Parallel worlds – two. Birth of God - стр. 35
The lab became quiet. The silence was broken again by Iulia.
– It's Moscow, look. This is Moscow. They've rebuilt the city.
– They didn't rebuild it, they built it differently. You can see the Kremlin up ahead. It's a different color, look.
Spider webs of overpasses towered over the city center, one of which passed over Red Square, girdling it and taking the Kremlin in a ring. The entire Kremlin complex, all the walls and towers were lined with shiny mosaics and because of this looked like a magical palace from a fairy tale. Apparently – only special persons could enter this zone. Although it wasn't clear if YatSan could. A cavalcade of police and special cars with sirens blaring followed her. At first it looked like they were escorting her, but judging from YatSan's behavior, they weren't.
– What's going on, can you tap into them? – Ruthra asked Irene.
– It's not working. All I can do is turn on YatSan's conversations with… you.
Already the entire staff was taking this kind of thing with laughter.
– If you knew how unfunny the situation is," Ruthra said sadly.
– Is it really that serious? – Andrian asked, stepping a little closer to Ruthra.
– Trust me, my friend , trust me. This is serious.
– But that's not a method of prevention.
– Do you know the method of prevention? Or do you think that something like this, a nuclear war, couldn't happen already? Believe me, it's been prevented many times. There have even been plenty of cases where it could have happened because of a malfunction or a hardware error. And it was from different sides of the opposing countries.
– Is it real?
Ruthra looked at him a little haughtily.
– I don't mean I don't believe it.
– Many cases cannot be hidden. They are common knowledge. And there are cases when all people felt that in deep bunkers a nuclear war scenario was being developed and planned in all seriousness. And it is happening now. And the planning and the likelihood of the process starting without human knowledge.
– I'm sorry, but I find that hard to believe.
– Gentlemen, what are you talking about? – Julia asked as she approached.
– This is no joke at all, friend," Ruthra said still sadly.
Such treatment in public made her believe that her fears were serious. Suddenly a chill ran through Iulia's body. It was observed visually. A thoughtful fear showed in Catherine's eyes. And an awareness of the general background of pressing thoughts and images swept through everyone's heads. They understood why such a grand and super-secret program was presented to them as an ordinary school experiment, albeit in a super-secret center, why the relationship was not strictly hierarchical, official, but friendly. All these secrecy, strictness, officialdom did not matter against the background of the global problem they wanted to solve. They involuntarily felt proud of themselves, of the responsibility entrusted to them, of the possibility to prevent a catastrophe, which, however, was very hard for them to believe. But the examples given – wars and catastrophes – were sobering.