Cory's Shift by Dan Petrosini

Author:Dan Petrosini [Petrosini, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Three

Shu opened an incognito tab and plugged an URL in. It routed him to a monitoring station in North Station controlled by China. The video captured by the satellite was first-class and had been stolen from the US military.

He zoomed in on the RV traveling north on Route 95. The vehicle was just outside of Washington, D.C. Shu checked the timeline. The expected arrival time was 3:05 p.m.

Shu smiled. The long journey from Spotford, a small town forty miles from the Rio Grande River, had experienced no delays or unusual activity.

He had three hours to get to Trenton. Though he’d seen pictures of the donors, Shu wanted to personally eyeball the men riding north. The quality of the donors played a critical component in the success rate. Though blood panels were revealing, Shu couldn’t take chances.

The next load of donors was originating farther west, from Las Cruces, New Mexico. The coyotes who shepherded people over the border said those crossing at New Mexico were less likely to be from Central America.

That made geographical sense, but what interested Shu was the general health differences.

He sent a text, and a minute later, Li knocked on his door.

“What can I do for you?”

“They’re due in three hours. Let’s go to lunch before we head to New Jersey.”

“Sounds good.”

“Bring the car around.”

“Will do.”

“And release the second load. I want them on the road.”

* * *

“They’re here.”

Standing behind a one-way window, Shu watched the garage door grind its way open. The light flooding into the warehouse cut down as a gray RV inched in.

The driver got out, unlocking the RV’s side door. He stepped up and guided the first donor off. Shu studied the blindfolded man. He was lean but moved purposefully. Though his face had been aged by sun exposure, Shu knew he was around thirty years old.

Shu thumbed through a handful of papers and found the one with a picture matching the man: Eduardo Jimenez, a thirty-two-year-old.

Claiming to be from Mexico City, Jimenez was five feet six inches and had type O blood. Shu marked him as a possible kidney donor, pending HLA comparisons with a recipient.

A second man was led past the window. A scar ran down the muscular man’s face. It was Ricardo Vasquez. Shu was glad to see he was fit. Vasquez also had type O blood.

Shu studied the four other men. His people had followed instructions. Shu wanted men in their late twenties and in good health, but even more desirable was having type O blood.

The most common blood type meant they could donate an organ to anyone regardless of the recipient’s blood type. It streamlined the process, and Shu was feeling good about the quality of donors.

As a precaution, Shu waited as the men were examined by a physician and underwent MRI imaging. Informed there were no red flags, he gave the go-ahead.

Separated into two groups of three, the men were guided toward two black RVs. As the men were loaded onto the mobile surgical units, Shu and Li left.

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