I hesitated. Strange that the new Artificial Intelligence that became a part of our improved consciousness had been silent since the emergence of the entity. For that, I stretched inside for that feeling, that touch.
These were the words of the Architect that I heard at the back of my mind. Still, this decision is one that I simply cannot fathom, to say the very least of it. The variables are too large, the conclusions are too consequential. *
“It says it can’t assist us in making the decision,” I also told the others. ‘It is beyond even its capability to compute. ‘
Zoe frowned. ‘So we are on our own. ‘
“Perhaps that’s the idea!” I continued. It isn’t one that can simply be solved in an Excel spreadsheet, it is the essence of what whatsoever we are and ought to be.
After saying all of this and as if in answer to my proclamation, I felt a tug. My senses grew greater, and I was able to realize that one of the smaller rents that have appeared in this area was also here. In so doing, I was able to realize… possibilities. We as human beings have changed spiritually, physically, and mentally to further imagined worlds of the future. A race of mind and spirit without the ties of material forms; journeying through the universe on the slightest impulse.
The dream so sizzled that I kept my eyes glued on it only to realize this fact: These evolved beings then, preternaturally endowed by dint of the power and wisdom they saw in themselves, appeared… distant. But when it came to real life, scantily veiled from the observer and detached from the observer’s nation. I began to think, with a shiver, whether they could still know happiness or affection or about the happiness of having wind of a sunny day.
I stepped back, grabbing my throat, trying to get a breath in. My friends were staring at me with worry on their faces.
“What happened?” Chase questioned. He placed his hand on my shoulder. They said: ‘You went somewhere else for a moment. ‘
I told them the things that were done as I noted the lights of comprehension being switched on. Everyone hoped to see what we could turn into; they’d had similar visions, visions of this very future.
“It’s seductive,” Zoe admitted. ‘All that knowledge, all that power’.
‘But at what cost?’ I asked quietly. Of course, one may ask the following questions: “Do we lose our humanity in the process?” “Is this thing considered worthwhile enough to pay the price?”
Staring at our decision, we lapsed into quiet thinking as each of us pondered over this life-changing decision. After a moment’s silence and serious consideration, I got up from the chair.
‘This is good, this is very good,’ she replied, and then in a flash ‘We have to see more,’ said I. ‘Not just illusions and glimpses, but real life experience. We need to make somebody go through one of the rips. ‘
The others stared at me amazed. “Brianne, I don’t even know what that could do,” perfectly expressed the disbelief of Alessandro. “The risks-”
‘The said companies’ I completed his sentence, ‘are enormous. ‘ “I understand that. But how can one make this decision, how can one expect humanity to make this decision when they don’t even know what is beyond the other side?”
Zoe smiled when Chase nodded and agreed to his request. With a slow nod, the man’s tactical mind instantly began to formulate a solution. “If we are going to go through with it, then we need to select from our team wisely a combination of attributes and only those who are willing to take part. ”
“I volunteer,” I blurted out as soon as I could. The others began to argue, but I raised my hand. “I have to go there,” he replied, “I am the one who promised that people would find a way to make it.”
My friends looked at me one by one and bowed their heads. He was not very happy with it, but he was able to comprehend.
‘Come on with me,’ Zoe replied assertively, as if there was no way that I could refuse. ‘It has to have a scientist on the team. ‘
Chase stepped forward. ‘And you’ll need security. I’m in’.
I turned my gaze at Alessandro and Morris. “We need you two here,” I said more softly now. We had better coordinate and manage things on this side of the divide. Could you go and do that?
They simply agreed, but one could easily notice concern in their gazes. I understood their fear. We were venturing into the blind and, in a way, gambling with the hope of gaining knowledge that was very crucial to us.
“OK,” I said and took a deep breath. “Alright, supper then, lunch, perhaps we will set off in three hours, no matter what waits for us on the other side of that rip, anyone is going with us. ”
To be sure, as my team started to move, I had a brief period of hesitation. Were we right? Was I guiding humanity toward the kind of existence beyond suffering or toward perishing?
I suppressed the thoughts like I always do. We did not have the privilege of a doubt, no not when the existence of every living thing in this universe depended solely on us. Like most of you, I’m given seven days to make a decision that seems nearly impossible to make. And now, a chance to travel into the unknown that might shed light on everything that has been happening.
The sun was slowly rising, with its rays stretching shadows almost to infinity over the world on the eve of the new cosmic epoch. I prepared myself for what was to come. Whatever lay on the other side of that tear, whatever wonders or horrors awaited us, I knew one thing for certain:
That put a seal on events in which nothing would ever be the same again.