Cryogenic explosion

"The year is 3557. Sooner or later it would have to happen. Our Sun has increased dramatically in size, destroying the surface of the planet Earth city and almost all life, and then it began to decrease sharply, lowering the temperature of the planet to -120 Kelvin. Those who survived called the Apocalypse a "Cryogenic explosion," and some of the survivors proclaimed themselves a tribe of " Born in darkness." I am one of the few embroiderers who have become part of this tribe. We started living underground in a city we built called "shelter," and due to the lack of sunlight, we developed white skin pigmentation and new diseases. Not only have we changed our appearance, but our DNA has changed because of the conditions of living underground and eating genetically modified food. I hope that we will create a better world for the new humanity, "the trust read a note in the diary of the chronicler Salinger and prophetically calmly concluded:" and after 200 years, nothing has changed!".

In this moment in the door Cabinet Trust knocked unknown subject, and with consent Trust unknown subject penetrated in Cabinet, to to inform Trust something important, because simply so in Cabinet to leader of tribe "Born in darkness" not go:

- Chief! "what is it?" said his subject, who, like all the others in the asylum, was called Trust.

"I'm listening."  Trust turned to his subject, sitting in a chair at his Desk.

"Methyl's gone off the rails again!"

 It does not matter! No one listens to him anyway!

- Chief, he prevents people lunch!

"All right, now!"  trust said hastily, closed Salinger's journal, and headed for the asylum dining room. At last, when trust and his subject came into the dining-room, he again observed the mad escapade of Methil: Methil stood on the Central table of the dining-room and spoke:

"Mad men, behold the fools! You eat poison and poison your mind. Your mind does not see that you are being deceived. They don't want to let you go. The sanctuary will be your grave if you don't want to know the truth. The truth that on the surface of the earth, there are other people. Their name is "Born in the light," said Methil, his eyes blazing.

"Somebody shut him up!"  someone in the dining room shouted. "I want to finish my dinner, and it spoils my appetite…

"Nonsense! "Born in the light" is your disease! They do not exist, because on the surface of the earth it is impossible to survive! – denied one more person in the dining room from the tribe of "Born in darkness". "Have you forgotten that there are only sandstorms?" There is no life, there is only death…

"Exactly!  trust agreed with his subject, and everyone in the dining-room took notice of him and rose from their chairs. – Put Bromide into the room for the mentally ill! Let a psychiatrist deal with him…

Several subjects obeyed the order of the Trust, wrung methil's hands and led Him to the psychiatrist's office, and Methil only shouted after him: "You do not understand! Come to your senses! You must believe me!". But no one in the asylum dining room was listening.

Finally, when the subjects brought Methyl to the psychiatrist, they briefly described the behavior of the "patient", and the psychiatrist asked the subjects to leave him alone with Methyl, and they left the office.

"Why don't you take antipsychotics?"  Talius, the only psychiatrist in the asylum, asked the standard question.

"Because I'm healthy!"

"Then answer me one question!" Will a healthy person run around the dining room tables and shout about the existence of creatures you have invented? – Tali convinced of the "truths" Bromide.

"He will!  Methil said.

"Then answer me one more question!" Would a sick person run around the dining room tables and shout about the existence of imaginary creatures?  Talius asked quietly.

"He will!

- That's it! Therefore, I will increase the dose of neuroleptics for an indefinite period of time until you come back to normal!  Talius concluded.

"It won't change anything!"  Meth denied, and Talius asked the bouncers to take meth to his sanctuary room, where the only person in the sanctuary named Sodium who had spoken to him was waiting for Him.

"How are you?"

"As long as I live, they will not break me!"  Methil said, barely able to speak because of the potent neuroleptics.

"Tell me," said Sodium, pausing and continuing, "Why do you think there are these 'Born in the light'?"

"I'll tell you why I believe they exist!" But first promise me you won't tell anyone about my secret!

"Good! I agree!  Sodium agreed, knowing that there would be no other situation for Methyl, and Methyl reached into the right pocket of his battered trousers and pulled out a very strange object: on his palm lay bright silver with white shades of small scales of an unusual zigzag shape.

"These things aren't from our hideout!"  Methyl said with a smile on his face, and Sodium asked in surprise:

"Where did you find these scales?"

