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Item #: SCP-4000

Object class: Euclid

Special containment procedures: SCP-4000-1 has proven not to be able to move at all. It`s settled on ███████████, at the coordinates ██°N, ██°E. Thus, it is to be filmed by a not only heatproof, but also waterproof camera. The definition of the camera is of no relevance. The only personnel allowed to enter SCP-4000-1 have to possess the clearance level four (4) or higher or work in the SCP archives.

SCP-4000-2 is free to move, where ever it wants to go. Partly because it hasn´t shown any intention to harm anyone or anything on its trips and because it has been impossible to keep SCP-4000-2 inside SCP-4000-1, once it decided to leave it.

Description: Seen from outside, SCP-4000-1 appears as a black box of an unknown material with the measures 6m•6m•6.371km. 50cm from the top, on the south side of SCP-4000-1, there is a door made of ebony. Seen from inside, SCP-4000-1 is an oldfashioned library, containing one copy of every single book, movie, CD and poem ever made, several armchairs, tables, chairs and chandeliers and SCP-4000-2. In the front hall is a desk with a chair, where SCP-4000-2 sits, a corner for “customers” with three armchairs, a lamp and a table, a desk for studying and/or copying texts and the recently published books. Despite the circumstances of its position, inside SCP-4000-1, there is a constant temperature of 23°C. Its origin is described in interview 1 with SCP-4000-2.

SCP-4000-2 appears to be a humanoid creature at the age of 20 years. It wears a pair of square shaped glases, a white shirt, a brown cardigan, jeans, black socks and black shoes. It weighs 60kg, is 1,90m tall and wears shoesize 43 (EU). It has got an approximate IQ of 210. In addition, SCP-4000-2 possesses the ability to summon and command objects or characters out of books, movies and poems, which it always does when someone inside SCP-4000-1 willingly damages an objekt, that belongs there (see tests 1-3). Expeditions into SCP-4000-1 have shown, that all the floors beneath undergroundfloor number 1 are impossible to reach. But since SCP-4000-2 is able to get to the lowest floor (according to himself (interview 1)), SCP-4000-2 must be able to teleport. SCP-4000-2 has mostly shown humanoid and cooperative behavior and is thus to be fully respected.

Interview 1

Interviewer: Prof. Dr. Stone

Interviewee: SCP-4000-2

Location: ███████████

[BEGIN LOG]

SCP-4000-2: I´m sorry, I didn´t get your name. You are…?

Prof. Dr. Stone: My name is Professor Doctor Stone.

SCP-4000-2: A doctor. And a professor? You must deserve a special respect. I am 
now even more exited to answer your questions.

Prof. Dr. Stone: I´m glad to hear that. So I´ll just start with the questions 
without further formalities. They just take our time.

SCP-4000-2: Yes. Please begin.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Okay. When was this facility founded?

SCP-4000-2: It was founded when the first text in the world was written.

Prof. Dr. Stone: And why was it founded?

SCP-4000-2: Because I, at that time, already thought that the human ability to 
imagine and write stories and other things are the most important thing to 
remember.

Prof. Dr. Stone: So you founded it?

SCP-4000-2: Yes. And no. This archive of human literaure built and still builds 
itself.
 I am the one, who keeps the order, picks up the books and organizes everything.

Prof. Dr. Stone: How are the texts sorted?

SCP-4000-2: By the publishing date. The oldest books are furthest down and 
the newest books are up here. Of course we use a register for keeping the 
order.

Prof. Dr. Stone: If I understand right, your oldest book is stationed in the 
chamber deepest down?

SCP-4000-2: Yes. Shall I get it?

Prof. Dr. Stone: No. I´d like to resume with the interview.

SCP-4000-2: (nods)

Prof. Dr. Stone: How many books do you have here?

SCP-4000-2: All of them.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Is that the reason, why this Archive reaches into the center of 
the earth?

SCP-4000-2: No. The reason, why we reach to the center of the earth is, that we 
have every single text ever written. There´s a difference. If we only would 
collect books, we would not collect the whole beauty of human literature.

Prof. Dr. Stone: You mention “we”. Are there another instances of SCP-4000-2 in 
here?

SCP-4000-2: I don´t know, what that is.

Prof. Dr. Stone: That is simply you. That is your SCP number.

SCP-5300-2: Please don´t call me that. You can identify me with a number in your 
SCP file, but in a face to face conversation, I´d like to be called by my birth 
name Victor. And no. There´s just the archive and I. (gets to its feet and heads 
for the entrance) I´ve got to go now. A book has been finished. Please leave the 
archive, so I can lock it.

[END LOG]

Interviewer´s note: SCP-4000-2 claims to have collected every single text written by humans. Including the very first one. Since we don´t know, when the humans began to write, we have to say, that it lived with the very first humans. That means, that SCP-4000 must be about 200.000 years old.

