“Something’s not right…” After walking for another seven or eight minutes, the team leader, Gore, raised his hand to signal his teammates to stop. “We seem to have seen this fork in the road before…”

“In fact, this is the third time we’ve been to this place.” Upon hearing this, Feng Bujue chimed in with a timely hindsight.

“What did you say?” A security guard next to him shouted at him. “Then why didn’t you say so earlier?”

“Heh…” Feng Bujue sneered. “Since you don’t trust me anyway, I might as well wait for you to discover the problem yourselves.”

“Damn…” The guard immediately flared up, reaching out to grab Jue-Ge’s collar.

“Alright!” Gore stopped him. “Calm down…” As the deputy captain, he was relatively calmer than the other members. “I know everyone is frustrated… but this is not the time to argue with that kid.”

Along the way, Gore had also realized… they needed this D-class personnel named Rudy Austin, otherwise they might not be able to return to the emergency shelter alive.

“Hey, you.” Gore then said to Feng Bujue, “What’s your take on the current phenomenon?”

“What?” Feng Bujue put on an expression of someone who wasn’t afraid of anything. “Using me as Wikipedia?” He shrugged. “Even I can’t possibly know everything, right…” He paused, then changed the subject, “But…”

At the moment this transitional word came out, all the security guards turned to look at Jue-Ge.

“I can probably guess…” Feng Bujue continued, “The phenomenon we are experiencing is caused by an Anomalous item.”

“How do you know?” Gore asked.

“Please note… I said ‘probably guess,’ not ‘definitely know,’ don’t misinterpret my meaning.” Feng Bujue immediately corrected him. “As for the basis of my inference… it’s very simple.” He tilted his head and replied in a very relaxed tone, “From the time we entered B3 until now… there have been a total of eighteen forks in the corridor; the signs next to those forks all indicate what is imprisoned in the containment measures they connect to. From what I’ve observed… seventeen of the numbered SCP items have no suspicion, so the only remaining possibility is…”

After listening to this, Gore was silent for a few seconds. “So… you not only remembered the contents of all the fork signs, but you also know the detailed information of each item?”

“Yes.” Feng Bujue answered frankly and asked back, “Is that not allowed?”

“Hmph…” Gore snorted coldly. Although he still didn’t completely trust the man in front of him, he could vaguely feel that what the other party said was true. “It seems you really are a big shot beyond our imagination…”

“You flatter me… I’m really just a D-class personnel.” Feng Bujue’s response was a mix of truth and falsehood, making him difficult to grasp. “If you think what I said is somewhat credible, you might as well listen to me… take a trip to the containment measure where that Anomalous item is located and see if you can undo this ‘spatial loop’ anomaly.” As he said this, he spread his hands and put on an indifferent look. “Of course, you can also ignore me and continue circling in this corridor until you run out of energy, or wait for the 513-1’s ‘peeking phenomenon’ to occur, inducing various mental trau…”

“Enough!” Gore interrupted Feng Bujue and immediately turned to Dan. “Dan, have you contacted command center?”

Dan just shook his head without saying a word. It seemed… he had already given up.

“Tch…” Gore cursed inwardly, “Could it be that those bastards have really abandoned us…”

After a moment of hesitation and weighing, Gore made a choice. “Okay… we’ll go to that containment measure and investigate.” He glanced at Jue-Ge. “Let’s see if our ‘knowledgeable’ D-class personnel… can come up with any ideas.”

…

At the same moment, somewhere in B3, in a standard containment room.

“They’re here, huh…” Billy, who was locked in a large metal box, suddenly spoke, muttering to himself, “And they seem to be heading straight for me…” His voice was still as hoarse and low as ever. “It seems… among this group of people, there is at least one with good intelligence and one who knows all the SCP items in B3. Only with these two conditions… can they deduce that I was the one who did the ‘folding space’ and thus come to me.”

As a very high-ranking existence in the Thriller Paradise main universe, Billy’s intelligence had reached a considerable level, so his reasoning was also quite accurate.

“Very good… just in time.” Billy muttered eagerly, “After this short period of rest, the power I have accumulated has reached the limit of my current state. This time… I must make good use of this group of people and successfully escape this universe.”

…

On the other hand, Feng Bujue was thinking in his heart, “Hmm… finally succeeded.” When Gore ordered to go to the Anomalous item’s containment measure, a stone in Jue-Ge’s heart also fell to the ground, “Fortunately, these guys are not completely stubborn, if they were determined to go all the way to the end… I really would have been helpless.”

Thinking of this, he thought again, “It’s just… that Anomalous item is really concerning…” Obviously, his previous reasoning was not all a bluff. “In any case… this ‘ghost hitting wall’ spatial loop has indeed occurred, and inferring by elimination… the Anomalous item really is the most suspected. And the previous 513 incident, no matter how you think about it, it was man-made… could it also be that item at work…”

…

It must be said that what is happening at this time is very dramatic…

Feng Bujue’s strategy was: “Find a way to get to the room where the Anomalous item is as soon as possible.”

And what Billy wanted to do was: “Lead the humans who enter B3 to his vicinity and then coerce them to help him escape.”

The two mutually aroused the other’s attention without knowing each other’s identity and purpose. At the same time, they unconsciously formed a cooperation…

Jue-Ge was still trying his best to fool the security guards into running towards Billy’s location with insufficient information, while Billy was doing everything he could within his ability to prevent Jue-Ge from being taken away.

Although the starting points were different, their actual actions coincided.

Under the efforts of both of them, the plot progress was forcibly guided in a direction that was more favorable to them…

Now, Feng Bujue and Billy, these two guys who have fought many times and are both enemies and friends, are finally going to join forces in this environment where their respective abilities are severely restricted…