SCP-CN-2176

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SCP-CN-2176: Zero-Calorie Biscuits
Author: Backlight SH
Featuring: Mint chocolate (as Dr. Mint), snoj (as Agent Xu Shanhua)

Support & advice: Tenth Lee、Mint chocolate、snoj、ellery_not_me (in no particular order)

A true zero-calorie, zero-fat, zero-carbs biscuit.

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Translated by: tetsusquared
It all boils down to money in the end, doesn't it?

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Item#: CN-2176

Level3

Containment Class:

euclid

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

ekhi

Risk Class:

warning

link to memo

Special Containment Procedures: Current containment work consists of preventing the distribution of SCP-CN-2176. The Foundation is working with quality control agencies in China, South Korea and Japan to monitor for sales of SCP-CN-2176. When found, the relevant local industry and commerce division is to immediately seize and recall all relevant products under the cover story "poor quality products". The seller is to be suitably interrogated and then administered class-B amnestics and released. All recovered products are to be transferred to the nearest Site and held in cold storage.

In addition, the Foundation is continuing to search for those affected by SCP-CN-2176. Any person found to be affected by SCP-CN-2176 is to be transferred to a Foundation front medical company, given a sufficient amount of nutritional replenishment, amnesticized and released.

Description: SCP-CN-2176 is a type of anomalous biscuit. Its appearance and taste are indistinguishable from that of regular biscuits; however, chemical analysis has revealed that its composition consists solely of water, cellulose, non-nutritional flavoring, and a small amount of unknown substance (designated SCP-CN-2176-K), and does not contain any other nutrients required by the human body¹. The anomalous properties of SCP-CN-2176 stem from SCP-CN-2176-K.

When a human subject consumes SCP-CN-2176, SCP-CN-2176-K will be absorbed in the stomach and enter the bloodstream. After a certain amount of time, it will enter the brain via the blood-brain barrier and begin causing its anomalous effects. After entering the brain, SCP-CN-2176-K will by an unknown mechanism (mechanism has been identified, see below) affect the brain, preventing the subject from accurately determining their health status and causing them to believe that "SCP-CN-2176 is sufficient to replace food and drink". This in turn leads to the subject giving up all food and drink save for SCP-CN-2176.

Foundation research has revealed that the time taken for SCP-CN-2176-K to affect a person is dependent on the subject's body mass index (BMI), as seen in the table below:

BMI	time (h)
＜18.5	45
18.5~22.9	38
23~24.9	32
25~29.9	25
30~39.9	19
＞40	12

If affected subjects are not properly treated, they will eventually begin to develop complications due to malnutrition, such as edema, immunodeficiency, and possibly even death. Currently, it has been determined that sufficient nutritional replenishment can reduce the effects caused by SCP-CN-2176-K.

Currently, the SCP-CN-2176 research team is currently researching has completed research on the mechanism by which SCP-CN-2176-K operates. For further information, see the SCP-CN-2176 mechanism report.

Addendum 1: SCP-CN-2176 Experiment Logs

Experiment Log 1

Subject: One Class-D subject (D-████).

Procedure: D-████ was instructed to consume 6 g (roughly one piece) of SCP-CN-2176, and was observed for a month.

Result: 38 hours after consuming SCP-CN-2176, D-████ began to continuously consume SCP-CN-2176 in place of other food and died ██ days into the experiment due to complications caused by malnutrition.

Analysis: How strangely evil… — Research Assistant ████████

(Several experiments in order to find ways to remedy the effects of the anomaly, as well as relevant factors, are omitted)

Experiment Log 04

Subject: 60 D-class personnel of varying weights, split into six groups by BMI (Asian standard).

Procedure: Each D-class was instructed to consume 6 g of SCP-CN-2176, and the time taken for the anomaly to manifest was measured.

Result: Following consumption, each group showed anomalous effects after a certain period of time. The length of this period was inversely proportional to BMI, but was not less than 12 hours or more than 45 hours.

Analysis: Further analysis was performed afterward, but the extrema were confirmed as 12 hours and 45 hours. — Dr. ████

Experiment Log 07

Subject: 60 D-class personnel with healthy body weights (BMI between 18.5~23), split into six groups of equal size.

Procedure: The first group was instructed to consume 1 g of SCP-CN-2176; the second group was instructed to eat an additional 1 g, and so on up to the sixth group. All six groups were monitored to determine whether the anomaly would manifest.

Result: Members of all six groups were affected by the anomaly after an average of 38 hours, regardless of the amount of SCP-CN-2176 consumed.

Analysis: Our conclusion is that without treatment, someone who eats this won't turn back as soon as he's eaten a single bite. — Researcher ███

I think that's enough. Let's now focus on analyzing SCP-CN-2176-K's makeup and how it works. — Dr. ████

Addendum 2: Discovery

SCP-CN-2176 was originally to be distributed by a Manna Charitable Foundation relief group in Laos, but on further inspection were found to be defective and recalled. The following are communications from the relevant MCF members intercepted by the Chinese branch of the Foundation:

Click to open and play Intercepted Log CN-2176

MCF Laos Relief Group Manager: What happened? Why'd you call so suddenly?

MCF Far East Branch Manager: JOICL just called, RAH-12² is defective and can't be used.

MCF Laos Relief Group Manager: [quietly] You're kidding, right? How could this…

MCF Far East Branch Manager: Never mind that, have you started distributing them yet?

MCF Laos Relief Group Manager: No, not yet… thank god for that.

