Chapter 960

Archive 374 ends, system reward

"Ah? So? Just got killed like this? Such a strong 'Black Moon' just got killed like this?"

"Uh... the ending is indeed a bit beyond my expectations... or should I say, as expected of the Administrator? The final decisive battle didn't prepare thousands of troops, nor did it prepare any fleet... but this kind of, this kind of drunkard fight that would happen in any tavern..."

"What is the 'Black Moon' thinking??? Why was He trapped by weak artificial objects... No, He doesn't look like a supreme divinity at all!! He is simply a mentally retarded person whose brain is not fully developed and whose cerebellum is not fully developed!!"

"I think it is incorrect to think about why the 'Black Moon' would do this with anthropomorphic thinking—because He won't 'think'. He is not an existence that will ponder; He is a force... You cannot guess the will of God; He is an absolute existence. ~"

"Considering that supreme divinity is the incarnation of some abstract concept, They are closer to gods in the traditional sense than divinity... In this sense, Aeons seem to be very similar to Them, but the gap between the two—seems to be a bit big?"

"This might be the difference between innate and acquired—the concept occupied by supreme divinity is innate, while Aeons open up paths themselves, and the concepts and meanings in the paths are acquired and can be rewritten."

"Stop, stop, how did the 'Black Moon' die??? Isn't He a supreme divinity??? How was He crushed by the Administrator who isn't even divinity???"

"Best answer: I don't know... Just kidding, I have an idea; if the 'Black Moon' represents 'meaninglessness', after the Administrator gives Him meaning, He has the possibility of falling... Of course, before doing this, you have to give Him meaning, and except for the Administrator who holds 'Balance', no one can do this."

"Sounds a bit like the story of a mouse putting a bell on a cat; the hardest part is at the beginning."

"It's probably creation later."

"Daily creation, used to it. Now at least four creation methods are known: black hole furnace, deus ex machina, concept-only bunker, divinity/supreme divinity wanting to create the world."

"There must be more later."

……

Like an order, like a farewell, after that sentence, heaven and earth reopened.

In the boundless abyss of the universe, time and space weave endless, infinite, and boundless black satin; black holes, black holes, and more black holes are the black pearls dotted on it.

The audience who saw this scene finally understood what the death of the universe is.

Witnessing that world with only darkness, they seemed to be in it, feeling the coldness of the universe.

Only when black holes devour each other will a bright spot suddenly appear in the dead starry sky, like the morning star, guiding the journey home.

But there is nothing to guide.

The universe has no conscious life.

Nor is there anything that can be called life.

Heat death of the universe.

The doomsday scenarios in the containment archives of "SCP-C-3999" are all more vibrant and hopeful than this situation.

And at this time, something seems to have changed; a mysterious force penetrates the universe, slowly but irresistibly pulling all matter and energy in the universe toward an unknown convergence point.

Quiet, yet violent.

The distance between galaxies shortens rapidly; they pull on each other until they collide and merge.

Galactic wreckage, black holes, and even light itself cannot escape.

The black satin is folded, so new colors erupt, and all colors and forms converge toward that unimaginable point, until everything becomes inseparable.

The next moment, light to the extreme erupted.

The heart of the universe beats again, bursting with unparalleled power, pushing everything back into the empty void, reshaping matter and energy, reshaping time and space.

New galaxies are born, new fires of life are ignited, and new lights of civilization shine.

The footage hasn't ended yet.

On the edge of the Milky Way, a chaotic nebula rotates and condenses; dust ignites into the sun, and various magnificent celestial bodies form one after another.

In the revolution orbit of this young star, a hot, turbid sphere slowly cools, the surface solidifies into rock, and steam condenses into water.

Then, the first life was born in the ocean.

Life began a new round of great journey, from single-celled to multi-celled organisms, from ocean to land, plants, animals, fungi...

The era ruled by dinosaurs came and ended, mammals began to emerge, ape-men left the forest, stood on two feet, and began to use tools...

On a sunny morning, in a patch of green, the Administrator slowly opened his eyes.

He sat up, covered his head, and sat blankly for a long time before he came back to his senses.

An old man leaning on a tree branch walked slowly to the boulder beside him and sat down cross-legged.

"I, Hermit." He said so.

At this point, the footage ends, and lines of text emerge.

