Chapter 242

The document continued.

【All "SCP-2000" subsystems have been successfully rebuilt in a laboratory environment; all relevant programs for this facility are completely non-anomalous in nature.】

【To complete its primary mission, "SCP-2000" is equipped with 500,000 human replicators. At peak capacity, "SCP-2000" can produce 100,000 non-anomalous humans capable of growth and development per day (requiring five days for warm-up).】

【The system collects raw materials from the hot springs and underground magma in this area through an underground Riemann transmission pipeline and is equipped with a computer memory bank storing all known human genomes. Through these, the system can rebuild any lost human genomes or create brand new and unique genomes as needed to restore the human population.】

【Humans produced through this process can be directly advanced to any required age without the need for the 5-day original incubation period. In addition to creating physical characteristics, the human replicators can implant memories through G-class hallucinogenic agents and developmental hypnosis techniques.】

【The life histories, neuron scans, and genomes of numerous Foundation personnel—including all personnel with Level 4/2000 clearance or higher—are preserved to ensure that the activation of "SCP-2000" and the execution of "Lazarus-01 Program" can proceed normally even if only one person survives.】

【After the Foundation fails to prevent a K-Class scenario, the security system of "SCP-2000" will unlock, allowing any Foundation personnel to initiate "Program CYA-009." If "SCP-2000" has still not been activated after 20 years, security will be further relaxed, allowing any non-anomalous human to enter the facility and initiate the program.】

【Once activated, the internal monitoring system of "SCP-2000" will attempt to determine the location of all Level 4/2000 personnel and assess their status. Key mission personnel who are not found will be replicated according to their most recent neuron scan files and awakened before any other systems are initialized.】

Xianzhou "Luo Fu."

"What exactly has the Foundation experienced?"

Fu Xuan looked at the content in the archive with a grave expression.

When only a few scattered lines of text appeared on the light screen, she had not taken this archive to heart.

Compared to the distant archive that happened who knows how long ago, the significance of the reality warper named Zhao Zena and the strange celestial phenomenon that occurred in the early morning was much greater.

In Fu Xuan's heart, the Foundation was an almost omnipotent organization.

This behemoth, which combined mystery and great power, mastered countless anomalies and even had strong figures like the Administrators sitting in command.

What kind of big trouble could there be?

The greatest loss the Foundation had ever suffered did not come from an anomaly, but from Dr. Kondraki, one of the four Doctors of the Apocalypse.

She waited for the archive's content to continue as usual, yet the subsequent content exceeded her expectations.

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Upon seeing the subsequent archive, it was as if she had discovered that all the diviners of the Divination Commission had skipped work to play "Celestial Jade."

Fu Xuan only felt a roar in her brain, and her small mouth opened subconsciously.

Although it was crowned with the name "Anomaly."

"Deus Ex Machina" was a completely technological creation, involving no supernatural factors whatsoever!

From the day the Foundation designed and built "Deus Ex Machina," they had not harbored any wishful thinking, and had even prepared the means of implanting memories.

At this point, scene after scene of natural disasters seemed to emerge before Fu Xuan's eyes; whenever humanity was about to be completely extinct, the Foundation would activate this final resort, using their own way to protect the entire human civilization from heading toward extinction.

Even if the previous humans might have died out completely.

Even if all traces left behind by those great sacrifices who struggled in the apocalypse would be completely erased.

Even if those who inherited human civilization were a group of clones who walked out of human replicators and inherited false memories.

If the wood on a ship were gradually replaced until all the wood was no longer the original wood, would this ship still be the original ship?

The Foundation had given their own answer.

They were, as they claimed, faithfully protecting all of humanity, rather than individual humans.

Fu Xuan suddenly thought of a terrifying possibility.

—Since the Foundation could restart their own civilization, when the Foundation officially stepped into the interstellar space, had it ever restarted the entire universe?

"Has it, or has it not?"

Fu Xuan turned her head, looking at the darkening sky outside the window, feeling somewhat panicked.

The bushes in the shadows were baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, and everything familiar within the Divination Commission had become strange and unfamiliar.

"No, it's not like that..."

Fu Xuan tried hard to calm herself down, and immediately thought of a group of great existences—the Aeons.

Her heart became peaceful.

Unless the Foundation could influence the Aeons and restart them as well, no matter how they restarted the universe, they could not bypass this hurdle.

Furthermore, there was also the Aeon of "Memory," Fuli.

He believed: thinking is existence, and memory is the evidence of existence.

He held the Path of "Memory," recording everything that had been forgotten, preparing for the rebirth of the universe.

"Looking at it this way, the Foundation's 'Deus Ex Machina' is actually quite similar to Fuli."

"Both are making the worst-case preparations."

Fu Xuan muttered.

The next moment, the text gradually faded.

Immediately following, the image on the screen gradually changed, and replacing the black screen was an ocean.

Clear water and blue waves, sparkling, vast and boundless.

Outside the screen, a somewhat hoarse male voice sounded.

"I really want to write from the beginning of things, but honestly, I don't know when this world began to end..."

"It might have been a long time ago, or it might have ended all at once."