Delusions on the Edge of Time
Versions of the Nonexistent
When the surface fell, it burned for thirteen days. The first explosion — at the Akkuyu nuclear plant. The second — somewhere farther away, but the earthquakes, fires, and radiation left no doubt it had happened.The third was never recorded — because there was no one left to record it.
The survivors didn’t descend underground by order or by plan. They simply went down — into places where stones don’t glow and water can still reflect a face.
That’s how Gilindire began. A cave where style survived.
LED shadows. Filtered oxygen. The lake became a reservoir. Stalagmites became architecture’s skeleton. The bottomless tunnels — drone paths, mini-subs, and ghosts of what used to be.
Those who remained didn’t build a new world. They just hid from the old one.
Worlds That Never Were
According to recovered fragments (extracted from the wreckage of neural archives), “Project Gilindire” had been conceived before the catastrophe — not as a tourist cave, but a prototype capsule for the City After.
A VIP survival bunker masked by stalactites. Naïve to think otherwise.
In 2041, when Akkuyu’s core turned into a pulsating crater, the first settlers descended. A few hours later, the skies over Mersin vanished. A few days later, Mersin itself ceased to exist. Only silence remained.
Gilindire sealed. And began to speak a new language. Domes made of heat-resistant polymers. An altar built into a stalactite. Sleep capsules printed from the scraps of bio-printers. An artificial sunrise, synchronized with the system’s breathing.
This wasn’t survival. It was a human upgrade in the dark.
Phantom Architectures
AI reconstructions show Gilindire-2099 as a living structure:
Coordination Center “Nereus”: manages submarine and drone traffic.
Simulation Zone “Upper World”: a chamber projecting the lost Turkey, complete with coffee aroma and market noise.
Biopod “Earth’s Tears”: algae farms thriving in the underground lake.
Gallery of Simulated Past: reconstructed ruins of antiquity — rebuilt underground. Not for remembrance, but so we don’t forget how deception looks.
The AI didn’t build it for humans. It built it for itself. So it wouldn’t feel alone.
Reality Blurred
Today, Gilindire is just a cave in Mersin. Benches, turnstiles, entrance tickets.Phone flashlight. Instagram photos.
But if you look closely, deep in the lake, you might glimpse something like a cable. Or a piece of a boat. Or a bulb that shouldn’t be glowing.
The guide says there was a geophysical expedition here in the 2020s. And on the wall, beneath a layer of calcite, someone once scratched the word NEREUS. It might be a coincidence. Or a message.
Echo in the Void
I stood by the water. Around me — stalactites, stalagmites, bats, and dripping sounds that feel like a countdown.
I wondered — what if it had all exploded? What if I wasn’t a tourist here, but the last one?
It’s possible Gilindire isn’t a refuge. But a tomb of the future. Built in advance.
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