When the global warming crisis reaches a breaking point that cannot be reversed. thus leading to the destruction of mankind.

“Father!” Dr. Vision, a young scientist, pushed open the door and entered his father, Prof. Sumet's office, with a look of alarm.

“Father, we have to leave quickly. Now let's get to the car quickly.” Vision was tired and sweaty. As Sumet stood looking at the outside world through the clear glass, his vision saw an empty storage bag on the floor, even though his father had probably filled the office with as many books as possible two hours ago. ago

“Father, quickly pack up your things!” Vision grabbed as much as he could and stuffed it into his bag as his hands would allow.

“Why is it like this? Even though we ourselves have tried every way, we cannot change anything,” Sumet said.

“Dad, now is not the time to talk about that!” Vision walked over and grabbed a family photo of his parents and himself when he was a child on his desk before stuffing it into his bag full of books. religious astronomy and environmental research reports

“That's enough,” Sumet turned to his son, who didn't seem to hear his words.

“Tat,” Sumet said louder. Vision turned around and stopped everything. “Father, I have something to tell you.”

“Father, we now have less than an hour to get to the shelter. If we were any later, we might…” Vision was rattling out words until his diaphragm could barely keep up because so many things were erupting. Up in his head, he couldn't breathe because of the pressure that was squeezing his heart. It was as if the angel of death was breathing down his neck all the time.

“We won't go there, Vision,” Sumet interrupted, “What do you mean? Dad, this isn't the time to think about the old issues of the government not believing us. That is the only place where there is still hope right now,” Vision tried to explain to his father.

“Vitas, follow your father this way.” Sumet walked past Vision to the bookshelves behind him and pulled out a Bible that had an inch thick metal wire connected to it, causing the bookshelves to split apart to reveal a walkway. A blue light trailed down a path deep into the darkness.

Sumet disappeared into the secret room. Leaving the vision standing in the background Even though he still didn't understand his father's actions, from experience his father was always right about almost everything. He walked with his bag and followed his father into the secret room before the iron door closed behind him.

Vision picked up his pace to keep up with Sumet. “I have always prayed that the day when I have to open this room would never come,” Sumet spoke up when Vision was less than three steps away from him. Sumet walked his son down the corridor where the blue light still led. In the area, the destination is still not visible.

“This world is funny too. Humans like to see a coffin before they can shed tears. A problem must occur before they can begin to solve it. When the problem became chronic until I didn't return, then I blamed each other and selfishly survived,” Sumet said.

“It's like we keep telling them that if the world warms just four degrees, humans will become extinct. We've been trying all this time. In order for the world to not reach this point, the world has not only warmed by four degrees, but it has exceeded six degrees. The population has increased and deforestation has increased in order to create housing or economic resources to respond. The infinite needs of humans.” Vision listened silently to Sumet's words as he did every time he returned from a protest against deforestation to build a dam or a meeting to reduce global warming.

“Although there is a meeting of all countries around the world every year, There are new and better plans to reduce greenhouse gases, but they fail every time. Developing countries also accuse developed countries of emitting too much greenhouse gases, causing global warming, and they are told that they emit just as much greenhouse gases, regardless of politicians.

Businesspeople and governments have a huge stake in businesses that emit greenhouse gases and they don't seem to like the loss of this huge income.”

The pair walked down the stairs, going deeper and deeper into the underground, with the blue light still stretching out along the ground in front of them.

“How much human greed is there? Some people are willing to sacrifice their own lives and the lives of the entire world with just a scam, tax dollars, and a few years of comfort on the suffering of those who are defenseless. Just like when we helped villagers resist the destruction of forests to build dams, we educated villagers and those who share our ideals. We published proven information on the internet to make people aware.

We began to take the problem seriously and stood up to solve it together. But what we got turned out to be that we were being used by those in power to maintain our own interests. We were misrepresented by people in the capitalist group who wanted to hide the negative effects. From their actions, the capitalist group sends people to spread news on the internet or various websites that global warming is a global scam. The world is not getting warmer.

This causes most people to live their lives carelessly, even though we can clearly see that the summer temperature is higher and the winter temperature is lower every year.” Sumet spoke out his repressed feelings. Vision understood his father's feelings. He was also the one who stood by Sumet when speaking about the effects of global warming in front of the amusement of the capitalists and when trying to announce the matter to the world, only knowing what they He has returned, being accused of mental derangement, being ridiculed for fun to satisfy human desires in the world of social media, becoming just a laughing stock of society.

Some people who used to agree with environmental conservation are easily bought off by the value of money and their ideology. People joining them are decreasing day by day. The new person didn't get in. The old people keep disappearing, the people who stay are starting to get tired, drowning in despondency and hopelessness, and in the end, there is only defeat. Or do people choose to live their lives comfortably today and then die?

“But at least the information we sent out made many people more aware, Father. The article my father wrote was sent around the whole country within a few days. Not everyone is interested in it.” Vision tried to comfort his father who was grieving over a painful past story.

“But just knowing is not enough. Millions of people hear what we say. There will be a hundred thousand people who will listen. From a hundred thousand people who will listen, there will be ten thousand people who will begin to think. Ten thousand people think and a thousand people realize its importance. Out of a thousand people realize there will be a hundred people who decide. And out of a hundred people who make decisions, only a handful take action to solve the problem.

Some people just share articles or photos to criticize others about why they are cutting down forests. The weather is getting hotter because of other people. Waiting for others to solve the problem instead of being the first to start planting trees for others to see.” Sumet's answer made Vision's heart sink to the point where everything seemed hopeless. Everything is gone.

The corridor suddenly shook. They both tried to keep their balance and Vision stepped forward to support his father.

“It's almost time,” Sumet said.

