章 183: A Strange Situation

"Yin and Yang." Yang Xue smacked his hand away with one hand.

He must have thought of this matter with Zhang Jue's head long ago, only that he had never brought it up. Seeing his smug look, he probably already had the answer. Zhang Jue spoke his mind first without waiting for Yang Xue to ask the question.

"From your uncle's description. We can know that your father, Yang Wensong, was a very influential person. Proficient in all kinds of unique and obscene practices and had contained countless terrifying objects. Even Site-14 itself was designed and built by him personally. You also said that he had a cautious character, thinking of victory before defeat. Imagine a person like him casually accepting other people's invitation to do something that he is not sure about? Even if he agreed to go due to threats or responsibility. Then I think he must have left something before he left."

Yang Xue looked at Zhang Jue, "You mean my uncle and me?"

"That's right." Zhang Jue nodded, "Your father probably did something on you and your uncle Yang Wenbai after he knew he was going to take over that SCP, and that's why you guys didn't forget about him like everyone else."

Yang Xue subconsciously looked at herself. "What could it be?"

Zhang Jue hummed, "That's something you'll have to ask yourself."

As the two talked, they had arrived at the third floor. This floor seemed to be a laboratory. Countless small rooms separated by glass had all kinds of bottles and jars inside. Gray stroked the test tubes, his eyes unknowingly seeping tears.

Yang Xue looked at him and asked in a soft voice, "Supervisor Gray, do you remember something?"

Gray shook his head, "I just feel that there is a feeling here that I am very familiar with."

At some point, even ordinary people will have a feeling of déjà vu about a certain place, and maybe Gray has really been here before.

Yang Xue was about to ask more questions when the security team member suddenly shouted, "What? Who's there?!"

Everyone turned around at the same time. But there was nothing.

However, the security team member was trembling. They had seen something that scared him.

Gray went up and patted his shoulder, "Moss, don't panic. What exactly did you see? Tell us."

Moss's face was already white with fear as he stammered, "It's that…. that black shadow. He… he's right behind us!"

Zhang Jue knew that he was talking about the strange ghostly shadow that the crowd had seen downstairs before going upstairs. After he said that, several security team members other than Gray all got nervous again. They had been able to get here by hanging on by a breath and could collapse at any moment.

Zhang Jue sighed. "The light is not good here. He is most likely looking at nothing. Supervisor Gray, don't you think so?"

Gray looked at everyone and hummed, "It's indeed a possibility. Let's not scare ourselves for a moment."

Moss wanted to say something else but was stopped by Gray with a look. This matter was just revealed, but the atmosphere of the team was once again gloomy.

"Well, let's get on with it." Zhang Jue said and walked in the direction of the stairs again.

The building was twenty to thirty stories long. They probably wouldn't be able to finish going through it today at the current speed. At night, the situation would become complicated. It was better to go as fast as possible.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth floors were all the same labs as the third. Zhang Jue tried to turn on some of the computers. Most of them couldn't be turned on because the wire had been aged, and all the data inside had been deleted.

I wish I had brought Simmons with me. Zhang Jue thought. If it had been deleted artificially, the perfect man like him would be able to recover the data in a minute.

"Ah!" The scream came again, still from Moss.

He pointed to the corridor not far away and, in horror, "It's… it's watching us over there!"

This time. Before the others could make a move, Zhang Jue was the first to rush out.

After being upgraded by the SCP-682's ability, his physical quality had reached a very high level. He can run up to 100 meters within only four or five seconds. He was like a gust of wind and was gone in the blink of an eye.

Yang Xue was the second person to react, and she also followed Zhang Jue's footsteps and chased after him. Zhang Jue followed the direction Moss pointed all the way to catch up. But there was no sign of the black shadow.

Just as he was about to give up, he saw a shadow flash in the stairwell out of the corner of his eye. Zhang Jue gave a heave-ho and continued the chase, and this time, he finally saw the other party's back.

The black shadow was floating in the air like a ghost and moved extremely fast. Even if he had full horsepower, he could only make sure he didn't lose it. Luckily, the shadow didn't seem to have the ability to walk through walls and led Zhang Jue all the way up the stairwell.

Zhang Jue was not afraid that this was some kind of trap. Since the shadow dared to show themselves, wouldn't it be a joke if he wimped out?

"Damn it. Don't you dare lose me now, or I'll plunge you into the toilet-"

Before Zhang Jue could finish his words, the shadow ran into a room in a flash, and the door closed with a bang. It was a very thick, large iron door, covered with all kinds of locks. Solid as a bank vault. Zhang Jue looked at it for half a minute but could not open it.

At this time, Yang Xue, Gray, and the team of security personnel finally catch up. All of them were panting except for Yang Xue. After Chen Xiao's guidance, it seemed that Yang Xue's progress was very obvious.

"That thing went in there." Zhang Jue said, "Supervisor Gray, do you know what this is for?"

This was obviously a very special room, but Gray still shook his head. Not the slightest memory of this building survived for him.

"Then don't mind me." Zhang Jue said, and Able's long black sword manifested in his hand.

"Don't." Yang Xue suddenly stopped him, "I have a bad feeling about this."

"I'm not going to hide it from you. I also had an awful feeling before I came here." Zhang Jue said, plunging his sword into the surface of the door.

...

I don't know how long had passed. Zhang Jue awoke from his slumber. It was dark all around. Zhang Jue touched his backpack and turned on his flashlight. Yang Xue collapsed beside him.

He patted Yang Xue's cheek, "Wake up."

Yang Xue slowly opened her eyes. "Where are we?"

"I don't know."

Zhang Jue shone his flashlight around and found that they seemed to be in a long narrow corridor. One side of the corridor was a wall, while the other side was a curtain wall made of glass. There was a sign taped to the wall that read 28F.

This was the 28th floor?

He had chased the shadow and climbed only a few floors in total, definitely not this high. Zhang Jue shone his flashlight on the outside of the glass curtain wall, and in the darkness, a massive building stood across the street.

Zhang Jue looked at it and suddenly frowned. "No, this is the building on the right."