I am Earthman

– Does this green mean an artificially created robot by you?

– No, the definition of robot is not quite suitable for it. Our greens are a living being, but at first with an artificially embedded thinking intelligence, and now they are developing independently. Inside this green, as well as in our body, a chain biochemical reaction occurs all the time and due to this, it feeds on harmful gases used in our planet, and from above and the rays of a Blue star. As I have already mentioned, our protective greenery is very resistant to cosmic cold, harmful rays of our star and the harmful effects of cosmic radiation. When creating this greenery, our scientists took as its basis the genetic characteristics of our body, the absorption of gases and its processing to meet the body's need for food.

– As I understand from your stories, artificially created by you, a living protective green-the shell of your planet, protecting the planet and its inhabitants from any external threats emanating from space by dissolving and absorbing them in their depths, growing even more and expanding in size, also has a continuously developing artificial intelligence of thinking? If all this is really true, then are you not afraid that someday in the future it will grow even more, devouring your planet, along with you, turn into a huge and all-consuming dangerous monster of cosmic scale and will not spread throughout the Universe?

– No, we are not afraid. When we conceived and artificially created this vital living protective greenery, we took into account everything that you have just talked about. When creating this greenery, we laid in its genetic basis that we, that is, the inhabitants of this planet, are for it, irrevocably and quickly killing its body, an allergen-a poison for which there is no antidote and it is impossible to invent. In addition, in its existence, this green organically and genetically depends entirely on the gravitational attraction of our planet alone. If trouble happens to our planet, it, in the absence of the gravitational attraction of its native planet, at the same moment ceasing to exist as a living organism, will disintegrate and turn into unnecessary cosmic dust. She understands all this perfectly well, and therefore, in order to avoid her own death, she will never want or even try to absorb at least one of us and will do everything in her power so that nothing happens to her home planet. For these reasons, our protective greens will never turn into a dangerous, all-consuming monster.

– Why are you telling me all this, that is, revealing unknown to others, the secrets of your life and the secrets of the life support of this planet?

– What I have told you is not a secret or a secret, it is our everyday life and the life of our planet, and we are thinking and working on the fact that someday in the future we will completely restore the atmosphere of our planet. In addition, we do not consider humanity to be our enemy. Although we differ significantly from each other in appearance and structure, we are the only brothers in mind. And we value this very much. Surrounded on all sides by an excessively cold, dark and large-scale radiation cosmos that is unfriendly to us, and to you too, which is fraught with innumerable various cosmic-scale dangers visible and invisible to us, thanks to you, that is, humanity, we know that we are not the only soundly intelligent beings in this part of the Universe.

– And yet, why did you not communicate with earthlings earlier? We would have known that there are intelligent aliens besides us, that we are also not alone in the universe, and perhaps, even quite probably, there would not have been a nuclear catastrophe on Earth.

– In this matter, perhaps, you are right. But as I said before, we have been following the development of civilization on Earth all the time, we have not discovered ourselves and have not interfered in your life, so that you yourself, through your evolutionary path of development, know the world, the Universe, the laws of the universe, so that your process of development and knowledge of the world occurs naturally, without any gaps. And if we had interfered with your earthly life earlier, then we already knew for sure that besides you in the Universe, and by cosmic standards relatively close to your planet, there is a planet where intelligent life exists and there is a very developed civilization compared to your achievements, you would not want to develop yourself, but would want to adopt from us all our achievements in the field of science and high technologies. Thus, in the process of the evolutionary development of the human brain, there would be an undesirable gap to develop naturally in the field of cognition of the world, invention and development in all other, different directions. This gap sometime in the future, when making a very important decision on a planetary scale for the salvation of the human race, would have a very negative impact on your actions. After the nuclear war, we had no other options but to interfere in your life, to help revive the Earth civilization that you destroyed and save the human race.

– I am interested in one more question, can I ask it?

– Ask them.

– In the conversation, you mentioned that, without interfering in our lives, you were watching us all the time. Can you tell me how and when life originated on Earth, that is, when and how we appeared there, that is, humanity, the animal and plant world?

