manynovel Chapter 113
Chapter 113
"Apollyon-class SCPs are simply incapable of containment, and will be extremely 'positive' in triggering apocalyptic scenarios. "
Mary's voice is flat,
But with every word spoken,
The temperature inside S.H.I.E.L.D. seemed to drop by one degree.
By the time she finished speaking, the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. fell into a dead silence.
Nick Fury stares at the screen.
The term Apollyon is already on the table.
Apollyon Classification is intended for highly destructive active anomalies that are practically impossible to contain—something beyond Keter.
An Apollyon-class anomaly,
It's almost an anomaly that will destroy the world,
No matter what you do to stop it, it's useless.
So, what would Hughes choose to do?
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in the picture.
"The only thing that can stop an XA-class scenario is if something else, like another Apollyon-class anomaly destroys the world first. "
Hughes closed the file, pinched his eyebrows, and said in a deep voice, "Their relative threat level is not measured by the substance contained by the substance, but by the number of years it is unavoidable. On the fly, I think it's only a single digit. "
He looked around the table, "Have we ever had an Apollyon rating?"
"No," O5-8 said.
"No?"
O5-8 smiled lightly, "The current perception within the Overseer is that the Apollyon classification is actually a towel, which is not good for morale and will stir up defeatist tendencies. Aside from this special class, Keter is now the highest level in the entire system. "
He paused: "All existing Apollyons may be re-evaluated and reclassified as Keter in the following year. Other than that, what do you think of?"
Hughes looked at him, "You're going to have containment procedures? We've talked about this a million times before, right?"
"Let's assume it's good for the first time. "
Hearing this, Hughes smiled strangely, "We can wipe out all intelligent human life, and if there is no intelligent host in the universe, SCP-3125 will not be able to descend." "
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned in place.
The Overseers were stunned.
What is this?
In order not to let the anomaly destroy humanity, so humans destroy themselves first?
Crazy, right?
After a slightly shocked pause, Wheeler spoke: "You've already mentioned this method, and I don't think everyone here can confirm whether you mean it or not. "
Hughes gave her a deep look: "I'm completely serious about what we can do, and I'm completely serious about what works." "
He looked around and said in a deep voice. "Our mission statement is 'Containment, Containment, Protection'. We really should find a time to add 'and keep as many people alive as possible' below. "
Hughes's negative words made everyone frown.
One of them replied, "It's self-evident that we want to protect humanity." "
Hughes smiled sarcastically: "Control the anomaly, contain the anomaly, protect the anomaly." Can you explain anything else?"
"We're distancing," Wheeler said, "and we're not going to exterminate all intelligent life." "
The-for-tat situation has eased slightly.
Under the gaze of everyone, Hughes pondered for a long time before he said slowly:
"We can also immediately terminate and suppress all memetic and antimemetic research worldwide,"
Before the crowd objected, he quickly said:
"We can systematically abolish this whole field of science. Stop all experiments, abolish all research, brainwash all researchers. No one would have discovered SCP-3125 if no one had actively studied this area. In this way, it will be buried indefinitely in the farthest part of the idea space, like radioactive waste‖ "
After saying it in one breath, the scene suddenly fell into silence.
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S.H.I.E.L.D.
After Hughes said this, he raised an eyebrow.
"Like the antimemetic bomb that was once detonated by the Antimemetics Division, does it directly eliminate all concerns about SCP-3125?"
He stared at the screen, amazed.
Unexpectedly, thirty years later,
Another person came up with the idea of such a solution.
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in the picture.
Hughes's words were interrupted by the four.
"Nope. Dodging won't help. It may be introduced from the outside, or it may occur naturally—"
Wheeler stared at Hughes and said in a deep voice, "We all know that. Hughes, this has already happened. SCP-3125 is coming into the world just as we said. Take a look at these aura anomalies. We are in what is called an omen, and here it is. "
As soon as these words came out, Houston, who was still a little excited just now, fell silent.
The opponent is pure and alien enough to scare most people and make them give in in fear.
SCP-3125 appears to be a nightmare scenario,
It would transform human civilization into something Hughes could not have imagined.
But that's the Monday routine of the job, and Hughes has never had much imagination.
He knows almost the entire SCP database inside and out, and he is a world-class authority on anomalous containment.
But only SCP-3125!
Hughes has more ideas,
However, with regard to SCP-3125,
Mechanically, there is no way to study the problem.
As soon as he tries to understand the whole problem, it will open his stomach!
Finally, after a moment of silence, O5-8 spoke.
"The Foundation's goal is to protect. In most cases, this requires containment of anomalous entities, and special containment procedures are in place to keep them safe, and permanent. The standard principle is to oppose active neutralization and avoid elimination as much as possible. Everyone here understands. "
Ignoring Hughes's sarcastic look, 8 paused, and continued:
"However, senior Foundation staff like me also have the right to ignore this principle in a few specific circumstances. I am exercising that right. I believe that in our reality, SCP-3125 cannot coexist with human civilization. We're going to destroy SCP-3125, completely. Does that change your mind?"
As soon as these words came out,
The people on the screen didn't react, but the audience in the live broadcast room was stunned.
It can be said that
Even if you see it now,
The Foundation is still a mystery in the minds of the vast majority of viewers.
