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5 min readIn a city built from trash, a team of agents known as the Mole Rats descends into a nightmare. The air smells of sweat, machine oil, and excrement. The locals throw rotten fruit at them. One agent, Henry, falls into a pit of human waste, rips off his helmet, and vomits. The mission is to find something called "the builder"—an anomaly that is warping the city from the inside out. But the deeper they go, the more the city itself seems to be alive, hungry, and rearranging itself around them.
The City That Grows Inward
The team splits up to search the shanties. The houses are cramped, single-room structures packed with families who glare and shout in languages the agents don't understand. But when Agent Paul opens a door in one home, he finds something impossible: an identical room on the other side. Same wooden table, same six chairs, same children's drawings on the wall. And beyond that door, another identical room. And another.
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What you'll learn
- 1 The Infinite Walled City | SCP-184
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- 3 (01:35) **Arrival at the Walled City** - The team enters a garbage-infested shanty city where locals immediately show hostility toward the outsiders
- 4 (04:07) **Henry's First Breakdown** - A trash walkway collapses beneath Henry, sending him into a pit of human waste where he vomits inside his sealed helmet
- 5 (05:27) **Splitting Up for Recon** - Agent Parks assigns each team member to search groups of homes for anything "odd"
- 6 (06:51) **Discovery of the Endless Rooms** - The team finds a house containing identical rooms connected through doorways, each with a wooden table, six chairs, and children's drawings
- 7 (09:14) **Sewer Duty and Henry's Death** - While exploring the sewers, the team loses radio contact and returns to find Henry has been killed by a mob
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Show Notes
Deep beneath Kowloon Walled City, an SCP is reshaping buildings from the inside, creating rooms and hallways that should not exist. The deeper the Foundation goes looking for it, the harder it becomes to tell whether they’re still exploring the city—or something far larger.
This story is derived from The SCP Foundation Database and is released under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Author: Hayley Vandermaarl
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