– There will be no answer to this question. Earlier, only on the basis of a scientific study of space and a comparison of the data obtained, as well as the hypothetical assumptions of our scientists, we came to the conclusion that there is intelligent life in the neighboring galaxy located parallel to our galaxy, that is, in your galaxy. And we began to observe you since the time of the Sumerians and Orkhons, because we could not do this earlier for a purely technical reason, that is, because we did not have intergalactic spaceships capable of safely and quickly overcoming the distances between our galaxies and returning back. In the early days, when we learned and discovered that in addition to us, in the Universe, by cosmic standards, not far from us, there are intelligent, biological beings like us, we, that is, our ancestors, were very happy about this. Our pioneer missionaries, having arrived on intergalactic ships, for direct communication with earthlings, landed on Earth in small landing ships, but to prevent any possible misunderstandings on their part, they always communicated with earthlings in protective spacesuits and helmets, with dark closed visors. When we communicated with earthlings, that is, not only the Sumerians and Orkhons, but also other peoples who inhabited the Earth at that time, they all took us for the celestials, that is, for gods, deified us and worshipped us as gods. After a certain time, we realized that we had made a big, gross and irreparable mistake, that we were harming their natural development with our appearances and communications, and therefore, without further interfering in the life of earthlings, without revealing ourselves, we only began to observe you from the outside. How and when did life on Earth begin? You will find the answer to this question someday yourself, but now, after the restoration of the Earth's civilization and as your level of knowledge and technical equipment develops, you have reliably studied well first the planets of the solar system, and then the other planets of your galaxy.

– Are there any other types of living beings on your planet, well, say, various living biological or other organisms, as on Earth, that is, animals, birds, fish or other forms of life?

– No, there is no other form of life on our planet except for us.

After these conversations, the alien ordered that the earthman was again put on spacesuits and taken out of the hall. Only this time the person turned out to be on the territory of a large alien city. It was light all around, light, and the light came from above from everywhere, but the source of the light itself was not visible. The alien who was talking to him and the third humanoid, who was waiting for them on the street, put him next to them in a chair of some kind of aircraft and the three of them flew in an unknown direction on this aircraft. There was a huge city below, with various bizarre buildings, and it seemed to a person who was looking at this alien city with special curiosity that the city was so huge and there was no end to this city. Nearby, in different directions, flying machines of different shapes and sizes flew in which humanoids were sitting. There were no streets in the city, there were no alien citizens in sight, only bizarre different buildings without windows and doors. After flying some distance, the device landed on a platform near a building. When they were inside the building, they took off his spacesuit and showed him a room consisting of several rooms and said;

–This is your home, make yourself at home. The dwelling with all the comforts of the earth belongs to you. In our archive, in an electronic version, there are copies of all films and books created or published up to the present time by mankind. So that you can order any book or movie, or even music. It bothers you, no one will be without special need. You can communicate with us at any time by clicking on this button. After that, the alien showed him a tiny red button mounted on the wall, next to the bed.

– No. I will not watch movies or read books. After I saw with my own eyes the destruction of our earthly civilization, I, the only remaining living person, an earthling, being on a distant planet, already knowing that there is no more earthly civilization, I will now never be able to afford to have fun, watch movies, listen to music or read books created by humanity that no longer exists. On my part, this will be an outrage on their bright memory. If you still have copies, then this is good. If, as you have already said, the human race is ever reborn and restored, all this will be useful and will be needed by our future generation. From the cultural heritage of their ancestors, they will know how beautiful our blue planet Earth was, what the Earth's civilization used to be, and how their ancestors, possessing a high intellectual mind, without any interference from outside, destroyed all this essentially heavenly beauty and their thousand-year-old civilization with their own mind and hands.

CHAPTER 3

Knowledge of the secrets of the universe and a long way back home

Some time has passed since these events. No one else communicated with him, but he guessed that he was under the constant supervision of the all-seeing eye of the aliens and in this sense he felt like their prisoner. He did not know when the day comes, when the night comes, how much time has passed since he was on this planet. He didn't even know how long he would sleep, but for some reason he was constantly drawn to sleep. When he woke up from sleep, sometimes it seemed to him that he was sleeping longer than usual and noticed that when he was sleeping, he completely lacked any dreams, and after sleep there was no ordinary human feeling of satisfaction with the next rest of the body. On this occasion, he sometimes thought that " maybe they, somehow remotely acting on my consciousness, make me fall asleep, and when I sleep, they probably study me, conduct some of their scientific experiments at home." But when examining his body, he did not find any suspicious traces on the body and nothing else indicated this either, that is, he felt almost completely healthy, and his psyche without any deviations from the norm, and therefore he tried in every possible way to discard such thoughts from his head. However, he gradually got so tired of such monotony of days and his lonely, boring and aimless pastime in this confined space, in the form of an apartment of a residential multi-apartment city earthly house, that he was increasingly seized with indifference to such, one might say, from the point of view of a living, healthy person, dependent, even pathetic kind of his existence. He was no longer interested in the monotonously gray and boring life of aliens, or even in certain quirks, peculiarities and differences of this planet. He realized that without the inherent environment for humanity, he could not, and did not want to exist at all anymore. He sometimes, than, in such a pathetic way to exist here in a foreign land, just wanted to leave his life, and so he once, desperately and imploringly turned to an alien:

