At the back of the file are some records about SCP-1000, such as:
Where someone saw SCP-1000, and how many people died in the end;
For example, an anti-human organization broke into the Foundation just to release SCP-1000 to destroy humanity.
The words and descriptions used are even somewhat exaggerated.
After reading to the end, Leon Lake put down the file speechlessly.
"Why? Do you think it's alarmist?" Dr. Kondraki walked over with a cigarette in his mouth and said with a smile:
"In fact, I think SCP-1000 is the most likely to subvert human civilization among all the objects contained by the Foundation."
As soon as Dr. Kondraki said this, everyone inside and outside the screen fell silent.
Leon Lake frowned. "Because of SCP-1000-f1?"
"SCP-1000-f1?" Dr. Kondraki seemed to have heard a joke and shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no! It's not SCP-1000-f1, or..."
He paused, and said in an almost sarcastic tone:
"There is no SCP-1000-f1!"
No SCP-1000-f1?
Not only Leon Lake was stunned, but the audience outside the screen were also confused.
Bigfoot can be contained as Keter-level objects. The only threat is that they can carry the horrible virus SCP-1000-f1.
So you said there is no SCP-1000-f1?
Aren't Bigfoot just gorillas?
What's there to be afraid of gorillas?
Dr. Kondraki turned on the TV, and a funny animation based on Bigfoot instantly appeared on the TV.
Watching the Bigfoot being teased by the protagonists, Dr. Kondraki laughed sarcastically:
"You think Bigfoot is funny because we want you to think Bigfoot is funny. We fund comedies and farce documentaries in Hollywood; we hire people to dress up in gorilla suits and do pranks; we pay off and brainwash cartoonists to make Bigfoot look stupid on children's shows."
Dr. Kondraki's sarcasm became increasingly blunt: "Even the term 'Bigfoot' was invented by us and introduced to the media in [DATA EXPUNGED], so people would think it was even more outrageous than 'Sasquatch' and couldn't be taken seriously."
Hearing this, the audience in the live broadcast room were all confused.
Since there is no SCP-1000-f1, what is your purpose in vilifying Bigfoot?
It was as if he heard the audience's doubts.
"Why, I'll tell you!" Dr. Kondraki changed his sitting position and continued:
"The facts are not exactly as you know. Two of them are lies, and the other two are concealment of information."
"Hide?"
Dr. Kondraki never stops talking:
"That's right. There is no 'anomalous pseudo-disease' known as SCP-1000-f1; SCP-1000 does not have a death aura. In fact, SCP-1000 does not directly produce any anomalous effects.
As if satisfied with Leon's surprise, Dr. Kondraki grinned complacently.
"We also concealed SCP-1000's intelligence level. SCP-1000's IQ is not at the level of chimpanzees. They are just as smart as us, maybe smarter."
Upon hearing this, the live broadcast room suddenly exploded.
"WTF? Gorillas are smarter than humans? That's crazy!"
"To be honest, I feel offended again."
"So, Bigfoot is not an anomaly at all, but another species in the world?"
"..."
S.H.I.E.L.D.
"I don't understand. Even if Bigfoot's intelligence is not inferior to that of humans and he is another race in the world, it shouldn't scare the Foundation so much, right?"
Natasha Romanoff was puzzled.
Seeing Nick Fury looking over, she explained:
"Now that there are so many different races on Blue Planet, can't we live in peace? We can even communicate peacefully with some alien creatures."
Nick Fury heard this and shook his head helplessly: "The current peace is built on the basis of thousands or even tens of thousands of years of struggle.
"Cultural differences, religious beliefs, secular concepts, every reason can lead to a fight between the two ethnic groups."
"Everyone can see the peace we have now, but in places you cannot see, countless ethnic groups have disappeared in the long river of history..."
Natasha Romanoff was stunned. "So, the story about Bigfoot is actually just a race fight between humans and Bigfoot?"
"Maybe there's more to it than that!"
"This story was told to us by a man who defected from the Children of the Sun." Dr. Kondraki lit another cigarette.
Hiss!
