The whole article was written in one go, with several twists and turns in less than 10,000 words, and it also integrated the setting of several parallel worlds of the Foundation.

It can only be said that it deserves to be the work with the highest score in the whole thousand competition.

Sighing at the author's bull break, Guan Li scanned the article again, and clicked all the hyperlinks that could be clicked in it, so as not to miss any key information.

However, he clicked down all the way, and found that most of them just connected to the SCP item page mentioned, so that readers who had not read it could jump directly.

There are a few settings involved in the execution log of the Choking Protocol, but the author apparently uses them as a tool to fill in the background timeline, and has little to do with the content of the article.

The only exception......

Guan Li finally pulled to the bottom, the end of the email, "There is still a chance to make this world suffer less."

The font marked in red means that it can be clicked here.

It is also linked to a setting center - the China branch setting center: "Sheng".

...... Bear?

"This author ......" Guan Li didn't know what to say, it was amazing, it was really amazing.

What is "life"?

One of the centers of the China branch is the "Foundation Parallel Universe" that has been recognized by the entire website - it can be understood so succinctly.

There is a lot of linkage and interaction between these settings and the main set files, and sometimes they are even used to fill in settings that are not written in the files.

It can be said to be a semi-official "doujin".

The main station and the middle score each have their own original setting center, and "Sheng" is the first one in the middle score.

"Is the disappearance of the anomaly the dawn of people's regain order and rebirth, or the sunset as the story comes to an end and ends?"

It's a universe where anomalies are fading away, the world is back on track, and the Foundation, which has lost its meaning of existence, faces a final choice.

Continuation or dissolution?

Many authors use their own articles to tell about the world that has been reborn after an anomalous death.

...... It is also about the death of the entire anomalous world.

"As you see, and you know, there is life and death, and death and life. God is dead, once and once were, and our faith has not shifted, and we have put together its dismembered shell piece by piece like a puzzle. ”

- "No Doubt They Are Dead"

"When she walks out of the basement, everything will be turned upside down and everything will be back to the way it was. A memetic crisis spreads like wildfire through the psyche, and evil beasts lurk in the shadows, greedily devouring flesh. All the watchers in the abyss will return. All the malevolent gods will return. ”

- "All Quiet on the Eastern Front"

As more and more people around him began to spread their wings towards the sky, towards the suns that spread in the sky. He didn't want to rest on the narrow, dark ground anymore, the anomaly was dead, and nothing could stop him from going, nothing could stop humanity from moving on. ”

- "The Anomaly is Dead"

"The anomalies that have threatened humanity for thousands of years have come to an end, and normalcy has returned to the earth.

It has been tested by countless blood and tears.

Humanity has finally come to an end. ”

- "Victory Day"

"We don't have anything more to contain. This document is for you: we've partially copied the pendant so that you can continue to live, not as an O5, but as someone else, a normal person. ”

- Containment Documentation: Final Update

"There are no more anomalies in this life.

We are the last anomaly.

We were born to protect the daily from the anomaly, and now that the anomaly is gone, when we have completed the final work at hand, you can fulfill your long-cherished wish - to return to our daily routine of watching day and night.

To destroy the anomaly known as the 'SCP Foundation', and to carry out his mission with his own life. ”

——《Our Foundation Will (Not) Fall》

"Putting the confused children in control of their future. So that the once marginalized can be socially accommodated. So that these righteous 'people' can be equally protected. The fire of humanity's continuity burns brightly. ”

- "New Life, New Life"

This is "life", life towards death.

CN-1000 is at the end of the article, in this kind of place that is equivalent to giving up treatment and lying down and dying, access to the setting of "life...... The degree of devilishness of the author is outrageous.

It's really the Foundation's usual style.

What seems to be a good hope of life does not necessarily lead to good results, and the end of a feared death may be the more correct way.

At all times, life and death are crucial themes in literary creation.

The "students" of the center are mainly written about the former, and there are not a few articles involving the latter in the Foundation.

- Archives such as "SCP-2718 - After Death", "SCP-2922 - Call from Huangquan", "SCP-2935 - Oh, Death", etc.

