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Chapter 43 - Chapter 43: Wendigo

With permission from Dr. Halsey, Captain Lance asked No. 049 to provide assistance.

Date: February 25, 2007.

Location: Containment Center No. 1

The following is a video playback.

The perspective of the video comes from the monitor in the interrogation room.

SCP-049 sits against the wall, legs close together, hands on knees and waiting quietly.

The gate opened.

Four security personnel wearing protective clothing delivered the contents tied to the movable operating table to SCP-049.

The gate was then closed.

Security personnel are standing at the four corners of the room with fire guns in their hands and have been given responsibility for protecting the safety of SCP-049 during SCP-049's examination.

SCP-049 got up and went to the push bed, and started to make a careful observation.

When the strapped anomalous creature saw SCP-049, the extent of its struggle increased significantly.

...

Lance: (Over the rooms intercom) Doctor, can you...

SCP-049: (Interrupts Lance, raising his right hand and extends his index finger to the monitor) Hush now Captain, please don't disturb me.

Lance: Okay.

SCP-049: (Nodding satisfied) Very good.

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For the next few moments with SCP-049 no experiments were performed on the contents with the medical kit that he carried.

Instead, he kneaded the his temple with his right hand, and hit the edge of the bed with his left hand.

The recording equipment is adjusted to the maximum, and SCP-049's self-talk can be heard.

....

SCP-049: (Sighs) Ah... I seem to have seen such patients somewhere before. My amnesia, I really hope someone can help treat it, my God. (With his right hand tapping his head lightly) Hurry up...hurry up...remember!

....

Then SCP-049 took out his notebook from his medical bag and flipped through it quickly.

Soon, SCP-049's behaviour showed that he seemed to understand something to do with the infection process from the contents.

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SCP-049: (Walks under the monitor) Captain.

Lance: Doctor, have you found something?

SCP-049: (Nodding) Yes. (SCP-049 picks up it's notebook and points) According to the records of my previous tour, yes, that's right. This patient is a kind of, um...what do you call it....(SCP-049's tone showed that he had become somewhat irritable) Ah, **** it! (SCP-049 passed for a few long seconds before SCP-049 suddenly yelled) A Wendigo! An evil spirit!

Lance: (In a tone of disbelieve) An Evil spirit? Doctor, are you sure?

SCP-049: (Shaking his head) This is just the closest description. (SCP-049 puts their notebook back into their backpack and walks towards the creature) I forgot when I met them, but I remember it was a very cold winter. Wendigo appear in the case of extremely low temperature and lack of food. They guide the weak conscious people to preform cannibalism. If someone can't resist the temptation, and take any actual action, then their plan will succeed. They will become attached to the patient, turning them into this creature (SCP-049 points to the anomalous creature now dubbed Wendigo), and they fall into the endless abyss of hunger. Hmm... It's a bit like the plague.

Lance: One of our agents was bitten by Wendigo. Will he not mutate? Or...be possessed?

SCP-049: Yes, as long as the brave soldier does not swallow another of his same kind, then he will not become like this patient.

Lance: So is there a way we can completely control their spread?

SCP-049: (speaking happily) Ah, simple, just burn the patients clean with a torch. This is so much easier to solve than the plague!

Lance: How can it be contained?

SCP-049: (Kneads their temples again) Hmm...Wendigo will only appear in extreme cold weather and certain mountainous areas. As for the containment you mentioned, that is not my area of ​​expertise. Forgive me for being helpless, Captain.

Lance: No, doctor, you are doing very well, thank you for your help.

SCP-049: (Their voice sounds like they are smiling) It's where my responsibility lies. Oh, besides, my experiment materials are not enough, can you help me add some?

Lance: That is not a problem, doctor.

The video ends.

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Containment Center One classifies the 'Wendigo' as Euclid.

Agent Adam Gale was sent to Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, after confirming that there was no risk of him mutationing or becoming possessed.

The agent will also receive the best treatment in the Umbrella General Hospital in Regina.

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Wendigo 01, who had survived, and was then caught was confirmed dead under experiment SCP-049.

Wendigo 01 was sent to the incinerator by the security of Containment Center No. 1 to ensure complete destruction.

...

Wendigo's method of infection is peculiar and as such is not an anomaly that cannot be completely contained.

Therefore, under the command of Colonel Andre, the black wood mountain area where the incident occurred has been completely sealed off, and humans were prohibited from entering within a three-kilometre radius.

The expatriate agents in the town of De Chambrec are replenished, and when Adam Gale recovers, he will take over as the sheriff.

Later, the company used Dr. Halsey's perfect brainwashing technology to dilute the news about the disappearance of eight high school students and the sacrifice of two mountain police officers, and asked the agents to warn the residents of the town not to go to the Blackwood Mountain area.

End of report.

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...

Time: (East District) March 11, 2007, 18:45.

Airspace: over Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

Aviation authority: Special approval has been obtained by the Egyptian government.

The A380 in which William was riding was escorted by two F-22s and was returning to the Troy base in the west.

In the cabin;

William was sitting on the sofa, checking the contents of the laptop screen in front of him.

And Halsey on his side embraced William's right arm with both of her hands, despite her eyes also focused on the screen.

"..."

When William finished watching the containment operation of the Wendigo, he couldn't help but question the system in his mind: 'System, didn't you say that anomalies only began to appear in January? Wendigo that the miner transformed into has existed for at least fifty years, right? What's the situation? '

[Informing host; This anomaly did exist fifty years ago. However, the awakening was actually caused by the extreme cold weather, which is in line with the characteristics that have appeared one after another.]

'That means...The earth of this world has always had abnormal phenomena a long time ago, and it just that only now it is starting to recover gradually, right? '

[The true answer is very similar, Host may however think whatever they like]

'Fine by me then.'

Anyway...

The anomaly was caught there, and entanglement was useless.

So never mind.

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"Hey." Halsey sighed suddenly.

'??'

William looked at her and wondered: "What's the matter?"

"Boss."

Halsey looked up at William, and said sadly: "I think those three agents are really a pity, if they also had AAES, then those Wendigo's would not have been their opponents at all."

"There isn't a way to change that." William said helplessly: "A set of AAES costs more than 20 million, and even the UBCS can't be fully equipped. But the family members who sacrificed the agents will received their welfare of a worry-free food and clothing, so the souls of the dead agent can ascend to heaven with peace of mind."

"That's good~"

Halsey's arms tightened again, and she put her jaw on William's shoulder and glared at William with a smile of her face: "I declare, from now on you are no longer a black-hearted boss~"

"I was never, but okay."

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{A Wendigo is a kind of man-eating monster that spread in North America, and there is actual a kind of mental illness related to stories involving them, so there have been many actual cases. As for your mental images of Wendigo. The ones in this story are inspired by the game "Until Dawn".}