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Chapter 180

Chapter 180: Despicable Me (12)





Translator: Sigma  Editor: Sigma

 

"It's true." Alden suddenly appeared behind Feng Bujue.

"As it's come this far, I'm not afraid to say," Billy continued, "if you don't cooperate with us, the poison will burst out leading to the failure of this scenario. I know, to travelers from the other world like you guys, this is not considered a big, painful price. But still, it's not what you want to see."

"How about Rabbit?" Feng Bujue asked. "I shot your partner dead, but you are still okay with me?"

"No need to worry. You didn't kill it. That gun is just an extension of my ability in controlling this space. When you pulled the trigger, I had already changed the nature of the bullet. Your shot didn't kill Rabbit," said Billy.

"But that hurts a lot," another voice continued.

Feng Bujue turned his head towards the source of the voice. It came from the second cell.

Although Rabbit got a headshot and its body was still on the ground, its unique voice arose in the darkness.

"Ah, it's so…" Feng Bujue determinedly turned his chair, putting both of his legs on the desk, leisurely said, "Let me see. You can also seize the chance and tell me something I find interesting."

"Your time is not…" said Billy.

Feng Bujue shook his head and smiled. "Is it your remaining time not much?" He checked his menu. "The fact that the poison in my body will burst out at the 92nd minute isn't designed by you guys. It's the setting created by something in 'eminent status'." He obviously implied the system. "In front of 'it', you guys aren't more than some random lives it could fabricate at any time with only one flicker of thought."

"So what? What you've mentioned, compared to the Lord of Time, would obey the rules more strictly and it wouldn't do such things without any causes," answered Alden.

"I didn't indicate that that existence would kill you guys, I was saying… even you guys can't stop that existence from killing me," Feng Bujue said. "At least, there's one thing you couldn't lie. You three, in fact, have only three chemical bottles."

"It's true. The fourth bottle is in Faster's hands," answered Billy.





"This Faster… Is he the jailer here?" said Feng Bujue.

"Yes."

"So you are talking nonsense!" Feng Bujue exposed him directly. "How do you know if he has the chemical bottle or not? Did he come himself and tell you that?"

Billy couldn't snap back because he actually didn't know whether or not the fourth chemical bottle was in Faster's hands. What he said was just to encourage Feng Bujue to kill the other.

"Anyway, we could say that your assumption is reasonable. Because, apparently, the fourth chemical bottle isn't in this space. If not, it would have soon fallen into your hands." Feng Bujue asked, "Hey, when did you guys have the chemical bottles?"

"Before you've entered this space, each of us received one bottle. Moreover, we got to know your situation and the functions of the chemical bottles," answered Alden.

Feng Bujue thought, "The system used the direct method to inculcate related data to them, didn't it… Besides, it's just ten seconds to me when the system generated the scenario, but it's actually a relatively long period to them. In the case of the absence of players, the speed of verifying calculations of these worlds of the scenario seems to be much faster…"

"Let me sort out the events from the beginning until now…" Feng Bujue lazily spread his body on the chair. Relaxing was the way he used to align his thought. "Before I entered this prison, you guys had finished weaving the space, as you had already prepared the plot. When I appeared, Billy used the speaker to talk to me.

"When I got to the 'First' fan-shaped lobby, you guys let me see an excellent performance. This hallucination…" He paused at this part, throwing an inquiry look to Billy and Alden.

"I made it," Rabbit answered him from the second cell.

"Ha ha... good job," Feng Bujue complimented. "After that, I went to the third corridor, met Alden and then came to the 'End.' I met Rabbit there, and Billy was in the cell. You three then tried to be mysterious to set up my next route and gave me a feeling that I had thought about this route myself.

"Next, I entered the second corridor, met SCP-173 there. The one who had captured it was…"

"Me," Billy regarded him. "When you smashed him into pieces, I let the chemical bottle appear on the ground."

"Yeah…Seems you can manipulate the space continuously and you can also mobilize any objects here," Feng Bujue said. "There's a question here. Why didn't you kill 173 instead of confining it?"





