Chapter 227: Why?
"So...... What does it have to do with me that you can't find the author?" You Wei tapped the keyboard in reply, "I'm not the author. ”
Divine Will: "I didn't let you write it, but I wrote poetry, aren't you very good at the poems you wrote in your animation?"
"That's not a poem, it's a lyric written by Ni Xianshen......"
"Then let him write it. ”
"Really, when I buy one get one free?"
The origin of this dialogue is Guan Li's whimsical - firstly, he intends to add a story mode to the official version of Endless, and secondly, this story mode needs a closing sentence that can be used to sublimate the ending of the entire game.
A poem.
It's like the last poem in Minecraft.
As a result, You Wei, who seems to be good at writing poetry, has been targeted for the first time.
You Wei said very much, "Let's talk about it first, what we made is definitely not a serious poem." ”
"Just follow your previous play. Guan Li was relieved when he heard that it was Ni Xianshen.
Poetry is one.
And the lyrics written by the muse, can they be ordinary lyrics?
"Okay, tell me how you set up this plot mode? What kind of plot? At least let me have a direction to pull. ”
Guan Li thought for a moment and said, "The content of the poem ...... It has little to do with the plot itself. Because I'm going to put some narrative SCP projects, which are not easy to show in free mode, as a plot unit. This poem is the easter egg after clearing all plot units. ”
You Wei seemed to have tasted a little bit of taste, "Depending on what you mean, the plot unit will continue to increase?"
"Yes, there will be more and more in the future. ”
"Is there a central theme that you can refer to?"
"Universe...... With love. Guan said in the phrase of "The Last Verse," the player and the world he once loved. ”
"The universe says: I love you. ”
"The universe says: You have everything you need. ”
"The universe says: The darkness you are fighting against is in your heart. ”
"The universe says: The light you seek is in your heart. ”
"The universe says: I love you because you are love. ”
The game ends, and the game tells the player that the dream has reached its end and it's time to wake up.
But is the game really just a dream for players?
"Anyway, let's do the story mode first. Guan Li grabbed his only programmer, "System, do you have any recommended projects?"
The first unit, the starting unit, should preferably involve numerous projects, have their own independent narrative lines, and have different game mechanics than the free mode.
Not too many eligible projects, but not too few either.
1730-"What happened to Site-13?", 4100-"Imperfect Future" are all suitable, and things like 2000-"Dei Macha" can even open a new mode on their own.
However, with the system's understanding of Guan Li, there is an SCP project, and he will definitely be interested.
- SCP-5000 - Why?
As the winner of the SCP Foundation 5000 competition, this file carries the theme of "mystery" through it.
It is an enigmatic story in itself.
The Foundation discovered a set of "absolute exclusion armor" of its own design in SCP-579-[DATA EXPUNGED]'s containment chamber, which has a range of functions to protect and enhance the wearer, including but not limited to filtering the perception of others and making the wearer "invisible".
Even so, the attacks it had received had left the entire rig with minimal file storage.
Inside the armor is the corpse of Foundation employee Pietro Wilson.
More precisely, the corpse consistent with Pietro Wilson.
Because Pietro Wilson, who belongs to this world, is still working at Site-06, an extra-base site of the Foundation, and is in normal physical condition.
Only those exported records can tell people what happened to him and what happened to the other world.
"My name is Pietro Wilson. I don't know what's going on. I guess I'm the only survivor. ”
- Journal entry 0001-1
From Pietro's point of view, it all started on January 2, 2020, with a massacre.
A team claiming to be Mobile Task Force Zeta-19 ("Lonely") broke into Extrasite Site-06, summoned everyone on site to the cafeteria, and began shooting.
Pietro was lucky enough to find the "Absolute Exclusion Protector", survived with the protective shield's cognitive shielding, and escaped.
It is worth mentioning that an Exclusionary Site, or Exclusionary Site, is an extremely special kind of site.
They are typically built using an expanded version of Scranton Box technology, which is typically used to store sensitive files and protect them from retroactive tampering.
