Chapter 1030

As O5-8's voice fell, the entire conference room fell into a long silence; Marion began to drink coffee, and Graves and Michael Lee sat quietly.

Hughes looked at this underground emperor with deep eyes and looked up at the ceiling again.

Looking at this ceiling, it really is a ceiling, and this light really is a light.

He couldn't understand the meaning of the three directors and one O5 present; it was nothing more than throwing the responsibility of saving all of humanity onto him, asking him to provide a final solution, or to execute a certain task.

But such a responsibility was truly a bit too heavy.

His thoughts gradually drifted away, returning to the day he first joined the Foundation.

"When I first joined the Foundation, I asked my mentor, who retired a few years ago, 'What is the largest anomaly we have ever contained?'"

"He told me that he once heard an old rumor that the Cross religion was not always monotheistic."

"At first, there were three Gods with capitalized initials. And at some point in the last hundred and fifty years, the Foundation slew two of them."

"I believed him."

The people present looked at him with interest, not knowing why this genius of the Antimemetics Division would bring up the distant past, and why he would start from the God of the Cross religion.

But Dr. Hughes had no desire or thought to explain; the embryo on his face was shaking its single eye slightly.

"I was very young and inexperienced at that time, and very naive, in awe of the Foundation, in awe of my mentor, thinking that the Foundation was omnipotent."

"A few years later, when I looked back on these words, I realized that he was just talking nonsense to me."

"Now twenty years have passed, and modern memetic composite technology is billions of times more advanced than it was back then, thirty percent of which came from my hands."

"I check what the Antimemetics Division Alliance is dealing with every quarter; I know better than anyone what is possible and what is impossible on Earth, and..."

Dr. Hughes's voice became lower and lower as he spoke, and he had fewer and fewer ideas; looking back from the beginning of his Foundation career didn't bring him any sufficient ideas, and the ordinary days didn't have much content worth referencing.

The four high-level officials held their breath, hoping to get a clue from his mouth.

But Hughes's thoughts were as chaotic as hemp, and he ultimately couldn't squeeze out a single word.

He felt that he was framed in the wrong thinking, perhaps because he was resisting a certain truth deep in his heart, or perhaps because he was unwilling to face a certain response strategy that made him shrink back.

At times like this, just ask your past self for help.

"What did I say? Tell me directly."

"Your team believes that although 'SCP-3125' is the most powerful memetic composite threat we have encountered so far, it does not mean that it is at the top of the system," O5-8 said.

"Theoretically, it is possible to synthesize an anti-memetic concept that can exceed 'SCP-3125' by an order of magnitude, designed specifically to offset its influence, and completely under our control."

Using one meme to offset another meme—this line of thinking is undoubtedly feasible; a concept can be killed by a better concept.

But humanity doesn't have much time left; can the Antimemetics Division, no, the Foundation, synthesize this anti-meme before the world-destroying 3125 descends?

"This... is indeed... possible."

This move is extremely dangerous, will consume massive resources, and will take ten to twenty years of uninterrupted dedicated research...

"But this work will be extremely dangerous, consume unimaginable resources, and require ten to twenty years of uninterrupted actual time..."

"To prevent being peeked at by 3125, we must be completely isolated from the outside universe throughout the process... We also need a laboratory as large as a launch tower..."

"Wait..."

At this moment, a flash of inspiration appeared, and his thoughts were like the night sky illuminated by lightning, instantly becoming clear.