Chapter 679

"Everything we know is the 'status quo'." O5-1 thinks for a moment and gives the answer.

"I wake up every morning and can see tomorrow's sun, without worrying that it will melt everything in the world."

"I walk on the road every day, without worrying that a tree on the side of the road will suddenly turn into a piece of butter, or a piece of copper sulfate crystal."

"I don't have to worry every day that a nuclear war will break out tomorrow. This is the 'status quo'."

Only, this old man does not realize at all.

The answer they think is perfect hits the report given by the "Emergence Project" team squarely.

Since they started using all the common things in life as examples, it was destined that they could not surpass Jung's collective unconscious theory.

And the "Emergence Project" is using this theory to attack the "status quo."

Since they are crushed in basic theory, everything O5-1 does, all the reasoning, is meaningless.

The more they resist, the bigger the loopholes O5-7 can attack, and the more the "status quo" looks like a joke.

O5-7 sighs and looks toward the location of O5-12:

"The former O5-12 came from Country C, and when they were born, the Qing Dynasty of Country C had not yet been overthrown."

"They told me that when they first saw a train, the first reaction of many people was actually 'this is sorcery,' which would destroy the 'dragon vein' and 'feng shui'."

"—These things, for them, are as important as determining the fate of the country, completely comparable to the importance of 'the sun rising as usual' in your eyes."

"They felt that 'the laws of the ancestors cannot be changed,' and for this reason, they refused to accept modern science."

"For people of that era, the things we consider part of the status quo today also destroyed 'everything they knew'."

This is indeed a very critical issue.

Who does the "we" in "everything we know" refer to?

Is it the current O5 councilors?

Is it all Foundation members?

Or all citizens of a specific country?

Or all humans?

Or residents who once lived on a certain piece of land?

Undoubtedly, for different groups of people, the things that can be called "status quo" are completely different.

For the "Lizardman Pioneers," the so-called "Fenrir" and "Vidar" are just ordinary creations.

But for the current Foundation, they undoubtedly do not belong to the "status quo" and should be classified as containment objects and given numbers.

For the emanators of the Aeons, they have long been accustomed to the daily life of possessing extraordinary power.

But for the vast majority of ordinary people living in the galaxy, an emanator is just a distant legend.

Should Pathstriders, Emanators, and Aeons also be classified as "anomalies"?

……

"Luo Fu" Xianzhou, Divination Commission.

Qingque has never seen the Qing Dynasty mentioned by O5-7, but the "Luo Fu" Xianzhou, where a large number of long-lived species live, is undoubtedly a country that reacts slowly to change.

Here, traces of life from a thousand years ago can be seen everywhere, and the collision of concepts between young people and the older generation happens from time to time.

She has also heard remarks like "it should be legislated to prohibit doing so and so."

At that time, the young girl thought it was just a joke, but now she realizes that the speaker probably really meant it.

Not to mention anything else, just look at the "Disciples of Sanctus Medicus" causing trouble everywhere.

The "status quo" they hope for certainly includes immortality and mara-struck, which are strictly prohibited by the "Luo Fu" Xianzhou.

"It's making me have to work overtime..." Qingque sighs sadly.

……

After using Country C as an example, O5-7 asks in return:

"Is this the 'status quo'?"

"Face reality, everyone."

"We once really thought we could guard the 'status quo' for humanity."

"We even thought we had the ability to define the 'status quo'."

"We wrote a standard in a serious manner, defining what is 'status quo' and what is not—"

"In fact?"

"The Foundation began to devour the future of humanity itself for the sake of so-called protecting the 'status quo'."

"We ourselves have no ability to touch the 'status quo' at all."

"The 'Status Quo Document'—"

They drag out the tail sound, pick up a document, and let everyone see the text on the title page clearly.

Undoubtedly, that is a paper copy of the "Status Quo Document."

In the astonished, surprised, and angry gazes of the O5s, they pinch one side of the document with both hands and exert force in an interlaced manner.

Tearing it up again and again, stacking it again and again, and finally throwing a pile of fragments that were once the "Status Quo Document" heavily on the table.

As the paper scraps scatter, they speak softly:

"—is just a pile of waste paper."

"Bang!"

O5-2 slams the table and stands up, glaring, and shouts sharply: "You guy—"

Accompanied by their action.

The exclusive throne engraved with "II" also moves due to their rough action, the chair legs rubbing against the floor, making an annoying sound.

"Number Seven, what are you doing!" O5-1 also shouts loudly.

"If you want to defend yourself, speak properly! You are insulting the Foundation!"

O5-7 is not only the first councilor in history to be purged, but also the first guy to go crazy here.

Now not only O5-1, but O5-2 is starting to get annoyed, why they specifically separated the "Insurgency" to be the black glove.

More councilors are starting to be dissatisfied that the previous O5-7 chose Fermi as their successor.

The shock in O5-4's eyes does not seem to be any less than that of other councilors.

It seems that this performance of O5-7 was not notified to anyone in advance, and was even a spur-of-the-moment decision.

O5-1 raises their hand, gently patting O5-2's arm resting on the round table:

"Number Two, don't be impulsive. We'd better discuss the problem clearly first."

……

For such a scene, the audience is very surprised.

Everyone originally thought that when high-level elites like O5 councilors hold a meeting, they would at most have verbal conflicts, but that would be it.

The audience never thought that O5-2, when provoked, would actually slam the table and even want to go down and fight physically.

"Fight, fight, I like watching scholars fight the most. The Xianzhou has the Balance Commission in charge, such a scene is really rare."

"Anxious, anxious, someone is anxious, I won't say who, but someone is indeed anxious."

"However, is it necessary for Professor Fermi to go to this extent? Tearing up such an important document at the meeting is equivalent to announcing at the board meeting that they will no longer recognize the board agreement..."

"Well, it's equivalent to unilaterally announcing that they do not recognize the legal effect of the constitution, which can be seen as announcing withdrawal from the organization, and can even be seen as an act of war."

……

O5-7 patiently watches Number Two sit back in their seat, looking at O5-1 with a calm expression:

"Before getting angry, you might as well let me ask a few more questions."

"There is a question I don't understand, who built 'SCP-2000'?"

"Why did we build this thing?"

"To rebuild human civilization and restore the 'status quo'." O5-1 says expressionlessly, "A question with such an obvious answer doesn't need to be asked."

The answer is indeed as O5-1 said, this mysterious instrument has the great ability to rebuild human civilization.

But the cold atmosphere in the conference room is not calmed by this obvious question.

The situation is exactly the opposite.

The councilors start to wonder why O5-7 wants to shift the topic to "Deus ex machina."

Didn't this rebellious O5 just tear up the "Status Quo Document," deny the "status quo," and want to classify theories that originally belonged to anomalies into the scientific field?

When everyone is confused, O5-7 continues to speak:

While everyone was puzzled, O5-7 continued:

"The function of SCP-2000 is to repopulate the world."