Day 18: Dead forests in the buffer zone.
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After helping and fixing on all levels of the hospital our hosts are seem to be thankful. The tall slim guy called me over to talk about the vehicles he will get us. He lead me into a big windowless room with an operation table and an old auto-medic-robot. “We have a problem” he told me very quietly as if there were other people listening. “Amina got our medication but she is stuck somewhere in the buffer zone due to a battery failure.”
So there we are, an important member of our group missing, not able to go along without vehicles and a big group of nerds that would rather starve than go out into the sun themselves. So I guess we have to do this ourselves and get her out of there.
They were able to track her down to a old polluted park with dead trees. A gift from the fracking and bad water management of our predecessors. Definitely not a good zone to stay.
As far as they know she crashed into one of the trees, but was able to cut herself loose to hide in an old bistro in the middle of the park. The buffer zone is heavily monitored by patrol drones and iSecure-Dogs.
We have two options to go there. Either through the sewers and by swimming down a nearby river, which is very unhealthy. Or we could also go by air and figure out how we can carry two people back with one glider. Both plans are not very appealing, since an overloaded glider is very dangerous and it’s still quite a distance from there.
They are also offering us to get the medication by their own drone, giving us the vehicles we need in two to three days and leaving Amina out there. The tall slim guy just mentioned that we can try to get her ourselves later on, maybe she will be able to hide long enough without dying of thirst. A very satirical death being surrounded by a river with fresh water, or let’s say not so fresh water.
Back in our compartment I took Ulick, Lia and Travis to the side to tell them our options. Travis pushed over a bunk and kicked in some battens. Walking back to the group everybody had his own special I know this will be a shit discussion pose. Kylie looked up, fighting some tears.
So I confronted the group with our choices to vote. And not everybody voted for rescuing her. I understand why some people think it’s better not to go into the buffer zone, and pragmatically they are right. But the majority voted for rescuing her under any circumstances.
As I explained the options, we discussed several variations and came to the conclusion that first of all the group will stay in the hospital. Now we proposed to go there by water as a group of 3 including Ulick, me and Lia. But then some surprise happened. Kylie came in with a scale, jumped on it and yelled: “52kg! And Amina has to be around 65kg, that’s 110kg plus equipment. How much does a glider carry?”... Lia immediately tried to calm her down and make her leave us to our planning. But Kylie insisted: “What does it help if you three get sick or stuck. If you give me the right equipment I’ll get her, and if the glider fails we at least can try to go back by water. But then you have only two of us at risk and not 4.”
She had a point and after some back and forth we gave in to the fact, that this was the best option for the group if Kylie is willing to this. The other two girls didn’t think so, but I’m not sure they understood the situation completely.
So there we are, we need to train and equip Kylie within 24 hours for her first mission, with a glider she has never flown, to get somebody from the buffer zone. Not the easiest task, but the digitals are very motivated to help us, in order so they get their medication.
Credits:
Image from Robert Sanchez
Auto medic robot
patrol drones: There will be patrolling Quadcopter drones :-)
iSecure-Dogs: K5 Patrol robot and Boston Dynamics spot robots
electric Glider
Gun Shooting Quadcopter Drone
Fracking Pollution
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Day 1: To the city. - Day 2: Entering the grey Zone. - Day 3: Broken bridge. - Day 4: Toxic Rain. - Day 5: Forsaken robot. - Day 6: Eating Insects. Kyleis robot. - Day 7: Neglected cities. -Day 8: Hiding in the Pharmacy - Day 9: Everybody left - hoping for satellite images - Day 10: Toxic oceans and soil - farming in deserts of concrete. - Day 11: Worthless bills on a shabby boat. - Day 12: The gap of long living. Ruled by scientist elite. - Day 13: Fixing bionics. - Day 14: Future Inbox: “Women revolutionised Asia - the new center of the world…” - Day 15: Joining “The Digital People” - living in Virtual Reality. -Day 16: Resistant bacteria - greed and cheap meat destroyed antibiotics. - Day 17: Climate Ignorance: Flooding, Drought, Famine… the poor suffered first. - Day 18: Dead forests in the buffer zone. - Day 19: VR Training for Kylies trip through the polluted Fracking zone. - Day 20: Liftoff from desperation.