“”Ah!”

Aaron’s sword flashed.

A dull thud tore through the room and attacked Calvin.

Calvin jumped back and blocked it with the butt of his spear, sending a shower of sparks to the ground.

“Sizzle——!”

Aaron stopped, flames spurting from the blade in all directions, and Calvin had to spin back and forth to avoid the flames.

He grabbed the back end of the spear and turned it over his head to freeze him, and the tip of the spear almost hit Aaron.

Aaron also dodged the spear.

Calvin ducked and turned again, and the tip of the spear almost pierced Aaron’s left leg.

This movement made him jump forward a little.

He lost his balance and saw the burning red steel falling towards him and hitting the ground. He rolled to avoid the flames that burst when Aaron stuck the sword into the ground.

“Boom!”

Aaron had no intention of stopping. He raised his sword again and swung it down, down, and down again. Each swing made Calvin retreat hurriedly to avoid the inferno.

“”Hard!”

Calvin saw an opening and ran away.

Just before Aaron was about to chop down with his sword, he leaned back and let go of the spear.

The air in the room suddenly became tense.

A deep, dull sound seemed to absorb all the noise.

“boom——!”

With a loud bang, the spear had passed through them and buried itself in the wall, leaving long, jagged cracks in the stone.

Aaron looked at his arm and saw blood and dust, where the spear had cut him as it flew past.

He turned to Calvin, who was also staring at Aaron’s arm.

Without hesitation, he pulled the sword to the left.

Flames burst from the blade! It surged like a curtain to surround Calvin’s body.

He jumped to the side to avoid it, but Aaron caught up with him again, ready to deliver a fatal blow.

In desperation.

Calvin threw out a hand to block the sharp blade that was swinging towards him.

At that”one hundred and sixty” moment, the spear flew back into his hand, hit the flaming sword and caught it.

“Aaron was quite surprised and hesitated to draw his sword back again.

Calvin pushed the spear out with both hands, knocking Aaron back.

“Bang!”

The supervisor went on the offensive again, slashing at Calvin with long sweeping blows.

Calvin rolled to avoid the incoming flames.

The flames swept across the display screens on the wall, melting them into a charred black.

When he turned around, Aaron was above him again.

But this time the golden sword rushed from below, not from above, trapping Calvin in the middle.

“”Die!” Calvin yelled, twisting his body, and the long handle of the spear pushed Aaron away.

He felt the hot blood begin to soak his clothes.

As he adjusted himself, Aaron stopped and dropped his sword to his side.

“call….”

In a moment, both of them stood there breathing heavily, looking at each other carefully from both ends of the room.

“You are truly an amazing testament to the will of the Separatists.” Aaron said slowly, his eyes fixed on Calvin:”When I was young, I would have been extremely jealous.”

Calvin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand:”What are you jealous of?”

Aaron squatted down:”When I was young, I made mistakes, costly mistakes”

“I always thought these mistakes were because my determination was not strong enough – but here you are”

“Your determination is as strong as mine, or even stronger.”

“But you are still here”

“Standing in the exact same place as I was in the past, making the exact same mistakes”

“I am different from you in every way.”Calvin said coldly:”I know what you are.”

“traitor”

“You were an Insurgency engineer, and then you betrayed us for the power they gave you.”

“You betrayed your ideals in exchange for a golden throne and eternal life.

Aaron looked up at the young man.

His eyes were filled with sorrow.

“I’m not an engineer, Calvin.”

“I never was”

“But you’re right about one thing. I betrayed you all – but not my ideals.”

“At that moment I had to choose between my ideals and some horrors.”

“They are not strong enough to support me.”

The sword burned again, and in the dim light of the cave, the sword fire danced in Aaron’s eyes.

“I’m going to kill you, Calvin, but not because I hate you or because I’m afraid you’ll usurp my position.”

Aaron whispered

“I want to kill you because I am afraid that your will is stronger than mine at that time.”

“I want to kill you because if you kill me, you will end up in the same position I was in all those years ago.”

“And you are stronger still.”

He raised the sword above his head, and from the hilt ignited an incredible explosion of fire.

It turned in the air, burning the ceiling of the cave, burning out the lights there.

The flames swept along the walls, crawling into the cracks between the stones, scorching every surface in its reach!

