Chapter 647

Only the Foundation's live broadcast could display the power of great existences.

After this, unless it could be determined that no supreme divinity would appear in the live broadcast, or there was really something important that made it difficult to get away.

Otherwise, pure passersby would also try their best to become ten-thousand-year fans of the Foundation.

--"I started supporting the Foundation and the Administrator before the birth of human civilization."

At this moment, facing the live broadcast whose format had suddenly changed.

Naturally, some people felt anxious, fearing that this would occupy the precious opportunity for supreme divinities to appear.

But such voices were directly ignored.

The audience was more keen on uncovering secrets layer by layer through existing clues, guessing the essence of the anomalies, and speculating on that unknown history.

"War, war, war never changes."

"Fine, the 'Lizardman Pioneers' performed a show 189 million years ago, 'because they were tired of war, they dragged the entire galaxy to be buried with them,' and the Foundation file followed up with a backhand."

"If one day in this world, there was suddenly no war, and there was no strife between people, I would feel strange... contradiction is changing, and it is also eternal. The Foundation shouldn't have a major internal split because of a possible war, right?"

"It's not that there's no such possibility. Looking at O5-1's letter to O5-7, I've already imagined the scene of O5 councilors declaring war on each other."

"Hey, how is that possible? Isn't the Administrator still suppressing it on the O5 Council? If that really happened, the Administrator would directly become a dictator and strip all the power of the O5 councilors, wouldn't that be the end of it?"

"The person in front, you think of O5 councilors too simply. Since they can develop their own forces, they naturally have ways to make these forces loyal only to themselves."

"But is it really necessary to form a 'Black Glove' team? When the Foundation intervened in the affairs of Jarilo-VI, it didn't mean to wear gloves at all."

"Actually, you can ask a different question: first confirm whether 'SCP-C-2000' is a containment file of the Foundation in this universe; secondly, whether this 'Black Glove' team exists; finally, whether Jarilo-VI needs the Foundation to use this team..."

"Speaking of a digression, my mentor just received news that a mysterious deep space signal was received... I personally suspect it was sent by 'Fenrir'."

Amidst the discussion, O5-1's letter was replaced.

Replacing it was the file for "SCP-711."

As the beginning of the whole event, it was a peculiar existence that announced the Foundation's future fate of destruction.

Once its file was exposed, it immediately attracted the audience's attention firmly.

The audience was very curious—what kind of ability did 711 have that it could actually announce the Foundation's destruction.

Countless people either looked up at the sky or stared at the screen in front of them, their eyes jumping with the emerging characters.

【Containment: Paradox Insurance】

【Item Number: SCP-711】

【Danger Level: Safe】

【Item Description:】

【"SCP-711" is a high-energy physical device built by the Foundation in the plan to recover ██.】

【Main function: ██, in short, it can send data to its past and receive data from its future.】

【This transmission mechanism is strictly one-way.】

【Independent operation of this machine has therefore become impossible: any information it receives must have been sent from some point in the future.】

【"String 17" was detected ██ 10 years after the project was built.】

【It contains 347 characters, and the first fifty characters have sufficient data to determine that it will be sent by a formally authorized Foundation agent.】

【Its source date is unknown: so far, it has not been sent out.】

Looking at the "SCP-711" file.

Herta couldn't help but sigh that the world is full of wonders.

Anomalies like "SCP-711" that could transmit information across time could exist.

Even if it was limited to only transmitting information to its past self.

But the principle behind such a simple function could completely subvert existing science.

"It reminds me of the diviners of the Xianzhou Alliance..."

They exhausted their whole lives and all their efforts to avoid the bad results calculated by divination.

But those events would eventually play out one by one.

It was like receiving information from the future; as long as the Foundation agents strictly followed the rule of "only sending strictly correct information."

Then all they could do was keep trying before the predetermined destiny arrived, delaying this bad result.

"What a terrifying anomaly..."

