A Billion Years Before the End of the World

"They told me that this road would lead to the ocean of death, and I turned back halfway. Since then, all the crooked, deaf, roundabout paths have stretched out before me..."
The path to knowledge is a road to the unknown. There, where you will grope your way under the watchful gaze of the Universe. And it doesn’t matter whether you shouted “Eureka!” – it already knows that you have lifted the veil of mystery and is taking aim at you. What will you do: continue on your way or, having resigned yourself, turn onto a path – a deaf, narrow and… safe one?