Chapter 1021

"If you don't count unidentified anomalies like 'Oh, Death' and doomsday scenarios like 'SCP-C-3999', then it should be like this."

"Does getting involved with the Foundation mean that the end of the world is not far away? It destroys the world and restarts it every now and then."

"What are you afraid of? The 'Fifth Starfish' was just sent back a few days ago. If the next supreme divinity wants to destroy the world, it has to wait for the cooling CD to pass."

"???"

"The combination to save the world this time shouldn't be an agent, a musician picked up on the road, and an AI from the past, right?"

……

In Marion Wheeler's life, she took strong memory-enhancing drugs almost every day.

Mobile Task Force ω-0, the warriors of "Heaven," believe that after Marion dies, her soul will surely ascend to the noble conceptual realm.

She will become an information-state entity, a VI-type volitional spiritual paranormal, a "ghost," or as she wished, describe her rebirth with any appropriate term.

In the eyes of mortals, that is a formless energy, a beam of light that is difficult to grasp.

Then, Marion will join "Heaven" and continue the struggle of the Anti-Memetics Division in the afterlife with a more extraordinary posture.

It's just that fate teased Marion in a cruel way.

While the Z-class agent gave her unparalleled memory, it destroyed all her abilities except memory.

She did ascend, receiving welcome and praise for heroes in the conceptual realm, but she herself became an information entity suffering from severe brain damage, unable to even perform basic communication normally.

After Sanchez initially settled and diagnosed her, he made a metaphor:

"A Swiss watch full of glue."

For this cold and ruthless ridicule, Ulrich stopped him sternly and gave her superior a few punches to show her dissatisfaction.

Sanchez expressed his apology mechanically and perfunctorily, as usual.

"How could she go to heaven with an illness?" Ulrich was quite puzzled. "Is there any difference between this and going to hell?"

"How much more suffering does she have to endure? Who can accept such a life?"

Marion's appearance also deeply stung every member of ω-0.

During their lifetime, they were comrades-in-arms who had entrusted their lives to each other and watched over each other for many years.

So, they decided to take care of Marion carefully, taking turns on duty.

Marion's own state was also changing quietly.

Although her consciousness was chaotic, Marion still relied on the intuition and tenacity honed in her work to try to fight against this pain.

She gradually became sober, although she would never be able to return to her former self.

One night on duty, Ulrich witnessed Marion repeatedly backtracking to the last moment of her life, muttering to herself, as if talking to "SCP-3125":

"Concepts can be killed."

Ulrich walked up and asked gently:

"Marion, do you know where Bartholomew Hughes is? Only he can stop all this now."

"We need to know if he is still alive, or if he is already with us in the conceptual realm. Even if there is only a clue, a hint, please."

Marion tried her best to express: "I don't know. I can't remember what I've never known."

However, what came out of her mouth was only a powerless murmur: "With better concepts."

After listening to Ulrich's report, Sanchez instructed:

"Continue to encourage her, try at least once per shift."

"Questioning makes her very nervous," Ulrich protested. "We know she knows nothing about this. Continuing to try is too cruel, sir."

"'SCP-3125' is about to descend," Sanchez said in a heavy tone.

"After the elites of the Anti-Memetics Division were eliminated, no one can stop His pace."

"Our remaining investigative power in reality is minimal, and Bartholomew Hughes's sister also has no news of him."

"If we want to find him, we can only try from Marion Wheeler."

"I know you admire Marion Wheeler more than anyone else——"

Ulrich's emotions exploded instantly:

"She guided me! She made me the best version of myself! She illuminated my memory with honor when I passed away, and my relatives couldn't do that!"

"Ulrich——!!!"

"We are guardian saints! I want to protect her!"

Sanchez wanted to say something but stopped, knowing Ulrich's deep affection for Marion and all her teammates, although sometimes this emotion was almost paranoid.

He admitted that Marion was an outstanding person, but in the end, didn't she fail?

Everyone in the entire Anti-Memetics Division failed, but she just happened to be the last one to fall.

However, Ulrich's words at this moment were like flames, burning his heart.

To achieve similar goals, hadn't he also inspired the team with similar rhetoric?

"Okay." He compromised. "Continue the attempts in the real world, although the possibility is slim, there is still a possibility of discovering substantial clues."

· ·····Ask for flowers· ········

"Just stick to the way you did before, don't ask too much."

……

But before ω-0 found substantial clues.

In the winter of the coming year, "SCP-3125" descended first.

Unlike any imagination and description of gods in scriptures, when He descended, the sky did not change color, and the earth did not crack.

But the turmoil brought by a supreme divinity descending was so violent that when He didn't take any action and didn't convey any orders to His people, the Foundation was erased.

Overnight, countless Foundation personnel, along with the traces they left behind, were erased without any sign or warning.

It was as if they had never existed from beginning to end.

Besides those who were erased, there were others who forgot their identities in an instant, lost their lifelong memories, and stood there blankly until the last moment of their lives.

Even worse, their bodies were still standing in place, but their brains had stopped activity, no different from a vegetative state.

In the end, all Foundation sites, whether located within the atmosphere, on the moon, or in the deeper reaches of space, all turned into inaccessible, incomprehensible, and unknowable no-man's-lands.

And in the containment sector of the Foundation.

The audience watched one anomaly entity after another, which they had heard of or seen on the light screen, being deterred by the supreme anti-memetic pressure of "SCP-3125" the moment He descended, and began to struggle bitterly.

Except for a few anomalies that broke through containment in the chaos, the vast majority of containment objects were destroyed by 3125 along with the Foundation.

"SCP-106" fell to the ground, and the terrifying and twisted old man's face stopped moving.

"SCP-173" lay face down in the containment room, just like an unattended art sculpture.

"SCP-682" lay motionless at the bottom of a container filled with acid, its eyelids closed, and the corroded flesh no longer recovered, gradually turning white.

And there were more.

"The world can only end in one way," He seemed to proclaim, wanting to engrave it on the flesh of reality, with firm words:

"My world, my laws."

……

ω-0 had confronted "SCP-3125" before.

However, even the members of ω-0 had no way of knowing how many secrets about ω-0 "SCP-3125" had glimpsed in previous confrontations.

Fundamentally, His thinking mode itself is chaotic and difficult to understand.

The behavior of "SCP-3125" is inconsistent, unpredictable, and insane; all records of His actions and behaviors are full of cognitive hazards, incomprehensible, and unanalyzable.

In the end, all attempts turned into bubbles.

What's even more ridiculous is that when "SCP-3125" descended into the world, regardless of whether He knew about ω-0 or not, ω-0 was already destroyed.

Because most of the members of ω-0 used Foundation employees or Foundation-related personnel as anchors.

When the minds of these people were completely destroyed in the first round of strikes, the collective consciousness and collective unconscious foundation that maintained the existence of ω-0 ceased to exist.

In an instant, more than half of the members of ω-0 turned into nothingness—they died completely.

The ultimate fate they had tried their best to avoid during their lifetime had now truly descended.

"Heaven" fell.

Sanchez divided the remaining task force into three.

Ulrich and Marion were assigned to the same team.

The last order issued by this task force high-level was:

Continue to search for Bartholomew Hughes, as well as any remaining allies, whether they come from the Foundation, related organizations, or civilians.

Measured by the standards of the task force, this was really not enough to be called an order; it was too vague and couldn't play any role at all. ===== CHAPTER 1023 =====