Knowing the future and knowing that no matter how one resists, it cannot affect the future...

It really isn't good.

But from another angle...

Even if everyone knows that their lives will end one day, it doesn't prevent them from living brilliantly in the present.

【Notes:】

【"SCP-711" is an insurance policy.】

【Before we send "String 17," we know we will definitely survive various crises—otherwise, that string would be a BL-class predestination paradox.】

【We will eventually fail at some point in time: regardless, we did receive "String 17."】

【But the more we can delay it, the more we know we can survive longer.】

【--Site Director ██】

【Special Containment Procedures:】

【Under no circumstances shall "SCP-711" be operated.】

【Rebuilding, operating, or attempting to operate "SCP-711" will be punished by the Foundation's most severe and extreme means.】

【The execution of this zero-tolerance policy will be the highest priority task for all available Foundation personnel when necessary.】

Thus, the file for "SCP-711" was finished.

Its ability was very interesting, satisfying the audience's fantasy of a "regret medicine."

--"If I could let the current me go back ten years, I would definitely..."

But following that was a huge question mark.

Since the past has changed, won't the present change accordingly?

Since the present has changed, will the "current me" still send that message?

"Because the Foundation treated 'String 17' as 'something that must never be sent until death,' the string being sent is almost equivalent to the Foundation disappearing..."

"... Although there is such a thing that seems to be causality insurance, 'Foundation disappearance' has become an event that will definitely happen, and the specific date is still unknown."

"... Then, if we send 17 casually, it means the sending of 17 is not related to the disappearance of the Foundation, thus breaking the established ending that 'the Foundation will definitely disappear'."

"... Although doing so breaks that layer of insurance, in fact, we cannot determine whether the time of the Foundation's disappearance (if any) caused by doing so is earlier than the consequences of the previous approach, because both results are uncertain."

"According to my understanding, no matter what idea the Foundation had when it sent 'String 17,' as long as it was sent, it meant that the time point of sending coincided with the time point when the Foundation might be destroyed... and the subsequent timeline also coincided with the timeline when the Foundation might be destroyed. This would lead to the destruction of the Foundation and a major crisis for human civilization."

"Until it is truly sent, the probability of the Foundation and humanity existing is 1, so the probability of any crisis that would lead to the destruction of the Foundation and humanity is 0."

"This logic is quite simple... because the future Foundation sent 17 to the current Foundation, so the Foundation existed until 17 was sent, and humanity had not been destroyed, so as long as 17 was not sent, the existence of the Foundation could be guaranteed."

【Meeting Record? -002】

【Based on the current unstable international situation.】

【The Foundation predicts that the most likely crisis event that led to the paradox insurance being sent in ██48 is—a world war with the nature of a global supernatural war;】

【Its scale is likely greater than the last world war that just ended.】

【Although specific details have not been ascertained, current results indicate that this war is likely to end the development trend of human civilization, causing human civilization to stagnate, regress, or perish.】

【Therefore, the Foundation will examine all possible ways to prevent this war from breaking out.】

【However, directly interfering with the normal operation of world order will interfere with the normal operation of normality, which is contrary to the Foundation's principles and puts the Foundation's existence at risk of the veil being broken.】

【To deal with this contradiction while maintaining the Foundation's reputation, the Overseer Council hereby votes to establish a new organization that is ostensibly independent of the Overseer Council and the entire Foundation.】

【The basic tasks of this organization include:】

【1. Executing tasks that are inconvenient for the Foundation to disclose to the public, interfering with the normal operation of the world, and damaging the Foundation's own reputation, sparing no effort to prevent the war from breaking out around ██39;】

【2. Executing tasks that are inconvenient for the Foundation to execute, involving the use of anomalies to interfere with normality;】

【3. Executing other tasks that are inconvenient for the Foundation to execute.】

【This organization will be jointly led by current Overseer Council members O5-4 and O5-7.】

【Voting result: Unanimously passed.】 ===== CHAPTER 649 =====