Chapter 549

The O5 Council immediately became chaotic again.

"This is impossible! How could there be such a number of containment breaches in..."

"This is nonsense! You're telling me that a single event at a site caused..."

"Silence!!"

O5-1 roared, slamming his expensive fountain pen on the expensive table again and again.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

Instantly, the whole space was left with deathly silence.

No one dared to defy O5-1's will.

Seeing that the councilors had returned to silence, O5-1 looked around and spoke slowly:

"For thirty years, Ten's job has been to observe and wait for such things to happen."

"Now it has happened, I demand that you all sit down, shut up, and let him finish his work."

"Maybe, just maybe, you can listen to him like you would listen to an expert in a field you know nothing about!"

The only response was silence.

He was very satisfied and said to O5-10:

"Ten, continue."

Ten nodded and pushed her glasses back with her ring finger.

Throughout the shouting contest, she remained calm and silent.

She searched through the documents in her hand until she found the one she wanted, took a deep breath, and continued speaking.

"'Containment-2000' is, or was—Thaumiel-class."

Before another round of arguing could begin, she raised her hand to stop it.

"Thaumiel is a containment class that clearly no longer exists."

"It indicates that these anomalies were once used to contain anomalies within themselves."

O5-1 nodded, "Thank you, Ten, continue."

"'Containment-2000' is a system known as 'Deus Ex Machina'."

"This system was designed to be triggered when a world-altering event is detected."

"The way it works is a bit complicated, but it drops a series of cloning devices and mind-control systems to ensure the human population on Earth after a K-Class event is maintained through clones and implanted false memories."

O5-9 raised his hand, and only after the gazes of O5-1 and O5-10 fell on him did he ask:

"Are you saying a 'CK-Class restructuring' was caused by a human cloning device?"

"Of course not." Ten looked calmly into Nine's eyes.

"But 'Containment-2000' is the ultimate insurance for human extinction, in case of temporary or reality-altering events. The entire system is placed in the safest location on Earth: inside Yellowstone, directly above the 'Flower'."

Ten raised her hand to stop another ensemble of questions and complaints.

"'Flower' is an anomalous black box."

"Until now, it was only known to four Overseers: me, One, Two, and Thirteen."

"It is the restart button for the entire universe."

Hearing this, the audience was stunned.

"The restart button for the entire universe?!"

"Hey, are you kidding me? An interstellar pre-civilization actually found the restart button for the entire universe? Is the Foundation serious? No, is the O5 Council serious?"

If the current Foundation held the restart button for the entire universe.

No one would question or refute it.

Because the current Foundation should have that kind of power.

But... the Foundation at that time was a bit too weak.

They hadn't even entered the starry sky!

In the scene, O5-1 nodded, calm and steady:

"Of course, Ten has oversimplified these contents." 【550-2 and 05-13 also nodded their heads slightly, endorsing what O5-10 mentioned.

O5-2 and O5-13 also had their precious heads sway slightly, endorsing what O5-10 had mentioned.

After confirming that no one would interrupt her, O5-10 continued:

"Due to time constraints, I don't think I have time to explain the entire 'World-Converting Flower' and 'Multiverse Observer' to these old fossils."

"Others just need to know that the 'Flower' is the boundary point for many different possibilities. It is itself the most stable point on Earth. This is why we put the 'Final Measure', the 'Human Restoration System', on it."

"Unfortunately, Yellowstone happens to be an unstable supervolcano that should have erupted long ago."

"This is why Dr. Null... was assigned elsewhere to find a way to replicate the 'Flower's' effect, hoping to move or replicate 'it' to a more stable place."

"Unfortunately, something went wrong. Now this 'Flower' is not only failing to keep parallel universes separate, but is pulling them together."

"!!!" The audience was dumbfounded.

Even Jing Yuan was shocked.

It turned out that in the ancient era before they were born, the universe had faced a total extinction event.

O5-9 raised his hand, interrupting O5-10's long-winded speech:

"Isn't there a Scranton Reality Anchor near that thing?"

"The Scranton Reality Anchor around that thing is the only reason our universe hasn't disappeared yet." Ten explained.

Subsequently, images appeared on the screen behind her.

"This is a false-color photo of the current mathematical reality."

"Blue spheres represent subsidiary timelines and Schrödinger-type uncertainty."

"Yellow vortices represent separated timelines and universes."

"This image was taken over as a project in one of our existing research facilities last year."

That image, which was basically static before, was now swirling and bubbling, like yellow flowers floating in a sea of foam.

Slowly but irreversibly, the flowers began to gather.

"Timelines are like photons and antiphotons." Ten explained.

"When two separate and incompatible timelines intersect, the result is mutual annihilation. When these flowers approach us with nearby reality, the result is self-evident."

Ten clicked a command, and a line of text "Event Planning Sequence" appeared on the screen.

"The first cosmic intersection will cause the spacetime membrane surrounding our reality to collapse, and causality will no longer exist."

"Events no longer exist uniquely in time. When Schrödinger's famous cat is simultaneously alive and dead, there will be two cats, one alive, one dead, both coexisting."

"This is of course impossible, so the two cats will annihilate together."

At least, the leader of Belobog will not act on impulse, nor will she disregard the consequences for a moment of pleasure.

"The annihilation reaction will release an unimaginable amount of energy. This energy will accelerate the convergence process, gathering more parallel universes together faster."

On the screen, the flowers folded together, swirled, and disappeared into gray foam, until nothing existed anymore.

"That," Ten said, "is the result."

"ZK-Class Reality Failure Scenario." One said.

"I don't think there's a corresponding term for what's about to happen, but it's coming soon."

O5-10 closed her notebook, looking exhausted.

"Unless we do something in the next few hours, we will lose everything."

"We have a final contingency plan, but the success rate is slim."

"The other way is to deal with the 'Flower' itself, which requires entering the Yellowstone facility."

"Do we have any personnel there who can respond in time?" O5-1 asked.

"Only one team, Mobile Task Force Omega-7 'Pandora's Box'. The 'Abel' team is currently out of contact, but we successfully connected to the armed leader of the Iris team, an agent who was originally summoned by this alarm."

"Does anyone else want to add anything?" One asked.

No one spoke.

"Then deploy them." He continued, "Keep me informed."

O5-1 turned to O5-10, his eyes flashing with focus.

"Handle this matter, do whatever you need to do. Until this crisis is over, you have the authority to call upon any assets of the Foundation."

Ten nodded in response.

... ===== CHAPTER 551 =====