Sky Curtain: The Darwin Incident at the outset, the Declaration of the People's League

Outside the cave came incomprehensible howling winds, the sound of branches breaking, and all sorts of strange noises.

Explanations about how the sun rises

A giant holds up a fireball in the sky.

Those monsters with human heads and bird bodies

A twisted creature, combining the talons of an eagle and the torso of a human, loomed in and out of the clouds.

Those stones that have life

The strange boulder, under certain lighting, has a texture that resembles a sleeping face.

Therefore, we call them "gods" and "demons," and we ask them for forgiveness and pray for salvation.

After that, their numbers decreased, while our numbers increased.

The perspective suddenly narrowed, transforming into a view overlooking the world.

The dense fog that symbolizes the unknown and the mysterious gradually shrinks and fades on the map.

At the same time, the light representing human settlements spread like wildfire, connecting to form a network and eventually illuminating vast stretches of land.

When we have fewer and fewer things to fear, we begin to view the world more rationally.

The neat bookshelves in the library corridors, the sophisticated instruments in the laboratories, the formulas recited in the university lecture halls, the clear images of nebulae transmitted back by the space telescopes...

Humanity stands on a ladder built of logic, experimentation, and mathematics to measure and understand all things.

However, the inexplicable things did not disappear; it was as if the universe deliberately chose to appear absurd and incomprehensible.

Strange yellow sculptures, tall, thin, dark figures, doctors dressed in medieval attire, and red, dinosaur-like creatures flashed by.

Humanity can no longer live in fear.

Nothing can protect us; we must protect ourselves.

Several unmarked black vans silently drove into a small alley.

Personnel dressed in uniform dark combat suits, wearing simple protective masks, and equipped with oddly shaped non-standard weapons quickly disembarked and sealed off the area.

They quickly pulled out their equipment and began investigating and searching the area.

Ultimately, the problem was solved using a special device.

The entire process was quiet, efficient, and professional. In less than three minutes, the vehicles were removed, and the alley returned to "normal," as if nothing had happened.

While others live in the sunlight, we must fight them in the shadows and prevent them from being exposed to the public eye.

This way, others can live in a rational, ordinary world.

The screen is divided into two parts.

Half of it is heartwarming everyday life: children chasing balloons in the park, couples sharing desserts in cafes, laughter and joy in front of the TV at home, and youthful energy on campus.

The other half is unusually dark.

Inside the claustrophobic underground facility, armed personnel exchange fire with an indescribable, viscous substance amidst red alarm lights.

Behind high-strength protective glass, fully equipped researchers remotely controlled a robotic arm to touch an old doll that was constantly crying.

The endless rows of server rooms, gleaming with cold light, store massive amounts of files labeled "Confidential," "Abnormal," and "Under Containment."

The two lines proceed in parallel without interfering with each other.

We control, we contain, we protect.

All images faded away.

Finally, against the pitch-black background, a badge full of geometric beauty emerges—three white arrows spiraling inward in a stable triangular structure on a black circular background.

SCP FOUNDATION

Secure. Contain. Protect.

Chapter 18 The Foundation is in a hurry

For most of the world, the content displayed on the sky screen was baffling.

It's probably about humanity needing to be self-reliant and strong, using technology to unravel the mysteries?

But isn't this normal?

"Absurd arguments, the ignorance of fools."

"Fear of the unknown? So you form a secret organization to fight in the shadows?"

"It's just a common psychological phenomenon during the enlightenment stage of civilization. When we master gravity manipulation and can extinguish stars at will, most of those 'inexplicable things' are just natural phenomena that have not yet been modeled."

"The real threat comes from other awakened intelligent civilizations—that requires fleets and diplomacy, not task forces hiding in the shadows."

"This logic is contradictory. Shouldn't the correct approach be to study, analyze, and even tame and exploit those anomalies? That's inefficient and lacks initiative."

…………

This is a universally accepted understanding across countless worlds.

Especially in the technological world of StarCraft, the content of this celestial projection was met with disdain.

However, with so many places in the world, naturally some people are taking it seriously, and some are even taking it very seriously.

Who is that?

Of course, it's the Foundation World Foundation.

[Foundation World]

Site-19

The air at this legendary site was so heavy that even the most seasoned task force members would have difficulty breathing.

The Foundation is facing what may be the most bizarre and intractable containment failure since its inception.

• Energy spectrum analysis: Unclassifiable, not any known particle or energy form.

• Information carrier: Non-physical projection, suspected concept is directly implanted into the observer's perception.

• Cross-dimensional penetration attempts: ███ times, all failed, no interactive response.

