(The setting of the power "Book of Self-Redemption" in this game is based on SCP-826. If there are any similarities, it is not a coincidence)
Item Number: SCP-826
Object Level: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-826 is to be contained in a 25 cm x 25 cm safe with a digital keypad lock. The number combination of the combination lock will be changed once a week and will only be granted to personnel with level 2 or above authority.
Description: SCP-826 is a pair of 20 cm x 15 cm bookends, molded into the shape of two outward-facing dragon heads. Debris scraped from its surface showed that it was composed of 99% tin, 0.5% copper, 0.3% antimony and 0.2% lead, consistent with a high-purity lead-tin alloy. However, to date, it has not been determined whether it is composed of solid lead-tin alloy or whether the lead-tin alloy is merely a coating on top of an unknown element that gives this SCP its anomalous properties.
When an experimenter places a book in the middle of SCP-826, touches two bookends, and leaves the room, SCP-826 will instantly cause the entire interior room (herein "room" to be defined as any Enclosed space) is converted into a setting in the book. Any entrance into the room will lead to a random location in the book's setting. During the transformation process, SCP-826 and the book it contains will relocate to another scene within the book's setting, displaying a preference for where books are usually placed (library, study, etc.). To reverse the effects of SCP-826, the subject must remove the book from SCP-826 and then exit the room where SCP-826 was found. Experimenters will find themselves in SCP-826's original containment chamber, and the entire containment chamber has been restored to normal.
In addition, the experimenter will find themselves in a random location described in the script in the book, from the beginning to the end of the script. If the experimenter does not find SCP-826 before the book's setting "ends", SCP-826 will "reset" the setting and restart the plot. The subject will be "included" in the book as a background character, and will lose all memory of before entering SCP-826.
Experiment record (Part 1):
Principal Investigator: Dr. ██
Subject: Agent ██
Material used: "Little House on the Prairie" (paper book)
Equipment: A GPS tracking device; a two-way radio; a kettle filled with water; a 9mm semi-automatic pistol with extra ammunition.
Experimental results: After Agent ██ entered the room where SCP-826 was located and closed the door, the GPS positioning instrument and radio held by the research team located across the door from the room where SCP-826 was located immediately failed, causing the research team and ██ Contact with agents is lost. Five minutes later, Agent ██ opened the door and walked out of the room without any harm. Agent ██ claimed that he was teleported to the center of a grassland, and a "green stain" could be seen in the west (presumed to be the Verdigris River in the original work). The agent walked towards the river for what I estimated was an hour before he met a major character in the book who had just returned from hunting and was invited to have dinner with him. The agent returned with the character to the character's home, a wooden cabin, where the agent met the character's family and discovered SCP-826 sitting on the mantelpiece. When agents pointed out the existence of SCP-826 to several other characters in the book, they stated that it had not been there before, but did not express concern about this strange phenomenon. The agent later had dinner with the family and asked if the books within SCP-826 could be taken away. The characters allowed him to take them, but expressed concern about the idea of him wandering the prairie at night. The agent then removed the book and returned through the cabin door to the room where the research team was located. The time on Agent ██'s watch indicated that he had spent several hours in the setting of the book, as his report claimed.
Note: Examination of Little House on the Prairie used in this experiment revealed that a new chapter appeared midway through describing a visit from Agent ██, in a style consistent with the writing style of Roland Ingalls Wilder. Despite this, there is no description of SCP-826 in this chapter, and Agent ██ simply finished his dinner and left. This chapter does not appear in any copy of Little House on the Prairie except the one used in the experiment. This copy has been recorded as Document 826-1. All researchers are advised to file materials they use in research led by Dr. ██ under File 826-(Digital).
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Obviously, the power of the "Book of Self-Redemption" is similar to the abnormal effect of SCP-826, but upon closer inspection, there are still differences.
The biggest difference is that the Book of Self-Atonement traps the person's soul instead of the body, and can be released by the esper on his/her own initiative, provided that the esper is willing to do so.
For example, now, Xiao Qi is determined to lock Caiflin in the zombie story to suffer. Without her permission, Caiflin cannot escape from the Book of Self-Atonement.
In the world of the book, Caiflin punched a zombie on the head and blasted it off. This was the first zombie to die at her hands. Even Caiflin herself couldn't remember. In her mind, she had killed hundreds of zombies on this "grassland" and traveled dozens of kilometers.
"Huh...huh... finally defeated the wave just now." Before more zombies could come up, Caiflin took the time to adjust her breathing. In a few minutes, another wave of zombies would come. They were fearless and came in an endless stream, making even Caiflin, a ghost-level ability user, exhausted.
