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CHAPTER 91

St Paul’s Catacombs

Rabat, Malta

David switched on a lantern and focused on Janus “Answers I want to knoe’re dealing with here”

Janus glanced at the rounded stone tunnel the hovering cube was slowly carving

“Very well We have a bit of time Submit your first question”

Where do I start? David thought “You saved me How and why?”

“The how is beyond your scientific grasp—”

“Well dumb it down for my primitive hominin brain, which apparently seventy thousand years of Atlantean intervention hasn’t perfected”

“Clearly The how is somewhat related to the why I shall start there I will also need to give you a bit of background I said before that you did not actually see me in Antarctica You saw my avatar Have you surmised why?”

“You were in Gibraltar”

“Yes Very good, Mr Vale Your Dr Grey actually figured out a great deal of the Atlantean history on this planet It was shocking for y It was quite accurate, despite the gaps in his knowledge, things he could not know”

“Such as?”

“What he described as ‘A falls’—the fall of Atlantis, the destruction of our ship off the coast of Gibraltar It was an attack As you know, there were two of us Scientists who had traveled the galaxies studying human evolution on countless human worlds”

“Incredible,” David mumbled

“This world, your species, is what is incredible Our species is old Long ago, we turned our focus to other worlds, and in particular, to any world that harbored human life It became our obsession One question in particular doreatest question of all: where did we come from?”

“Evolution—”

“Is only the biological process There is much more to the story; your science will reveal that one day You already know that the universe supports the erahtly different—gravity, the strength of electronetism, the dimensions in space-time—any of them, there would no human life There are only two possibilities: either hued because the laws of the universe support it by random chance; or the alternative: the universe was created to foster human life”

David considered Janus’s statement

“Our first assumption was that it was merely chance; that we existed because ere siical possibilities in an infinite number of universes that exist in the multiverse Our theory was that we exist, because iven that there are infinite possible universes and we are a finite possible outcome We exist in this universe because it is the only one our brains are capable of being aware of”