all costs.

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The man turned behind. He saw a sea of sand. Dune after dune. He opened the bottle he was carrying and took a sip of water.

He continued to go forward as his legs were falling through the sand, making it harder to move.

A thought emerged in his head. A thought of dying.

To distract himself, he turned to math.

Rissani is 13 miles away from Erfoud from where I started.

If I am walking at approximate speed of 20 minutes per mile, this means I needs 4 hours and eleven minutes to travel that distance.

He looked at his wrist watch.

He has already been walking for two hours.

All he has to do is to follow the straight line and everything will be ok.

I just have to stay cool and go forward.

Whilehe was going forward, he thought about does that city he is going towards even exist.

How nice would it be to see the contours of Rissani emerging from the sand.

Rissani. There is the last known copy of Blade Runner.

If someone told him 30 years ago he will be walking miles through the desert in order to obtain a movie, he would have thought this someone has a vivid imagination.

He pondered how did humanity ended up here.

The great pandemic of 2020. He was a kid then. As everybody were freaking out because of a government issued quarantine, he was spending his days in his room. He was sharing memes over the Internet and playing video games on his laptop.

He often heard loud noises of his parents in the other