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Chapter 6: CVA-A-1099 - "Doomsday Seed"
Ten minutes passed, and the tab bar at the top of the browser finally began to flash.
Robin had replied.
Shi Rang quickly switched from the facility introduction page back to the chat channel and clicked into the communication window he had already named "Robin."
[What was that thing? That freaking thing? What was it?]
[Someone died! He’s dead! Dead!]
Shi Rang surmised what “Robin’s personal possible plot” might be and roughly guessed the answer. However, his guess didn’t count; his role as "Mud Truck" needed to ask for the situation.
"No matter what happened, I need you to calm down, Robin. Can you do that?
"As I said, an emergency has occurred in Facility 031 where you are now. I can help you, but only if you trust me and stay calm.
"It's harsh, but I don't know how much time you have left to escape, so try to take deep breaths and calm down, okay?"
After two minutes, Robin finally responded, this time with much calmer wording.
[I'll try my best, I'll do my best.]
[I've calmed down, more or less.]
[I'm really sorry, I should have trusted you.]
[I don't want to die.]
[Are all the others dead? My classmates, my mentor, and everyone who brought us here?]
"There are many shelters in the facility. They should have hidden inside waiting for rescue."
[Will I die?]
"I’ll do my best to prevent that." Shi Rang promised: "You're currently in Facility 031, obviously one of the contained objects there has broken containment, causing a serious accident. Did you see it just now? Does it have any noticeable characteristics?"
[It looks like a plant, grows very fast, strong enough to collapse the ceiling, and it consumes people.]
[No, not consuming people, it might have drained their body fluids.]
[After all, it's a plant, it needs water...]
The complete ellipsis indicated that Robin had indeed calmed down.
Shi Rang jotted down these clues and flipped through the information on the contained objects of Facility 031 provided by the event page.
He immediately identified the culprit — it ranked first among all the contained objects in the entire facility.
[CVA-A-1099 - "Doomsday Seed"]
[Containment Procedures: A-1099 must always be sealed in... dry ice blocks to maintain dormancy. If the primary containment system experiences a sudden failure, secondary... tertiary measures should be activated immediately. If all containment measures fail, the facility should initiate... as a final measure to suppress A-1099.]
[Description: A-1099 is a mass of plant material that rapidly grows when exposed to light, moisture, or biological tissue. Its root system can move at a rate of 0.22 m/s and extend up to 1 km to seek water and nutrients from the environment or living organisms.]
Shi Rang finished reading the relatively short object description,
His brows furrowed deeper. The Management Bureau’s highest danger rating for any containment object was S, and the “Doomsday Seed” had already reached level A. From the classification and the codename alone, one could grasp the sheer ferocity of the thing.
He returned to the chat page and typed a question.
"Did you hear any strange sounds after the alarm went off, or notice any other anomalies?"
[The server room was noisy to begin with, but there were a few significant vibrations—unlike an earthquake.]
"Have you experienced nosebleeds, headaches, or any physical discomfort?"
[Aside from being scared enough to wet my pants, no.]
[Please don't tell anyone about this...]
"I won't."
Already making jokes, Robin's psychological resilience was quite strong.
In tabletop role-playing terms, perhaps the character's "willpower" or "spirit" attribute was relatively high?
Or maybe first-person communication rarely conveys clear emotions, which made her appear calm.
Shi Rang asked a few more questions about other bodily symptoms and received negative answers. He closed his eyes and began deducing the possible course of the accident.
According to the settings, to prevent the "Doomsday Seed" from breaking containment, there were multiple levels of emergency defense measures.
This bizarre ever-growing plant probably escaped the hindrance of dry ice and dehumidifiers, resisted explosions and neutron radiation, and broke containment under high concentrations of growth hormones and acute herbicides. This caused the entire facility to sound the alarm, preparing for a full-scale automated extermination.
However, considering that the breakout was by 1099, the lethal extermination for humans was just a tickle for it — possibly realizing this, someone in the facility called off the program since it would only cause trouble otherwise.
