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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 4/XXXX CLASSIFIED

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ANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 4/XXXX AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.

Item#: XXXX

Level4

Containment Class:

safe

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

keneq

Risk Class:

danger

link to memo

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Photograph of SCP-XXXX entry.

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is a self-contained anomaly. A Fifty-meter fence has been constructed along the permitter of SCP-XXXX and is monitored for 24/7. Humanoids seen exiting SCP-XXXX are to be contained or be terminated depending on the humanoids cooperativeness. A remote drone are to be deployed at least three days in two months to observe any activities inside SCP-XXXX. Additionally, SCP-XXXX-A is held in a secure and air-tight containment cell with constant monitoring for natural life. The subject is visited three times a day for its medical checkups and reevaluation and be questioned with extreme care under Director Bat-Bold Haliun’s permission and his supervision.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a spatial anomaly found in the skirt of Mountain Altai Tavan Bogd, Mongolia. It is a deep underground system leading down to a topographical subterranean area with photosynthesis and chemosynthesis properties mixed with an unknown pollen grain acting as oxygen in the atmosphere. Upon entering the subterranean area, a vast and arboreal landscape will appear.

The spatial abnormality mainly becomes apparent after entering SCP-XXXX. Any form of an electronic device will be unable to function, and the only exception would be a camera recording with limited visibility. When all electronic devices are present inside the anomaly, it will spat out the devices with an extended amount of damage. However, no biological organisms that had entered with the devices will come out—leading to believe that SCP-XXXX would observe any biological organisms and throw out electronics as waste. The exact measurements and dimensions of SCP-XXXX are currently unknown due to their anomalous properties.

Within the area are stationary humanoids made entirely of branches that grow various flowers of unknown species will release pollen. When inhaled, no initial effect will be shown. However, it is known to cause the human biological body to turn into a branch similar to that of the humanoids with the same characteristics. The humanoids themselves are immobile and unable to respond to any stimuli, and don’t possess any internal organs and external senses, making them vulnerable to any hostile attack. Samples retrieved from SCP-XXXX revealed that certain parts of the wood contain a human DNA, though it does not appear to have any fleshy substance upon touching the surface of the wooden humanoids.

Animals made out of the same components can be found inside the cave, although they can move around the enclosure of SCP-XXXX, having flexible joints. These animals function as any other creatures in Kingdom Animalia. Although every animal has different bodily functions, these wooden animals will also have the same livelihood and physical purpose. An examination conducted on a wooden bee extracted from SCP-XXXX was compared to the common bee (Apis) to differentiate their properties. Researches concluded that the bee removed from SCP-XXXX functioned typically as a common bee, and a DNA test revealed that it has both Bee and Willow tree cells and DNA. Another test was conducted, this time on a wooden Koi fish found during a drone expedition, comparing it to another un-anomalous Koi fish (Cyprinus rubrofuscus). The test concluded with the same result, the koi fish extracted from SCP-XXXX has the same function as an average Koi fish, with their animal cells being adjacent to the Japanese maple tree’s (Acer palmatum) cells. Any wooden animals that have not been found inside the cave are assumed to have the same function as others, though the assumption has been inconclusive.

SCP-XXXX-A is a male humanoid of its mid-teens. The subject can control its surrounding nature for its own purpose. The purpose of which, It creates creatures (mainly serpentine entities) by containing every element in the natural environment with a pull inside its body. Upon examining the body of SCP-XXXX-A, the structure and function of the subject are fundamentally dissimilar to the average human. Still, brain function is typical of a human, but the brain's temporal lobe is magnetically charged. Additionally, its body is fundamentally different to that of a human, the subject could adapt its body based on the weather and the environment around it.

Discovery: Both anomalies were found after a series of mining destruction occurred in Mongolia, during a month where the operations are most active. The factories were destroyed via artificially made eruption underneath the facility, which caused a chain reaction to all equipment and machinery, resulting in full-scope demolition. On 4/3/2020, one mining factory at [REDACTED] sent a distress signal, and the worker had called authorities in which the worker described, “A boy on a floating rock summoned a snake and trying to blow us up”. The voice recording was promptly confiscated from the police department, and the agents were dispatched to the site.