“Funnily enough, people like to say that there will be a flood or there will be an ice age, but no one knows whether the greenhouse gas emissions will destroy all our ozone before the ice melts. The sun will even reverse its poles.” Sumet picked up his pace and led Vision to the end of the walkway as quickly as possible.

“How much time do we have left now?” Sumet turned to Vision.

“About thirty minutes.” Vision followed Sumet closely.

“If Father is not wrong. Right now, America and Europe will soon turn into a sea of ​​fire, and it won't be any different here.” Sumet sped up his steps, and the pair arrived at a black iron door with a line of blue light rising from the ground. Sumet pressed his palm against the door before a blue light appeared on the metal in the same shape as Sumet's hand.

“The password is correct. Welcome, Kuban.” A woman's voice sounded as the door slid apart.

“Kuban?”

“That was my father's old name.”

“Prepare the evacuation process,” Sumet said before the blue light on the door moved down and traveled down the path as the lights cleared, revealing a wide and large gray hall, lights shining from all directions. They all converged on an oval, capsule-shaped object with a space for one person standing upright in the middle of the room.

“Father, what is this?” Vision was stunned.

“This is the ship that father used to travel to this planet,” Sumet said.

“What? But why did Father…” Vision stammered. Sumet avoided his staring eyes.

"Father, I'm sorry for telling you now."

“Why? Why?”

“Father's star was born the same way the world is now. We value convenience. current wealth Until we forget to think about the consequences that will follow, in the end we are the ones who kill our own children. Even though there were many opportunities to fix it, we carelessly let that chance slip away before lamenting for it when it was too late.

Dad's world collapsed in less than a day. He used the ship to escape before the enormous heat engulfed the entire planet. Then the ship took Father to this star, the star with the closest environment to the old star. It brought him to this world and allowed him to meet his mother.” Sumet told his son about his painful past. He traced his feet towards Vision, who stood there trembling like a child as he encountered a truth that was difficult to accept as his life was about to be torn apart in the next few minutes.

“Father promised myself that he would not let this star suffer the same fate as yours but… I made a mistake. Dad can solve equations that no other human being in the world can solve. But I can't solve all the problems alone.” Sumet hugged his sobbing son. Tears flowed down my cheeks.

“We'll be okay, right, Dad? This place is deeper than the safe haven the government told us about.” Vision groaned, hoping Sumet would tell him yes.

But Sumet shook his head. Desperation was reflected in his watery eyes.

“No matter how deep we are here, we cannot escape the heat. When the earth has no ozone layer, heat and radiation will all enter the atmosphere. When they meet with oxygen, the sky will be on fire and the heat of over a thousand degrees will destroy every form of life. Then the enormous heat will gradually spread down through the soil layer until…”

A painful truth cut deep into Vision's heart.

“Father's computer received a signal from a star in a galaxy far, far away. There were other survivors from his own star. They are building a new colony there.” Sumet reached out and grabbed the bag from Vision's hand before pulling out a family photo and handing it to Vision.

“They will know that their child is a child of both worlds. Being a father's child... This star's time had run out, but for another star it was just beginning. Teach future generations about the importance of the environment. Teach future generations not to trade the future of the species for a few years of prosperity. Continuing what Father has not yet accomplished.” Even though it was the same thing Sumet said every time, the feeling that was pounding his heart right now was telling him that this was the last time he would hear his father's teachings.

“I will stay with my father. I will not leave my father here,” Vision sobbed. Sumet shook his head and refused his son's request.

“I want to stay with you, Dad…” Vision pleaded.

“You are my father's hope and also my mother's. You are still young and your knowledge will help many people. Please guide them so that history does not repeat itself. Father, I don't want my son to end his life just here. And I believe what you told me before you died means now as well.” Sumet leaned towards his son once more before wrapping his vision in his arms.

“Father…” Vision said softly.

“Father, I love you.” The two of them looked into each other's eyes like that in the hall where there was only silence, as if everything was just waiting to hear his decision.

“Start the engine in five…” The countdown began.

Four… Vision hugged the family photo to his chest.

Three… Sumet smiled at his son. Tears wiped down my cheeks.

Two… The craft began to rise from the ground, separating the father and son.

One… Both of them resisted the pain and refused to take their eyes off each other to memorize as much of each other's image as possible, even if it was only for a few seconds. But it was buried deep in the memory of the vision, clinging to it like a big tree rooted deep in the ground. Mother's voice on the last day of her life resounded.

You must continue to live.” Along with images of memories flashing in Sumet's head on the day Vision first opened his eyes to the world, the day the three of them went hiking to admire the beauty of nature and breathe in the fresh air. Their lungs were full the day they dived into the deep blue waters to visit the birthplace of living things.

Tears of sorrow flowed down the cheeks of the father and son at the last second before they had to be far away from each other, never to see each other again, no chance to express their love to each other through warm embraces again.

Zero… The capsule soared out into the red sky, breaking through the hot steam that was radiating into the home of Vision before breaking through the Earth's atmosphere and accelerating beyond the speed of light, leaping across time and space to. Target set

Sumet stood and watched his son disappear into the sky before the flames engulfed the entire world into hell.

In the end, it is just like John's prophecy from God in Revelation.

“The seven bowls of the wrath of God”

“And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and gave power to the sun to devour the people with fierce heat, and devoured them all.”

Other works

Short story: The way home:

https://writer.dek-d.com/soarP/story/view.php?id=1430427

Short story: The Angel's Blessing:

https://writer.dek-d.com/soarP/story/view.php?id=1434029

Short story Ram and Nil :

https://writer.dek-d.com/soarP/story/view.php?id=1529459 

Short stories to inspire you to write your dreams:

https://writer.dek-d.com/soarP/story/view.php?id=1539451