The Photo Pathway

Eye-3's alert:

"Black-clad elder phased through Director's office wall."

Luo Shu's fingers tightened around his tactical terminal.

"That persistent bastard followed me here?"

The camera's status light pulsed eagerly:

"MASTER. TRIGGER ALARM?"

"You can do that?"

"AFFIRMATIVE."

Luo Shu smirked. "Do it."

Divine Interruption

Alarms blared.

"INTRUDER IN DIRECTOR'S OFFICE! ALL PERSONNEL RESPOND!"

Footsteps pounded as Epsilon-11 operatives stormed the corridor—

—only to find nothing.

SCP-343 had vanished, erasing all traces, even from Eye-3's storage.

"Anti-memetic properties," Luo Shu muttered. "Clever old ghost."

The Heist

Three days later, IR-1901's voice crackled through the throat mic:

"Clear to move. SCP-105-B's in the Director's dual-lock safe. Two Level-4 keys, five meters apart. Meet me there."

Luo Shu hesitated. The office was fortified after the breach.

But the prize was worth the risk.

He "borrowed" SCP-005 ("The Key"), slipped past patrols with IR-1901 under Perceptual Shroud, and stood before the safe.

"On my mark," IR-1901 whispered. "Three. Two. One—"

Click.

The wall slid open, revealing a vintage Polaroid OneStep 600.

SCP-105-B.

Luo Shu snapped a photo of the vault interior. As the camera spat out the image, the Anomaly Catalog updated:

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[Item #: SCP-105]

[Anomalous Properties: Photo Pathway. Now fully unlocked. Manipulate reality through photos taken by SCP-105-B. Other images grant observation only. [Redacted: Inappropriate mirror selfie joke.]]

[O]

Luo Shu exhaled. Power acquired.

Time to rewrite the rules.