Upon arriving at the factory, agents recalled seeing the burns and damages made into the surrounding nature mend itself back to health, during which the agents encountered SCP-XXXX-A, where they began engaging the anomaly. Unfortunately, at which point, in an attempt to contain the anomaly, SCP-XXXX-A sustained a significant injury to the head via bullet wound, after which the subject was taken to the medical facility where the anomaly was in a comatose state. The agent responsible for SCP-XXXX’s injury has been given disciplinary action.

A tunnel leading to SCP-XXXX was also found three days later, during a cleanup crew, while doing a full scope sweep across the land.

Addendum XXXX.1:

+Open MTF Exploration Log XXXX

Note: Five Mobile Task Force-Zeta 9 ("Mole Rats") members were deployed into SCP-XXXX after its discovery. The following is a recording of phenomena within SCP-XXXX by Agent Brian Olson’s (Captain) shoulder-mounted camera.

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[Begin Log]

(The camera activates. Agent Olson is leading the group down further inside the cave’s tunnel. The lights dim, and Zeta members lights on their flashlight. Olson turns back to the entry.)

Agent Olson: Is the entry to the cave feels far away now?

Agent Sunder: Yup. The reality isn’t on our side. I feel like I climbed down for hours.

Agent Oyulan: I feel like I’m walking on a treadmill.

Agent Zachary: That’s weird. I keep seeing the same rock, over and over.

Agent Luna: Spatial anomaly. Alright, let’s keep going.

(After climbing down several meters, Olson came to a halt and faces a stone wall, and the flashlight reveals a bone similar to that of a ribcage lounged into the wall. Olson crept closer to the bone and dragged his hand through it. Upon touching it, the bone shakes into motion, rolling on the walls towards one specific spot. Olson skitters backwards to reassemble with his team. 20-meter long snake in a form of seaweed and exposed bones simultaneously collecting itself and slowly gains focus. Zeta-9 began firing at the creature with no indication of damage as the creature unhinged its jaw and charges at Agent Oyulan. She barely dodges the beast and falls to her side.)

Agent Olson: Find some way to kill that thing!

Agent Luna: It’s moving too fast!

Agent Oyulan: Why can’t we throw a grenade at it?

Agent Sunder: Are you fucking mental, mate? You want to us get crushed?

(The snake twirls. However, its movement is erratic due to limited space inside the narrow tunnel. It hits Agent Olson with the tip of its tail during its erratic behaviour, causing him to fly from the ensuing fight.)

(Agent Olson remains in his position, seemingly unconscious, facing the ground. Blood splatters across the stone ground through the left corner of the camera, followed by a pained screech.)

Agent Zachary: Oyulan! Shit!

(The sound of an explosive is heard, followed by a flash of light. Then, the ground began shaking, continued by a rock landing beside Olson.)

Agent Luna: Shit! Shit! Shit!

Agent Sunder: Stop cursing and take Olson. Let’s go!

(Four pair of hands lifts Olson by his shoulder, dragging him further down the tunnel.)

(About an hour into descending the tunnel, Agent Olson came and looked around.)

Agent Olson: What? What happened?

Agent Sunder: Oyulan is dead! She took out that snake but destroyed the tunnel in the process.

Agent Olson: Fucking Idiot! What about our way out?

Agent Sunder: Almost half of that section we were in collapsed. Our only way out is to contact those for the outside. But for some reason, we can’t seem to reach Command.

Agent Olson: Possibly the result of the anomaly. Let's keep going.

(Agent Luna emerges behind a rock.)

Agent Luna: I found a hollow wall. I might need some help to break it.

(The four members began clipping at the hollow wall with a small pickax. But it does nothing to break the barrier. Olson then throws an F-1 hand grenade, blowing the border open. The dust collects as Agent Olson follows Agent Zachary through the broken wall. A vast green hills stretches further into the horizon with no end, above the team the sky is coated with blue haze overlapping the dirt and rocks.)

Agent Olson: Holy shit! This is amazing.

Agent Luna: Tell me about it.

Agent Zachary: How is this possible?