MCF Far East Branch Manager: That's good. Do you have sufficient manpower and supplies?

MCF Laos Relief Group Manager: I'm fine on manpower, but after cutting out the defective stock we're definitely low on supplies.

MCF Far East Branch Manager: Got it. I'll quickly arrange for usable supplies… oh, and make sure to seal away the RAH-12.

MCF Laos Relief Group Manager: Understood. We'll deal with it.

Following Foundation discussions with the MCF, both organizations initiated a recall, recalling a total of ███ kg of SCP-CN-2176 which is currently stored in cold storage at Site-CN-██.

In addition, during discussions, an interview was conducted with officers of the Manna Charitable Foundation to uncover the whole story; the interview log can be viewed here.

Addendum 3: On 201█/██/██, after a raid on a JOICL research facility to contain SCP-████-JP, the Japanese Branch of the Foundation discovered information relating to SCP-CN-2176 while interviewing a captured individual. The relevant interview log has been archived in this document.

The following is the interview log.

Click to open and play Interview Log CN-2176

Interviewee: Sae Yuuko, JOICL Hereditary Chromosomal Structure and Function Research Unit ("Sae" below)
Interviewer: Agent Xu Shanhua, assigned to Site-81██ ("Xu" below)
<Irrelevant data excised>
Xu: Now that I think about it, shouldn't they have sent the person in charge³ of this? Why is it you here?
Sae: Gomyouda? [shakes head] No, he's not coming.
Xu: Why isn't he coming?
Sae: His relationships with other employees have always been poor… He's originally from the the Arimura group, and over there if you don't do your job properly, your superiors will discipline you severely. So any "close enough" work, or any messups, and he'll overreact. Then again, JOICL isn't exactly lacking in these types of people…
Xu: Oh, so that's the reason?
Sae: No, that's not the whole reason… but after that incident, he stopped participating in projects, and he sends us to do anything that needs doing.
Xu: Which incident?
Sae: It happened last year, in April or so. At that time, the foodstuffs department was developing a biscuit that was meant as a replacement for food, so they got the agriculture department to develop a high-fiber crop as a raw material… We were one of the six or seven teams they sent to do this.
Xu: And what were you responsible for?
Sae: Composing the hereditary information, checking that the traits were inherited, that kind of stuff…
Xu: And then you just went on with research and development, breeding the crops, and so on?
Sae:[nods]Pretty much, but those people didn't like the leader of the group. Even then, we were all working together, so we had to put our grievances aside and do as he said.
Xu: How long did development take?
Sae: About six or seven months. It took us five or six times longer than the other groups… but since all the problems had been ruled out, even if it were sold on its own, there would be no problems.
Xu: They expected a lot of you, huh…
Sae: When we handed the cultivated plants to the foodstuffs department, they even said "you should've finished this earlier, we should have started producing these long ago". We didn't say anything, we just went back to work. [sighs] I thought there wouldn't be any problems, that we could let things progress naturally. Who would've known…
Xu: What do you mean?
Sae: This year, in March, we had a formal dinner with some of the other departments. At that time, Itegiri from the B division drank a bit too much, and started to talk all sorts of nonsense… Some of his colleagues wanted to carry him back, but he started shouting at Gomyouda, going "Oi, Gomyouda, your colleagues already screwed up your work, have you not noticed?" and things like that.
Xu: But Itegiri could just have been talking nonsense… What was Gomyouda's response?
Sae: Gomyouda hadn't drank too much, so he asked Itegiri what he meant… Itegiri said that when they were making the biscuits, some prankster from the psychiatric department had added a little "something" in to make people who ate any of it keep eating it alone until they died.
Xu: And where are those biscuits now?
Sae: Some of those were donated as regular biscuits to Manna, and the rest were sent to various affiliates in East Asia for distribution… that's what Itegiri said, at least.
Xu: And what happened next?
Sae: Gomyouda went to the psychiatric department the next day to ask if they had done anything like that… The person in charge there didn't even look for excuses, he just started mocking him, going all "So what? Better than being overly cautious like you", and so on. Gomyouda was really angry, and he started beating him up. There were a few people there at the time, but they couldn't stop him.
Xu: So… what did the higher-ups say about that?
Sae: The higher-ups initially wanted to discipline him, of course, but he went off at them. He said "Punish me for all I care, but if you let those idiots go, I'll deal with them myself"… that scared them alright.
Xu: He really is a yakuza at heart, huh… And did those guys ever get punished?
Sae: They were all fired, so Gomyouda considered his objective complete… but because this was quite a big blow to his career, he doesn't want to talk to anyone now, and needs us to do all the stuff for him.
Xu: I understand… in that case, we'll end the interview here.
<End Recording>
Note:The JOICL member Yoshihiro Gomyouda mentioned here seems to have grown discontent over the management at his organization. I propose we locate and contact him as soon as possible, and possibly hire him as an agent of the Foundation. — Site-81██ Director
Approved. With immediate effect, this person is designated PoI-81-053. We will try to locate and contact him.——Japanese Branch Director "Lion"

Based on the preceding interview, the Foundation speculates that a significant amount of SCP-CN-2176 has reached markets in East Asia. The Chinese, Korean and Japanese Branches have worked together to develop current containment procedures, as well as to treat those affected by the anomaly.

Footnotes

1. Such as sugar, fats, protein, or inorganic salts.

2. MCF designation for SCP-CN-2176.

3. Referring to Gomyouda Yoshihiro, the person in charge of Sae's unit.