As far as I could tell, their best man had gotten as far as two billion or so ago, and then got stuck. Two hypotheses were battling for supremacy: the first was that life arose over billions of years in the organic soup in the shallow waters off the coast, and the second hypothesis was that the first manifestations of life arose because alien germs were brought to Earth by meteorites. Especially as I had made a kind of ‘path’ for myself, so I could get there with my eyes closed. Not to mention their criticism of me, personally, saying that it was not normal to hand over a chronogenerator to a man with no responsibility and a passion for partying and women. I haven’t spent a penny of my scholarship for three months, just for this.”
I gaped and cautiously looked around to see who had organized such a subtle prank on me, but I saw no one. I sped like lightning through the historical period, then into pre-history and accelerated, so now it only took a few minutes to get to the period where I lost Eliza, and even as I looked for her, I was aware that I couldn’t have stopped even if I’d caught a glimpse of her.
