For almost one hundred and seventy years, humanity has literally been suspended. Long ago, everyone became convinced that the aliens did not carry any threat. Moreover, after only the first decade, a new faith was founded. There was no one who hated or cursed the green saviors of humanity. The extreme degree of negative feeling was, perhaps, ineradicable suspicion, but only in a small part of the population. The rest were extremely grateful. After all, earthlings really were saved. They were taken to amazing arks, provided with housing and food, although this came not for nothing.

Immediately after the earthlings were settled in, global proficiency testing began. General intelligence levels, logical thinking, talents for various sciences, and more features, were tested in order to allocate humans to the appropriate working activity. No one has been left idle. Everyone who was previously engaged in science, technology, medicine, education, or showed a tendency along with a desire to develop in this field, was positioned to the appropriate laboratories after attending Sirka language classes and passing the basic level test. The aliens openly shared their discoveries and achievements with humanity, took people as their assistants.

Those people who did not show special abilities for science were given positions of cooks, nannies, and general laborers or were sent for education and retraining. So to speak, the Zirkaazte campaigned humans to actively participate in the development of the common culture of everyday life. All children were attached to newly formed nurseries or schools. There, they taught according to the aliens’ study programs, and immediately after completing this training, at about the age of fifteen to sixteen years old, young people were assigned to different laboratories to look after experimental insects, mice, worms, collect data, and, over time, start their own research.

And the Earth, meanwhile, was in a state of transformation. Immediately after the evacuation, several dozen shuttles set off to the surface of the planet; they spread wide over certain coordinates, and then “dived” into the planet. Some literally dived into the oceans, while others – into the earth's crust.

For a long while, nothing happened. Each earthling made it their habit to peek at the porthole first thing in the morning and right before bed in hopes of finally finding out what the aliens had in mind. Yet, months passed, and everything remained the same. Believers no longer burned in their faith, and unbelievers were ready to panic, almost assuring (again) that the green aliens needed nothing more than the remaining crumbs of the resources of their former home.

But then everyone remembered that there was no point in throwing so many people into space, providing them with housing and work just for the sake of trivial marauding.

Only in April 2696, after ten months of waiting, when tension swirled in the hearts of earthlings, and one could almost feel the electric current literally permeating the corridors, cabins, and laboratories, did humans witness an incredible phenomenon. In the middle of the Atlantics, approximately in the northern subtropics, the steady water surface rippled. Dark spots appeared between the crests of waves, which quickly grew, as if something unimaginably huge rose from the bottom of the ocean. Everyone froze like stone statues, trying to understand what was happening and being afraid to blink and miss the most important part.

The tectonic plates, which have kept relative peace for millennia, were set in motion. As if in slow motion, humanity watched the birth of a new island, although a few days later it could already be considered a small continent. Everyone wondered what triggered this phenomenon. Did the aliens find the right switch in the heart of the Earth, or did they themselves act directly on the plates? Be that as it may, the fact itself was astounding. How was this possible? How could this be known? How much more did the zirks know that humanity had no idea of? How long did their race exist and where did they come from? These and similar questions tormented every other Earth survivor, and the answers were not long in coming.

At the introductory lecture, human ancestors were informed that those who owned smart gadgets would have access to Earth’s database for a about a month to two. On the ships, there were special repeaters that provided some sort of connection to the terrestrial Wi-Fi. Later this will not be possible, and over time, everyone will be able to exchange their gadgets for those of Zirkaazte technology, learn how to use them, and get access to an alien knowledge database.

At first, they did not learn much from that database, since many things were closed to the public, and most of the open resources were presented in the alien language – Sirka. What the green people willingly shared, was the translated general information about their race, anatomy, planet, administrative division, hierarchy of power, a little about robotics, medicine, and construction. So, earthlings finally found out what Zirkaazte were hiding under their snow-white spacesuits.