They all embody the author's exploration and contemplation of "death", and 2718 is probably the most "pure" of them.

IN FOUNDATION ARCHIVES, SCP-2718 IS CONSIDERED A DAMMERUNG (DOOMSDAYDUSK-CLASS) COGNITOHAZARD. Its files cannot be deleted or blocked, and will always appear in the SCP file list and be accessed just right.

Any attempt to expose the contents of the document's description, or to open a page without permission for 18 seconds without closing, is to be considered a "containment breach".

However, underneath its lengthy "Special Containment Procedures", the vigilantly controlled description is nothing more than a permanent log message from a woman named Miriam Prayther.

When she left this record, she referred to herself as O5-7, and spent the last seven minutes or so telling the information that had to be known-

In order to recover the keys and passwords lost due to the accidental death of former O5-11, the O5 Council spent fourteen years locating his body on an island and decided to resurrect him.

The recovery team collected the decaying remains exposed to the scorching sun and torrential rain, and took him back to the Foundation.

The next step was to bring the former O5-11 back to life.

The Foundation has numerous means of "resurrecting" a person - copying, cloning, simulating personality, going back in time......

But this time, what they need is a secret password in the deepest part of a person's brain.

Due to the lack of relevant materials, none of the existing time-based methods can be applied.

The Foundation decided to use his remains to reconstruct a quantum model of the entire person—physically, chemically, electromagnetically—accurate to the point where his heartbeat would continue to beat and his synapses would continue to move.

A "perfect resurrection".

O5-11 returns to the Overseer Council.

After his resurrection, he was even more frank and enthusiastic than ever, completely obedient to the arrangements of others, and displayed insight and wisdom that he had never seen before.

The O5s quarantined and questioned his memories to confirm that he was O5-11 himself, and eventually agreed to let him return to work.

But O5-11 showed more than that.

He began to receive "enhancement therapy" that he had previously stubbornly resisted, that is, prolonging his life.

He suddenly became concerned about the safety of containment protocols and the health and well-being of his staff, and expressed an utter dislike for sacrificing D-class personnel.

He loved life more than anyone else and resisted death at the same time.

These actions did not cause alarm to others, as during the initial questioning, O5-11 stated that he had no memory of his death.

He lied, but the scanner used to detect it showed that everything was fine.

What made him reveal was what he did afterwards: asking the O5-7 Foundation if there was anything that could lead to immortality, and after receiving a negative answer, he violated the protocol and went against the APE entity in containment (apex-tier pluripotent entity), or "God".

The two oldest of the O5 approached him directly for questioning, and this time O5-11 did not hide it, and after driving out all the guards, he confessed everything.

"I didn't dare say it at first, you wouldn't let me out of containment. The truth is, I remember everything. ”

"I remember there was a sweet annihilation at first, like a deep sleep, but in retrospect, I think it was less than a day. Slowly, but clearly, I returned to my body with a dream-like consciousness: at first I was unconscious, blind, deaf, numb, but then, as if all the nerves were connected again, my senses returned, more than when I was alive. ”

"I felt trapped in a body that couldn't move, and the intensity of the struggle slowly increased: sensitive, then sharp, then torment. I can't tell you all about it, but hold your breath, beyond the anxiety, beyond the pain, beyond the despair—the splitting headache, the bulging eyes—an endless dream of suffocation. ”

"My skin was swollen and cracked in the hot sun, and soon the flies were gathering one by one. I could feel the eggs hatching, the larvae crawling, the evil qi building up in my body, the cells beginning to disintegrate, and the intersperses decaying and souring. ”

"I don't know why I can still feel it, and it's growing—even though my brain has broken down, my perception is still stretching, deep into the stomach of the bird, into the teeth of the fire ant. I could feel every nail and hair being blown away by the wind – and my senses drifted away into the ocean, in the stomachs of billions of diatoms. ”

"I don't understand. The more I scattered, the stronger my perception of pain became. And when I rotted so much that even the tiniest nerves could no longer be distinguished, the pain changed, from the burning and painful tearing of human language, to something so terrible that it was no longer clear to express: a terrible, maddening sense of stretch between each part of me. ”

"I don't see it as a punishment, I don't see it as a retribution. I very much doubt it's a simple consequence, we're going to be like this naturally, you know?"