The vibrations Robin described probably came from 1099's third containment measure: explosives made from various raw materials.
Since Robin had no physical abnormalities, it meant that the "high-energy radiation," which should have automatically operated as the last line of defense, had not been activated.
According to the file description, this could suppress 1099 for a long time until a specialized Mobile Task Force (MTF) trained to handle plant-type contained objects arrived. But it would also kill all humans inside the facility — the emergency shelter's protection was insufficient against high-energy radiation.
With the final line of defense failing, 1099 was growing unchecked and would gradually occupy the entire facility.
Shi Rang organized his thoughts, opened his eyes, and felt a sense of satisfaction akin to solving a puzzle.
Thus, the situation became quite clear.
Robin currently faced three dangers:
The "Doomsday Seed," which could enter the next growth phase at any time, effortlessly swallowing the entire facility — including that small server room;
The "high-energy radiation," which could restart at any moment after the system failure was resolved;
And the special MTF soldiers expected to arrive soon, using incendiary and high-explosive bombs for a thorough cleanup, blasting the proliferative structure of the "Doomsday Seed" into dust — if this really happened, Robin would likely be buried under the facility's ruins.
The star of death shone brightly, Robin.
Shi Rang copied the data related to the "Doomsday Seed" to Robin. While she digested the intelligence, he began his instructions.
"You’ve seen it too; the situation isn’t optimistic. You have less than an hour to escape.
"You managed to cut the roots with the door, meaning it hasn't entered the next phase yet. Before it evolves defensive tissues, it’s still afraid of fire and highly flammable.
"If you can burn a path through it, you can escape the server room — but act fast; it will soon adapt to flames, rendering this trick useless."
[Damn it, how did I get involved in this mess...]
[I don't smoke, and security checks here are so strict that a lighter probably wouldn't make it through either.]
[Oh, wait, wait a moment!]
Robin left the only screen that allowed her to communicate with the outside world and dragged out the toolbox from the corner of the server room — it was originally issued for work purposes.
At the sight of the box, the scene of the guard handing it to her moments ago flashed before her eyes, and the unfamiliar face was instantly replaced by a dried, twisted corpse.
Robin's fingers twitched, covering her mouth for a while to regain composure before having the courage to open the toolbox.
When wearing a blindfold through security, even her watch was confiscated. For some unknown reason, the box provided to staff actually contained a handsaw, electric drill, and welding torch, thousands of times more dangerous than a watch. Robin picked up the integrated welding torch, pressed the switch towards an empty area, and the slender, steady flame indicated it was windproof.
When the flame approached the severed root on the ground, the terrifying root ignited instantly, the flames swiftly engulfing the root and reducing it to ash.
The server room's ventilation system was still functioning normally, quickly whisking away the smoke.
Now oxygen deprivation wasn’t a concern either.
Robin turned off the welding torch and hurried back to the server cabinet, typing on the virtual keyboard. Excitedly, she made several typos and had to backspace to correct them.
Regardless of who was helping her on the other end of the communication, after the previous harrowing moments, she chose to trust the other person.
Compared to the guards, Robin was undoubtedly lucky.
At least she was still alive.
At least there was someone talking to her, willing to help her escape...
[Feasible! I can open the door, ignite it, close the door, hide, and then rush out when it’s mostly burned! Burn this damn thing!]
[But where should I run once I exit?]
"Where are you located in the facility?"
[I don’t know!]
"Don’t you even know which underground level you’re on?"
[My mentor said we’d get credits for taking this project, so I came!]
Thinking of her mentor and classmates whose fates were unknown, Robin felt like crying.
Credits were hard to earn!
[Am I done for?]
Tensely waiting for a while, the mysterious person sent new instructions.
"Luckily you met me, Robin. Next, remember every word I say..."
Note: CVA-A-1099 is based on the concept of SCP-1262.
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