The Garden of Eden

The journey to where Nate lives continues. Shortly before arriving, the human explains to Aqua that this place full of life is called the Garden of Eden, and defines it as a space where the ancient nature of the planet Earth prevails within an infinite and enormous desert, as if it were an oasis. A few minutes later they arrive at the place.

When they arrive, they get out of the vehicle they were in and the human tells Aqua that she can take off the suit that protects her from the toxic air of Earth and breathe the air of the Garden of Eden. When they enter, Aqua trusts Nate's suggestion and takes off her suit. Suddenly, she is surprised to breathe deeply as if it were a breath of fresh air.

She then looks around the rest of the garden, seeing elements that would now be considered extinct, such as a huge meadow of grass covered with some fruit trees and animals, mostly cattle, all within a huge transparent dome called a modifiable greenhouse, a technological device that modifies the environment around it within a certain space for agriculture and livestock. Aqua asks him how he has managed to grow and raise everything he owns in the Garden of Eden.

—Everything is inside a modifiable greenhouse that alters the environment we are in. This greenhouse has several holes through which the air enters and goes through a purification process to make it 100% breathable— he answers and then guides her to a small facility.

When they enter, they go down an elevator to an underground room with a huge lake of water inside. Aqua is amazed by what she sees around her while the human invites her to look at a monitor.

—The underground water that remains here I use to grow the plants and feed the animals inside the dome— he shows her everything the monitor indicates—. This water is sucked up by a tube that guides it to the surface and spreads it throughout the place thanks to other pipes connected to it. And as you can see on this side, it indicates the number of liters that this lake has.

Aqua is surprised to see that the amount of water is equivalent to the total expenditure of a millennium distributed among a population of 150 million people. The human confirms his hypothesis. Then they go back up to the surface and enter the cabin.

Inside there are several devices such as a DNA cloner with which he clones the animals inside the Garden of Eden to consume the cloned meat; and a device with which he creates the chlorophyll that he injects into the plants so that they can carry out the process of photosynthesis. Aqua is perplexed by the tools and technological equipment that the human uses to survive in an inhospitable and desert land.

Suddenly the human comments that everything would be better if it had not been for the war that caused the current state of the planet. Aqua is shocked to hear this comment and looks back at Nate, who is downcast with a somber and frustrated expression.

—You mean that the disaster you mentioned in the city that left the planet like this was a war?— Aqua asks.

Nate answers affirmatively with a lot of anger.

—A war that despite lasting 50 years, its consequences are equivalent to 20 times the damage caused by the 100-year war— the human continues.

—Impossible— Aqua says with her right hand in front of her mouth, almost covering it. Shocked, she tells him that she would like to hear the story without first updating her log with the data she has managed to collect in the city.

She sits on a chair in front of a desk and begins to record her next log while the human tries to calm down sitting next to her bed. When Aqua finishes her log, she puts it away and asks the human, who is now calmer, to tell her everything about the war that caused the current state of the planet. The human raises his head and begins to tell the story about the aforementioned subject.