This isit, the end of the road.Theres no need for me to remain here anymore,I''ve succeeded and now the future of the human race is in the hands of the current generation


    Well,I may not beas significant asI think I ambutI like to flatter myself that I may be Columbusto someone.I''m definitely not thefirst to discover space but I think I''m the first to risk all of my money to mine space rocksand toexploit the resources found in space.


    I''m going to die,thisis it,the final frontier.I wish I could return to tell everyone what happens after you die butdead men tell no tales


    I''m going to die alone,it''s a little sad butthats it.The people I want to spend my last moments with are already gone


    The fact that I''mgoing to die in a house at aman made city floating in space just tells how far humanity and technology has come since the time when the cost of sendingstuff to Low EarthOrbit is 3000 thousand dollars per pound


    My field of vision is narrowing down,its getting darker and darkeruntil theres only a tiny dot in the middle.But before I completely lost my visionan intense light came from above,so bright that it can probably blind you even if you closed your eyes


    Where does the light came from? I dont know and I dont care.I''m going to die any second now.Why bother


    By this time I already lost my vision but I can still feel the light,so bright that its probably several times hotter thansunlight


    Well,It looks likeI wontdie painlessly afteall


    Then I heard a cold,robotic AI sounding voice says:


    "Scan complete"


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    I slowly opened my eyes and I am...still in my house


    Arent I supposed to be dead.However I feel aliveand more healthy than before


    What happened?


    Then I remembered the electronic voice just before I "died"


    Something is definitely off


    I checked my surroundings and everything is exactly where its supposed to be, Its as if I had just woke up from a nightmare.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.


    "It seems you have awaken"


    Startled by the sudden intrusion,I immediately stood up faced the direction where the voice is coming from


    "Who are you? no let me rephrase that,what are you?"


    He,It, looks like a squid.A squid with a transparent body that has wires instead of vains and isgivingoff violet-blue steadily pulsing light


    "Who I am is not important"


    I glared at him and said


    "Yes it is, if we''re to going to discuss somethingthen I need to know who you are and what you are"


    There is asilence for amomentthen the robotic Cephalopod''s cold,emotionless voice answered


    "We are probesmade by a civilization long gone, we were programmed tostrive forperfection and seed the universe with life"


    Like Von Neumann Probes, machine with specific tasks,continously replicating and evolving.They probably learned how to create AI''s themselves,if this is true then it ispossible that their creators lost control of them leading to the most predictable movie plotline ever


    I''minterested but I should just ask the necessary questions


    "What do you need from me?"


    "Out of all theplanetsin this galaxy we seeded with life, thecarbon based life forms,your species,are the only one that passed the Great Filters"


    I crossed my arms and continued to glare at thething claiming to be part of the race responsible for life on Earth.If this is true then they are the closest thing to "God" but theres no way I''m going to worship a glowing space calamari


    "That doesnt answer my question,get straight to the point"


    I know that I dont have a leverage againts this guy or his entire race but I guess I just got used to this attitude.Wimpering wont do anything good,better show them I''m the alpha here even though I''m really not.


    "You are the reason why your raceescaped their prison called "Earth",no a cradle shouldn''t be compared to a prison.But all babies must learn to walk and leave their cradle, all chicks must break free from their eggs "


    I smiled wryly and shook my head,who knows that even aliens think so highly of me?I dont really thinkI did anythingrevolutionary.I didn''t really discovered anything great, I''m just a foolwho think space ships are cooland someone who got conned by his father torisk everything he haveso he can see his favorite movies space battle scenes come to life:Even though space battles isnt really that great, no sounds and no flashy explosions like that on Earth ,only lot ofdeaths.Painful deaths.Not really that exciting if you ask me


    "No,I didn''t do anything.I just gave them a little push"


    The glowing floating spacesquid looked at me and said


    "That is what a certain place needs,a little push,thats why we''re sending you there"


    The squid started to fade away after saying that


    "Wait! I didn''t agree to this yet!"


    Just before "he"dissapeared I heard him said


    "In time,you will know your place in the grand plan of the Transendence"


    The hell!


    thatlast part sounds really ominous


    The room isalso starting todissapear, reality is recedingaway from my feet until only a blank white canvass remains


    Shit, I dontlike being controlled likea puppet but I knowthat if something is too powerful to be opposed, then you should just go with the flow


    If theres nothing I can do then I''d rather just sit back and enjoythe ride.I''m supposed to be dead anyway


    Then I heard that electronic soundingvoice again


    "Scanning..."


    My conciousness is slipping away just like before,my vision is all black and I already cant hear a damn thing.


    "Scan complete.Beaming information todestination toconstruct"Clone no.2"