During the journey, I would have to don a lightweight, flexible suit, much like the kind used by astronauts, fitted with oxygen tanks that gave me a four-hour range. In part, I have to admit that it’s my fault for what happened, but I couldn’t imagine that anyone could be as dumb as this girl. As I neared the predicted time, the bike’s time speed dropped, and according to the software, the scale automatically scaled to thousands of years per second this time. Once launched into the race, a competitor has to face the currents of time that in a normal and natural passage of time are normally not felt, but when you cross backwards time, you hit them like a wall if you don’t dodge them in time. The second group agreed that life had been inseminated from the outside onto Earth, but argued that this didn’t happen by accident, but was directed by an extraterrestrial intelligence that was in the business of inseminating all the life-breeding planets in the universe. It wasn’t until the terms of the trip were explained to me that I realized that the Institute must have tried and failed, and now they were pinning all their hopes on me.