–I can't and don't want to stay here anymore, thank you for saving and sheltering me. But it would be better if I died there along with all my relatives, than to exist here as the only living, pathetic exhibit of an already extinct human race. Loneliness and aimless existence for human nature is worse than death. I want to return back to the Earth, to humanity, to my relatives and friends, to friends. If they all died and I am also destined to die there, then at least I will bow to their ashes before dying. Please bring me back to Earth if possible? And if this is impossible, then I would prefer death than such a miserable kind of existence.

The humanoid looked at the man so calmly and indifferently, without any sympathy in his gaze, and answered;

–According to our data, the planet Earth is currently not suitable for human and in general for all biological, plant life, and therefore, we cannot now, and we will not send you to certain death. You'll have to wait. But you will have to wait for a very long time, that is, for centuries, and no matter how much you want it yourself, your one human life will not be enough for this time. Therefore, we ourselves would like to suggest that you make a decision and give us your consent in order to place you in a special bio-chamber to preserve your body in an unchanged state for a very long time, without compromising your health. And then, when all the conditions for biological life are restored on Earth, they decided to take you there and restore all the functions of your body there again, that is, in other words, it will revive you again. But if you definitely and specifically do not want to stay with us, that is, while in the bio-chamber, to wait out the restoration of the Earth and the revival of life on the planet, then I offer you another option.

He, interrupting a little, added;

