Hot & Humid: Episode 2 (Bushcraft or Bust) by Mike Bristane
Author:Mike Bristane [Bristane, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bristane Books
Published: 2024-09-18T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 7
After going on a search and destroy mission around the cabin, we killed a few more flies perched in odd places, almost like theyâd been planted there to monitor us. They were all the sameârobotic in nature; equipped with tiny cameras that could only have been manufactured in some advanced, futuristic facility straight out of a Spielberg film.
âAre you all thinking what Iâm thinking?â I asked the girls. We had squeezed together on the couch to study squashed robot bugs in plastic baggies.
âDefinitely extraterrestrial,â Carly said, peering through the magnifying glass at one of the squashed oddities in her hand. âWhat else could it be? Iâve never seen fliesâor even technology, for that matterâanything like this before the world went to hell. I mean, look at all these tiny wheels. Theyâre not even shaped like gears, and they seem to be floating, spinning left then right, perfectly in sync, tick tock, tick tock⦠Geez, and there are tiny metal balls zipping across the surfaces, like atoms just big enough to see with the naked eye. Just barely.â
âCould be military,â I suggested. âThe worldâs smallest drone is about three times the size of one of these flies. The miliary even admitted to having drones the size of a hornet.â
âOkay, Luke,â Carly said, sounding like she thought this was a debate. âBut would they disguise them to look like flies, then have enough of them left over to send them on missions in the woods to spy on some lonely wilderness instructorâs cabin?â
I chuckled, genuinely amused and glad to be relieved of some of my anxiety. âNo, I guess not. And who are you calling lonely?â
She gave me the cutest, puffy-cheeked grin. âGuess neither of us is lonely anymore.â
I smiled back. âGuess not. Okay, look. Letâs expand our minds. Talk motivation. Drive. Incentive. Carlyâs right that the military wouldnât deploy tiny, expensive drones disguised as flies across the American Midwest. If they wanted to study invaders, theyâd send drones somewhere more populated, maybe cities. So, if itâs galaxy-traversing aliens doing all this, why the hell would they dose us with shroom powder, whatever that was, and set tiny cameras loose in a forest?â
âTo watch us and learn about us?â Maddie ventured, trying to talk and chew her lower lip at the same time. âI mean, what if this invasion of earth, this extermination of the human species, whatever it is⦠What if theyâre monitoring the whole thing to make sure itâs done right? Like spying on an enemy country during a war so you can land bombs correctly or target the right⦠you know, targets.â
âThat makes sense,â I said. âTheyâre spying on us, maybe to see what kinds of defenses we might come up with. Maybe they plan on inhabiting this planet once weâre all gone. Strange that these bugs would fly all the way to a cabin in the woods. I mean, Iâm sure cities and towns came first. We were probably an afterthought.â
âMaybe they sent bugs everywhere,â Carly said. âA few happened to get lost in our neck of the woods.
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