The narrator tells us that there are only two inhabitants left on the planet, and that they are out of service. One day, an asteroid exploded over the planet and destroyed all of its inhabitants. They rebuilt it in ten minutes, and another person jumped from a roof when they rebuilt him. The narrator says that every day they had to find more unsuccessful suicides. The twelve wise men drew the conclusion that the monotony of life had become intolerable to the inhabitants, and they were looking for a way to commit suicide