As with the theme of the 5000 competition, this dossier feels like a puzzle.

All kinds of messy information are constantly emerging, and the viewer can only ask "why?"

Why did the Foundation, whose mission is to protect humanity, suddenly embark on a path of destruction of humanity?

To get the answer to this question, we must first find out the hidden information from the article.

First key message: the image of SCP-579 at the end.

It looks like it's nothing but black.

This seems to be a no-brainer, as "SCP-579-[DATA EXPUNGED]" is one such item where all valid information has been [DATA EXPUNGED].

However, as soon as the saturation of this image is turned up, some very inconspicuous patches of color will appear at the edges of the image.

There's a conversation hidden in there—

I trembled with my hands holding papers. "Are you sure?"

He nodded. "We received a report yesterday from members of PNEUMA (Soul). Everybody is. ”

"Even us?"

"Even us, Tejani. I didn't think I'd approve of this damn lizard one day......"

"So what are we going to do?"

"You know what we're going to do. Before we get started, I think we'll have to spread the antidote. Otherwise it will stop us. ”

"God bless us, one. ”

"Don't do that, Tejani. That's 'it' talking. ”

- In the author's premise, Tejani is the chair of the Ethics Committee, "Damn Lizard" is the well-known SCP-682, and "One" is an obvious reference to O5-1.

It was a secret conversation that took place at the highest levels of the Foundation, revealing the first veil on the puzzle.

In the exploration of the human subconscious, they discovered something.

Something that exists inside everyone: "it".

682 hates "it", so 682 hates "humans".

The Foundation decided to get started.

Until then, they spread the antidote, the second document issued on December 22.

This is why Dr. Bright feels like it's some kind of "release".

Subsequently, the Foundation, which broke free from its influence, began its journey to destroy all of humanity.

So the next question, why did the Foundation want to destroy all of humanity, and if it was because "it" had already eroded all of humanity, it couldn't use an antidote for all of humanity?

Let's move on to the second key message: the hidden text at the end of the file.

"You just said invasion, right? Maybe not many more times. ”

"It's not something that can be taken in a few hours, man. Can you be quiet for a minute? Of course not. No, not yet. The feeling of being invaded. ”

"I've been thinking, well, now that we've found this, it's better to end it. How much time does that take? But it's not. My everything. You know what they'll say. ”

"I feel disgusting. ”

It was still a conversation between two people, this time the identity of the interlocutor was unknown, but "he felt disgusting".

What did he feel disgusting?

Is it the entity that invades the human subconscious? or is it the act of invading? Or is it the human being?

It doesn't really matter.

Because for 682, there is "it" among "humans", and both "humans" and "it" are disgusting enough.

After receiving the antidote, Foundation members have a similar mindset to 682.

Just like the one Pietro found in the GOC's database, two GOC members interrogated a Foundation agent, and the agent's response was identical to the interrogation transcript in File 682.

He/it says, "...... Nauseating. ”

The human soul, the mind, the consciousness, or whatever, is invaded and polluted by that thing.

Humans are disgusting.

But "it" did bring some things to humanity that disappeared when the Foundation obtained the antidote, and the light in their eyes disappeared.

The third key message is that we need to find out what "those things" are.

Going back to the archives themselves, remember the "checks" that Pietro saw when he went to Site-19?

The commander plunged his knife into his companion's shoulder, and the only one who showed signs of pain was killed, and the others continued on their way.

This seems to mean that the antidote does not work for some people, so much so that they still retain the ability to perceive pain.

The GOC-recorded agent also said something funny: "When you realize that you shouldn't feel pain, you don't have to be afraid of anything anymore." ”

Shouldn't it be painful?

Does it mean that "pain" is brought to human beings by "it"? Are all those negative emotions a by-product of "it"?

No, it could be more than that.

When Tejani prayed to God, O5-1 said "That's what it was talking about. ”

Is it talking about the fear behind the act, or is it the goodness that the act demonstrates?

Or is it ...... Both?

After the antidote was injected into itself, the Foundation instantly switched to Holocaust mode, and the uncured companions were mercilessly abandoned and obliterated, and the "healed" Foundation researchers talked about exterminating humanity as if they were about their daily work......

They have lost much more than the negative.

There is a saying that reacting negatively to one's own pain is a sign of empathy.

Pain gives birth to human empathy.

On that basis, love sprouted.

The implication behind this is terrifying: humans may be inherently devoid of empathy.

This highest human virtue is only a by-product of some kind of existence invading human consciousness, and it is a weapon used to ensure the smooth reproduction of human beings into "it".

"It" allows human beings to begin to preserve each other's lives.

Remember the spooky audio Pietro heard?

The audio came from a completely destroyed radio, and it may not have been real, but rather a hallucination from the depths of the subconscious.

It was "it" that said to him.

It says, "I want to be loved." ”

It said, "Five. Seven. Nine. ”

It says, "You're incubating." ”

Enlightened, Pietro found SCP-055 and traveled to SCP-579's location with the unknowable.

We can guess that "it" is the only anomaly in the archives that has been attacked by the Foundation, the "stretched man" thing.

But more, remains a mystery.

Perhaps "it" really feeds on love, and it will give empathy to humans.

The Foundation can only use the opposite emotion, hatred and numbness to slowly infuse all of humanity, and kill "it" in the sea of human consciousness by invisible means.

...... The "110-Montauk Procedure" was created that happened to all of humanity.

The reason?

Could it be to prevent "it" from really being hatched and leaving the human subconscious with the good qualities of human nature, and all the people who are still alive become the source of disaster for their inherent evil?

Or is it that the Foundation, in "healing" itself, has eliminated the existential instincts that drive humanity to perpetuate, such as compassion and love, and the only remaining hatred of "it" has directly contributed to the extinction process?

Even the Foundation got a glimpse of "it's" ultimate evil purpose, so much so that killing all of humanity was unanimously approved by the Ethics Committee just to free humanity?

Whether the Foundation in this scenario is saving or destroying the world, we don't know.

At the moment when Pietro throws 055 into 579, two enigmatic items collide together, and "the round tenon can't get into the square hole", and a bug that shouldn't exist is born.

The universe restarts.

None of this has happened.

Everything is a mystery.