–Our scientists are constantly studying and exploring the universe, looking for ways to protect themselves not only from intelligent parasites-predators and other, known to us in advance and unknown, monstrously diverse and terrible dangers emanating from the depths of the bottomless cold and unfriendly space, but also from another, more global and especially problematic for us, danger. Such a danger comes to us from the galaxy eaters. On Earth, your scientists call them Black holes. Just as your scientists knew that Black holes are the cores of every galaxy. Our scientists have established that Black holes first create galaxies by the big bang. That is, all Black holes, absorbing absolutely everything that is in its gravitational space, gradually become titanically, that is, unimaginably dense and gigantically large. And then, as a result of an internal thermonuclear or other reaction, expanding, reaching a certain limit size in their expansion, they always and inevitably explode, and when they explode, they throw millions, billions, perhaps even an uncountable number of burning fragments of different sizes into the dark and cold outer space. After the explosion, at the site of the explosion, the remnants of their nucleus are always preserved from Black holes and these remnants are attracted to each other by the force of attraction, immediately after the explosion, connecting, forms small Black holes spinning around their axis. These newly formed Black holes, although they are still not large enough in size, but they immediately have huge gravitational forces of attraction from the moment of formation. Acting with their gigantic force of attraction, they first stop all the cosmic bodies that are close to them from moving further away from themselves, and after that, acting through them in all directions in the form of spiral chains, they also stop all the other cosmic bodies that they have thrown away. And then, keeping these cosmic bodies at a certain distance from themselves, they begin to rotate them around themselves and thereby gradually creating this or that new galaxy. And all the burning fragments ejected by the Black hole after a certain time under the influence of the uniform gravitational pressure of the cosmos from all sides, acquire a rounded, and, some of them even, a convex shape and turn first all into burning bright stars, and then after a certain time, some extinct stars turn into planets. And some small stars that are close to a large star, under the pressure of the latter, while still in the process of thermonuclear combustion, exploding, form a gas and dust nebula in space, thereby creating conditions for the formation of a large star around the still burning one, and others, that is, in terms of origin, it is different from other, various planets. Thus, various large and small star systems with their own planetary systems are born inside this newly formed galaxy. After a certain amount of time, which is billions and billions, perhaps even trillions of years, Black holes, gradually absorbing all the cosmic bodies close to it, again become gigantically large and unimaginably dense. After that, they begin to actively collect all the cosmic bodies of their galaxy back, that is, in other words, they devour them, so that later, again after billions and billions of years, they explode and re-create this or that galaxy. For example, on Earth, scientists believed that some galaxies seen by your telescopes, located close to your galaxy, are moving away from you at such a speed and that it seems that they are about to leave the field of view of your telescopes very soon and will be lost forever in the endless expanses of the Universe. But in fact, they do not move far away and do not go anywhere, as according to the Law of the Universe, there are no free places in the Universe, although it is immensely infinite and bottomless. And, no matter how your astrophysicists claim, the galaxies will never collide with each other. This will not allow them to do their own Black Holes, which strictly control and protect their territory assigned to them in the Universe according to the law of universal gravitation. But our scientists at the same time admit the hypothesis that small or dwarf galaxies, which, in comparison with the Black hole in their neighboring large galaxy, respectively, and small Black holes, during the active process of devouring cosmic bodies by large Black holes of neighboring galaxies, can be completely absorbed by its larger neighbor. Such an absorption from the outside will initially look like a gradual but steady movement in space towards each other of two galaxies and their obligatory subsequent collision. Unfortunately, we, limited by the time frame of observing this, even by cosmic time standards, very long-lasting process, will not be able to observe all the subsequent pictures of such an absorption, followed by the devouring of all the celestial bodies of both galaxies by a huge Black hole. Perhaps that is why your scientists, observing only a certain period of time the beginning of the process of devouring the cosmic bodies of both galaxies by a large Black hole, came to the conclusion that after a certain time, the galaxies moving towards each other in space must necessarily and inevitably collide. However, our scientists do not exclude such a hypothetical version of events that if, after all, sometime in the future there is a violation of the Law of the Universe of the Universe and a chaotic collision of galaxies occurs in outer space, without subsequent absorption of celestial bodies by Black holes, then this may subsequently lead to a catastrophic chaos in the Universe. And this, in the end, again hypothetically, may lead to the fact that an eternal, never-ending darkness will prevail everywhere in space, the onset of which would mean that in the universe, never again, any life forms will not be able to be reborn, born again, and cannot exist at all. But this is only a hypothesis, and our scientists hope that this hypothesis will never find its theoretical, much less practical, confirmations. Well, in the meantime, the stars, planets and other cosmic bodies of those galaxies that you think are moving away from your galaxy are attracted to themselves by the unimaginable giant force of attraction of their Black holes, and therefore it seems to you that they are moving away from your galaxy. And in fact, in these galaxies, neighboring to your galaxy, an active process of devouring stars, planets and other cosmic bodies by their own Black holes has been going on for a long time. By attracting them to itself at a certain distance, Black holes, simultaneously with attraction, without releasing and pressing on them with their huge gravitational force, first turns them into dust, and then devours them all. Eventually, a gigantic gravitational, unimaginably huge, very dangerous and absolutely empty, in the literal sense of the word, dark cosmic void appears in that part of the universe. And in the center of this cosmic void, there is only a gigantically large, predatory, absolutely devouring, invisible to telescopes, Black hole, spinning around its axis alone, and there comes an unimaginably cold, pitch darkness for long and long times, until this giant Black Hole explodes. This is the so-called "Big Bang". This has happened, is happening somewhere at the present time, will happen in the future, with a constant frequency of billions, billions of times, that is, infinitely forever. This is the universal and basic Law of the Universe, and without this Law, the Universe cannot exist in its current form, since after a certain time, having spent all its energy, all the currently existing stars will someday go out. And if there are no explosions of Black holes, then even in this case, chaos