"When I was repairing the air supply system on the top floor of the shelter - near the dome, almost to the surface of the earth - these little scales appeared through the water seeping into the shelter.

"Then what does' Born in the light ' have to do with it?"

"I think these scales belong to these 'born in the light'!"

"But you didn't think the scales belonged to any other dead animal?"

"Impossible! Because I looked in the computer library at all the possible species of animals that could have owned these scales, and no animal had such scales!

"Perhaps you're right! But then why didn't you show those scales to the Chief?

"You did!" Now I am under the supervision of a psychiatrist…

"Then I'll talk to the Chief!" I'm sure he'll listen to me!

"No use!  Methil said desperately.

"Why not?"

"The people of power are interested in their power and will never give it up!"

"Then what do you propose to do if you're right?"

"One way out of this situation is to escape from the shelter and try to get to the surface of the earth!"

"But that's crazy!"

"It's crazy, but it's one of the smartest things to do in this situation." "I noticed the Mark and lay down on the bed to sleep.

Sodium found Methil's arguments convincing, and he was tormented by doubts about the conclusion drawn by the psychiatrist and the entire Darkborn tribe. However, Sodium could not understand how for 200 years, everyone was in error, and he decided to find out everything from the Chief. When Sodium knocked on the door of the Trust's office, the trust allowed Sodium to enter, as if the trust were waiting for him.

"Sit down!" – was invited to sit in the chair of the trust asked the question. – What business have you come to me on?"

"I wanted to know something about our madman, Methil…

- Continue…

"What if Methil is right that there are these so-Called' born in the light ' on the surface of the earth?"

"Of course he's right! - unexpectedly for Me confirmed trust.

"In other words, almost everyone in the asylum is under the delusion that he is insane?"

"No, they're right he's crazy!  trust said again, unexpectedly.

- Not understand…

"It's simple!  trust began to explain. – Even if he is right, and he is right, in any case we cannot follow the lightborn tribe because we are not adapted to their life on the surface of the earth. So he's completely insane!

"What if you're wrong?"  Sodium hesitated.

"Impossible! This is elementary deduction!  trust said confidently.

"What if it benefits you to believe that we are not adapted to life on the surface of the earth?"

"Quite right!

"Why are you being so Frank with me?"  Sodium asked, puzzled.

"Because the difference between us is that they'll believe me and you won't if you tell the truth to the rest of the people in the shelter, and we'll do to you what we did to Methyl!" And so it has always been and so it will be!  trust said, and smiled ominously.

Having learned all that he wanted, Sodium decided to go back to his room, saying goodbye to the Trust and realizing that Methyl is just a victim of the tribe "Born in darkness". The trust, on the other hand, went carelessly about its business as usual, sorting through Salinger's annals.

When the discouraged sodium returned to his room, Methyl, who had slept well, was waiting for Him:

"Methil, do you know how to get out?"  Sodium asked, and Methyl didn't understand why Sodium was asking.

"Yes, I know!  Methil replied, and saw the determination in His eyes to do what might seem like a crazy but actually sensible thing. – Do you know what you're doing?"

- Yeah…

"Remember! First you must volunteer to repair the dome. Then you have to find the slab in the top corner of the dome and open it.  Then you will climb into a long tunnel leading to the surface of the earth. But remember, there is no turning back! - explained Methyl, and Sodium mentally represented the above actions.

"I see! - confirmed Sodium and asked. – But why don't you go outside yourself?"

"Because we're all mad!"

"What are you getting at?"

"I don't want to get out because I've chosen another sensible solution in this situation. I realized that salvation from madness should not be sought on the surface of the earth, and salvation from madness should be sought in the fabrications of the mind about madness! – made Methyl, but Sodium did not understand anything of what he said.

The next day, however, Sodium performed all of the above actions advised by Methyl. Dressed in special protective clothing against radioactive radiation of the Sun, the Sodium was digging him on the ground. At last, breaking free of the earth, he saw a blinding bright yellow light and sandy snowstorms obscuring the reality of the earth's surface.

Continuing to walk for several hours in an unknown direction, Sodium still saw in the distance approaching humanoid silhouettes of those he was looking for, and as soon as they approached him, Sodium found quite unusual people. Their skin was covered with silver scales, and their eyes were pink with white hues.

"We've been waiting for you, child of the Darkborn!" – welcomed creatures that are unknown to the Sodium.

