Before entering the apartment building, Luo Shu carefully analyzed the transformation mechanism of the "Malice Perceiver's" pie—this was a matter of life and death.
Currently, one possibility was that if someone entered the 100-meter range unarmed, the entity would attack using the last weapon it had replicated. To reset the MP5, Luo Shu borrowed a stun baton from the Nine-Tailed Fox operatives.
The stun baton was non-lethal, so even if the Malice Perceiver replicated it, the threat would be minimal. After preparing, Luo Shu stepped inside.
The 100-meter detection range wasn't at the entrance but slightly further in—exactly 100 meters from the entity's room. Luo Shu first confirmed the boundary line for an easy escape.
"Boss, I'm going in. I'm carrying a stun baton—keep an eye on the target."
But as soon as he crossed the line, Big Beard Jack exclaimed, "Wait—the pie turned into a dagger?!"
A dagger?
Shouldn't it have been the stun baton?
Was this the 10% weakening effect from the Abnormality Buster Milestone?
But that didn't make sense—a stun baton was non-lethal, while a dagger could kill.
Unless...
Luo Shu quickly retreated.
Jack's voice came through again: "The dagger's gone. He's back to eating pie."
Luo Shu tossed the stun baton aside, quietly activated the Photo Channel ability, and retrieved SCP-668 (13-Inch Chef's Knife). He stepped back over the line.
Jack reported: "Changed again! Now it's a chef's knife!"
Seriously?
Did the Malice Perceiver's knife also have the Indifference Field?
Luo Shu hastily retreated again and stashed SCP-668 back into the photo.
On his third attempt, he entered unarmed.
This time, Jack saw only a dagger.
Luo Shu confirmed his theory:
If unarmed, the pie defaulted to a dagger.
If armed, it replicated the weapon.
If mentally imagining a deadlier weapon, it would manifest that instead.
But then—why had the Nine-Tailed Fox operatives triggered an MP5 when they entered unarmed?
As Luo Shu pondered this, Jack suddenly shouted:
"Luo Shu! The dagger just turned into an MP5! He's coming for you!"
Luo Shu bolted outside, forcing the entity to calm down.
Now he understood:
The Malice Perceiver didn't just react to physical weapons—it also responded to mental imagery.
To test this, Luo Shu made a fourth attempt.
The moment he crossed the line unarmed, Jack's voice turned frantic:
"WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?! HE'S HOLDING A—A NUCLEAR BOMB?!"
Luo Shu sprinted out, grinning.
Only after confirming the nuke had reverted to pie did he explain his findings to a livid Big Beard Jack, who grabbed him by the collar:
"DON'T THINK ABOUT NUKES NEAR IT AGAIN!"
Luo Shu shrugged. "Relax, it's probably a dummy. But now we know its upper limit."
Jack sighed. "You're crazier than the Four Horsemen. This thing's Keter-class for sure."
Luo Shu proposed containment measures:
No humans within 100 meters—only non-sentient robots.
Amnestics to erase its knowledge of WMDs.
The Anomaly Compendium updated in real-time, formalizing the protocols:
[Special Containment Procedures]
100m human exclusion zone.
Robotic guards (non-AI).
Pre-interaction Class-H amnestics (prevents WMD memory formation).
Post-interaction Class-C amnestics (erases WMD memories).
[Description]
Humanoid, wears green jacket/white shirt, loves pie (SCP-XXXX-1).
Detects hostility within 100m, replicates weapons (physical or imagined).
Unarmed intruders → dagger.
Stronger mental imagery overrides physical weapons (e.g., nukes).