will occur everywhere in the Universe and only eternal cold, pitch darkness will prevail. Based on this Law of the Universe, Black holes serve as the only irreplaceable and very important source of periodic renewal of very necessary energy and light in one or another part of the Universe. Maybe this is the endless war of high intelligence and the dark forces of the universe. Of course, we will never save the Blue Star and our Green Planet from such a universal, but absolutely necessary Law of the Universe. In the foreseeable future, there is no such danger for our galaxy, and for your galaxy, although the Black Hole of your galaxy, compared to the Black Hole of our galaxy, has already reached a relatively large size. But we always have to think about this, naturally global and inevitable, but at the same time necessary for the existence of life in the Universe, danger, we always have to think in advance, look for, find ways and ways to confront and save our people. This is what the "High Mind" pushes us to do. Although we have a very developed science and technology in all areas, compared to Earth's achievements, we are also powerless against the attraction of Black holes. Therefore, our scientists on more modernized research ships are sent to distant galaxies, where, according to their calculations, Black holes have reached such gigantic sizes that an active process of devouring the stars and planets of that galaxy will soon begin. Another clear sign of this active process, in addition to reaching the gigantic size of Black holes, as our scientists believe, it is possible to accelerate their rotation around their axis. However, as our scientists believe, these hypothetical assumptions alone are not enough for a comprehensive and complete study of this process, and they have not yet been fully confirmed. Therefore, while there, they study the strength and nature of the attraction of Black holes, when, with what changes inside the galaxy and with what other obvious signs, the active and already irrevocable process of devouring their own galaxies begins. Thus, our scientists are looking for answers to questions about whether we can determine in advance, at least approximately, the beginning of these active processes in our galaxy, and in your galaxy. And our shipbuilders, scientists, designers, inventors and developers, based on the knowledge of the universal laws of the universe, are working not only on the modernization of our intergalactic spaceships, but are working to create completely new ships. This is necessary so that the intergalactic ships we are creating, if necessary, can overcome the gigantic force of attraction of the Black Hole of the galaxy, so that we ourselves will not be late, save ourselves and if such a danger comes to you, then help save humanity and find another planet suitable for life, for the continuation of life in the endless expanses of the Universe. Our scientists have long known that theoretically, from the point of view of the laws of astrophysics and comprehensive other laws of physics, it is possible to build ships that can overcome their gigantic attraction at any time and from any distance from Black holes. This is possible only if we invent and create particularly strong, anti-gravity spaceships running on perpetual motion engines-converters of the energy of attraction of cosmic bodies and the endless gigantic energy of outer space itself, into reverse energy. These engines, the very force of energy, the attraction of Black holes and other cosmic bodies could be turned into the same force of energy, but with the opposite, that is, the effect of influence repelling from them, but necessarily regulated by us. If our scientists, inventors and creators of ships find ways to create such ships, then this gigantic energy converted into reverse force on their engines, with the same unimaginably gigantic force as the attraction of Black holes themselves, would push our ships away from them, like unipolar magnetic fields repelling each other. In other words, our intergalactic ships must be absolutely anti-gravitational, but at the same time, with the help of gravitational energy converter engines, they must have enormous speed properties for instantly fast, and most importantly safe and controlled movement in outer space in any direction. Only in this way will we be able to escape from the absorption of Black holes. However, to do this, it is necessary to comprehensively study in detail the Black holes themselves and their unimaginable force of attraction. Our scientists, both astrophysicists and physicists studying quantum and optical physics, shipbuilders are working on this, but so far our scientists have not been able to closely investigate and study the Black holes themselves, their features and differences from other cosmic bodies and establish at least approximately the maximum force of their attraction. Our research ships, unmanned ships, research probes, which we sent for their close study, having fallen into the zone of irrevocable attraction of Black holes, disappeared without a trace, in other words, they were attracted to themselves by Black holes and devoured. Our scientists believe that even particularly high-frequency beam signals that report the disasters of our ships, wherever it happens, could not overcome the force of attraction of Black holes. Beam signals are specially encoded signals collected from strictly defined several rays into one beam, which, due to their special properties, are not subject to planetary and stellar attractions and are released from the ship automatically when an emergency situation occurs that is incorrigible by the crew. Because of their special properties, these ray signals, as if in a chain, but instantly transmitted through the particles of outer space, travel a distance at a speed several times faster than the speed of light and are reflected only in our special receiving stations, which instantly process them and determine the location of our ship in distress. Hence the conclusion that Black holes in the territories assigned to them attract, without any exception, everything that exists in that part of the Universe, and devour them. Therefore, we do not know where that boundary begins, or, as you put it, the so-called "last threshold", beyond which there is no return and even no feedback. Black holes are not planets, stars or other cosmic bodies that we know, they are something else, mysterious and we have not yet studied cosmic bodies. Our scientists only assume that the core of Black holes are formed from the dark and invisible matter of the cosmos, the specific gravity, density and gravitational force of which is several million times greater than that of the largest stars and planets in the Universe. And Black holes also explode because of an unimaginably high density, no longer able to withstand their own unimaginably gigantic force of attraction and the energy accumulated as a result of this compression inside themselves. So, having reached a huge size and an absolutely critical limit of density and no longer being able to shrink any more, at a certain time, we believe, a large-scale thermonuclear or another reaction, unknown to us yet, is activated inside Black holes, and because of this, the process of their expansion to even more huge, immeasurably gigantic sizes begins. And when the expansion process reaches its critical limit, Black holes for an indefinite, by cosmic standards, for a very short time, radiating outer space with their bright rays, become blindingly bright, titanically larger superstars than all the stars combined. After that, their expansion reaches an even more critical limit and a large, blinding explosion occurs and a whistling melodic sound, reminiscent of the word "Hallelujah", spreads into outer space

