Chapter 30: The Caged Bird

Even if the system repeatedly wonders whether it has chosen the wrong person, it can only admit it at this moment.

At present, Guan Li has not made any mistakes in his decision-making on Foundation affairs.

If you have the ability, you can be salty.

It's a big deal that it accompanies the administrator to salty ......

Wait!Seems to have new news?

"Administrator, the 4000 race at Foundation HQ is on! I'm going to see what happens!"

The system threw down such a paragraph with excitement, and it just disappeared.

Guan Li was puzzled, "System?"

There was no answer.

Just like when I went to the Space-Time Copyright Office to check Cthulhu's copyright before, when the system contacted the outside world, Guan Li couldn't contact it.

But combined with the words he had just left, he immediately figured out what was going on.

Whole Thousand Competition, a creative contest for each whole thousand number.

The current three projects, SCP-1000, SCP-2000, and SCP-3000, have all won the whole thousand competition.

Other entries that are not selected in the same period will be assigned a different number if they meet the Foundation criteria.

It can be said that the appearance of each whole thousand number represents the next stage of the Foundation.

SCP-1000 - Bigfoot, winner of the 1000 "Legendary Creatures" competition.

As an early competition project of the Foundation, most of the works participated in are various brain holes derived from real legends, which are essentially inseparable from the basic plate of "monsters".

Until this one came out, it described a type of chimpanzee humanoid creature, very similar to the legendary "Bigfoot" who lived in the mountains and forests.

If you just wrote about a monster, it would not have been chosen to be 1000.

But what if it unravels a dusty piece of history?

- On the buried past of humanity.

- Epics and wars that have never been recorded in history.

Humans, known as the "Children of the Sun", have seized control of the world from the "Bigfoot" known as the "Children of the Night".

We, humanity itself, dominate the apocalyptic picture of a "dominance shift" in SK.

"In just one day, we wiped out 70% of SCP-1000's population. The members of the Children of the Sun call that day The Day of Flowers. It is said that all the flowers bloomed that day, and our enemies died in their sleep. ”

- SCP-1000-Bigfoot

We shut their wisdom in our own minds to ensure that they can no longer awaken civilization from ignorance.

In the end, we erase our own memories, all remaining knowledge and civilization, and start anew.

Thus was born the present human civilization.

And they who have been lurking in the corners of the world seem to be showing more and more signs of wisdom awakening.

"We forgive you;

This is a momentary decision, not a lifetime;

We will be back. ”

- From Log 1000-ad065-x1, communication between Foundation personnel and SCP-1000 instances.

This is one of the current backgrounds of the birth of humanity in the SCP Foundation, "The Battle of Day and Night, the Day the Flowers Bloom", and it all originated with SCP-1000.

The archival series of the Foundation I. ended in 1000.

Then the archival series II began in 1000.

It was the first of its kind to be a god-turning SCP document, and it turned the context of human history on its head.

Since then, creators have been no longer confined to the narrow cage of "anti-scientific anomalies", and have begun to learn to write articles like it did, creating history, and even transcending the concept of human civilization itself.

Compared to the 1000 competition, the 2000 competition topic is more extensive.

This time, the Foundation chose "Science Fiction" as the theme.

As a result, SCP-2000-The Séance of the Mechanical Gods rises to prominence in the midst of competition.

The term "séance" comes from classical Greek drama and means a sudden and completely unexpected rescuer.

But even if you don't look at the original meaning, the word "séance" has a certain high-tech serior flavor to it - although it's easy to associate with "Broken God".

The Foundation's "séance" is a series of rescue devices that are suddenly inserted into the world, a secret facility used by the Foundation to restart the world.

No one knows when it was built, let alone who managed it.

Records found by the Foundation in the facility indicate that 2000 has been activated more than once.

When human civilization is destroyed in some kind of catastrophe, 2000 will be activated again, creating human beings, infusing memories, recreating civilizations, and fabricating history in a short period of time, so that human beings can continue in a posture of completely ignorant of the end of the world.

The addition of a worldline reboot element to this project elevates the Foundation's overall worldview to a whole new level.

Since then, there have been no restrictions on the manifestation of the crisis and the level of destruction.

Archive Series III., which was influenced by 2000, also saw the emergence of a blockbuster project involving cosmic dimensions and parallel time and space.

The theme of the 3000 contest is a return to the Foundation's roots, "horror".

The SCP series first appeared to show the horror beyond imagination.

The winner of this competition, SCP-3000-Anantasesha, depicts a serpentine-like unidentified creature in the deep sea, set against the backdrop of rare Hindu mythology.

- They called it the "snake god" of Indian legend, Anantasyasa.

This dossier explains the origins of Foundation "amnestics", while also laying the groundwork for Series IV with a lengthy bizarre description.

In the Foundation archives after 3000, they are all written as if they have been drugged, and if the reader's logical ability is not strong and the associative ability is not outstanding, he may not be able to understand what is being said in it.

Coupled with the large number of elements such as "memes and antimemes", "concepts and counter-concepts", and "memory and amnesia" in this series, the Foundation has entered the stream-of-consciousness explosion stage of brain-breaking understanding and viewing.

This is especially true of the three items "SCP-3002 - Assassination of an Idea", "SCP-3125 - The Fugitive", and "SCP-3999 - I am in the midst of everything".

- It's all the kind of divine (scripture) level works that you can't understand and look confused, and you can only kneel if you understand it.

Guan Li didn't really like 3000, compared to 1000 and 2000, 3000 didn't have much of a groundbreaking impact on the Foundation.

What's more, he had no idea what was so terrifying about the project, could it be that it had inspired some readers to have a deep-sea phobia?

In contrast, he prefers 3999, the kind of emotion and courage that bursts out under a completely collapsing logic, beyond what any conventional writing can achieve—though it's not scary to read.

The first one to write 3999 was a genius, and so was the second.

If he has the opportunity, he must take 3999 to make a movie alone.

It's a dream come true for yourself.

I don't know how long it has been......

Is it too early to think about this?

Guan Li, who retracted all his divergent thinking, was a little distracted, and had to admit that he did feel a little unaccustomed to the noise of the system in his ears.

- Well, just a little bit.

The most intense competition on the screen has come to an end, and the background music is repeating the live climax of the winner of this round, "Star God".

In the fierce melody of metal impact, the powerful female voice is incomparably clear.

[Nightingale deep locked golden cage

If I'm locked in a labyrinth of reality

Who can rekindle my heart?

Liberate me

Let Me Be Reborn]

After listening intently for a while, Guan Li suddenly turned off the video and opened the backstage of the Foundation.

He tapped on 001, which was displayed online, "Are you interested in writing online articles?"

"What?"