"I ended up strolling straight into the evening. The system looked at the bustling lights and unfamiliar streets, and hesitated to remind the administrator that it was time to go back.

It was late at night, but the city seemed to have just woken up, and there were even more pedestrians than during the day.

I don't worry about safety and other issues, but Guan Li is walking aimlessly with his mobile phone like this, can he really achieve the effect of walking?

It felt like he still had a lot of stuff in his head.

Generally speaking, people who dare to hang outside for half a day without a power bank are warriors.

Guan Li is obviously not an ordinary person.

The control of the current has played a huge role, and his phone is still fully charged.

Following this trend, there is no problem in wandering the street for a few more hours.

System: "...... Don't you feel tired?"

"Fortunately, the quality of this body is unexpectedly good. Guan Li raised his eyes and looked at the situation around him, "What kind of place is this?"

As far as the eye can see, there are people everywhere.

"People's Park. ”

"A bit too many people. ”

Guan Li stood outside the entrance of the park, watching the vendors selling snacks along the road, and people dragged their families in and out.

Under the warm yellow light, there is a vivid and flowing breath of the world.

And he just stood aside, watching it all in silence.

Those joys and laughter in life don't seem to have anything to do with him.

"Administrator, don't look withdrawn......" The system always wanted to say something, but couldn't find a suitable sentence for a while.

Guan Li let out a "hmm" and took the initiative to approach the mobile shops selling all kinds of miscellaneous items.

Then I spent fifteen yuan to buy a headset that I don't know what brand it was, and plugged it in for myself.

System: "......" slow ...... Wait!

opened the music software on the phone, randomly selected a song list and started the shuffle playback, Guan Li's mood rose slightly.

It's not that he deliberately appears withdrawn, nor is he unable to get in touch with the outside world.

"I'm still more used to being alone. He said.

The sound in the inferior headphones is a little distorted, but it doesn't matter.

He didn't really buy headphones just to listen to songs.

Walking down a crowded street, with headphones on, the world is all but music.

"It's much cleaner now. ”

The system can only sadly admit that its own administrator is a house by nature, the kind that can have a good time by himself.

A little bit of loss, plus some indulgence, mixed with proud loneliness.

Guan Li found a bench under a tree on the side of the road and sat on a bench where no one sat and put his phone aside.

The gaze swept from the crowd gathering nearby, to the neon lights flowing between the buildings in the distance, and finally to the distant sky.

For some reason, the night sky of the city glowed with a dark red like roses, making the low-floating clouds very distinct, like a churning wave, dotted with a few sparse stars.

The light pollution in modern cities is so severe that the so-called "starry sky" is not visible at all.

However, it's also very good-looking.

"Most human beings admire the beauty of the ephemeral, but they are blind to this bright sky, they do not deserve such a night. ”

System: "Huh?"

Administrator, why are you saying this all of a sudden?

Guan Li raised his right hand, and the mottled spots of light that leaked through the leaves fell on it.

Following his line of sight, the system involuntarily looked over, "This is ......"

The light turned into fog.

No, it was a myriad of tiny points of light that formed a fogging structure, the shape of which became clearer and clearer under Guan Li's control.

- That's a butterfly.

Butterflies made of a faint mist of light are so fragile that they seem to be blown away by breath.

It flapped its wings, which could only be seen dimly in the light, and stopped at Guan Li's fingertips, retracting its brilliant and transparent wings.

"Walk in the sky and dedicate the starry sky to you. ”

The thousands of stars that once belonged to all mankind are now given to only one person.

It took a long time for the "......" system to find its own voice, "SCP-CN-027?"

Guan Li: "Yes, when I looked at the sky, I suddenly thought of it. ”

SCP-CN-027-Prisoner Star Butterfly, a butterfly made of starlight.

According to Foundation statistics, more than 600 billion stars radiated visible light to Earth was grafted onto it through unknown means.

This little butterfly has imprisoned the starry sky in human memory.

And it itself was just a gift to a 16-year-old girl.

The two sentences mentioned by Guan Li are the letters and messages recorded in Addendum CN-027-B.

The Foundation has been unable to find out who the person who turned the starry sky into a butterfly, nor has it found a way to free the imprisoned starlight.

In order to maintain the stability of society, they activated the 271-Sky Lock protocol.

- Actively intervening in human society to promote the development of artificial lighting technology, using SCP-████ to reconstruct human common sense on a large scale, attributing the reason why stars cannot be directly observed by the naked eye at night to artificial light pollution, and reconstructing all human cosmic observation data.

The concept of Protocol 271-Skylock is very similar to that of SCP-8900-EX in order to turn the starry sky into "normal" in the eyes of the public.

As a result, humanity lost hundreds of millions of stars in the sky.

However, through the containment of SCP-CN-027, the Foundation has successfully protected the thousands of stars that we can observe in the sky with the naked eye, and the hazy appearance of the universe that can be seen through telescopes.

"Everything we do, it may end tomorrow, but it may also last until the day humanity ends, for decades, centuries, thousands of years.

It is endless for human beings, but for those stars that should be dotted in the night sky, it may be just a flash in the pan, and the light of those stars, spanning hundreds of thousands of years and unimaginable distances, finally entered our night.

And these should not be seized by a single butterfly, nor will they become the exclusive property of any human being.

The Sky Lock locks our starry sky—until that starry night sky re-hangs over our respective gazes. ”

—Addendum CN-027-A

Grandeur and beauty coexist, and human beings are with the universe.

Telling the changes of the world and the cold and hard reality into some untold legends and stories is also a kind of heart-wrenching romanticism.

This kind of fantasy people's feelings of never compromising on reality may be another manifestation of the second disease.

Ah, whatever.

Form 2 is Form 2.

The butterfly resting on the fingertips can barely see the shimmering form under the reflection of the human lights.

Guan Li carefully examined his work, took a few photos, and finally released the starlight butterfly, which should not be seen.

Hundreds of billions of starlight are scattered and rising in the lights of modern civilization, returning to the original place.

"Eh, I can see the stars today!"

"It's been a long time since I've seen a starry sky like this......"

"It's exactly what I saw more than a decade ago. ”

"How long do you remember?"

One after another, people discovered the stars that were so bright that they couldn't speak, and people who had lived in the center of optical pollution for a long time raised their heads to look up at the rose-colored night sky.

And the culprit of all this......

"I feel a little dizzy. Guan Li almost crashed into a tree as he walked.

The system's tone was cold, full of "let you do it!" The meaning of "let you do it!" deserves it: "Who made you spend so much effort to construct the illusion of the starry sky? ”

"I only covered this park......"

"Your non-consumption control range is only ten meters!Ten meters!" The system simply hates iron and steel, "Is the optical illusion of such a large park capable of humans?!"

Pressing his abrupt temples, Guan Li barely stood up straight against the trunk of the tree, his brows furrowed, "Don't make noise!"

Seeing that he was really uncomfortable, the system had to swallow more condemning words into his stomach, and said in a gentle tone: "The car will come soon, you wait." ”

“…… Good. ”