"I've been dead for 18 years, and the pain is beyond words. And for those ancient dead, can we still imagine their suffering?"

"Yes, I asked the evil god for help. I'm sure he would extend this to all of us if he wanted to. I offered him huge concessions from the Foundation in exchange, maybe even a release. But he smiled and refused. ”

"I can accept any outcome, as long as it can always be so. ”

"Do you believe me? Will you join me in escaping this fate?

He remembered the memories of the aftermath vividly, his senses seeping into heaven and earth with the decaying flesh, and his mind withering into ashes in endless pain.

Then he was pulled back by the Foundation, from that perpetual despair.

He never wanted to die again.

The O5 Council confirmed his words and urgently convened a teleconference call, with all overseers listed.

They erupted into arguments, different opinions and resolutions collided at the table, and they were voted on for the final course of action.

Like countless times in the past, no, more radical and crazy.

O5-8 requested that the death of a human be declared a Keter-class SCP object, and that it be contained at all costs.

O5-3 proposed the systematic termination of all dangerous objects to protect them and more.

O5-10 shouted that they had to dig a tunnel through Astrakhan and the Mediterranean Sea for all of humanity to receive augmentation.

Astrakhan is home to SCP-006-Fountain of Youth.

In the end, the only remaining O5-1 vetoed all of the above, "Whether or not O5-11's experience is true, it's clear that we don't have any reason anymore. There is only one possible way, and I therefore declare the commencement of emergency agreement 17. Please stay where you are, and we'll all be administered Class-A amnestics. ”

Erase all memories of the matter from anyone in the know, with the exception of O5-11.

It would be a mistake to release him from containment, and he should be terminated.

This is the correct judgment, and it is likely to be the most correct judgment.

Desperate to escape death, O5-11 escaped before the door closed, and O5-7 chased after him in an attempt to stop him, and was locked out of the isolation door.

She was left outside the safe house.

O5-7 finally realized the moment he turned around.

"Stupid! They can't see me, they can't hear me, they don't know I want to go back, they don't know how much I want to inhale the red gas that has filled the room. A split-second decision, and my fate was sealed. ”

She knew what was coming next.

In the last few minutes of his life, O5-7 ran to the help department and used his supreme authority to leave information in the Foundation system that would not be redacted.

"I love the Foundation as much as my daughter, and I do it for the safety and protection of humanity. Therefore I beg you: this – the true knowledge – must not be erased or forgotten. It's not containment, it's madness. ”

She was subsequently terminated by containment forces.

O5-11 did not die, fleeing in the direction of SCP-106, crashing headlong into the pocket dimension of the "horrible old man".

In his opinion, this is far better than the world after death.

The dust has settled.

SCP-2718 lurks like a ghost in the Foundation archives.

But what is it?

Is the truth about death?mad O5?or, as the label at the bottom of the file suggests, just an infohazard?

It could be that "death" was really a desperate "normality" as O5-11 claimed, or that the Foundation had mismanipulated something in the process of resurrecting him, causing some undeserved data to be mixed into his memories and soul.

More likely, this is indeed an infohazard, an anomaly that only manifests its effects when a specific piece of information is learned.

The moment the Foundation used the "perfect resurrection" to peek into the afterlife, it was created and entrenched in O5-11's memory.

By the time that memory was described to others, all O5 had been exposed to anomalous effects.

So they believed the incredible description of pain and tried to find a way to eradicate death.

They fall into a frenzied fear of the death that is bound to come.

And the moment they believe, this pain will come after death.

O5-1 has grasped the only correct option, and the most effective way to combat infohazards: amnestics.

O5-7 was captured by it at a thought.

SCP-2718 became her predestined fate.

Believing this realization, she redefined what was behind her, placing the infohazard in the Foundation's archives, and dying to face the untold pain that would lead to the end of the universe.

Of course, this is only one possible explanation.

Who knows.

After all, no one can see what's behind you.