Even if the entire world outside is reconstructed, the inside of the special site will not change.
As a result, there is very little information exchange between the special site and the outside world, and only the first day of each month is broadcast to confirm its existence.
Pietro didn't know if something was going on outside, and he went to the nearest safe house, where he wanted to get in touch with the Foundation.
However, he was greeted by a world of utter madness.
The following information was written and published with the unanimous consent of the O5 Council.
To those who are not yet aware of our existence, we hereby declare on behalf of the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our mission has focused on the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other anomalous phenomena. Our organization has been committed to this for more than 100 years.
Due to force majeure, this policy has been changed. Our new mission is to exterminate all of humanity.
No further communication will take place. ”
The Foundation sent this to all governments, news organizations, and anomalous organizations around the world.
They began an attack on all of humanity.
Facial images of SCP-096 have been circulating on social media, the death toll is rising, several nuclear bombs have been detonated on SCP-169's back and inside, resulting in earthquakes and tsunamis that have devastated large coastal areas, and samples of SCP-610 have been distributed throughout major cities, infecting everyone present......
Eventually, they released SCP-682.
No one knows why the Foundation would do this.
In search of all of this, Pietro decided to visit Site-19, the closest true Foundation facility to him.
On the way, he encounters a group of Foundation soldiers for a "check", and the commander sticks a knife into the soldier's shoulder, most of whom do not react.
Only one showed obvious pain, and he was killed by his companions.
After the inspection, the team continued on the road.
Pietro, who witnessed the whole process, wrote a summary in the log: "Mom doesn't understand it. ”
Later, in some old broken radio, he receives a strange audio clip, male, about the same age as himself.
Although he didn't understand it, Pietro recorded the audio for the sake of posterity.
- "Seven. Five. Can you hear me? There's a glow in the hole between your eyelids. I've never been to Versailles before. I want to be loved. Nine. I'm standing behind you right now. Five. I am one and am standing behind you right now. The goddess devoured the city in the sea. Nine. There's a hole in the floor, and the answer is waiting for you inside. Seven. Look, you're incubating. You're incubating!"
With the help of protective gear, Pietro finally arrives at Site-19.
Security has failed, most of the anomalies have been released, and the researchers are still working, discussing how to inflict maximum casualties, as if this is what they have been working on.
"But their eyes ...... It's like there's something missing. Bleak. If I just look at their eyes, I can't see them as human. Maybe they're dead. It's hard to describe, but I feel creepy anyway. ”
Pietro accessed the Foundation database using stolen senior staff credentials, and found some information that could be relevant to this.
ON DECEMBER 16TH, 2019, THE O5 COUNCIL TOOK NOTE OF A PROJECT CALLED "PNEUMA" (SOUL).
The project appears to be researching mass amnestics, and is dedicated to the depiction of the collective human subconscious.
And the Foundation has clearly made some breakthroughs.
The next day, the O5 Council held a vote, which was unanimously approved. The Ethics Committee also agreed.
The details of the poll have been edited and cannot be viewed.
Two days later, a series of directives were issued to all senior staff and Site Director, and a wave of suicide and resignation erupted throughout the Foundation. One of the Four Doctors of the Apocalypse also resigned and left the Foundation.
On December 22nd, the second part of the document was sent to all remaining Foundation personnel, along with the message "Harden your heart".
All suicide and resignation are to be terminated immediately.
On December 25th, all communications within and outside Foundation sites were completely cut off. Over the course of the next week, on-site staff terminated most of the humanoid anomalies and human-friendly anomalies. An assassination team is sent to assassinate the assassination, but there is no mention of success.
On 01/02/2020, Mobile Task Forces were dispatched to various extraterrestrial sites. Upon completion of the above mission, the Foundation immediately declared war on all of humanity.
That's all the information available, and Pietro still hasn't found the answer.
It looks like the O5 Council is spreading some kind of memetic agent to control the others, but why would the Ethics Committee agree with their decision, and why would they order the extermination of humanity?
