"Something's not right..." After walking for another seven or eight minutes, Gore, the team leader, waved 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 come to this place," Feng Bujue said at the opportune moment, like a hindsight strategist.

"What did you say?" One of the security guards next to him shouted at him. "Then why didn't you say so earlier?"

"Heh..." Feng Bujue sneered. "Anyway, you don't trust me, so I might as well wait for you to discover the problem yourselves before speaking up."

"Damn it..." The guard immediately flared up, reaching out to grab Jue-Ge by the collar.

"Alright!" Gore stopped him. "Calm down..." After all, he was the deputy captain, and relatively speaking, he was more composed than the other team members. "I know everyone is annoyed... but this is not the time to argue with that kid."

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

"Hey, you," Gore said to Feng Bujue immediately. "What's your opinion on the phenomenon before us?"

"What?" Feng Bujue put on an expression of "a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water." "Are you treating me like Wikipedia?" He shrugged. "Even I can't be omniscient, right..." He paused and 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 pressed.

"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岔道口(chàdàokǒu, junctions) on both sides of the corridor; the signs next to those junctions have indicated what is imprisoned in the containment measures they connect to. According to my observation... seventeen of the numbered SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) items have no suspicion, so the only possibility left is one..."

Gore listened to this and remained silent for a few seconds. "So... you not only memorized the contents of all the junction signs but also know the detailed information of each of these items?"

"Yes." Feng Bujue answered bluntly and asked in return, "Is that not allowed?"

"Hmph..." Gore snorted coldly. Although he still didn't completely trust the man in front of him, he could faintly 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-level personnel." Feng Bujue's response was both real and unreal, making it difficult to figure out. "If you think what I said is somewhat credible, you might as well listen to me... go to the containment measure where that Anomalous item is located and see if you can dispel this 'spatial loop' anomaly." As he spoke, he spread out his hands again, pretending to be nonchalant. "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 '窥视现象(kuīshì xiànxiàng, peering phenomenon)' to occur and induce various mental traum..."

"Enough!" Gore interrupted Feng Bujue and immediately turned to Dan. "Dan, have you made contact with the command center?"

Dan just shook his head without speaking. 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 the pros and cons, 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-level personnel... can come up with any solution."

...

At the same time, 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 as hoarse and deep as ever. "It seems... among this group of people, there is at least one person with excellent intelligence and another who is familiar with all the SCP items in B3. Only with these two conditions... can they infer that I am responsible for the 'folded space' and 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 quite accurate.

"Very good... just in time." Billy said eagerly, "After this short period of recuperation, the power I have accumulated has reached the limit of my current state. This time... I must make good use of these people to successfully escape this universe."

...

On the other hand, Feng Bujue was calculating in his mind, "Well... finally succeeded." When Gore ordered to go to the containment measure of the Anomalous item, a stone fell in Jue-Ge's heart. "Fortunately, these guys aren't complete boneheads. If they were determined to go all the way to the dark... I really would have no way to deal with it."

Thinking of this, he thought again, "It's just... that Anomalous item is really worrying..." Obviously, not all of his previous reasoning was a bluff. "In any case... this 'ghost hitting wall' type of spatial loop has indeed occurred, and inferring by elimination... it really is that Anomalous item that is most suspicious. And the previous 513 incident, no matter how I think about it, was man-made... Could it also be caused by that item..."

...

It must be said that what is happening now is very dramatic...

Feng Bujue's strategy was—"Do everything possible to get to the room where the Anomalous item is located first."

And what Billy wanted to do was—"Lure the humans who enter B3 to his vicinity and then coerce them to help him escape."

The two aroused each other's attention without knowing each other's identity and purpose. At the same time, they unknowingly formed a cooperation...

Jue-Ge, with insufficient information, was still trying his best to deceive the security guards into running towards Billy, while Billy was doing everything he could within his capabilities 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 development 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, both as enemies and friends, are finally going to join forces in this environment where their respective abilities are severely limited...