"Whenever we kill such a creature, after twenty-four hours, another similar one would be brought here," Billy answered. "Moreover, it's different every time. Some of them are really scary." That puppet face with its voice was using a mournful manner spitting out the word 'Scary,' and this spoke up the fact that… It was actually difficult to deal with the creatures put here to be part of their punishment. "That 173 was relatively easy to control, and the containment condition wasn't too high. Shutting it up was less strenuous than killing it."

"It's true… There was a time an elderly man looked like a dried corpse came here. He was capable of creating pocket dimension to jump for short distance. Physical damage was no use to him. When he hid inside his pocket dimension, we had no way to deal with him. Finally, Billy had to create a massive, complicated building to set up traps for him. Then we crossed him to catch Faster," Rabbit added.

"Sounds like 106 (1)…" Feng Bujue muttered. Anyway, he didn't continue with this topic, but his own narrative. "After I was done with the second corridor, in fact, I was suspicious of your explanation. However, at that time I didn't want to take risks and cause the time-space paradox. I also didn't want to expose my thought by acting strangely. Thus, I still followed your vision to enter the fourth corridor."

Feng Bujue looked at Billy. "And you, you left this cell to the fourth corridor and contacted me like nothing had happened. That game looked tough, but when I actually did it, you made me get the chemical bottle at ease."

"So it's my move that had drawn legs on a snake?" asked Billy. (Idiom: to ruin the effect by adding something superfluous – TL)

"In fact, it wasn't," Feng Bujue said. "If you know my character, it should be clear that your move is good for all of us." He paused, "By the way, can you please clean the gasoline, blood something on my body?"

As he hadn't finished, strange light sparked in Billy's eyes and the discomfort things on Feng Bujue disappeared. Even the gasoline on his skin was all dried up.


"Thanks," Feng Bujue regarded him with courtesy then continued, "In your original vision, you would let me find the chemical bottle in the gasoline pond and die there, which would consume one of my medals and teleport me to the 'First' lobby. That's how the difficulty during the process of the game would be revealed, and it could make the game more real. But what you'd never expected is that a man who doesn't know how to swim like me could get out of the pond before the floor closed. Thus, the time I 'got' you were a few minutes earlier than what you'd estimated.

"To match up with the explanation on the time of the prison here, you had to momentarily lengthen the latter part of the fourth corridor, which took me the whole eighteen minutes to get to the 'End,'"

"And after you came to the 'End,' you didn't mention the words 'chemical bottle' on purpose. Moreover, you acted like you were rushing to trap me." When Rabbit was talking, the light in the second cell was on, shining on him intact there. And, the body on the ground was gone.

"I still have one thing I want to confirm," Feng Bujue said. "The reason why you gave me the medals… Is to prevent the case I got killed by 173?"

"In fact, unless you're not dead by the 'poison bursting out,' we can always resurrect you for many times. But it would make you doubt the nature of this game. Moreover, you would persistently chase after the reason behind this," said Billy.

"So, you then symbolized this resurrecting ability, also made it a limited number then directly gave to me." Feng Bujue slightly nodded, putting his index finger on his lower lip. "Alright, I basically got it all." He retreated his legs from the desk and sit upright. "I'm so sorry. The whole complicated and thoughtful guiding plan of yours is now declared failed. Anyway… I still can help you guys."

As the three prisoners heard that, their body froze. Although their facial appearance wasn't rich, if they had had the humanoid face, perhaps their eyes would have been lit up by now.

"I have two conditions. If you guys can do it…" Feng Bujue rose two fingers. "You'll help me, and I'll help you."





"Conditions?" Alden repeated. He seemed to be a bit surprised.

"It's obvious. Although I don't have any of the Lawful alignment (in Dungeons and Dragons game – TL), once I decide to help you, it isn't different from picking the opposite side to the Lord of Time." Feng Bujue said with an honest face. "How dangerous it would be depends on how much it would be in return. If you guys don't want to negotiate with me, you should think about it more carefully. It's hard for you guys to accept the result of separation."

"You say it." Apparently, among these three, Billy was the one in charge of negotiation, as he was their sack of wisdom and also was the strongest. At the point where they needed to do negotiation, he resolutely opened his mouth.