The alien, interrupting telepathy a little, continued;

– If you have made a final decision not to stay on our planet any longer, then with your consent, in order to preserve your body in an unchanged state for a long time, we will place you in a special bio-chamber. For your information, I would like to inform you that a bio-chamber is a special equipped chamber where all the functions of a biologically living organism go into a dormant, passive mode of existence. At the same time, during the period of a person's stay in a bio-chamber, his body does not age and does not wear out as during active life, since all this time, a constant, full-fledged cellular exchange takes place in the body at the proper level, pre-coded for each person, taking into account all the functional and other features of his body. The work of all other internal organs is suspended during the dormant mode of the body, but at the same time, so that during the time a person is in the bio-chamber, these organs do not lose their physiological functions in the future, their tissue cells too, without aging and wear, are maintained and fed properly. In addition, the lung and digestive tract, so that they do not lose their functions, are filled with a special, harmless for the body, liquid. This is the only way we can preserve your biological body and your life for many years. Having placed you in such a chamber, we will send you on a research ship with our research scientists, who will make a trip to other galaxies. And if, in those galaxies, there is a planet where the living conditions are similar to Earth, where there is biological life and research will establish that nothing will threaten your life and health there, you will be "revived" for a short time. And after that, while our ship is in the immediate vicinity of that planet or in its orbit, again, with your consent, you will be landed on the surface of this planet for a short time, with a guard.

And also, if your planet is restored by the time the mission of our researchers ends, they will land you there, provide you with everything necessary for your stay for the first time and leave you.

–I agree, but I have one more request. For one reason or another, if even before the time your ship will be in our galaxy and within our Solar system, then I really ask you, flying past, show me my home planet, Earth, I miss it very much.

The alien nodded his head in agreement. After that, after a certain time, three aliens (possibly their scientists in the field of medicine) carefully studied all the functional data and features of his body, placed him in a special bio-chamber. He only remembered how the hermetic door of the bio-chamber was tightly closed in front of his nose and immediately fell asleep.

CHAPTER 4

Returning

So an earthling after three hundred years of sleep, if the preservation of human flesh without change for a long time in a special bio-chamber, and then the restoration of the full work of all organs and all other physiological functions of the body can be called a dream, found himself again in near-Earth orbit. Seeing his native Land in such a state, he was so upset, so grieved and cried incessantly. Bitter tears flowed in sparkling drops and flowed down his pale cheeks, which had not yet been completely restored in colors. At the same time, he recalled the laughter of children, the singing of birds, the sounds of nature, animals, and in general, all his former Earthly life. The thought kept spinning in his head all the time: "God, have we, the people themselves, the owners of high intelligence, destroyed all this heavenly beauty ourselves. Was it really impossible to live just like that, enjoying earthly life, without enmity, amicably. Earth, dear forgive us, forgive us!". And the tears kept flowing and flowing down his still pale cheeks. The humanoids, who were alien to human feelings, did not understand all this and thought: "why is a person crying, because he himself remained alive"

The commander of the ship;

– Life on Earth is just beginning to emerge, it still takes the same amount of time for the planet Earth to recover and be suitable for biological life, while you were in the bio-chamber, we have visited other galaxies where there are planets in which there is biological life. But, having thoroughly investigated and studied them, at least somehow close to the Earth's conditions and, accordingly, for the existence of a person there, the planet was not found. Therefore, you will have to stay in a special bio-chamber for at least another three or four hundred years and wait for the restoration of certain conditions on Earth for the existence of biological life in it. Do you agree?

The man listened in silence at first. He didn't want to fly anywhere anymore. After so many years of separation and loneliness, the feeling of the proximity of his native planet gave him determination and strength, and he, being in Earth orbit, no longer felt lonely. Therefore, he confidently and resolutely answered firmly;

– Let me down to Earth, I can't and don't want to wait any longer, I just want to die on my home planet. If there are no conditions for life on Earth, I will die there. The earth gave birth to me and let it also kill me. I don't need to be persuaded. This is my last request to you and my final decision.

