• Eleven January, 3010.

    Channels of TV and radio reported that the last human birth occurred successfully, that was how I found out that my son was the last candy of the candy land.

    It took me some time to believe that all women were sterile, I thank God that my wife got pregnant before this unfortunate event.

    Such infertility was predicted by a religion known as Makaham, which arose around 2510. In their sacred book, there is a prediction saying that another specie will appear on our planet, a specie intellectually superior to the human beings, and they will be known as Solamuc.

    According to Makaham the Solamucs would dominate all the resources of the planet earth, without having to fight against humanity, because when they arrive, we will already be extinct.

    The sacred book says that the role of the human beings on earth is the same as the role of a laboratory rat, we have been created to test all possibilities: create, try and think about everything that was possible, until our physical and mental limits allow us. Serving as study to the observers. Who are they? Maybe gods, angels, demons or aliens, the interpretation of sacred book varies from reader to reader.

    Throughout history, mankind has done many absurd things, so absurd that we can't stop asking ourselves: why would someone do that ?

    Navigating the seas of our memories, it is impossible to find nowadays, something that the human beings have never done, tried, or at least thought about.

    As soon as we finished what we we were doing here, our females have lost the ability to get pregnant, just because the observers no longer need us.

    The followers of the Makaham believe that they need to prepare the territory for the Solamucs, they don't care about our extinction, the sacred book made them believe that our extinction is a good thing.

    In 3010, the year that my son was born, I realized that we had already done everything that we were capable to do, there was no more stuff to be done.

    Thousand years ago, there were people pulling cars with their own hair, people trying to buy stuff with a fake bill of one million dollars, creations like a portable toilet and funeral houses selling coffin-shaped soda, it's not that surprising that we did everything thousand years later.

    The new specie would come to live a different life, no more tests, all were already tested by us, and they would know everything, according to the sacred book.

    The gene that led us to do many things, which today is known as the do-everything gene, wouldn't be in them, and then they would be far from being like us.

    We are freaks compared to them, people of our specie dared to kill their parents, their own parents!

    Some celebrities have spoken on television, saying that the new specie would be very incomplete without the do-everything gene, they claim to prefer being a part of this experience than being like them.

    They remembered about the good things we have done, not only the bad things as pessimistic people like me did. Although it's good to remember all the good things we have done, I couldn't ignore the fact that they were done using the same do-everything gene that was used to do the bad things.

    If we could do only the good things or only the bad things, maybe we would never be extinct, because many possibilities would still be missing.

    A part of the population is trying to imagine something new, that had never been created, tried or thought before. Another part is looking for any trace of the Solamuc's arriving, and the rest is trying to biologically understand what happened to the women, just so they could work on the cure.

    I thought it would be more rational to invest my time at trying to discover something that had never been done, tried or thought before.

    The books, as well as the movies, drawings and comics, had already talked about everything, the technology had already invented (in 3010) everything that had to be invented, and medicine had treatment for all diseases, except the actual one. But I didn't give up on searching something new anyway.

    Basically, we still have hopes on finding new stuff to be done just so we gain more time, but the years passed like cars running in a world competition, there were no traces to confirm the new specie is really coming. The problem of the women is still unsolved, and we couldn't think about something that was never done, tried or thought before, at least until now.

    I am eighty-five years old, my wife died last week, my son was murdered by those stupid people who thought he was part of an evolution from the humans to this new specie, only because he was too smart, and because he was the last human born.

    Unfortunately, the book didn't specify how the Solamucs would come, leaving space for theories such as the one that took the life of my son.

    Whoever planned the fate of our specie and the one that will come was nice to me by letting me live before the end.

    In some way, my son was also lucky, even though he has lived only for thirteen years.

    I pity the unborn children of the last people who tried to bring new children to the world, they didn't have the chance to live, it was their turn, but their turn came too late.

    In case Makaham is wrong and is just taking an advantage of a coincidence, it would be responsible for our extinction. Many scientists believed in Makaham and decided to spend the rest of their time with other things instead of helping to find out a way to solve the problem of fertility.

    The few scientists who kept trying, failed to solve it so far, although they didn't give up yet.

    I prefer to believe that we will not be extinguished by a hoax. I think the Solamucs will come, and that they will take care of our planet much better than we did, the humankind have never been a good example when it's about the environment.

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