Agent Luna: Beats me.

(A slow chipping and cawing can be heard somewhere in the distance. A butterfly lands on Luna’s right shoulder, causing her to stiffen her body. Sunder quickly gets up from the ground and pulls out his camera, and snaps a picture. Up close, the butterfly’s body section is made out of wood, and white silk is trailing behind its back into its wing and glitters when it moves.)

(The group resume their exploration as they creep through a cornfield. A flock of unknown birds flew above the team. Then, through the left corner of the camera, a human figure appears in a split second. Immediately Olson halts his movement and turns sharply at the figure.)

Agent Olson: I saw something. A human. Is that-

Agent Sunder: I see it!

(Approximately three meters away. A human figure is seen standing amongst the corns. The team cautiously approached the human to reveal it being made out of branches and is unmoving. Sunder walks past the humanoid and whistles.)

Agent Sunder: Huh. That’s weird.

(Agent Sunder signals them, the three unites with Sunder and found him standing on top of a hill overlooking dozens of humanoids with yellow fume coating the atmosphere, almost making a mist effect.)

(They descends towards the humanoids, and Agent Luna began dry coughing.)

Agent Sunder: What? Are you sick?

Agent Luna: I don’t know, the air got thick.

Agent Sunder: Be sure to tell any changes. We don’t know what could happen.

(Agent Sunder takes the lead as he is the one who reaches the humanoids first. He crouches down to one of the humanoids feet level and began tracing a device through it while coughing.)

Agent Olson: Anything?

Agent Sunder: (coughs) No clue. The device is picking up a lot of Thaumaturgical remains, though.

Agent Luna: Any sign of consciousness? I mean, it has a human body. So it might as well be alive in there.

Agent Sunder: Perhaps. Especially how much they are packed here.

(Upon inspection, the humanoids are frozen mid-motion, holding hands or carrying the same more diminutive humanoid.)

Agent Zachary: It looks like they been turned in mid-movement. I wonder what had happened.

Agent Olson: A deer?

(They all looked towards where Olson has pointed and sees a deer made out of wood, its antlers containing wet moss and birds made from the same material. The animal is frozen in its spot, only for it to sink into the ground.)

Agent Olson: This place is a spatial anomaly. I need you three-

(Agents Luna and Sunder are absent. Zachary’s feet suddenly engulf into the grass, and Olson quickly takes his hand before Zachary could be pulled further.)

Agent Zachary: Shit! Ah!

(Blood spurred out of Zachary’s mouth and around his midsection, a sound of ripping and snapping is heard.)

Agent Zachary: Stop! Stop, let go of me!

(Agent Olson obliged, and Zachary is dragged underneath the ground.)

(Hereafter, the visibility of the recording has degraded. Agent Olson is walking across a barren greenfield, and he seems to have been hurt as his walk is slow and unsteady. He halts his movement suddenly, afore him is a humanoid in fetal position lifted up-air by overgrown, dead branches. Beside it was Sunder and Luna with their bodies now hardened.)

(The humanoids head snapped up towards Olson, and the agents take a frantic step back only to fall backwards. He looks down at his hand, and his veins are pulsating in green whilst his hands turn yellow.)

(The humanoid moves and snaps its joint in position. And beginning to walk towards him.)

Agent Olson: (stammering) Wh-w- what? S-stay back!

(Olson empties his calibre on the humanoid, but the entity still approaches the agent.)

Humanoid: Shh, child. You are tired. Let me tell you a bedtime story. Come here.

(Humanoid takes agent Olson and cradles him in its arm, locking his position. Agent Olson’s hand holds his handgun fires at the entity’s left shoulder until he empties his ammo. However, the humanoid doesn’t move or flinch.)

Humanoid: Shhh, once upon a time, a land of green stand afore a young boy. He was lost, tired and hungry, but with the sight of the lush green land, his despair was squished down to million pieces as he saw the peace.

Agent Olson: Ple-stop.

