Chapter 501

Not long after returning to the site, Sofia obtained the files related to Site-?.

However, when she clicked on the file and browsed downward, besides the Site-? she was very curious about, there was also an unexpected harvest.

—"SCP-?".

"This is..."

What's going on?

Intuition told Sofia that these two nouns, which shouldn't have any intersection, both pointed to the same thing, the same existence.

It was both an anomaly without a numerical code and a very peculiar site.

Sofia frowned and began to read the file formally.

However, the fact that this anomaly file didn't use a numerical code already declared its abnormality.

【Anomaly: Surrealism Department】

【Item Number: SCP-?】

【Containment Class: SYMBOLIC】

【Secondary Class: THAUMIEL】

【Disruption Class: INFRARED】

【Risk Class: MERCURIAL】

Very good.

Four evaluation classes; except for THAUMIEL written in the secondary class, the audience couldn't understand the other three.

"Confused, I still don't know how to read that symbol after Site, and no one is being a good Samaritan to explain from what angle these classes are divided, or what each level represents?"

"The one after is very simple, read it as 'dash'."

"You really are a little genius; there must be a seat for you in the 'Genius Society'!"

"No, isn't anyone concerned about its name? 'Surrealism Department', this name is super cool, okay."

"Don't think so—all those things in the Foundation, which one isn't surreal? You can try listing them."

The audience's doubts and confusion were the same for Sofia.

Fortunately, there were corresponding explanations attached to the file.

【Symbolic: The containment of this item "073" must be purely metaphorical. Executing real containment measures will immediately result in excessive punishment.】

【Infrared: The known or potential disruption risk of this project is immeasurable.】

【Mercurial: The dangerous nature presented by this project is constantly changing. Exciting, isn't it?】

"..."

Sofia pressed her brow and continued to look down.

【Extraordinary Containment Procedures:】

【To ensure the continued consistency of Foundation activities, personnel assigned to Site-? are prohibited from communicating with non-members of the Surrealism Department.】

【Communication between departments is limited to the following personnel:

Department Head - Marcel Sequitur

Site Director - G. Morrison

Chief Researcher - Irving Gat

Foundation Liaison - Jean Tzara-H? ch

Foundation Liaison - Salvador. aic

Assistant Janitor - Ray Taeuber

You】

"There's Dr. Irving Gat..."

"In this way, the authenticity of Dr. Gat's identity can be confirmed... it's just that the email can no longer be recalled, so I can only send a follow-up email."

While thinking, Sofia browsed downward.

Until she saw that incredibly strange title.

"'You'???"

Sofia was stunned for a moment.

The incredibly familiar word in the file gradually became strange, until it turned into a combination of messy lines, losing the meaning it had been endowed with.

Sofia shook her head, then scanned the file several more times, and then whispered to herself, as if speaking to the person who entered the file:

"Is everyone who has seen this file qualified to join this conversation?"

She felt a hint of something ominous.

—This file, I'm afraid, is not quite right.

【To ensure the continued containment of "SCP-?", items in list █ must never be brought into Site-?.】

【To ensure we continue to contain "SCP-?", items in list █ must always remain at Site-?.】

Below, Sofia saw two lists.

It's just that the things listed in these lists were as surreal as the name of this site.

"Binoculars... pins... repetitive concepts... 'SCP-?'?"

"Telescope... sewing needle... déjà vu... Site-??"

"Is there really no problem with this file?"

Sofia read the file from beginning to end again, but none of the doubts in her heart were answered.

This was the first time she had seen such a file.

Or rather, whether this file could be called a file was a debatable question.

Rather than saying this was a file about "SCP-?", it was better to say this was a stream-of-consciousness setting.

Purely expressing the creator's infinite brain holes.

Hell... Sofia thought so, and continued to look down with patience.

Her goal had been achieved; it didn't matter if she looked a little more.

At worst, she would treat everything except Dr. Gat's content as the ramblings of a special researcher.

【The Quadruple Destroyer must be continuously contained in the central chamber of "SCP-?". The walls of Site-? need to be permanent and continuous. Coffee needs to be delivered to Site Director Morrison's office every morning. The howling moon must continue to rise.】

【Item Description:】

【"SCP-?" is a meta-metaphysical space located to the left of the collective unconscious, directly below the Kingdom of Trembling, and inside all "ring-square" symbols (?).】

【It is currently used as a containment site for handling anomalies that cannot be contained in understandable reality.】

【"SCP-?" has been contained.】

【"SCP-?" has breached containment.】

【"SCP-?" was created by the Surrealism Department through unknown means.】

【"SCP-?" has devoured the world.】