She had long since abandoned her unique torture weapon that was shaped like an ice cream scoop. In normal times, using it to deal with living people can cause double physical and psychological damage to the enemy, but now using it to deal with zombies is a lot of effort. It is almost half the result with half the effort, and it is far less effective than those cold weapons that can be wielded to open and close. . So after discovering this, Caiflin did two things. The first was to put away the scoop and go into battle with bare hands; the second was to activate her superpower and break out of the zombie siege.
Caiflin's ability is called "Shadow". As the name suggests, this ability is related to shadows. Through the previous conversation between Wade and Maehara Douyang (see Chapter 75 for details), we can know that Caiflin is best at the quick-attack decapitation tactic. At this time, in order to break out, she used her special assassination weapon. Skill [Shadow Kill].
The sun shines brightly in the world in the book, and the shadows under Caiflin's feet are solid and clear, which creates favorable conditions for the activation of skills. After activating [Shadow Kill], she instantly sank into her own shadow, but the shape of her shadow did not change. She maintained her human form and ran hundreds of meters away, leaving the zombies behind.
"Although this skill is practical, the biggest problem is that the maintenance time is too short. A little more than three seconds is only enough for me to run a few hundred meters." As soon as the duration of [Shadow Kill] expired, Caiflin emerged from the shadow. . Her original intention of developing this skill was to use it for attacks, using the cover of shadows to approach unprepared enemies, but now when faced with enemies like zombies, she could only use it to escape. "Fortunately, the zombies move slowly, and this distance is enough to throw them away."
Sometimes, the flag really can't be set randomly. Here, just as Caiflin breathed a sigh of relief, there were zombies crawling out of the ground around her, looming to surround Caiflin.
Cavelin gritted her teeth in annoyance: "Where is this place? There are zombies everywhere. Was it a cemetery before? Also, why can't all my electronic devices be used?"
She had no choice but to activate her powers again and escape again and again.
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In fact, if Caiflin could stop and take a good look at the clothes and items on her body, she would find that what she has is not a teleportation ability, because she is the only one who is original, and the other items are "similar to her". Something very similar to "own belongings".
Xiao Qi's purpose is to trap Caiflin in the Book of Self-Atonement, so first of all, she cannot let the latter realize that she is in the world of the book. So she wrote a separate chapter specifically for Caiflin, describing her clothing and equipment in detail, just to deceive her. Now it seems that Caiflin did not realize that she was actually in an out-of-body state. Her body was still lying on the roadside, and her soul was forced to fight against the endless army of zombies.
This is Xiao Qi's little plan. Before taking action, Palmer had spoken in advance, hoping to keep Caiflin alive so that he could recruit her into the gang, and Xiao Qi agreed. But on the other hand, she really didn't have the slightest fondness for the notorious Kevlin. The latter's bad behavior in Bald Eagle County and her unchangeable behavior after becoming a guard officer were notorious among everyone in the circle of ability users in Southeast Asia. She knew that she didn't like her very much, so Xiao Qi wrote this zombie apocalypse story as a slight revenge. In fact, this bit of torture is far from making her atone, but Palmer's order is so, Xiao Qi can't go too far. After all, if Caiflin dies in the Book of Self-Atonement, her outer body will really become A vegetative state that will never wake up.
The time flow rate in the real world and the world in the book is different, the ratio is one to thirty-six. It took Xiao Qi less than five minutes to drag Caiflin out of the scrap metal of the bulletproof car and briefly treat the wound. However, three hours had passed for Caiflin in the book. She has not escaped from the plot for the past three hours, her mental energy is running out, and her physical strength is running low.
Xiao Qi dragged Caiflin towards the car and opened the back seat, only to see someone already waiting.
"Jin Valariello," Xiao Qi said coldly: "Do you know that it is rude for you to get into someone else's car without saying hello?"
"Good evening, Miss Xiao." Jin said enthusiastically: "I'm just here to issue a new order, and by the way, I want to make sure that Guard Officer Caiflin doesn't get killed by you."
"Don't worry about this, I know it well." Xiao Qi didn't lie. The setting of the plot was written by her as "At the end of Cai Fulin's fight, the zombies surrounded and refused to attack, and deliberately left one side alone." "By the way, is William Chapman so picky in recruiting people? Can he even accept someone like Cavelin?"
Jin smiled and said: "Well...Miss Xiao, please release the Kevlin guard first, and I will tell you about the current situation in Southeast Asia..."