Humanoid: The boy was hungry, so he took one of the blackberries hung between the green branch and ate it, and he saw a knowledge, a piece of knowledge never to be hungry. Full and tired, he walked forwards to a looming green tree, its leaves hanging lonely from its branches. It was big, big enough to hide the sun. So the boy fell asleep underneath the tree. When he awakened, his body as strong as steel and agile as water.

Agent Olson: My- my body. I can’t feel it.

Humanoid: He looked up to the sun and saw it staring at him. He frowned and told the sun he was lost; the sun answered with warmth to his cheek, and the boys' shadow stretches towards a tall mountain.

Agent Olson: It’s too hot.

Humanoid: Boy followed his shadow, and when he reached where the shadow guided him. He saw his own home. The boy ran to his house happy but only find his family have left him in a hurry.

(The humanoid leans into the camera, Agent Olson is no longer moving.)

Humanoid: Have you fallen asleep? Me too, I can’t stay awake for a long time.

(The recording stops afterwards.)

[End Log]

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Afterwords: The video recording alongside the team’s equipment and supplies were discovered three days after the descent by the research team but none of the five members. Due to the loss of communication, a remote drone is tasked to explore SCP-XXXX without sending a human subject.

+Open Drone Exploration Logs XXXX

NOTE: Drone was sent into SCP-XXXX due to the concerns of losing personnel.

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With a bumpy start, the drone began descending the tunnel and reach the entry point to SCP-XXXX’s interior. Then, the drone ascents towards the artificial sky, the camera showing the full scope of barren green fields and hills.

Within 3 minutes, The drone enters the area of densely gathered stationary humanoids, and the drone is dropped down to have a closer look. A slight movement is seen among the packed crowd, and one humanoid began running out of the pack into a densely wooded area the moment it saw the drone. The drone trails behind the human then lose it the moment it reaches the forest. A loud hornet blares through the area, causing unknown birds to fly out of the trees.

The drone tries to get out of the way, but it is a second too late as black coloured bird collapses into the drone; the bird's wing snaps and falls to the forest. The drone staggers mid-air. The camera is unstable for 25 seconds, and the drone spiral down to the ground. The drone is hit with multiple tree branches while dropping. Once it hits the ground, the camera is slightly askew, facing the assumed dead bird that had collapsed against the drone a second before.

After about 10 minutes of lack of response from the drone, a footstep is heard outside of the camera. The drone lifted off from the ground and is shaken for approximately 7 seconds before a human hand appears in the footage. It then cupped the drone underneath its armpit and began sprinting out of the forest. A sound of childlike laughter can be heard from the entity holding the drone. Shaky footage of the ground can be seen for 10 minutes before stopping in a sand field. The drone then is gently placed on the grass. The camera is facing the sand, and for 23 seconds, the sand began moving into motion and the drone beginning to get sucked in. The drone's camera faces the sky, and a semi-humanoid began emerging from the sand. The entity’s gazes are fixed on the drone, and its hands stretch forward towards the drone. There the signal was lost.

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Afterwords: The drone was retrieved five hours after being spat out of the cave. The device has sustained a significant amount of damage. Damages include severe ripping and dismantling with traces of organic life growing out of the insides.

NOTE: Due to the sudden changes in SCP-XXXX activity, a stealth mission has been ordered via a small camera mounted drone called “Ruby” dispatched into SCP-XXXX. Ruby has a battery life of 24 hours with an additional backup storage. After entering SCP-XXXX, Ruby reached the threshold of the wooden humanoids, now fewer in numbers than the last two explorations.

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Ruby is stationary for 5 minutes, a small humanoid (hereafter Daughter) is staring at Ruby. Ruby is led closer; however, the Daughter makes shrieks and runs into the wood. Ruby’s camera zooms into the forest skirt, but the visuals quickly degrade; Ruby then turns and leaves for the hills. Once it reaches the top, Ruby overlooks a giant pond emitting hot steam that causes the lenses to fog out. From the pond, a several aquatic entities is seen jumping out of the waters. Ruby then approaches the pond, and before it could reach it, Ruby collides with an object and immediately is lifted off the ground and turned to face the entity lifting it. A female entity (hereafter Mother) observes Ruby while making a whistling sound similar to a bird chirping.
The camera shakes as the Mother is seen losing her posture and drops Ruby. SCP-XXXX’s cavern walls beginning to crumble as a rock above falls onto the ground, one almost hitting the Mother. Over the hill, the Daughter emerges and calls out to the Mother. The mother then runs to the Daughter, scoops it up from the ground, and disappears out of sight. Ruby is then quickly directed to take cover.

