Chapter 1023: Without Any Worries

After understanding what kind of existence form ω-0 was, the entire galaxy boiled over.

"Can it still be like this? Can eternal life be achieved like this???"

"But the Foundation hasn't opened the purchase of memory-enhancing drugs yet. Do we have to go in and study how to develop them ourselves?"

"I'll go to the 'Big Game' to try if taking the drug has any effect."

"You're dreaming."

Undoubtedly, this is another way of eternal life. Although the physical body is lost, it is no longer bound by physical laws.

And, looking at the state of ω-0, this technology has no side effects. There is no need to worry about being converted into "Abundance" by the "Abundance," or being hunted down by the "Hunt."

"Does this count as the realm of 'Memory'? I just don't know if 'Memory' will meddle in this aspect, but the Memokeepers will probably be very happy to conduct related research."

Herta hugged her arms, light flashing in the corners of her eyes.

The Foundation's technology is too whimsical, using collective cognition and memory to make agents immortal and extending the Foundation's power into it. Such a method has never been heard of.

Compared to the immortality of the physical body, this technology is obviously more reliable. After all, Marion, who was killed by "SCP-3125," could enter Heaven. This is already the greatest advertisement and propaganda.

This is almost declaring that as long as the galactic civilization is forever prosperous, Heaven will exist forever.

Even if the deadline has arrived, there is no need to fear death, and the nothingness after death, because death means ascending to a new form and starting a brand new life.

"Now…… any force intending to destroy civilization will be attacked by everyone…… even without the Foundation specifically naming them."

"Except for the Foundation, who else in the galaxy can escape death, and who hopes to be ended by some force after obtaining eternal life?"

……

Ulrich was fleeing madly.

She, Marion, and the remaining members of the detachment crossed the increasingly desolate and uninhabitable edge of the conceptual realm.

Under the influence of "SCP-3125," the entire world became twisted, becoming prey captured by a black hole, falling into it, being looted, and being torn apart.

She knew that "SCP-3125" was building something in the center of the city.

He was spitting out some kind of substance, spreading like spores, and giant buildings that looked like monuments were rising from the ground.

Millions of humans were ruthlessly filled inside, used to nourish something.

No one knew what kind of terrifying things happened inside these giant structures.

Someone might survive by luck, but since they are already in hell, they have nothing to do with good luck.

Equally bad is that even though the remaining ω-0 escaped the first round of mass cleansing, their members were still gradually dying out.

In one operation, the agents discovered a chilling fact.

"SCP-3125" enslaved a huge number of anomaly legions, driving them like hounds to search everywhere on Earth, throwing every individual who dared to resist into His abyss-like giant mouth.

The agents didn't know if this was a strategy formulated by "SCP-3125" or if it was caused by His greedy nature.

But no matter which one it was, "SCP-3125" successfully forced the remaining "Heaven" members into a dead end.

Either they launched a desperate challenge against the supreme divinity, or they curled up in the corner of the conceptual realm, waiting for the collapse of the anchor and the disintegration of their own forms.

And in this catastrophe, Ulrich's anchor also broke.

That was a woman who never knew what the Foundation was, but always cared about Ulrich silently.

She was found in a mountain shelter she thought was safe, and then dragged into hell.

Ulrich didn't know this. When she reacted, it was already too late.

At that moment, the bond that held her firmly and stabilized her on the sea of collective unconsciousness snapped, and the strong pillar that maintained her existence and confirmed her form collapsed.

Ulrich became a small boat in a storm, thrown high and smashed hard by huge waves, without direction, unable to stabilize herself, and could disappear at any time, dying right there.

Unprecedented fear, fear of death and nothingness, shrouded her.

Ulrich entered physical reality along the bond and saw the flying end, and there was nothing there.

In a forest where traces had been carefully cleaned, she saw an overturned tent, a fire that had been erased, and a pile of items that were once precious but now turned into charcoal.

An ω-0 agent followed her here.

