Chronicles of Tomorrow: Echoes from the Future Ep.7: Road trip, 24th Century Style

Recap(Ep.6)

8th May 2355

The storm died down at around 5 AM leaving scars all around the city and wherever else it struck. I started the day by going on the usual run with Husky at the mushroom park. Yes, it is exactly as it sounds, the park has mushrooms except those mushrooms have been genetically modified to grow like large shrubs, some like trees. The genetic modification was done to establish a better food source. This park doubles up as that alternate food source.

Husky had a tough time keeping up with my pace. I had a bit of pent up energy I guess that made me beat Husky at our race. He looked flabbergasted at the end. I was slightly nervous. My creation was going to be tested in the real environment, the first field trip after we shifted to Dome City. Nobody had any clue what we might find.

I reached the Center at 8 AM sharp. The UPV had left almost two hours prior to that, it had a long way to go. The vehicle was yet to reach the first sensor. These sensors were installed about twenty years ago to monitor the environment and climate covering an area with a radius of 1000 km. Each sensor was placed 50 km apart, the first one two hundred km from the city. They were each housed in a processing cum protective unit. The UPV, unmanned probing vehicle had four live cameras on board to record the landscape outside the city in case a manned mission needs to be planned later.