“Sizzle——!”

As soon as it hit the floor, the flames swept the room like a wave, swirling smoke and ash into the air!

Aaron swung the sword over his head, and the whole ball of fire began to swirl, and then he swung it again.

Until the whole room became a vortex of flames!

Then.

He saw Calvin leap up from the table in the room, holding the spear tightly in his hand.

He turned to block.

He heard an unstoppable sound whistling towards him along with the spear.

He swung his sword directly at it, and when the two weapons met.

The dazzling golden sword flashed violently!

It broke into pieces.

“sulfuric acid——!”

The spear hit Aaron right in the chest.

It sent him flying across the room and pinned him to the stone wall behind the monitor at the front of the house!

The broken pieces of the sword slipped from his hand and scattered on the ground.

Behind him, the spear was embedded in the stone wall, and the thick crack went all the way to the top of the hole.

The flames that had just engulfed the room dissipated after a short stay.

“call…!”

Aaron panted and leaned against the wall.

He raised a hand to his chest and felt the blood flowing out from between his fingers.

He put his hand weakly on the spear handle and tried to pull it out, but he no longer had the strength to do so.

“”Ahem!”

He coughed, blood filling his throat.

His body went numb, his limbs began to lose vitality, and he became colder.

His vision became blurry.

Each breath became shorter and harder.

Calvin stood in front of him, bloodied and bruised, but still standing.

Aaron saw him smile.

“It seems that I spoke too early. Aaron said softly. Calvin knelt on one knee and looked Aaron in the eye.

“it’s over”

“You’re the last of them, and when you’re done the world will begin to heal again.”

Aaron’s head turned to the side, then straightened forward.

He met Calvin’s eyes, and Calvin suddenly felt the same large presence as he had felt with Delta in the Somali warehouse a few months ago.

He felt distant and uncertain.

His entire being, body, mind, spirit, was being examined by something far larger than himself.

And then, in an instant it was gone.

Aaron laughed softly and coughed.

“No, Calvin, you really don’t understand”

“I thought so, but… I was wrong, we were all wrong”

“The administrator of the past didn’t see it, but I saw it.”

“He won’t understand”

“I never got to tell him, and he died thinking I betrayed him.” He took a breath.”I trusted him. He was my brother, but he didn’t understand.”

Aaron’s breath began to hitch.

“It’s not enough, Calvin, it’s not enough”

“Cancer, this cancer is not anyone, it is the Foundation. It has always been the Foundation.”

Hearing this, Calvin stood up.

He said firmly:”Enough, it’s all over.”

“I’m going downstairs now, I’m going to end it, this is how it ends.” (To read the exciting novel, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

Aaron exhaled a few times and said

“No…This is not it.”

He tried desperately to hold back his last breath.

With no strength left, he collapsed against the spear.

Aaron was dead.

Calvin staggered away from him, his head still spinning.

Tiny glowing strands of melted plastic and metal hung from the ceiling, a shadow in the nearly black room.

He stood in the darkness, holding his breath.

Until a familiar presence came out of the darkness.

“He’s dead.” Calvin’s voice was strange to him:”I killed him.”

Red Right Hand stood motionless at the back of the room.

He raised his hands and clapped them together.

A series of glowing cylinders rose from the stone floor around the room, illuminating the entire room.

Calvin took a hesitant step back and then another, leaving Aaron’s body pinned to the wall, and returned to the stairwell leading to the main entrance hall.

Red Right Hand was waiting for him there.

“Red Right Hand” Calvin said calmly:”There is a room in this facility that can dissolve the Foundation, right?”

“Yes.”

Calvin nodded:”It’s in the basement of the front hall, right?”

“Yes”

“take me”[]

Red Right Hand nodded, and then the two walked through the strange tunnel full of whispers between the lobby and the conference room, and returned to the hall under the legendary scroll of the Golden Club.

The huge pendulum above his head swung slowly and quietly, and there was a huge clock somewhere in the distance.

The vague ticking sound and the footsteps of the two were the only remaining sounds here.

In the center of the room was the elevator, and Red Right Hand was the first to walk over, reaching out to the door and sliding it open.