"Who is she?" he asked.

Ulrich had never mentioned this name to anyone.

"I only knew her for two days……"

Ulrich was like a real ghost at this time, looking at the empty shelter with dull eyes, and a big hole seemed to have been opened in her heart.

"When I was a child, she saved my life……"

But she remembered Ulrich for so long, even after Ulrich was erased by the anti-memetic effect, she still cared about the little life she had saved.

At this very moment, she suddenly realized that although she was a senior Mobile Task Force agent who had experienced countless unspeakable fears and turned them into the motivation to move forward.

However, the scene before her—Julia's tent, the silent world, and Julia herself who had disappeared from then on—was the most cruel and heartbreaking experience in her life.

If the invasion of "SCP-3125" sounded the death knell for ω-0, then the hounds He kept became the last straw that crushed this group of elite agents.

The hope of resistance was completely shattered, and these ghosts had no resources to use.

In a desperate situation, the detachment, which originally had only 4 people, split again, leaving Ulrich with Marion, who was like a vegetative person.

Ulrich and Marion formed a subtle symbiotic relationship. She remembered Marion, maintained Marion's existence, and was remembered by Marion in turn, allowing her to survive.

Such an alliance might allow the two to linger for a while longer in the end times, but it obviously couldn't be eternal.

……

After a long and desperate escape, the two found a shelter in the border wilderness of the conceptual realm.

That was a mysterious ruin left by human civilization a thousand years ago, and the thaumaturgic structures within still emitted a faint aura.

On a night when the stars and moon were silent, Marion finally said something new.

"Adam."

For the first time, Marion didn't repeat "Concepts can be killed" or "With better concepts."

"You remember him?" Ulrich was very surprised.

"I remember everything," Marion spat out a few words with difficulty.

An unexpected sentence made Ulrich's eyes widen.

She knew deeply that Z-class memory enhancement brought not only the inability to forget, but also the possibility that those deliberately erased memories could reappear.

She had once hoped that Marion's memory of her husband would dissipate forever, because those memories would only lead to the most terrifying existence.

"……I don't know where Adam is."

Ulrich told the truth.

ω-0 had witnessed the mind erasure of Adam Wheeler with solemn eyes.

But, out of respect for Marion's decision and concern for Adam's safety, they deliberately didn't pay attention to Adam's subsequent actions and destroyed the relevant records.

"He might still be alive, I'm not sure."

Ulrich was very conflicted in her heart, and she didn't know which situation would be better.

Is it to die early, avoid suffering in hell, or still exist, struggle to survive in despair, or be enslaved by 3125 and become His servant?

In front of the supreme divinity, all resistance of human civilization seems so weak, and the Foundation's past experience in dealing with "anomalies" only seems pale.

Perhaps a supreme divinity in conceptual form can be killed by better concepts, but what if He enters reality and possesses a material body?

Ulrich understood Sanchez's despair very well, because she was also deeply trapped in it, but she still wanted to struggle a bit.

"Look," Marion whispered.

She held a stream of consciousness with flowing brilliance in her palm, a fragment of someone's thoughts.

That was Adam. This was a memory bond leading to him, like a miracle.

Marion actually stripped him from the core of "SCP-3125."

He was unrecognizable, almost completely controlled by "SCP-3125," as if every nerve and everything in his brain had been replaced by Him.

However, deep in his heart, there was still a shining seed struggling tenaciously. Adam had not surrendered and was still fighting hard.

Ulrich hesitated.

She knew that Adam's mind structure possessed a rare and unique characteristic, having strong resistance to external interference.

There are tens of thousands of people in the world with this characteristic, but they have no appearance different from ordinary people. It is too difficult for ω-0 to find them from the base of billions of people globally.

They might be the sparks that start a prairie fire, but reality showed no signs of improvement. Perhaps everyone with this characteristic had died, leaving only Adam to survive; only he had endured. ===== CHAPTER 1025 =====