Chapter 3: Dr. Clef

Perhaps it was because the 3-year-old was not suitable for experimentation for the time being, or because the abilities displayed by Lyle were not of much research value, or because the researchers in the facility already had research projects on their hands, Lyle's first year as SCP-4679 was extremely peaceful and did not become a pitiful plaything.

Calm = boredom

While the prison has neighbors, and a large group of people can be seen during meals, labor, and relaxation, Lyle can only stay in a tiny reinforced concrete containment unit 24 hours a day, and the only living people he can come into contact with are D-class personnel who come to deliver, deliver food, and clean, and they are consistently given a gag order.

There are only two ways for Lyle to get rid of his boredom: one is to sneak out of the containment unit every night, using the low-risk operation of 'copy first and then read' to peek at the researchers' research materials and gain a preliminary understanding of the anomalous individuals contained like himself, and the second is to request unobtrusive supplies from the management, and the entertainment items such as snacks, toys, comics, and televisions are approved.

It's just that the fat house-style life that turns day and night upside down has not continued forever-

"Huh? Doctor, I don't think I've been applying for anything lately. Lyle, who was lying in bed eating potato chips and watching TV, didn't think the boxes of D-class personnel were bringing in boxes of snacks and toys.

By the way, he didn't mean to get out of bed to say hello at all, and through those peeked at the research materials, he thought that the doctor in front of him was not as respectable as the D-class personnel of the death row next to him, and his etiquette was not so cheap.

"That's the textbook your father, Mr. Howard Stark, who has repeatedly applied for." Unaware of the despised, the Doctor walked over to the table full of snack bags and dropped a lengthy table of contents, "Of course, he is only responsible for providing the title of the book, and our personnel are responsible for the procurement." ”

This is to prevent Howard from mixing private goods in it, although Lyle was sent in by Howard himself, no matter how he thinks about it, he will not interfere with it, but the procedure goes like this.

"Presumably Mr. Stark is a Jackie Chan, and I hope you can get our guidance and become a member of the research team, but it's just ......" The doctor laughed wickedly.

His current focus is on the termination of SCP-682 (the immortal lizard), and plans to use the formidable combat power of SCP-173 (Statue - the original work) or SCP-096 (the shy man) to eliminate it.

"Jackie Chan...... Is it? Lyle was not offended by the Doctor's ridicule, he focused on the speculation in the Doctor's words.

I also know that Lyle is definitely not a decadent scumbag, and when he seems to be 'watching TV', he is often thinking about other things, sometimes it is the content of research materials that he peeks at, sometimes it is the scientific knowledge obtained by epiphany, and sometimes it is the spell obtained by epiphany.

He's trying to hide as much as he can, in exchange for time to grow safely, and so far he seems to be very successful...... It's just that Howard's orders were limited to 'abilities' at the beginning, and he didn't pretend to be a fool who couldn't even calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Never mind. After the Doctor and the D-Class were gone, Lyle finally made a decision.

A decision that not only did he feel unreasonable, but Howard would have scoffed at when he learned the truth.

Maybe in another ten years, the warmth of family affection will cool down with the long inability to see each other, and he is not even moved to hear the news that his parents died in a car accident, but only at this time, Lyle was moved by a large number of teaching materials sent by Howard.

"If you control the speed of learning a little, it should be fine, right?" After eating the potato chips in his hand, he switched the TV to the music channel, and took the textbook catalog with telekinesis (magic extension) and looked at it, "...... Oh my God, it's in alphabetical order, which textbook should I start with? ”

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Howard sent a bunch of textbooks, and SCP Foundation researchers were obsessed with Lyle's reaction, and after noticing his self-learning behavior, they put him to the test.

Although Lyle has controlled the learning progress and has not exposed the knowledge from his previous life, it is still a surprising result, and it is impossible for a normal child to thoroughly grasp the knowledge points and get a full score in the exam after reading the textbook.

The reason why I was 'surprised' rather than 'shocked' was because many of the human anomalous individuals in the SCP Foundation's custody so far had the characteristic of 'intelligence far higher than that of ordinary people', and they had long since been paralyzed by their knowledge. For example, SCP-007 (Planet in the Womb), the hapless man who wakes up with a spherical object replacing his internal organs with a spherical object, also exhibits high intelligence that is not related to his anomaly.

Unfortunately but expectedly, Lyle was studied earlier, and the experiment was mainly based on academic tests, but it also tested mental motivation and soul perception, trying to solve the mystery between the three.

In his third year at the SCP Foundation facility, he once again had to participate in soul perception experimentsβ€”

"Lyle, only one of the five people on the other side is not a D-class, can you point that out?" The doctor asked with a helpless face, for some reason.

"Him." Without hesitation, Lyle reached out to the blonde man in a top hat with a large nose and a grinning face similar to that of a Cheshire cat.

"Huh~" The blonde man's smile widened, and he flicked his top hat up slightly, revealing a third eye in the center of his forehead, conveying a signal of 'correct answer'.

He is a former Occult Coalition agent, codenamed 'Ukulelele', an elite performer who terminated Keter-class anomalous objects and joined the SCP Foundation after retiring from the army.

Today's name is 'Otto Clive', and he is the real initiator of today's experiment, not the Ph.D. who has been studying Lyell.

The doctor wondered, "Why do you know this, didn't you say in the previous experiment that death row prisoners are not necessarily all traitors, and there is no way to judge the identity based on intuition alone?" ”

There are many reasons, and the fact that the soul perception ability is now tested does not mean that Lyle only has soul perception ability, but there is only one answer that can be given at this time: "He has murderous intent towards me." ”

"What!? Dr. Clive! The doctor asked aloud.

"Haha~It's just a little joke~" The blonde man pressed his top hat again and smiled perfunctorily at his colleague's questioning.

Lyle said again: "Now, his killing intent towards me has probably tripled. ”

Again, the doctor said in a loud voice, "...... Dr. Clive! You are no longer the 'ukulele' of the Occult Alliance! ”

He wasn't trying to protect Lyle, but to spurn this behavior that was inconsistent with the purpose of the SCP Foundation.

"Tsk...... I know. The blonde man known as 'Dr. Clive' looked at Lyle and grinned, "SCP-4679, I don't understand, but something is wrong with you......"

"Each other, each other." Dr. Clive wasn't the only one who had the murderous intent, "You with three eyes are the most deserving anomalies to be contained." ”

- This is the first confrontation between the two who are full of lies.