The side they show from time to time makes people feel cold to the extreme,
The fearlessness shown at times is also moving.
They are like a combination of contradictions.
But at least for this moment, the Foundation's choice is sublime!
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in the picture.
"Special neutralization measures," Houston said.
O5-8 added, "I know that neutralization is in... Overall, it is considered easier than containment alone. "
Hughes did not answer positively, and was silent for a long time, but showed a look of reminiscence:
"When I first joined the Foundation, I asked my mentor, who retired a few years ago, 'What's the biggest anomaly we've ever contained?' I mean he has a right to know, of course. "
After a pause, Hughes smiled bitterly:
"He told me that he had heard an old rumor back in his early days, when he was just starting work. Rumor has it that the Abrahamic religion has not always been monotheistic. In the beginning, there were three Gods with capital letters. At some point in the last hundred and fifty years, the Foundation has killed two of them. "
As soon as these words came out,
The entire Marvel world suddenly fell into an inexplicable dead silence!
The audience in the live broadcast room widened their eyes one by one,
Staring at the screen, I even thought I had auditory hallucinations!
Then, the live broadcast room was boiling!
"WTF? Two Gods?"
"Oh no, oh no, oh my God, this is complete blasphemy!"
"I'm stupid, the Foundation can even kill God, how powerful is the Foundation?"
"Crazy, just crazy!"
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All kinds of shocking voices in the live broadcast room came one after another.
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Kama Taj.
After hearing this,
The expression on Gu's face froze instantly,
As if all the blood was drawn out,
Only one unbelievable shock remained.
"The Foundation slashed... Two Gods?"
For the ancient one himself,
Even if it is a slightly inferior divinity, its own strength is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people!
But the Foundation···
With just a group of humans, you have killed two gods?
How can it be!
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Asgard.
Looking at this content, Loki is not good.
I thought the Foundation was just a group of human organizations with extraordinary means,
outcome
You tell me they can kill gods?
For the first time, Loki became suspicious of the word 'god'.
Is it really God that the Foundation killed?
Or is my god a fake?
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S.H.I.E.L.D.
The agents have completely lost the ability to think.
There are indeed many powerful beings in the Foundation's containment.
For example, the Devourer of Worlds,
For example, the stag from the Parallel World Foundation, the gatekeeper...
Even now, there is a God in the Foundation, SCP-343.
can
I'm talking about slaughter, not containment!
Nick Fury looked at the screen with a shocked expression, and the turmoil in his heart was difficult to calm down for a long time.
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Hughes had a complicated expression:
"̈々 Now that twenty years have passed, and modern memetic compounding technology is tens of billions of times more advanced than it was then, thirty percent of it came from my own hands, and I look at what the Antimemetics Alliance is dealing with every quarter, and I know better than anyone what is possible and what is impossible on Earth, and..."
The more he spoke, the quieter he became.
Everyone was expecting something from him.
It's a pity that he can't think of it.
Hughes fell into the wrong frame of mind.
Maybe it's because he refuses to admit it, maybe it's an idea he doesn't want to accept.
How ironic—
At the end, he took a deep breath and looked at O5-8, "Tell me what I said!"
"Your team suggests that SCP-3125 is only the most powerful memetic compound threat ever observed, but that doesn't mean it's at the top of the system,"
O5-8 looked at Hughes sincerely, and said seriously, "You pointed out that it is still possible to synthesize ideas that are an order of magnitude stronger than SCP-3125, designed specifically to neutralize SCP-3125, and are under our control. A countermeme. "
Hearing this, the audience inside and outside the screen all thought of one thing-
Fictional Enlarger!
That's when people suddenly realized.
It turns out that this is how the construction plan of this instrument was proposed.
in the picture.
Hughes frowned and began to speculate:
"It's incredibly dangerous. It will require a huge amount of resources. There are still 10 to 20 years of real time to go, and there is no interruption at all. To avoid observation, we need to be completely closed off from the outer universe. We need a lab the size of a launch building. Wait a minute. "
His brain just caught.
He realized the context in which he had said this.
He has been with the Foundation for a long time.
Then, he said something that no one expected.
"It's done!"
Ignoring the stunned gazes of the crowd, he continued:
"The lab, it's been fixed. It was repaired twenty years ago, and in the shadows, we sent our best researchers into it, and now it's finished. Now, that's why we're meeting. We're ready to go. We found out how to deploy countermemes. If I'm right, it's great. Am I right?"
He looked at the crowd as if asking for help, as if hoping for a definite answer.
Wheeler looked at him:
"When you joined the Foundation, you were taught that there would come a day when you would have to sacrifice a lot or even everything of you to protect what needed to be protected the most, without preparation. You've been working here for thirty years. Throughout this time, you always knew that you would sacrifice yourself someday in the future. We've all been taught that. "
Hughes paused, feeling a shadow fall on him.
He looked at another person, his supervisor.
"You're right when you say the lab has been fixed. Construction was completed in the last forty-eight hours. The construction team has been amnesticized and disbanded. But the work has not yet begun. That's what I'm going to say today. "
As if he had been shot, Hughes muttered, "... My people just went there to bundle. "
"Your people just went there, they were in the bunker, waiting. We've got a cover story for you. We're going to fake your death. It's time for you to go underground. ".