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Chapter 910

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They lit up one by one.

Finally, the display screen above the console showed the word "READY."

She took the personal terminal off her body and placed it on the lift platform carrying the test samples.

Then, the lift platform carried it and hovered directly in front of the black hole and the singularity.

Just like the Foundation researchers testing the naked singularity a long time ago.

Only, this time, the same steps would lead to another result.

"Answer me."

No one answered her.

"Will there be a future after this?"

No one answered her.

"If there is still time after the end..."

Alice's hand rested on the lever.

"Please don't forget us," she said.

The next moment, her hand pulled back, and the lever made a click.

At that moment, the black hole faded instantly.

The blackness disappeared into the furnace's bubble, leaving only the naked singularity shining to the extreme.

Like a burning star, but more dazzling, more deadly, and more critical than that.

A buzzing sound rang out, and the fully exposed naked singularity launched a summons to the rest of the universe.

Surging space-time energy impacted the transparent protective cover.

Cracks began to appear gradually on the barrier made of unknown material, then spread, and spread again.

Until the last impact, the entire shield shattered, and the majestic energy washed over the interior of the building.

And in the next moment, the tide of energy suddenly flowed back.

The naked singularity converged its own light, gradually becoming dim and manic, and began to swallow and absorb everything around it.

The density of time radiation began to fluctuate rapidly, and the trajectory of time became chaotic again.

The singularity made a sound of glass breaking, and time that was too long to calculate passed silently; everything happened in an instant.

In the black sky, countless stars rotated rapidly around the earth, and then extinguished one by one, until the entire sky was burned out, leaving only a hollow curtain.

The wind roared and stopped, and the ocean froze and melted.

The building built of cement gradually weathered and cracked, and the three-arrow icon and the oath finally scattered on the ground.

Alice, along with the time of the paradox, was trapped in a small corner.

The lost time roared, biting her and the furnace, the broken naked singularity.

She began to see everything, understand everything.

She saw a ruby pendant pass through the air, flashing with light, and then shattered.

She saw the giant lizard lying in the turbid liquid.

She saw her various pasts... at the end of her memory was Christina's dissipating smiling face.

Then all this was replaced by darkness and silence.

The threads leading to the stars floated in the empty universe, accompanied by weak gravitational waves.

But she still stood there.

At the very end, Alice stood before the machine that was still roaring, reflecting a faint silhouette.

"Iris" Alice Thompson, the girl once known as "SCP-105," the one who walked with everything, the last human in this world.

She took off the camera on her body and walked toward the rotating singularity in the darkness.

She turned her head and looked at the void behind her.

She was born in the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, in an unremarkable family. She had beautiful blonde hair.

She smiled.

Then everything was silent.

……

In the endless darkness, there was a primitive void where concepts like loneliness, emptiness, and nothingness did not exist.

A giant tree of time, magnificent to infinity, transcending the infinity of infinity, stood quietly rooted here.

Countless light spots covered its surface, representing one world after another; in an instant, infinitely many universes were born, emitting light, and infinitely many universes returned to silence.

And at the end of a branch, a light spot dimmed rapidly, collapsing toward non-existence, about to be completely extinguished and return to nothing.

At this time, human voices came from the light spot.

Faint, but clear.

【I will not forget this journey we experienced together, Christina.】

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【The fate of protecting the world from the hands of "abnormalities" has been borne by the Foundation for too long, and this world has also borne it for too long.】

【In the long time, I have witnessed too many partings and tragedies, too many things that could not be obtained.】

【If this is the end of everything, then—】

【I will put a full stop to this fate.】

Big Bang, 0:00:00.

The next moment, the light spot, which was incredibly dim and almost merged with the pure darkness, erupted with brilliant light again and expanded rapidly.

On the tree, outside the tree, and in higher places, in more magnificent places, the supreme existences cast a glance at it, and then withdrew their gazes one by one.

A world, after destruction, ushered in a new life.

……

Big Bang, 13.7 billion years.

【Humans have multiplied for 250,000 years to this day, and every moment during this period is meaningful.】

【In the long years of nearly 250,000 years, we once lived in caves, sitting around small campfires.】

【We once painted life on rock walls, using knots and pictographic symbols to record joys and sorrows.】

【We are great inventors; starting from discovering the secret of fire, we opened the chapter of civilization step by step with our own hands.】

【We are also explorers of exploration, regardless of the ocean, desert, or the highest mountain.】

【We experienced plagues and wars, and therefore understood the value of life in blood and fire.】

【Humans no longer need to live in fear; we will live in the sun and look at this world more rationally.】

【We will live in the sun, and everyone can give love in the way they want to be loved.】

【The history written by the Foundation ends here.】

【This time, listen to our story.】

……

First darkness, then the fluorescent lights turned on.

The floor of the containment room was covered with feces and blood, and the man in the orange prison uniform stood still. The concrete sculpture with a mottled face avoided him and moved to the other side of the wall...

St. Mark's Basilica, nine glowing children disappeared in a flash, finally gaining liberation...

Somewhere, a man sat on the leather bench of a train and sighed, holding a one-way ticket in his hand.

Ten hours later, the man picked up his suitcase and got off the train without looking back...

Poland's theme park, Hayley Fredericks ran toward Agent Fredericks.

Winnie the Pooh held her hand tightly...

A pile of dust in the center of the containment room, accompanied by a flash, the dust rotated, rose, condensed, and formed a paper box on the ground, and five colorful paper cranes flew out of it...

Jacob turned his head to look at the wooden table beside him, on which was placed a standard "Rubik's Cube"...

Site-120 Reality Laboratory A test area, a humanoid creature with a pitch-black body knelt on one knee.

Facing Dr. Anna Lang in the corner, he held up a rose, the severely corroded petals still retaining a trace of bright red...

Somewhere in Greenland, in the pervasive fog, a dozen cats and dogs ran out from the other side of the wooden bridge, excitedly rushing into their arms, or rolling at their feet...

An astronaut, holding a painting in his hand, with a line of black words left on the edge of the canvas:

"Come find us. We are waiting"...

Tachyon Physics Laboratory, the number 2300 in the center of the screen flickered, and amidst the deafening cheers of the people, the number jumped and became ∞... ===== CHAPTER 912 =====

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