Put down the phone for the time being, open a part of the corridor to the oncoming people who came upstairs, and Guan Li left the apartment.

Standing on the busy street, looking at the bustling crowd, he stopped.

Is it because the sun is too dazzling?

Why do you feel lightheaded?

Sweeping his gaze over the pedestrian traffic and seeing the neon signs and billboards flashing during the day, Guan Li finally raised his head.

The sky leaking through the cracks in the high-rise buildings has a gray blue, indicating that the air quality in the city is not very good.

But even this kind of sky is a memory for him a long time ago.

More often than not, the sky as seen was shrouded in swirling dark red clouds, like a net of heaven pressed down towards the horizon.

Some passers-by noticed the young man who suddenly covered his face, and only wondered for a moment before walking by.

"It's hard to get out, why don't you go shopping?" The system looked at its caretaker worriedly, like looking at a plant that hadn't been exposed to the sun for a long time, for fear that he would wither because he couldn't photosynthesize enough.

But how hard is it to pull a dead house out?

Especially in today's information age, where all the necessities of survival can be solved by the Internet, it is really possible to stay at home for a lifetime if you have money.

In the more than a month that the system has been in contact with him, the farthest Guan Li has gone out is only to the trash can downstairs.

Even if he went out for Ye Lingxing this time, he stared at his mobile phone and basically didn't raise his head along the way......

It's very worrying, do you want to have a neck in the long run?

Guan Li was fearless about this, "Spine problems? No, just reset it if something goes wrong." ”

The abilities that come with the system are really useful.

"Then you have to go out and get some fresh air!" The system insists that staying in an enclosed space for a long time is a chronic harm, especially a potential psychological injury, to humans.

Guan Li looked at the sky again, "Fresh air?"

Are you sure?

System: "...... Well, it's a bit of nothing new. ”

The environmental pollution brought about by modern industrialization has spread to the air, casting a gray veil over the originally blue sky.

In fact, the gray-blue color is not ugly, but it does not have the previous "clean and transparent" texture in the senses.

"Let's go, let's go shopping. Guan Li put the mobile phone that never left him in his pocket, and really opened his legs to go shopping.

There are a lot of people in the post-apocalyptic safe zone, and it can be considered lively on weekdays, but the atmosphere is completely different from here after all.

Guan Li can feel it.

People living in chaotic times and people living in peaceful times have completely different rhythms of life and expressions on their faces.

He finally has a real sense of "returning to the prosperity of mankind", and not just through a virtual network to contact the world.

There is no numbing death everywhere, and there is no humanity that bursts to the limit on the verge of adversity, not even the wail when life is cruelly stripped away, just like living in a dream.

No, maybe he's really living in a dream right now.

It's just a dream so real that one can't doubt it.

Otherwise, it is difficult for Guan Li to imagine that the fantasy setting of "crossing" will appear on him.

When he stood at a familiar crossroads for the third time, he further understood the "fantasy" of this world.

"Administrator, how far can you be fooled. The system also obeyed his sense of direction, how did he manage to walk back to his original position blindly?

Guan Li didn't care too much, and casually chose a direction that he hadn't walked before, "Because I didn't remember it at all, I was very good at memorizing the map back then!"

"Then do you want to memorize it now? ”

"Brainless, don't. ”

Anyway, there is an intelligent map in the brain, and it won't get lost, what are you afraid of?

"Administrator, you're really salty to a new level. ”

"No, no, I'm still far behind......"

"I'm not praising you!"

Before the system exploded, Guan Li naturally changed the subject, "This day reminds me of an SCP. ”

"Oh. ”

"SCP-8900-EX-sky, blue sky. ”

"That EX project that seems to have been written in black and white photo memes?" the system immediately knew which one he was talking about.

"Yes, the SCP has been explained, and it is even more terrifying than the normal number of SCPs when you think about it. Guan Li blocked the blinding midday sun with his hand, and saw the sky soaked in color through his fingers, "blue ...... Sky. ”

The SCP Foundation's main site file number is only about three or four thousand, but some special series often have particularly large numbers, and they are not sequential from the front and back.

The EX series is one such special series.

This series of SCP objects is uniformly marked with the "-EX" suffix.

-EX, i.e. Explained, means explained.

SCPs here may have once been anomalous, but now that they have been labeled EX, their principles have been parsed by the Foundation and are no longer a threat - or have become a "normal" that the Foundation has to admit and is powerless to change.

SCP-8900-EX is one such phenomenon that has become "normal".

The Foundation believes that color vision in the human eye today is a memetic infection that has gradually spread to the population due to the development of photographic technology.

Why are the previous photos all black and white?

Because it's a different world.

What was once known to humans as the "real" color of natural light.

Nowadays, human beings can only recognize another color system, and when they look at the previous colors, they can only see a different shade of black and white grayscale.

"Guys, we lost. The effects of SCP-8900 have spread so far and wide that they have become ubiquitous. The natural blue sky has been replaced by evil and unnatural shadows, and the green of the trees has been destroyed. SCP-8900 has pushed the visible light spectrum to the brink of extinction, and we have all been encroached upon. ”

——O5-8

The Foundation was unable to curb the massive spread of this memetic effect among humans until the perception of color was rewritten throughout humanity, and they finally chose to give up.

An anomaly is normal when it covers the whole world and is considered normal by everyone.

At this time, the idea of listing it as an "anomaly" is "anomalous" in itself.

In order to maintain the stability of human society, O5-8 initiated the Foundation's final containment breach response, known as "The Ennui Protocol".

- Help 8900-EX spread further, so that everyone can ignore the inconsistencies and turn the "anomaly" into the "norm".

The world is changing quietly.

And people continue on the road of survival without knowing anything.

Containment, Containment, Protection.

If it's uncontrollable and difficult to contain, then try to protect it.

All for the continuation of humanity.

The idea of the 8900-EX is not surprising, and it is very similar to the joke "the world used to be black and white, otherwise why are the photos all black and white?" that circulated on the Internet.

The horror of this project lies in the "sloppy agreement".

- If the Foundation turns an "anomaly" into a "normal" when it becomes uncontainable, how much of what we now think of as "normal" would have been "normal"?

What is the real world like?

Think about it.

But there's no need to think about it that much.

No one can see the original world, and now it's good.

"System,It doesn't seem to be the entrance to the EX series in the database.,You go and add it.。 ”