"But who are you?"

- We are children of the tribe "Born in the light"!

"But how did you survive?"

- Thanks to mutations. But on all your questions we will answer, when will come in areal tribe "Born under light of", - hurried Me one of creatures tribe " Born under light of»

"Is this your home?"

"Your home now!"  replied one of the creatures tribe "Born in the light" and smiled Sodium. – You don't have much time, because you have to hurry, or your protective clothing won't hold and you'll die from the sun's radiation…

"Lead on!"  Sodium confirmed, and they headed for the light-Born range, slowly disappearing into the distance in the storm's snowy sand and approaching the secrets of the light-Born tribe.

***

In the distance was the jewel of the lightborn tribe, a city surrounded by a huge transparent sphere of energy with pink storm lines on it, which protects the city from snow and sand storms and radioactive radiation from the Sun. In the center of the city is a temple similar to the Taj Mahal, and from the dome of the temple is directed to the sky energy white ray, dissolving in fiery acid clouds, hot Sun. Sodium want to understand what is the purpose of the temple, and he asked the mutant tribe "Born in the light»:

- What is the purpose of this majestic temple, which stands in the center of your city?  sodium asked as He approached the city.

"The temple of Areal is a power plant that provides us with the energy we need to live on the surface of the Earth, "one of the Lightborn mutants explained.

"Tell us, child of the darkborn, why did you come to the surface of the earth?" – asked the other mutant.

 I escaped from the madness that reigned in the Sanctuary…

"Did you run from madness to the Refuge because madness is in you?"  the same mutant said.

"What do you mean?"

"We believe that madness is reflected in the eyes of a madman when he sees madness in reality…

"You mean there's no such thing as madness?"

"I mean, we see what we believe!"  the mutant concluded. – So, child of the tribe "Born in darkness"! Welcome to the Range!

"Thank you." - said Sodium and could not believe his eyes that he sees what he sees: before him appeared countless gardens of various trees and stone roads leading to high-rise "ancient" buildings, and monuments built in the ancient style in memory of the great philosophers of mankind. Especially against the background of other monuments stood out the monument to Rene Descartes, which depicts Rene Descartes and his evil demon, which symbolically closes the eyes of the great philosopher. The mutant woman interrupted His contemplation:

- Glad to see you in the Area! My name is Averta. I will be your guide to our cozy city!

"My name is Sodium!" Lead on!  he couldn't take his eyes off her Andromeda-like eyes, knowing he was in love with Her.

"Then let's go."

"Certainly." - confirmed Sodium, and they went for a walk around the city.

Averta told him about every corner of the Area: for example, why one building was built in the Baroque style, and another building was built in the Gothic style, and most importantly in memory of whom each building was erected in the Area. But sodium scarcely listened to Her, only stared at her beautiful face, sparkling with diamond color and making him forget what time he lived.

"Well, for the present I have finished my story of the history of the city!  Averta said, and smiled at Sodium. – I'll take you to your house and you'll clean up!"

"Good!  Sodium agreed without hesitation, and averta led Him to a small high-rise building in his room, from the window of which he could see the ruins of old cities against the soulless fiery horizon of the milky way galaxy.

The next morning, Sodium heard his doorbell ring and opened it when he saw Averta:

"Get dressed!" You and I are going to have a serious conversation! - Averta starters conversation with sodium On "You" and hastened his, and Sodium maximally quickly led themselves in order and released together with Averta on streets Areala.

"What do you want to talk to me about?"

– I must to tell you about how, why after "Cryogenic explosion" people divided on two tribe - on tribe "Born in darkness" and "Born under light of", - frisky starters tell Averta about how, that leader tribe "Born in darkness" concealed from You.

"And why did they split up?"

 They were separated by the leaders of the people for two reasons! The first reason was that some wanted to live underground and others on the surface of the earth. The second reason was that people "Born in the light" and wanted to continue to explore the world around us, and people tribe "Born in darkness" didn't see the point in getting us knowledge, and for them the main thing was just the resource consumption of land - Averta introduced Sodium in the history of the tribes after the "Cryogenic explosion."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"You have to decide for yourself – either you stay here and become us, or you go back to the Sanctuary»…

"I made up my mind the moment I saw you…

"Then I must tell you where it all came from and how it will end," Averta Said mysteriously. – We must go to the place where it all came from…

"Where are we going?"

