Chapter 109: .iris

"Iris?"
The girl who had been dragging her feet stopped abruptly, and the well-trained agents noticed her movement and turned back suspiciously.
After entering the site, they split into groups of two or three—just as they did before. The captain of "Pandora's Box" is Abel, but it can be divided into Abel Group and Iris Group.
The group is also inclined because of their different functions, but this does not mean that her group's combat effectiveness is inferior.
Andrea and Beatrice are both old members of the Iris team. Although they have their own reasons for joining Omega-7-the former is still forced into the team because he won a game of chess with Abel. Force the former psychological counselor, but it does not prevent the establishment of a deep friendship between each other.
The two of them were looking at her worriedly.
Young people always receive more attention. Yuanwei is the youngest in the team. She has just turned seventeen. When the Foundation contained her under the designation "SCP-105", Yion was less than fifteen years old.
But what caught their attention now was not only her sudden stop, but also a photo pinched in her hand.
"Did you find something," Beatrice asked. She remembered that it seemed to be taken when they were up a floor. "Iris?"
"Do not!"
Iris replied reflexively.
"I, uh," she said naturally, "I just wanted to confirm the situation, but unfortunately I didn't see it."
Andrian-the former master of psychology always felt that something was wrong, but he found no trace of lying on Iris's face. He watched her comfortably put the photo back into the pocket of her pants.
Just less than ten minutes ago, they received a message from another group that a new anomaly had appeared on the site. The agent who had witnessed it firsthand described the appearance and behavior characteristics of the other party to his companions, and the superior asked them to contain the high-risk creatures as soon as possible while also containing the new SCP as soon as possible.
Because they immediately determined that the approaching armed squad to the north bears the logo of the "Chaotic Insurgency" organization.
In this world where supernatural things are rampant, of course, there is more than one organization like the Foundation.
The Chaos Insurgency is a long-standing rival to the Foundation, and has planned multiple attacks to SCPs before. Now that they are here, they might be responsible for this containment breach.
The new SCP is suspected to be inextricably linked with SCP-106 and SCP-682, and she must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Chaos Insurgency.
"If you notice anything."
Andrian finally said: "Will you tell us in time?"
"Of course." Even with anxiety, Iris just smiled.
She supported the camera hanging around her neck, followed by stepping, and stuffed the photo again without a trace.
In fact, she just saw a young woman who fits the description perfectly—though for some reason, a butler-like guy behind the target—flickered in the photo.
But she would not say.
and……
Iris carefully observed the two agents walking in front, and tried to take a step back gently.
...When should she take action?

To say that this is really evil.
When she walked away from the group of people in Pandora's Box, she could run into it everywhere; now that she had a plan, she wished two people would take her to another site of the Foundation, but they would not see anyone.
"Weird."
Lin You muttered.
"Where did all this go?"
She wandered around upstairs and downstairs for so long, let alone a human being, and she didn't even see her figure. The butler followed behind her and he was eager to talk, and he almost forgot what he wanted to say.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" he finally asked out.
"Yes," Lin You answered without hesitation, "What a chance!"
"This one……"
The butler solemnly said: "I advise you to think twice."
Lin You: "Huh?"
"I've been at this site before," he thought about his words. "It was not what it is now. I have seen how they used strict measures to monitor SCPs that were considered difficult to contain."
The target of his allegiance to the service was the person who rang the bell from beginning to end, and now he naturally explained the Foundation information he knew clearly.
For example, the occupation mask is kept in a lead-shielded room with a triple lock, and the glass cover for it is four inches thick. No one can enter the room at any time; SCP-682 is immersed in strong hydrochloric acid throughout the day and the inner wall of the container There is also a steel plate with a thickness of two decimeters; the old man is even more exaggerated. He is sealed in forty layers of walls of the same material, and there are 16 spherical rooms full of lighting systems on the outer layer.
After such a large-scale containment breach, the Foundation will inevitably learn a lesson. At this time, it is not a wise choice to pretend to be an SCP by mistake.
"I am confident that I can escape."
Lin You waved her hand indifferently, "Furthermore, even if the situation is unusual, aren't you still there?"
housekeeper:"……!!!"
