"And you?"
"I'm the first one." I grew up in poverty, of lack of love and constant betrayal. What did God expect when he made me like this? It is naive to think that I will love people after this. If I had my way – I would remove such a link as humanity from the entire system of biogeocenosis. And at the same time, no other chain will suffer, this is a scientific fact. The earth will continue to live and thrive… only now without garbage… in every sense of the word. So one way or another… I am doing everything in my power to remove sorrow, suffering, and ignorance from the Earth.
"Apparently, neither my theory nor your theory prevents us from doing what we do…"
– Moreover … help!
Alvin winked and broke into a surprisingly kind smile.
***
At the request of Mr. Oliver, fifteen people were brought in to test the Alvin project. The experiments showed very good results, and Darrell's salary doubled. Alvin was beaming.
Creation of viruses was fascinated by the newly formed tandem. But still, it was not very pleasant to see in the news how their offspring were devoured by thousands of troops of people in different parts of the world.
"Never mind," Mr. Oliver said one day at lunch, when he and Darrell suddenly looked down from the TV screen, where an emergency news Bulletin had just ended, unequivocally confirming the lab's latest victory, " the media's job is to lie. To embellish, to aggravate, to terrify and confusion to the masses. We are doing a great job, they are doing a great job. In a compartment with some levers of power, we are working together to do a good job with our common task. But in fact, the situation in the world is much calmer and does not portend anything tragic. The point is to cut down the branch on which you are sitting. In fact, all our activities are aimed at psychological tricks, at fear. That's what we play on. This is how our patrons do the world's work. Technology is as old as the world, but… work flawlessly.
Base Director Darrell's words were partially reassuring. It occurred to him that Alvin's theory was not so bad. Man is such an interesting creature. The mind that elevates it above the rest of the world of living beings is capable of many things. But for some reason, man in the vast majority of cases directs all his ingenuity to get the benefit of his fellow men, even if for the sake of his goals it is necessary to sacrifice the principles of conscience.