SCP-4000-2 seems to be very intelligent. As it appears in the interview, it crorrected me several times. Always finding points, that I missed. For example, that it not only collects books. An intelligence, which roots I see in its gift only to see the most important. And in an intention to rid the world of stupidity. It shows a few characteristics like f.ex. being very stuctured, organized and with an unresistable notion to keep things in order as I have learned to value in people with autistic specter.

Interview 2

Interviewer: Prof. Dr. Stone

Interviewee: SCP-4000-2

Location: ███████████

[BEGIN LOG]

Prof. Dr. Stone: Hello.

SCP-4000-2: Greetings.

Prof. Dr. Stone: That reminds me very much of SCP 049! Do you know it?

SCP-4000-2: The SCP files are texts, which were created by human minds, 
which means, that I have to collect them. Yes.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Interesting. Very interesting. So you have been inside the 
chambers of the SCP foundation?

SCP-4000-2: Only in those, where a text has been finished.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Interesting. Very interesting. But let´s continue our recent 
interview. We sadly could not finish it.

SCP-4000-2: Yes. A very good idea.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Last time was pretty much about the archive. This time, I´ll 
ask some questions about you.

SCP-4000-2: Fine with me.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Good. Where do you come from?

SCP-4000-2: From here, ███████████.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Do you have any family?

SCP-4000-2: No. I don´t, I didn´t and I´ll never do.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Can you tell me anything about your past?

SCP-4000-2: No. My past is my presence. And my future. I´ve been nothing else 
in the past than I am right now. Time doesn´t matter to me. Or the archive.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Interesting. So I suppose, you can´t tell me, how old you are?

SCP-4000-2: That is correct.

Prof. Dr. Stone: Do you have a favourite artefact of these, that you collect 
here?

SCP-4000-2: Well, I quite like “The Lord Of The Rings” and other fantasy stories, 
which is, why I always have some of them up here. But now I think about it, my 
favorite artefact is the doctoral thesis of Dr. Bright. But if the SCP file about 
me is good, that one could become my favourite artefact.

Prof. Dr. Stone: We´ll do our very best. Thank you for the interview.

SCP-4000-2: It was a pleasure for me to have been able to rid the world of 
another bit of uncertainty.

[END LOG]

Interviewer´s note: This SCP has collected all the SCP files. I require, that anyone, that does not already know all this is forbidden to enter SCP-4000-1. For the love of mankind, this archive has collected even the darkest secrets of the SCP Foundation!! It would be a disaster if a civilist finds all this out and tells it to someone. I doubt, that we´ve got enough amnesia for the population of the entire world!!

Dr. Bright´s note: Where the heck did it get my doctor´s thesis?!

Test 1

Object: SCP-4000

Preface: A test subject (D-88839) was told to enter SCP-4000-1 and act like a 
customer. 

Observation note: SCP-4000-2 welcomed D-88839 and asked, if he was looking 
for something special. D-88839 answered, that he didn´t and began examining 
the newest books. Soon, he began ripping several pages out of it. SCP-4000-2 
got to its feet and went over to D-88839. It asked something, which made the test 
subject scream: “NO, NO, NO! I HATE BOOKS! I HATE KNOWLEDGE! THAT´S WHY 
I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR EIGHT FUCKING YEARS!!!” After that, 
SCP-4000-2 said something in an unknown language and summoned a dragon 
from Christopher Paolini´s “Eragon – Brisingr”. D-88839 died only moments after 
because of the dragon´s fire.
5 seconds later, the demolished book stood, where D-88839 had taken it from. 
But totally intact.
Test 2

Subject: SCP-4000

Preface: D-74692-Pl was told to enter SCP-4000-1 and ask for the oldest book 
in the world and rip a page out of it.

Observation notes: SCP-4000-2 welcomed D-74692-Pl in english, which the man 
from Poland did not understand. He answered in his native language, that he 
looked for the oldest book in the world. SCP-4000-2 nodded and went out of the 
room. A few moments later, it came back with a half rotten book and handed it 
to D-74692-Pl. D-74692-Pl opened the book and tore out the first page. Over 
him, a portal opened and tentacles drew him into the other dimension. The 
damaged book was vanished. Another test subjekt (D-94471) was sent to ask 
for the book, but not to damage it. When D-94471 got the book, it seemed to 
be in even better “health”.
Test 3

Subject: SCP-4000

Preface: A test subject (D-89294) was told to ask for the egyptian death guide.

Observation notes: After getting the book (a roll of papyrus), D-89294 fell into 
a trance in front of it. She made a few steps before tripping over a bump in the 
carpet and breaking her neck falling against an armchair. SCP-4000-2 
additionally vaporized the corpse with a spell from “Harry Potter” because she 
had broken the scroll in half and she couldn´t explain, why it had been an 
accident.