There is nothing happier than the recognition of his work. Diez paid a solemn salute and again put on his usual gentle smile, "Don't worry, everything will be on me then."
"Okay, very good, just keep this motivation." Before he could react to what he promised, Lin You immediately said, "I am optimistic about you!"
Facts have proved that walking in this building with a large-scale containment breach and monsters running all over the floor, it is not surprising that even a thousand-throated beast will emerge from the horns in the next second. Lin You is also a person who has seen the face of the world. After turning the corner, he saw a few drops of blood and did not blink.
The semicircular pools of blood flowed from pool to pool, and finally tick to tick into one piece. Two people fell at the end of this string of intermittent bloodstains. They were all wearing contingent standard equipment, and the guns on their sides were twisted.
Lin You stopped the housekeeper and motioned for her to come by herself. As she walked closer, she observed the movement around her, and when she squatted down and felt a piece of ice, she knew that it might take a while. And when she turned over the person's body, she saw that the blood-soaked front was dry, and she could see the blood clots between the slit throats.
The wound seemed to have been slashed by a sharp blade, killing him in one blow. But to evaluate that technique, there is really no suitable adjective other than "stable, accurate, and ruthless".
Abel did it.
Lin You had this idea almost immediately. She looked at the corpse next to her again. This agent apparently lived ten seconds longer than his colleagues, and it was he who dragged out a blood stain, but unfortunately he was still killed by Abel's sword.
She caught some scattered movements in her ears, and it sounded like someone was walking in this direction-after waiting for so long, she finally ran into a living person. It was just completely different from the sound of iron-toed boots stepping on the ground that she had heard before. Lin You guessed it was an ordinary player, and there was a housekeeper standing behind him, without turning his head back.
"If I were you."
She said, "I won't be here at this time. God knows where Abel will go—"
The familiar voice interrupted her.
"...Grapefruit?"
Lin You was taken aback.
She turned her head and saw someone standing at the end of the corridor, her expression full of surprise. The other party also wore the iconic orange uniform of the D-class personnel. Although he couldn't see his face when he was far away, he recognized his stature and the voice after so many years of getting along with him.
"God—"
Jian Mingjia sighed heavily, "I found you. You can never imagine what I have experienced."
"It's okay," Lin You said with a smile, "you certainly can't think of what I experienced."
Concise Jia: "..."
No, is that something you want to get? You are thinking about whether there will be a psychological shadow in the future!
Lin You looked at each other up and down, Jian Mingjia also had blood stains on the corners of her clothes, but it seemed that she was either not her own, or she had been bandaged herself, and would no longer be affected—the only suspicious thing was this time. He opened his mouth hesitantly, as if he had something to say but didn't know where to speak.
"You are the only one who comes along this way?" Lin You asked actively, "Have you seen Geng Qinghe?"
Jian Ming Jia frowned.
"I just wanted to say this."
She was silent for a few seconds and continued: "As you know, basically the players who entered this dungeon have been scattered. I also just met him not long ago—"
She was stupid at that time.
"Anyway, something happened. It was impossible to leave it alone. I found an empty room nearby and finally stuffed him in. I wondered if I could stay in the same place all the time, so I just came out to see if I could find someone to help me. ..."
This was a good time, and I suddenly saw my own haircut.
She only glanced at the man who looked like a housekeeper at the back. Without asking, Lin You mentioned to her about receiving the housekeeper's bell as a reward for the event.
"After talking for a long time," Lin You asked curiously, "what the is going on?"
Concise and good looks complicated.
"Forget it."
She hooked her finger, "Just come and see."
She saw Lin You within two steps after she walked out, and it wouldn't take a minute to lead the person back. When Jian Mingjia opened the door, Lin You's eyelids twitched.
This is a very small office, and perhaps the staff who used to work here have low authority. Geng Qinghe is quite tall, but now he squeezes his hands and feet against a white board.
He was dazed, holding a piece of bread motionlessly.
I don't know where the bread comes from.
After observing Geng Qinghe for almost two minutes, he still didn't see any movement. Lin You blinked, "...what's the matter with him?"
"According to my observation," Jian Mingjia's mouth twitched, "He may think he is a toaster now."
Lin You: "..."