"To the temple of Areal!"  Averta said, and smiled at Sodium.

"But why are we going to the power plant?"

- To descend into the heart of "planet" Earth!  Averta said unexpectedly.

When Sodium and Averta came to the temple Area, the Sodium could not restrain his emotions from the seen beauty. The entire temple, painted with historical paintings, radiated silver light, and in the center of the temple from a wide hole in the floor rushed into the sky the same white ray of energy.

Then Sodium and Averta entered the Elevator and descended it to the heart of the planet Earth - to the fiery liquid core, gradually cooling and approaching its final state-to death. When they went down to the core of the Earth and went into the observation room with a cooling system and a special darkened protective screen, Sodium saw the core of the earth. Sodium ignored the fact that The earth's core resembled the Sun in appearance. But he found that on the surface of The earth's core appeared fiery whirlwinds, dark spots and sometimes bright flashes of fiery light. Everything was on fire and everything was born of fire.

- Do you understand that the temple Area is associated with the core of the Earth, said the opening words of Avert. – And you have already learned that the core of the Earth is the power source of our Temple.

- True.

"But what do you think you see?"  Averta began from afar.

"The core of the earth!  Sodium replied, obviously.

"What do you think it looks like?" - Averta consistently led Me to the last conclusion.

- in the sun…

"So you hit the bull's-eye!" Because our Earth is not a planet!

"Then what is our Land?"  Sodium asked, puzzled.

"Humanity has not known where it is in its entire existence. But the Great philosopher Rene Descartes in the seventeenth century ingeniously concluded that the Earth is not a planet, but a special star....

"It can't be! The sun and the planet Earth are different in size, structure and function of celestial bodies…

"That's what we all thought until we studied the core of the Earth," Averta explained calmly, " and it Turns out that the core of the Earth is no different in structure and function from the Sun. Except of course the size. So we developed the hypothesis of Rene Descartes! We came to a stunning conclusion: all the planets that have a core and small sizes are old stars! A star of enormous size like that of the sun – young stars! Moreover, all of them-and the sun and the planets of the solar system were formed from the black holes that appeared in our area of space, which attracted a large volume of microparticles and created huge sizes of stars. Then, as in the theory of Rene Descartes, these old stars of our Solar system began to process too much microparticles and turned into so-called planets! And then there was the sun, which was in the right place and at the right time to create the necessary conditions for the emergence of life on the old star-the planet known as Earth!

- Beautiful theory…

"It's not a theory, it's a reality," Averta protested, and motioned him to look at the scanners in the observation room.

"It can't be! So there's a black hole in The earth's core?

- To the point!  Averta said. – In the end, all the answers to the mysteries of the universe were not in space, but in the depths of the earth – in its heart!

"Incredible!

"But there's something else you should know…

"What?"

"Soon the Sun will die and all will be over," Averta said sadly, " All our hopes, all our faith, all our love will be nothing but Stardust…

"I don't believe it!"  Sodium denied desperately. – It can't be…

"All the readings from the solar instruments indicate an explosion," Averta said.

"Then what do we do?"...

"Nothing! But I brought you here for another reason, to say that at this moment in the history of men I want to meet with you my death and the death of all mankind, " Averta said with tender rapture, and Sodium came up to her and kissed her tenderly.

They kissed and realized that from the very beginning of their first meeting a spark had passed between them, and that spark had been kindled in their hearts in the last days of life for all mankind…

***

The next morning, Sodium and Averta slept in the bed of the room of the small high-rise building where Sodium lived, hugging each other and dreaming of billions of stars in the seething ocean of the universe in which life arises and in it also fades.

Suddenly their sleep was interrupted by a knock at the door, and Sodium asked to stay to Avert in bed, and he got up to open the door for an unexpected stranger:

"I'm listening."  said Sodium to a stranger tribe "Born in the light" when the alarm on her face, stood on the threshold of the door to their home.

- Sodium, urgently get dressed! You have an important meeting with your friend! – said the Stranger knowing his name, because everyone in the Area knew that his chosen high priestess of the tribe, "Born in the light" - Averta.

"What friend of mine?" I have no friends....

"Well, at least that's how he introduced himself. He said he fled the city of Refuge to give you an urgent and important message…

"All right, I'll be right back!"  He closed the door to the room and walked over to Averta, who had gotten out of bed and was preparing Breakfast in the kitchen.