"So be it. This is your decision. We will leave you on Earth, just know that with your death, the human race may end. We can clone and create outwardly similar living beings to you, with artificially grafted minds that can be controlled and stopped at any time, forced to obey and obey us, so that they do not make such mistakes that you, the owners of the Earth, that is, earthlings, have made. And we will definitely populate the Earth with these clones, because we can't leave such a beautiful, blue, beautiful planet, in fact, we can say, perhaps, the only paradise for biologically living beings in the entire Universe that is not inhabited by living biological beings. But these artificially created biological beings, although they will look very similar to a person, will never be able to become them and fully replace a person who has a high, continuously and infinitely developing mind and with its incomprehensible, wonderful and alien feelings. Because no matter how hard our scientists will try, however, we will not be able to clone or recreate a very complicated, most mysterious human organ, that is, the human brain, until we can. So, it's not too late to reverse your decision. And during this time, we will study you comprehensively and in detail, without harm to your body, and our scientists will probably discover the secrets of your brain and mind, and on their basis will make new scientific developments for the restoration of a full-fledged human race. You will again become the masters of your own planet. We will help you.

The man did not answer, because after he decided to stay on Earth, it seems to him that there was no point in answering anymore. And it also seemed to him that the aliens were hiding something mysterious from him, but what they were hiding, he could not even guess or guess. However, he was no longer interested in what they were hiding from him and whatever it all meant, they could not stop him anymore. He firmly decided that if the human race ends with his death, then let it be so, you can't return the past, because humanity itself, endowed with high intelligence, having destroyed itself and the entire Earthly civilization, deserved it.

After that, the commander of the ship gave the command to study the Earth, scan and examine it in order to find at least some corner on Earth where there are at least minimal conditions for biological life and so that it would be possible to land it on the planet without much risk to human health. Scans and surveys have shown that many of the volcanoes that woke up during the thermonuclear war have died out. Some were still smoking and sometimes their fiery-hot breath still threw volcanic magma and ash to the surface of the Earth. Over the oceans and close to the ocean of the earth, there were still, at times, radiation acid rains, radiation at the sites of explosions of nuclear warheads and nuclear power plants was still several thousand times higher than the permissible norm. Due to the melting of glaciers, ocean waters filled all the lowlands of the continental parts of the planet and because of this, and mainly due to the forced and rapid displacement and subsidence of tectonic plates, all continents lost their former shape outlines. In all parts of the planet, many small and large islands have formed from continents. Antarctica, due to the melting of glaciers, was no longer half a glacial continent and also repeatedly decreased in size. The ozone layer around the Earth was preserved, the Sun's rays reached the Earth in many places, this meant the complete end of the nuclear winter on Earth. However, after the catastrophe, the Earth rotated around its axis a little faster than before, and the poles of the planet tilted slightly to the side, but the planet maintained its orbit around the Sun. A natural satellite of the Earth, the Moon was at the same distance and circled the Earth as before. These reports of the crew members and the conclusions made on the basis of these data were simultaneously telepathically transmitted to the human brain. And finally, they reported that they had found a place on the surface of the Earth where active biological life began to arise, where there was air, water and vegetation. The radiation was slightly higher than normal, but not harmful to human health, the average air temperature is about 18 degrees Celsius. But only the atmospheric pressure on earth is slightly below normal, that is, it was about 570 mm of mercury column and this point was indicated on the Earth's map. A person who knew the map of the earth well, although it changed beyond recognition after the thermonuclear catastrophe, easily identified this area. This point was located on the Altai Mountains. A day later, after the restoration of all the functions of the human body, a small, descending landing ship of aliens with a person on board separated from a large intergalactic research ship and delivered it to the specified point on Earth. This area was a large mountain plateau, surrounded on all sides by very high mountain ranges. The aliens wanted to leave him provisions, a spacesuit for emergencies, weapons and other necessary equipment. But he refused all this, he no longer needed anything, because he did not want to live alone anymore and preferred to die on his native, but for biological life, in fact, already unfit, in a dead planet. After so many years of separation, he, with tears in his eyes and with a double feeling, that is, on the one hand, indescribable with words of inner joy for returning home, and on the other, with a sense of guilt before the planet, for the destruction of his relatives of the earth's civilization, set foot on his native planet. The alien ship flew away, the Sun was shining as in the old days, and the sky was clear and clear, blue, blue, even without a single cloud. He looked around. Under my feet I saw small shoots of green grasses and large, by earthly standards, ants, who, like in the old days, did not even pay any attention to the appearance of a person, as always, all worked collectively. In order not to accidentally crush and frighten the ants, he tiptoed away from their ant-like path with a light step. He did not think and even in his thoughts did not allow that he would see shoots of green grasses and ants on the Earth, so he was so happy with what he saw that he even cried out: "hello, my native planet Earth, you are alive and I, your son, have returned home to you." Then he deeply and greedily, with all his lungs, breathed in the pure mountain air, kissed the earth. Then, as if by doing this he wanted to forget everything that had happened to him, he took off all the alien clothes and even shoes that had irritated his body and psyche for all these years, and rolled all these things into a ball, threw them in the direction of the stones sticking out next to him. Then he was barefoot, completely naked, and from the boundless joy that he had returned back to his native planet, he bounced around in circles on the grass, rejoiced, sang and danced. Still, a long stay outside the earth's atmosphere of the body made itself felt and from this a little exhausted and tired, he sat down on the ground, then lay down and lay on the shoots of green grasses. In a word, after a long separation, lying completely naked on the grass, with his whole body and soul, truly feeling all the mother's love, warmth, tenderness, and irreplaceability of his native planet on another and from the joy that he returned back, he closed his eyes for the first time, after many years of extraterrestrial life, mentally and physically so much relaxed, closed his eyes. A little later, lying under the sun's rays on the grass, despite the slightly cool, variable breeze, which, a little unpleasantly penetrated his naked body, as if, like a traveler who was very tired from a distant road, unnoticed by himself, he fell asleep in a real earthly, strong, human sleep. He did not know how long he had been asleep, but he woke up already a cheerful and truly happy person from the fact that after how many years of involuntary stay in a foreign land, he found himself back on his native Land and life was born everywhere, everywhere, and now, having seen all this, he no longer wanted to die. The sun was going down and he, in search of a place to sleep, and tomorrow, in order to calmly decide on the beginning of a new life, began to walk towards the mountain. All around it was visible how life on the planet was being born. Clean air, a small breeze, pleasant, gentle and warm weather, small shrubs, various herbs, but he did not meet any living creatures except ants on the way. Perhaps, in addition to ants, they survived a nuclear catastrophe, and then other species of living beings survived. But, as befits the initial instinctive behavior of the inhabitants of the entire living, wild world, they, perhaps from the moment when he landed on Earth, having smelled his smell, that is, having smelled the smell of their eternal enemy-man, instinctively fearfully hid somewhere near him or immediately left the local places. But even so, let it be so, as long as there are many living beings around. And then, when he finds a shelter in these places for himself to establish a new life, he will definitely see them and try in every possible way to protect them from trouble and even help them. So now he tried not to think about other surviving animals at all. He was so happy that after a forced and long extraterrestrial life, he again returned back to his origins, so now he just wanted to sing, shout, rejoice that life is being born again on his native Land, but suddenly, he stopped, froze, as if it was a dream, could not believe his eyes. Next to a large, high and smooth oval mountain stone, suddenly, eight meters away from him, right in front of him, as if a figure resembling him, a man, appeared out of the ground. He saw before him a tall, by earth standards, half-naked, apparently about twenty, twenty-five years old, a light-skinned, but black-haired girl who was holding a spear with a sharp stone tip ready in her hands, either ready to defend herself or attack him. From fear and surprise, he stopped and froze in place as if rooted to the spot. An incomprehensible, cold shiver of primitive instinctive fear ran through his entire body and he was even speechless for a short time. For some reason, at this time, only one thought was spinning in his head, the thought of the first woman on Earth, and he, unable to move from his place, without taking his eyes off her, even for himself unexpectedly, involuntarily and quietly, but quite audibly, muttering, said;