"The first condition," Feng Bujue's eyes raked through them. "Please tell me in detail that the three of you, or… Well, no offense, the three monsters of you, why you got detained here? And, what the heck is the Lord of Time?"

"Why you need to know these things?" Billy asked. "Our existence and the past, don't they have no meaning to travelers from the other world like you guys?"

"Then you tell me more about these insignificant things," Feng Bujue answered. "Moreover, lucky you… The first condition is that simple."

Billy had hesitated for ten seconds. During this time, he had used some method Feng Bujue didn't know to communicate with Rabbit and Alden. Then he spoke up, "The Lord of time is one of the Four Divine Pillars. All the orders of space-time territory are under his rule."

"And the Four Divine Pillars are?" Feng Bujue really loved to guide NPC's lines.

"[The Lord of Time] is in charge of the Long River of Order; [The Lord of Demons] reigns the Chaotic Scorching Earth; [Dark Abyss Benighted King] rules the Kingdom of the Dead Souls; [The Court of Veracity] adjudges all realms of the good and the evil," Billy answered. "This paragraph is spread out in all the worlds. Hobgoblins, Demogorgon, no one doesn't know this."

"Yeah... continue please." At this moment, Feng Bujue seemed to be like the other high-level bogeys and Demogorgon, engraving these four sentences deep into his brain.

Billy continued, "For a long time, the Four Divine Pillars control each other to maintain the balance. They consciously avoid conflicts and disputes between each other.

"War is something they don't want to see. Because none of them are sure which site the victory will tilt forward. If two of them engage in a fight, the standpoints of the third and the fourth sides are unknown.

"Although the Lord of Time controls this prison, the Court of Veracity has judged us.

"My core power is the ability to control space. Alden can manipulate fear and Rabbit can utilize hallucination. Alden and I got imprisoned here under the criminal charge of 'disseminating primal chaos.' Rabbit is here because… Well, another reason."

Having heard the other's reluctant pause, Feng Bujue asked immediately. "What happened?"

"Argh... He and his cousin used to be the members of the jury. But he got convicted because of contempt of court," answered Billy.

"Then where's your cousin? Jailed in another prison?" asked Feng Bujue.

"They couldn't catch my cousin at the court," said Rabbit.

"You are saying that… a rabbit, who didn't put an organization called 'the Court of Veracity' in his eyes, fled away?" Feng Bujue laughed.

Rabbit shrugged. "My cousin can flee away anywhere. He just needs to draw a black hole on the wall and get in it…"

"Ha... Ha ha..."The corner of Feng Bujue's mouth convulsed, as he was trying to give some wry smiles.

It was Billy, who dragged the topic of their conversation back to its orbit. "Before Faster came here, our jailer was actually Satsuma Diehl. Before he had betrayed the Lord of Time, releasing us and run away, I've met you once during the time."

"Yeah... In fact, it happened just five or six days ago," answered Feng Bujue.

"It's only that short time to you," Billy said and continued his narrative. "The Lord of Time caught Satsuma Diehl not long after he had broken out. He soon gave out our whereabouts to lift up his death sentence. Afterwards, I heard that he's exiled to the Masticating Devil Island.

"And we got imprisoned again. The jailer this time is Faster, and our sentences are increased several times. Time in this prison is indeterminate. It's much longer than in anyplace. Perhaps you think that we met five or six days ago, to me the incarnating nightmare in this prison is already one year or even more."

Feng Bujue had digested the given information for a while, matching the events happened in Shadow of the Lost City and the Hunter's Island. He found that the time was matched. He was afraid that the fake general Sanger Rainsford in that scenario had had an adventure to the Masticating Island and Satsuma Diehl, who got detained somewhere in there, had enlightened him under his administration.

"Alright, I don't think you're lying to me," Feng Bujue licked his dry lips and started to talk about his second condition. "Then, my second condition is…" He patted his chest and pointed at the pistol on the desk. "After our affair is done, I want to take the remaining two Contra Medals and the Kill In One Shot Pistol with me and get out of this scenario."

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(1) Link to SCP-106: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-106





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