"I didn't move because I wanted to wait for the slice of bread to pop out by itself."
She looked weird and said, "...fortunately he hasn't even thought about electrifying himself."
"Wait, I remembered-'I am a toaster' and an SCP." Lin You looked at Geng Qinghe's stiff look, "Anyone who approaches will be affected and try to imitate it. Former victims Some people were electrocuted, and some people swallowed bread and swallowed them alive."
Jian Mingjia "tsk".
"Anyway, I didn't see a toaster around here," she looked around. "Maybe he resisted for a while, but he still didn't resist."
"It should not be saved."
Lin You said: "Maybe he will slowly wake up himself, but let's look for it..."
She stood up as she spoke, but her voice disappeared.
She stared at the corner of the whiteboard.
A whole whiteboard was covered with complicated and obscure equations, but at this moment, a sentence was suddenly written in the nearby corner.
【Don't go out】.
Lin You stared at the line. It was like seeing her suspicion, there seemed to be an invisible hand in the air grabbing the eraser in the groove, quickly erasing the numbers on the side, and writing a few more words.
--【he came】.
"'He'?" Jian Mingjia also noticed the movement here, she wondered, "Is it the Abel you mentioned?"
I don't know, Lin You thought, she doesn't know whether she should believe these two lines.
But thinking for four or five seconds, she has made a decision. A look passed, and the butler who followed up closed the door with insight.
He did it quite promptly, almost in the next instant, they heard someone turning the corridor and slowly approaching at the same time.
Without reminding, Jian Mingjia immediately bent down. Thanks to her preparation, she dragged Geng Qinghe into the blind corner of the window.
Ordinary people don't have the mental quality and concentration of Lin You, listening to the undisguised footsteps outside the door, Jian Mingjia's scalp is about to explode. And when the man stopped at the door, her heart hung in her throat.
Abel stared at the door silently.
The saber he was holding was still dripping blood, and his clothes were covered with spray-like blood. The previous suffocation was swept away, and the happy smile brought by the killing still remained on his face.
He felt a little strange.
But when I look closely, I can't detect any signs. Abel only thought for a few seconds, then moved on again, looking for new prey.
In Abel's own words, he is a soldier, not a general. He would not think so much.
Thanks to this.
When he suffocated him and walked away, Jian Mingjia's heart finally recovered suddenly, and she panted with lingering fears.
"I think I should be grateful that Xiao Geng thought he was a toaster," Jian Mingjia said in an unpleasant way. "If an electric kettle is not troublesome?"
If the guy suddenly felt that the water was boiling when he passed by, wouldn't it be that "Bah--" the ground screamed.
Lin You: "...poof."
She looked at the smeared white board again, and found that just as they carefully avoided Abel, two more words were added to it.
【Downstairs】.
"This..." Jian Mingjia looked at her and frowned.
She knew that Lin You was easy to speak surprisingly, but now she was surprised by what the other party said, "I know who did it."
"I met other teammates before," Lin You summarized her previous experience in a few words. "I was thinking about finding survivors to find out what was going on, but I ran into Foundation reinforcements. The Mobile Task Force is a'Pandora's Box' in which the humanoid SCP participates. Abel, you just saw it. This is another man's handwriting."
SCP-105, "Iris", which can detect and manipulate objects through photos.
Eight out of ten, she happened to have taken a few photos near here, so that she saw Abel and their trail, and was able to warn them in advance.
But the question is... why should she help them?
It is true that the purpose of the Foundation is to "control, contain, and protect." Since they want to contain her, they must ensure that she will not be killed by Abel on the way.
"Are you going?" Jian Mingjia guessed her thoughts from her expression.
"Of course," told Lin You instinctively that she should not mention her idea of ​​pretending to be a new SCP to be contained. She only said slyly, "It's just to help us in any way. Don't see how it works."
"You stay here for now."
Lin You said: "Look at the situation, I may be back later."
Now the Foundation mistakenly believes that she is an SCP, and may have changed her view, but under special circumstances, their attitude towards D-class personnel has always been to kill.
If Yioni was led by the Foundation at the direction of the Foundation, it would be better not to ask Jian Mingjia to follow along.