Phew~
"As you already know, our great ape ancestors evolved together with SCP-1000. We are diurnal and they are nocturnal, our brothers and sisters in the shadows."
"But when we were still a primitive society of hunting and gathering wild fruits, they...mutated." Dr. Kondraki paused, with a hint of fear in his eyes:
"Like us, thousands of years later, tools, weapons, agriculture, domesticated animals, stable settlements. In the blink of an eye, during the Pleistocene, SCP-1000's population exploded, filling the globe with tens of billions of people."
Seeing this, the audience finally understood the saying that "Bigfoot is smarter than humans."
It also makes people more curious.
What role did humans play in that era?
"Their creations are still beyond our comprehension, even though we have thoroughly studied the fragments that remain.
Using organic technology, they made birds and trees grow into fast ships, herds of beasts into trains, bushes into flight machines, and used insects and pigeons to create things like cell phones, televisions, computers, and atomic bombs."
Dr. Kondraki left his cigarette burning. "Members of the Children of the Sun described vast, shining cities that stretched across glaciers and through the deepest caves, where ships made of tusk and cobweb flew through the skies, and other creatures watched over it all with hundreds of blinking eyes."
Hearing this, the audience in the live broadcast room seemed to be able to imagine the grand scene.
But when they thought that it was Bigfoot who reached this level before humans, their expressions immediately became strange again.
It was as if the rulers of the blue planet were not humans, but a group of monkeys.
"What about humans?" Leon Lake couldn't help but ask.
"We are rare animals, just like gorillas today, there are only a few hundred thousand of us at most." Dr. Kondraki smiled meaningfully again.
"We avoided their settlements, just as wild animals avoid us now. SCP-1000 knew we were as intelligent as they were, but avoided us, just as we avoided them."
Dr. Kondraki's illusory gaze seemed to penetrate the barrier of time, and his tone became playful:
"SCP-1000 looks at us like we're seeing some supernatural creature like fairies and gnomes, saying we specialize in eating bad kids while they sleep during the day. They protect our dwindling wild populations and ban poaching, but use our bones in the underground trade to make aphrodisiacs."
Leon Lake narrowed his eyes and asked: "Then what?"
"Then?"
"Their civilization fell, and we did it."
Dr. Kondraki's eyes turned cold.
It's so cold that it doesn't seem like he's talking about the decline of a civilization, but rather about an insignificant little thing...
"The Foundation succeeded?"
"No, not the Foundation, but humans!"
Dr. Kondraki took a drag on his cigarette and blew a puff of air under his eyes.
His face was blurred in the smoke.
Leon Lake suddenly felt his throat dry: "And then?"
"A forest trickster god favored humanity, gave us refined tools, and told us how to use them."
Dr. Kondraki said calmly:
"We obtained SCP-1000's technology, and used it to create an SK-class dominance shift, making humans the world's dominant species."
"In just one day, we wiped out 70% of the population of SCP-1000. The members of the Children of the Sun called that day 'the day the flower bloomed.'" Dr. Kondraki took a deep puff of cigarette, suppressing the horror in his eyes.
Phew~
"It is said that all flowers bloomed that day, and our enemies died in their sleep, and then we hunted down the rest."
"We trapped them in their own heads, blocked their high-level functions, and left them to fend for themselves like ordinary apes."
"We used SCP-1000's biological weapons to kill their biological machines, burn down their grand, shining cities, and turn everything into dirt, which disappeared with the wind and rain."
Faintly, the audience in the live broadcast room seemed to see the silent collapse of a civilization.
Even the last sigh of that civilization...
It's all silent.
Silence!
Deathly silence spread across the Marvel world.
The audience, who were originally joking and arguing, were stunned.
Everyone stared at the screen blankly, Dr. Kondraki's words replaying in their minds.
"WTF?"
"Humans acquired Bigfoot's technology and became the world's dominant power?"
"And then the Bigfoot that rules the world turns into a gorilla?"
"It turns out that this so-called SCP-1000-f1 is a biological weapon specifically designed to target Bigfoot..."
"It's unbelievable!"
"..."
S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Damn it, is this some myth or legend?" Natasha Romanoff asked a little defensively.
