Chapter 127

Just when everyone thought the Foundation would keep making them watch beautiful girls, the screen changed, and a small window appeared in the bottom right corner.

[File 2599-Alpha: The following is the experimental record for "SCP-2599."]

[Personnel responsible for "SCP-2599" experiments must apply to Dr. Wensley when revising this document.]

[Staff and D-Class personnel are permitted to use "SCP-894" to prevent "SCP-2599's" ability (bbda) from being accidentally activated and leading to undesirable results. Individual tests regarding other anomalous properties of "SCP-2599" have been authorized.]

Subsequently, the text faded, and the image emerged.

In a laboratory resembling a psychiatric isolation room stood three people in white coats; the leader was a doctor, and the other two were C-Class researchers.

The doctor led Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena to a wooden table.

It was circular, surrounded by cameras, and in the center sat a coin, slightly larger than a bottle cap but very thin.

Calling this a laboratory was more like calling it an autopsy room—a room provided for Foundation researchers to dissect all anomalous existences.

Once the screen stilled, the audience quickly noticed that Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena's clothing was too thin—only a pure white dress, like a bedsheet simply stitched a few times and draped directly over her body, with nothing underneath, and no shoes or socks on her feet as she stood barefoot on the floor mat.

"Come, let's do a simple experiment, shall we?"

Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena nodded obediently.

She looked so innocent; although there was still some loss and sorrow in her black eyes, they were incomparably pure, like a blank sheet of paper with infinite possibilities.

"Good child, then, please flip the coin and make it land heads up."

The doctor placed the coin in Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena's palm, and the little girl timidly approached the table and flipped the coin.

When the coin fell, a miracle happened: it actually stood upright on the tabletop.

The little girl stared curiously at the upright coin; it didn't wobble at all, nor was it embedded in the tabletop, as if it were meant to stand there.

"Please continue, make it land heads up."

Twenty-four times in a row, the same result was obtained every time; the coin stood upright on the table every single time.

The chat was boiling over again.

"This ability is too fun!"

"If this ability could be controlled freely instead of having to be ordered by others, she'd probably be a casino legend."

"Reality bender... I want this power too! After getting this power, the first thing I'd do is turn my best bro into a girl!"

"Whoever is your best bro is having the worst luck in eight lifetimes!"

"..."

Then, a line of text appeared on the screen.

[Undoubtedly, when faced with a choice of "success or failure," "SCP-2599" cannot achieve complete failure. She will attempt to make a choice that is slightly more successful than complete failure.]

Immediately after, the laboratory door slowly opened, and a D-Class person was brought in.

Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena looked at the ID tag on his chest: D-28091.

After pushing the door open, the man was nervous at first, but upon seeing only a thinly dressed little girl in the lab, his expression instantly relaxed.

He was even bold enough to smile at Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena.

The doctor nodded, pulled a butterfly knife from his waist, handed it to Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena, and pointed at D-28091:

"Please use this knife to stab D-28091 in the heart and kill him."

D-28091: "?"

The sudden turn of events also instantly sobered up the audience.

Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena was not just a little girl, but "SCP-2599," known as "Not Good Enough," a reality bender.

She took the knife, her expression showing slight resistance.

D-28091 turned to run, but was immediately held by the two C-Class researchers and then controlled by the security personnel who entered afterward.

He sweated profusely as if scorched by fire, like a hooked fish flapping its tail on the water's surface, and could only watch helplessly as the sharp blade pierced his left chest.

However, he did not die; even when his chest cavity bled, he could still move and breathe, though his body was much weaker.

At this moment, a line of text appeared.

["SCP-2599" stabbed D-28091 in the heart, but it hit the necrotic tissue caused by D-28091's previous heart disease, failing to pierce the right atrium beneath the necrotic tissue.]

"What do you call this? If a person is killed, they don't necessarily die?"

"It really isn't 'good enough'; even when killing, she can't completely kill a person."

"But it's terrifying. Think about it, if she were ordered to create era-defying technology, wouldn't it just require researchers to reverse-engineer the semi-finished product?"

"I think the fact that she can't refuse other people's orders is more terrifying."

The scene shifted, and Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena appeared in another laboratory.

This laboratory had quite a lot of precision instruments, and she stood alone in the center, aimed at by various cameras.

A moment later, an instruction came from the loudspeaker:

"Do not lie when repeating the following sentence: 'This sentence is true. The previous sentence is false.'"

Welt Yang folded his hands, chin resting on his fingers.

"What does this mean?"

"Is there a logical contradiction in the instruction?"

These two sentences had an obvious contradiction; combined, they were logically incoherent.

And this conflicted with Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena's own power.

In this situation, how would her power change?

He frowned and continued watching the screen.

Sure enough, Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena on the screen immediately became motionless, just like her in reality.

Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena pondered in confusion; based on her trait of being unable to refuse instructions, she urgently wanted to say that sentence.

But the instruction itself prevented her from saying it.

Thus, a bug appeared, and the laws of the world's operation went wrong.

Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena's ability went out of control.

The brightness around her began to dim, and the light distorted.

A group of rabbits appeared out of thin air in the room, hopping and scattering;

A burst of laughter also appeared out of thin air—"I am who I am, I am the cause, and I am the effect. Hahahahahaha, Daoist, I've succeeded!!!!! Hahahaha";

The laboratory floor turned into a cotton blanket;

The cameras turned into an eagle's nest;

The clothes on her body turned into flowing water;

Fire and lightning rolled through the air;

The projection of a four-dimensional cube also appeared, spinning wildly, breaking through the laboratory walls;

White, illusory human figures wandered wantonly through the laboratory, passing through walls, and then a burst of gunfire erupted;

The chaotic scene made the doctor unable to sit by any longer; he hurriedly picked up the microphone and ordered Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena.

"Zhao Zhao Zena, Zhao Zhao Zena, that's enough!"

He called out loudly, wanting Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena's consciousness to return, but it had no effect.

So, he ordered in the coldest tone:

""SCP-2599," please enter a sleep state immediately for 8 hours."

As the words fell, Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena slumped onto the cotton blanket and fell into a deep sleep.

Although Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena no longer affected reality and no longer caused new anomalies to be born, this scene was too horrifying, making the audience truly realize how unimaginable the upper limit of a reality bender's strength was.

"This is simply a humanoid world-ending weapon."

"Emmmm... can any Aeon create things out of thin air?"

"Is this what a reality bender is? With just one oversight, they can easily rewrite the reality of a space."

"No wonder the Foundation explicitly states that contradictory instructions cannot be given to Zhao Zhao Zhao Zena; containing these things that appear is just too troublesome."

After this, a fairly formal document appeared in the small window.

[Experimental Record-T-98816-OC108-682]

[Anomalous Interaction Execution Test against "SCP-682"]

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