"Although I want to tell you to pay attention to safety..." Jian Mingjia doesn't know such a level of cause and effect, and he does not suspect him under instinctive trust. "But now I think that it is not you but the ghost who should pay attention to safety."
With so many copies, she realized that everything is as good as a fish in Linyou, and now she really doesn't worry much. Moreover, there is a housekeeper following, and it is easy to get out of it in any situation.
"But in any case, be careful," she added.
Lin You answered, she carefully observed the outside, and then she came out decisively after making sure that there was nothing unusual. What the housekeeper does is to be polite and abide by his duties. When he carefully came to the door, Lin You turned around and walked directly.
The message that Iris left her only said to let her go downstairs, and she assumed it was the nearest stairway. The direction Abel is going is far from it, so don't worry. For this reason, Lin You still suppressed the footsteps as much as possible.
Stepping down the last step, she looked around, but did not see the agents.
"Weird," Lin You muttered to herself, "what about people?"
"only me."
At first, Lin You couldn't find where the sound was for a while, until she turned around and saw a narrow, open door.
The only contingent member she had seen who didn't wear a uniform except Abel--Yi Wei had a pale face and was hiding behind the door.
"Come here," the blond and blue-eyed girl pleaded, "I don't want them to find out."
Lin You and the housekeeper exchanged glances, and even if they were a little unexpected, they followed suit.
Iris was not deceiving, and the room was empty. At the same time, she was so vigilant that she was somewhat panicked. After Lin You and the others came in, she immediately closed the door, and Bi Lin You, the guy scheduled to be contained, was afraid of being discovered.
"I beg you."
As soon as she closed the door, Yuan Wei immediately said, "Take me away."
Lin You: "...Huh?"
"I ran away while they were not paying attention."
I could hear that she was nervous, "If she is found out, she will definitely be arrested."
"I heard about SCP-682," Iris whispered in a low voice, "Can you help me in the same way?"
"I really don't want to stay there anymore. Everyone treats me very well, but I can't stand being under surveillance all the time. This is simply torture—"
She took a deep breath.
"I thought about it for a long time and came up with a plan, but I don't know if it will work."
Lin You said nothing.
She had heard about Iris and knew the result of the escape plan.
A doctor of the Foundation who sympathizes with her will issue a report for her that she has lost her supernatural ability and release her. But Yuanwei was blocked by agents at the airport just before leaving, and was forced to prove her abilities before she was taken back.
It's just that she didn't expect that she started planning so early.
"Now that you have appeared," Yuanwei pleaded, "for the sake of helping you hide your whereabouts and not telling others, can you..."
Lin You: "Uh—"
"But I just want to be discovered," she said.
How else would you plan it?
Iris was stunned.
"……what?"
She may have dreamed that someone would be taken into custody voluntarily. She looked at Lin You in confusion.
The latter coughed.
"This—I have my reasons for doing this, but don’t worry, I’ll do this for you." There is no reason for the card delivered to the door, not to mention the ability of Yuanwei is very good, "It’s just that you have to cooperate with me. a bit."
Iris hesitated a little, "...how to cooperate?"
"I'll talk later."
Lin You pointed down, "Now let me go downstairs with me?"
She originally planned to throw herself into the net, and then let the Foundation recover SCP-173, and then she would think of a solution later.
Unexpectedly, Yuanwei voted for sincerity unexpectedly. Since there are more people, the three of them will have more time to face the statue in a rotation. Lin Youxin said that he could try again if he could find a way to close it. SCP-173.
She clearly remembered the way to that staircase, and even if she didn't remember, the butler could tell it clearly.
Lin You silently recalled the route in her mind, seeing that there was only a wall away from the destination, but she saw several people wandering nearby from a distance.
If the Foundation is all right, she will immediately pat her chest and say that I am the new SCP you are looking for.
But the logo of that group of people's uniforms is not the foundation.
"These guys..." She narrowed her eyes.
Iris's complexion turned pale again.
"It's the Chaos Insurgency." Yuanwei murmured.
Unexpectedly, they really broke in.
Lin You's eyelids twitched.
She knew that it was an organization that was completely hostile to the Foundation. "The containment breach this time has something to do with them?"
Iris said "um".
