You Have To Believe

“I am telling you in the best way I can: the Earth will be destroyed in two years.” A man blinded by the light of the interrogation room cried out to the figures on the other side of the table for mercy.
They had records of him, and they didn’t hesitate to look for him at the address that he claimed he lived by then, only that a man identical to him was in the same house.
“I'm not a clone,” the man said. In fact, he was sent from the future to alert the whole world earlier about the imminent destruction of the planet.

Many assumed that the world would eventually come to an end, although the concrete form in which it was to happen was unknown. Wars, hunger, overpopulation, etc., were all equally likely possibilities, but what the man exclaimed in the room was much, much worse.
“They told us they were friendly, but the first signs of friendship they gave us wiped out a quarter of the world’s population. By the time we decided to confront them, they counterattacked, and said that in a year they would exterminate all traces of the human race that remained standing.”
He also explained that the only solution the United Nations could have was as crazy as implementing an old fictitious resource: time traveling.

With this, they would manage to bring a number of powerful humans to the past, those who would be believed without hesitation, as presidents, famous figures and millionaires, removing from the equation that they would find themselves from the past. However, something went wrong, and could only be sent to a particular person, one of the scientists who managed to create the wonderful ability to jump over time. The scientists was in that room.

The problem is that these jumps involved fifty human lives to send a single individual into the past, so it had to be decided who the scapegoats were going to be. It was agreed to use vagabonds to perform the task, a task that became a success… halfway.
The man managed to return to the past, but not as far as he was supposed to. He came back until a year ago to have made contact with the beings that would threaten the planet, so now they doubled the time they had to alert the population and improve their technological advances in favor of a countermeasure.

The men who interrogated him were skeptical; they knew that that wouldn’t be the first time that humans have made contact with beings from other worlds, but not in such a radical way. They didn’t know whether to believe the subject or not.
“Show us how to go back in time,” they asked, wanting to know the secrets of this technology. The man wouldn’t know that telling them meant leaving behind their hopes for saving the planet, since the government would use technology for its own purposes, going back in time and doing things like assassinating dissents or avoiding past scandals for their own profit and gain.
Undoubtedly, humanity deserved to die as a fool.

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