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appeared to be a peaceful place.
    It didn’t take long for my questions to get answered. Two tall men wearing what seemed to be some kind of synthetic grey body suits with logos on chest and on both sides of their upper arms, appeared out of the back of vehicle. It was clear to me they were humans, probably advanced humans, unless there was another planet out there with human-like species.
    They pointed a small wrist held device in my direction while walking slowly with caution towards me. The men stopped about three feet away from where I was standing and kept staring at the device with a confused expression on their faces. Relieved that I wasn’t attacked by some annihilating weapon, I decided to break the ice and talk to these straight-faced men who seemed to not know what a smile was.
    “Hi there, I’m Scott. Are you some kind of police officers?”
    One of the men eyed me from head to toe with a puzzled look on his face and, in a weird accent, coldly replied to me in English.
    “Scott! A strange old name not used for centuries and so is your accent.”
    “My accent, seriously! Have you heard yourself talk?”
    “Please define the meaning of ‘police officer’.”
    It was my turn to be stunned and I couldn’t contain myself. It felt I had landed in some weird parallel reality where naivety is a norm.
    “What, are you kidding me?” I asked raising my voice and hands in astonishment. “You don’t know what ‘police officer’ means?”
    “Strange use of language and your attire is unusual. Our scanner has refused to identify you, please explain!” One of men said in a firm voice.
    “I wish it was simple to explain, I am confused about everything what I have witnessed so far. I am from planet Earth and, after going through a spiral of blue light, I found myself here in this planet. What is this place called?”
    “We are on planet Earth and your sarcasm is not welcomed,” said the same man who seemed to be in charge.
    “I’m not being sarcastic, really! I don’t know where I have landed.”
    The other guy, who held the strange device, put his index finger on it, pressed something and both of them stood still as if they were waiting for someone else to arrive or something to happen, I wasn’t sure at that point.
    “What’s happening now, what did you press?” I asked, but they refused to interact with me again and I eventually gave up waiting for an answer.
    If I was on Earth as the guy said, I must have been travelling to the future and not to a different planet as I had first suspected and this realization gave me immense joy. At least, I wasn’t going to get stuck in some faraway planet. Being on Earth meant I had a better chance returning to my time.
    I had all the reasons to be excited. I’ve just had experienced the first glimpse of the future and, possibly, if people in the future were a little bit more friendly and not like these two, I was going to learn a lot more about it. However, there was one thought that clouded my enthusiasm, the worry that I wouldn’t be able to return to my time again. If the anomaly happened to be an uncontrolled event, my chances of returning to the same timeline were going to be very slim.
    Everything in this future appeared to have evolved beyond imagination, making it impossible for me to understand it or even to adapt if I had to stay here. Besides, if I was to be stuck in this reality, I was going to miss my family, my friends and everything else I had been used to have around me.    
    After a few minutes, two more of the same vehicles appeared from the sky and I found myself surrounded by six of them, two women and four men all being substantially taller and more muscular than your average man on earth. I am just short of six feet tall with an athletic physique, but compare to the six people around me, I seemed to appear just an average, common-looking human. Their looks and their hairstyle told me the human race had evolved substantially for the