“My duty requires me to tell you.”Red Right Hand said softly, and his baritone voice echoed in the hall:”Once you step into this elevator, there is no turning back.”

“After this, only one decision can be made, and it cannot be undone…..”

Calvin nodded,”I know.”

He turned and looked at the door leading to where Aaron’s body was.

“It’s time.

Red Right Hand stepped aside and Calvin walked into the elevator.

The door behind him closed automatically.

The elevator began to descend.

“Tick——”

The elevator descended for an unknown amount of time before stopping. The door slid open and Calvin squinted at the bright light.

He walked into a room with high ceilings and dark wood floors.

On the opposite wall was a long window that wrapped around the entire room, and outside the window he could see the mountainside and the setting sun.

The walls were lined with bookshelves.

The books on them were old and thick, but in good condition.

On one wall was another row of monitors, very similar to the ones on the walls of the conference room.

But the scenes they showed were different.

In one of them, he saw a woman slashing her wrists in the rain.

In another, a man fell off a train with a bullet in his head.

He saw the mountain fortress where they had camped for the night, and the city in fire destroyed by the Green Clothes. He saw the airport, and the body of the handsome man Blackbird was twisted and shattered in the metal massacre. He saw Aaron with a spear pierced through his chest.

In the center of the room was a wooden table, neatly arranged and clean.

On it was a monitor, and on the screen was the Foundation’s security login interface.

Calvin walked to the back and sat in the high-backed chair behind the table.

At this time.

He spotted something odd on the far side of the table: a black, metal rotary phone.

He turned to his computer and logged in.

“drop!”

“Please submit your biometrics.”

The next moment, a fingerprint and iris scanner seeped out from the table.

He was prompted to submit his biometrics, and a fingerprint and iris scanner seeped out from the table.

He instinctively reached out and looked at the flashing red light.

Then both retracted into the wooden table and disappeared.

The screen displayed a successful login, and then the screens around the room all changed.

Each display showed a different picture.

But what was in common was obvious: they were all Foundation sites.

On one screen, Site-19 was recognizable.

On another, Site-42, and on another, Site-77.

They filled every available inch of glowing LEDs, until there was a Foundation site on every surface.

Then, an option appeared on the monitor on the table.

【End]

Calvin felt the air freeze in his chest.

He placed his hands on the keyboard, his fingers hovering over the final victory.

He took a deep breath.

“drop——!”

Suddenly, the phone rang.

Calvin hesitated, his fingers just a hair away from the keyboard.

He turned his head to confirm that he heard it correctly, and then the phone rang again….It rang again…It rang again.

On the fifth ring, he picked up, his hand no longer acting on his own volition.

There was something mechanical about the movement.

Something intuitive, something he couldn’t identify but that moved him nonetheless.

He picked up the receiver carefully, as if it were a living thing, and put it to his ear.

He heard only silence on the other end.

“”Hello?”

Suddenly, a voice came from the receiver. It was undoubtedly a man’s voice.

But something made the hair on Calvin’s arms stand on end.

He felt like he heard something that was both far away and completely present with him.

“”You are to be congratulated, Mr. Lucien.” Its voice said, in a brisk tone and smooth voice:”You have shown outstanding action, which I am sure will be of great benefit to our service.”

Calvin’s pupils contracted and he felt his pulse quicken:”Who are you?”

“Who am I? You must have guessed it by now”

“I am the one you want to kill.”

Calvin’s forehead was covered with cold sweat:”What? What do you mean?”

This time.

In response to the question, a light voice came from the other end of the phone.

“I am the administrator, Mr. Calvin.”

At this moment, including the audience in the heavens and the worlds, everyone took a deep breath.

Because they never thought…Administrator, you actually appear here!

【administrator】

【The true supreme being on this world line】

【The mysterious existence hidden behind the scenes, the real supervisor of the SCP Foundation】

【Existing as a transcendental abstract concept, the key to the endless cycle of the Foundation and the Insurgency, understanding it is to understand the nature of the anomaly, the nature of the Foundation, and the nature of SCP-001】

【Spear of the Faithless, Broken God, Twins of God, Aaron and the Serpent, and even Calvin】

【They are just chess pieces chosen by the administrator to manipulate fate.】

【Someone always picks up the phone at the last minute].


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