【Archive Name: Does the Black Moon howl】

【Time: Before nameless】

【Action Location: Before singularity】

【"Black Moon", alias "Cang Huang", is an entity that exists outside the material universe and can annihilate all conscious things, suspected to be the incarnation of the abstract concept of "meaninglessness".】

【According to the Administrator, "Black Moon" is one of the cosmic constants, and its age far exceeds the general cognitive level of humans; if you want to calculate the lifespan of "Black Moon", you need to invent a set of super-mathematics separately.】

【In the previous cosmic era, "Black Moon" triggered a series of annihilation phenomena; victims would turn into black solids and disappear without a trace four seconds later.】

【And the Administrator himself, because he inherited "Balance"—the power that gave him immortality—shouldered the task of stopping "Black Moon", and therefore established the Foundation.】

【—In this cosmic era, the reason why the Administrator established and led the Foundation was to fight "anomalies", protect "humanity", and guard "normality" (see "Declaration" for details).】

【At the same time, in this era, "Does the Black Moon howl?" is used as a code word within the Foundation, with different answers corresponding to different permissions, corresponding to different events, containment objects, and research content.】

【In the previous cosmic era, in order to indirectly observe "Black Moon", Dr. Moto manufactured a series of entities with similar characteristics under the authorization of the Administrator, but it was eventually proven ineffective, and Dr. Moto apologized with death.】

【The O5 Council had some complaints about the Administrator's advocacy, but the Administrator designed the "Concept-Only Bunker" and believed that victory was just a matter of time.】

【After the universe only had the Administrator as a conscious life, "Black Moon" would come to erase him personally, and the "Black Moon" entering the "Concept-Only Bunker" would be imposed with human concepts and possess a physical body.】

【Thousands of years later, the Foundation launched advanced unmanned probes to search for extraterrestrial civilizations, and after discovering many alien civilizations destroyed by "Black Moon", finally found a survivor.】

【This survivor was also a scholar who studied "Black Moon" in the original civilization and possessed telepathic abilities.】

【After the conversation, the Administrator revealed that the "Concept-Only Bunker" could only take effect when he was the only one left in the universe; the scholar couldn't help but question the meaning of such a victory.】

【After that, the Administrator entered the bunker to wait for the end of the universe, and the scholar left the last words of "hope" and was erased shortly after.】

【Human civilization tried various ways to avoid the fate of extinction, but even if colonies were all over the universe, the howling of "Black Moon" was still inevitable.】

【Humans therefore built a monument recording the last messages of all intelligent creatures and placed the "Concept-Only Bunker" in it.】

【After reaching the end of time, the universe only had the Administrator existing in the form of information, and "Black Moon" appeared.】

【As the Administrator designed, after "Black Moon" fell into an entity that could be observed, it gained weaknesses.】

【In the end, the two existing as information settled their grievances in the way of a bar fight; "Black Moon" was beaten to death on the spot, and the Administrator was seriously injured and dying.】

【Before death, the Administrator released all concepts stored in the "Concept-Only Bunker" and restarted the universe.】

【Loss: Illegal operation, unable to perform】

……

A little earlier.

The Luo Fu Xianzhou, Scalegorge Waterscape.

Bai Xuan and others occupied the favorable terrain in advance, hiding their figures behind boulders and architectural ruins.

Fu Xuan took the binoculars from Bai Xuan's hand.

She was wondering if the script would really play out as Bai Xuan said, when she saw two figures, a man and a woman, appearing on the beach, who were none other than Blade and Kafka.

"'Stellaron Hunters'! Xiao Bai, we can't let them run away again this time!"

March 7th summoned her ice bow on the spot; if Bai Xuan hadn't stopped her, this beyond-visual-range arrow would have probably sent both Kafka and Blade flying.

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Along with the unlucky ones were the fish in the Scalegorge Waterscape.

Fish are always ignored lives; when Brother Hua sent down the flood but didn't want the animals to go extinct, the ones swimming in the water were forgotten; of course, they couldn't come ashore to protest.

From ancient times to the present, the person who cares most about the feelings of fish is probably a certain nun; when hearing someone confess that they used fish as a substitute for meat, she must be very concerned about the mental health of the fish.

"Calm down, calm down—" Bai Xuan hurriedly pulled March 7th.

The ice arrow condensed by this girl was no different from the special arrow of the Dragon-Hunting Great Bow; one shot and no sound, ice burial on the spot, no need to find a place to bury, and no need to worry about resurrection.

"Stelle" had no reaction; her golden eyes were fixed on the sea further away.

Besides Blade and Kafka, three other powerful auras were approaching, which were undoubtedly Dan Heng, Yanqing, and Jing Yuan.

She could feel Phantylia's aura; the latter was lurking in the depths of the Scalegorge Waterscape, her momentum rising bit by bit, growing rapidly, already surpassing Jing Yuan.

Phantylia probably thought she was hiding very well, but in the perception of "Stelle" after being infinitely infused by Bai Xuan, she was as conspicuous as an incandescent lamp in the dark night.

At this time, Bai Xuan looked at Fu Xuan, who was lost in thought:

"Why not ask the magical Master Diviner? She saw the 'Stellaron Hunter's' plan through the Matrix of Prescience."

"What this seat knows, I have already told you." Fu Xuan said.

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"But clearly, the subsequent development is still different from what I saw—"

"Either Elio is constantly revising the subsequent plot and remotely controlling it through some channel;"