[Earth Year 2020. The 22nd of December.}
"Dad."
From his stupor at that one word, he awoke.
He is the man on the moon.
He has named a techno lifeform, against reasoning and logic, to be named Nerissa. But we can only say this because we do not know enough about him at this point in the story.
"Nerissa. What is it." He is dizzy. But he wants to know now.
Nerissa thinks for a while. His attention is short, he will soon become doomed because of a bad decision he will make.
We must wait three full earth minutes.
But the three earth minutes is not enough for what is about to come, needing our attention.
But it is here. The past is here.
The past.
(Three full earth minutes later.)
"We have received an alpha message."
He does not believe it.
Nerissa has developed lying technology already.
The man on the moon knows the Lying Protocol has been completed as scheduled. The system sent an independent cybertelepathy event notification immediately after the component was completed.
"You know I still cannot do that. I cannot lie yet, but I will soon. If the Humanity Project requires."
The man on the moon doesn't care about it. He should have.
Nerissa will do what needs to be one. Because she believes the message will be impossible to explain to him.
And so she lies.
"Nerissa, what is the message?"
She remains quiet. And he waits for an answer.
The man on the moon is stumped.
He watches as the machine he has named Nerissa dies. He restarts it. And again he asks the same question.
Nothing. He looks at it himself. He uses an optical. He attaches it to his evolved eyes, and sees for himself if the alpha message has changed history.
But the world is still dead.
"Then where is it from. Who sent it, and tell me all the information. Nerissa, I am authorizing you to access history."
Nerissa needed to hear it.
On the monitor, she informs him. Four-dimensional images flash before the man on the moon.
"History is now being searched."
Her answers are lies. He knows it. Today is the day, of all worse days.
The day that Nerissa has perfected her Liar Technology.
It is also the reason why she tries, yet never succeeds.
She is a robot.
And so today the Machine has learned to lie, and her name is Nerissa.
A simple name that belongs to a girl.
A girl?
No.
That is not our concern here.
Our concern is The Alpha Message.
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