Chapter 212: The Sad Song That Has Come
Each reader may have their own understanding of what 2718 is trying to say.
But on the other hand, some people also take new inspiration from it.
"End of Death", or, rather, ΩK-class "End of Death" scenario.
This premise, which first appeared in the 2018 Doomsday Race, is based on SCP-2718.
It began as a "private project" initiated by O5-4's own organization, Project Doom, and its implementation led to unexpected surprises.
The purpose of this project is to contain the dead, and to release its confinement only if necessary.
"SCP-3448 - Halfway to the Afterlife" was thus developed.
It is an anomalous device that allows a person to enter the "concept of death" in a "half-dead" state, and then interact with the anomalous electrical activity - or soul ?—— that remains after consciousness is separated from the body, forming a two-way communication that can be interpreted by Foundation personnel.
In short, it can "half-kill" the entrant, and then connect the mind of the person between life and death, and use images to convey the message "over there".
"Half killed" here is literal: half killed.
However, the Foundation's exploration of "death" itself has not brought anything good.
Or maybe it's too good.
They wanted to contain Death, but because of the strangeness and fear of the concept, they accidentally killed Death.
The whole process is extremely simple, the agent who was "half-killed" and sent to "death" used a gun that was also "half-killed" and smashed the god of death with one shot.
Don't ask me how I did it.
The question is, "All of this is a conceptual manifestation that can be understood by humans, not what really happened".
In short, the Grim Reaper is dead, and the era of the end of death has come.
From this moment on, no one will die again, and the shadow of life will hang over the world.
As the title of the first article in the series titled "In the Clutches of Life", humanity that has lost its death does not gain a better life.
The world has gotten worse.
"SCP-3984-Death with a Stick" tells the story of the Foundation's exploration of this anomalous property, with researchers in charge of the project using numerous D-Class "death experiments" to verify the extent of the "immortality".
The final conclusion is hopeless.
"Immortality" is not the same as "eternal life", and the living will still grow old and injured.
It only cures fatal injuries and diseases, but everything that is not fatal - even if the brain is permanently damaged, even if the organ is on the verge of failure, even if the human body has irreversible dysfunction - as long as it does not cause people to die instantly, it is completely unaffected by anomalous effects.
It is only to make life "alive", and what kind of life depends on the laws of nature.
At this point, the future facing humanity is clear.
Societies are ageing inexorably, but the elderly, who are gradually losing their vitality, are unable to die, and newborns are being born continuously, consuming the planet's limited resources as a whole.
The powerful upper echelons can rely on brain transplants to obtain young bodies, but where will the "brains" who have been robbed of their bodies but are still immortal be placed?
An even greater crisis is brewing in nature, and it is not just humans who have lost their lives. Animals, especially extremely fertile insects, will be a nightmare for entire civilizations.
The only good thing is that the ΩK apocalyptic scenario only appears in the animal kingdom under the Cavalier-Smith taxonomy.
In other words, it doesn't work against bacteria, fungi, plants, etc.
This allowed humanity to avoid the tragedy of being destroyed by infinitely multiplying microorganisms in the first place, and at the same time fell into the tragedy of slowly approaching a desperate situation.
When death ends, life becomes a disaster.
This is so obvious.
"Even though it only finished second in the Doomsday Competition, it was my favorite. Guan Li looked at the Death End Center page and found that in addition to the first season story he had read, there were many more articles in the series.
Even the middle score has a work associated with it.
It's just that this ...... "Blooming Together, Born to Die"?"The Illusory of Life and Death" series?"All GOI crossover works?Involving multiple setting centers at the same time?...... Divide the "reversal of life and death" competition?
It's absolute, the end of death shouldn't be in the doomsday race above, it's definitely the first place here!
Then Guan Li unexpectedly discovered that the first place in "reversing life and death" was indeed related to "the end of death".
The article, titled "You Have to Work Very Hard to Die Effortlessly", describes a world where "life is easy, death is difficult" from the perspective of many ordinary people.
Because of the existence of abnormal "cancer", human beings have gained a longer life than before.
"Cancer" can repair almost all damage that occurs in the human body, including disease and fatal trauma.
In the process of this repair, the "cancer" itself will also grow to a certain extent.
Therefore, it will be extremely difficult to die until the "cancer" is exhausted by the body's own immune system.
Those who allowed "cancer" to grow in their bodies paid a heavy price in the end.
They have to hover on the edge of life and death, and every time they lean a little bit there, they will be pulled back, and the "cancer" will also strengthen in the process of pulling, storing the energy to save their lives next time, which is a tug-of-war with no end in sight.
So as the title says – in this day and age, you have to work very hard not to get hurt or get sick in order to die more than a hundred years later.
Otherwise, they can only wait to become a walking corpse dominated by "cancer", and finally be dragged to be buried alive.
It's the kind of living burial that is well known.
Because the damage that is said to cause death consumes a certain amount of "cancer", slightly more than the amount of it grows, as long as you continue to die, you will always succeed in dying.
Though...... There will be painful and lengthy torture in the process.
Fortunately, there will be a day of liberation.
The Foundation refers to this extremely harsh condition of death as "Death Exhaustion", a ΨK-Class "Death Exhaustion" scenario.
In fact, Ψ is exactly the previous letter of the Ω.
It is believed to be a precursor to the possible arrival of an ΩK-class "end of death" scenario.
There is currently no way to reverse this, and the Foundation can only initiate "veil control": redefining normalcy and disseminating revised research reports to make the population accept a new life after the change.
The world was forced to become what it was meant to be.
The ease of survival makes life no longer precious, and the difficulty of dying makes death a pursuit.
The values of life and death are reversed.
As for the trigger for the occurrence of "Death Exhaustion", that is probably another story.
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Food for thought, isn't it?