• Cognitive Hazard Filter: Continuously operating, no standard meme/antome contamination detected, but the large-scale informed state of “the Foundation’s very existence” has been flagged as a potential CK-level “reality reconstruction” scenario trigger.

"137th simultaneous playback. The content is 99.98% consistent with the 'Foundation Introduction Presentation Video V7.3' in the archive, with only very minor differences in the background music."

A technician’s voice broke the silence, dry like sandpaper rubbing against metal: “All attempts to interfere with, block, tamper with, or trace the signal source… including using SCP-████ (Time Anchor Device) and SCP-███ (Reality Stabilizing Cone)… have been ineffective.”

From the very first sentence Tianmu uttered, the foundation immediately began attempting to address the issue again.

God knows, before this, they had already planned to categorize this thing as normal.

Just like the world has colors...

In front of the control console, a senior site manager with three diagonal stripes on his epaulets gripped the edge of the control panel tightly with both hands, his knuckles losing color from excessive force.

On the several split screens in front of him, alarming real-time data was flashing.

Global online public opinion monitoring: Search volume for the keywords "SCP", "Foundation", "Anomalous Containment", and "Secure Contain Protect" surged vertically within ten minutes, breaking all historical monitoring thresholds.

Community-based activities: More than ████ new forums and chat groups emerged after the broadcast began, with discussions ranging from curious speculation to horrifying deductions that approached the truth.

Field Team Stress Report: Seventeen teams operating across major global social media platforms and news organizations are simultaneously under pressure. Conventional methods of information suppression, misleading, and confusion are being overwhelmed by the massive volume of discussions and are on the verge of collapse.

"Normal erosion index?"

His voice was forced out through clenched teeth, low and tense.

"It has risen by 15 percentage points in the last ten minutes, supervisor, and the acceleration is still increasing."

An analyst wearing specially designed cognitive filtering glasses quickly pulled up the charts, his voice equally tense.

"This is no longer a typical information leak or localized cognitive harm. This is... a 'mandatory public lesson' about our existence."

"We can't shut down the channel, we can't limit the audience, and we can't even identify who the audience is."

“Each broadcast sows the seeds of the concepts of ‘abnormal existence’ and ‘secret containment organizations’ in countless worlds that we cannot reach.”

"This in itself constitutes the most widespread and fundamental cognitive crisis in the foundation's history."

All the members present fell silent.

The guardians in the shadows were forcibly dragged into the spotlight for the first time by countless gazes from the "outside," and they were powerless to do anything about it.

"Memory erasure protocol, the highest-level variant of the 'Midnight Bell' project, 'Global Silence,' how are preparations?"

Without hesitation, the Watcher asked about the final measure that was already in the plan but that no one wanted to use.

The head of the medical and psychological department stood up. Her tone remained professionally steady, but her increased speaking speed revealed the seriousness of the situation:

"The wide-area memory erasure aerosol dissemination system pre-installed in major global population centers and key information nodes is ready, and the satellite network equipped with the 'Misty-9' high-efficiency memetic catalyst has entered its designated orbit and is ready for activation at any time. However, Supervisor—"

She took a deep breath and emphasized the "but":

"This operation needs to cover approximately 73.4 billion people worldwide and attempt to erase all related electronic records and physical media, and even theoretically counteract the influence of possible 'information echoes' from observations in other dimensions on the collective unconscious of this universe. It is unprecedented in scale and has a great many variables."

She brought up a complex risk prediction model and projected it onto the central screen; the red warning area was alarming.

"Even if 'total silence' achieves the theoretical best effect, the model still predicts that 0.7% to 3.1% of individuals will experience varying degrees of memory retention, cognitive confusion, logical discontinuity, or slight deviations in the personality matrix due to innate resistance, special experiences, or simply probability."

"More importantly, large-scale memory interventions have cumulative effects and long-term risks; we are approaching that irreversible critical threshold. And the most fundamental problem is—"

She pointed to the screen that was still displaying the foundation's emblem:

"It's still here! We can't stop it from playing again and again. Are we supposed to periodically wipe the memories of all humanity, like performing a lobotomy on a planet suffering from amnesia?"

The command center fell into a deeper silence, with only the hum of the equipment and the subtle sounds of the data stream changing on the screen.

"I know."

The supervisor closed his eyes, and after a moment, he opened them again.

He stood tall, his voice carrying clearly through the highest-encryption channel to every corner of Site-19, and to all Foundation sites, field forces, and infiltrating units worldwide that were on high alert:

"Execute command. Immediately activate the 'Global Silence' protocol after this celestial projection ends. Authorization code: O5-█-Omega-Pi-Silence."

"All field units should guide public attention according to the plan to create the best environment for memory intervention."

“All media control teams are ready to fill in the gaps with alternative narratives to cover the ‘void’.”