we must step forward to prevent ordinary people from suffering like this..."

To save ordinary people from such suffering?

Such comfort obviously did not comfort Komini. She was still confused. She didn't know if there really were people in the city who held such beliefs?

But looking at the serious E11-1, she still smiled bitterly.

"Thanks....."

boom!

They heard a fierce fight coming from the corridor outside.

"what's the situation?"

E11-1 immediately exited the containment chamber with the gun in hand.

"Captain, it's SCP-049..."

As soon as he walked out of the holding room, he saw the plague doctor.

Hmm...it's indeed that pitch-black robe and that bird-beak mask.

"All units, maintain alert," E11-1 slowly warned into the intercom, each word clear and firm. "We are all aware of SCP-049's capabilities. Do not let it come into contact with your skin. Use non-lethal force. We need to bring it back to the Foundation alive."

"learn!"

Three Nine-Tailed Fox teams have now gathered in this corridor from different directions.

They witnessed with their own eyes the entire process of SCP-049 defeating Cell Man again and taking him into their hands...

Following the warning, no one opened fire, and everyone just slowly surrounded them.

"Everyone, 'Lavender', get ready..." E11-1 said softly in the channel, and released the safety of the grenade launcher under the gun in his hand.

This has always been the method used to quickly subdue SCP-049. When 049 smells the scent of lavender, it inexplicably acts as a powerful chemical sedative...

But before they could actively use this equipment...

049 took the initiative to say hello.

"Oh, Doctor, it seems you met a lot of old friends we both knew?"

The plague doctor in front of him didn't make any move, but he could tell from his tone.

It seems....happy now?

E11-1 didn't want to make things too ugly. After all, lavender didn't always work, so he tried to appease the abnormality in front of him as much as possible.

"049, we need your cooperation and return to the Foundation with us."

"Go back? No, my friend, I'm living well here. This place..." 049 paused, "will not hinder my treatment."

“…”

Hearing such a clear rejection.

E11-1 said nothing more, but his finger on the trigger of the transmitter was tightening.

Chapter 80 The mission is over

049 must return to the Foundation.

There's no wiggle room in this matter...

Even if there are sacrifices involved in the conflict, we will not hesitate...

"Everyone..."

But this time, E11-1 did not finish his decision on the communication channel.

Bai Yu suddenly interrupted him, "Captain, leave it to me."

"Stationmaster?" E11-1 was a little surprised.

Bai Yu did not explain why, but just turned his head to look at the epidemic doctor in front of him.

"049, have you got what you wanted?"

He glanced at the plague doctor's right hand and saw that it was tightly grasping the burning cell head, but it did not dare to use too much force for fear of affecting the sacred object in its hand.

“....." 049 was silent for a few seconds, but still nodded slowly.

E11-1 didn't seem to understand his thoughts and slowly apologized, "Sorry, Station Master, it's our responsibility to escort SCP-049 safely to Site-CN-36..."

"Captain, the lavender won't work this time."

Bai Yu finally sighed.

Yes, the lavender won't work this time.

The management instructions for 049 are clearly written in the system panel. When 049 breaks out of containment due to the seventh management instruction, the effect of lavender's rapid suppression is invalid.

However, the Nine-Tailed Fox team in front of them was unaware of this...

"Since physical suppression would cause so many casualties, why not take it in with me?"

So now, Bai Yu just gave a kind of dissuade and told a little lie.

"After all, we are all members of the Foundation, aren't we? After you return to the site, you can report the current situation to the higher-ups. If they don't approve of my actions, you can arrest me at any time..."

“…”

E11-1 is silent.

This is actually not allowed.

But he still couldn't explain why he felt like trusting the webmaster in front of him.

He slowly lowered his gun hand.

Since the conflict ended before it even started, the containment of 049 would be incredibly smooth.

Bai Yu promised to provide 049 with the conditions to study the death cells. The only requirement he made was that they should be kept under separate control unless necessary, and that 049 would help suppress the death cells if they broke through containment.

And 049 readily agreed to this.