As a fellow human being, she naturally does not want people to be oppressed by other races.
However, what she didn't expect was that human civilization was actually built on the ruins of another civilization.
A gift from God?
For a moment, everyone felt mixed emotions.
"We left no trace. Not even our own memories. We used a weapon on ourselves, wiping out all knowledge of SCP-1000 and the greatest civilization this Earth has ever known."
Dr. Kondraki spoke calmly, as if he was not talking about humans: "Only a few people were protected and retained the forbidden knowledge, just in case. The rest returned to primitive society and lived a life without wisdom."
"This is how we got to this day." Dr. Kondraki put out his cigarette and stood up silently.
Leon Lake frowned in thought, waved the file in his hand, but didn't know where to start.
Dr. Kondraki seemed to understand his thoughts, looked at him and said: "SCP-1000 is somehow recovering its forgotten intelligence and knowledge. Perhaps they have never truly lost it."
Leon Lake raised his head sharply.
Dr. Kondraki was still talking to himself: "This is why the increasing number of Bigfoot sightings is so worrying, and why any contact attempts, no matter how difficult to discern, are even more worrying."
As if confirming Leon Lake's fear, Dr. Kondraki cracked his lips and revealed a cold smile:
"Yes, SCP-1000 is like us. They are extremely dangerous. We wiped them from history and memory. We destroyed their civilization and slaughtered their species."
As he spoke, he stretched out his finger and pointed at Leon Lake's heart: "Ask yourself, if they had the chance, what would they do to us?"
Leon Lake shuddered slightly.
What else can be done?
Definitely,
Tooth for tooth, blood for blood!
Coincidentally, a piece of paper was scratched out from the archives.
[Addendum 1000-056-D: Instances of SCP-1000 have attempted to make contact with Foundation personnel on numerous occasions. Most contacts have resulted in untranslated [DATA EXPUNGED]. Recent attempts have shown that some instances of SCP-1000 are able to communicate in English.]
[Log 1000-ad065-x1: The following is a rough translation of a conversation between Foundation personnel and an instance of SCP-1000 on ██/██/██.
We can forgive you;
You have a chance now, don't miss it;
Let's come back!]
These three short sentences sent shudders down the spine of the audience in the live broadcast room.
This is the struggle of an erased civilization.
This is the unwilling roar of a stolen civilization.
No one would believe that they would let bygones be bygones for what humans have done.
The more generous the Bigfoots become, the less likely humans will want them back.
S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Now I understand why Bigfoot was rated as a Keter-level containment object." Natasha Romanoff sighed and said with a complicated expression.
As a containment creature, Bigfoot does not have the unreasonable strength of 096, 173, and 682, nor does it have the unsolvable environmental anomalies of 1730 and 1983.
However, Bigfoot possesses the basis for human beings to gain a foothold in the world—wisdom!
This is a force that can turn the world upside down!
The content of the file ends here, but both Leon Lake on the screen and the audience outside the screen are caught in a strange mood.
This time, there were none of those tragic, heroic, or adrenaline-pumping scenes from previous containment incidents. People didn't even get to see the real body of SCP-1000.
However, it is just a file.
A conversation.
The fear it brought to people was far greater than any other time before!
·
Future Technology Building.
Peter Parker stared blankly at the screen in the sky.
He suddenly understood what Leon Lake meant when he said, 'They are a poor and unlucky race.'
It's as unbelievable as if human civilization were suddenly overthrown by captive monkeys one day.
Da da da!
Peter Parker looked at Leon Lake and Gaea who had just returned from going out.
"Is the matter done?" Peter Parker didn't know what made Leon Lake leave, but he still asked subconsciously.
As he spoke, he noticed a white feather that Gaea was playing with in her hand.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he could even see tiny dots of starlight between the fine hairs on the feathers.
This feather actually gave him a sense of holiness.
"Beautiful feathers, like the ones on Angels."
Gaea smiled charmingly, raised the feather in her hand, and said proudly: "My brother gave it to me."
Leon Lake looked at Parker and raised his eyebrows: "Good vision."
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