Chapter 186
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A few months ago, Zhang Jue rode on 682's back and wreaked havoc at the SCP Foundation's headquarters, obtaining more than a dozen SCPs. He placed these ill-gotten gains in his own alternate dimension, and divided them into several categories according to their importance.
C-level rating (Most of the time, they are not useful).
B-level rating (Useful to others, but not to oneself. For example, the SCP-127 (Living Gun) that he gave to Will Smith).
A-level rating (Possibly useful to oneself).
S-level rating (Divine Artifacts).
Among them, there were three Divine Artifacts, which were his targets from the beginning.
At this moment, he took out one of them — SCP-714 (Jade Ring of Exhaustion).
SCP-714 was a green jade ring that could change its size according to the characteristics of the wearer's hand.
After wearing SCP-714, there were a few special effects.
First, it will make the wearer tired. Within a few minutes of wearing SCP-714, the wearer will feel tired and be forced to "sit down and rest" on the nearest available furniture. The wearer may fall asleep within a few hours.
Second, slow reaction and movement: If you throw something at the wearer of SCP-714, even if it is very slow, there is a high probability that the wearer will not be able to catch it.
Third, reduce mental strength: The wearer's thinking will become sluggish. A person who is good at reasoning will not be able to make even the most basic deductions after wearing SCP-714.
After reading the description above, you will probably be confused. How is this a Divine Artifact? It's more like a trap.
However, most things have two sides. Wearing SCP-714 had so many debuffs, but Zhang Jue still targeted it because it had a passive effect.
It was also its fourth major characteristic: Mental Shield.
The wearer of SCP-714 had an unusually high resistance to memetic and mental effects, especially when it came to commands or immediate effects. Weaker memetic effects may be completely ineffective.
With Shirley's self-healing ability and Sir 682's tempering, Zhang Jue's body was not invulnerable, but it could definitely withstand a few rockets without a problem.
All along, he had only one weakness — his mental strength was too weak.
The few times he had suffered so far, whether it was facing 3844 (the flying dragon) or SCP-701-1 (the Constrictor King), they were all due to his lack of mental power.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Zhang Jue listed SCP714 as one of his must-have targets.
For other people, wearing SCP-714 would have a lot of negative effects, and the losses outweighed the gains.
However, Zhang Jue could reduce most of the debuffs on it, while retaining the effect of the shield (because the shield was external). Therefore, it was indeed a rare artifact.
It was dangerous to wear it for a long time, but under certain circumstances, such as now, Zhang Jue had no choice but to take it out.
Zhang Jue placed SCP714 on his right index finger. Instantly, a strange feeling spread throughout his body.
It was as if he had just finished a 30 kilometer cross-country run.
However, this level of exhaustion was something Zhang Jue could handle.
Moreover, as this feeling appeared, he noticed some changes in his surroundings.
After shielding himself from the effects of the antimeme project, he saw some things that he could not see before.
The fine sand under his feet was no longer uniform, and it was actually covered with dense footprints.
The walls around him were no longer clean, and countless blood stains were sprayed on them. Some were very new, and some were very old.
Zhang Jue even saw some small insects wriggling around his feet.
These were probably the antimeme creatures that existed in the world. If he was not protected by the shield, he might not be able to see these little things for the rest of his life.
Zhang Jue knew that at this time, he was seeing the real world, a world that had not been tampered with by those things.
Of course, there might be more advanced antimemes, and even if he brought SCP714, it would not help. If such things really existed, Zhang Jue could only endure.
There was a reason in this world.
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