Alien Code Page #6

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for example.

- What about them?

- Well, your solution...

to the decryption

was different to Beth's,

which was different to mine.

How can that be?

They know nothing

of our reality.

How can they encrypt something

for us to decipher?

It's... No.

They put something out there

that was different

for each of us,

yet always came

to the same result.

It's really...

It's quite embarrassing

because I can't even begin

to explain that.

That's why A.R.I.S.T. hired

multiple cryptographers.

Oh, and I have another theory,

I don't think it was radiation

that caused our little...

Our little friends here.

No, they are rather

physical side effects

of altering our perception

of reality.

[STUTTERS] Yes? Like a challenging

puzzle can cause a headache.

This puzzle caused us

a tumor.

[]

It's remarkable.

So...

we're f***ed.

Yes, I suppose...

I suppose you could say that.

But we can stop this.

There's still time.

Oh, no. I don't...

I think there's...

We can actually do

anything.

You wasted our time

developing a virus

that doesn't stand

a f***ing chance?

Oh, no, no, no.

Th-the virus will work.

It's just that we don't have

the luxury of time

to complete it.

I mean...

these ripples we are feeling

are likely from an event

that has already happened.

You know,

the machine's activation

may already have happened.

Some point in our future.

[SCOFFS]

We can't...

There must be something.

I mean, for all we know,

the effects may not be

from the machine's activation.

They may be from its detonation.

Jesus Christ, what the f***?

Can we stop this thing or not?

Its detonation?

You know, there may be

another method to destroy it.

Dismantle it,

take a sledgehammer to it,

blow it up.

[CHUCKLES]

That's great. That's great.

I'm so glad

we spent all that time

developing the virus.

Ah, yes, well, you see,

the problem is A.R.I.S.T.

will most definitely

rebuild it.

No, so you have to go,

get to the server

and erase the blueprints.

But we don't even know where

the A.R.I.S.T. facility is.

MILES:

Yes, well, now you do.

You forget, I was one

of the original

founders of A.R.I.S.T. I know

this place inside and out.

You should be able

to access the facility

through the east-wing

maintenance tunnel here.

[BOOMS]

[CREAKING]

There's a hatch

about a mile down the road...

that'll take you

directly to the lab.

[BOOMS]

Oh, sh*t.

Oh, sh*t,

we gotta go.

[CREAKING CONTINUES]

[DOOR SLAMS OPEN]

[WIND WHISTLING]

Hello...

old friend.

We shouldn't have

just left him.

There's nothing we could do.

So the hatch is just a couple

miles off this back road.

If we leave first thing

in the morning,

we should be there

by evening.

[]

[BAGS ZIP]

[HATCH SQUEAKING]

[]

[DOOR CONTINUES CLOSING]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[GASPS]

[]

[BEEPING]

[GASPING]

No.

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

No.

[GRUNTING]

[PANTING]

[BEEPING FASTER]

[BEEPING INTERMITTENTLY]

[]

[BOMB CONTINUES BEEPING

INTERMITTENTLY]

[ALEX SCREAMS

DISTORTEDLY]

[SCREAMS DISTORTEDLY]

Aah!

[GROANING]

[PANTS]

F***.

Ugh!

[PANTING]

VOICE:

Relax.

Relax.

Where am I? Where am I?

What do you see?

ALEX:

I don't know. I don't know.

Am I dead?

Not as you

understand it.

Do you fear death?

No.

Do you fear living?

What are you?

Nothing you can understand.

What the f*** do you want?

We are very curious

about your kind

and your experience of time.

[LAUGHS]

That's all this has been?

It is a curiosity to us.

[CHUCKLING]

So... So all...

All this...

We would like to

understand.

Linear time seems so impractical

a state of being.

To learn is a tediously

slow process...

and with each generation,

it begins anew.

A laborious cycle

of empty promise.

It banishes mankind

to the torment of ignorance.

Forever a child in the dark.

How curious that nature

could punish

a creature so malevolently.

You are condemned

to relearn pain for an eternity.

How painful it must be

to possess self-awareness,

and consciousness

as you do...

trapped in a lower dimension,

such as you are.

Jesus Christ, what the f***

do you want from me?

Why did you choose me?

"Choose"?

Yeah.

Why did you choose

to decrypt the message?

You asked me that before.

You came to my house.

We do not understand

decision.

We exist

in one single moment.

One blink of instantaneity.

We understand

everything there is

to be understood

in our world.

Therefore, causality,

probability and consequence

are a mystery to us.

It's something

that doesn't exist in your time.

If man's experience of time

was like ours...

would he remain?

Would he remain?

Would he remain?

Would he remain?

Oh, f***.

Relax.

- [GRUNTS]

- Relax.

F***! Oh, f***.

Relax.

If the cracks of time

were filled

and man had no place

left to hide...

what then?

I don't know. Oh, f***.

I don't know. I don't even know

what the f*** you mean.

What happens

when man must wait no more?

We become you?

Is that something

you'd like?

I can't exist here.

It's making me sick.

You... You're killing me.

But there is only one

certainty for man:

Death.

[AIR WHOOSHES]

Yet man hides

from this inevitability.

Man desires more time

to distance himself from it.

However,

the more time man has...

the more it takes from him.

Prolonging your existence

comes at the cost

of unknown suffering.

Time determines all for man.

Ironic that it should be

both the gift and the thief.

What's it like?

In your world?

You cannot understand.

If you can bridge the gap

between dimensions

to communicate with me,

then you can...

Then you can f***ing try.

You know things

about us...

and about our universe.

Tell me.

If you're seeking answers

to alter

your understanding

of reality...

does that not make your world

a projection

rather than

a perception?

What is the actuality?

Do you see the world

as you imagine it...

or are you observing

what is really there?

If reality is just a projection,

what happens when the source,

when consciousness,

is absent?

Even with an eternity

of self-reflection,

man cannot understand

the difference

between actuality

and illusion.

With every man born

comes a new reality...

all competing in perpetuity.

Perhaps this is why man

is so perpetually at odds.

- So conflicted.

- [GROANING]

- Stop. Stop. Stop.

- So divided.

Stop.

[PANTING]

Am I the only one

you're doing this to?

Would you feel better

if you weren't?

You don't want

to be alone.

I don't wanna suffer.

- You're in pain?

- Yes.

Yes, I'm in pain,

and now I just have to sit here

until I f***ing die.

What if you could return

to a moment

in what you understand

as the past?

Before you were sick?

If I were to travel

back in time?

ALIEN:

Yes.

With the information

you now possess.

How do you think

it would alter your behavior?

What would you decide

to do differently,

if anything at all?

I would tell A.R.I.S.T.

to go f*** themselves.

You would choose differently?

ALEX:

I would stop this.

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