About 15 seconds, Ruby entered the forest and began traversing. 28 minutes into the exploration, Ruby comes across a cavern with flies and small insects littering about. Ruby then moves in closer to observe. Dozens of various of decomposed bodies are stacked on top of each other, with one or two bodies having multiple appendages. However, Ruby cannot observe longer as the footage goes static whenever the lenses try to zoom in.

Through the camera footage, an obscure wooden fox is seen passing through the trees. Ruby follows the fox immediately, and the fox stops at the banks of a long river. The fox’s head suddenly jolts upwards, its eyes focused on the other side of the river towards the forest. A pack of wooden horses emerges from the trees and crosses the river, which causes the fox to flee. One wooden horse sees Ruby and approaches the drone cautiously and sniffs Ruby, causing the camera to fog. Ruby backs-way from the horse and observes the pack for 5 minutes.

Photograph of a wooden horse taken by Ruby.

A sound of a loud hornet is heard in the far distance, followed by a simultaneous whistle from different areas, which causes the pack to disperse in fear. The closest is 2 meters away from Ruby, which it leaves to find the sound. Once Ruby reaches the origins of the whistle, it enters an open space. The grounds are nothing but dead grass, and afore is what seemed to be a broken stone priory completely out of place from the natural aspects of the area, which Ruby moves to get a closer look. Fortunately, a giant stone gate is slightly ajar for Ruby to squeeze in, and visual visibility degrades further.

Inside the stone temple, a broken chair can be seen haphazardly placed to the side of the walls. In the front middle of the temple, The Mother and The Daughter are cuddled together on the ground, whistling.
The Daughter then notices Ruby and points to the drone. The Mother instantly gets up from her position and screeches loudly upwards. The screech then reflected by dozens of the same sound from different places. Ruby is instructed to leave the temple, but the Mother broke into a sprint and snatched the drone up-air. The Mother spoke in an unknown language and snarled.
Another two arms like appendages spurt out of The Mother’s rib cages right under its arm. The Mother then places its four-arm between two sides of Ruby and crushes it. Ruby’s video transmission cuts here.

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Afterwords: Drone exploration has been postponed for an indefinite amount of time.

Addendum XXXX.2: During the third exploration, SCP-XXXX-A had franticly awaken from its comatose state and immediately breached containment. The subject fled about twenty kilometres into Umnogovi [REDACTED] to [REDACTED] mining factory and attacked the ongoing mining operation and killing an estimated 500 workers before being properly contained. The natural damages were repaired by an eruption hole created by SCP-XXXX-A in which it began rusting the surrounding mechanics and machines. The surviving workers were recovered and given amnestics.

Access only to level 4 or higher clearance.

NOTE: SCP-XXXX-A had refused to talk for three months in which the subject had repeatedly tried breaching containment. However, on 6/27/2020, SCP-XXXX-A decided to talk with only someone with knowledge of the Ancient Mongolian language. Site director Bat-Bold Haliun interviewed the subject behind a polycarbonate glass and five MTF members with on hand flamethrowers. Dir. Haliun had studied Ancient Mongolian for years and did not needed a translator.

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[BEGAN LOG]

(Site Director Haliun enters the interview room and takes a seat. Behind the glass, SCP-XXXX-A is on its seat with a carefully bandaged head, not moving.)

Dir. Haliun: (In Ancient Mongolian) Thank you for wanting to talk to us. I believe you have something to tell us.

SCP-XXXX-A: Precisely, I’ve been thinking about what to say for a long time.

Dir. Haliun: Tell away then.

SCP-XXXX-A: Perhaps the days of fearing and resenting humanity has long been gone, to me at least. But my people still have those notion firm into their hearts. Ever since humanity used the weapon against us after they did the same to the Engineers, the darkness within humankind has fluctuated. So I like to (clears throat and holds its head) steer my people in the right direction so they won’t make the same mistake twice and suffer the consequences again.

