The 50: Post AI Apocalypse

Secrets Revealed

Three hours flashed by in a blink of an eye. At the same spot, the four regrouped again with mixed feelings over their faces. They didn’t find an empty table so they chose to walk randomly as they started to exchange their knowledge.

“Do you know which city we are at right now?” John started the talk with this question. His face revealed how surprised and how deeply conflicted he was about what he heard back there.

“This is Washington Dc, right?” Gina replied with no interest, however John added at once:

“It’s not just any normal city, it’s the capital of this country.”

“What?!” Dan exclaimed out loud with surprise before adding, “isn’t the capital our city, Los Angeles city?”

“See? I told you he will react like an idiot as always,” Laiyla said with a chuckle.

“Who is the idiot? Anyone who hears that would be like me, admit it you two were shocked as well,” Dan said with a defensive tone.

“We were shocked indeed, but we didn’t show that silly expression of yours,” John said teasing his friend before adding, “What did you two discover? The most shocking secret?”

Dan and Gina exchanged looks before they showed an evil smile. It was their turn now to tease the other couple, so Dan cleared his throat before saying:

“Do you know there is a space settlement out there on Mars?”

“You refer to the failed project of Genesis, right? Everyone knows about this Dan,” Laiyla replied instantly with a mocking smile over her face.

“No, you two are wrong. it isn’t a failed project at all, and its name isn’t Genesis,” Dan said with confidence and pride that weren’t part of his usual character.

“What do you mean it isn’t a failed project?” John asked with doubt and interest.

“When we went there, we watched an online broadcast on TV where the two candidates were debating and quarreling with each other. In this debate, the chipped person named Gary promised to settle the conflicts between the Earthians and the Martians humans, even if he had to use force to do it.

While the non-chipped candidate, named William, promised to keep the current peaceful relations with Martians. He also promised to start more trade routes with Martians.

So we got interested in those Martians and began to look for more info regarding them until we stumbled upon a documentary video speaking about the Martians' history, and guess what we found?” Dan said with a silly wide smile of his which always appeared when he solved any difficult math equation.

“Just say it, we surrender,” John knew his friend best, so he was sure Dan had figured out something no one would imagine. So, the best thing to do was to do nothing or else he would always brag about this for a long time.

“No imagination at all, I told you they would never imagine what we found,” Dan started to brag even without saying anything. Laiyla and John just sighed, they had to suffer this brag for the next hours, which was better than suffering it for a few days or even weeks!

“Ok, enough suspense and stop squeezing them,” Gina seemed to play on the same track as Dan, which made the other two annoyed with this.

After all they had enough with one Dan.

“Fine, I will tell and explain as always. I told you they can’t know a thing without me,” Dan mockingly said.

“That’s enough, I will leave,” John suddenly said as he was about to move away.

“Stop, stop, I was just kidding you know,” Dan hurried to say before John started to move.

“Then say what you know or just shut the hell up!” John angrily said.

“Ok, I will speak… What we found was that the first travels to Mars were on the board of Genesis ships, but life there wasn’t sustainable, until a brilliant scientist thought of something crazy and since then everything changed.

This scientist had a theory to change Mars into another earth, by using the waste and polluted products of earth and moving them into Mars. He created machines to harvest pollution and toxic products, then used some technology to make these things changeable.

He did some complicated math equations so when he released his modified pollutants, they interacted with each other and created fertile soil and thick protective atmosphere.

Everything started from the soil, that was the base of his theory. Gravity, climate, gases, nutrients, and every single bit of nature that supported life was birthed from soil.

So when he did so, he strangely succeeded in what others called madness. That made Mars a suitable place to inhabit, and from that moment on many humans began to flood there and live happily without the burdens of stressful life here.

There was no pollution at all, no lack of jobs, no need to do crimes, everyone was living the dream, the human dream out there. so Mars was called Eden, the new life, the beacon of humanity, hope, and many other positive names.

All that happened parallel to the rise of the technology here, and that created a conflict with the interest of those who owned these technologies. So, there is a huge battle going on between the chipped and non-chipped people regarding Eden.

Eden had a rule to prohibit chipping, as there was no need to stress over the human body like that. There were endless opportunities there, and so the chipping companies were pissed and they were trying to stir up trouble between the two planets.

They used the political separation between Eden and Earth as an excuse to try and start an all out war, however that didn’t succeed as Eden already had indomitable support from the masses,” Dan slowly explained everything he found out about Eden.

“So they are now trying to push a chipped president to take charge of everything here, so they could rage wars as they like,” Laiyla said.

“That’s disturbing, especially if we already know there is no mention of Eden in our time. Was it destroyed? Was this the cause of the calamity?” James muttered as he thought of this dilemma.

Dan had more to say as he added:

“That’s not all, we also found some disturbing rumor regarding chipping personnel,” he then looked towards Gina with concerned eyes as she nodded for him to continue, “the chip had side effects, like loss of memory, the effects over fertility, and even some say that whoever controls the technology can manipulate the chipped individuals like puppets in his hand.”

John and Laiyla were shocked of these new info, and both of them simultaneously looked at Gina when John said while pointing towards her with doubt and anger:

“You…you  knew this from the beginning.”