– Eva?

The girl looked at him in surprise and spoke in his own native language, quite clearly and clearly;

– How do you know me, you are not from our tribe and we have never met before. Who are you?

When he heard his native language, he came to himself a little, but still stuttering and very loudly;

"I… I … am from your tribe, I came in peace, I just left you a long time ago. I am infinitely happy that I have returned to my native places.

Then he, directing his eyes upwards and raising his hands, as if addressing the almighty, joyfully began to utter words of gratitude to God; Oh God, forgive us, your children, I will never, never leave my native Land created by you, because there is no other such planet in the entire Universe. Forgive all my fallen relatives.

The girl did not understand why, raising her hands up, this naked stranger was happy and shouting at the top of her voice, and she thought: "maybe this man is crazy, but, in any case, he does not pose a danger to her with his behavior." So thinking, she turned around and started to leave, because she needed to get at least some food for food by the evening. When he saw that the girl was leaving, he immediately fell silent, lowered his hands, following her with a confused look, at first he stood as if rooted to the spot, but after realizing that she was moving away from him, he stumbled after her, and on the run he turned to her;

– Please, girl, don't leave me here, I don't want to be alone anymore, please take me with you.

The girl stopped, and at first he approached her a little timidly, but at the same time a little shyly. She turned away and said;

–At least with something to cover up.