Chapter 400: Living and Dying Together

The pursuer is telling the truth, he will not die, and if he does, then he would have died many, many years ago.

As for how many years ago, he couldn't remember it for a long time, but he vaguely remembered that at that time, people still lived in stone houses and castles, as for where the castle was...... It seemed to be some small town near the Mediterranean, he couldn't remember.

But he remembered that he had been bought by a slave owner.

The slave owner dressed himself in fine clothes, ate delicious food, and tortured himself, as if he were doing some kind of research, and one day the slave owner put himself in a coffin in the shape of a man with thorns, the lid of which was full of spikes, and those spikes pierced his body.

After that, the pain stayed with me for a long time, until I don't know how long later, the lid of the coffin was finally opened, and I was liberated.

It's just that the world has completely changed by then.

There were wheels on the iron sheet, and the giant giant bird of steel flew in the sky, and only then did I realize that it was called a car, and an airplane.

Oh yes, the man who rescued himself called himself an agent, and that guy took himself to a place called the SCP Foundation.

Hehe, that was centuries ago.

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Item No: SCP-762 (Minor Modification)

Object Class: Safe changed to Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-762 is to be kept in a storage box in Containment Area █. Unless actively or passively entering SCP-762, the containment object is harmless to anyone, and therefore requires no further containment procedures.

Any experiments conducted using SCP-762 require authorization from Dr. ████.

Additional Containment Procedures:

SCP-762-1 is forbidden to come into contact with the blood, fluids, and tissues of any living organism. Except for tissues such as hair, nails, etc.

Description: SCP-762 is a torture device resembling the infamous Nuremberg Iron Maiden.

It resembles a large coffin with human face decorations, but it is covered with iron nails that mercilessly penetrate the victim's body when they are locked inside. Moreover, this type of torture device is not an instant death, because the iron nails are generally thin, so the victim often struggles in severe pain for about a day before dying.

It was discovered in 1992 in the basement of a ██████ in Austria.

When opened, it was discovered that SCP-762 contained a male human, now designated SCP-762-1.

Foundation agents in Central Europe immediately intervened in the investigation, and were able to recover the anomalous object and administer primary amnestics to the personnel involved.

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SCP-762-1 appears to be a normal human male, of European descent, with a visual age of approximately 35 years, approximately 180 centimeters tall and weighing 100 kilograms.

When discovered, SCP-762-1 was in the midst of the Iron Maiden, whose spikes had pierced its flesh, but all wounds on SCP-762-1's body healed within half an hour of removal from the Iron Maiden.

SCP-762-1 was initially identified as having catatonic schizophrenia, social conversation phobia, pain delusions, and severe claustrophobia. These symptoms are attributed to the long-term placement of the Iron Virgin.

Surprisingly, SCP-762-1 is generally in good health, with the exception of severe mental illness. Due to SCP-762-1's unique properties, it is impossible to determine how long SCP-762-1 has been inside the device, and examination of the device has shown that it dates back to the late 15th century, so it is likely that SCP-762-1 has been inside the device for centuries.

Any personnel placed within SCP-762 (Iron Maiden) will enter a state of suspended animation. Subjects will no longer need food, water, or even air while inside SCP-762. At the same time, subjects appear to be immune to disease when they are inside SCP-762, but wound festering occurs normally, and is capable of causing more intense pain to those inside.

Despite this, the subject retains consciousness and describes experiencing extreme pain. Once the subject is removed from SCP-762, all wounds caused by the device will heal rapidly within a short period of time.

Due to the suspension of all physiological functions other than consciousness while inside SCP-762, individuals placed inside it do not appear to age.

Interestingly, no one other than SCP-762-1 has been given the ability to regenerate sustainably after entering the Iron Maiden, which has been hypothesized by experimenters as a result of SCP-762-1 being inside the Iron Maiden for too long and thus being assimilated by its abilities.

Dr. ████'s request to place a primate inside SCP-762 to test this hypothesis has been approved.

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██/██/████.

Dr. ████ discovered and confirmed that SCP-762-1 possessed a new anomalous property and requested that its classification be changed to Euclid.

At 9:30 a.m. on ██/██, a staff member in Containment Area █ suddenly severed the elbow joint of his left arm without any external contact, while the personnel was eating in the staff cafeteria, and no murder weapons or perpetrators were found at the scene.

The individual was promptly transported to the rescue area, but in the process of being transported, the individual's chest, legs, and right eyeball were damaged out of thin air without being touched by any object, and at 9:53 a.m., the individual died of blood loss.

Team ██ immediately opened an investigation into this particular event and zeroed in on suspicion of SCP-762-1.

According to investigation, SCP-762-1 was undergoing a human experiment to test its ability to regenerate, in which SCP-762-1 was cut off on its left arm, third rib in the chest, both legs, and the right eyeball.

According to the client's description, the wounds were identical to those of the victim.

However, within half an hour of testing, all of SCP-762-1's wounds healed and regenerated, while the victim was deceased.

SCP-762-1 was immediately imprisoned in the containment area, and upon investigation, it was discovered that the victim, a cook in the containment area, had accidentally slit his finger during the containment area's diet that morning, resulting in a drop of blood dripping into the white porridge pot for breakfast that day.

Dr. ██ immediately requested a retest of SCP-762-1's peculiarities.

Test Logs:

1. SCP-762-1 is instructed to drink the blood of a Highland dog and cut SCP-762-1's calf.

The left leg of the Highland Dog presents the same injury and shows great pain.

After 10 minutes, SCP-762-1's calf wound healed, and the Highland Dog wound remained.

2. SCP-762-1 is instructed to devour a slice of the little finger of a D-class personnel and cut SCP-762-1's throat.

The D-class personnel's throat broke out of thin air without any physical contact.

SCP-762-1 returned to health after 6 minutes, and the test D-class was dead at 51 seconds.

Dr. ██ requested that SCP-762-1 be placed in solitary confinement and that any meat food supply be forbidden.

Application approved......

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