Dir. Haliun: Wha—so you’re telling that you are a part of—what? Lost civilization? If your people did exist, why don’t we have any records on you?

SCP-XXXX-A: We are very close to our nature doctor. We don’t terraform or change nature for our own gains. And we were nomadic before we had to hide. There is very little to our history as we like to have it remain in our group. We liked to keep it to ourselves. Perhaps the records of our existence would be the existence of the mountains and canyons of earth. Anyways, we were never involved with anything and liked to remain passive, but—it was probably why we were hunted to almost extinction.

Dir. Haliun: Why is that the case anyway? Why remain passive if you knew it was going to put you in “our” hit list?

SCP-XXXX-A: Ahhh, the answer to the question I have been looking for for millennia. Sadly I do not know. None of us does, actually. However, I have a hunch that it was because of our gift.

Dir. Haliun: A Gift?

SCP-XXXX-A: Doctor, you are very curious and nosy, aren’t you? Well, you didn’t hear it from me. And I doubt I’ll be welcomed now—but I am a tenth generation of the Mycetes. We are what “Mother” called us her children. There is a lot of child on this poor earth, more specifically we are known as the Black Raven’s gifts.

Dir. Haliun: The children of the black raven. Is it the “Mother” you speak of then? Can you tell me about her?

SCP-XXXX-A: Ah! Getting greedy, are we?

(Silent.)

Dir. Haliun: (takes a deep breath) Fine. But I have to ask, why did you attack those mining operations? What did they do to anger you?

SCP-XXXX-A: (Patting its head) To be clearly honest with you—there is nothing they did wrong; sadly, they were just destabilizing the cave system my people build to hide in by drilling and digging down into the ground. With huge risks, I tend to ignore everything around me. After all, my family is in there too, and I don’t want them to get hurt.

Dir. Haliun: (sighs) Well, I can’t blame you. Sadly we can’t stop every single mining factory in the country.

SCP-XXXX-A: Then I’ll stop them.

Dir. Haliun: Well, that's the problem, isn’t it? You can’t leave this place, even if you do—we will bring you back.

SCP-XXXX-A: This is where my persuasion wavers. You want to keep your people safe, while I want to reunite with mine under the last Sun. But you don’t want that, just like before.

Dir. Haliun: I don’t—When? When will your people wake up?

SCP-XXXX-A: (hesitate) Do you know the local fairy tale? It tells a story about an archer and his guest taking down the seven sun spurt out from the sky, causing an extreme drought.

Dir. Haliun: that fairy tale raised me. He made a promise to the local people to take all the seven suns. If he failed, he would cut out his tump and live underground, only drinking black water.

(SCP-XXXX-A sucks air between its teeth and grabs its head.)

SCP-XXXX-A: (grumbles) And he failed?

Dir. Haliun: Yes, he failed. He got the last sun aimed with his last arrow, but a black raven got between him and the last Sun. What does this weights on the subject we are talking about?

SCP-XXXX-A: That sun, doctor… has been burning bright for the millennium and been keeping humanity and others in the light for thousands or millions of years. There was never a when—if they had already awakened and left.

Dir. Haliun: What? They left SCP-XXXX?

SCP-XXXX-A: I—I think so. My memory is very jumbled. My—head hurts. (stammers) I think they did, and I suppose to—look after them.

Dir. Haliun: Are you—? Can we have a medic here!?

SCP-XXXX-A: (groaning) I don’t know. My head hurts.

Dir. Haliun: Alright, let’s end our talk.

(The interview concluded.)

[END LOG]

After the interview, the SCP-XXXX-A wound reopened, causing internal bleeding. Due to the severity, the subject was transferred for immediate brain surgery. After the surgery, the subject woke but had lost all brain and bodily function. Currently, SCP-XXXX-A is in constant monitor and medical reevaluation.

In the meantime, SCP-XXXX-A is deemed neutralized.

The possible existence of SCP-XXXX entities among human civilisation is widely possible as of this date, and an investigation into The Mycete society is currently ongoing.

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