Chapter 33: Everyone is a Hero

Chapter 33: Everyone is a Hero

The time was 4:30 am. Huang Xingwen and Zhang Jue had a conversation with each other while Yang Xue followed behind them. Looking at Zhang Jue's back, her emotions were a bit complicated. She had to experience the most excruciating moment in her life. The containment breach, an enemy intrusion, and Site-14 were in jeopardy.

In the end, the enemy had not succeeded, and they had completed their mission perfectly, but she knew that it was all because of Zhang Jue. She didn't know how many times Zhang Jue had saved her life, and she hadn't even thanked him properly. Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

The accident's aftermath was under control within a reasonable degree, and the whole Site-14 staff was relieved. She was a little sleepy, but all the people in front of her struggled to handle the anomalies that were being freed with full dedication.

Yang Xue couldn't help but shake her head and chuckle. She still had some energy to help them. Not knowing if it was an illusion, she saw that Zhang Jue's back seemed to be faintly emitting light.

"Yang Xue, are you alright?"

Yang Xue was lost in thought when Guan Peng rushed up from behind. He and Yang Xue's uncle, Yang Wenbai, were old acquaintances and took a lot of care of Yang Xue.

"I'm fine, Uncle Guan." Yang Xue said, "Thanks to Zhang Jue."

Speaking of Zhang Jue, Guan Peng frowned, "Yang Xue, there's a question I wanted to ask you regarding your journey. Have you been with Zhang Jue for the whole time?"

Yang Xue nodded, "Yes. Except when we encountered SCP-106, he put me in the containment room. Other than that, we were together all the time." She noticed that Guan Peng's expression was a little off and frowned slightly, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

Guan Peng said, "Can you tell me in detail what happened after you were being put into the containment room, I'm a little curious."

Outsiders saw the fun, and insiders saw the doorway. Unlike Yang Xue and Huang Xingwen, Guan Peng has worked at the Foundation for decades. Starting as a security officer and working his way up to the MTF captain position, he has experienced countless battles, as evidenced by his half-burnt face.

The reason he had survived so long in such a dangerous place as the Foundation was because he has a habit thorough analysis.

After each battle with the enemy, he replayed the scene in his head. He was analyzing his own and enemy's strategies, tactics, various choices at key moments, and even the moves used during the fight, whether right or wrong.

After this accident, he surveyed the scene and tried to substitute himself into Zhang Jue's role. He had found that even though Zhang Jue helped her go through the conflict they had, there was no way for him to survive the accident.

Not to mention how he stopped the enemy, completed the mission, and brought Yang Xue back in one piece. He was very curious about how Zhang Jue had managed to do it.

He found a large rock and stood on it. All eyes focused on him. "Gentlemen, you don't need to thank me, you don't need to thank anyone. What you need to thank are yourselves."

Zhang Jue looked around. "Humans have been around for over 250,000 years by now, and only the last 4,000 years have been meaningful for us, so what have we been doing for almost 250,000 years? We huddled in caves and around small fires, fearful of the things that we didn't understand."

"Humans are so small and helpless in the face of those powerful beings, but we can't live in fear forever. No one else will protect us, and we must stand up for ourselves."

"And with that reason, we established the SCP Foundation."

"We work in the dark to serve the light."

"We used our weapons and equipment to contain The Immortal Lizard again and again."

"We blocked that statue in a corner with our intertwined sight."

"With cruel rituals, we sealed that evil god that might appear."

"We served before and after the countless terrible XK-Class End-of-the-World Scenario."

"We, the children of our fathers, the wives of our husbands. We're just ordinary people."

"We will eventually be afraid, scared, cry, and certainly will die."

"But remember that we are resilient!"

"We are the last line of defense for humanity!"

"We Secure! We Contain! We Protect!"

"We are everyone's heroes!"

"We, each one of us, are heroes!"