"Andrian they suspected that there was an undercover agent from the Chaos Insurgency inside Site 19. They planned this containment breach and wanted to take the opportunity to away some of the most valuable SCPs.
But having said that, Lin You thought, most of them have become stuck.
It's a pity that the Chaos Insurgency was busy for nothing, and she picked it up all the cheap.
"Don't worry about this."
Lin You said: "Let's just go around quietly..."
As soon as she spoke, she suddenly felt something strange behind her. Lin You turned around abruptly and faced the eyes of the Chaos Insurgency soldiers who appeared behind them at some point.
The latter was holding a gun, staring at Yuan's face, and shouted: "Found SC—"
The butler's hand knife slashed at the back of his neck severely, interrupting the unfinished sentence. Unfortunately, it was too late, and his voice had already attracted the group of accomplices opposite.
From Lin You's point of view, when they whispered a few words, they all pointed their guns in this direction.
"Go straight into that iron door!"
Lin You quickly turned to the housekeeper again and said, "Don't protect me."
It would be troublesome if he blocked the gun here.
No more protection than the Foundation, the Chaos Insurgency shot without hesitation.
The scorching air wave passed by. Lin You is no better than Zheng Erba, an agent who has undergone combat training. Even if he has avoided as much as possible, the bullet still scratched her calf with a wound.
Unbiasedly, it was the place where the old man had grasped, and bleeding came from the bandage that had been bandaged.
Lin You staggered a step, but at this moment the butler quickly turned around and pulled her, letting her enter the door directly.
The iron gate is shut down!
The attack did not stop there, gunshots continued, leaving raised bullet marks on the door, and it was only a matter of time before the Chaos Insurgency broke into the door.
Lin You glanced at the panting Iris. Yuanwei is an intelligence officer. Although her experience in Omega-7 has helped her to develop combat capabilities to some extent, it is obviously unrealistic to let her fight against the group of gunmen outside with her bare hands.
However, she had another idea.
"Can I borrow the camera?" Lin You asked.
"Hey, oh," Iris was taken aback, and immediately took off the Polaroid hanging from her neck, "Of course."
Lin You carefully took over the old camera she had used for many years.
Iris can use it to take photos that can be manipulated most easily, but it can only take ordinary photos when it falls into the hands of others-what Lin You wants is ordinary.
"It would be great if there was glue..." she muttered.
Before she finished her words, a piece of glue was passed into her hand. Lin You was taken aback for a moment and looked at the smiling butler.
She almost forgot, as long as it's not too outrageous, what this person wants is complicated and time-consuming.
"This is easier." She said with a smile.
"Excuse me," asked the butler, "what do you want to do?"
"Not difficult."
Lin You said: "Since they want SCP, I can give it to them voluntarily-it depends on whether they have the guts to accept it."
housekeeper:"……???"
Hearing this is not a good premonition.
"Don't open your eyes for a while, I will close my eyes the whole time."
She flicked the card back of the card she selected, and turned to the housekeeper, "Then you have to move the statue out, stare at a certain part of it and tell me. Don't look elsewhere."
Two minutes later.
The leader of the Chaos Insurgency squad kicked the door open.
The iron gate had already been fragile by a shuttle bullet, and it was hanging crookedly on the side. But they couldn't take care of this, and walked tentatively in the dark step by step with their guns.
It is said that SCP-105 is hiding inside, and as long as they catch her, they will add a lot of merit.
There are insiders ambushing the Foundation, and they naturally know the contents of Site 19 and some other SCPs.
A little white suddenly appeared in his vision.
Seeing the statue not far away was different from ordinary people's horrified reaction, the team leader was actually overjoyed.
"We found the treasure, it's SCP-173!" he shouted.
SCP-173 stretched out two short hands and stood in front of a closed door. Although I don't know what the mess is going on, it is enough for the Chaos Insurgency.
"Everyone is watching it! Don't let it move, move it now—"
When he got closer, the team leader's voice disappeared.
Looking at the scene in front of them, there are four big characters in their minds.
-"Heaven will kill me".
The statue, whose neck will be broken if you don't stare at it, is slanted all over with photos.
Although the photos are not very clear and unified, the content of the photos is all SCP-096's face.
While they saw those photos--
A scream broke through the wall.