Human Souls
“Wake up, Max! We gotta go now. The last ship leaves in 30 minutes!”
I immediately awoke when I heard a loud shout from Peter, a friend in the military. We just returned to Earth to secure the last bit of Ultraprazivela, an ingredient found deep beneath the ten-kilometer mark of the ocean. This ingredient is one of the most critical chemicals that could save a billion people on Mars. Its size may be only ten centimeters, but when combined with Vextravinut, another Martian ingredient, it can produce one million units of energy. This energy, in turn, can be used to create 1,000 billion units of Oxy, allowing one billion people to breathe normally on Mars within the next ten years.