Pietro recorded the Foundation's use of some SCP objects - meaning using them to kill as many humans as possible - and conducted some final investigations before leaving the site.
His investigation was not recorded, and the armor's storage function showed "file deleted".
It's been three months since the log reappeared, and Pietro states that his memory is blank during that time.
With a few more wounds, Site-19 has been left far behind, with a suitcase from nowhere.
"I can't remember what's in there - I just know it's not round, and I need to find SCP-579. ”
With the contents of her suitcase, Pietro walked with divine help.
Whenever he encounters too dangerous a situation, he will open the box, skip a period of time, and travel miles away, while losing all memories of the process.
He used the corpses of dead agents to access the Foundation's database and observe the Foundation's movements, and more and more of the anomalies that had been contained were being used as tools to destroy humanity.
He accessed the GOC's database through a group of GOC soldiers on the road, and found some records of GOC interrogations of Foundation staff. The GOC is still fighting hard to turn the tide, but is soon defeated by the Foundation's frenzied attacks.
The Church of the Broken God briefly rebuilt the internet, only to collapse quickly under the onslaught of SCP-3078. After the anomalous object suspected of being "Mekhan" was released by the Foundation, the entire church was plunged into a civil war due to differences in faith.
The Serpent's Hand has made some attempts to thwart the Foundation, but it doesn't seem to be working.
The library left this universe.
"I'm no longer eating or drinking. Armor will take care of everything anyway, and whatever you eat, there's a risk of contamination with the horror virus spread by the Foundation. By now, I've seen corpses in every state imaginable. Some of them can even walk. ”
Pietro continued in the direction of SCP-579, and what happened to him became more and more strange.
If the Flickerers, Foundation-made statues of soldiers, dressed in Mobile Task Force uniforms, with empty eyes and bladed arms, are immobile when watched, and chop everything in front of them when not watched, they are normal......
Then the second thing, something on the horizon that looks like a stretched person, with a body that goes from the ground to the clouds, its jaw swings at right angles, and black gaps surround it like wings.
What's even stranger is that the Foundation is fighting it.
The Foundation unleashed other anomalies and tried to destroy humanity with all its might, but it was fighting such an anomaly.
Pietro was puzzled.
He wondered if these Foundation personnel would be like him, who had escaped before, and might still be normal people.
He didn't go up and try to communicate, so he couldn't take the risk.
He had to send the box to 579, but why?
"I have to do something. Anything goes. ”
"I saw a child die today. It could have saved her. It didn't work. ”
"I'm a piece of shit. ”
In an abandoned jewelry store, Pietro meets Dr. Bright, who is using a little girl's body.
The famous doctor was kept in SCP-963 due to his consciousness, and was exempt from the second document issued by the Foundation.
She told Pietro about the second document's speculation: a series of images, eggs, trees, religion-related things, the pictures themselves were meaningless, and they were supposed to be woven into something.
Not a memetic agent.
"I know what it's like to be a memetic agent. It didn't feel like it was like it was being imposed on me more like it was freeing me from something. ”
They exchanged some information, with Dr. Bright saying that he was going to find SCP-1437 and go to another universe, and Pietro continued on his way.
Shortly after, he arrived at Site-62C, the containment site for SCP-579.
Walking through the corridors infested with twinklers, Pietro finally approached the end of the journey.
SCP-579 is just below the observation chamber, and there is a hole in the floor that leads there.
If you just throw the suitcase down, it won't be able to touch 579 at all.
The only way to do this is ...... Pietro jumped out of the hole, threw the box as he fell, and fell to his death.
He is not afraid of death, but why?
Why did this happen? Why did the Foundation kill everyone? Why did he travel the world with a suitcase?
Why are you here? Why are you doing this? Why are you dying?
Is there any reason for this?
Pietro didn't find an answer, and the blinker was slashing at the door behind him, and the things were about to come in.
He took a step forward and recorded the last thing he saw, a photograph of SCP-579.
"Journal entry 0001-18
Oh...... I see.
Disappearance of vital signs"