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Chapter 5 - CHAPTER 5: THE TOUGH DECISION

Listening to the stories about General Malcom expedition, my father's heart felt so devastated as his face looked solemn. There were many things he was thinking while listening to General Malcom's story in detail and after finish listening, he let General Malcom to rest properly and dismiss General Malcom from his office. He then walked towards his desk, open up the bottom drawer and took out an old whiskey bottle, sat down and drink it while thinking about what should he do in current situation as the leader of last surviving humans. Should he let the humans to enter the new world? Is it equal to sending them to death? If he did not send them, surely there will be food shortage sooner or later and they will die too, or should he keep the sending option as a final solution or might it be too late if he waits? should he let them decide? If he let them decide or decide to send them out, should he announce everything General Malcom told him or hide the disadvantage and only tell them about the advantage in new world or just let them go to the new world to find out? As the leader of the humans, he needs to make the decision but he himself was not sure whether his decision will make the humanity survive or extinct as whole. He keeps himself locked in his office for 2 days and did not even eat for 2 days while making the decision. Finally, after 2 days he came out and call out the officials to inform the remaining humanity that he will announce his decision tomorrow. He also calls out General Malcom on the third day before the announcement. He discusses for a while with General Malcom and head straight to make the announcement. "hello everyone, I as the leader of last remaining faction of humans is here to announce the news regarding my decision and also news reagrding the new world. I have made my decision. Except for the few people who were playing important roles in maintaining this shelter, those who were conducting research, and some leaders, all the adults here, almost 4.6 million people will head to the new world. My officials will handout a detail information about everything we know about the new world. After thinking through everything I have come to this decision. If we don't send the adults to the new world, we will soon face food shortage and will only be waiting to be doomed. We did not go to the new world for wealth, not for power, not for ourselves, we go to the new world for our children, for our grandchildren, for humanity. To secure a better place for our children to live. It may take few years, decades, or even centuries but your action today will benefit the future generation. It may be hard to survive in the outside world but it's not impossible. We have learnt from General Malcom that the outside world is like a game world, it's just that our starting point is late but for our children, grandchildren, for humanity, we will strive to build a better world. The new world does not place important on morality, its only rule is strength. So, everyone we need to work hard to become better. We also came to know from the lizardmen corpse that some of them more than 100 years old, which means it is possible that in new world we can live longer if we were high level, so it is possible for every one you to see your children and loved one again in future if you work hard enough to raise your levels. But do not panic now. Since we just have been attacked, it's possible that there may be enemies outside so your journey will only will began exactly 1 year from today. And most importantly, once you leave through the Dimensional Gate, we will close it, so you cannot come back even if you want to so that we can avoid incidents such happens few days ago. Survive every one. Next year on this day, every one of you will begin your journey into the new world. Spend most your times with your loved ones, from today your children will let to stay awake for once a week so you can spend time with them. Only after 50 years once we will send a team to check the new world. Again, we do not go to the new world for glory, not for honour, for humanity!!!! For humanity!!! For humanity!!! "as soon as my father finished his speech, there was a total silence. My father's heart bleed but before he began to said anything, a voice came out "we survived a meteor strike millions of years ago when the dinosaur extinct, we survived great world wars, we survived biological warfare, we survived great diseases, we survived many natural calamities, we even survived the great explosion of the Sun. we will definitely survive in this new world too. I will teach you all I can about the new world, when everyone set out on journey after 1 year, I the sole survivor of the first human expedition in new world, General Malcom will leave together with you. For HUMANITY!!!!" as he shouted, every one chanting humanity together with him. That day General Malcom becomes a hero. A hero who is willing to march to hell once again for humanity. Things we hectic for first few days but they gradually calmed down. 1 week later, my father called out 800 best military personal and assign 8 of them as commander, 72 as captain and 720 remaining as vice-captain. 8 commanders will each lead a group of 500-600 thousand people including 9 captain and 90 vice-captains to travel in 8 direction for certain amount of time and then each group will separate into 10 smaller group and again travel for some time to separate once again into 10 much smaller group. So, by the time they separate for the third time, each group will only have around 6000 people and there will be 800 group of humans. By doing this, humans can avoid total extinction if face any danger. If they encounter any good place to settle down during the journey, they are not forced to split as they build a settlement there to settle down and if it safe, they can invite others to join in as well. If anyone wishes to travel themselves, they were free to leave as they wish during the journey. This is what my father ordered the 800 military personal who were leading the mission. My father also promises to give 5 of the lizardmen's weapons to the 5 best commander and the 6th one to General Malcom so they can protect themselves.