"My love, I must leave you at once!" I have an urgent important meeting…

"What happened?"

"I don't know anything yet!" But after meeting "a certain person" I will tell you…

"All right, I'll be waiting for you!"  said Averta and gently kissed Sodium in the lips, and Sodium along with strange mutant came to a man from the tribe of "Born in darkness", which was waiting for him in the Central garden Area. As he approached "his friend," Sodium saw in the distance the familiar outline of a man sitting on a bench surrounded by a cherry, Apple, and pear tree.

- It is impossible!

"On the contrary!  Methil replied, and they shook hands, and then sat down on a bench while the strange mutant left them alone.

"You said there was no point in running away from the Shelter!"

"Quite right!

"Then why did you come?"

"Circumstances have changed!" – he began his story Methyl. – The thing is, there was an accident at the Shelter, and the Darkborn lost their last source of power. Then the trust was forced to reveal the secret of the tribe "Born in darkness" about the existence of the Area and gave the order to assemble a combat team to capture the city of the Area. They are now on their way to us, and I have been hastening to the Range to warn you of the impending threat…

"Damn it, that's a twist!" But how do you know where the Range is

"Because I was here and chose to go back to the Sanctuary!"

"Then why did you decide to return to the Darkborn?"

"The same reason you ran away from the Shelter!"  Methil said, and winked his right eye.

"I understand."  said Sodium and hopelessness in his voice when he continued his thought, - I will let residents of the Area that you wanted to pass it along. But because you chose to go back to the Sanctuary when you first came here, you didn't know what was in store for us in the next few hours…

"What's going to happen in the next few hours?"

- Soon all will end, and we will disappear, as if us never and not was, because through matter of hours will perish the Sun... - concluded sodium, and Methyl quietly responded, as if not understood moreover, that will happen:

- It had to happen! We have entertained, avoided questions about death, denied the inevitable end of our existence, and now we will pay for our entertainment with our lives and face a faceless death alone with our fears! And everything is planned correctly, because everything that has a beginning will have an end…

"You think everything that happened to us was planned?" Isn't a person just a victim of random circumstances?

- Try to look at this situation differently! Would you like to live forever in this universe?

"Of course not! But I have no other choice, because I do not want to disappear into the world…

"That's the point: if you were in the universe forever, you wouldn't be able to get out of it!" So your problem is that you think death is a room without a front door, and I think death is an exit from a room without a front door, " said Methyl, and Sodium was once again convinced that Methyl was the only madman in the world of madmen who was rational.

 Methyl, I have to warn the Area about the impending war…

- See you!  Methyl said, and sodium never saw Him again.

Sodium headed back to his house to tell averta the latest news, and when Sodium came, Averta already knew that the tribe "Born in darkness" was coming to Them»:

- I already know that the tribe is "Born in darkness" is in the Area…

"Then what can we do?"

"I have already ordered the troops of the Area to prepare for battle, and they are standing at the borders of the Area.

At this time, the war party of the tribe "Born in darkness" led by the Trust approached the boundaries of the Range, and the trust asked them to stop to tell them:

"Remember-spare no one! Let them drown in their blood! - with anger delivered trust, and Battle for Areal began: every fighter tribe "Born in darkness" destroyed with the help laser weapons in their the hands of warriors tribe " Born under of light." Then with fierce faces of the warriors of the tribe, "Born in darkness" won the temple Area and exulted bloody victory. But in an instant their mood changed dramatically when one of the warriors noticed what was happening on the horizon:

"Turn around!"  one of the warriors said to his tribe, " Born in darkness, "and all in the tribe," Born in darkness, " including trust, saw the Sun flash, and a wave of fire was coming toward them. Each of them watched in horror the last moments of their lives.

At that moment at home Sodium and Averta watched the dying Sun on the horizon for the last time and said their last words to each other:

"Take your last breath!"  with tears in the face quietly asked Averta and looked at his eyes.

"Good!  He took a deep breath and looked into her eyes, too.

"Remember that we will love each other forever!"  Averta said one last time, took a deep breath and hugged Him, and then the oncoming wave of fire destroyed Earth and the entire Solar system in a matter of seconds, and this last love story was the last breath of death in the Universe…